Editing The Pen Addict 108/transcript (section)

== The Pen Addict Podcast ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Hello and welcome to episode 108 of The Pen Addict podcast, a weekly show where we discuss pens, paper, and the analogue tools that we love so dearly. My name is Myke Hurley and I am joined, as always, by Mr. Brad Dowdy. Hi, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What's up, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Very good, my friend. How are you?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good, good. I'm excited about today's episode.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And why is that, Mr. Dowdy?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, we have a special guest on today and it's a special guest that probably no one has ever heard of except for me. And maybe a few other people. And that's why I wanted to have him on. We have Tim Fletcher on from Funkmon on pens. What's up, Tim?

'''Tim Fletcher:''' Nothing much. I'm just, I feel kind of slighted. No one's ever heard of it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I think after this episode, everyone will know who you are. So we should be straight after this episode, I think. So how's that sound?

'''Tim Fletcher:''' That sounds all right. But, you know, I would like to make a note that I am on here because a fan of mine requested it. So I have at least one fan out there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You have at least one fan.

'''Tim Fletcher:''' You were inundated with a single request. That's right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Unless Brad really wanted you on and then pretended to be somebody else and then sent a message to Brad. Ooh. It's like Bradception or something like that. Yes. Yes. Wow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I actually have that whole conversation in my show notes here on how this happened, how this podcast came to be, how you came to be a guest on today's podcast. And we're going to get into that. And I'm going to save that. But first, we're going to go through a little news, a little follow up. We've got some cool topics to talk about real quick. And I'm going to get you involved, Tim, get your opinions on some of these things. And then we'll then we'll figure out how you got to be here today and why you're here and what all you do. How's that sound?

'''Tim Fletcher:''' That sounds great. It'll be very interesting for the listeners to hear the opinion of someone they've never heard of.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right. That's exact. I mean, I did this totally on purpose. I wanted to see how this would go. So I'm I'm excited. And I think it's going to go swimmingly if I can tell by anything so far. So let's let's get into this. Let's get into this follow up, Myke. There's a pretty amazing pen coming back on the market. TWSBI has decided to reintroduce the rock, the old Republic of China, red, white and blue pen. So I'm assuming you've seen this and we're inundated with tweets and links to this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. Yep. All week, people have been sending it. And it's amazing to see. I'm I'm very, very pleased. I assume that they're probably going to be engineering it the way that they engineer 580s now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. So it looks looks like they're calling it the TWSBI Diamond 580 RB, which I don't know exactly what RB stands for. I don't know if it's red, blue or it could be red and blue. Yeah, that's what I that's what I'm thinking. But I guess they wanted to get up. I mean, the rock stood for Republic of China, which, of course, is Taiwan, which is where TWSBI, TWSBI's roots are. So they're bringing it back, putting in the 580 hardware, you know, with the additional because the old 540, like you had cracking problems. And a lot of people had cracking problems with the grip section and things like that on that pen. And so they have the 580 hardware. Otherwise, it looks exactly the same and it looks as beautiful as ever. And I'll definitely be chomping at the bit to get this one. So are you going to order another one? Are you going to stick with your 540? Depends on the next link. Yeah. So this one threw me off. I have to admit, I was super psyched about the rock. Well, the reintroduction of the 580. So on the old 580, they had, I guess, was the old I guess was a Taiwanese symbol. It was like a sun, a light blue, blue black ground, excuse me, blue background with a white sun on the end of the cap barrel. Well, now they are putting, it looks like, I don't know if this is the full line or if they're going to do a, they're calling this the 580 USA. And it's going to be a separate pen with a USA flag cap symbol on the top. So being the non-American on this podcast, what do you think about that?