Editing The Pen Addict 249/transcript (section)

== Caroline We Trust ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, like, we've said it before in Caroline We Trust, right? So, like, there's no way, like, it wouldn't be amazing, right? Like, it was funny. She started, you know, she copied me in the tweets because she was blaming me and that's kind of the perfect pen for her to buy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just, you know, completely perfect for her and maybe she just needs to start knocking down walls next to her and, you know, see what happens. Expansion.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just because of the way that she does the pencils, I would just love to see her curation for pens, right? Like, what does she pick for pens? So, we're on board. Caroline, if you're out there, if there's anything that we can do to help you along this path, we are at your disposal for this, is what I would say.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so we hope to be talking to her on the podcast soon. So we will certainly bring this up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, yeah. We most definitely will. So, yeah, it's cool. I'm looking forward to it. You know,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' to her dabbling in the pen world and if she comes up with something, you know, a little more than the pencil shop, I think it would be interesting.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So we had some follow-up about legal pads, right, from an Ask TPA question. Was it last week?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we got a ton of feedback on this. Some of the most feedback we've ever gotten on one of our listener questions. And a lot of it was kind of similar answers. Like, you know, we threw it out there to the crowd and wanted to see what they were using for legal pads, what they were using for inks on legal pads. And most of it came back kind of like I thought. It's your stock inks from traditional manufacturers. So Peter says Schaefer's script blue-black. It's very bleed and feather resistant and would look very legally. Adam says Aurora blue-black in a Metropolitan or Noodler's black. And Theo, who is a lawyer and does this all the time too, says the Pelican 4001 blue-black. So he, most of those inks, a lot of them are kind of dry-ish. So they work good in that situation. And, you know, I think any kind of ink, that's just your very basic entry point ink into some of these very traditional brands is probably going to work well with that. What I found interesting about the pad itself was lots of recommendations for the standard Staples yellow legal pad. That came up time and time again. Staples makes a higher-end legal pad called the Cigna. Everyone says that's garbage. So like their high-end legal pad is not very good. But the entry-level one is not very good. And also, I think Sean noted that the white legal pad is worse than the yellow. The yellow seems to be better. He also had a good tip. He says, this is Sean, he said, when you're shopping for legal pads, look at how the ruling lines are printed. If the lines look like crap, the paper is going to bleed and feather. You know, if they, you know, kind of fuzzy or, you know, just not solid, the paper's probably worse. And if the lines are clean and sharply printed, then you have a better chance of your pen and ink working on that pad. So that makes, I think that makes sense.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've only ever used a legal pad once. I was coming back from my first ever trip to America. I was coming back from Detroit, Michigan. And I, at that time, was trying my hand at writing a story, like a short story, a novel or something. It's just one of the many things that I tried as a younger man. And I bought a legal pad and a pen, and I was using it, and I was writing, going through probably the worst turbulence of my life. So it was pretty, it was a pretty interesting experience I have with legal pads is not a usual experience.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I, I mean, it's not something I ever use, but I understand the convenience and sometimes requirement to use something like that. But yeah, I mean, and, and that's the, the whole issue was, you know, you want to use something as inexpensive as possible because you're just going to burn through these and you need them, you know, on the fly and it's with the office stock. So yeah, the, the sailor stuff, I mean sailor stuff, the staples stuff came up time and time again.