This week we do an impromptu in-lounge episode from Radloff’s in Rochester NH. Jamie Radloff joins us for an informative episode about cigars and lounges from the the perspective of a lounge owner. While doing a lounge recon to a shop we had not been to, but have been planning to visit for quite some time, we hit a good night to do a show with the owner of this fine establishment. In the bar it’s Family Fued night, the game can be heard in the background for the first half of the episode.

Local Spotlight: Radloff’s Cigar Shop and On the Rox Lounge; Rochester, NH

Conspiracy Corner: We do a follow up to the previous episode’s topics.

Radloff’s Cigar Shop and On the Rox Lounge; Rochester, NH

Hidden Herf 73 / The Oscuro / The Radler’s Den

One take doesn’t mean there was no editing. We have a lot of Cigar talk during the first half and a lot of political and sports topics for the second half. The Hidden Herf is another crowd favorite, many on the panel had smoked it recently but no one was even close on a guess. We have a special guest to close out the episode, just don’t skip the last five minutes.

Local Spotlight: Churchill’s Smoke Shop & Lounge; East Providence, RI

Conspiracy Corner: Politial and sports topics take hold.

Churchill’s Smoke Shop & Lounge; East Providence, RI

Hidden Herf 72 / Board Meeting Fire-pit

Most episodes are good on a single take. It takes multiple tries to get this one off the ground. It was so much fun for us to do all the takes that we needed to share the antics. We talk about RoMa Craft Tobac and meeting the owners. Also the Cigar Hacks Board Meeting, and of course it’s getting close to boating season which means fishing is right around the corner. We cover a lot of ground, talk about a lot of cigars, and just laugh away 75 minutes. The Hidden Herf turns out to get one of our highest ratings and no one is even close on a guess.

Local Spotlight: Two Guys Smoke Shop; Nashua, NH

Conspiracy Corner: Burger Buns?

Two Guys Smoke Shop; Nashua, NH

Hidden Herf 71

The Oscuro limo returns us to Castro’s in Bedford, NH for a second time in just 10 weeks. This lounge is great for recording late in the evening on a Friday. The Hidden Herf receives mixed reviews and isn’t too hard guess. We have fish stories. Phil, our host at Castro’s, joins us for the Local Spotlight segment. Nurse Rick attempts to do the closing segment, how hard can it be?

Local Spotlight: Castro’s Back Room; Bedford, NH

Conspiracy Corner: DARPA and Facebook, QAnon updates, College admissions scam,  737 Max groundings

Hidden Herf 70 / Castro’s Back Room; Bedford, NH

C.L.E. Cigars regional sales manager Jim Price joins us for this episode. Jim introduces us to the Wynwood Hills Mayhem, a Honduran Corojo. The wrapper binder and filler are all Corojo making this a puro. We forego the Hidden Herf to make way for this special guest and our new favorite C.L.E cigar. This is a fitting cigar as the usual Hack “mayhem” ensues.

Local Spotlight: C.L.E. Cigars at Twins Smoke Shop and the 7-20-4 Lounge; Londonderry, NH

Conspiracy Corner: AOC’s Camapaign Finance

C.L.E. Wynwood Hills Mayhem

H&S Podcast Juice Lamp / The Oscuro

Joined by a new recruit who hails from the DR the laugh-o-meter is set on high. The Hidden Herf starts out strong but mellows mid-stream; it looks like the Habano, not the Maduro. We cover Podcast Juice, El Oscuro, The Oscars, and a few personnel changes in the local area. The Reverend handles the Current Events. We report on three events we attended this week. The panel will bet on just about anything including how many boxes Cigar Hack Dave picks up at Two Guys March Madness.

Local Spotlight: Drew Estate, March Madness, and The Shriners

Conspiracy Corner: Deflated Balls

Hidden Herf 68 / Nurse Rick’s Cigar Box Table

Nurse Rick, Dommie the Dominator and Cigar Hack Dave hold down the fort for this episode. We talk about some rare cigars, the Oscuro limo and March Madness. The Hidden Herf is an economy type also know as a golf or yard-gar. Nurse Rick takes his first swing at reading the current events. Comedy Chris calls in for a few laughs latter in the show. Nurse Rick has a Conspiracy Corner rant. A question from last episode about The Eifel Tower and The Statue of Liberty gets answered.

Hidden Herf  67 / The Hombre Ashtray

Not only are we drinking Patron XO Cafe Dark Cocoa and Incindia (chile choclate) tequila but Cuestion Tequila trips up The Reverend Harvey during Current Events. The Hidden Herf is a great cigar that we should have known but Nurse Rick throws us off the scent and gives us clues at the same time. We attended a couple of cigar events this week and give a recount of the experience. We go in a few different directions including making lamps from empty podcast juice liquor bottles, humidors, Valentines Day and getting the boat and the dock fixed up for the season.

Local Spotlight: Kelly of Aston at Twins, Londonderry NH and Roy of Perdomo at Plaistow Cigar Co., Plaistow NH

Hidden Herf 66 / The Flamingo

This episode is a recap of the entire RetroHack Spectacular with stories from the road trip. We do a Hidden Herf and again it’s a surprise for the panel. A few of the RetroHacks call in during the show and we talk about the unexpected things that happened along the way, all the swag that was collected and the cigars that were smoked.

Local Spotlight: New Hampshire Cigar Lounge Tour Part 2

Hidden Herf 65

We record a special edition show on Friday evening from the Plaistow Cigar shop with the entire RetroHack group after a day of touring cigar lounges in New Hampshire. This is our eighth stop on the tour with one more to go until tomorrow. Saturday we hit five more locations making a total of 13 different lounges plus a stop at Enema Lake for a round of Curling in two and a half days. The RetroHacks take the Oscuro limo for a 688 mile tour of lounges from Nashua to North Conway including:

Two Guys, Salem, Nashua, & Seabrook; Twins, Londonderry & Hookset; Castro’s, Bedford; O’Shea’s, Nashua; Plaistow Cigar, Plaistow; Cloud Palace, Salem; Federal Cigar, Portsmouth & Epping; The Original Cigar & Bar, North Conway; Cigar Shenanigans, North Conway; Enema Lake for Curling.

Conspiracy Corner: The Last President

Local Spotlight: New Hampshire Cigar Lounge Tour in the Oscuro Limo

Hack’s Shirts / Curling “Stones” / Enema Lake