Editing The Pen Addict 84/transcript (section)

== Guest Introduction ==


'''Ed Jelley:''' What have I done to the show? I don't know. Way to go. But I'm doing good. How are you sir? Yeah, I'm dandy. Thank you. Good, good, good, good. I bet you are. Ed, thanks for joining us. I really appreciate you coming on today. You got the secret message from last week. You broke the code?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, the very cryptic message about me joining you guys and I cracked it. I remembered what my name was and here I am.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You were all over that. It was like within like a couple of hours or something. I know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know what? I started getting all those referrals to my website. I'm like, oh, who's talking about me? I found them.

'''Ed Jelley:''' I found the guys. Yep, yep. Well, we definitely appreciate you coming on. This is a little bit of a different episode that I wanted to get you on. I don't plan my episodes out too far in advance because things change and whatnot. But I've had a bunch of questions like in the past month or two just about pen blogging in general. And I'm a huge fan of you and your site. I thought you would be someone good to get on to talk about that. So we're going to cover that today as our main topic. But we got a little follow-up first. We'll go through that real quick if you guys don't mind.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sounds like a good idea to me.

'''Ed Jelley:''' All right. So one thing we've talked about in the past, Myke, I think we've kind of talked about it in passing. I don't know how much time I spent on it. But I wanted to revisit one question that we often get about what types of fountain pen inks to use. And are all fountain pen inks safe? And, you know, can I use any ink in any type of pen? And, I mean, the answer is you kind of need to do your homework a little bit. You know, I've always been of the philosophy, and it kind of comes from these links that we're going to talk about here in a moment. And that will be in the show notes. But my theory that I just kind of work off of is if a manufacturer makes pens like Pilot and also makes inks like Pilot, then that's generally a pretty safe ink that you don't really have to ask too many questions about using in your Pilot pen or any other fountain pen. You know, same thing with Pelican. Pelican makes pens. Pelican makes inks. Because the theory being that these companies are not going to manufacture inks that would be damaging to their pens. Right? So, I mean, that's kind of the working theory. A lot of people believe in that. And we've posted this ink from Richard's Pens. And I think it's actually been updated since we last spoke about it. And it's Richard Bender. And he put in this article. There's a huge caution box in the article now. And let me read part of it real quick. And then we can discuss it. It says, What's that Noodler's one that actually does destroy pens?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a blue one. Yeah.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Bay State Blue. Bay State Blue. Is it Bay State? Bay State. Yeah. Bay State Blue.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because I've had people say to me, Oh, this is a great blue. But don't leave it in because it will destroy your pen. Don't want it. No, don't want it. It's a nice color, yes. But, yeah, I'm not up for having my pens destroyed for a nice blue color.