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== Fisher Space Pen ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Like he only picked up a Retro 51 a few weeks ago. Right. To me and you, that's like, well, every pen addict has one. You know? And that's just my concern. Because, you know, I just worry that people maybe, or maybe our clan, as it were, are expecting something of this guy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. And we shouldn't. I mean, we shouldn't. But now that people keep asking me about it, I decided to look into it. And, you know...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, how do you think that our listeners would feel if they found out that currently at the moment I'm using my Fisher Space Pen as much as I'm using my Mini, my Twisby Mini?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That'd be no issue at all. So...

'''Myke Hurley:''' But, like, people are, like, freaking out because he's using a BIC. When, to me...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah, that...

'''Myke Hurley:''' They have no different, you know...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, that doesn't faze me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you know what I mean? But they have no real different experience, in my opinion. I mean, I'm not writing in space or upside down or underwater. Right, right. But it's just because it's the pen that's attached to my field notes. Sure. And I don't write in my field notes in my fountain pens, really. Just because it's not as good an experience for the paper.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I don't think that's a real talking point in the grand scheme of things. What he was using to sketch with on his piece of paper. If someone was using just a generic number two pencil, it'd be no different.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Every conversation that we've been included on at some point mentioned that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. I know. That part doesn't bother me. Good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And, by the way, listeners, I love you all. I'm not, you know... Oh, yeah. I'm playing devil's advocate in all of this. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And, you know, rightfully so. Because, I mean, I'm pretending like I know everything. And it's really just me trying to make some educated guesses and connect the dots on what I'm seeing here. And it's just, you know, it leads to more questions. And Morgan, since the project started, has been very evasive answering very specific questions. So, it's kind of come to a boiling point in the comments section over there. And some of the commenters are actually helping him. Like, okay, you need to say this. And you need to take this out of the thing. And you need to do this. And remove this. And clarify this. And do this. He's like, oh, okay. Okay. I got it. I got it. Okay. I got it. You know? So, it's... I feel a little bit bad for him. I don't want to... Like I said, I don't want to eviscerate the guy. But it's leading to more questions for me as a fountain pen nerd. And believe me, I'm way less experienced than a lot of people. And it's just too many red flags for me to even commit just a little bit of money to it, which it's not very much. So, I just don't think I'll be getting anything special. And that's what I'd be looking for.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I hope that this time next week we'll have even more to talk about on this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I hope so. It's a hot topic. It's crazy. Last week, this wasn't even on the radar for me. And then I got one question. And, you know, I just kind of answered it the best I thought. And just kind of that was done. And then all of a sudden, it just blew up. So, we'll see. Now everyone's talking about it. So, we're talking about it too. Which is fun. I'm glad we do this every week. And we can pick up on these new topics like this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Join in the conversation with me and Brad. Brad. I am imike. I-M-Y-K-E on Twitter and app.net. Brad is dowdy. D-O-W-D-Y on app.net. Dowdy-ism on Twitter. D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. If you want to get in touch with us by email, best way to do it for me, go to mikecurley.net slash contact. I'm going to get it filled out the form. Brad, you can do the same for him. Penaddict.com slash contact or email him at thepenaddict at gmail.com. And Brad writes over at penaddict.com. But you all knew that already, of course, because you go there every day.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We'll be back next week. Thanks so much for listening. Thank you, Brad, for a great discussion.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely. Thank you.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So we'll be back next week. We'll be seeing them. Yes, we'd love to. We'll be back next week. Thanks so much. Bye-bye.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Bye. Bye.

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