Pipes vs Cigars: Which is Better? w/ Fr. Mike Zavage

[@nickcapone]

I recently took a few pipes to my local priest/spiritual director (who is deeply admirable) to be blessed. I was expecting a possible correction that it isn’t appropriate, but instead he ended up taking me over to his workshop and giving me multiples estate pipes, a 50’s Japanese tamper, and a giant display. It was an experience I’ll always be grateful for…

[@aaronwinter447]

So cool

[@Philip_Taylor]

Tell me he didn't, in good spirits, try to bless a tobacco pipe...? That would be a grievous misunderstanding of his spiritual capacities.

[@felipec.414]

@@Philip_Taylor There's a long time catholic priests have been blessing objects

[@Philip_Taylor]

@@felipec.414 Exactly.

[@liar8318]

Surprised he didn't try to "bless" something else

[@AnnaBanana-tx9rf]

the smell of vanilla pipe tobacco is so sentimental to me. reminds me of my daddy.

[@VaticusChadicus]

Lol one podcast- priest wrestles with demon. Next podcast- man discusses gender identity issues in post-christian world. Next podcast- understanding your smokes. Catholic Joe Rogan indeed.

[@TyroneBeiron]

... don't forget the alcohol 🍺

[@777ZEETAL]

Been smoking pipes since 2020. I’ve only just now dabbled in cigars and just a couple minutes into your video I agree 100%. My pipes are not social for me. And while a pipe doesn’t take much thought for me anymore to keep it going anymore, once I’m talking, it always goes out whereas a cigar definitely feels more social. Great video so far.

[@villatour]

As a Cuban, I endorse this message.

[@officialkill11]

so ture

[@peppy619]

The smell of campfire that you get from a good pipe tobacco (assuming it doesn't have any "flavor") combined with a nice perfume is such a masculine scent that will surely melt your girl's ice-cream

[@MansaMusa-v5q]

People love the smell of a pipe but hate the smell of cigars

[@TruePT]

I love how diverse this podcast is getting!😁

[@alexjurado6029]

Joe Rogan is the secular Matt Fradd.

[@brandonburns5249]

You should have Alan Harrelson from Old Carolina Pipe Cottage on. I imagine there is some crossover between both of your audiences. Plus he has a smooth southern drawl that sounds cool. Pipes With Aquinas! The crossover no one knew we wanted.

[@merecatholicity]

I second this!! Matt, make it happen!!

[@erikw3105]

I'd love to see this!

[@TheYoungCodger]

And now it’s happening!

[@brandonburns5249]

@@TheYoungCodger “Hold my beer.” - The Holy Ghost

[@figeon]

It finally happened. Incredible.

[@TyroneBeiron]

Love both of them. I pop the last bit of my Churchills into my pipe to finish it off perfectly. Matt sniffing the 'Three Nuns' and saying 'raisins' could have been comedic gold. I immediately went for my 'Three Nones'. 😆 Then that bit about self-pleasuring and delightful tool with resting your hand... 😂 Thank goodness I was watching this, not just listening on podcasts. Yup. Always invest in a good pipe tool. Mine has been with me since 1987.

[@williamcabell142]

They both serve a good at different times. My wife likes the pipe! Cigars watching a game on a Sunday. Good cigars don’t stink. I like my pipe when I read. One bowl a day, while I read. I have one pipe that I can keep lit from start to finish.

[@autry33]

@Daniel E. Neither is your apparent lack of research my friend. Everything in moderation.

[@johnbinford6706]

@daniele.3361 Wow, you must be a blast at parties. You can be a doomer about anything. Eating meat raises your risk of various cancers. Being overweight raises your risk of virtually every bad health condition. Working a sedentary office job makes you vastly more likely to get various diseases versus if you were a mailman or something active. Any amount of sunlight increases skin cancer risk and ages your skin. Sitting by a campfire increases your risk of various cancers. Etc etc. If you want to try to live a perfectly "healthy" life, then you can sit in a bubble and eat nothing but microgreens for the rest of your life. You are not going to do that. You are not living a perfectly healthy life. There are a practically infinite number of things you could do to reduce your risk of various bad outcomes, which you aren't doing, which we could shame you for if we wanted to. Everyone has to do a risk/benefit analysis of the things they do.

[@DroopyWorm]

@daniele.3361So are vegetables with their numerous compounds & anti-nutrients. Commercial tobacco is terrible. Whole leaf organic? Different story

[@robertkearney7409]

One exception to taking apart. I have a Peterson Army mount so I can take it apart while still warm.

[@hamie7624]

I discovered the Peterson army way too late. If I could go back all my pipes would be armies.

[@jackreid6144]

bought my first zippo from petersons, good craic. Hopefully I'll get a pipe from them one of these days!

[@peequod]

Just bought a Peterson Dublin churchwarden w/ rustic finish and fishtail mouthpiece recently from my local Tinderbox (didn’t know they still existed!) in order to support the “little guy/gal” shop owner in these rough retail times. Otherwise, you can order from them directly from Peterson online or through a reseller.

[@tobaccoman1542]

I gave up cigars for lent, I love the conversation almost as much as I love premium tobacco 😊

[@Missle1001]

I love smoking through a pipe myself, I live in California and I smoke a different kind of herb that is legal where I live, I have a glass pipe, so I don’t hold it in my mouth and it has a second carb hole, a slightly different style of pipe designed for the green herb, yet similar to smoking a tobacco pipe.

[@briarreport8408]

As you can imagine, I absolutely loved this video.

[@LaminarSound]

Been smoking pipes for 3 yrs now but its only been the last 6 months ive really gotten into trying many different tobaccos. Its wonderful. Every tobacco has its *thing. Some can be smoked fast and heavy and stay pleasant(black cordial). Mostly those with cavendish. Some require a very light slow puff and slow smoke to stay pleasant(Autumn evening). Some are just smooth and tasty no matter how you pack and smoke(1Q). The english blends are shocking at first and taste if leather, bbq and beef jerky but if given a chance are indeed pleasant and delightful. Some are just brutal no matter how you smoke(burleys). Just my opinions but thats the beauty. Its zen upkeeping my pipes and fun trying nee pipes and blends. Great episode here Pints…..

[@connorhowe3001]

i got myself a lovely falcon pipe and like 20 tobaccos. i love my cigars, but nothing beats a good pipe.

[@FavianShields]

Pipes>Cigars. Fight me.

[@davidkellymitchell4747]

I love hamburgers but also pizza and Mexican food. Who says you can't enjoy them all?

[@MansaMusa-v5q]

People love to categorize everything and everyone wants to claim a group or thing

[@BernStoogin]

So right about the comparison to espresso. When I was around 19 I developed an obsession with the craft, still love it but have mostly moved on to pipes and cigars. Something about the craft behind vices, man. Nothing like it.

[@Philip_Taylor]

Hah, so true. At around 19 I started learning to roll the perfect marijuana cigarette. I succeeded -- it's origami level stuff -- but at the end of the day, an MJ cigarette is just a MJ cigarette, and that's all it'll ever be.

[@Veritas1234]

Still working on your LOTR pipe Matt... Probably summer time before I can send it your way.

[@fossil-bit8439]

Man you need to hurry up I’m getting so anxious to see it since you’ve starting making comments about it in the comment sections, haha!! I hope he does a video on it when you send it!

[@Veritas1234]

@@fossil-bit8439 Haha. Thanks dude. Noted. Time to get to work

[@ryanbailey112]

Nice video. I literally just finished a bowl of EMP! Love that tobacco!

[@theblishknovk]

I prefer cigars but pipes and pipe tobacco are an amazing experience in a completely different way if you take the time to learn how to do it. I think im starting to become a winter time English smoker and summer time cigar smoker.

[@kimlennard1024]

Just love this - well done lads

[@Ishootfilm412]

Heard Pittsburgh ! Instant follow that's where I'm from

[@nicholeblume2191]

When I was in my 30s we had a wonderful priest that smoked a pipe my mother is our church book keeper Fr. Phil was wonderful

[@jeremiahhook3001]

As I smoke out of my 7 dollar pipe with my 10 dollar pouch of Oso Negro I think an expensive pipe is entirely not needed to have a pleasurable experience 😊 enjoy your smoke 💨❤

[@michaelibach9063]

Lol, I smoked a pipe for a bit. I’ve smoked both the early morning and the nightcap.

[@edfulginiti8798]

Pipe dude here…enjoy a cigar here and there…usually on the road visiting friends…but, nothing like a pipe! 👍

[@TheYoungCodger]

Cigars are like coffee and pipes are like tea

[@Scottydye]

Thats actually pretty good lol

[@AronBagel]

Maybe you should consider renaming the lofi channel to "Pipes with Aquinas" and change the artwork to have St. Aquinas holding a pipe. Would suit the contemplative nature :)

[@slimjim6377]

Just starting in the pipe journey, what are some good pipe brand companies to buy from? Love the video as well.

[@calin61272]

Savinelli, Stanwell, Windows, Parker etc 🙂

[@ray8535]

Where can I get that flat bottom pipe. Name or link pls 🙏. GREAT SHOW !

[@fragwagon]

Tell Matt to try some Erinmore Flake or Capstan. Good stuff!

[@StephenJordan514]

Hi there! Love the video. I love that pipe with the flat bottom you're smoking, where did you get it? Can I get it online? Thanks!

[@antoniotodaro4093]

How long before this podcast is renamed "Blunts with Aquinas" ?

[@Jacob-lt8de]

One of your best thumbnails yet!

[@shortythepresident3913]

1:16 Women DO like the smell of pipes. I have a tobacco that will intrigue ANY woman that i buy from pipes and cigars. Its called frosty chocolate mint. Its a menthol with a chocolate smell. It smells amazing in the house and my girl loves it especially at a night cap and i have a smoke and then brush my teeth and dive into bed with her. She say's i remind her of her grandfather of which i appreciate because he was such an incredible man. I'm a young 44 yr old. But whenever i have it, it gives me such a wise man's smell, if that makes any sense. She always says it makes her feel safe and secure when we cuddle. All i know is that its a bit healthier than smoking my ghetto Newports in the hood. People tend to make fun of me sometimes because i smoke a pipe. But its those same motherfuckers who can't walk away after smelling such a sweet chocolate mint smell. All i need now is a proper cologne to go with it. Something woody and sexy. I wished i would'a got into pipes earlier. But to be honest, i wanna quit completely. But i'm satisfied for now with this better health choice until i completely quit alltogether. My boss popped into my office the other day and asked me if i smoked a pipe. I told him yes. He never replied. But he wasn't mad either. But i know when a white man like "chocolate" - LOL. Not "me" lol. I mean the minty chocolate flavor. 😅

[@101Checks]

The first two Peterson tobaccos were originally Dunhill

[@alexjurado6029]

Pipes With Aquinas

[@b20schill]

Link for the etsy pipe?

[@GraffitiJungel]

Beautiful pipe 👌🏾

[@arturorivas4520]

I've always learned that you should: pack it like a child (loose), pack it like a woman (mid) then pack it like a man (heavy).

[@AppealToHeaven]

Love my pipe. Handmade Tim West, 25 years old

[@diane4983]

I'm baffled that people would consider pipe smoking inappropriate lol have they watched TV with any typical ads come on. People take their kids to Disney world and the sick garbage they are peddling to your kids but we are worried about the negative impact smoking a pipe will have. Let's all just get real. More power to you smoke on!

[@ashvandal5697]

I'm a former catholic...what is this I hear about an after party?

[@crisper1614]

Link to that long pipe?

[@aaronwinter447]

DE Undercrown Shade. NICE.

[@jebbush2527]

I like pipes more

[@emmadumais2337]

I smoked my dad's pipe once, and it was great!!!

[@johndunne9673]

Black Cavendish is a fantastic pipe tobacco.

[@jacobdiden8967]

that was enjoyable

[@tylerrooney89]

pipes with aquinas

[@kevinwhiteman1563]

Peter Heinrichs is the tobacco you want. Three Nuns is great!

[@dariongallagher7853]

Which Peter Heinrich’s? I like the 67.

[@Autobotmatt428]

Pipes have a stronger smell

[@michaelmartinx714]

Matt looks like Gandalf

[@jimsparkman7819]

I attended Mars Hill Church in Seattle for several years, abandoning it about a year before it collapsed. Mars Hill - like Matt Fradd, Pints with Aquinas and most of its guests - was big on dude-bro culture. It taught that Jesus was a blue-collar carpenter: a rough and tumble guy. Jesus was a man's man. Said Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill's charismatic lead pastor, "The problem with the church today, is it’s just a bunch of nice, soft, tender, chick-ified church boys." He also noted that “sixty percent of Christians are chicks and the forty percent that are dudes are still chicks.” Mars Hill had pub crawls. Just like Matt Fradd and company, the pastors and parishioners got together and smoked cigars and pipes. They drank beer and swilled whiskey. They were MEN. And, they wanted everyone to know that this is the way MEN ought to behave because Jesus was no p***y. If Jesus were among us today, Mars Hill taught, he'd be there hangin' with the bro's, pounding shots in his steel-toed work boots, watching the MMA fight. I suppose some of all of the above is okay in moderation. But at Mars Hill and what I pick up from Matt Fradd is that there is excess focus on the idea of a hyper-masculine Jesus. It's as if Matt and Friends are attempting to refashion God into a sh**-kicking, gender-complementing idol of their own design. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something seems so forced, so false and so preachy about the way Matt and Friends are going about their attempt to Bro Joganize the men of the Catholic Church. It reminds me A LOT of Mars Hill in the months leading up to its implosion.

[@johnbinford6706]

Understandable concern but I don't get the same vibe from Fradd. Driscoll, James MacDonald, and similar characters are positively toxic, manipulative, domineering people and there's plenty of testimony about it. Fradd strikes me as more classy - more interested in Chesterton and Lewis than MMA, motorcycles, and other things which are often just used for "performative masculinity".

[@TrueChristianityWithSandra]

I LOVE the smell of a pipe

[@rogper7039]

Cigar

[@pasterjerryjamesthe384]

amen hallelooyia..i am going 2 go bye a pipe ;)

[@godsfamily6627]

This question comes to westerners because there is money in plenty and don't know what to do. So spend it. Even if it's evil.

[@CatholicChristian51]

Cigars are much more expensive

[@paramedvanit2305]

Pipe 😊

[@alexblatchford4147]

Cigars are better

[@nicowalker6501]

Pipes

[@webz3589]

Im more of a pipe person myslef.

[@genemyersmyers6710]

I can't believe anyone follows Matt frank how shallow.

[@Adammadawooww]

Its like trump and Biden. Pick your poison

[@stephaniemorazan6253]

I’m laughing too hard at this

[@raybrensike42]

Except that both cigars and pipes are real.

[@adventureinallthings]

Meanwhile Ukraine burns and the silence is deafening. 😔

[@nickdavies3176]

He’s going to Poland to help the refugees.

[@adventureinallthings]

@@nickdavies3176 I know that now but not at the time, I accept I was wrong but a ' gone fishing ' type sign like ' gone to help the refugees ' comment on the channel and at least no posts surrounding other issues would have helped but we'll done Matt

[@divinecomedian2]

The world doesn't stop turning because one shitty nation invaded another shitty nation

[@divinecomedian2]

@@adventureinallthings why are you commenting on here instead of being in Ukraine?

[@adventureinallthings]

@@divinecomedian2 you might read the thread above and see the timeframe and reasoning for that comment before you commented and it might be clear, plus well because I have chosen to do what I can at home (given the responsibilities have ) by taking in a refugee from Ukraine into my home.

[@maggot9430]

Endorsing addictive substances in catholic, family friendly podcast. What a mess

[@packerram2]

Do you drink coffee or alcohol? If no to both at least I’ll admit you’re consistent

[@divinecomedian2]

@Daniel E. It's addictive

[@TheCosmicGuy0111]

@daniele.3361tell that to your heart

[@MansaMusa-v5q]

The fake Food you’re eating is addictive too