Editing The Pen Addict 331/transcript (section)

== Lamy Pen Discussion ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' It might be the single most important follow-up of the year, Myke, and the timing could not be better. So last week we talked about the new Lamy Special Editions for 2019. And that's always a fun time for Anna and I because she, like, this is 100% all credit to Anna. She's the one that delineated the teams for Team Lamy Safari or Team AL Star for the Special Editions. And she always gives me a hard time because I'm a Safari person. And she's a... Are we officially calling it All Star or AL Star? Kaweco and Lamy confuse me so much. I just mix them up. So what do you think, Anna?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I think you can call it whatever you want. I like Team All Star myself because it just sounds better.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The All Star team does sound better, right? Sounds way better. I do call the pen the AL Star because it's capital letters and there's only one L. Yeah. Or at least it'd be the Al. Well, the Al Star.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, whatever we call it, we can call it Team Second Place because let me just say, Anna, I think Team Safari is going to have it for 2019 after a very sad showing in 2018. What are your thoughts on these new additions?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Well, all right. I might have to... I might have... For 2019, I might have to let you have it. But, you know, after two straight wins, you know, I might have to throw you a bone for 2019.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's almost as if somebody at Lamy decided that they wanted to turn the tables.

'''Ana Reinert:''' But they had to give you three pens to do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' In the exact colorways that would probably be the most enticing to you, right? Like these beautiful pastel colors. It's like they played right into your hands.

'''Ana Reinert:''' They really did. So, as soon as I saw the bronze color, Brad and I joked offline about it. I was like, it looks like your color because it's orange. And what did you say, Brad?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I said, no, they already did that with copper orange. Like copper orange, I will take as orange. That was a good color. This is definitely not orange. I mean, I guess it's bronze. If, I mean, it's more bronzer than bronze. It's like a caramel color.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Caramel, frappuccino, something. And the AL Star gets the ink too. So, this one gets the bronze ink, which actually might be better than the pen.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. I mean, if they do what they did with the vibrant pink and try to put some metallic in the ink, the ink might be really cool. So, that might make it more interesting. But, yeah, the bronze is kind of orange, kind of bronze. I don't know. It might end up looking more like the LX series.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know. Yeah. It looks like it would fit in that lineup pretty well. But, I mean, like I said last week, like these are all, this is what I want to see from Lamy, whether I personally like them or not. They actually came through with something different for a change, right? Which I think I just appreciate, you know, as a whole, right?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. Well, and I mean, they put people in a position where if you collect the limited editions, you're going to end up having, you know, to buy all three of the safaris. So, they're going to get you the dollars.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, anyway, I thought this was interesting. It was perfect timing. We'll have to figure out what we're going to do about the pens because yours will look like doo-doo brown and mine will look like an Easter egg. And, like, last year we ordered half the black, right? We ordered half.

'''Ana Reinert:''' And, you know, amazingly enough, we still have quite a few of those. So, they'll be with us in New York and Toronto. Maybe we can finally distribute the rest of those.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But if we do a single safari pin with, like, three stripes, I mean, I don't know that we should order any bronze, to be honest with you. It's game over.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's game over. It's 2019.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hey, it's about time I can talk some smack because it's been a bad run for Team Safari here for a little bit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It has been. It hasn't been great for us. So, I'm very pleased to see these. I think they look great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm interested as to why they have done three. I mean, the obvious answer is they just want to sell more of them. But three is an aggressive amount of limited editions.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Are they going to sell it as a box set, you know, where you get all three at once? Or are you going to have to buy them individually? Or, I don't know. Be curious to see.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. For sure. For sure. Well, Myke, we got a big trip to plan here. Yeah. And I want to lay out all the details. And I actually have a lot of questions for myself as I'm in the plane already, you know, at this time. So, we're going to see what I pack for this trip. So, why don't you tell us about our good friends Harry's, which you know I'm carrying with me on this trip, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I'm already excited. I'm feeling the excitement of the odor of Brad Dowdy, which is provided by Harry's. Because Brad uses all of the Harry's products and they have incredible products across the board. And this is because the founders of Harry's decided that they needed to make stuff themselves to guarantee the quality. They were fed up of paying high prices for unnecessary features on their razors. And they know that a great shave quite simply comes down to great blades that are made with sharp, durable steel that will last. They cut out the unnecessary costs so they can deliver to you one perfect razor at an amazing price. And what's more, they even bought a factory so they could ensure they would get this high quality. And because they make their own blades, they can sell them for just $2 a blade, which is compared to $4 or more that you might see elsewhere. So they sell these direct to you over the internet and they have a 100% quality guarantee. So if you don't love your shave, you can let Harry's know within 30 days and they'll give you a refund. So Brad, what went into your dop kit for this trip?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The shave cream went in very difficultly. Is that a word? So I keep the small tube of the shave cream to travel with and I was out, you know, like pretty much out. Like I needed some for this trip. So being the genius that I am, this wonderful idea I had in my head, well, I'm just going to buy the large ones, you know, because they're a better deal and I keep those at home and I use those more than my travel ones. And I'm going to mate up the two tubes and I'm going to squeeze the large tube into the smaller travel tube. And let's just say my bathroom smells great.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So this trip is going to wrap up the 2018 Penaddict Kickstarter. Well, if I say that, if the Tallulahs don't come in before then, it's not going to wrap it up. But that's a story for another day. We're working on that still. This trip's shaped up nicely. What do y'all think about, you know, we've gone from no definitive plans kind of a few weeks ago to we are booked to the hilt now. So do y'all want me to go over the game plan for this trip? And, you know, if anyone's in town, they should be paying attention to this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I would like you to because I still am not 100% sure that I know everything that I'm doing. So this would be a good way for me to find that information out, Brad. So please let me know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So you have a handler, right, Myke? Because you're doing other things during this time. So like me and Anna, we're in charge of this trip. Anna, we're Myke's handlers for this trip.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's kind of fun because, all right, so I just like to say this. So I keep saying this. I'm on tour, right? I'm going on tour. We have a tour. We're in Chicago, New York, and then we're going up to Toronto. And it's kind of funny because Stephen's taking care of me for the first part and you're taking care of me for the second part. Because it's a lot of travel. There's a lot of events going on. So I kind of just need to be told where I'm going to be and then I go there. I am the star now. I am the AL star of this whole experience.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. I don't think we got a copy of the rider yet for the tour yet, Anna. We don't have a green M&M's only bowl.

'''Ana Reinert:''' No, I was about to say, yeah, do we have to pull all the brown M&M's out?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' My people are working on that right now. So they'll get in touch with your people. All right. So for the Myke World Tour with... So Myke's the headliner. Then underneath it says, it says, with Brad Dowdy. Yep. Anna Reinhardt.

'''Ana Reinert:''' And then in really tiny letters, also, Anna Reinhardt.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's on the other side of the poster.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Post. Exactly. Yeah. If you flip the poster up on the back is my name.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, no. That's not true.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So Wednesday, we show up in New York City at various times. Myke will be there. I'll be there midday. Anna will be there late afternoon. And then we all meet up at the Fountain Pen Hospital from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, October the 24th. This event's open. Fountain Pen Hospital's putting this on. They're handling everything. I think there's going to be, you know, like hors d'oeuvres type stuff. And, you know, the shop will be open. And we'll all just kind of do a meet and greet and mix and mingle there, you know, right after we're arriving in New York City, at least. But I've never been to Fountain Pen Hospital. Anna or Myke, have you, either of y'all been to Fountain Pen Hospital? No.

'''Ana Reinert:''' No.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. So this will be a great trip because that should, would have been on our stationary tour list for Thursday, regardless. So it's nice to go ahead and knock this out. So I appreciate the guys and gals at Kenro for hooking this up. It was like shockingly easy to put together. They're like, do you want to do this? I'm like, that's a good idea. And it came together in like the span of hours. And we're done. So that's our Wednesday travel party. And that's going to be kind of the theme for this entire event. Thursday, we're going to be doing the NYC stationary tour, at least as much as we can handle. Right. Or at least me and Anna, because Myke, you know, he might big time us at some point. He might need his rest. He might need to rest his voice for the show. He has Thursday night that Anna and I aren't invited to. I understand.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That is completely, that's false. That is 100% false. Like, so the thing was, the tickets went on sale. You didn't get one. And then I told you, and I have told you multiple times that I will get you tickets if you want to come. I've told you this. So if you want to, if you want to come to the show, I can, we can get you in. All right. All right. I will tell you this every time you keep mentioning to me, I will tell you the same thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It doesn't make it less fun for me. So we're going to, we're going to talk about Thursday. Let's hold that thought while I finish up this schedule, because as busy as Thursday is going to be, we don't have an official schedule for that day. That's going to be our run around town, shooting video, seeing cool things and sharing them with you all day. So we're going to talk about that in a minute. Then we head out Friday, like noon-ish, head up to Toronto. We're going to go, you know, see our wonderful friends at Wonderpens on Saturday. We'll be at Wonderpens Toronto from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. That is going to be something I cannot wait for. We go straight from there into the Scriptus Toronto pen show pre-party, which is Saturday night at a brewery, I think, is where the event's going to be held. There's going to be a bunch of people there. I know Aziz is going to be there, which I always love seeing her. I don't get to see her enough. So that's always a highlight for me. And then, finally, we wrap it up, if we're still standing and upright, on Sunday, October 28th at the Scriptus Pen Show at the Toronto Library. So we'll have all the links to all these things if you're interested in coming by and saying hi, dropping by any of the pen stores that we're going to be at, any of the Toronto Pen Show. We'll have all these links, which will have directions and times and all of the stuff that you need to come hang out and have a big time with us as we whirlwind through New York City and Toronto.