Editing The Pen Addict 108/transcript (section)

== TWSBI Diamond 580 RB ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I would buy it in a heartbeat.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool. Okay, good. I was interested.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Wait, Myke, you're not American?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I love America. He's actually going to be in America next week. I am. Yeah, for a while, for like a week, week and a half or so.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So that's cool. Ten days. Yeah. Wow, that's awesome. The United States, yeah. They should do a 580 UK as well. I mean, because it's all the same colors at this point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and it's just the...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Might as well add Russia and France too. Yeah. We get the whole set. I mean, I would probably end up buying the whole set.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that little end piece diagram couldn't cost anything in the grand scheme of things, and the barrel of the pen stays the same. So yeah. Tim, do you have any Twisbees?

'''Tim Fletcher:''' I don't, though I do understand that everybody on the internet is a big fan of them, and I don't know why, which means I should really buy one because they might be... Yeah, you should buy one. Yeah, see, that's what everyone says. You don't have one?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Come on.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It is one that you kind of need to experience it. Because they look nice, but they're not stunning. Like, they're not incredible to look at. You know, they're not the best looking pen ever, but they're just really, really well built, and they write really, really well. They're strong fan favorites for a good reason.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so very un-Twisbee-like.

'''Tim Fletcher:''' I believe it. And they add these weird features to their pens that I like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it looks like they're actually putting out a shipping date on this, Myke, which is something that they don't do at all. You know, they usually string these things out for months, if not years at a time, but they're talking about having these out in June. So we'll be watching. We'll stay tuned. But I know everyone has sent us their link because they know how much we like that pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' As good as that link was, Myke, that everyone sent us, this next link may be the single best link we have ever received on the Pen Addict podcast. So Richard Thompson, he's at RD on Twitter. He was a purchaser of the Pen Addict 100 t-shirt. And not only did he take a picture of him wearing a t-shirt, his tweet says, pen essentials for outback hunting. So he's decked out in his camo with his gun and his hat and his orange Pen Addict shirt out there. Looked like he's getting ready to go on a hunt. And I saw this picture. I just about fell out dying laughing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's another part of this, though, that you may not have seen. There's two pictures.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, there's a huge part of this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because I guess it might be the Twitter app where it only shows one. But if you see it, like a tweet button, it shows one. But yeah, he's got another one where he's using a Fisher Space Pen field notes, which is all duct tape up, which is amazing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's amazing. So yeah, I put that in the link to both pictures. And his field, it looks like a day game field notes, if I'm not mistaken. It's that green color. But it is 50% covered in duct tape, which is just amazing in itself. And there is nothing wrong with this picture whatsoever. This is one of the greatest pictures I've ever seen in my life.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I agree. I saw it. And I was like, I showed my girlfriend. I was like, this guy's in Australia.

'''Tim Fletcher:''' Is that a huge achievement, being in Australia? Well, wearing our T-shirt. Oh, well, yeah, that doesn't make sense.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' In the environment that he's in, getting ready to hunt who knows what. I don't know. What do you hunt for in the outback? Yeah, I'm assuming not kangaroos or koalas. There's got to be something. Dysentery? Yeah. That's the danger. That's the danger motion out there in the outback. So yeah, I don't know. But Richard, thank you for sending this. This made my year, I think, so far. Because I couldn't imagine a better scenario for the Pen Addict podcast T-shirt to be displayed. So that is fantastic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Now, about an hour after last week's episode, I don't even know if we had our episode up. I know we finished recording last week, Myke. And then I think you and I were both still hanging out online. And you may have just posted it. And then we started getting all kinds of other tweets going, oh, my God. Did you hear the Slate Culture Gab Fest? Do you listen to that podcast? Had you heard of that podcast before? I know you know what Slate is, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I know Slate, but I hadn't heard of the show now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's the same here. I mean, I know Slate. Slate's kind of a big enterprise doing lots of different things. And I had been talking with a lady named June Thomas on Twitter. She and I have been Twitter friends for a while. And we've just talked and talked, always talking about pens. And I knew she wrote for Slate. And I knew she, you know, worked for them. I didn't realize she was on a podcast. And much less a podcast that was this, like, hugely popular. So she put in a plug for us on the Slate Culture Gab Fest. And it was just, it was really nice. And it was funny listening to her talk about us and the Erasable podcast and listening to the other host reactions to her. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I felt bad for her because she was getting what we usually get. Yeah. Yeah. The one other. Really? A pen podcast? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. The other girl. And I don't know the other girl's name, but she was kind of killing her. Like, are you serious?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, Tim, Tim, are you surprised there's actually a podcast about pens?

'''Tim Fletcher:''' I don't want to say yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. But yes. Yeah. We're surprised, too, actually.