Editing The Pen Addict 350/transcript (section)

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' We should. We should. We have other things to talk about before we get into more Kickstarter-y stuff. But yeah, let's move on from there. Then we'll circle back.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So, you know, we're celebrating our 350 today. But we wanted to extend a congratulations to CW Pencil Enterprise, who just celebrated their fourth birthday. Yay. So congratulations to everybody at CW. Obviously, we're such huge fans of what they do here on the show. So congratulations to them on another successful year. May that be many, many, many, many, many, many, many more because I have many more visits I want to make to Carolina team. So congratulations. That's right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And special shout out to their quarterly pin box number nine, which just dropped. I put some pictures on Instagram. They did a set of pencils like running the gamut of the hardness scale from 10B, which is the darkest and softest, all the way to 6H, I think was the hardest in there, the firmest and lightest. So I love that kind of stuff because I like trying all the different pencil grades. I'm not just like totally stuck down on one pencil grade. So I like having those types of options. And there was a really cool pencil testing notebook that Write Notepads did for them for this. So hopefully they'll start carrying that in the store. I think that was the goal for them to do. And that is really, really well done. It's super neat.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And then Caroline jumped on Twitter yesterday and she was just talking about, you know, the fourth anniversary and stuff and, you know, talking to a bunch of people following her. And she says, what if I let the power get to my head and do a subscription box of my favorite things? It would be a strange one. It would definitely include an obscure foreign glue, one of the weirder Matamaro Kuhn erasers and some snacks. And I'm just like, do it. Like she has to do this. So I'm putting a link to this tweet in the show notes and you need to go tell Caroline to do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. I would like that too, actually.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I can't imagine how many times a day people walk into the store and say, what's your favorite pencil? I mean, dozens a day, right? So put together a set, if not just your favorite pencil, but your favorite things. She was actually teasing about putting a pen in there, which I thought would be very trolly and very funny to do. So, yeah, go find this tweet and reply to her and tell her to do it and we're going to make her do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would like that. She's one of those people, like obviously Caroline, very clever, very, like she's very creative, but she's just one of those people that I would just like to see the selection of things that she would pick. You know? She's seen stuff, Michael. Yeah, I've seen some things. I could just, I would just, you know, I could imagine that she is exposed to so many interesting, wonderful, weird little things that I think it would be kind of cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep, me too. Speaking of kind of cool, I caused a problem with my review on Monday, Myke. And by say caused a problem, I meant did it on purpose.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I did a review of one of my pencil leads that I've been going through this year, the Pentel Super High Polymer 0.5 millimeter 2B lead, right? You know that one, right? You're familiar with it. Oh, it's my favorite. Yeah, absolutely. I get it. Get that a lot about this lead. I just happened to review it in a very special and interesting pencil. So, it's the Pentel Sharp Carry, which I've talked about a million times of how great a pencil it is and how underrated it is. Well, there's now a demonstrator version of it, which I snuck in to the review and kind of, you know, purposefully didn't mention. And now I'm getting all the emails and all the comments about, what's that pencil? Where did you get that pencil? I need that pencil. So, mission accomplished for that. And I just want to talk about this pencil. I got it from a friend. I'm not going to call them out. And it wouldn't take anyone who's been around the stationary world very long to figure out where I got it, like within seconds. But I'm not going to call them out. But you can get it. I think it's a newer model. You can get it on eBay. People are asking me. I can't vouch for the link that I put in the show notes. But it gives you all the information to be able to search the product name in there. That's why I did it. It's got all the numbers and everything you need to search for it. It looks like they run about $50-ish. It's a limited edition. So, it's a newer model. So, I just wanted to throw that out there because a bunch of people have been asking. So, the normal carry runs about $20, $22. And this one's like $45 to $50. I guess it's limited. I really don't have the specs on it. I just know it's not very available. And it's completely cool. And thank you. You know who you are.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It looks more expensive than even the eBay listing would kind of show. It's right. Like the eBay listing is like $45 or whatever, the one that you put in. But to me, I thought this was going to be some like vintage, like M90 style dealio. Right. I didn't know if it was new or old.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I didn't know. I thought this was maybe like from the 90s or something like that. I had no idea. I generally had no idea about this. But apparently, it's a new. It's the new M90 pencil, Myke, is what it is, I think.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hmm. Hmm. Okay. I do. Obviously, I really like the look of that thing. Hmm. Would you think that this is something that I would particularly want?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, you can certainly try it. Like, it's a pocketable capped pencil, right? This is a pencil with a removable cap. You uncap it to write with and you post the cap on the back. And the click mechanism works through that setup.