Everyone loves a waster stream becomes free energy story. This is a good one. Researchers at the Distance University of Madrid have uncovered an innovative way to harness the energy of waste air currents. Plus they tell us how to do what they did. Very nice. While discussing this we smoke the Rocky Patel LB1 Toro and drink the Benchmark Full Proof boubon.

https://jasondeegan.com/spain-uncovers-a-new-source-of-energy-no-one-saw-coming/

This week they discuss AI's pushing back against their work. Suggesting programers do their own work. They enjoy this AI becoming an adolescent with an Arturo Fuente Hemingway Best seller and drink Lone Elm's newest finish barrel product, the White Port finish whiskey.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/

They briefly discuss the fire at the AJ Fernandez factory. Terrible tragity. They move on to the Quantum slump that Jensen Huang caused and his appology forum panal NVIDIA assembled to re-ignite the energy around Quantum computing. All the while they smoke the AJ Fernandez Man O War Armada and drink the Hogsworth bourbon and armangnac blend. Do digital coin survive the quantum revolution?

https://www.fierceelectronics.com/ai/bear-bull-quantum-execs-help-huang-reignite-hype

This week they discuss the report that a quantum computer solved a problem that would take super computers 1 million years to solve. They drink an 8 Year old Trail's End Bourbon and smoke the Partagas Heritage. They get onto the topic of 'living like kings', which I believe we all are.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/world-first-us-quantum-computer-solves-problem-million-years-faster-than-supercomputer/ar-AA1AQriH?ocid=socialshare&cvid=19e32725356c47d9b6b14981babacef8&ei=12

Bill and Darrell talk about the recent Whiskey riot event in Dallas. There are many of these all over the country and there may be one near you. My Infinity bottle happens to be a Lone Elm bottle signed by the master distiller. They also discuss infinity bottles and why you should start one. They also talk about the cool glencarin sling made perfectly for these types of events.

WHISKEY RIOT

https://www.bourbonrealtalk.com/

They talk quite a while about the 20th Anniversary stick and Perdomo in general. There are still more TPE 2025 clips including Perdomo, Arista, and Meier & Dutch. They smoke the Perdomo 20th Anniversary Maduro and drink the Diplomatico Mantuano. Their tech talk is around a new material 5X the strength of Titanium and light as foam.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-wonder-material-designed-by-ai-is-as-light-as-foam-but-as-strong-as-steel/ar-AA1ycGzO?ocid=socialshare&cvid=5d8afa62c17e4cac9d1ac63798573256&ei=23

They finally got 4 Old Fashions with walnut bitters that were good enough to compete. There's more clips from TPE 2025. Clips include Drew Estate, Nova Cigars, PDR Cigars, JM Cigars, Aging Room, Altadis, H Upmann, Henry Clay, and Montecristo.

Darrell continues discussing experiences at TPE 2025. More clips from cigar manufacturers.

This week Darrell talks about TPE 2025. TPE was renamed from Tobacco to Total Products Expo. Wide range of sound bites from cigar manufacturers and discussion including the vape, CBD, THC, Nicotine, Kratom side. They smoke the Graycliff G2 Maduro and drink the Balcones Lineage.

https://www.totalproductexpo.com/

They pull up the 3 page list from halfwheel and review cigar releases. There is already a long list of releases and we're sure there will be more.

While discussing the new releases we smoke the aldwell Midnight Express and drink some Johnnie Walker Black.

As always we recommend halfwheel.com as your 1st stop for cigar news.

Enjoy!