Editing The Pen Addict 474/transcript (section)

== Guest Mention ==


'''Brad:''' So you were gone last week. I brought in an amazing guest, the Nib Doctor herself, Audrey Madison.

'''Myke:'''  That was an all-time guest episode, I think. I thoroughly enjoyed that episode. So I would also like to extend my thanks to Audrey for filling in for me last week. And, you know, in many ways, as some of our best guests do, doing a better job than I can.

'''Brad:''' I feel great about how that episode went. I'm glad you said that. We got a lot of great feedback from the community. Everyone really, really enjoyed my conversation with Audrey because she's awesome. And it was really, really good to just like, it was one of those conversations where we basically, we would kind of have mostly the same conversation if we were just sitting around hanging out. I mean, obviously, you know, I had to direct, you know, a little bit, hey, tell me about the Franklin Christophe Nib thing and how did that go? But in general, our conversation was just like our conversation that we would normally have. Luckily, I've known Audrey for years and it was easy to do. And it was just fantastic. So I'm very, very glad that she joined us last week and I'm glad you are not here.

'''Myke:'''  Yeah, I honestly, I hope that she'll come back on the show at another point because I feel like you two could have gone into even more detail if time would have allowed, you know?

'''Brad:''' Yep. You might have caught, I don't doubt you listened to any of the after edit, but as soon as like we stopped the show show, I said, we could have done three more hours on completely new topics. And she was like, I know. So yeah, that's exactly how it went. So good. Glad, glad you liked it. Um, what's, what's been your stationary status, you know, the last couple of weeks, I feel even when I have like a week off from talking to you about pens, I don't know what your like pen and paper status is like, where are you at in like using things? What's, what's tickling your fancy mate?

'''Myke:'''  Uh, well, I don't really, I took some stuff with me, but I didn't really use any of it. Like for me, stationary for me typically is I'm, I use it when I'm working. If I'm not working, it doesn't get used, you know? So when I was traveling, I was in Romania last week visiting family. Uh, I didn't really use too much. Uh, since I came back, I mean, I'm working on a new product for Cortex Brown right now. And I have prototypes of that. So I'm super jazzed about that, but I'm not going to say anything more. Um, I have been really digging still the pen addict to Johto pen.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. First batches in, in people's hands now. And, uh, they're, they're loving it. I'm loving it. I, I love, I love the texture on that thing. It feels really cool. I'm enjoying using it and we'll have a lot more in the October timeframe for those of you who are still looking. I'm good. I'm glad you still like that.

'''Myke:'''  Yeah. I'm still really digging it. Um, and the, I got my blue Mark one as well. Oh yeah. Nice. Which is also super good. And it took me days to realize, uh, that they put a blue refill in it. I just, you just didn't really pay attention to it. I don't know why. And it was the right call.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. Schmidt blue is pretty dark. Like exactly.

'''Myke:'''  Maybe, you know, I just, I don't expect it. I like the Schmidt blue, but it's just harder to find. So I tend to just end up with the black one. Uh, they do a bunch of colors, but it's just really people only tend to want the black one. Uh, but I liked it. I liked that, uh, addition. So yeah, I've been using those and, uh, just like partnering around and nothing too special going on right now.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. I still like the black Schmidt refill a Johto at one point with a previous order of mine. They sent me one of each of the colors, which is the standard, um, black, blue, red, green, um, rollerball refills. And I have like, I have the blue in one pen, but I really just stick with the black and then the red and green are just kind of laying around just because I wouldn't use them that much. Like the pen would be too nice for me to put a refill in it that I'm not going to use. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I've been using like one of the things I wanted to do since I hadn't talked to you in two weeks is like, what are the things that I've been using recently? Even if we've, we've talked about them before. And I have a couple of things. Um, one that I'm actually using right now, as we're talking, that we're going to talk about later in the show. So I'll hold it to then, but I've got some new spoke stuff that I teased on Twitch that we'll be bringing out weeks, weeks away, maybe by the end of the month. If we're lucky. Um, but the icon, the fountain pen barrel, the modular barrel, we got some new barrel colors. We have brass inserts for that. Myke, we have a brass sleeve and a brass grip section. Oh yeah. And it feels good. I'm, I've, I've got that right here as well. I'm using that. Is they available for sale? They will be in like about three weeks or so. Right. You've got to, so we've got some finishing, finishing up to do, but, um, and then we have some grip sections that have, um, like grooves. You know, for better grip. Cause the, the previous, like the, just the anodized grips are pretty slick. Right. Yeah. So people were wanting some grippier grips. So we have those, we have titanium parts in, um, lots of new barrel color. So it's going to be fun. So I've been using that, um, pin I made a, so you will like this one. It's like a British racing green icon barrel with a brass sleeve and a brass grip. It's, it's pretty slick. I'm not going to lie. I do like the sound of that. I know it's my own thing, but like, I really like it. It's really good. I'm happy with it. Um, on top of that, oddly enough, well, not oddly, if you know me and I, I guess you said it, this is my show. My name's in it. Um, the Pentel carry mechanical pencil, the one that caps that I about once a year, I just fawn over publicly, even though I use it kind of all the time, but I always get like a bug to talk about the carry because it's still just an extremely underrated mechanical pencil. And I have an orange one that was a special edition that I bought from you, Seiko stationary, and it just sits on my desk. And I've been using my planner, um, using it, uh, in conjunction with whichever pen I've chosen for the week, which happened to be this spoke pen and this orange, um, Pentel carry. And I just love that combination. I love the idea of that pencil. I love having my planner, which that's also in the, what I'm using phase. I'm, I'm digging the hourly layout that I have. So I like, I'll write that part in pen, which I'll have like a pen of the week and write out my whole week in the schedule. And then I'll use the pencil for a lot of notes and a lot of, you know, the arrow going here and the scratching out going there.

'''Myke:'''  So you're still really digging that, huh?

'''Brad:''' Yeah. Yeah. That's been a good setup. I'm still, I am going to look at new planners. We'll probably do a whole planner show like in the next month or so, because Hobonichi is going to launch before the end of the month, I think. And I just want to see what kind of layouts are out there. I found one layout like this William Hanna that I like. I just, not that I want to switch out of the William Hanna, but I just want to see what my options are now that I've changed how I do a planner setup. So we'll do a larger episode on that coming soon.

'''Myke:'''  Do you think the Hobonichi is going to still be using the paper? What is it called? Oh my God.