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== Pilot Anniversary Video ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So, I would say the theme of this show throughout 2018 was what is Pilot going to do for their 100th anniversary? You heard us talk about it a million times, right? And ultimately, the answer was, for most of everybody, diddly squat. And what they did do was not really worth it. So, in Burst Platinum, with their 100th anniversary, and right off the bat, they are basically telling Pilot to suck it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They made this video, which is a really cool video, which shows their 100th anniversary, kind of all of the big things, all of the big goings-on that happened throughout their company's history. It's a really nice thing to see, because I feel like I maybe didn't know enough about their history. My favorite thing in this whole little kind of show-and-tell is in 1967, they made the first Platinum nib pen, which they called the Platinum Platinum, which I just thought was hilarious.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' If that's not our pen, I don't know what it is, right? I mean, we would be all for the Platinum Platinum.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, we'll get to that in a minute.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You might have another chance, but I don't know about that. Not quite, not quite.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But there was something you liked, too, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah. So, I'm sitting here watching the video, and I'm actually, man, this is a really good video. It's kind of emotional. Like, they're showing, you know, the... I mean, I'm coming... You know how I am anyway, but, like, they're showing the employees and the factory workers. And they're showing, like, every slide. So, it's like just an audio. I mean, it's just like a music background slide presentation, right? So, like, the slides, you know, going off the screen. And it's like, we invented this pen. We invented this unique filling system or nib.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' 1966 Platinum sponsors music TV program. I just died laughing. It's the weirdest.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, it's such a strange way to put it. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's, like, slammed right in between all these unique nib and pen design mechanisms that they've created. And it's just, like...

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's hilarious.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Who approved this? It's like, it doesn't fit at all. But I obviously enjoyed it thoroughly just because it's such an outlier. There was nothing else before or after Platinum sponsors music TV program that would think this was, like, important at all. But apparently it was very important to them at the time, right? Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. For whatever reason, like, maybe that was, like, a real turning point for the company financially. Like, they don't go into the detail. But you can only assume that this meant something. Or, like, maybe that exact TV show is, like, really important. Yeah. Right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, Top of the Pops, American Bandstand level type of thing. Like, we just don't understand it. But then they would have put the name in there. That's my... You'd think so, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' But who knows? Maybe it's called... Like, it went translated in English. Maybe it's called Music TV Program.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. Right? I don't know. Just like this is an internet radio show, right? Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But, like, it just might be the translated name of that. Who knows? But anyway, the most important thing is they have a 100th anniversary pen. It's called The Prime. And they have it in two different models. They have a fully Platinum model and they have a Silver model. They're both limited edition. The Platinum body pen is limited to 100 pieces and is priced at a million yen, which is $9,000. Which, there's 100 of them. So, this is it, right? Like, you've got 100 of them. It's made completely out of Platinum. You want to charge nine grand for it. Okay. Right? Like, go for it. You know, I'm not going to buy it. But do it. I understand. Right? Because this was the...