Welcome to The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Episode 605. Our featured interview tonight is with Pete Prevost. Pete is a pipe maker and the President of the BriarWorks pipe factory in Columbia Tennessee. BriarWorks is a a pipe maker co-op with several other pipe makers, including Todd Johnson, who co-founded it with Pete. Brian and Pete will be talking about what’s new at BriarWorks, and how they are getting ready to attend the Chicago pipe show. (This was recorded before the show that took place last weekend.) At the top of the show, Brian will give his report of his travels and what happened at the Chicago show.
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Brian “G. Puffy” Levine with his Grand Daughter Emma – from the next generation of “My grandfather smoked a pipe.”
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My grandfather didn't smoke a pipe, but my uncle and some of my elementary school teachers did. In 1998, my neighbor Sam invited me out, and we ended up back at his place where there was a cigar humidor, and pipe rack on the coffee table. I had my first cigar, and then decided to try pipes too. I love the elegance and relaxation of smoking a pipe. In 2002, I started learning how to make websites, do SEO, and create content. I had a cigar content site and forums from 2005-2008 when it was bought out. In 2009, I launched PipesMagazine.com, which is now the largest, busiest community forums, and article content site for pipe and tobacco enthusiasts. We have one of the longest running pipe and tobacco focused podcasts since 2012 with lifetime industry veteran, Brian Levine.
Nice review of our show! Thanks for the shout-outs. However, Al and I didn’t get to present our Sherlock Holmes seminar (hopefully, next year).
It was great to hear from Pete about the success of the Muletown Show. His review of the show and comparing it to the larger shows in which he’s involved, including how he prepares for a show, was both interesting and heartening.
Wah Wah Watson’s “Cry Baby” was so wonderfully funky. Thanks.
Brian, you too are now a Papouli! Mazel tov! Beautiful photo.
And yes, it was great to spend some time with you in Chicago.
That was a very nice dedication to Craig. May his memory be eternal.
Thanks for a totally entertaining show.
Dino
A really good show. The Chicago Show was fabulous as usual. I saw lots of pictures and they all looked great. For some reason nobody had a thing to say about Craig Cobine’s passing. How quickly everyone forgets. I guess I am surprised at this but that’s the way things are.
I appreciated your announcement of the recipients of the Masters of Pipes and Doctors of Pipes. I agree that Steve Norse was a worthy recipient.
Good interview with Pete Provost. He has been one busy guy the last few months. Muletown has really stepped up its place as a quality pipe show with Briarworks leading the way.
Brian, congratulations on becoming a grandfather!! It is the best job in the world!! You are about to find why I have often said if I had known what it meant to be a grandparent I would have skipped the middleman.
Didn’t care for Wah Wah’s song much. I would greatly prefer it I never heard him again.
Very nice tribute you did for Craig Cobine at the end of the show.
Welcome to The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Episode 667. Our featured interview tonight is with pipe maker Yosef Zehnder. Yosef grew up in a family of artists and artisans. As a child he enjoyed painting, drawing, writing songs/poems, pottery, photography and more. In 2012, he decided to try pipe smoking and quite enjoyed it. In 2019, he started making pipes and has become quite the artisan creating high quality pipes in both standard and freehand shapes. At the top of the show in “Pipe Parts”, Brian will express his verbal essay titled, “How and Why I am a Pipe Smoker”.
Welcome to The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Episode 666. Our featured interview tonight is with Bobby Eichorn. Bobby is the newly appointed leader of the International Charatan Collectors Society. He has been smoking and collecting Charatan pipes for decades and has one of the largest collections in the world. He has won awards for his collection at past Chicago pipe shows. His initial influence for pipe smoking was from is grandfather. He is a retired educator with a MEd in education and doctorate an EdD in Neuroscience. He resides in Virginia. At the top of the show in Pipe Parts, Brian will have a review of Cornell & Diehl’s Cap’s Blend Tobacco.
Welcome to The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Episode 665. Our featured interview tonight is with Jody Davis. Jody is a renowned pipe artisan, and the lead guitar player for the Grammy-nominated Christian rock band, The Newsboys. His pipes are extremely high quality with Danish style designs, and they are not easy to come by. Jody will take on two “Ask the Pipemaker” questions from listeners as well as chat a bit with Brian. At the top of the show in our Pipe Parts segment, we will have a Pipe Smoker Gift Giving Guide for Father’s Day this weekend.
Welcome to The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Episode 664. Our featured guest tonight is Dan Butler of D. Butler Pipes. Dan is a part time pipe maker producing beautiful artisan pipes. He found his way to pipes after university didn’t work out, then working the night shift in a mental hospital put so much stress on him that he need to find relief. First, it was relaxing with a cigar, but when he found his way to pipes, he became much more intrigued. He started off slow as he was paying off student debt, but when that was cleared, he dove in. At the top of the show in the Pipe Parts segment, Brian will have his first installment in searching for replacement tobaccos for some of the Mac Baren and Sutliff discontinued items. He will have a review of Cornell & Diehl’s Virginia Gentleman, and tell you why it is a good replacement for Mac Baren’s Virginia No. 1.
Welcome to The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Episode 663. Our featured guest tonight is Austin Bourdo of Pathfinder Pipes. He is an Army Veteran having the highly specialized role of Pathfinder. (Find out what that is on the show. It’s super badass cool.) Austin is a father and husband living in his native Wisconsin. He does social work full time and makes pipes part time. It all started when he found his grandfather’s pipes, started smoking, and he already had a lathe for bowl turning, so making pipes was a natural progression. At the top of the show in the Pipe Parts segment, we will continue the virtual tour of Brian’s pipe collection with two estate Comoy’s pipes that have a great background story.
Welcome to The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Episode 662. Our featured guest tonight is Jon David Cole. JD is the Owner/Tobacconist at The Country Squire in Jackson, MS, and the accompanying online store. We’ll have JD and Brian talking about their experiences and Jon David’s purchases at the Chicago pipe show. There is also news on the Country Squire’s bulk tobacco / custom blends program that was impacted by the closure of Sutliff Tobacco Co. In our opening Pipe Parts segment we will get caught up on a mailbag backlog with four great questions from listeners.
Nice review of our show! Thanks for the shout-outs. However, Al and I didn’t get to present our Sherlock Holmes seminar (hopefully, next year).
It was great to hear from Pete about the success of the Muletown Show. His review of the show and comparing it to the larger shows in which he’s involved, including how he prepares for a show, was both interesting and heartening.
Wah Wah Watson’s “Cry Baby” was so wonderfully funky. Thanks.
Brian, you too are now a Papouli! Mazel tov! Beautiful photo.
And yes, it was great to spend some time with you in Chicago.
That was a very nice dedication to Craig. May his memory be eternal.
Thanks for a totally entertaining show.
Dino
A really good show. The Chicago Show was fabulous as usual. I saw lots of pictures and they all looked great. For some reason nobody had a thing to say about Craig Cobine’s passing. How quickly everyone forgets. I guess I am surprised at this but that’s the way things are.
I appreciated your announcement of the recipients of the Masters of Pipes and Doctors of Pipes. I agree that Steve Norse was a worthy recipient.
Good interview with Pete Provost. He has been one busy guy the last few months. Muletown has really stepped up its place as a quality pipe show with Briarworks leading the way.
Brian, congratulations on becoming a grandfather!! It is the best job in the world!! You are about to find why I have often said if I had known what it meant to be a grandparent I would have skipped the middleman.
Didn’t care for Wah Wah’s song much. I would greatly prefer it I never heard him again.
Very nice tribute you did for Craig Cobine at the end of the show.