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by Craig Vanderslice | November 26, 2023 · 9:57 am

A Drew Estate Nightshade and a Few Lampert Cigars

Thanksgiving is behind us and we have Christmas and Hanukkah to look forward to, then New Years and we can start this whole mess all over again! As we’ve done for the past few years, I’ve started a CigarCraig Secret Santa through Elfster. You can go HERE to sign up. It’s a simple $40 minimum, send what you like. I send without expectation, it isn’t a trade, I look at it as gifting, I don’t worry about getting! I think that’s the most healthy way to go into these things. So far there are 7 people signed up, let’s get a bunch of people this year! I also have some of the usual holiday giveaways planned, so stay tuned! I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend!

I smoked a few new cigars this weekend, one wasn’t new but new to me. I’ve b

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een hearing about the JR Cigars Exclusive Drew Estate Nightshade for quite a while and never got around to trying it, so I ordered a five pack recently. Don’t forget to click through the JR Cigars and Cigars.com affiliate links on the left sidebar if you order from either place! I got the 5″ x 52 robusto because that’s what was available in a fiver at the time, of course I would rather have had the toro. This cigar has a maduro Connecticut Habano wrapper, Indonesian binder and Nicaraguan and Dominican fillers. I think this falls somewhere near a Nica Rustica and an Undercrown Maduro for me, which both have Broadleaf wrappers, so are sweeter. This is a little earthier than those, but it has a nice flavor, for a reasonable price, it’s an interesting cigar. I think if you like the Liga Privada T52, you’ll enjoy this. I think you can get a box of 20 for around a c-note. That moves it well into the great cigar for the price category.

I’ve recently gotten a sampler of cigar courtesy of Lampert cigars, a company I’ve heard of, but haven’t really seen on local shelves. I tried three this week and will attache the other three next week. I tried to arrange them logically, next weeks will be the three in the Nicaraguan 1675 line, this week I smoked the cigars made in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. The first one was the Lampert 1593 Oscura. Lampert is another company that devotes one size per blend apparently, with this one coming in

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a 6″ x 52 toro. Is it any wonder I was drawn to it first? It’s listed as having a Mexican wrapper, Indonesian binder and Dominican filers. The factory is called El Maestro, which is the smaller William Ventura factory, the one that didn’t burn down. I don’t have a track record of liking cigars from this factory, however this one is an exception, it was really good. I questioned the wrapper seed varietal, which is listed simply as “Mexican”. It clearly isn’t San Andrés to my palate, it was more reminiscent of Sumatra, and I was told that it was Indonesian grown in Mexico, and since Sumatra is in Indonesia, I’m going to go with that. It’s good. It has some of that cane sweetness I like, along with just good tobacco. It’s a really nice cigar.

Next up was the Lampert Ocean Breeze. This is a 5″ x 54 Robusto with an Ecuador wrapper and binder and “undisclosed” fillers. I’m told that some tobaccos in this blend are aged near the ocean, hence the name, and I’m not sure about that, and the name sounds more like a cologne than a cigar, but what do I know, I’m just some cynical old jackass who smokes cigars. I do know that this cigar, along with the next one, is made at the Tobaccos de Costa Rica factory, the same factory that makes Atabey, Byron, Bandelero, Alphonso, apparently some El Septimos, used to make Mbombay Cigars, and, as far as I know, still makes Vegas de Santiago. I go back 20 years with Vegas de Santiago, they made some great, affordable cigars back then. Last I heard, they got rollers from Cuba on special work visas and sorta rotated them in and out as the visa allowed. It’s rumored that they use some Cuban tobacco in the blends, but Villiger tells me there’s some in the Exports too, so believe what you want. Back to the Ocean Breeze, this was a really well made cigar, and was very interesting. I found it to be bright and a bit floral, perhaps that’s the saltiness from the ocean? My compadre Kaplowitz likes this cigar, he likes stuff that isn’t necessarily in my wheelhouse.

Finally, the other cigar made a the Costa Rican factory is the Lampert Oro Don Patron. The band has a top hat wearing, bearded gent who should probably have a monocle, but does not. This is the mild line, with an Ecuador wrapper (obviously a Connecticut Shade variety), an Ecuador binder and Dominican and Peruvian fillers. This is a really well crafted cigar with a perfect burn and a well formed ash, and when I lead with construction, most of my regular readers know that I’m not excited about the flavors. True, this isn’t my style of cigar, it’s light, creamy, with some herbal and gassiness. It’s very good, if that’s what you’re looking for. I had just had Thanksgiving redux for dinner (day three!), something with more weight would have been better, but I’m not doing this for me, readers…I’d say if you are a fan of the Atabey, this will probably be a good fit for you. No idea what they cost, gotta think it’s less than the Atabey! So far, the Lampert line is impressing me.

That’s all for now, sign up for Secret Santa! Until next time,

CigarCraig

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by Craig Vanderslice | November 19, 2023 · 10:23 am

Aragón, Krakatoa, and Ozgener Cigars

It was another weird week for me at the day job, but that’s another story. I also finally smoked some of the Aganorsa Connoisseur Club Over-runs from 2021 that Trash Panda had that had finally dried out enough to smoke, and they were really quite good, but, sadly, are now sold out, so I’m not even going to mention them. It amazed me that it took three full weeks outside of the humidor for them to dry out. you could almost wring them out when you took them out of the “freshpack” they were so wet. Very good though, and I’m hit or miss on Aganorsa cigars. Anyway, enough about something that doesn’t exist, before I move on to cigars that do, there’s a little Pennsylvania legislative news that I’d like to touch on. Recently the industry groups like PCA and CRA have sent their members emails to contact legislators about a bill regarding indoor smoking that would close certain loopholes. The last bill left exemptions for certain situations. Apparently, in their great wisdom, they have decided to exempt cigar stores, lounges and cigar bars from this round of prohibition, which I suppose is a win. I don’t know that private clubs fares as well, which confuses me, as the are, uh….private? Anyway, keep on your legislators whenever these things come up, they have a responsibility to at least listen to you.

I have a co-worker who enjoys cigars, and I give him a few here and there. I was surprised when he handed me a cigar, because that not usually the way it works! I was even more surprised when it was something I hadn’t heard of, as was he. The cigar was called Aragón, and is a collaboration between three gentlemen (the “about” page is lacking in details), Carlos Abreu, Gregg Zahour (my co-worker’s connection), and Seth Joyner (some sort of football player or something like that). I smoked the Toro San Andrés, a 6″ x 52 cigar with a San Andrés wrapper and what they describe as a Dominican with a Special Blend of exotic tobacco for both the binder and the filler. I believe these are made in the Dominican Republic. This was a nice cigar, although it started out on the sharp side, but mellowed slightly. It retained some spice and earth throughout, whatever that “exotic” tobacco was, it was noticeable, almost reminded me of perique. It was a very interesting cigar, and these aren’t priced outrageously like a lot of small companies almost have to be. $11 a cigar really isn’t out of line for what is probably a pretty small production. Nice work, I need to do some more research on this as there’s a few local connections.

Friday was a physically taxing day, and I just wanted to relax when I got home. I should have dragged my ass a mile down the road to Cigar Mojo to hang out with Micky Pegg again, but my comfy chair and a Muestra de Saka Krakatoa called to me. Parking is a bitch over there on Friday nights and it’s not a great walk, not that I was up to it. Sorry, Micky, I’m a slug. Anyway, I settled in with the Krakatoa, the 6th cigar in the Muestra series. This is a 6″ x 48 with a cool pigtail cap. Saka calls it a “unique “volcano” spiral colita”, kind of pretentious, don’t ya think? It’s too pretty to cut off, though, but it must be done. This cigar was just what I needed after the day I had, it was perfection. It has an Ecuador Habano wrapper, a Sungrown Nicaraguan binder, and a blend of Nicaraguan Grown Broadleaf, Cuban Seed Criollo and a potent Corojo ligero in the filler. It’s great. Expect to see this, whatever your feelings on the matter, place highly on the Halfwheel Consensus, along with the Papa Saka and Red Meat Lovers, for two reasons. They are great cigars, and Saka time his media sample kits to encourage their inclusion. He knows what he’s doing. There’s a sweet spice at work throughout the cigar, with a hint of sugar cane near the end. This cigar made me happy, I’d probably even drop $18 on one. Maybe my favorite MdS to date.

Finally, a few weeks back while visiting the aforementioned Cigar Mojo location, I picked up an Ozgener Family Cigars Aramas A52. I had planned to smoke this earlier, but stuff came up and it got back-burnered. Last night I got to it. For those unaware, Ozgener is Tim Ozgener, son of Cano A. Ozgener, who founded CAO. Tim was running CAO when it sold, and took a decade off to pursue some other entrepreneurial interests. This Aramas is his second line in the Oz family series, after the Bosphorus, and is made at the Alianza factory under the supervision of Ernesto Carillo. I’ve always liked Ernesto’s stuff. This is another San Andrés wrapped cigar, with a Ecuador Sumatra binder and Dominican, Nicaraguan and Connecticut Broadleaf fillers. Hat tip to Developing Palates for the details, the Ozgener website is under construction. Minor criticism: it’s been over a year since Oz family launched and a functional website can be put together in a few hours? Remind me what year it is? Anyway, The cigar was great, lots of chocolaty, coffee flavors as one might expect. There was a hint of a licorice sort of flavor near the end that amused me. The draw was a bit snug, I might have liked it to have been a little more free with the smoke, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable smoke.

That’s all for today. I hope everyone who celebrates has a good Thanksgiving. Enjoy some great smokes after the gluttony, I know I will. Until the next time,

CigarCraig

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by Craig Vanderslice | November 12, 2023 · 10:45 am

Trash Panda Connoisseur Club Over-Runs, All Saints and Micallef Cigars

I had a little different idea about how this week’s smoking was going to go. I got one each of the Connoisseur Club Over-Runs from TrashPanda, which are on sale for a ridiculously low price, by the way. These came with the caveat that they needed to be dryboxwd, as they had been sealed in the humidibags for several years. I opened them out and left them on the desk for a week (I think the house has been around 52% RH this week) thinking they would dry down sufficiently. The Foundation Lonsdales did, the Aganorsa Robustos did not, so you’ll have to wait until next week to read about that cigar and how there;s some left! I can tell you that the is quite a treat, and if you don’t go to TrashPanda.com and pick some up you’re foolish (and there’s nothing in it for me, at $25 each and buy one, get one, there’s probably not much in it for Kevin either!). the cigar is 6¼” x 46, has a Habano Nicaraguan grown wrapper, Habano Ecuador binder and fillers from Estelí and Jalapa. This is going to be a great cigar for the holiday season, because it has some really interesting warm spices, kinda like mulling spices. I thought it was very unique and delicious, and quite different from what Nick usually does. Maybe it’s close to something he’s come out with in the past two years that I haven’t gotten around to smoking? For $2.50 each you can’t go wrong, you might need to beat me to the checkout. I might note that TrashPanda is transitioning away from selling the rare and vintage cigars, and moving toward selling their own branded lines, so there are some great deals to be had all over the site. Again, nothing in it for me! (I just placed an order…as if I need more cigars…)

I’ve probably said this before, but I find that I have to talk myself into going out after a long day at work. I get home, eat dinner, and I just want to grab a cigar and retreat to the peace and quiet of my porch and enjoy that cigar for an hour and a half or thereabouts. Friday evening I had some choices to make, and I talked myself into heading to the Wooden Indian to celebrate All Saints Cigars 4th anniversary with Micky Pegg. When I arrived, Jim from Great Cigar Reviews was several hours in to his live podcast, which I assume was streaming on Youtube? Micky threw me to the wolves and sat me in front of the mic and Jim and I had a nice chat for a while. I had decided early in the day that I was in the mood for a Saint Francis Churchill, which was a motivating factor in going, I’ll admit. The cigar, as always, was delicious, it’s probably my favorit

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e in the line. I came to be in possession of the new Solamente, which is going to be an annual release. I think I have one of the originals still in the humidor someplace. This is a 5″ x 58 cigar in the round, where the majority of the All Saints line is pressed. The Solamente comes in a box of 23, next year’s will be in a box of 24, and so on. How’s that going to work going into 2030? This is a $20 cigar, box buying is going to get a little cost prohibitive as the years progress. Anyway, I smoked it yesterday as I wanted to smoke it on a fresh palate. This. has an Ecuadorian Habano oscuro wrapper with Nicaraguan and Honduran fillers. I found this to be on the leathery side of the flavor spectrum, with some coffee notes, with a nice burn and draw. It was a fine cigar, but I’m in love with the Saint Francis and it’s hard to get me off that one right now, it suits me perfectly. It was fun hanging with Micky, I look forward to smoking the All Saints Collection Plate (my suggestion, doubt he’ll remember!). The Wooden Indian always has great events, they have a great staff and Dave, the owner is among the best guys around.

Of course, Micky Pegg wears two hats, when he isn’t a co-owner of All Saints, he’s the president of sales for Micallef Cigars, and I picked up a couple of their new toros as I’d been hearing good things about them. When it turned out that the Aganorsa Connoisseur Club cigars were still too wet to smoke, I grabbed one of the Micallef Black Toros to smoke last night. The first thing I notice when doing some background research on their website is that the have the measurements goofed up on this cigar. It’s 6″ x 52, not at all 5″ x 62 like the website says. Perhaps they should fix this. This has a San Andrés wrapper, Ecuador Habano binder and Nicaraguan fillers. This is a cigar that appeals to me. The construction was perfect, it was a good, solid maduro cigar with a nice chocolaty flavor, and it was just a good cigar at a great price. I don’t know what more to say about this that hasn’t already been said by others, I’m late to the game, but it’s good, and at $8 it’s great, can’t go wrong if you like nice, medium bodied, sweet, earthy maduro cigars.

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n this year. I’m fairly sure I know one person who will be interested, but who else would like to get in on a cigar exchange? Let me know in the comments. Until the next time,

CigarCraig

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by Craig Vanderslice | November 5, 2023 · 12:17 pm

A Powstanie Connecticut and a Few More RoMaCraft Cigars

This week I finished off the cigars that Mitch very generously shared with me (except for one, which is a favorite which may get smoked today!). Before that I’d like to share a little experience I had Tuesday. We went to New York City to see a show, a revival of Spamalot, for which my wife got tickets for the preview for my birthday. When she mentioned finding a cigar spot, the only place I had any interest in visiting was Paley Park, which is a private park on 53rd Street, between 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue. It’s owned my the Paley family and is dedicated to Samuel Paley, the father of William Paley, who founded CBS, mostly to promote his father’s cigar business. I had always been under the impression that this was a safe haven for cigar smoking, however, I was to find out that smoking is only allowed there from 4pm to 8pm. Sadly, I was told this, very nicely and politely by the attendant there, by the way, after I lit up a La Palina Mr. Sam. This is a cigar that is also dedicated to the same Samuel Paley as the park. There was a sign, but apparently one has to check the rules on the website now days before doing anything. I’ve officially reached the “get off my lawn” stage of life, I guess. Just put the rules on the sign, don’t make me check a webpage. Anyway, we walked up a few blocks and I finished my Mr. Sam, which was very good, in front of Tiffany’s while my wife went in and got the tour. I BS’d a bit with Tony, the greeter who was a super cool dude. Good dinner at Havana Central, good show, good little trip.

Back to Mitch’s cigars

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! Several of the cigars he sent me were on a list I had of cigars I wanted to smoke. One of them might have been the Powstanie Connecticut, and I don’t often seek out Connecticut wrapped cigars to try. I’ll smoke them if I have to, and there are some that I like, and more often than not I like them when I smoke then, if that makes sense. It probably doesn’t, I just

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have a mental thing about shade wrapper cigars. I gotta tell ya, whatever your taste preference is, you have to try this Powstanie Connecticut. It’s made at Nica Sueño, I smoked the 5″ x 50 robusto, and it was one of the most unique and interesting cigars of any variety I’ve smoked. It started with a lot of spice, and I realized that is seemed to me like a heavy citrus, it was tangy and sweet. It was really a fascinating cigar from start to finish. This is a cigar I want more of, and will be on the hunt for some locally, if I can’t find some, I know of a place to get them!

The number one on my wishlist that Mitch included was the Quinqaungenario, another 5″ x 50 cigar from RoMaCraft. This one is a little different, as Skip Martin worked with Ernesto Carillo to make a special cigar to celebrate his 50th birthday. I felt funny smoking this, as I am no longer a Quinqgangenarian, I moved into Sexagenarian a few months ago (and I find that tern cruelly ironic). I suppose if Skip had come out with the Quinquangenario on time it would I would have smoked it while I was still in my fifties. This cigar is made by Ernesto in his factory in the Dominican Republic, has an Ecuador Sumatra wrapper over Dominican binder and fillers. This was a really good cigar, which shouldn’t be a surprise considering who’s involved. I personally am a fan of both parties, one for a dozen years, the other for a lot longer. Call me crazy, but I was reminded of really old El Rico Habano a little bit, the ones that were made in Miami probably and were really strong. This had that citrus tang again, and loads of spice. There was a lot going on, but not so much as to overwhelm, it was perfectly balanced. Great, another $15 cigar I need buy! Thanks Mitch! No, I’m serious, thank you Mitch for sharing the cigars with me, They’ve been some of the best I’ve had recently. But wait, there’s more!

There were a couple of RoMaCraft shop exclusives included in Mitch’s selection. First up was the Abaddon. This is an exclusive to Chicago’s Blue Havana. I like the size, 6¼” x 52, and it has a hybrid criollo/corojo wrapper of some sort which is fairly nondescript. This one has a sweet leather kind of flavor, It was a good cigar, I suppose I was a bit spoiled by the previous two being so very interesting. This would have been a good choice thematically to smoke on Thursday, as I tossed around the notion of smoking either something from All Saints, or something with a dia de los muertos theme, as Abaddon has some basis in Hebrew as a pit of the dead or something related to death. I screwed up there. This one wasn’t as “up my alley” as most of the other RoMa cigars, for some reason, but still a good cigar.

Last night I smoked the first cigar in the CRAFT Maquette series, a small batch series that will use some limited quantity tobaccos that aren’t available in large enough quantities to produce sustainable lines. This one called the Il Nonno, is in honor of Skip’s first grandchild, apparently he shares grandparentage with the owner of Riverside Cigars in Kentucky who has exclusive distribution on this cigar. I’ve got a couple granddaughters, it’s a very cool thing. It’s got a simple bronze ribbon on the foot. and was a 5″ x 52 robusto. It has some sort of hybrid wrapper, Brazilian binder and DOminican and Brazilian fillers. This was an interesting cigar. I thought it was more “RoMaCraft” than the Abaddon, but certainly not as heavy as the core lines. It had some subtle cocoas and coffees, and was a very tasty and interesting cigar. It was quite a treat, as was the Abaddon, for someone who doesn’t go chasing a lot of shop exclusives, so a big thanks again to Mitch for sharing. I’ll be rummaging around for some of my favorites to send your way, I know you said it wasn’t necessary, but you also said that the sharing was fun and I agree.

Enough for today, until the next time,

CigarCraig

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by Craig Vanderslice | October 29, 2023 · 10:27 am

A Powstanie Wojtek and a Few RoMaCraft Cigars

It’s been a difficult week for me for some reason, physically and mentally. Among other things, our coffee maker crapped out, then the replacement arrived broken, so that added to the general malaise I’ve been

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feeling. This time of year bugs me. Fortunately, through the kindness of a dear reader, I have been provided with some solace in the form of some new-to-me cigars for me to enjoy and write about. I need to refrain from mentioning that I’m running out of material, it reeks of mooching. Mitch was very generous and shared some of his favorites with me, it’s not the first time I’ve been the recipient of his generosity, he was my Secret Santa last year (do we want to do that again this year?), and went over the top. There were a few cigars that were on a list I had made of cigars I wanted to try, first among them was this year’s Powstanie War Bear, or Wojtek, in a 5¾” x 46 box pressed corona gorda shape. The War Bear is a Habano/San Andrés barber pole wrapped cigar, although both wrappers are on the dark side and it’s hard to tell it’s a dos capos cigar without really looking closely at it. It’s made at Nica Sueno, which will be a theme of today’s post. This starts off with a kick, and settled into a chocolaty spice. I’ve had previous Warbears, I think it was a perfecto, and I didn’t like it as much as I liked this one, it was really good.

The next one that was on my to-try list was the RoMaCraft Intemperance Volstead VO 1920 in the Noble Experiment size. This is another box press, this time a 5″ x 56 robusto. Oddly, I’m a big fan of the Intemperance EC XVIII, I’ve smoked a ton of the Virtue size. The Volstead is interesting in that it uses an Ecuador Sumatra wrapper that is genetically similar to a Cameroon leaf, which is different, over a San Andrés binder and Nicaraguan and Dominican fillers. I’m going to just say “wow” about this cigar. It’s a really tasty cigar. I got some creamy coffee, a little nuttiness and cinnamon, and around the halfway point there were some neat exotic spice flavors that I couldn’t put a finger on. This was a fascinating cigar, and will be a buy the next time I see them in a shop. While I’m thinking about this, please do me a favor, if you happen to shop at JRs or Cigars.com, please click through the links on the left side of my page when you make a purchase. Someone was kind enough to make a large purchase, but it’s $.05 under the amount needed to cash out the commission! Don’t go out of your way or anything, but it would help me out! Anyway, the Volstead is probably the best new cigar I’ve smoked in a long time, it was really good.

Yesterday I should have gone to Best Cigar Pub to meet up with the folks from The Cigar Hacks podcast and Mike Weinstein, but it was another one of those situations where I couldn’t mentally or physically handle driving an hour and a half each way, I just wanted to sit at home and spent time alone. It was 80 degrees on the last weekend in October here, and while I regret missing the opportunity to Visit BCP and see the Hacks and finally meet Mike face to face, I’ll get a

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round to it when I break out of my funk. The Intemperance BA XXI Contempt I smoked while watching a Flyers losing effort helped. This is another corona gorda, I believe it was from the 2022 El Catador de Las Gran Coronas, and is 5¾” x 46. I call it a Corona Gorda, they call it a Gran Corona, I think the difference is an eighth of an inch. Either are a great size, one of my favorites behind the Toro and Churchill. Earlier when I said I was a big fan of the Intemperance EC XVIII, that happened a bit by accident. I had my sights set on a box of the BA Avarice size and the box was damaged, so I grabbed another box blindly and when I got home I realized it was the EC. Not at all disappointed, although I would have been happy either way. The BA stands for Brazilian Arapiraca, which is the wrapper, of course, and I’m pretty sure the rest is Nicaraguan. This is a chocolaty cigar with a hint of a citrus tang. It was super-good even though the game, and my mood, were not.

My last cigar of the day yesterday was a Neanderthal HoxD, which is a cigar I’ve had before, but is always a treat. I got to this later than usual, so a small cigar fit in nicely, this is 4″ x 46 with a flat cap. These give me a chance to use my Adorini punch, with a 13mm punch that makes a large opening. This blend has all my favorites, a San Andrés wrapper, Broadleaf binder and Dominican, Nicaraguan and Pennsylvania fillers. Mitch tells me that this is his favorite morning with coffee cigar, which gives me an insight into his psyche. I can immediately tell he’s someone who craves flavor, perhaps enjoys a good hot sauce, probably on everything. No judgement. This 4″ cigar burned for an hour. This is a nutty/leathery cigar with some sweet earth and coffee. It’s delicious, and it’s strong. I taste the Pennsylvania ligero, but I’m born and raised here in PA. I’m not going to say it contributed to my having a restless night sleep, but it might have. Great cigar, and a big thank you to Mitch for sharing these four cigars with me. Look forward to seeing what else he shared next week.