Editing The Pen Addict 379/transcript (section)

== Bill Gates Documentary and Favorite Pen ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Doug wants to know if we've seen the Bill Gates documentary on Netflix yet I haven't but I want to and has taken a picture of Bill's favorite pen apparently

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah so I haven't seen the doc yet but I do want to see it and I wouldn't have linked his pen unless I had a story to tell so what this pen is is the pilot elite rollerball and when I show a picture of it to you a lot of you will know what it is this was my single most used pen in the extra fine model this is the gold barrel version of the pen and it came in a black or smoke gray barrel version it's a liquid ink pen and it was .5 ultra fine for that pen and I use this is a pen I would hunt down at office supply stores like if one store didn't have them I would go to another store it's that good of a pen I think they still make them every now and then I'll see them I put this in here because I haven't actually seen one in a while but we'll have this in the show notes and when you look at it you'll go oh I've seen that pen before it was never the most popular pen but it was such a good writing pen at the time I wouldn't use it now because

'''Brad Dowdy:''' he's

'''Myke Hurley:''' still final question comes from Nancy Nancy says I'm girding my loins to step up a notch into a gold nib fountain pen I use my fountain pens for mostly sketching some writing a lot of artists seem to like the pilot falcon so I'm leaning towards that however I hear you guys rave over the platinum 37 76 all the time and I'm interested in that too I generally go for function over form but I do admit the platinum looks a little prettier than the falcon anyway I'm interested in the experience of a gold nib pen and in getting some line variation I do not know what to expect I know not to expect what I would get with a flex nib but there would be some variation so any thoughts on which would be the best for

'''Brad Dowdy:''' you