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And I'm not John David. Hey.

I was wondering how you were going to respond to that.

Yes, with me, ladies gentlemen, John David, of course, still on his honeymoon, enjoying a much needed and much deserved vacation.

And we thought, okay, who makes the most sense? Who can we actually bring in to try and fill his shoes? And we're like, well, how about the guy that would not only fill his shoes, but probably like break right on through with his toes sticking out the end? Of course, I'm talking about the Doctor of Pipes himself, host of the Pipes magazine radio show, Mr. Dr. Brian Levine. How's it going, Brian?

It's going good.

And I thought, you know what?

I thought the other thing that I could do is I could say, well, hi, this is the new married voice of John David Cole. Ooh. Ooh. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The honeymoon brought him down a couple of octaves. And just to get even with you instead of referring to you

as beau i'm going to refer to you the entire time as b y oh really yeah yeah okay all right i see i

see what's i see what's happening here that's the closest thing we can get to a jd that's that's fine that's

fine well of course brian you know know, you've got a impressive history

within the industry. You've worn a lot of hats. And so, like, why don't you give everybody

kind of the quick and dirty on your background from a high level? How did you get into pipe

smoking and how did that propel you to be the juggernaut that you are today? So, officially, I was the

only tobacco smoker in

management when I was in retail at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. So they put me in charge of buying

cigars and cigarettes for the casino. That started me down the road into the cigar industry.

And then in 1995, I was in a smoke shop and I picked up a pipe and I said, you know,

I've smoked one once before. My great-grandfather smoked a pipe. I said, you know what, teach me.

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