Editing The Pen Addict 413/transcript (section)

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, knowing that this is not the end of the discussion in our lives, right?

'''Ana Reinert:''' It's funny that you said that because that's actually what I titled Link Love today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wonderful. So to get into our show, I'd like to pose a question. Will you say I if you currently have a Jonathan Brooks, a Rushi Lamy in your hand? I. Oh, wait, that was only two I's. Did your microphone cut out, Myke? Are you still there, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Have you mailed it to me yet? No. No. Well, then how am I going to? Right? This is in your hand, my friend. Quite literally, it's in your hand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You might never get this pen. I just want to be perfectly honest with you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What is wrong with you? Like a massive part of your job is mailing things. Why do you refuse to mail things to me? Do I have to buy something from you? Is that how this works? No. No. You know what?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's pure laziness because I know I have to get more than this pen to you. Right? So I have to go to other areas of the house to collect other things that I've set aside.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Oh, it sounds like such hard work. You have to look around the house.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's like at least 10 feet away from my desk. Here's the thing, Brad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If these things are causing you so much problem, send them later on. Just send me the frigging Lamy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I sent Anna hers the other day. You got it in, what, Monday or so? When did you get your pen? Tell us about your pen and your thoughts on this whole situation.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Honestly, I never actually thought it was going to happen. Yeah. When you told me that, like, you messaged me and said that they had arrived, I was like, seriously? Like, I didn't think it was, not that I doubted that Jonathan could do it, but I honestly thought he was like, I tried. I don't, I just can't be bothered. Go away. All three of you, just go. I love you, but go away. And then I knew he had lots of other things going on in his life. And then the pandemic and then the pen show didn't happen. Like, I just figured he was like, nah, I'm going to shelve that project. But when you told me that they showed up, I was like, okay, cool. Wow. And then I saw the pictures that you posted and the video and I was like, I wonder what it looks like in person. I mean, because the pictures showed, you know, 75% of the story. But to actually hold it in my hand and again, like seeing the, there's little tiny details, just like threads of color. It's like the only word I can think to describe it. Plus the, like the little, there's sparkles, like little iridescent sparkles. I'm just speechless. Like, I can't believe why anyone would spend this much time putting Urushi on a Lamy, like honest to God.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's, it's crazy.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I can see why he does not want to do it again. It was a labor of, I don't know if it's love or insanity, but probably a little of both.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I think I'll, I'll have to double check with him. I think he made just made one for himself, right? Like he made the extra one for us to give away, but I think he made one for himself too, just so he will never have to answer the question again. Like he wants a reminder of how terrible of an idea this was. So he doesn't have to try again. He can look at that pen and say, no, I will never do this again. But what he did for us was pretty amazing. Like yours, I can't wait to, until we all get to see each other again, because I've been the only one to hold all three pens. Yours feels very different from ours in a refined way that I'm wondering if it comes from the aluminum barrel, as opposed to the plastic barrel. It is noticeably different feeling in, in like the most wonderful way possible.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Um, are you saying the aluminum is better?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Maybe for a Rushi. I will not, uh, I will not.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I would like that noted for the record.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. We'll note that down for the record. But, um, yeah, there's something about that pen that is, is really special. And you're right about the colors. Like these pictures don't do it justice. We'll have to show people like there's a depth to them that you, you can't photograph really, really well. It kind of shows up on the black and brown one that we're going to use for the giveaway. That's like our single color pen has that kind of depth to it in the same shade. So it's not as noticeable as the opposite shades of the black and brown.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I can read the notes that he included about the pen details. So mine was done on a, the Lamy All-Star Bronze. Um, and the Rushi was marbled pink, which doesn't exist. So this was my first time trying to create a color, which is difficult when you're starting with brown. Tiny flakes throughout of rotten abalone. Tiny, uh, both upper and lower finials were replaced with handmade ones and this allowed for abalone inlays. Those were his notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's great. Like, okay, I'm going to take this impossible project and then I'm going to invent a new color. Like he didn't have enough trouble as it is. It's, it's pretty fascinating to be able to talk to Jonathan. I'm glad, I'm glad he is in our lives and can work this magic. Like, so Myke, I don't want you to feel too bad that you don't have yours yet because on the individual Instagram posts that I made, the one of your pen is like 2x the amount of likes of both. I think if you added up mine and Anna's, we wouldn't have reached the amount of likes that your pen got. So just know that, uh, that you definitely have the most popular of the three, but I know we love all of our pens.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They are all amazing. But like even because Jonathan posted a bunch of pictures as well, um, on the Carolina Penco Instagram and he very, it was very sweet. Actually said that he, he went a little extra with mine. Yeah. Um, so I really genuinely very much appreciated that and, and I could see it right. Like, cause there's details that I didn't, uh, that I didn't see until, um, the, uh, and until I saw the pictures from Jonathan, like how on the grip section of the Lamy, you have like the two inlays and then the part that's going down the middle. And there are four discs of Raden of different, of like, uh, decreasing sizes placed. And it's like, I see stuff like that. It's like, oh, that was a lot of work. Right. So like, uh, you know, I cannot wait to one day sometime in the distant future. I have this pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It will ship before Thursday.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, will it? Yeah. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Or no later than Thursday. How about that? No later than Thursday, which means today or tomorrow it will ship. Well, I look forward to that. I look forward to you receiving it because I hate shipping stuff like this, that like very important things. Like even to Anna, I was like, oh my gosh, please tell me like the minute you get it because I want to know what arrives safe and sound and shipping to you is even more of, more of a stress factor.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Anna Reinhart, congratulations on 10 years of the well-appointed desk.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Thank you. So I was a little surprised. It came up a lot faster than I thought it was going to.