Editing The Pen Addict 291/transcript (section)

== Pelican Ink ==


'''Jim Cantore:''' All right. On that ink front, have you seen the new Pelican Ink of the Year? Do you do much with the Pelican Inks of the Year? You're not a big Pelican Ink fan. The Edelstein Ink.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, I'm not a Pelican Ink denier, right? Like, I've just never really gone crazy for them. In general, like, the availability of an ink is not what makes me want it. Yeah. Like, I'm all about the color, right? Like, I want a good color. I mean, this looks nice. This is the Pelican Edelstein Olivine. And it's like a nice green color. Yeah. It's a great color. It looks lovely, but I don't want this ink color.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Yeah. Like, I'm not going to. I didn't buy last year's Smoky Quartz. I didn't. I won't buy this year's Olivine. Olivine. Olivine. Olivine. So, it's a very nice green. I'm just not much of a green guy unless it's a bright green. You know, the yellow greens, like the Huff Quartier Grosin, number 28 from Ackermann. Mm-hmm. That's my green. This is fantastic looking. It's just not for me. But they do this once a year. And they really, and I didn't notice it this past year, but in previous years, they've allowed users to, like, mix and match a color and do a submission, right, for, like, what color the next year will be. So, I wonder if this was, if this followed that same pattern they've done over the past few years. If they did, I missed it. But, yeah. Okay. Yeah. It is the, yeah. On Joshua's post, it says, over 1,200 suggestions were submitted per the company, but Johannes from Cologne was ultimately declared the winner of that contest with an olive green colored entry. So, yeah. They still do that, but it seems like I've missed it the past few years. I've always submitted some type of purple ink to that contest, but I missed it this past year. But, yeah. It's great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Did they make a matching pen?

'''Jim Cantore:''' Usually. I mean, they have for the past few years. So, they had the Smoky Quartz M205 last year to match.

'''Jim Cantore:''' I don't remember them doing, did they do Amber? Because I think they did Aquamarine. I can't remember. I don't, they've done some. I don't know if they've done them all. Now that you say that, we can ask Joshua and find out, or if anyone knows. But they, I like the pens. I'll buy the pen more likely than the ink. Like, I think a green, this color green pen, if I can get it with like the silver trim, I might buy that. And then I probably would have to buy the ink to go with it, right? Just because I'm dumb that way.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you buy, I mean, well, this is like me buying a gold ink. Like, I don't particularly want a gold ink, right? But I will buy a gold ink if I have a pen that matches it. So, I would, you know, say if I bought a green pen and it had the exact matching color, then I would get that too.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, I don't know exactly how to spell, to pronounce, Ola-Vine, Ola-Vine, Ola-Vine-A. And our friends at the BYOB podcast did a whole episode, well, a whole half episode. Myke, episode 8.5, our good friends, Jim and Michael, they recorded an entire episode of Michael mispronouncing the Girardin inks and Jim telling them how to pronounce them correctly in French. And it's kind of amazing. Okay. So, if you haven't caught that, yeah. It's like 25 minutes of them just going through the entire product lineup. Michael butchering the names and Jim going through the correct pronunciations and meanings. It was fascinating. It was hilarious. So, I implore y'all to go listen to episode 8.5 of BYOB. And you should listen to the next episode of BYOB because I will be joining, like, the nine other people on their podcast tonight. So, I might get one or two words in. But we'll see. I'm going to be a guest on the BYOB podcast tonight. I look forward to that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, we should, I think, an interesting programming note. You were talking about wanting to do Instagram live more often, maybe, like, weekly. That was, like, a thing that you were talking about doing. So, I, you know, decided to make you put your money where your mouth is. And next week on January the 25th at 10, noon Eastern, at noon Eastern, which is 5 p.m. London time. You can kind of work it out from there depending on where your time zone is. I am going to be joining Brad for an Instagram live session on the Pen Addict Instagram. My assumption will be that we're going to just, like, sit around and chat and show pens that we have. And maybe I can show you my great IKEA shelf cabinet thing. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Right? So, I can show you what's going on and all of that. So, go to Instagram.com slash Pen Addict. And, I guess, turn on notifications or whatever, right? So, you know that when we go live. Yeah. If they work.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Like, none of my notifications work. Well, then, just be there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Be there at noon Eastern on the 25th. Be there or be square, I think is what they say.