Interview with Kaizad Hansotia of Gurkha Cigars Pt 2

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Josh interviews Kaizad Hansotia of Gurkha Cigars in part 2 or our 2 part interview. Follow Us on Facebook and Twitter! https://www.twitter.com/CigarDotCom http://www.facebook.com/CigarDotCom Let's talk about the Gurkha name real quick. Where did you come up with the name Gurkha. It's prolly something you get asked a lot about but it's not something we advertise a lot about. Gurkha the name Gurkha comes from the soldiers they are Nepalease soldiers which are basically a mercenary group and they work for the British military ahh for quite some time and ahh the Gurkhas are also known as the most fierce soldiers in the world they are the special forces of infantry they jungle warfare guys and they are absolutely the most lethal infantry men you ever come across. They are known as people who have no fear none. Ahmm and that is what they are known for. A prime example was ahhh a very famous story that just happened about eight months ago. It came on CNN it came on the headline news everywhere. Ok It was a Gurkha soldier who was going back home he was on a train where a close two of forty or fifty bandits came on the train and they were looting everybody from the train and they saw this young woman there were about to rape her and ahh the gurkha guy saw this and took out his knife and killied eight of them. The other guys all ran and those guys had guns so you know. This mand didnt care and he was awarded every award basically from the indian government and also the Nepales government. And that's the mentality of these people. Wow. So a man hand to hand killing eight men with his knife taking over fifty of them you know. hahahaha That's hard to wrap your mind around. and that's their mindset but anyway that was there that was a regimen of cigar basically what happened was in the old days when the British colony when the British colonize the world in Jamaica India and all these places the one thing that the British government made sure that the soldiers had was a lot of alcohol and a lot of tobacco for these guys to enjoy themselves because a hundred and fifty years ago and a hundred and eighty years ago two hundred years ago there were absolutely zero no entertainment and some of these hell hole places that these guys use to be stationed. And ahhh so basically the Gurkha was the first special forces group of the British Army Ok And ahhh they had the regimental cigar called the gurks all this was just a nickname the young lieutenants called the cigars and ummm what happened was then they had the regimental cigar they put the name Gurkha, it was actually pronounced Gurkha G O R K A on the bands and one thing led to another that's how the regiment name of Gurkha's came about. Gotcha yea. And I took over the company in nineteen eighty nine from Goa India it was basically a dead company I bought the brand and build it up ever since. We are known as the world's most expensive The Rollce Royce of cigars And ahh our clientele base is the upper echelon the same time a lot of we also have a very affordable and line of cigars and thank you enough for supporting us. In terms of a bit of your personal life your a pretty avid knife collector hunter and I wrong on that? No your correct on that. I'm judging you on your hat. This poor hat has seen some better days. I do hunt I love hunting with my friends it's it's an experience ah I've hunted all of my life from India Africa the US well I'm heading to South America this year for some red stag ahh that should be fun. and that's one thing I also love to cook design kives to collect knives we make alot of assault gear and tactical gear for a lot of military companies and organizations through out the world so that's another passion of mine so I designing different weapons. The archive I understand you spend a very very long time blending that smoke. The archive was a cigar which is taken as close to twenty years to perform. Wow! Twenty years. Twenty years that's why it's called the archive we used tobacco's we wanted to age the tobaccos. We wanted to see what it would be like in a couple of years. It didnt perform and year after year we just kept trying and finally we came out with the archive. And finally we came out with the archive and that's exactly what was. Ahhh on great cigar also released it two years ago has gone gangbusters ever since. This year's our hundred and twenty fifth anniversary of Gurkha so you'r going to see some beautiful stuff coming.