Editing The Pen Addict 133/transcript (section)

== Starbucks Reserve Roastery Edition ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so the Starbucks Reserve Roastery Edition. So, Starbucks opened this big fancy roastery and tasting room in Seattle, because that's where they're founded. So, apparently there is a field notes roastery edition. They're involved in this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is the big size, right? This is the arts and sciences size book.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Not the normal size book with the shelter wood covers.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, well, I think it's the shelter wood covers. It is wood, right? It's birch.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's birch. The shelter wood was cherry, I believe. So, yeah, field notes is all in on the wooden covers, which for something like this looks amazing, doesn't it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, they've got like this copper foil stamp on them as well. They've got copper staples, and yeah, it's just beauty. A real beauty.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is a real beauty. And it would be nice to just drop like a little coffee stain from your mug right on the top of that cover. I think that would be a perfect match. And from the time I woke up to the time we started this podcast, I've already got someone pinging me that is going to try to hook us up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I've had one or two.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Aren't our listeners the best?

'''Myke Hurley:''' They are the best.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's how cool is that? So, yeah, I guess you can only get them at that location. And, you know, I don't know if this is going to be a permanent edition. Does it even say? So, yeah, I think you just have to get them there. They'll probably be like a permanently on site type of thing. And I'm just like I said, I'm just waking up and reading this now. So I think it's pretty neat. So I think people will be all over it. Totally. So another neat thing happened while I was sleeping today, Myke. Did you see this? We got flossed.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, that's why I called you. Well, I called you a very specific type of nerd. I should have called you a very specific type of geek.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yes. So apparently Mental Floss, which a lot of people on the Internet know, is a really good magazine and online site for, I guess, pimping out your brain, you know, making you think. They have lots of puzzles, lots of games, lots of facts, lots of things that people should be interested in. It's a pretty big site and a pretty big deal. And all of a sudden they come up with a post today, 15 podcasts for extremely specific kinds of nerds. And who was in there at number two? Michael. These guys. These guys. Two thumbs pointing at these guys right here. The pen addict. So that was cool. That's pretty awesome to see. And man, we're among some good company here. I know some very popular ones. I know your favorite, Hello Internet, is on there. And my favorite, Song Exploder, is on there. So anytime we're in the company of greatness like that, I'm pretty happy. So this is cool. And yeah, so that was very nice. Thank you, Mental Floss and Chris Higgins. I don't know, Chris. But you're the man, Chris. You are the man, Chris.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What I like is that Chris credited me with helping out with the pen addict. Which I quite like. You know, the site is our site now. I like that bit.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's mine now. There's nothing you can do about it, buddy. I'm taking over. I'm going to cut off your login.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, wait. You don't have one. So yeah, I feel pretty good about that. We, speaking of addicts, we are, we're pretty good at creating addicts, apparently. Because I got this email from Matthew. That, it came in last week. And I wanted to read it last episode. And I totally forgot. So I ended up having to apologize to him. And I said, oh man, I forgot to write, forgot to read it last week. So I wanted to make sure to get it in this week. Because this is the kind of emails I love. And you can tell someone's, you know, kind of been listening. And kind of new to the pen geek world. And new to our podcast. Or new to our site. And has kind of like really listened and taken in things. So I'm going to read this email from Matthew. He says, dear Myke and Brad, I've been listening to the pen addict podcast for around two years. During which time I went back to episode one to catch everything you have done. First off, well done on keeping the content fresh, informative, and fun. Well, that's awfully nice. Because that's a lie. We're boring and unoriginal most of the time. At the start of listening, I owned one Montblanc. The large 149 fountain pen. Which was an anniversary gift. But struggled to find excuses to use it. I also just used standard notepads from the office. And the only ink I owned was the black ink that came with the 149. Through indirect encouragement from your podcast. I began to find more and more reasons to use fountain pens. And now I have truly got the addiction. Having bought the following in the last 12 months. You ready, Michael? The TWSBI 580 and 580 Rose Gold.