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Send us Fan Mail 21 Miles From Hell is a high-stakes geopolitical DEEP DIVE into the most dangerous waterway on Earth — the Strait of Hormuz. Just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, this narrow corridor carries nearly 20% of the world’s traded oil — making it one of the most explosive chokepoints in modern history. In this powerful episode from 2OF Entertainment, Stevie breaks down the history,...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Habanos Saturday, Ep 968,  our scheduled guest David Blanco of Blanco Cigars got hit with food poisoning and couldn’t make the show — so Reza and I did what we do best: we lit up, poured something decent, and went deep into the world of cigars anyway. We break down Cuban vs non-Cuban (what actually matters and what’s just marketing noise), talk wrappers, flavor, const...

Send us Fan Mail This week on No Snobs or Knobs (Ep 959) we went full chaos mode. Six completely insane news stories.  Mexican lawmakers turning parliament into a wrestling ring.  An Italian village forcing officials to speak in rhyme.  The 1903 lighthouse mystery that still creeps people out.  And yes… it somehow gets weirder from there. We break down the facts, torch the wild theories, and ask t...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Habanos Saturday it’s LIVE and completely Ad Hoc — no guests, no script, just the lounge, the laughs, and whatever the world throws at us. We’re taking live fan questions and going wherever the conversation leads: cigars, culture, money, media, and the political circus playing out on the global stage. If it matters, we’ll talk about it. If it’s ridiculous, we’ll roast...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to No Snobs or Knobs  EP 948— the live show where we dig up the six most unhinged stories of the week so you don’t have to… but you’re going to anyway. This episode is a full-spectrum chaos buffet: we kick things off with Olympic ski jumpers and the penis enlargement rumors nobody asked for (and yet… here we are). Then we head to China for a brand-new workplace anthem...

Send us Fan Mail The Habanos Festival is “canceled”… so naturally we’re treating it like the cigar apocalypse. This week on Habanos Saturday EP 953 we’re digging into the big questions: Is this the end of the world as we know it (and do we still get to smoke through it)? Will the Festival ever come back—or are we all just supposed to pretend a September “comeback tour” counts? And what happens to...

Send us Fan Mail Greg Shapiro is back on Funny Ha Ha  Ep 941— fresh off his world-famous Leaving Trumpland 2.0 tour (and yes, the full tour run is on our Two Entertainment channel). This month we’re going bigger than punchlines: world politics, climate change, the headlines everyone’s arguing about, and the stuff underneath it all that actually makes the world tick. Expect sharp takes, real-world...

Send us Fan Mail This week on No Snobs or Knobs, the news gets so weird it practically files its own police report. We’ve got the Czech Prime Minister allegedly not knowing where Greenland is—so he buys a miniature globe like a man trying to cram geography into a shopping cart. Then we jump to Italy, where a football club wants people to snitch on their own fans (because nothing says “community sp...

Send us Fan Mail This weekend on Habanos Saturday EP 945,  we step back from the hype and take an honest, informed look at where Cuban cigars have been, where they are now, and where the cigar world is heading over the next 30 years. We begin with the roots. The Habanos Festival, founded in 1999, was created to celebrate Cuban cigar heritage, showcase new releases, and bring together growers, roll...

Send us Fan Mail This week on No Snobs or Knobs,  EP 934, we’re going fully off-the-rails with the kind of stories that make you say, “There is NO way this is real”… and then it somehow is. 👻 Ghosts are allegedly going on STRIKE because believers don’t believe in them anymore — and yes, this one’s coming out of Poland. 🔮 In Thailand, a “psychic” allegedly stole a man’s phone so her predictions c...

Send us Fan Mail his week on No Snobs or Knobs, Ep 965, we dove headfirst into the kind of news stories that make you question reality, journalism, and whether the simulation is just messing with us for fun. We covered six absolutely unhinged gems — from “Women in Hard Hats Still Face More Skepticism Than Men in Flip-Flops” to “Rail Service ‘BEEFLY’ Goes Off the Rails,” an AI judge putting a cat o...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Habanos Saturday Ep 937, we’re bringing in Cigar Rabbi—and yes… we’re going there. We’re talking religion and politics, Cuba, and the cigar world the way it actually sounds behind closed doors: blunt, funny, opinionated, and (somehow) still educational. We’ll break down the best cigars to smoke right now, what you should actually do about the Habanos Festival, and we’...

Send us Fan Mail This week on No Snobs or Knobs, Ep 930,  we’re back with the kind of headlines that feel fake… until you realize they’re real. We dive into the chaos of modern life, including a wedding that got derailed over an AI-written pledge (yes, really), a Donald Trump lookalike story in China that’s apparently boosting tourism (who knew?), and the ultimate irony: the inventor of the breath...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Habanos Saturday LIVE , we didn’t just “talk cigars” — we went full insider mode with real-time updates on what’s happening across the cigar world right now. We covered the Habano Festival coming up at the end of February , the geopolitical ripple effects that can change supply, pricing, and availability overnight… and then we opened the floor and let the audience dri...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Vaguely True, Ep 927 , Rob Vega goes full “global analyst” mode and covers Venezuela, Greenland, and pretty much everything under the sun. Then we get into the topic that’s on everyone’s mind (and nobody agrees on): immigration. We break down immigration laws in America, how the conversation is shifting worldwide, and what’s actually changing versus what’s just noise....

Send us Fan Mail We are live for another episode of No Snobs or Knobs, diving into some seriously funny news. This week, we're talking about unusual historical US patents, including a rather eccentric "Umbrella-Shield Riot Combo." Plus, we've got quirky stories like a drone trying to sneak steak into a prison and a dog inviting farm animals over for a visit, alongside some trul...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Habanos Saturday, Ep 926, we dive into the buzz building toward the Habano Festival at the end of September and the one question everyone in the cigar world seems to have an opinion on: who takes home the Hays Award for “Great Communicator”? With special guest JeanMarie, we break down the personalities, the politics behind the scenes, and what it all means for the cig...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to No Knobs or Knobs  EP 921— the show that digs up the world’s weirdest headlines so you don’t have to (and so your algorithm can finally feel something again). This week we’re serving a full buffet of absurdity: an AI weather news lady who decided politicians were fair game, a hologram wedding in China where a man married a digital bride, an AI priest course (becaus...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Habanos Saturday, Ep 922 we’re going deeper than reviews and ratings — we’re talking the monetization of the cigar industry and what it really means for brands, collectors, lounges, and the future of Habanos. Is it simply smarter business… or is there a bigger play the industry doesn’t want everyday smokers to fully understand? And yes — we’ve got a surprise guest: AJ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Funny Ha Ha  EP 92`0 — the show where global politics gets put in a headlock… and somehow we all learn something while we’re laughing. This episode goes everywhere (because the world is everywhere right now): Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Trump, and the bigger geopolitical ripple effects that keep showing up in your feed whether you asked for them or not. Then we pivot int...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first Lost Dollar Business Club show of 2026! We’re kicking off the year with a no-nonsense look at some big business realities. First up, we’re tackling a tough question: why do profitable-on-paper businesses still fail? We’ll dig into burnout, churn, and those hidden operational or technical debts that can bring even seemingly successful companies to their knees....

Send us Fan Mail This week on Habanos Saturday ,  Ep 918 we go straight at one of the biggest questions in the cigar world: are we paying for the cigar… or paying for the packaging and the flex? We dig into content over product — when the box, branding, bands, and “presentation” start costing more than what you’re actually smoking. Then we take it a step further: what truly makes a good cigar? Con...

Send us Fan Mail  This year, we close out No Snobs or Knobs  Ep 915, the only way we know how: Non-Knobs picking the absolute best of the best… the stories so weird they feel illegal to report. We’ve got an AI in China that reportedly refused a job because it decided the work wasn’t worthy of its “talents.” A bear that broke into a bakery, ate every pastry in sight, and somehow left five dollars l...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Habanos Saturday, Ep 916, we’re doing something special—because it’s not just another episode… it’s our end-of-year show with a proper mix of cigars, chaos, and collector-level truth. First: we take you inside the mindset of a world-famous cigar collector—one of the top collectors on the planet—the kind of guy most people wouldn’t even know is a collector, but the ind...

Send us Fan Mail Close out 2025 with a truly unhinged episode of No Snobs or Knobs. Ep 909 This week, we cover news stories so absurd you’ll swear we made them up—except… we didn’t. We break down the South Africa headline where a mannequin gets stolen from a dam (yes, really), the wild story about a woman claiming to have three breasts, and we finally answer the question nobody asked but everyone...