Emmett Malone

This week on Smoke Night LIVE, we test our cigar expertise by smoking cigars blind on the show, reviewing and rating them on the spot. Emmett Malone from Blind Man’s Puff joins the broadcast to test his skills as well. It’s also the first episode since our trip to Camp Camacho, and we will recount some of the more interesting things we learned in Honduras.

It’s time to speed date some premium cigars. That’s right folks, it’s the 8th edition of our famous First Impressions show. Our panel consists of Randy Griggs (Flavor Odyssey host), Emmett Malone (Blind Man’s Puff), Alex Tavella (Smoke Inn), and the Dojo crew. Each guest will smoke and rate a cigar that they haven’t tried before. Will each cigar leave a good first impression? Tune in and find out.

An expert panel joins the show to discuss what we learned from the 2022 Premium Cigar Association trade show in Las Vegas and what all of it might mean for the average cigar enthusiast.

It’s blind cigar review night. The Dojo team is joined by Emmett Malone from Blind Man’s Puff, and your hosts put it all on the line by rating and reviewing cigars blind. After the ratings have been stated, the identity of the cigars will be revealed.

It’s time to “speed date” some cigars. Yes, that’s right, it’s the 6th edition of our First Impressions Show, where we try new cigars for the first time and review and rate them live on the show. Emmett Malone from Blind Man’s Puff joins Eric and Jordan on this show, which will also feature a blind bourbon tasting.

Emmett Malone from Blind Man’s Puff joins the show, challenging Jordan the “Wonder Boy” producer and your host, Master Sensei, to smoke premium cigars “blind,” seeing just how accurate their judgement is. In return, Jordan and Sensei challenge Emmett as well in the battle of the palates.

Tonight, we gather a panel of experts for two of our most popular segments. Join your hosts, Master Sensei and Jordan, plus Robby Rasmussen, Emmett Malone, and Bear Duplisea, for the Cigar Brand Stock Market, in which we decide if we should buy, hold, or sell stock in a list of cigar brands based on their recent performance in the industry. We will also give our first impressions on cigars that we will smoke for the first time live on the show.

It’s the Battle of the Bundles! We smoke and rate 5 of the most popular bundle cigars to see what value smoke is king of the hill. We will also be testing 5 bottom-shelf bourbons, hoping to find a diamond in the rough.

It’s the first-ever Gas Station Cigar Showdown. Premium cigar experts rate and review some of the most popular non-premium cigars, such as: Phillies Blunt, Dutch Masters, Backwoods, Black & Mild, and Al Capone. Just how big a gap is there between a gas station cigar and a premium cigar?? Tune in and find out.

It's blind cigar review night on Smoke Night LIVE. Emmett Malone from Blind Man’s Puff joins the show and challenges the Dojo crew to test their cigar tasting skills live on the show.

It’s the return of our popular First Impressions edition of Smoke Night LIVE. On this episode, Sensei and Jordan will be joined by William “Cigar Coop” Cooper, Emmett “Blind Man’s Puff” Malone, and Bob the Cigar Guy. Each panelist will give two cigars that they have never smoked 25 minutes to make a good first impression.

Buy, hold, or sell??? It’s time for a Cigar Business Stock Market report. William Cooper from Cigar-Coop, Emmett Malone from Blind Man’s Puff, and Kevin Shahan from Cigar Prop join us and let us us know if you should buy, hold, or sell stock from the biggest brands in the cigar industry.

It’s the return of our popular First Impressions edition of Smoke Night LIVE. Every cigar only gets one shot to make a positive first impression. JR Cigar’s Nick Libretti, Blind Man Puff’s Emmett Malone, and Randy Griggs from our own Flavor Odyssey join producer-boy Jordan and Master Sensei as they each give two yet-to-be-tried cigars a chance to make a good first impression.

It's the third edition of the Name That Tune audience participation game show. One of our most popular game show episodes is back for another encore! On this episode, we read song lyrics and the first person to respond on Facebook with the name of the song (and which artist recorded it) will be awarded a point. The person with the most points at the end of the show will win a killer prize from the Dojo (you must participate LIVE to have a chance to win).

These are strange times indeed. Friday, March 20th, we overcome social distancing by inviting Emmett Malone from Blind Man’s Puff in to the studio. We will also be joined remotely by Robby Rasmussen and Randy Griggs, who are dealing with “shelter in place” conditions in the bay area.

We discuss and digest the results of this year’s Cigar Wars Cigars of the Year. Emmett Malone of Blind Man’s Puff joins the show to analyze the results plus we make some bold predictions about where the cigar industry is headed in the next year as well as next decade.

Friday November 1st it’s the 3 Blind Mice Edition of Smoke Night LIVE. Emmett Malone from Blind Man’s Puff will be our special guest and he, producer Jordan, and Master Sensei will blind taste test 3 cigars and 3 different bourbons ranking and rating them live on the show. At the end of the show we reveal the identity of the cigars and bourbon and see how they stack up against each other in a true blind taste test.

Thursday August 22nd is a very special edition of Smoke Night LIVE and it’s a little something we like to call…. CAVALCADE of STARS! Yes folks it’s that time of year for the annual Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival and all sorts of cigar stars will be in town and they are all headed to Dojo studios for a special edition of SNL. The guest of honor is Terence Reilly as he introduces the Bonsai a special cigar collaboration made just for Dojonation. Also on the show will be: Jack Torano, Robert Caldwell, Juan Cancel, Bill Ives, Klaas Kelner, Nick Melillo, Omar de Frias, Skip Martin, Justin Andrews, Glynn Loope and more! Make sure to tune in for this very special LIVE event.

Friday August 9th is a special episode of Smoke Night LIVE because you will get two shows for the price of one! Yes that’s right folks the first half of the show will feature a HUGE announcement with special guests Rob Rasmussen and Randy Griggs. Then in the 2nd half of the show Emmett Malone of Blind Man’s Puff will be in studio with some new cigars that Sensei and Jordan will daringly smoke blind on the show and rate and review.

It’s been a grueling week on the trade show floor and we have seen a lot of new products that cigar smokers everywhere need to know about. We will deconstruct what’s hot and what’s not with Emmett Malone of Blind Man’s Puff and Tripp Waldrop from Cigar Federation. Not only that but we will pick a winner from this week’s #MERICA contest on the Dojo app. Last but certainly not least we will discuss a big announcement that you will NOT want to miss.