Jay Furman from Pipe & Tamper on Radio Show of September 23, 2025

[admin]

Our featured interview on tonight's Pipes Magazine Radio Show is with Jay Furman. Jay is the co-host of the Pipe and Tamper podcast. He is a long-time member of the pipe community. He started smoking pipes in the 1980s, and owns hundreds of pipes and hundreds of pounds of pipe tobacco. His first pipe shopping experience was at Wally Frank, a famous New York chain of shops, also nationally known for their large mail order catalog business. Jay loves artisan pipes as well as health and fitness. The guys talk about how they do their respective podcasts, YouTube pipe channels, what Jay sees for the future of pipe smoking and more. At the top of the show we will have an Ask the Tobacco Blender segment with Jeremy Reeves. Jeremy is the Head Blender at Cornell & Diehl, which is one of the most popular boutique pipe tobacco companies in the USA.

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

 

[Humblepipe]

He's wearing humblepipe swag!

 

[abecox]

Every so often I'll listen to a podcast and see a picture of the host and go "Huh that's not what I pictured from their voice." This is one of those times. It's in my queue can't wait to listen!

 

[Mike N]

Jay is a great common sense voice on all things pipe related. Always a great listen.

 

[Piping Abe]

I used to listen to the PMag radio show a lot. But it got kind of stale.

I listened to the Pipe and Tamper show and loved it. More common sense. And Jay is my favorite part of the show. Once I heard from him that he doesn’t buy pipe cleaners, I knew he was a real pipe smoker.

I will give this one a listen for sure.

 

[bootlegpipes]

I've been listening to old episodes and your chat with Jay touched on a topic I've been thinking about: Who will be the next legacy pipe makers? It was cool to hear Jay's opinion that two new-ish guys are already on that road should they keep going. It seems like the criteria are a high degree of carving excellence, the ability to have a style that translates to many shapes, a long career with a large body of work, and, most of all, be remembered by the generations to come. I guess maybe the simplest analogy would be a Pipe Hall of Fame.

Who (in your opinion, which you're the leading expert of) could achieve legacy pipe makers?

One that immediately comes to mind is Micah Cryder of Yeti Pipes. The pipes he's making now are already spectacular and it seems like pipe making is his life's work rather than a love that might end up fading.

One that seemed to be well on that road was Michael Lindner. Since he has stopped making pipes and his body of work was "limited" (for lack of a better word) to around 15 years, it might not be a widespread and enduring. But in sports we've seen people with relatively short careers still reach the highest accolades in their respective sports (Magic Johnson's 13 seasons, Barry Sanders' 10 seasons, Sandy Koufax's 12 seasons).

P.S. Rant: Probably the only good thing about Mac Baren and Sutliff closing were their horrible ads. The lady talks about Mac Baren's legacy in excellence as a Danish company but doesn't have a Danish accent. The Sutliff ads were just too corny.

 

[sparker69]

He's wearing humblepipe swag!

I LOVE these t-shirts - but have no idea what Humble Pipe is! Can you fill me in?

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Man, what a good hangout vibe for this episode. Really appreciated Jay and Brian’s hashing out of the picture of future pipe smoking. I will say, I agree that the future is bright.
Humans and tobacco go way back. Even if- ok let’s say some seriously turbulent stuff happens, and global society as we know it today disappears, tobacco consumption will still be with us. It would take a long while to get back to the ubiquity we are living in now, but it would be around; someone would end up finding some and they would start it over again. Some tired starving guy would just start chewing leaves out of desperation, and he’d say “this is great; if I live through this I’m coming back here to figure this out”.

 

[tmc]

Great show! I’m not a regular Pipe and Tamper listener but I do tune in if the episode sounds interesting. I think of it as the dick jokes and smokes podcast.

I have to say I really appreciate and share Jay’s optimism about the future of pipes and tobacco. Sure, I wish selection and availability was like it was when I started back in 2003. I wish there was less FOMO nonsense, but that’s the world we’ve made. There are still lots of great and readily available blends out there, and face it the tobacco of old has always been better.