The Pipes Magazine Radio Show Podcast

Our featured interview tonight is with Rick Newcombe. Rick is a well-known author of several pipe books, and a prominent collector of Danish pipes, and vintage tobaccos. He has traveled the world visiting pipe makers, and learning their different techniques. He is also the founder and chairman of Creators Syndicate, which currently represents more than 200 writers and artists. This show is our thi...

Our featured interview tonight is with Steve “PipeStud” Fallon. Steve has one of the most popular consignment-auction businesses for estate pipes and vintage tobaccos that he’s been running since 2006. If you know Steve, you know he’s a big fan of the original Dunhill blend, Royal Yacht. This show is our second in Volume II in our series of “Seven Questions for Seven Experts”. Over the course of s...

Our featured interview on The Pipes Magazine Radio Show tonight is with Rich Esserman. Rich is a well-known collector of pipes and tobaccos. He is best known for his love of extremely large pipes, many of them Dunhills. Some of the extra large pipes he has were actually made as attention getting window displays, but he smokes them anyway. Why not? Just be careful when he shows up at the tobacco-sh...

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 wit...

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 t...

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.

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 form...

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...

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...

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

Per Jensen Interview

John Semel Interview

Russ Hicks Interview

Mystery Man Interview

Steve Webb Interview

We have a star-studded line-up of guests that make for some extremely interesting pipe and tobacco conversations. Brian recorded his Saturday Afternoon Zoom Pipe Club Chat, which included Jim York, Marty Pulvers, Tad Gage, Fred Hanna, Steve Fallon, Chuck Stanion, and more. At the top of the show, in Pipe Parts, Brian will discuss, Pipes of Occassion.

Rainbow PiperGirl Interview

Jeremy Feliciano Interview

Mike Murphy Interview

Alexander Hasty Interview

Julius and Rob Vesz Part II

Julius and Rob Vesz Interview

Chris Tarman Interview

Jonathan Lavezzo Interview

Jeremy McKenna: FDA Update