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== Pencil usage during October and Ticonderoga pencils ==

* Well, we might be on like episode three or so. I don't know. But we are knee deep. This is all my fault, admittedly. I wanted to use pencils more for the month of October, so I've been doing a lot of pencil. Yeah, I'm literally using a Ticonder October today. And that's actually an orange one. It's like an orange and kind of cream colour stripe, so it's very pumpkin spicy. A pencil, if you will. I'll have to take a picture of it. It's one I don't use very often, but I've had it out a bunch because it's so photogenic. Like I've worn off the gold stamping, except it's still like a full length pencil because I never use it. Do you embrace the spice in October or in fall? Absolutely not. Okay. I'm not anti. I mean, do your thing. It's just not a flavour I like. It's just like if I enjoyed the taste of it, sure, I'd be like all in. See, I really enjoy pumpkin pie, right? Okay. Which obviously has pumpkin spice in it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. But I have yet to find anything pumpkin spice flavoured that I like. Yeah. Yeah. I have many times in my life attempted a PSL from Starbucks, hoping that it's going to be what I want. It's usually followed by me having had a pumpkin pie, but I am never satisfied. No. No. Like it's not a satisfactory flavour for me. My favourite pumpkin thing that I get like during this time of year is we just call it a pumpkin roll or a pumpkin loaf. It's basically like a spiral rolled with like a cream cheese icing. Looks like a cinnamon roll, like a swirled cut. That sounds good, man. It's like a pumpkin cake and then like a cream cheese, you know, like a carrot cake, but pumpkin-y. And that's really good, but that's the extent. Definitely no drinks for me. We have some family visiting at the end of the month and Adina has ordered a pumpkin pie from a bakery here. Yeah. And I'm very intrigued. Oh, I'm all in on that. I love pumpkin pie. I've never had a pumpkin pie in England.
* Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Right? Okay. So like I don't know what that's going to be like. My expectation is they're going to do their best or do a good job of making like an American-style pumpkin pie because that's what people are hoping for. And there's enough expats here, you know, that like. Sure. That there's a good market for that kind of stuff, but I'm just intrigued. Yeah. Now, I will say I do like the fall smells in the air. Like I don't mind. Like if you have the pumpkin spice candle going, like I'm good. Like I'm fine with that. I just don't really enjoy the drinks or the teas or coffees or anything like that. Very fair. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. I think our listeners sort of like the top 10 mechanical pencil content. It seems that we got a lot of feedback. A lot of follow up. We got a lot of follow up on this. So why don't you lead us off here and I'll answer a first couple of these questions. Charlie asked a question that was in my mind last week, but I didn't ask, which is, did you consider the Caran d'Ache fixed pencil in your mechanical pencils roundup? Yeah, that was actually in my notes to specifically call out. And the answer is no, because I don't consider it a mechanical pencil. Yeah. It has a clutch mechanism. Like it has an extra mechanic that a wooden pencil does not have, but it's basically just to extend the lead and to hold it in place. So the fixed pencil would probably be a top one. If we considered it a mechanical pencil, it'd be my top three because I love it that much. And I'm assuming that's why Charlie's bringing it back up because I do rave about it. I don't consider it a mechanical pencil, which makes me wonder where does it fall? Is our clutch pencils their own category? Is it close to like, would you put clutch pencils and lead holders in the same category? Yes. Yes. Probably in those, but that's not really, no offense, an exciting category. I feel like, no, yeah, you could add, there's like two, you either get the fixed pencil or you get one of the engineering like knurled grip, you know, lead pointer clutch pencils. And like, you know, you either have a favorite style of those, you know, like a lot of the classic makers make those Statler, Coenor, Faber-Castell. They all make like your classic engineering style lead holders. And then you have the fixed pencil, which is another clutch pencil. I mean, there's some more modern ones. Lamy has a really nice one. Kaweco has a nice one. I think even Montblanc might do a clutch pencil. At least they've done one in the past. I don't know if they have a current one. That seems like a separate category that doesn't quite fall into the mechanical range because I don't, it's, there's not enough mechanics there to be a mechanical pencil. I don't think. So, yes, I considered it and I felt that it didn't fit the definition of mechanical pencil. I think a good simple way when looking at things like definitions in this, right, is if somebody said to you, oh, can you give me a mechanical pencil? And you gave them the Caran d'Ache fix pencil. They would say, this is not what I wanted. A hundred percent. Right. Like, but you would, you would throw somebody off by giving them that because that is absolutely not the same product type. Yeah. I could not agree more. Yeah. So that's an easy way to answer that. So, yes, despite my love and praise for the fixed pencil, not a mechanical pencil.