The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Podcast

Latest Episodes:

443: Pipe Smoker Mike Zicha. Ask the Pipe Maker with Jeff Gracik. Mar 09, 2021

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Our featured interview on The Pipes Magazine Radio Show tonight is with Mike Zicha. Mike has some of the stereotypical pipe smoker attributes. He is contemplative, analytical, and smart. He has an MBA in statistics, and owns and leads his own market research firm. He also has one of the best tobacco review forms, which you can download. We’re going to get pipe and tobacco geeky on this episode with a vertical tobacco tasting. At the top of the show in the Pipe Parts segment, we continue the theme of a technical show with “Ask the Pipe Maker” with Jeff Gracik.

442: Pipe Maker Mike Couch. Two Pipes You Should Own But Never Smoke. Mar 02, 2021

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Our featured interview tonight is with Mike Couch. Mike is a part time pipe maker, and full time teacher at a private Christian school in north Idaho. He started smoking pipes in 2012, and in 2014 got serious about making pipes. Mike makes about 70-80 pipes a year. He makes standard shapes, and Danish-influenced freehand pipes. At the top of the show in the Pipe Parts segment, Brian will discuss two pipes you should own but never smoke.

441: John Jensen from Rev's Pipes. Ask the Pipe Maker with Jeff Gracik. Feb 23, 2021

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Our featured interview tonight is with John Jensen from Rev’s Pipes. He played the crazy role of a Forcados in Portuguese bull fighting (look it up, or just listen to the show), is a minister, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor, and a pipe maker. At the top of the show in the Pipe Parts segment, we will have “Ask the Pipe Maker” with Jeff Gracik.

440: David-Dorian Ross, Founder of The Virtual Pipe Club. Brian Reveals a Former Medical Use for a Tobacco Pipe. Feb 16, 2021

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Our featured interview tonight is with David-Dorian Ross from The Virtual Pipe Club. The club is a Facebook Group that was started on March 12, 2020 in the wake of COVID lockdowns. They currently have about 2,000 members, and have regularly scheduled live streaming shows, and hangouts with David-Dorian as the host. He is also a Tai Chi Grandmaster. At the top of the show, Brian will discuss a former medical use for a tobacco pipe. This one is not for the faint of heart.

439: Pipe Maker JP Urquiza and Q&A on Key Pipe Smoking Questions with Brian Levine. Feb 09, 2021

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Our featured interview tonight is with pipe artisan, Juan Pablo Urquiza. JP has been making pipes since 2015. He hand crafts exquisite custom pipes from briar, morta and olive wood in classic and artisan shapes. At the top of the show in the Pipe Parts segment, Brian will have a Q&A with answers to key questions as we got a little behind on emails, and then we will have the rest of the mailbag in its usual segment later in the show.

438: Tom Eltang - World Renowned Danish Pipe Artisan & Co-Owner of Danish Pipe Shop Tells Great Stories. Feb 02, 2021

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Our featured interview tonight is with Danish pipe artisan, Tom Eltang. Tom is considered to be one of the best pipe makers in the world. He cranks out around 500 handmade high grade pipes a year in all shapes and sizes. A few years back, he also became co-owner of the iconic Danish Pipe Shop in Copenhagen. At the top of the show, Brian will describe the process of making and aging of his own pipe tobacco blend.

437: Kyle Weiss - PipesMagazine.com's Tobacco Reviewer. Ask the Pipe Maker with Jeff Gracik. Jan 26, 2021

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Kyle Weiss talks tobacco, working at Tinder Box, and has a cool way to rehydrate tobacco.

436: Per Jensen from The Mac Baren Tobacco Co. Brian has a Marlin Flake tobacco review. Jan 19, 2021

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Per Jensen Interview

435: John Semel with great stories about pipe shops and pipe makers. Brian on how pipe reaming is the easiest way to mess up your pipe. Jan 12, 2021

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John Semel Interview

434: Russ Hicks - Sketch Artist, Pipe Collector, Super Smeller temporarily loses his sense of small from COVID. Jan 05, 2021

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Russ Hicks Interview