Maple City Pipecast

Due to family health issues Maple City Pipecast is on indefinite hiatus. We will return as soon as possible.

With the Victoria Day weekend upon us here in the great white north, I spent the holiday with my family. Look for the actual episode on Wednesday.

Today we talk to Nate Rose for the final Carver Series installment. We talk about the process of picking the wood to some stem issues that happened during the creation of the mini-warden. The for some fun we talk super-heros.

Tax hikes, factory expansions and a virtual pipe club are just three of the subjects that we cover on this weeks edition of The Briar Report Weekly.

Links: 

J. C. Newman Breaks Ground:  https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/j-c-newman-breaks-ground-on-multimillion-dollar-factory-expansion 

Country Squire Radio's 300th Episode Live from Missouri Meerschaum:  https://www.podastery.com/podcast-country-squire-radio

Illinois Senator Proposes Tax Hike:  https://halfwheel.com/illinois-senator-proposes-tobacco-tax-hikes/298816

Sutliff Starts a Virtual Pipe Club:  https://www.briarreport.org/2019/05/07/sutliff-tobacco-starts-virtual-pipe-club/ 

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All this weeks story's can also be found on  https://www.briarreport.com/ and  https://www.briarreport.org/ 

*Note: As we have been having issues with our main computer, we have had to change our recording set up. Sorry about all of the pops, we haven't gotten the right calibration just yet.* 

On this bonus edition of The Briar Report Weekly we look at the winners of the annual Artisocob Cobfoolery Contest, as well as a list of top tobacco podcasts on PlayerFM.

Links: 

Cobfoolery Results:  https://www.briarreport.org/2019/05/06/aristocob-announces-winners-of-cobfoolery-2019/ 

Best Tobacco Podcasts of 2019 on PlayerFM:  https://player.fm/en/podcasts/tobacco 

In the first segment, we talk about anything that comes to mind while cleaning pipes. Admittedly, didn't have much today so we went to a dual segment format. During segment two we continue the Year 10 Project, talking about moving, wives getting new jobs and so on.

This week on the Briar Report Weekly, we talk deadline extensions, Canadian tobacco law and much, much more. As always all links are included here in the show notes so you can check things out yourselves. Have a great week everybody.

This Week's Links:

Ingredient Listing Deadline Extended:  https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/ctp-newsroom/ingredient-listing-deadline-extended-small-scale-manufacturers-and-importers-impacted-recent-natural 

Canada's Plain Packaging Going into Effect Nov. 8th:  https://halfwheel.com/canadas-plain-packaging-goes-into-effect-nov-8/298579 

Queen's University to Ban the use of Tobacco on Campus:  https://www.kingstonist.com/queens-university-to-ban-the-use-of-tobacco-on-campus/ 

Big Tobacco is Fighting Colorado's Nicotine Tax Bill:  https://coloradosun.com/2019/04/30/colorado-nicotine-tobacco-tax-proposal-opposition/ 

In this pipecast; preview we look at the end of Monday Night Smoke for a season and the upcoming episodes for May. Which may, or may not include an Interview outside of the Carver Series. (Just didn't have anything locked down at recording time.

The latest installment in the Year 10 series. What do we discuss? Good question, tune in to find out!! This will be the last Monday Night smoke until October. Due to the warmer weather, I'll be smoking out of the studio unless plans change. I might try some recording with a lapel mic and the voice recorder on my cell phone, just to see what we get.

Welcome to the second addition of the Briar Report Weekly. Thanks again to Phil, editor and chief of The Briar Report https://www.briarreport.com/  and Briar Report Magazine. ( https://www.briarreport.org/ ) Without his sending the story of the week this series wouldn't work.

The main talk of last week was a Bill being introduced in the house seeking to raise the national smoking age to 21. While that is really nothing to worry about in and of itself, other issues that are shoe horned into the bill are.

Next, one that I found interesting, a story about a university in Japan no longer hiring smokers.

And finally a neat little piece about the Reagan Years.

Links: 

Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019:  https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/bill-seeks-to-ban-online-cigar-sales-flavored-cigars-and-boost-user-fees 

Japan University Bans Smoking Professors:  https://japantoday.com/category/national/stubbed-out-japan-university-stops-hiring-smoking-professors

Reagan Loved Jelly Beans:  https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/paul-batura-reason-ronald-reagan-loved-jelly-beans