Episode 122
No Cigar Man is An Island | Cigar Family Charitable Foundation | Box Press Ep. 122
OpusX, Chateau Fuente, Julius Caeser, Cuesta-Rey, shall we go on? You wouldn't have Dominican cigars without the Dominican people.The mountainous agricultural Bonao region of the Dominican Republic, however, suffers from extreme poverty, an inadequate educational system, and poor water quality, which greatly affects people's health. Two giants in premium cigars—Carlos “Carlito” P. Fuente, Jr., chairman of Arturo Fuente Cigars and Eric Newman, president of J.C. Newman Cigar Company—set out to change all that.
In the D.R., the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation (CFCF) has funded the creation of a 23-acre campus with a K-12 school, community kitchen, medical and dental clinics, sports facilities, an organic farm and fishery, and local infrastructure improvements for the region.
Tony Kattengell, vice president of sales and marketing for The LEAGUE and Dellas Edmisten Jr, global technical manager for Infinera represent CFCF in this interview with Boveda's Drew Emmer.
Learn how to give your time, talents, and tax deductible donations to improve the lives of people who create your cigars, visit https://cf-cf.org/ways-to-donate/. Boveda is a proud contributor to the CFCF.
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00:00 Never risk your cigars, use Boveda
00:30 This is Box Press
02:14 Bring two rival communities together in the D.R.
02:45 First step to help children in need—educate their parents
03:11 Happy Montesino Monday!
07:12 We're changing lives by breaking the chain of poverty
09:07 The first thing CFFC worked on was providing clean water
12:41 It's not about the cigars, it's about the people
13:13 Arturo Sandoval heading musical arts
14:21 Motivation gets you started, discipline keeps you going
14:49 We're building leaders, not followers
15:12 How to contribute talent, time, and money to the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation
Transcript
(upbeat music)
Speaker:- [Drew] There's a story
inside every smoke shop,
Speaker:with every cigar, and with every person.
Speaker:Come be a part of the
cigar lifestyle at Boveda.
Speaker:This is "Box Press."
Speaker:Contextualize for our viewers
Speaker:what the scope and
impact of the charity is.
Speaker:- [Tony] Dellas?
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah, so this region,
Speaker:it's right next to the farm in Caribe,
Speaker:and there's five close communities.
Speaker:And the majority of that
community works, you know,
Speaker:their families have worked
at Chateau de La Fuente.
Speaker:And there's rivalries, there was gangs.
Speaker:I mean, you're in a very
small, they call it a "campo",
Speaker:which means, I mean, it's a small town.
Speaker:- [Tony] Yeah, let's say for instance,
Speaker:the two communities,
let's talk about them.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah.
Speaker:- [Tony] One is near Chateau
de la Fuente, which is Caribe,
Speaker:and the other is El Verde,
which is a few kilometers away.
Speaker:They hated each other.
Speaker:They hated each other.
Speaker:And Carlito told me this
Speaker:when I first lived in the Dominican,
Speaker:when I made it my choice
Speaker:for the last 20 years to live there.
Speaker:I lived in Caribe and he says,
"Tony, you gotta be careful.
Speaker:You don't,
Speaker:this is not like being
in the United States."
Speaker:"Look, Carlito, I got to know the feeling.
Speaker:I have to live among
the people to know what,
Speaker:why we're here.
Speaker:It's not just building the school,
Speaker:but the social services as well."
Speaker:And he says, "Okay, you're
gonna stay here. All right."
Speaker:And he told me, "Be careful
because these two communities,
Speaker:the rivalry is crazy.
Speaker:Don't turn your back on them."
Speaker:These are kids
Speaker:that might stick you in
the back with a knife."
Speaker:I said, "Well, we need to
change that mentality."
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah. 100 percent.
Speaker:- [Tony] And the fearful
thing with David Luther,
Speaker:who was a part of the
Dominican foundation,
Speaker:he said, he told Carlos one time, he goes,
Speaker:"These guys have kill
each other at the school.
Speaker:We gotta be careful."
Speaker:But the change,
Speaker:what Cigar Family Charitable
Foundation has done,
Speaker:is build
Speaker:these two rival communities
Speaker:to bring them together to
love each other, right?
Speaker:- Yeah. A hundred percent.
- And now
Speaker:they're just like, they're-
Speaker:you know, somebody from El Verde
Speaker:is marrying somebody in Caribe,
Speaker:and it's just a wonderful thing.
Speaker:Now, it's just this brotherly love,
Speaker:this sisterly love,
Speaker:and it's just incredible, man,
Speaker:what Cigar Family has
done in these communities.
Speaker:- [Tony] Yeah. David
Luther was instrumental on
Speaker:awareness that we had to, you
know, educate the parents.
Speaker:Because the mentality then,
Speaker:when you were eight or nine or 10,
Speaker:you no longer, don't
bring home a school book,
Speaker:because it wasn't putting
food on the table.
Speaker:So there was a mentality,
Speaker:and we had to help
cultivate that and pivot,
Speaker:you know, 20, 23 years ago.
Speaker:- [Drew] Yeah.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah. Happy Montesino Monday.
Speaker:- [Tony] Montesino Monday for
Speaker:my sister Cynthia!
- Yes, Cynthia.
Speaker:(laughing)
Speaker:- [Drew] So is this
significant to the foundation,
Speaker:or is this just your Monday?
Speaker:- [Tony] It's a brand that
Speaker:they've had for many years.
Speaker:And Cynthia just wants to
bring it back to life again.
Speaker:Because as you know, they're in Nicaragua.
Speaker:And Finca de Montesino
- Yeah.
Speaker:- [Tony] is from, because of the cigar.
Speaker:So Cynthia's wanted to promote
Speaker:a livestream show called
Speaker:"Montesino Mondays" with Cynthia Fuente.
Speaker:- [Drew] Well, and Dellas has been
Speaker:talking about it since Thursday.
Speaker:- [Tony] It's a fabulous cigar, isn't it?
Speaker:- [Drew] Yeah. It's a lovely,
Speaker:- [Dellas] It's an old Cuban brand that,
Speaker:the old man, Don Carlos
brought back to life,
Speaker:and it was one of my first Fuentes.
Speaker:And we always enjoy celebrating.
Speaker:- Montesino Monday.
- Especially on a Monday.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker:- [Drew] So it's the
Montesino Diplomatico?
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yes. Connecticut Broadleaf,
Speaker:Dominican filler, Dominican binder.
Speaker:And there's some Nicaraguan
in there as well.
Speaker:- [Drew] So it sounds like the
Speaker:influence of the Fuente family,
Speaker:the notion of family,
Speaker:I've heard Carlito say it a
number of different times.
Speaker:"No, no, that's family."
Speaker:"No, no, they're family".
Speaker:"No, no, no, that's family."
Speaker:He refers to people from
Speaker:the far corners of the industry
Speaker:that he's known over the years as family.
Speaker:He's treated Sean [Knutsen]
and Tim [Swail] like family.
Speaker:He treats you like family.
- Absolutely. Absolutely.
Speaker:So this family foundation,
Speaker:and the altruism of being about
Speaker:something bigger than
Speaker:industry
- Yes.
Speaker:It's remarkable.
Speaker:- [Tony] You know, I'm
glad you brought that up,
Speaker:because this is what brought
us all together first,
Speaker:was the cigar.
Speaker:- [Dellas] 100 percent. Absolutely.
Speaker:- [Tony] But it's not about the cigar,
Speaker:it's about the people.
Speaker:And that's his mission.
Speaker:It's not about the cigars,
it's about the people, guys.
Speaker:And this, through the love of this leaf,
Speaker:we have all become family members
Speaker:and long life, you know,
watching your kids grow
Speaker:And it's like,
Speaker:man, you know,
Speaker:being married, right?
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah. 100 percent.
Speaker:- And
- We talk about it a lot.
Speaker:- [Dellas] It's the equalizer, regardless
Speaker:of where you're from,
- it's deep.
Speaker:- [Tony] Regardless.
Speaker:- Right? It's not about us.
- All walks of life.
Speaker:- [Tony] It doesn't matter, man.
Speaker:But it's just that,
Speaker:this brought us all together.
Speaker:But it's much more than that.
Speaker:- [Dellas] 100 percent.
Speaker:- [Drew] And as long as it's about that,
Speaker:it's foolproof.
Speaker:It's eternal.
Speaker:It goes beyond the
ability of the individual
Speaker:or the ego or the, you
know, it's enduring.
Speaker:These are enduring relationships
when you're training
Speaker:a young man or a young woman.
Speaker:That self discipline in your craft,
Speaker:and, you know, that's the
same thing that you're doing
Speaker:with these communities.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah, no, 100 percent.
Speaker:What you just talked about is legacy.
Speaker:You know, Tony and I,
we didn't have a dad,
Speaker:so we didn't understand how to establish
Speaker:that foundation, how to be a young man.
Speaker:Right? How to cultivate a legacy.
Speaker:And Carlito has mentored us through
Speaker:that process.
Speaker:Taking ownership.
Speaker:- [Drew] I can see it in your eyes.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah.
Speaker:- [Tony] You know what's
remarkable is this is a
Speaker:one man's dream.
Speaker:But he shared it with all of us.
Speaker:It's a lifetime commitment for me.
Speaker:- [Drew] Well, and you caught on.
Speaker:You caught it like a virus, and it stuck.
Speaker:And it's been a part of your life.
Speaker:And you probably couldn't
imagine your life without it.
Speaker:- [Tony] No! I couldn't!
Speaker:Oh, no. Until the end of the days,
Speaker:this is what I'm doing.
Speaker:I'm not a retailer.
Speaker:I'm not in the tobacco industry.
Speaker:I'm a martial artist.
Speaker:I enjoy cigars.
Speaker:But because of this one man's
dream, he shared with us all,
Speaker:we are changing lives.
Speaker:We're breaking the chains of poverty.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Amen.
Speaker:- [Tony] In the Dominican Republic.
Speaker:Now that we have graduates
Speaker:that are from universities
that are architects,
Speaker:lawyers,
Speaker:engineers,
Speaker:doctors, nurses.
Speaker:We have our polytech school,
Speaker:which we have I.T.
Speaker:you know, I mean, information technology
Speaker:and nursing program.
Speaker:- [Dellas] And teachers
that are now coming back
Speaker:and teaching the students
to continue that passion,
Speaker:that commitment and legacy,
Speaker:- [Drew] Have conditions improved?
Speaker:- [Dellas] Oh, immensely.
Speaker:When we first went down there,
Speaker:they had a parade, and
the kids had a uniform.
Speaker:This was the first time they had shoes.
Speaker:And you could see them
walking pretentiously,
Speaker:like they had a pebble
or a stone in their shoe.
Speaker:And Carlito asked them,
Speaker:"Why were you walking that way?"
Speaker:They said,
Speaker:"These are the first pair
of sneakers we ever had.
Speaker:We're afraid for them to
break or get damaged."
Speaker:- [Tony] That's deep.
Speaker:- [Dellas] You know,
those types of simple,
Speaker:easy things that we take for granted.
Speaker:And they always think
that we get more than we-
Speaker:we receive more than what we give.
Speaker:- [Tony] Oh, no, absolutely.
Speaker:I love it.
Speaker:I wouldn't change it for anything.
Speaker:- [Dellas] No, absolutely. And we had to-
Speaker:David Luther was instrumental because he-
Speaker:and that's a good story as well
that you need to tell that,
Speaker:but just helping us understand how we had
Speaker:to change that culture. Right?
Speaker:If you were gonna-
Speaker:"Begin with the end in mind."
Speaker:that's what Stephen Covey says, right?
Speaker:So, we had to change the mindset
Speaker:of, obviously the parents,
Speaker:and the older generation
as we poured into them.
Speaker:Because what we were teaching
there at the school, we needed
Speaker:to be backed up with what
they were experiencing
Speaker:and living at the home.
Speaker:And the first thing before even the school
Speaker:came, what did we work on?
Speaker:We worked on the water.
Speaker:They didn't have good water.
- The filtration system.
Speaker:- [Dellas] The kids had bloated stomachs.
Speaker:Right? And had all those diseases there.
Speaker:- [Tony] And when we first had
people to come out, you know,
Speaker:come out to the farm and,
Speaker:and see these kids, "Oh,
they're healthy, they got-"
Speaker:No, Carlito said, "They're not healthy."
Speaker:"Well, their bellies are full."
Speaker:Yeah. Full of parasites.
Speaker:I mean, think about that.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah. That was the first-
Speaker:because at Cigar Family,
we were doing charities
Speaker:for the American Heart Foundation,
Speaker:- St. Jude's.
- St. Jude's.
Speaker:- [Dellas] And that
was during the PC time.
Speaker:I think it was during the
Clinton administration to
Speaker:where the charities
wouldn't take tobacco money.
Speaker:And Fuente family would do big charities
Speaker:at The Grand Havana Room.
Speaker:And then I think it was
Rosie, his wife said,
Speaker:"You know what, we need to get back to-"
Speaker:- [Tony] Maybe your own country,
Speaker:the country where you have your factory
Speaker:- No, 100 percent
- and your tobacco.
Speaker:- [Tony] And I'm gonna bring something up,
Speaker:when I first met Carlito, this was in '98,
Speaker:and they had the Cigar Family celebration.
Speaker:And I didn't spend a lot of time with him.
Speaker:because he had, there was 50
of us at the, at the event.
Speaker:And I spent a lot of time
with Wayne and Cynthia
Speaker:and Carlito came up to
me, he goes, "Hey, sorry,
Speaker:I haven't had, you know
enough time to spend with you,
Speaker:but I need to say something to you."
Speaker:I said, "Okay."
Speaker:He says, "You know, I know we just met,
Speaker:but there's something about you."
Speaker:And I'm thinking, "Okay."
Speaker:And he goes, "I don't know
where, I don't know when,
Speaker:and I don't know how, but we're gonna do
Speaker:something together in the future."
Speaker:I'm like, "What are you
talking about, I just came here
Speaker:to meet all the Cigar Family
members and smoke cigars!"
Speaker:And then you bringing it up, you know,
Speaker:let's raise some money for the foundation.
Speaker:And in 2001, he changed it.
Speaker:We did do one year, I think St. Jude's.
Speaker:And he says, "Let's build a
wing on the elementary school
Speaker:that's already there in
Caribe so more kids can go."
Speaker:I said, "Yeah!"
Speaker:All of us Cigar Family
members donated cigars,
Speaker:Carlito threw in some cigars,
Speaker:and we raised, I don't know, $50,000.
Speaker:In 2001, he says, "Okay,
we got this check.
Speaker:Take this check and go to Santo Domingo."
Speaker:And this is where David Luther comes in.
Speaker:"I want you to meet this gentleman
Speaker:and you're gonna present the check."
Speaker:I said, "Well, nah, just take the check.
Speaker:You know, give it to the
construction guy, whatever,
Speaker:you know, build the wing on the school."
Speaker:He says, "No, no, no,
I need you to take it.
Speaker:I said, "Man, all right."
Speaker:So I go to Santo Domingo,
Speaker:they pick me up and they
drive me to the office of
Speaker:where IDDI [Instituto Dominicano
de Desarrollo Integral]
Speaker:and the Dominican Foundation is.
Speaker:So I meet this gentleman, David Luther,
Speaker:it's an American, been living
in the country for 30 years.
Speaker:And he goes, "You know why you're here?"
Speaker:I go, "Yes, sir.
Speaker:I got a $50,000 check
Speaker:that we raised on cigarfamily.com
from cigar smokers from
Speaker:all over the United States.
Speaker:And here it is. So you can
build a wing on the school."
Speaker:He says, "No."
Speaker:(Dellas laughing)
Speaker:He goes, "No."
Speaker:Next thing the press is there
Speaker:And I'm like, "What the
hell's going on here?
Speaker:Well, here's the check."
Speaker:He says, "No, no, no.
Speaker:Let me show you what's happening."
Speaker:He bought 26 acres.
Speaker:I go, "To grow tobacco?"
Speaker:"No, he's building a complex.
Speaker:A Cigar Family charitable
complex to serve the community
Speaker:that are surrounding
Chateau de la Fuente."
Speaker:I said, "This is crazy."
Speaker:I didn't know what was going on.
Speaker:Next thing you know, Carlito
was in the office on the other
Speaker:side listening, "Hey, bro!
Look at what we're gonna do!"
Speaker:I'm like, "You're crazy, man!
Speaker:You and the [J.C.] Newmans
are gonna build a complex?
Speaker:You're a cigar roller.
Speaker:I mean, not a roller,
but you're a cigar maker
Speaker:of fine cigars.
Speaker:What what are you doing, man?
Speaker:You know, you say you're a
humble cigar maker but-".
Speaker:He says, "That's what it's all about.
Speaker:It's not about the cigars,
it's about the people."
Speaker:And I said, "Okay."
Speaker:And they showed the plans
Speaker:and it was just an incredible thing.
Speaker:And all it was was just to
build a wing on a school
Speaker:so a few more kids can go to, you know,
Speaker:get educated.
Speaker:And now we have a primary school,
Speaker:a preschool
Speaker:a junior high,
Speaker:a high school,
Speaker:the polytech university
Speaker:and the new Pueblo-
Speaker:Pueblo
- Pueblo.
Speaker:Academy of Arts
Speaker:and Arturo Sandoval, Grammy Award winner,
Speaker:multi Grammy Award winner,
Speaker:is gonna be heading the musical,
Speaker:art-
- Beautiful.
Speaker:- [Tony] I mean, it's incredible.
Speaker:And not only that,
Speaker:the Johnson C. Maxwell, we're bringing in,
Speaker:you know, I introduced something
Speaker:before the pandemic about
bringing cinematography.
Speaker:I don't know a lot about it,
Speaker:but I learned a lot on YouTube.
Speaker:But we're bringing in, you know,
Speaker:how the kids could do their
own social media podcasts
Speaker:just as what we're doing here.
Speaker:- [Dellas] No, 100 percent.
Speaker:- [Tony] You know?
Speaker:- [Dellas] You know, we knew we had
Speaker:to shake things up post pandemic,
like Tony shared with you.
Speaker:I had a dream, I have a passion, you know,
Speaker:with leadership development.
Speaker:You know, to piggyback off
Speaker:what Tony was doing with
the martial arts, you know,
Speaker:giving people life skills.
Speaker:- [Drew] Sure.
Speaker:And I've been blessed as
a United States Marine
Speaker:and in the corporate
world, you know, being
Speaker:that mentor to them that we
didn't have as kids, as fathers.
Speaker:And just taking that
culture to another level.
Speaker:And the most effective way
is to keep equipping them
Speaker:with self-awareness,
Speaker:leadership skills,
Speaker:mentality,
Speaker:commitment.
Speaker:Motivation gets you started,
discipline keeps you going.
Speaker:- [Tony] It does.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah. 100 percent.
Speaker:- [Tony] And it's incredible
now that you know this
Speaker:short amount of time, but now
the teachers are involved.
Speaker:The students are involved.
Speaker:They're taking control.
Speaker:We're not building...
Speaker:you know what, this is unique
Speaker:because everybody says,
Speaker:we're building leaders, not followers.
Speaker:That's one thing.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Absolutely. A hundred percent.
Speaker:- [Tony] And that's the
most important thing.
Speaker:We don't want followers, we want leaders.
Speaker:We want them to be the
leaders of their community,
Speaker:the leaders of their country,
Speaker:and these are the future leaders
of the Dominican Republic,
Speaker:giving back
Speaker:through Cigar Family
Charitable Foundation.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah. 100 percent.
Speaker:- [Drew] Speaking of giving to the
Speaker:Cigar Family Charitable
Foundation, if someone wanted
Speaker:to give, what would they do?
Speaker:- [Tony] Well, there's a website,
Speaker:and it's www.cf-cf.org.
Speaker:And any amount, it could be a dollar,
Speaker:it could be $10,
Speaker:it could be $1,000,000.
Speaker:But any amount goes a long ways
Speaker:in whatever they could do.
Speaker:And even if you have some
type of expertise, some type
Speaker:of trade, we welcome teachers from other
Speaker:countries to come and give back.
Speaker:They wanna spend a week,
Speaker:such as Arturo did with the music,
Speaker:such as what I've done
with the martial arts,
Speaker:what you're doing with John C.
Maxwell's Leadership Program.
Speaker:We welcome everybody. If
they want to give back,
Speaker:Let's do it.
Speaker:- [Dellas] And that's part of-
Speaker:so, Tony mentioned about
the poly-technical building.
Speaker:So, last year, Tony had this idea
Speaker:before the pandemic to begin
Speaker:implementing a social podcast.
Speaker:And I said, "Well, I wanna
piggyback on that and
Speaker:let's launch a leadership
development program.
Speaker:And we need a strong,
powerful internet connection.
Speaker:We needed multimedia."
Speaker:So I could continue to do that
Speaker:remotely utilizing technology,
Speaker:but continue that continuity of
Speaker:mentoring and helping them grow.
Speaker:- [Tony] And we're just
getting started with that.
Speaker:You know, there's a lot of gear
Speaker:and equipment that's still needed,
Speaker:but the remote training's incredible, huh?
Speaker:- [Dellas] Absolutely.
Speaker:- [Tony] With Ecamm Live,
Speaker:and the streaming software.
Speaker:It's just-
Speaker:- [Dellas] And they're sponges.
Speaker:They want an opportunity.
Speaker:They see it, because now
we've created awareness,
Speaker:situational awareness.
Speaker:And Boveda's been a huge partner
Speaker:of the foundation since the beginning.
Speaker:Tim and Sean helping with the
Toast Across America packs.
Speaker:- [Tony] Oh, we're gonna
take another level.
Speaker:We're gonna have a
meeting with Tim and Sean,
Speaker:and I'll tell you, I
love these two gentlemen.
Speaker:They changed the industry.
Speaker:And they believe in giving back
Speaker:- [Dellas] 100 percent.
Speaker:- [Tony] And I just found out,
Speaker:my wife was here just a few days.
Speaker:She just left this morning and
she barely just told me this.
Speaker:She remembers Tim and Sean.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah. Tell that story.
Speaker:- [Tony] In 2001, when Little
Carlito was born. The Third.
Speaker:And it was the start of Boveda.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah. Humidipak at that time.
Speaker:- [Tony] Yeah, Humidipak.
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker:And Carlito was, you know,
they were visiting Carlito,
Speaker:they had a meeting.
Speaker:My wife was there, this was 2001,
Speaker:and I didn't know this
until the other day.
Speaker:And I went to Sean, I said,
"My wife remembers you."
Speaker:He goes, "I remember that."
Speaker:I go, "This is when you first started,
Speaker:I mean, the whole concept."
Speaker:And now look.
Speaker:Look what it has done, you know,
Speaker:I mean, for the industry.
Speaker:- [Drew] Yeah, that year was, I think,
Speaker:the transition from the Humidipak
Speaker:branding to the Boveda branding.
Speaker:So that was the birth of the Boveda brand.
Speaker:So that's significant that
it mirrors the life of
Speaker:Carlito...
Speaker:- The Third
- The Third.
Speaker:- [Tony] Yeah. It all started
just visiting, going to Miami,
Speaker:visiting, you know, the birth of the son,
Speaker:but a meeting about,
you know, bringing this
Speaker:wonderful product.
- It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker:- [Drew] And so we bring it all
Speaker:full circle to Montesino Monday.
Speaker:- [Dellas] Yeah.
Speaker:- [Drew] And to say Tony's last name?
Speaker:- Kattengell.
- Kattengell.
Speaker:- Kattengell.
- Kattengell.
Speaker:- [Drew] Yeah! It's
not as difficult as you
Speaker:said it was gonna be earlier.
Speaker:(Tony laughing)
Speaker:The martial artist Tony,
the leadership trainer,
Speaker:and US Marine, Dellas Edmisten.
Speaker:Family guys.
Speaker:The Charitable Family Foundation.
Speaker:Changing the culture
Speaker:of optimism in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker:- Yes.
- Yes. Wow.
Speaker:- [Dellas] 100 percent.
Speaker:(whimsical music plays)
Speaker:- Yeah.
- Yes.
Speaker:- [Tony] It's not about
cigars, it's about the people.
Speaker:- [Drew] Beautiful.
Speaker:- [Tony] Yes.
Speaker:- [Drew] Anything else
you wanna talk about?
Speaker:- [Tony] No, Drew, thank you very much.
Speaker:Thank you very much,
you know, for having us.
Speaker:- [Drew] It's a celebration
of a friendship though.
Speaker:It really comes down
- That's my brother!
Speaker:- [Drew] to the love between you guys,
Speaker:and I wish we had an extra camera
Speaker:so we could have watched Dellas weep.
Speaker:- [Tony] Were you weeping?
Speaker:- He got all misty.
- You're too emotional.
Speaker:- Yeah, he gets-
- I love this guy.
Speaker:(all laughing)
Speaker:- [Drew] Cheers. This was great, Tony.
Speaker:Thank you.
- Thank you, Drew.
Speaker:I appreciate it.
- It was cool!
Speaker:- Absolutely. 100 percent.
- I love it!
Speaker:- [Drew] Yeah.
