Smoke & Steel is what happens when a group of cigar-smoking degenerates grab a mic and let the conversation roll.
Born in a garage, raised in a lounge, and fueled by good cigars and unfiltered stories — this podcast is part hangout, part therapy session, and part "what the hell did he just say?" We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and we don’t expect you to either.
Expect real talk, ridiculous laughs, and the kind of banter that usually stays behind lounge doors. Sometimes it’s deep, sometimes it’s dumb, but it’s always real.
Hosted by a rotating crew of misfits from all walks of life
Mark's out this week, first time in longer than any of us can remember, but the garage doesn't run any different without him. Altadis USA sent us their new Golden Four sampler for this one, four event-only cigars in a single tube, and it turned into one of those nights where the free stuff wasn't even the best part.
We split the Golden Four four ways and each came away with a different favorite, then got into the story of a longtime friend of the crew who's never been on the show but has quietly changed how he buys cigars entirely, walking away from chasing boxes of Opus X in favor of just trying everything he can get his hands on. That led into a longer conversation about how much good tobacco is sitting in the six and seven dollar range, a straight answer from Will at Chartwell about why he won't stock certain lines rather than mark them up, and a stop at a new shop in Boyertown that didn't quite live up to the walk over. Grievance corner covers price stickers on cellophane, self-checkout gripes, and a few Ezra Zion releases that didn't land the way we hoped.
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14 Oct 2026
[E066] The Guy Who Smoked a Cigar in a Fireproof Bib for Five Hours
Nothing was on the list for Episode 66, so Bruce walked out to his car and came back in a reversible paisley smoking jacket he bought online years ago for about $200. Jim followed with the story of a first-time customer who pulled a giant fireproof ash bib out of a duffel bag and wore it for five hours. Eric wanted to know if any of us would wear the $895 Mayflower jacket he posted.
Before the jackets, we smoked a Blood Medicine, a Tatuaje Pudgy Monster wrapped in brown cellophane, and a Hallowed Hands from Avowed. We argued about whether brown cellophane means a cigar lost something. We got into where the hype fooled us, from the Moonflower to the ChiMolly Pioneer. Grievance Corner came back too.
Later we talked about Mark's $42 cigar that blew up and whether a cigar deserves a second chance. We also covered Sean from The Burnable's rule of judging a brand's core line before the limiteds, and what a cigar lounge means to a guy in his first winter of retirement. Ralph and Bill dropped into the virtual lounge while we were recording, a first for the show. Smoke and Steel is the same crew, same cigars, and same conversations we were having in a Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania garage before the cameras turned on.
A few of the cigars on the table were gifts from friends.
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7 Oct 2026
[E065] A 9/11 Tribute Cigar Split the Garage
This week the ReXilient came up, and it turned into the best conversation we've had on the show in a while. Half the table thought Fuente's 9/11 tribute release was a genuinely good gesture. The other half wasn't sure $11 a box was enough. Then it got personal.
We started with a blind sampler from Padre that nobody could identify until the end, worked through what everybody bought this week, and landed on the ReXilient conversation almost by accident. Rob's old fire department responded on 9/11, and what started as an argument about pricing turned into something about whether people still remember at all. From there we got into Xikar's recent price cuts, a Chartwell visit that turned into a full spread of free food, word that Suburban Tavern might be getting a second life under new ownership, and a rotation that ran from the Tatuaje El Triumphador to the Atabey Black Ritos to a cigar with a name we're not putting in this description.
Smoke and Steel records every Tuesday night in a garage in Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania. Same crew, same cigars, same conversations we were already having before the cameras turned on.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Blind Samplers From Padre
2:17 Guessing What We're Smoking
5:01 What Everybody Bought This Week
19:00 Rob's Facebook Bidding War Story
33:30 The OpusX ReXilient Comes Up
38:00 Rob's Fire Department and 9/11
43:07 Channel Numbers and Virtual Lounge
50:07 Top Fans and Discord Shoutouts
54:46 Airing Grievances: The Farmers Market
59:47 Airing Grievances: The Car Show
1:02:03 The Blind Cigar Gets Revealed
1:08:28 Xikar's Price Cut, Explained
1:18:00 Lighter Talk Keeps Going
1:22:40 Merch Store and Contest Winner
1:24:35 Rest of the Rotation
1:30:11 Eric's Brother's Charity Night
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