Hey Famm, We’re gearing up for another episode of the Meet in the Middle Cigar Show. This week, we’re diving into a cigar from the new schedule, the Island Jim San Andres #2 Torpedo (6 1/2” x 52). If you’ve…
April 29, 2026. The report card. 76 free subscribers. Zero paid. One comp I gave away because the work deserved a reader. That one does not count and I am not counting it. Zero + 6 Months Six months ago…
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The AI got the injury update right. Then it told me Ronald Acuña was called up to replace Francisco Lindor on the Mets. Acuña isn’t a Met. He was traded. Same thread. Same confidence. One right, one wrong. No change…
Fifteen years. That is how long this room sat dark and dingy while I walked past it every day. Not because I couldn’t fix it. Because I hadn’t started. I started. Two things left. A Money Tree. A side table…
The Gear Was Ready. I Was Not. It started clean. OBS open, Elgato MK II plugged in, Behringer XM8500 on the desk. The gear was ready. Then I touched the filter settings. That was my first mistake. There is a…
The review schedule for our new lineup is currently To Be Determined. Smoke what you want on April 26, 2026. We will be kicking this list off on a Sunday, May 2 at 7:15pm Eastern, our normal time. Stay tuned…
There is a moment I have watched happen dozens of times over 30 years. Someone smart. Someone principled. Someone who told you exactly where their line was. And then the moment came. And they stepped over it. And said nothing.…
You have 47 tabs open. Twelve are AI tools. Three are gear reviews. Zero of them are a Substack Live you actually started. I started doing lives on Thursdays. Did one yesterday. No script. No agenda. Just talking for 20…
My Substack is new:: After losing a 10,000-subscriber YouTube channel, I thought starting over on Substack would be easy. I was wrong. In this video, I’m pulling back the curtain on the “Brutal Truth” of transitioning from video to…
