Editing The Pen Addict 228/transcript (section)

== Califolio Ink ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I am in love. I am absolutely in love with these.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Those are good colors.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Especially the Califolio. My gosh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know what I think about that one, right? I mean...

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think it's my favorite color that I have now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's really good. We did a six-pack sample, a pen addict sampler, on Van S. pens a few weeks ago, and that was absolutely one of them. It's that good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It is stupendous. And I have it in my twist pen, the mother of pearl, as I call it. And it is such a fantastic pairing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's a good setup right there. That's right. I remember you bought it for that, so that's perfect.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I'm very happy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So good. We will talk more about how you have all these pens inked up and stuff. Got some new stuff. Got some new inks. I want to hear some further reviews as you get to use them more.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You bet. All right. Should we, without delay, we should probably start these things, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we have a bunch. And so I want to thank everyone who took the time to write in to us. If we don't get to your letter today, I 100% promise we will get to it in a future episode. We're just kind of time restrained today, and we don't know how long this is going to take us to go through, because we'll have some answering to do with these letters. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to start reading some of these letters. I'll read them pretty much verbatim. Some of them are long, but it's kind of fun to see what other people are writing. There's some I might jump around on and get straight to the Ask TPA parts of them. And then I scanned some for Myke, so he can read some too. And actually, Myke, I want you to read the first one, because this one has more to the story than the scan I sent you. So it's the first one in the scan. It's just essentially on a note card or postcard type.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Dear Brad and Myke, greetings from Capitol Hill. My hashtag, Ask TPA, is what is a pen you initially did not like, but eventually came back to it and ended up really enjoying. Mine is a Noodler's Nib Creeper, which I have come to love now that I put a regular non-flex nib into it. Thanks for a fun show every week. Sincerely, Gabe.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, funny story about this one, Myke. So, it says, greetings from Capitol Hill, right? So, I got the envelope, and I just flipped it over the back and started opening it. And on the back of the envelope is written that says, pen, Lamy Safari, ink, Noodler's Lexington Gray. And then also it says, note sent with personal funds. And I thought this was kind of a joke, like, you know how we have, like, disclosures on the blog? Like, if we write that the product was sent to us for free or, you know, those type of things, those disclaimers. I was like, well, that's kind of funny. Then I flipped it over, and the return address is U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., 20515. So, yeah, I'm wondering if he really needed to note that this was sent with personal funds. So, yeah, this is from the legit Capitol Hill. So, thank you, Gabe, for sending that. And like Gabe did on this, almost everyone tells us what pen and ink they wrote with. And he wrote his letter with the TWSBI 580 USA Edition and Noodler's Sequoias, which was really pretty green. I kind of like this shade. So, let's get on to his question, though. Do you have a pen you initially did not like but eventually came back to?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's actually a pretty similar answer. And I can't remember where this came from, but I have a Noodler's Flex nib pen. Somebody gave me this, but I'm a terrible human and can't remember who. And it's like a blue and red swirly thing. I can't remember where this came from.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, so that I sent you that. That was from one of our listeners named Penelope.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You are the best human being, like just flat out. Now, I had one of these a long time ago, and it was brown. And I put it in a JetPens order, and I hated it. And now, whilst I don't love this every day or use it every day, I enjoy it whenever I pick it up and play around with it because it's a silly pen. Right? Like it's one of these silly Flex nibs. It's not a fantastic quality one. And I just play around with it for fun but enjoy it when I viscerally hated it the first time I tried it a couple of years ago. I remember talking about it on the show with you a long, long time ago when I was in the old room with all the old equipment. I viscerally remember talking to you about that pen because I hated it so much. Right. But now, I actually really enjoy it.