This one came from our audience, we've seen this question numerous times and figured we'd let you know how we make it work for us. How to smoke cigars indoors? in the car? anywhere? We cover it.
This one came from our audience, we've seen this question numerous times and figured we'd let you know how we make it work for us. How to smoke cigars indoors? in the car? anywhere? We cover it.
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i mean we might as well consider the episode started then you're recording
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yeah i mean i've got the host pc upstairs recording and i'm downstairs enjoying a tasty
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continues to light cigar
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after i finally stopped talking you're like all right let me go ahead and light my cigar no i i've been lighting for a whole
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minute i just i'm a slow lighter you know slow on that
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that's that's what happens when you use a bic glider shame on you i'm not using a bake i'm using
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a thunderbird in a zippo case that's what that looks like so uh
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they're awesome a thundy yeah you get the zippo experience
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without the stink lovely i don't really mind uh lighting with
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zippos it doesn't bother me at all but it is better to do with butane it's just a pain in the ass to get those
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lighters in this country because you got to bring them in the mail and a lot of us retailers
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who are the ones who sell them they're like wait you don't live in the united states where's your driver's license
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from your state and i'm like joke's on me then on to the next retailer
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and that's how that works but i found one that uh that makes it happen and i'm happy but speaking of smell
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we're gonna touch that topic about smoking indoors and how to deal with the smell
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you smoke in your car a lot don't you it's my favorite it's actually my favorite place you smoke
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i okay i've been smoking and four different cars that i've owned
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in the last 12 plus years yeah want to say
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yeah sounds about right about 12 years i've owned so my fourth vehicle in 12 years
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uh and and i'm only starting with this because one of the last conversations i
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had was i've had issues selling my car after after i've been smoking
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for so many years in it and i'm like listen i have i've sold one two three three
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cars this is my fourth i've sold three cars and future like
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future cars are going to have the same thing but none of the cars gave me an issue with the
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smell like i've never felt other than obviously recently lingering aromas i've never
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had the pungent um you know i've never had the the the
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remaining sense strong sense when i opened the door after one or two days have passed
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obviously because there are there are there are ways to deal with this there are things that you can do
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um and you know i think it always is going to
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come down to the ash and even even
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bottom line is even your ashtray
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when you wipe it off even with the toilet paper or whatever it is uh napkin
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it'll it'll remain um smelly it'll remain with that uh ashy
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old ashy scent because you have to really clean the particles so what i'm trying to get at here is if you
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control ash that is your best friend obviously we're
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going to get into more ways and more techniques i will say a few obviously you'll see a couple but if you make sure
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that you don't have ash you're good that's a good observation there's
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there's ways to deal there's a deal with the ash too uh one of them is
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take ground coffee right and uh used or unused it doesn't matter
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and just lay it on the floor of the ashtray and just dump dump the ash on there it's
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uh it works surprisingly well when you wipe the ashtray you get coffee smell instead of uh
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instead of the ash which is it just works as a coat and it's something that isn't unpleasant and it works just fine
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now ultimately let me go ahead you keep your windows open when you smoke in the car
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i crack a little bit of the window we have outside ventilation is that
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and it doesn't go into your ac well yeah the first thing is yeah that's the first one you got to make sure that
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you have the outside ventilation outside circulation so everything the air is circulating from the outside
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um it's not recirculating with the filter that's one thing i do have to admit that
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i had a little bit of a learning curve i ran through a lot of ac filters from the first two vehicles until i finally
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realized that i wasn't uh i was turning off the the
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internal circulation so i did i did excessively purchase uh ac filters for
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my first two vehicles now i want to make an observation on the
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ashtray thing so i have a little magical product here called ozium ozium is one of the most
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effective air sanitizers i carry it everywhere um obviously i don't travel
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with it but there's like small travel sizes there's large ones like this it's pretty big
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um there's a few flavors or a few
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it's actually funny because you remember the uh was it these uh yellow balls that were
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super sour that you'd suck on um oh yeah jawbreakers sour no no no no
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no lemon heads was it lemon heads i'm not i i know what you're talking about i don't remember the name but they
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were very similar to jawbreakers right they banned us they banned him from our school when we were kids
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yeah i don't know if you remember but well they were yellow ones super sour they
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get extremely sour but it's just like it it's it's a very it's lemon obviously
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but it's a very lemony flavor actually in this country it's more it's lime we
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gotta call it lime um yeah yellow ones yellow ones yeah that's such a fun discrepancy
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yeah um but yeah it tastes it it smells like that taste so if that if you were to put
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a scent to the taste of the lemon heads this is it the original
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um so it's really good it's glycolyzed um i've never really dug into the
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ingredients but it's really effective in purifying the scent
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um i usually spray that wherever there's a
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carpet you know car and i actually have been starting to do it instead of uh spraying
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lysol and my ashtrays after i'm done i immediately spray a little bit of uh
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ozium so it gives it like a nice little citrusy scent and
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i was gonna say it when you mentioned it but what i use is whole beans not
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grounded and i never put anything in the ashtray that when you rest a cigar can
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potentially damage the you know the experience so like let's say you you you sprinkle it with a little bit of um you
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know ground coffee and when the if you lay the cigar and it
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touches the ash tree touches the cigar touches the ashtray and it it's contaminated by the coffee i'm not
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saying it's unpleasant but it's just not real it's going to affect the smoke
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yeah of the purity yeah exactly
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so um yeah let's transition into another one so we've covered
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a few external things we could do the car yeah um so don't drop the ash if you drop the
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ash try to take care of it try to get some some detailing um in your interior
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every now and then if you've dropped the ash if you don't drop the ish like i've never had any issue even even in a
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highway like i've had a lot of driving back home to to the
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beach or whatever i would always be smoking cigars again it's my favorite spot to smoke
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you just grab the cigar as close to the ash as you possibly can put your window roll your window down
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just slowly tap it or just put it out and the ash will fly away so try not to
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have a interior or portable portable ashtray those are
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again ash is not your friend even if it's just for for them while you're smoking the
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cigar it's going to linger on um
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so yeah cracking the window a little bit and you know
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circular turning off the internal air circulation is obviously key
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if you have like felt material on top
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in the details of your car obviously most of uh most vehicles have
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leather or um you know what's what's the other material
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uh well it's just uh plain old yeah plain old mesh materials
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uh yeah yes those are but those are easily those are more
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feasibly cleanable let's let's call it that you can vacuum those you can't vacuum leather seats so let the seats
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repel more but those that have any like a meshy um material can be
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uh vacuumed so that's that solves that issue right there
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uh you smoke in your bedroom a bunch dude i've seen that i never realized it was in your actual bedroom that's what
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they call you the madman let us tell us how you ventilate you know the air in your room
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there's a method to the madness uh it's kind of wild it takes a little bit of setup
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but what you basically do is uh create a makeshift extractor uh you can't have a
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single window open you have to have airflow an inlet and an outlet
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and that's basically it uh it reduces the smell significantly to do that if you
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just have a window open versus having two windows open if you have that so if your room's only got one
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window don't smoke in your room uh poor smoke right by the window right
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yeah and some smell lingers but it's never uh
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it's never repulsive right it's just like the best of the cigar remains and i've actually been complimented that my
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room smells nice uh wow it smells manly in here i'm like yes it does so
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the method to the madness is make sure you have an inlet and an
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outlet to your room and if if you don't have the airflow like the natural airflow like or
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like there's not enough breeze coming on get a fan and draw the air out of one window
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that's gonna have basically it's gonna have your room suck in air from the other window
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so you can stimulate it don't have don't don't you can make the fan bring air in but
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that doesn't help blowing the smoke out so what you want is have the fan as the outlet and if you really want to go
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crazy you have two fans but if you're really serious about it just get an extractor installed
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if you're close to the window if you have if you only have one window and you're close to the window and your
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fan's powerful enough um that you can put it far away enough so that it doesn't
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circulate the air of you know the the residual smoke around you and it could just like
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grab some remaining air from the other side of the room let's call it that it which is actually true it's
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going to obviously it's going to be contaminated throughout time um gradually contaminated that works
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i've i've done it before i've i've stood close to a window i have a
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powerful fan point towards me but all the way from all the way across from the room and
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i've noticed a difference when i have the fan close to me because it's immediately picking up that residual
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smoke that i'm puffing out and that is not leaving the room so if you want to do that with one window you gotta you
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gotta take it you gotta take it the fan and put it on the other way the room or at least have some space
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um but again picking up on the car element and the the car uh component smoke in
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the car and also residual um or lingering scent
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let's call it that i try to make an aroma trying to make it the more uh let's call it favorable yeah let's call
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it so whole
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uh coffee beans are extremely helpful to neutralize
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and to absorb they're ridiculously absorbent so
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every now and then when i do smoke a cigar and i know that
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somebody's going to get in the car that may not you know may not uh enjoy it or
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but maybe a little impulse by it because there is you know there is a difference between the cigar being lit at the moment and
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the residual smoke that the residual scent that lingers on for a day or two
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i will bring a small cup with whole coffee beans and within a day or two
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it'll absorb so much uh coffee beans will essentially dry up
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and um expel their aroma a little bit so it kind of neutralizes i've actually
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done that with cigars quite a while quite quite a few times since a while back
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every now and then you'll get a little excess humidity in the shipment
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and the the scent that that will uh
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yield on the cigar however unpleasant that may sound is very
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minority one thing is one thing is literally smelling it from
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the foot or that that kind of like mild manure uh scent you get or
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note you get when you light the cigar it's actually quite enjoyable a lot of people don't understand that but there
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is a very uh there's an extreme kind of minori scent that you get in certain shipments
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there are certain cigars that come in that have a little bit of an excess humidity within the packaging so it's
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not the cigar itself it's the cigar the collective humidity of the cigars and
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then wrapped over with plastic or with whatever it is um that humidity is retained in the
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plastic not necessarily in the cigar and that creates that that particular unpleasant smell and it just sticks to
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the cigar so what i do is i you mean like musty manure right
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it's yeah exactly it's like a musty menorah it's like uh it's you it was a great wording you
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selected it was like i was thinking of like a rotten manure kind of more like a it's like it's not like
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it's not the the somewhat refreshing manure in a cow pasture that makes you feel like you're
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a friend it's it's a manure that's in a basement or something
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yeah exactly a basement that has been slowly you know dripping water in and that's
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been combining that and the the humidity well whatever it is i i want to get over
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describing it and letting you know that what i do is i um
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i essentially bring these cigars out i separate them from the rest and i quarantine them i put them in the in a
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large really large ziploc bag and i dropped coffee in there and i
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monitor it it usually takes anywhere from two to three days sometimes it
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needs more sometimes i need to freshen up the coffee but it works it's so effective it neutralizes that scent so
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if it works like that it's worked in the car i invite you to try it in many different
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places so just grab a cup fill it up with whatever it is it could be half an ounce one ounce uh i think
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usually half an ounce does the trick if it's if it's really pungent just do one ounce
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and just leave the coffee sitting there for a day or two and it'll it'll help so much
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all right but i'm going to die fast i don't want to wait for my cigars to be ready to smoke
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if i really want to smoke i should and we've got that problem i guess the real answer is how to not get the
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smell indoors in the car in the house in the apartment wherever it's just smoke outside
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it's it's not that bad of an idea sure if it's freezing out
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i guess i i've only smoked in the cold once and it was no fun i get it it's
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it's not a fun dude it's really no fun we're here to bring solutions so we can't go back to to say just smoke
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outside because you can't i mean there are some solutions smoking outside you gotta look up
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a high ticket podcast corey built an amazing tempo
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hold that look at that that's perfect guys for those of you if
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you're listening to the podcast especially if you're watching you're probably already a cigar not like we are but when you drop an ash
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and you see this like a little peak in the middle it's one of the most satisfying
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it's one of the most satisfying signs of a well-crafted smoke just men
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the grady that's why they call it the grady eight it's great for 88 baby
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i interrupted you for a very good reason yep you're saying that that was a that was a really good
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interruption i was saying that temporary fortress was like the small tent square tent that
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shirt for his winter was very tough ohio winter um which allowed it allowed him to smoke
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indoors it it it held off uh the cold pretty well he put a little bit
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i think for a little bit he put like uh i don't know there was a warming device
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that he had in there i don't know what kind of heater it was but that within a contained space
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um allowed him to smoke so that's great that's another solution if somebody wants to think about that in the fall
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but we're thinking about solutions about smoking doors smoking um in your car
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and definitely circulation is key we've talked about circulation in various aspects um
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how you control the different sense obviously if you [Music] so one of the worst things that you
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could do is think that any odorant any
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perfume any type of you know airwick or whatever
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it's going to beat the smell of the cigar it'll only punch you in the face because that is
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the worst combination or potentially the worst combination personally when i get the combination of trying to get rid of
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the smoke of trying to get rid of the scent immediately by uh turning on one of these air wicks or
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these air fresheners that you put on the on the uh air vents ac vents
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it's horrible it is just horrible because it's like they're soaking up smoke
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correction and it's in what it's doing it's putting out um
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the combination of whatever it is whatever flour exotic pine nut it is
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um it's it's it's just so bad so don't go that route there are certain odorizers
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just like i just mentioned ozium is fantastic because it's very neutralizing it's got components glycolyzed it is
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done uh it is designed to um cure these
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uh these issues that we have brought up these have been these pro products have been designed specifically for this
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and i'm sure there's a few other ones i knew i know that a while back i want to say six seven years ago i don't remember
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well there was a trade show uh that i went there was a fantastic product that everybody was raving at the
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time um if you guys ever find out what it is just uh write it in the comments below
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but there are certain products that are designed for indoor smoking so
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uh i guess there's an app
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yeah you were good at when you said park your car or crack the window a little bit but not like crack it break it crack
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it like roll it down i'm hilarious god that was a bad joke yeah just just just
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just roll it down just ever so slightly and let it circulate again circulation
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circulation is key yeah and you don't want to poison yourself like don't hotbox a cigar in your car
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that's a very bad idea uh it really is look at my look at my ash right
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i'm gonna drop it so this is what i do just roll the window down grab it as close to the ash as possible because i don't want
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the wrapper cracking right i don't want the wind just taking over my cigar and cracking the wrapper because it's a delicate thing right so this is what i
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do bam it's good to go the wind takes care of the rest
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kissed by the wind right
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there's also uh i'm not in a car so i get to talk about this one now candles
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the right candle that goes well with a cigar like wood-based candles think about those
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uh like yes oak sandalwood sandalwood yes that's a great one those
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really mask they blend well with the residual scent of the cigar and they mask it in a
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way uh because they're more powerful than it but if you if you have a fruity candle or a
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a very herbal candle some herbal candles will work it's trial and error
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trial and error but the right candles usually wooden wood-based candles like
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wood scent candles they work marvelously i usually light one the day after
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smoking uh in my room i usually don't smoke in the room but when i'm shooting podcast
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episodes and when we're doing stuff that's where i do it because that's where my pc is which another tip is
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watch things that suck in the smoke when you smoke so my pc it's got a lot
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of fans in it and it is gonna suck suck up that smoke so i have some filters on and uh
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i just wipe them once i'm done and that usually works so your computers have filters for dust usually except
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laptops and just clean up clean it up like blow out
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the fans and make sure that that tar buildup doesn't get a chance to
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stay there because not only does it keep the smell but it also
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it can damage your computer down the road keep that in mind if you've got apple computers just take compressed air and
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blow it into the into the fan ports because i know you can't disassemble those because you know tim cook doesn't
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love us uh but uh you just make sure you blow out that
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uh the dust that collected that tar from your pc it's not really gonna matter too
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much on the fan itself if it's clean from dust but you know it does gets everywhere
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uh it's gonna be there yep this does now
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i think i think we've touched that topic pretty deeply and i'd like to move on to
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another one and uh i guess we can be a little a little quicker about it but
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it was a really good question that i that we both caught on the instagram i got a question for you like before
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sure what's the time on the podcast i don't know
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you have no idea i i wasn't tracking it actually because i'm shooting on my
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phone right now and i usually track with my phone and i think i think this next topic that
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we're gonna talk about is a great solo episode
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i think so too so we're just gonna touch it lightly we're gonna touch it lightly this time
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nah i think we should we should just cut this episode and just make it about
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you know controlling the odor and just starting a new one what do you think about that all right teasing the people
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i see i i just it's a very hot
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topic right now i guess uh i'm not it really isn't it's been
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it's been overblown it's been overblown
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it really isn't a hot topic it's something we live every day because we smoke these cigars
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every day well every day we smoke cigars i guess you could say yeah we do
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so yeah let's leave it for the next one i think i think that that's a good tease oh yeah so if you want to know what
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mistake we've had this conversation before a million times i say gif i say gif
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ah that's good all right let's wrap it up yeah uh you got you got some bow tie
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