Best Pipemakers Podcasts (2025)

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685: Pipemaker Garret Woo. How to Smooth Out a Blend. 1:07:50

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Our featured interview tonight is with pipe maker Garret Woo. He has an undergraduate degree in Classics from UC Santa Barbara. He was a teacher for a while, and then a private investigator working with his dad that is a former FBI agent. Now he is a durometer technician and pipemaker living in West LA. He started smoking pipes when he was 18 years…

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The art of the pipe... The nuances of blends... And just the two of us babbling on & on &... 1:19:30

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On this Halloween episode, Bo and I talk about pipes, pipe making and the artistry within hte next generation... Along with the discovery of older blends... Having a CELLAR of tobacco is a great thing, but not always... if you don't know what you have!By Deployment Sock Media

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684: Skeet Stribling from The Story Teller's Pipe. Ask the Pipemaker with Jeff Gracik. 1:10:52

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Our featured interview tonight is with Skeet Stribling from The Story Teller's Pipe online pipe and tobacco shop. Skeet first took up pipe smoking in college. In later years, his friend Sean blended tobaccos for him, and he was the original owner of The Story Teller's Pipe. When Sean decided to retire, Skeet, also in retirement took over the online…

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683: Eugene Falco of Uncanny Material. Pipe Bowl Size. 1:07:51

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Our featured interview tonight is with Eugene Falco from The Uncanny! Material and the Greywoodie Podcast. Eugene is super creative in the world of pipes, art, and podcasting. His creative output spans beyond pipes, including his tobacco tin art and his role as co-host of the Greywoodie podcast alongside Nathan Davis of Kaywoodie. In addition, he h…

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682: Jeremy Reeves of Cornell & Diel. Aging and Cellaring Tobacco. 1:11:52

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681: Pipe Maker Jerry Nelson. Review of Cornell & Diel's Happy Hour. 1:12:13

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Our featured interview tonight is with pipe maker Jerry Nelson. His brand of pipes is Nelson Pipes by Jerry. Jerry was originally influenced to try pipe smoking by last week's guest, Jay Furman. They met in an online forum where Jay was posting some pipes, but it wasn't a pipe forum. The next step, with Jerry being a carpenter, was to make pipes. H…

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We just wanted to shoot the SH*T about pipes and tobaccos 1:14:56

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Some CRF+P talk, pipe shapes and sizes... and national elephant appreciation day! What we're smoking and what we're enjoying... Just a random episode.By Deployment Sock Media

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680: Jay Furman from Pipe & Tamper. Ask the Blender with Jeremy Reeves. 1:08:19

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Our featured interview tonight 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 …

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679: Jon David Cole from The Country Squire. Brian's New Pipe for the Collection. 1:12:57

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Our featured guest tonight is Jon David Cole. JD is the Owner/Tobacconist at The Country Squire in Jackson, MS, and the accompanying online store. The Country Squire store is moving to a new third location to expand their shipping, blending, and smoking lounge. They are moving into a standalone building which will ensure against complaints of smoki…

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The Tobacco MULTIVERSE 1:29:16

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Join Bo & I as we discuss tobacco "WHAT IF'S" Try and distinguish between EDC and Workhorse pipes and is pipe smoking a hobby, lifestyle... OR BOTH! We also figured out... which came first the chicken or the egg!By Deployment Sock Media

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678: Pipe Maker Jeff Gracik Discusses Shanghai Pipe Show. Brian on Pipe Shows. 1:08:32

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Our featured interview tonight is with Pipe Artisan Jeff Gracik. Our regular listeners will know Jeff from our ongoing series, "Ask the Pipemaker". Jeff makes J. Alan Pipes and is an expert, artisan pipe maker for over 20-years. Jeff will talk about what it is like to attend the Shanghai pipe show. The inaugural show was last year, and the most rec…

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677: Film Maker and Author Nathanael Hummel. Brian Answers a Question on Billiards. 1:14:29

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Our featured interview on tonight’s show is with Nathanael Hummel. Nathanael is a renaissance man of the arts. He is an experienced and published digital filmmaker, video editor, videographer, writer, actor, and model. His debut novel, "Treasure Is My Trade - A Nate Colt Adventure" came out this past May. His youth was filled with dreams of swashbu…

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676: Per Jensen with New Tobaccos. Ask the Pipemaker with Jeff Gracik. 1:07:18

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Our featured interview tonight is with Per George Jensen. Per is like an executive chef of tobacco. He never runs out of new tasty concoctions. He also always seems to land on his feet. In case you don't know, he spent many years at Mac Baren and later created blends for Sutliff as well. With the buyouts by STG, which have already been discussed at…

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PATIENCE! 1:24:26

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The art and virtue of PATIENCE... whether with a new pipe, tobacco or cigar... Give whatever it is the patience and respect it deserves... so you can fully enjoy it the way it's meant to be experienced.By Deployment Sock Media

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675: Pipe Artisan Nate King. Tobacco Review of Cornell & Diehl's Engine #611. 1:05:32

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Our featured interview on tonight’s show is with Nate King, the "King of Pipes". Most people know of Nate as an excellent pipe artisan. He also has an honorary Master of Pipes degree from the Chicagoland Pipe Collectors Club, and is a member of the prestigious Confrérie des Maitres Pipiers de Saint-Claude. Prior to becoming a pipe maker in 2005, Na…

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674: Jamie Connelly and Matt McCulloch from the Milwaukee Pipe Club. The Art of Collecting. 1:16:10

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Our featured interview tonight is with Jamie Connelly and Matt McCulloch from the Milwaukee Pipe Club. We'll get some insight on how the club got started and how they run the club. It will be some good information for anyone that wants to join or start a pipe club. Jamie is the president of the club, and he also does estate pipe restorations and sa…

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The NEW - NEW episode that never was! 1:35:45

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After a short break and then some technical plaques... WE ARE BACK! New pipes, old pipes, new tobaccos, old tobaccos... LIFE with pipes, tobaccos & cigars... Just a good time (for Bo & I at least) So enjoy...By Deployment Sock Media

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673: AI vs. Brian with Dustin Patterson. Brian's Disney Pipe Collection. 1:16:54

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Our featured interview tonight is with Dustin Patterson. He got into pipe smoking about ten years ago when he was working in robotics and automation and he learned about Sherlock Holmes' practice of figuring out problems by taking time to think while smoking a pipe. Something that was really puzzling would be deemed a "three pipe problem". Dustin w…

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672: Pipe Maker Jamie Marcey. Cornell & Diehl's Virginia Flake Review 1:06:36

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Our featured interview tonight is with Jamie Marcey from Marcey Handmade Pipes. Jamie has been a pipe smoker since 2017, and he started making pipes in 2024. He is inspired by both Danish and English styles. He uses Italian and Grecian briar along with German Ebonite. He resides in Virginia. At the top of the show Brian will have a tobacco review o…

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671: Micro-Blender Anthony James. Brian's List of Must Do Pipe Things. 1:06:44

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Our featured interview tonight is with Anthony James. Anthony is a micro-blender of pipe tobaccos. He started smoking pipes in 2020, and because of his chef background he immediately became interested in blending tobaccos. He was led to pipe smoking after his wife's grandfather passed away and they found 10 Kaywoodie pipes while cleaning out the ga…

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670: Beau York from Country Squire Radio. Brian's Bitter Pipe. 1:18:51

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Our featured interview tonight is with Beau York. Beau is the former co-host of the now ended pipes and tobacco based podcast, Country Squire. We'll talk about his early days of getting into pipe smoking and meeting his former podcast co-host Jon David Cole when he was an employee at the store and not the owner. You'll hear how pipe smoking is diff…

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669: Kirk Keener from Indiana Pipe Club. Review of Haunted Bookshop. 1:03:17

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Our featured interview tonight 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 pip…

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668: Pipe Maker Paul Greenwood. Brian's Danish or Danish-Inspired Pipes. 1:03:20

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Our featured interview tonight is with Paul Greenwood. Paul is the pipemaker behind Grunewald Pipes. He started smoking pipes in his late-20s and then stopped for almost 30 years. He started smoking pipes again in February 2022. Two months later he went to the Chicago pipe show and signed up for the pipe making seminar. He noticed that there weren'…

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667: Pipe Maker Yosef Zehnder. "How and Why I am a Pipe Smoker". 1:09:20

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Our featured interview tonight is with pipe maker Yosef Zehnder. Yosef grew up in a family of artists and artisans. As a child he enjoyed painting, drawing, writing songs/poems, pottery, photography and more. In 2012, he decided to try pipe smoking and quite enjoyed it. In 2019, he started making pipes and has become quite the artisan creating high…

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666: Pipe Collector Boby Eichorn. Cap's Blend Tobacco Review. 1:16:33

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Our featured interview tonight is with Bobby Eichorn. Bobby is the newly appointed leader of the International Charatan Collectors Society. He has been smoking and collecting Charatan pipes for decades and has one of the largest collections in the world. He has won awards for his collection at past Chicago pipe shows. His initial influence for pipe…

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Pipe Commissions, Tobacco, Some cigars and... $H1T Happens! 1:18:23

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Bo and I discuss our love of all things tobacco... pipe & cigar... some commission communication needs... and a wHOLE lot a rambling and babling... As well as some listener homework at the end?By Deployment Sock Media

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665: Pipemaker Jody Davis. Pipe Smoker's Gift Guide. 1:09:03

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Our featured interview tonight is with Jody Davis. Jody is a renowned pipe artisan, and the lead guitar player for the Grammy-nominated Christian rock band, The Newsboys. His pipes are extremely high quality with Danish style designs, and they are not easy to come by. Jody will take on two "Ask the Pipemaker" questions from listeners as well as cha…

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664: Pipe Maker Dan Butler. Mac Baren Virginia No. 1 Replacement. 1:09:18

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Our featured guest tonight is Dan Butler of D. Butler Pipes. Dan is a part time pipe maker producing beautiful artisan pipes. He found his way to pipes after university didn't work out, then working the night shift in a mental hospital put so much stress on him that he need to find relief. First, it was relaxing with a cigar, but when he found his …

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663: Austin Bourdo of Pathfinder Pipes. Two Comoy's from Brian's Collection. 1:09:00

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Our featured guest tonight is Austin Bourdo of Pathfinder Pipes. He is an Army Veteran having the highly specialized role of Pathfinder. (Find out what that is on the show. It's super badass cool.) Austin is a father and husband living in his native Wisconsin. He does social work full time and makes pipes part time. It all started when he found his…

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662: Jon David Cole from Country Squire. Listener Questions Answered. 1:16:38

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Our featured guest tonight is Jon David Cole. JD is the Owner/Tobacconist at The Country Squire in Jackson, MS, and the accompanying online store. We’ll have JD and Brian talking about their experiences and Jon David's purchases at the Chicago pipe show. There is also news on the Country Squire's bulk tobacco / custom blends program that was impact…

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661: Magician Fernando Keop. Review of C&D Opening Night 1:07:23

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Our featured interview on tonight’s show is with Fernando Keops. Fernando is a renowned sleight-of-hand magician, particularly known for his work with cards and gambling effects. He is celebrated for his performances that blend magic, sleight of hand, and a poetic style. He is of course, also a pipe smoker and he attended the Las Vegas Internationa…

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CHICAGO! What a show!!! 1:09:59

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Listen in as Bo and I recap not just the Chicago pipe show... But Bo's first CHICAGO Pipe Show... His enthusiasm, is like telling gramps about his first trip to Disney...By Deployment Sock Media

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660: Kevin Godbee of PipesMagazine.com Discussing the Chicago Pipe Show. 1:07:05

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Our featured interview on tonight’s show is with Kevin Godbee. Kevin is the owner and founder of PipesMagazine.com, which launched in 2009 as a resource site for pipe smokers and pipe and tobacco collectors. The site has numerous articles from well-known pipe authorities as well as the largest and most active community discussion forums, and of cou…

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659: Pipe Book Author and Collector Rick Newcombe. History of Special Edition Tobaccos. 1:13:00

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Our featured interview on tonight’s show is with Rick Newcombe. Rick is a well-known author of several pipe books, and he is a prominent collector of Danish pipes, and vintage tobaccos. We catch up with him and see what he's looking forward to at the Chicago pipe show this coming weekend. Rick was in Chicago when the show was first conceived of, an…

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Obscure Tobaccos, favorite pipes... and some cigars. But LOTS of banter! 1:38:48

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Bo and I along with Shane Ireland, discuss everything from obscure tobaccos, some ramblings on pipes and even a little on cigars!By Deployment Sock Media

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658: Bo Parker of Pipe and Tamper. Smio Satou Pipes from Brian's Collection. 1:06:44

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Our featured interview on tonight’s show is with Bo Parker. Bo is the new co-host of the Pipe and Tamper Podcast, which is the second longest running pipe podcast after this one. Bo started as the co-host in January 2025, and he is also a member of the Heretics Pipe Club. He is a professional coffee roaster and has the best "first time I smoked a p…

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657: Ben Smith of Redeemed Pipes. Estate Pipe Buying 101. 1:08:27

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Our featured interview on tonight’s show is with Ben Smith of Redeemed Pipes. Ben is a pipe restorer, buyer and seller. He helps collectors find the estate pipes they are looking for. He started Redeemed Pipes in 2022 at his first Chicago pipe show. He deals with all types of pipes from artisan to factory-made. He actually started smoking pipes in …

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Some UGLY truths... AND CLAY PIPES 1:13:45

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Yes... an ugly truth is revealed.. But more importantly Bo & I talk about clay pipes and specifically the "Clarin, Clay Bulldog"By Deployment Sock Media

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656: Pipe Artisan Nate King. Tobacco Review of Low Country Atalaya. 1:10:53

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Our featured interview on tonight’s show is with Nate King, the "King of Pipes" and of In-N-Out Burger. Most people know of Nate as an excellent pipe artisan. He also has an honorary Master of Pipes degree from the Chicagoland Pipe Collectors Club, and is a member of the prestigious Confrérie des Maitres Pipiers de Saint-Claude. Prior to becoming a…

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655: Videographer and Pipe Enthusiast Mike Morales. Ask the Blender with Jeremy Reeves. 1:05:40

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Our featured interview tonight is with Mike Morales. Mike showed up at the Vegas pipe show last year with a bunch of professional video equipment and spontaneously arranged interviews with show exhibitors and Brian. The video he produced was at a professional level of a TV show, so Brian had to have him on the show. Mike is a pipe smoking enthusias…

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The Beauty of the BEAST! 1:13:10

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In this episode, Bo and I talk about the THE BEAST from C&D releasing on 4/1, March Meer Madness... and more randomness, or random-mess!By Deployment Sock Media