Indiana Pipe Club Member Kirk Keener on Radio Show of July 8, 2025

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Our featured interview on tonight's Pipes Magazine Radio Show is with Kirk Keener aka “Kaptain_Kirk32”. Kirk is a member of the Indiana Pipe Club. We’ll be talking about their upcoming pipe show in Gas City, IN on September 20th. Kirk has worked as a machinist, and played guitar in bands in the past, and he has a YouTube Channel with 985 subscribers and 346 videos devoted to pipe smoking and tobacco reviews. At the top of the show, Brian will have a tobacco review of Cornell & Diehl’s Haunted Bookshop.

The show airs every Tuesday at 8:00pm eastern US time, and can be found at PipesMagazine.com and all podcast apps.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Haunted Bookshop tends to be a love it or hate it blend. Thanks for a very fair review of it.

Congrats on the new house Kirk! It was fun hearing how his collecting is going these days. Also, fun to hear how the Nate Pipe Clu… the Indiana Pipe Club got its start. I’m jealous they have that many shops in the area. Hope the show is a hit. The vendor list is really solid.

They call them the dog days of summer, but a more accurate example of what the Vegas heat is like is when the Thanksgiving turkey has been in the oven for two hours so you open the oven to check the temperature and you’re met with a blast of unbearable hot air. That’s why us Las Vegans hibernate during the summer.

Great tune from Bing! Hadn’t heard that one before.

Thanks for another great episode.

 

[Kollman]

Captain Kirk was a real joy to listen to, and how the pipe club got started in Indiana. They are doing it right by supporting local B&M, keeping a pipe show manageable, and a lot of fun. Haunted Bookshop is one that I really enjoy because of the amount of burley, but I appreciate the advice on tweaking it a bit to take it in a new direction, and can't wait to play with that blend. Time to buy more tobacco!

 

[Mike N]

Interesting interview. Kirk is a great pipe guy,