New YouTube Pipe Channel

[Andre_T]

There are some Youtube Pipe smoker channels I hate and some I would love to smack upside the head (no names mentioned but one of them uses a torch to light his tobacco.) I do dearly miss Aristocob.

 

[Andre_T]

That said I would like to suggest some guys I like to watch as no one has listed them as of yet.

London Calling With Simon.

CaneRod Piper

Hobbiton Piper

There are others but I wanted to mention these guys. All seem to do it for the joy of doing it and do it at a great level.

 

[mateusbrown]

someone speak with traditional southern dialect

I watch the Carolina Pipe Cottage guy just for this reason sometimes. This is a rather rare thing for me to hear this variation on Southern American English. Although I'm from the southern part of Georgia, I don't sound like this, and I don't know anyone who does. We have more of a rednecky twang with lots of built-in grammatical disasters that everyone uses and understands perfectly going on around here whereas he has the more aristocratic, proper, or genteel way of speaking that is heard more in the coastal Carolinas or Virginia. I don't know exactly where he is from, but he mentioned something about being in Kentucky recently.

 

[craig61a]

This guy…

 

[BDIC]

Ha ha, I live in the area of the US with the most pipe smokers. I am curious as to how many pipesmokers you come into contact with.
The Briary smoking lounge, here, will have farmers, laborers, businessmen, professors, complete morons, psychopathic bikers, and the occasional downtrodden cob smoker. Pipe smokers, even on this forum make up the most variety of people ever. I have yet to see a type.

Now, if you only experience with other pipesmokers is youtube and pipe shows, you are merely seeing a small niche of pipe smokers.

Haven't met many pipe smokers in real life TBH but I fall somewhere between laborer, business man and psychopathic biker.

 

[BDIC]

There are some Youtube Pipe smoker channels I hate and some I would love to smack upside the head (no names mentioned but one of them uses a torch to light his tobacco.) I do dearly miss Aristocob.

Makes you think he loves the taste of scorched tobacco and briar lol. This is the quintessential flaw in the internet though isn't it? Anyone can make content for the masses to consume, whether they know what they are talking about or not.

I like watching the ones that are more of a vlog - just a piper talking about the thoughts tumbling in his head (NW piper) or guys like Simon & J Mouton, who let you peak into the world of pipemaking along with their thoughts.

 

[anotherbob]

Bremen Pipe smoker, Beans, and Pipes, tobacco, and whisky are channels I watch often.

I don't like how many channels try to generalize pipe smokers, or try to commercialize their channels.

I've thought of doing a pipe channel and instead of doing a channel about "pipe smoking" I was going to do one about how I go about smoking. Here is how I pack a pipe. Here is how I do this or that. A little bit of the things that just aren't going to be different for different people (this is called a stummel, and I have no idea what that word is about). But then I realized it would be a lot of work for something three people would probably really like and two of them only because they ran out of sleeping pills and need to nap.

 

[Coreios]

I like SpurgeonPiper and PipeCottage. I can see why some think PipeCottage comes off as snooty but mostly because a huge part of the population has never heard someone speak with traditional southern dialect. These 2 are odd picks for me since they both tend to theological side which I do not subscribe to. But I like their forthrightness. Another is sorta pipe and sorta not and that's DryCreekWranglerSchool.
For me there's a lot these ol boys talk about that some in our younger generation could use and learn from to get some of their sanity back. DryCreekWrangler's pipe stuff is mostly on Rumble due to the censorship risks on YT.

I'm from Kentucky not far from him and I've never heard a more fake accent.

 

[Coreios]

I watch the Carolina Pipe Cottage guy just for this reason sometimes. This is a rather rare thing for me to hear this variation on Southern American English. Although I'm from the southern part of Georgia, I don't sound like this, and I don't know anyone who does. We have more of a rednecky twang with lots of built-in grammatical disasters that everyone uses and understands perfectly going on around here whereas he has the more aristocratic, proper, or genteel way of speaking that is heard more in the coastal Carolinas or Virginia. I don't know exactly where he is from, but he mentioned something about being in Kentucky recently.

Hes living in KY so do I and I've never heard a more fake accent.

 

[spike]

Hes living in KY so do I and I've never heard a more fake accent.

He just moved to Kentucky. He’s from Mississippi or South Carolina.

 

[Coreios]

He just moved to Kentucky. He’s from Mississippi or South Carolina.

Never heard anyone from Mississippi or South Carolina speak like that.

 

[BDIC]

Never heard anyone from Mississippi or South Carolina speak like that.

Sounds like he adopted the affectation of a civil war general. He's kind of preachy.

 

[Pipingntrucking]

Never heard anyone from Mississippi or South Carolina speak like that.

He's from SC Charleston area I think. I grew up with people who talk exactly like that as my family has been here in the Carolinas and Virginias as far back as late 1700's. It hasn't been until recent decades this dialect has been lost. For more humorous example you can listen to Andy Griffith and his stand ups. Also Jerry Clower. My grandfather also had a very similar way of talking.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

He's from SC Charleston area I think. I grew up with people who talk exactly like that as my family has been here in the Carolinas and Virginias as far back as late 1700's. It hasn't been until recent decades this dialect has been lost. For more humorous example you can listen to Andy Griffith and his stand ups. Also Jerry Clower. My grandfather also had a very similar way of talking.

Yep. We call that the Old Money Charleston accent

 

[sigaholic]

I definitely will check it out. Thanks for sharing

 

[briarblues]

This has been an interesting thread.

There are a good number of YT pipe related channels. Some are very good, some so so, and some painful to watch. The same may be said about forums. All forms of social media have their upside and downside.

If you get a "connection" with a person and their personality on any platform it can be great fun and you might end up creating a good friendship. At the same time, putting yourself out there, means you better develop thick skin.

As far as interacting with presenters / posters, yes forums do have that advantage to some degree. On YT the interactions on Live Streams or on Zoom meetings, is in real time. Thus you can get a better "feel" for participants, if that makes sense. It's also much easier, on YT, to see if someone is trying to be funny or just a dumb ass. As sablebrush stated there is also loads of misinformation. YT is a venue that does require some time to figure out which presenter is offering decent information or ankle high, head first, full of it.

I enjoy YT and forums and find both informative and some of the funniest stuff I've seen / read.

YMMV

Mike

 

[aspiring_sage]

I almost always prefer YouTube, but follow nobody for pipe smoking.

These forums were where all my beginner questions were answered. The answers usually came in the form of forum members disagreeing with each other, then a bunch mentioning YMMV. Eventually I noticed the trend of “if you keep doing it and you’ll eventually try everything, or figure it out, or quit”.
Can’t find that kind of sanity on YouTube.

I do watch a couple of guys that happen to smoke a pipe, but nobody gets a sub because of their “pipe content”.

 

[BriarBrook]

I don't have the attention span to sit and watch someone smoke a pipe or talk about smoking a pipe for 30 mins or so...

 

[Sinzalot]

Thanks for sharing, I'll be sure to check it out later.

 

[Kobold]

Yes. “Chooch on” which is, from the limited understanding I have, a slang in the YTPC (and possibly greater community) for smoking a pipe while out going for a walk.

Oh weird. That’s what my family has always called pacifiers. I think chooch in Italian means “a nothing”.