Editing The Pen Addict 464/transcript (section)

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'''Myke:''' That's pretty much how it usually goes.

'''Brad:''' That's kind of how it looks. Speaking of money, Myke, I am using the literal most expensive pen I own today. Big money, Brad. We're gonna talk about what we're using today. And I find this funny, Myke. So I'm using my, we're gonna do a little catch up. A couple of commentaries I have about what I'm using. One, the things I'm using for my personal use is that circle keeps getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Like these, these things that I'm using for me, right? Like I have to separate me as a stationary user from me, pen addict and like reviews and, you know, product, you know, information and those type of things. There's, there's two kind of buckets there. So this Namiki Yukari Milky Way that is easily my most, the most expensive I own, probably by double, is just one of my favorite pens. I think it might be the true number one favorite. And I love this pen. I love using this pen. I don't care that it was expensive because that doesn't keep me from using it, right? That's the key I use, use these things. So it's, I always find it funny because when I use it, I don't think about how much it costs, right? If I, I'm sitting here writing with it, I don't ever think about it. But if I have to talk about it, I'm like, oh my God, I'm about to say I'm using this crazy dollar amount pen. And it makes me feel weird, but like I never feel weird using it because that's what it's made for. It's a pen. It's made to write and it's kind of perfect for me. I think it's my favorite pen. It is always inked up with Pilot Orochizuku Tsukiyo. Like that's the only ink that's ever been in this pen. It's the perfect match. It's called Moonlight Blue. And it's just, it's the ink for this pen. So that's, that's the ticket.

'''Myke:''' Is there any specific reason that you would ever decide to use this pen? Like, because it is so extra?

'''Brad:''' No, I use it for everything. Like, I don't, like, okay, I probably wouldn't take it to the baseball field.

'''Myke:''' Yeah, I mean, yeah.

'''Brad:''' But I mean, I take other, I take other expensive fountain pens to the baseball field when I'm going to, like, I spend a lot of time, you know, at outside in the dirt, in the windy dirt. And things get dirty. I don't really have a need to take this one there, right? Like, I could choose not to do that. But I'll take it anywhere, everywhere. But other people use it. Like, those things don't faze me. It's made to be used.

'''Myke:''' Sure, but this one is a little bit in an upper echelon.

'''Brad:''' Um, that's fair. But it is a fine line between, like, I never obsess about, like, how I carry or use a pen, except in, like, just very extreme situations. Like, being out at a ball field for 10 hours, you know, outside, hot, sweaty, dirty, I'm probably not going to carry that. But that's it. Like, otherwise, I wouldn't, I don't even consider it. Like, we just go. We go to town. We use the pens. That's why when I talk about all these limited editions and how, like, I feel like I'm getting priced out. Well, it's like I have all these nice things already. Like, I don't need more pens to not use, right? So, I'm using the things that I have and, um, yeah, and thoroughly enjoying them, right? Like, I really, really enjoy what I have right now. And I feel like that's a good place to be. Um, secondarily to that, I also have to talk about these things, right? And we talk about, like, the limited edition pens we talked about last week. Like, we still got to talk about these things. And, like, cross-pollinating that context is always a weird situation for me. So, anyway, um, that's the pen I'm using. So, I generally have kind of a pen of the week. And that's what I use for my planner. And I'm, of course, using the William Hannah Planner, um, this week. And what I do for podcast days. So, I did a little bit of my planning yesterday on Tuesday. Because it was a holiday here in the U.S. on Monday. So, I did some stream planning. And I've talked about this setup for ages. How I like the seven days a week on the left page and the blank page on the right. The good thing about the William Hannah Planner is that it's a disk-bound system. And the way my podcast audio and microphone is set up, it's on the left side of my laptop. So, I can write on the right side. But, having a planner with open pages, that the writing side of the page that's blank that I need to use is on the right side of the planner. So, the left sides would be, like, you know, kind of convoluted on my laptop. And leaning funny and looking weird and not real functional. But guess what, Myke? The William Hannah Planner is disk-bound. So, I just remove the write sheet. And it is literally sitting right next to my laptop.

'''Myke:''' So, you just pop the sheet out, you're writing it, and then put the sheet back where it's supposed to go in the planner, right?

'''Brad:''' Correct. So, the planner is over off to the left, like sitting on my amp for recording purposes. But on the right side of my laptop is a single sheet of paper that I have removed. But it will go back into the planner once we're done.

'''Myke:''' Very cool.

'''Brad:''' So, that's why I love this thing. It's just kind of functional. And then on top of that, I can have a separate section where I hole-punch paper like the Mormon Croquis sketch pad. But 60 GSM A5 pad that I love so much, which is back in stock. That's everyone's notification. If you were interested in that exquisite paper that I thoroughly enjoy, that's the specific one you need to buy. It's back in stock. So, yeah, those two papers. And then any other pens that I've used for like my personal use pens, you know, like my day-to-day, you know, want to write notes on my desk stuff. And then a couple of review pens just so I kind of keep all these things together. I am using the Brasstown currently, the NotCo Wax Canvas Brasstown, the black and aqua one. And that has been my go-to case. So, like all these things, like the William Hanna Planta, the Brasstown are in constant use. It's just maybe the contents and how those things are being used change up, like what pens are in the Brasstown. But this group of pens I have right now, it's just a few. A couple are like fall on the personal side of the ledger. A couple fall on the testing review side of the ledger. And it's just good to have all those things in a singular case that I can move from room to room as I need it. So, like that's what I'm using today. But that's kind of what I'm using every day. Like this is not a special occasion as nice it is to talk to you for 464 weeks in a row.

'''Brad:''' It's not a special occasion in how I use things. Like this is literally how I do it pretty much every day. Like that's the move. So, I am thrilled with the products I own right now. That didn't keep me from buying things though, which we'll talk about later in the show. A thing happened, Myke. A thing happened that I wanted to talk about.

'''Myke:''' Yeah, no, I was thoroughly intrigued looking at the show notes for today's episode.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, you were unaware of what's coming up later. I am unaware of what you're currently using. What do you have going on?

'''Myke:''' So, I just took a note down on my pano book, which I always have here below my keyboard where I make my notes for editing. I took that note today with my Urushi Lami Safari that Jonathan Brooks made for us, customized for us. That currently has Lami Petrol in it, which is actually an ink that I enjoy. It's my only blue black. Yeah. I do enjoy it. And I enjoy this ink enough that I might want to explore other blue blacks in the future. But I feel like it was a good pairing. Because, you know, we like Lami Petrol. The color of Petrol reminded me of the colors that we use for the Relay FM logo, which is why I bought it. It was also why I bought the Safari. And I put Petrol in this pen. It's the pairing that I've had for a while. That pen is sitting in and has been sitting in while we're recording my Penwell Craftsman edition.

'''Brad:''' Oh, yeah. Which I absolutely adore. It's great. I'm staring at mine as you speak.

'''Myke:''' This was sent to me as part of a sponsorship that Good May Better did with us. But this is something that I definitely would have bought myself. Because I liked the Penwells before. I thought they were really nice. But this one, the Craftsman edition, the kind of aesthetic of it really meets my own personal aesthetic. And what I like about this one, even more compared to the other one, is it doesn't need to be stuck to the desk because it's got a large brass weight on the bottom. So I can move it around. It's concrete and brass. So just the weight of itself now kind of keeps it to the desk. So I really like it for that.

'''Myke:''' Obviously, like every day, I use my subtle notebook and theme system journal. Of course, I make them. So I love them. Cortexmunch.com. I have my pens at the moment in my wax canvas Sinclair. Nice. And my other pen that I was using today was the Canalea Kona Snow. Oh. And I paired this with the Pannonia Devilish Red.