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== Lamy Pens Bracket Breakdown Winner ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner of the Lamy Pens Bracket Breakdown. Would you like to share the information?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I think most of our listeners are like, finally, we can stop talking about this. But I find it interesting. I find it interesting. So it's like, I wanted to see who won, even though I think we both realized who was going to win and it's the Lamy 2000 over the Lamy Safari.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm happy. I didn't think this was going to be the result, did I? Remember?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Yeah, I think you did think the Safari, like more, we decided that you thought more people, the numbers of the Safari would take over, would outweigh the 2000.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I thought the 2000 should win. I didn't think it would.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. The only thing I wanted Lamy to do was to give us some numbers, but they just kind of did just like an Instagram comment count, which seems like super annoying. So I, last week, went behind them and put it to the listeners of the show, Myke. So I was curious how the listeners would vote on this if they weren't following on Instagram, Lamy's feed on Instagram. How would they vote? So I just did a little Google form said, pick one, Lamy 2000 or Lamy Safari. Lamy 2001 at a rate of 55% of the votes to about 45% of the votes for Lamy Safari. I think that's pretty accurate, right? Like if you could draw it up, would you, maybe you have reversed it for the Safari. What do you think?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, the way that our audience voted is what I could have, like what I would have voted, right? Or like what, sorry, what I would have expected them to vote at our audience. And I would have expected it maybe to be flipped for the general sailor audience.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But, okay. Just to begin with. But you can see, I have a little diagram of the listener vote here. If you want to see that in the show notes, we'll put a link. But I mean, it's 55-45 for the 2000. That brings us to listener follow-up, which we will have a lot of this show. And I like how we've kind of mixed in this. You want to tell, read here what Aaron has to say, because boy, do I have a lot of comments on it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, so I thought this would be particularly interesting to ask this question now, considering that Lamy Pens has a new favorite pen. Aaron asks, when will we be able to buy a Lamy 2000 with orange macrolon and a black DLC furniture and nib?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I would pay $500 for that tomorrow. Yes. It's not going to happen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like Lamy will have to change their philosophy on pen design for that to happen. That is not their style. In the 2000. In the 2000.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. Here's what I was asked, right? If Lamy Pens USA did this poll, right? It's not like a small account. It's not like an unimportant account. It's a legit account. It's the at Lamy Pens account. It's like as big as it could be, I suppose, like from a decision-making perspective. If you find this information out, that your audience loves the 2000, could it not be a piece of intel to pass back and be like, hey, people really love this pen? Or I guess they already know how many they sell, so.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Correct. This is not new information. Yeah. This is not new information. Do you know how long people have been yelling for the 2000 since they did the Johnny Ive Project Red one, right? That was a holy cow. They did it. Now, they did it like for an auction. It was a very like special case type of situation. But they did a red macular macular on with silver trim. And it was like, holy cow, they can do it, right? They did it, right? So then years pass. And then all of a sudden, they dropped the navy blue one with the silver trim. And I was like, hey, that's okay, cool. You did it. It doesn't look much different than the regular one. It's also $500. And it seems like that's cool. But is it different enough? And then they did the, what did they call it? Black amber? Another dark, you know, macular on barrel. They haven't come out with like the real crossover macular on color yet, right? Which to me is the bright, like bring back the red, which they won't do, which is fine. But you know, I'm talking like purples or bright blue, like something that yellow macular on Lamy 2000 would be absolutely nuts, right? And I feel like if they can do red, they should be able to do yellow. But for them to actually do say orange and come out with a black clip and a black nib, I think that's like two steps beyond Lamy's comfort zone, right? I think like they do black nibs for some of the studio pens and the safaris, like they do black nibs. And they do black clips on a lot of these things. I think their idea of the Lamy 2000, they would have to rethink, they would have to say, we're going to modernize this classic and do something like really like almost like an EDC type pen, which that doesn't seem like in the philosophy of the organization of Lamy. Am I making any sense? That's like why I'm thinking like, this would be my number one thing to make. And I don't think they would do it. It would be orange with silver trim and silver plated gold nibs, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want to believe, but I believe that you are correct. Like that they're not going to do anything particular with it. They're not going to do anything magically special with it. Like it's just going to be what it's going to be. Right. So you put a link in the show notes. Yeah. That red Lamy was from 2013.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's 10 years ago.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's wild.