The Champion of the Cigar Toting Bracket!

Hello. Hello. Welcome to the live stream guys. They've been walking podcast here in the favorite cigar

Smoking pastor podcaster bracket 2024. We have just finished the final championship round and we have a winner

But welcome to the live stream We're not going to make this too long, but we have a couple guys jumping on I think we have one here chance from 1689 cigar put the whole thing on.

How you doing chance doing? Well, how are you man? Pretty good. I can't believe you made time.

You have a brand new newborn baby girl. You're not sleeping You're doing feedings and and rockings in the middle of the night.

You still said hey, I'll jump on for the live stream So I appreciate it. Yeah, she's a blessing and my wife is even more

Right. So yeah, we have a winner and I think he might be jumping on the live stream here He said he was gonna jump on at noon, but we'll see what if he can make it or not

I know he's been out of town, but it's Keith Foskey. Can you believe it? 1689 cigar company bracket and the

Baptist one and we had a lot of Presbyterians in there. Yeah, that's that's good for us, you know Representing the brand well, right

Absolutely. Absolutely and and Baptist. Yeah, it's late. So that's why he's not on the live stream.

Is that what it is? Uh, hold on you want what he's saying he doesn't have the link

I'm going to send him the link right now

Hold on Let's see if we can do you have an

Android or an iPhone I have an iPhone You might need to send it to him in a single text because I have an

Android and sometimes it messes up links I sent it to him in his at his

Twitter page. So yeah, so this is a live stream so we won't have to keep people waiting here, but essentially want to have you on since You know, you're the owner of 1689 cigar talk a little bit about the company what you got coming up and why you had this idea

Well, I found the company about two years ago out of just trying to help Al Gomez with reform cigars and and I like cigars

I've really been into it and so I Started seeing the business model for the stateside helping out

Al and then obviously, I made the branding out of 1689 just because in the cigar industry why you choose dates is because Everybody puts dates and cigars.

So that's why I chose 1689 and then we did the Savoy the Westminster the London the

Savoy's of Bono Nicaraguan Piro and the Westminster in London are our dark

Maduro's full -bodied full -strength We always say that the Westminster is sprinkled with flavor and the

London is baptized in flavor I Like that so And in a nutshell

We're doing a church plate here in Kentucky, Tennessee State Line. I'm about 45 minutes from Nashville and This is me building my tent.

I'm one of the elders at the church and as we we plant Lord willing this provides what

I need to to live provide for my family and to minister to our church so the background of our company is as we do support church plants on every cell of the reform cigars and then every cell of The 1689 blends you're supporting

Pastors, we have two pastors that work for us and then a deacon as well and so the whole premise is we're we're trying to build a company so We don't be a burden or we're not a burden to the church and so and Then on the flip side our cigars aren't gimmicks.

They're premium cigars They're some of the best that I've ever smoked and it's probably because I tailored them to my palate

But it seems like everybody else loves them. So my palate might not good Yeah, absolutely

So yeah, so you approached me and said what about a bracket? I said what a great idea to do cigar toting kind of pastor podcaster bracket

We had 64 to start out with we had a lot of people I'm just going to give you guys some stats on the live stream to this is what you guys took part in you took part in over 13 day today.

Well today's actually the C1 7 It says 13th day. It's almost a two -week bracket every single day of voting 64

Different podcasters or pastors in the first round over 25 ,000 votes cast over those last two weeks

We went down to 32 then 16 then 8 then 4 and then obviously the final 2

Some you know and what I love about it is. Oh, there we go. We have the champion.

Hold on here guys we're just going over stats on the Bracket, but we have the amillennial

King the York Calvinist the new Raining cigar smoking pastor podcaster champion of 2024.

Mr. Keith Foskey. How are you, sir? I'm doing very well. How are you my friend? I'm doing well, and I love the fact that you came on a live stream with you in the background on your monitor

That's awesome. This is well I'm in a I'm in an Airbnb. I'm still celebrating my anniversary

Which is this has been a wonderful anniversary gift by the way for all the people who voted I want to say Thank you.

I'm sure that's what your wife wanted to for you to be part of a bracket doing live streams on your anniversary Sure.

Yeah. Thank you. Hey, she she has been super supportive. She is the queen of the amillennialists

She is awesome. And this is one of the rooms in our in our Airbnb It's the it's the

Hogwarts room of all rooms, but it's like a TV room So you can see behind me is the big giant screen and I just thought it would be you know

To give the people what they want, you know the pictures of this is me smoking the cigar In fact this video right here is proof that I actually lit the cigar

You give it about about five or ten seconds and you'll see me come up with a lit cigar

It's right after Big Eva. The Presbyterian will be lighting his cigar and three there it is.

Oh There we go So anybody who said

I've never I've never lit the cigar that was the second video I've ever done it's the number one Denominational video on YouTube outside of the shooting when

I don't consider that a really that that's a special the denominational meetings That's the number one

Do a Bible study and I did light the cigar while saying we should all be talking about Romans 9

Well, look at as a Presbyterian myself. I told you geez over probably two years ago.

I really appreciate I said I think I messaged you and I said, how do you know so much about the

Stereotypical denominations because they are spot -on and I think the accuracy of those videos not that this video is about those videos but I just want to tell people if you go back and watch those videos if you're in any one of those kind of denominations or categories and you're in that you go wow, he got that spot on and You just said

I've been a pastor a long time. My man Nominations I've talked to people from every group and so that's it

No, that's cool. So yeah, we were just saying this was 13 -day bracket voting once a day started with 64 all the way down to final two over 25 ,000 votes cast between all brackets

And man, you thoroughly took care of everyone in your bracket. I think your lowest bracket

Let me go back and look your your toughest bracket was dusty Deaver's and you still won that 55 to 45

Which I mean against dusty is technically a blowout if you can win by 10 points other than that,

I mean taking out Wilson with 56 % that was amazing

I thought that might have been the end of your road there in the second round, but you you took care of him easily well that the thing about it, that's the one that gave me the the if you will the

Encouragement to like really fight for it because when I when I found out that I won against Doug I was like, well if I can win against Doug I can win against anybody that's sort of like one of the you know

It's just you know when you when you spar and you beat the best guy It's like well, then you're you know that you can just keep fighting then.

So well, here's the funny thing And we said this when we did a podcast together

I brought this up that I saw a guy take a picture I think with Doug Wilson and he posted that he was with Keith Foskey and I went

Oh This is went to a new level now To where they've inverted it and I saw so many posts in that round of them going we're voting for the real

Doug Wilson Keith Foskey and I went not only has Doug Wilson has to put up with your skits

But now you've just taken over his identity and other people calling him Keith Foskey I find that hilarious that people were voting for you because they said

And the funny thing is is you guys are you know, you guys are years apart on some on some theology and doctrine and stuff

But obviously still friendly with each other and respect each other, but it was like oh, oh my gosh

He's gonna win this bracket because people are voting for the real Doug Wilson, which is now Keith Foskey Well, I I am going to try to get his address to send him something

I don't know if there's like a PO box. You can send him a gift I want to get him a shirt that says Harbor Freight Keith Foskey and Just see if he'll wear it if he would wear that that would make my entire year is

That would be awesome. So yeah, all right, so we're not gonna keep you too much longer Keith But chance tell him tell him tell him in the viewers what he won

So you won our we have a monthly subscription box. It's $1 ,200 through the

The next 12 months and then what we'll do is we'll send you a $1 ,200 gift card And then you can either buy the subscription box or or buy cigars and just use $100 a month

And then there's there's this coin. We call it the choose coin I thought I had one laying around here And so if somebody makes a cigar mistake you get a throw them out it

Throw the choose coin at them and then they can buy you a cigar if they have the choose coin at the end of the

Night, and so there's some funny gag gifts in there as well Well, I'm super excited.

I know we've had a good relationship for a while chance I appreciate you letting me play the game and being a part of all this and I Will say this and I told

Matthew this yesterday on our live stream. So I'll say it again I I do smoke a cigar every once in a while, but not often

So I will probably be making a lot of these into gifts In fact, I plan on sending one or two to Matthew himself who was my hardest fought battle

I would say the even though dusty was tough Matthew and I have a relationship outside of all this and we and And and this is just bolstered our friendship and and and it was a tough fight

So I'm gonna I consider him definitely even though CR is technically the silver medalist

I There's a strong second place in my heart for Matthew Everhard. So I'm gonna be sending some some some things his way

Now be be careful chances got a step lightly here because he's business partners with CR Wiley here pretty soon

You know CR is opening a new cigar lounge, and I think he's gonna start carrying 1689 So hey, let's let's not you know, let's not burn any bridges

CR. We love you. All right He's real estate in Michigan or Ohio CR call me

I want to be your agent Now he legitimately got second place, which you know is awesome

I just but but Matthew Matthew was my hardest fight So as far as the way

I felt about it, I guess even though you said dusty was the closest numerically Yeah, Matthew.

I went to bed thinking I had maybe lost to Matthew and then I woke up and all the

Baptists who were out drinking they They came home and Yeah, that's funny oh you had a little you had a little surgeon votes at 3 a .m.

In the morning interesting Well, you know what very last thing before we shut this thing down to is one of the things that why

I like doing these Brackets to is I've had so many people DM me and even tweet and go Oh, I hadn't heard of that person or who is that or there's relationships that form over it

Especially over the reform favorite reform podcast and then to see you and Matthew doing a video together to where I don't think you'd done one before And talking about theology.

I went well, this is worth it right here This is why I do this because I've got two guys that I really appreciate really love

I know are knowledgeable discerning love the Lord never seen him do something together and then went okay these guys need to do something because As serious of a

Presbyterian as Matthew as I would say yours that is serious of a Baptist and both very knowledgeable I would love and I'm not putting you on the spot here but I would love if you guys ever have a friendly debate to be that host because I think we could learn something just Between the friendliness of the disagreements you guys had in that short video

I went oh there could be some subjects here that we could really dive into and with the way you guys both explain things and explain yourselves and Kind of exegete scripture.

I think it would be I don't know very beneficial for all the the watchers and listeners

So, I don't know think about that for me. That was one of the things where I went. Okay, that that's so cool to see kind of these friend not that I'm saying you guys weren't friends before but see friendships kind of blossom and get to know

Other people and I'll do it for the glory of God. So I really appreciate that Well, I can't

I can't speak for Matthew, but I would say I'd be totally down to do that. Maybe a moderated conversation

Versus a yeah versus a you know full -out debate I think he and I would do better with a moderated Conversation just something where you ask us questions and we both give the answers and then we can ask each other questions

That would be fun But but but to clarify he has been on my show one time because I reviewed a book that he wrote

So we okay knew each other, but this was our first live stream and I would say this was by far the most

Attention -getting thing so you helped connect us in a way that reached much more people. So thank you.

Thank you for that and so in also in Spirit of that video.

I did wear my class of 1646 shirt. I don't know if you can see it here on the video

You know, you guys are both 1646 errs, but of course mine has Westminster Abbey on it. Sorry, but but Go back and watch that video with you too.

And you guys are talking about the 1644 1666 1689. That was that was kind of funny but This is what holds us all together though five -point

Calvin established in 8033, baby This shirt is available at the

Foskey shop Throw it out there man. Throw it out there and tell people where they can get it

Keep Foskey calm you can wear the swag and I'm creating a shirt called team funny, man hashtag team funny, man

That's my new thing. So I Love it and chance before we get off here. Where can people go find some premium sticks?

Just check us out at 1689 cigars comm and you can find all the premium sticks there And I'm just glad about this one.

So It's ever gonna get guys this is the

Spurgeon of the Spurgeon of Duvall, I was saying Spurgeon of Jacksonville, but but we all say

Duvall says Spurgeon of Duvall All right, and guys for those of you watching a watching and voting

Thanks for taking part in this all the participants that did videos and memes and reposts

I mean we don't get this kind of I would say exposure and fun and in in kind of you know

This gaming is going back and forth between people without that. So appreciate all them to so chance

Thanks so much for putting this on Keith Thanks so much for all you did to your videos were hilarious and in posting and kind of embracing the spirit of it and Enjoy your championship until next year

Yes, sir. We're gonna come back fighting strong All right guys Thanks so much for being here guys.

Thanks so much for taking part as always You can find us at DMW podcast comm anywhere you get your pods You can listen

DMW podcast for the podcast on YouTube and as always remember the chief end of man is to glorify