Editing The Pen Addict 203/transcript (section)

== Atlanta Pen Show ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Perfect. Perfect. So, we talked about last week. Was it last week or two weeks ago when we recapped the Atlanta Pen Show and some of the purchases you made? I can't, everything's running together for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' In the last couple of weeks, we've been following up on this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, anyway, you talked about your Jonathan Brooks pen and you were talking with Jonathan how it didn't have a name. And, you know, we were joking about Sky at Night and then that ended up being like, it was actually a butchering of Van Gogh's artwork. But the name is actually super appropriate for the pen. And then something happened. What has happened since then?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Last week, I called out Jonathan because he said I could name it but didn't reply to my Instagram comment, right? So, I thought he was backing away. But now, after listening to the show, he has agreed that the material that my pen is made from will be now called Sky at Night. So, I have retroactively fixed my mistake. This is quite possibly the best way to fix an error. I have gone and done it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This makes me so happy. I'm like just giggling. I think it's just hilarious. That's what's awesome about, you know, when you have these individual makers like Jonathan. You know, you can just kind of do things like this. You know, you're not just going to do it on a whim as a business person, you know, if it doesn't fit. But, you know, this kind of works and there's kind of a reason for it. Now, there's a story behind it. And, you know, it's not like, you know, you're going to go to Lamy and something like this is going to happen. But it's kind of cool that this happened. I think it's really, really neat.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I know this kind of sounds like I'm maybe going a little bit too far here. But there's kind of something nice about these physical objects that will now bear a name that I gave them. Like these are real beautiful pens that would probably stick around for longer than I'll be here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And so, I don't know. There's something kind of nice about that. So, it's actually as much as it's a joke as well. It's quite an honor to have named this pen. Oh, it's fantastic. In something silly that I said.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. So, I want to name this next pen. Oh, yeah?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, thank you, Jonathan, by the way. And I will say, again, go buy stuff from the Carolina Pen Company. I've been seeing more people post pictures in Instagram and stuff of pens that they've got from the Carolina Pen Company. Oh, my God. So good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' My God. Yeah, you know I love mine. So, yeah. So, this next pen is the Pelican M1000 Rodden Sunrise or Raiden. We haven't figured that out yet. So, we'll get the full correction. I'm going with Rodden. I'm going to go with Rodden for now. But it could be Raiden. Gosh, I don't know. Anyway, this is a beautiful.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just real quick. RHO in the chat room. It's just hashtag Myke was technically right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's perfect. I will accept that. I will accept that. Thank you, RHL.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so we're getting all the pronunciations in the chat room, Punky. I don't even know what you're talking about right there. So, this pen, it's totally not for me. I mean, this is a pen I would never purchase in a million years because, one, it's probably like, I think it's like two grand. But when I saw pictures of it, I was like, whoa. Pelican has done this Rodden inlay throughout the barrel of an M1000, which is their hugest mainline pen. It's got gold trim. It's like a maroon background with the inlays all the way around the barrel and all the way around the cap. It's a stunner. You know, this came up. Everyone should be following the Pelican's Perch, which is a great blog that just focused on the Pelicans. Joshua, I've talked about him before. And he kind of keeps up on all the news and everything. So, I saw this pop a month or two ago. And, yeah, it's U.S. about 1900, looks like, to be the MSRP, we're guessing. So, what are your thoughts on this pen? And I've actually gotten other links to it prior to you even putting this in the show notes. So, are there a couple of other colors of this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, no, they're previous editions at the bottom of the page, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a continuing edition of what they do. And I've got to hold a couple of the previous versions. My friend Richard, who I met out in L.A., I believe, who is who it was, who let me see one or two of his. I don't know if he had the moonlight or the sunlight. If you look in Joshua's post at the bottom, there's a whole, I guess, the whole list of what's been produced for this so far.