Kevin Godbee
Thank you for tuning in to The Pipes Magazine Radio Show. Our loyal listeners is what makes it all worth it. We have a great show lined up for our 25th Episode  For tonight, Brian will talk about "the water in the tobacco factory" and how he can tell which factory a tobacco comes from. (People that know about New York bread, or San Francisco sourdough will get it right away.) Our featured guest is Fred Brown. Fred is of course, a pipe smoker. He is a long-time newspaper journalist / reporter for over 45-years working for several newspapers covering just about every topic area under the sun—“from war zones to end zones". He has an occasional column on PipesMagazine.com—Pipe Smoker’s of the Past. We have a nice relaxing song to smoke a pipe by, and you’ll need to be relaxed going into the rant…

Kevin Godbee
Welcome to Episode 24 back at our regular time coming to you from the tobacco country of Charlotte North Carolina. For tonight, we will have a discussion of Danish estate pipes that offer a good value. There are definitely some good brands you should consider, and perhaps some you didn’t think of. Our featured guest is an extraordinarily talented pipe maker, Walt Cannoy. Walt left the business for a while when he was having some challenges in life, and is now back making some extremely unique pipes. He will tell his story in tonight’s feature interview. We have a great blues song by pipe smoking musician Albert King, another "You Might Be a Pipe Collector If …" bit and  Brian’s end-of-show rant is inspired by my "coupon queen" girlfriend, Patricia.

Kevin Godbee
Welcome to our special extended edition of the show for International Pipe Smoking Day. Episode 23 is being broadcast a day early at noon eastern US time so the entire world can join in. Brian will be talking to Tad Gage about blending tobaccos and the history of his two blends; Three Oaks and Three Oaks Syrian. You will hear some interesting news about the state of the pipe making business in the European Union—it’s kind of a good news / bad news situation that Brian learned about during his trip to Denmark and Germany last week. We’ll be running the show slightly longer in celebration of IPSD. Sit back, light up a pipe and enjoy.

Kevin Godbee
Welcome to Episode 22 coming to you from Frankfurt, Germany. Brian is on a business trip for his fulltime job at Brigham USA. We will hear about that when he gets back. For tonight, we will have a discussion of English estate pipes that offer a good value. There are definitely some good brands you should consider. Our featured guest is well-known Danish pipe collector and Alaskan-Yachtsman, Richard Friedman. Since Brian and I are working on Valentine’s Day, we’d like to thank our better halves for understanding; Thanks Dale and Patricia, and Happy Valentine’s Day. Next week’s show will be on Wednesday, February 20 at 12 noon eastern USA time for International Pipe Smoking Day.

Kevin Godbee
Welcome to Episode 21. Since it’s our 21st show, we decided to do a little drinking. Brian took one for the team and did some drinking and smoking experiments to see if he could come up with some good tobacco & spirits pairings. He’ll report the results in our first segment. Our feature interview tonight is with pipes & tobaccos industry legend Marty Pulvers. Marty was the proprietor of the now defunct Sherlock’s Haven in San Francisco, which Forbes Magazine once rated as "one of the top 10 tobacconists in the world." Currently, Marty sells a vast selection of estate pipes on his website, Pulvers’ Briar, and he is co-organizer of the West Coast Pipe Show held in Las Vegas the first weekend in November.

Kevin Godbee
Wow. One month is already done in 2013, and as it turns out, we have five Thursday’s in January, so this is like an extra bonus show. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we do producing the show. In tonight’s "Pipe Parts" segment, the more Brian talks, the more you will be confused when he tries to tell you which factories make which tobaccos and how different brands move from one factory to another. Our interview tonight is with pipe maker Steve Morrisette. Steve is a highly regarded master craftsman, and he is also multi-talented working in the past as a professional photographer and drummer. We have one of his musical pieces queued up for after his interview.

Kevin Godbee
Welcome to our 4th show of the year on this Thursday night, January 24, 2013. The Pipes Magazine Radio Show has amassed 15,000 pipe smokers listening across the globe, and we thank you for tuning in. Do you know how much of the money you spend on tobacco goes to the government in the form of taxes? We have taxes on top of taxes on top of taxes. Brian will unravel the tobacco tax mystery, and then you will better understand the saying; "ignorance is bliss." Our interview tonight is with Linwood Hines. Linwood has been in the business and the hobby for years and is one of the founding members of the Conclave of Richmond Pipe Smokers (CORPS).

We are now four months into our regular weekly broadcasts of The Pipes Magazine Radio Show and have surpassed 15,000 listeners each week. Thanks for listening! Tonight’s show: Pipes and tobacco - each one is useless without the other, but some people appreciate one more than the other. Tonight’s "Pipe Parts" topics asks the question; "Are you a pipe guy or a tobacco guy?" Our featured guest tonight is Olie Sylvester. Olie makes extremely unique and creative pipes, and he has one of the longest running and most popular pipe podcasts called Oom Paul. Brian and Olie interviewed each other for their own respective shows.

In past shows we’ve been talking quite a bit about pipes, and have had several requests to talk more on tobacco. So tonight, the tobacco fans will get some great info on how one of the largest pipe tobacco factories in the world operates. Our featured guest tonight is Cartoonist Jerry King. Jerry draws the cartoons for Pipes Magazine, Playboy, and several other publications. His grandfather was a pipe smoker, and he draws some inspiration from that. At the end of the show, Brian has a great rant about the hypocrisy of a hospital’s "Tobacco Free Campus".

Apparently, the Mayans need to make a new calendar. Welcome to 2013 and the first radio show of the New Year. Our featured guest tonight is Chris Tarler. Chris is the man in charge of Cornell & Diehl, one of the biggest, little tobacco companies. "C&D" is one of the most well-respected, and popular boutique pipe tobacco companies in the U.S. and internationally.