Editing The Pen Addict 672/transcript (section)

== Mont Blanc webpage and expensive pens ==

* Okay. I don't know how this is happening, but I've just gone back to the Mont Blanc webpage and I can buy it. If I want to buy it, I can buy it. Okay. It just cost me 2000 pounds. Yeah. But there you go. I don't know what's, I don't know what's happening here. Maybe they've got more of them and like, maybe this is popular enough. They're just doing more, but on the Mont Blanc website where it previously had said like, Oh, contact your dealer or whatever. It now says add to bag. Hmm. This is in the British website. Can it put, can you put it in your cart? Yes. It says add to bag. I added it to my bag and now I can go to proceed to order and I can just buy it. It's just letting me buy it. A buy with Apple pay. Sure. No. Oh, I want it so bad. Close the window. 2,110 pounds. All right. I'm going to look at the picture of my baby that's sitting on the desk. Yes. And I'm going to remove that from my clothes. Yes. Remove from card. I just bought so many diapers. You wouldn't even believe. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so it was a cool display. They had literally everything. Um, I got to see all kinds of limited editions. I got to see some of the new, like the writers limited edition, uh, Goethe. Uh, I don't know if I'm going to pronounce that last name. Right. Um, she was more than happy to show me this. Like she was, um, I'm asked, uh, when I asked for ink, I said, Oh, do you have the Enzo Ferrari? Cause I did want to buy that. It's this great purplish, uh, ink. And I asked, she said, Oh, let me go check again. Like none of the inks are out. Uh, she said, let me go check. And she said, yeah, I've got two bottles left. And I said, okay, I'll, I'll take those. And, and then I, someone on Slack had shared a picture of the new, uh, Northern Lights, I believe is the collection.
* And I said, well, do you have this ink? And I showed her the picture and it's this bright, vibrant, crazy green ink. And she's like, she's like, yes, but we're not allowed to sell anything from this collection until July 1st, but it's here. Do you want to see the pens? And so she, she was like way into this. Like she, you know, it's like, I can show you all this stuff, but like, I can't sell it to you yet. So I got a good look at those pens, which are really, really sweet. So anyway, it was a great experience. Like I didn't know what to expect. I thought I might just be in and out, see all the things I wanted to see. But, um, you know, now. Have you got a peek of the experience where you go in the book?
* Yeah. Actually, Brad, you're in her book now. I am now in the, I am in her book. She asked. She's going to call you. She's going to call you all the time. Yeah. And I was good with that. The only thing I haven't been good with this experience is so I gave them my email information. I got an email every day, just like on the marketing list. I just, I'm, I'm already out. Like I'm out.
* Yeah. Like one email a day trying to sell me like Mont Blanc stuff. I have. It's one email a day too much. I'm on email newsletters. Email me every day. Like, cause they are brands that I care about. And like, I just know they're going to come. Like Paul Smith. I'm getting a Paul, I'm getting an email from Paul Smith every single day. Five days, five to seven days a week. Every week. And, and you know what? Sometimes I buy. And like, that's that. You know what I mean? Yeah. I know. I know. I feel it, but like, I don't need that. I don't think if I need anything. And Paul Smith's not in my email inbox. Something's wrong. Yep. Like what's wrong, Paul? Are you okay?
* If for some reason I need something from Mont Blanc down the line, you know, I have, I have her contact information. She has mine. She was, it was funny. Like she did at the end, we were wrapping up the transaction and she was like, basically, you know, you want to go in the book. And I'm like, yeah, sure. So I gave her my pen addict email address and she, and she goes, oh, no way. She goes, and she started yelling at the other people. You won't believe this guy's email.
* It's pen addict. Oh, okay. I wonder where that was going. They didn't know who it was. Yeah. No, no, no. They didn't know who it was. They just thought it was funny.
* So, oh, this is funny. So anyway, honestly, legitimate. Oh my gosh. I just saw your images. Sorry. I just pasted it. You took me out of the podcast. It's not really that important, but it shows that I received an email on the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 29th, and 30th of July from Paul Smith.
* That's what these brands do. Like they would just email you every day. Yeah. That's how this was going. So I was out. I think after about the fifth one, I was like, I'm out. Yeah. So we're good there. But anyway, it was a fun experience. My wife enjoyed it. The kids did not. They went walking around the rest of the mall. My wife was actually, oh, look at this one. This one's pretty good. Oh, I'm pleased to shoot that Mary Beth wasn't like pulling the hair out. No. And I was like, look, I showed her the coral baby. I was like, if there was any pen I would get, I was like, this is the one I like, I really like. It's probably like literally the cheapest pen in here outside of like maybe some of the like 146 ballpoints or something.
* And she's like, oh, I like that. You know, but she got to hold it and use it and like, you know, has a snap cap. And she's like, oh, yeah, that one's nice. She's like, I love that color. And I was like, yeah, that's kind of like when they bring out that when they mix in that OG color into some of this stuff, it like really, really goes great. So anyway, great experience. I would recommend it just to go look around, especially when you go to the largest Mont Blanc shop in the universe, like this one, you can just see everything. And it was great. So I had a good time. So yeah, I had a good time, bought some ink and I'm happy. So there you go.
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* All right, Myke, we have our shout out of the week. Shout out of the week.
* She Designs Nepal. We have given them a shout out before. They make wonderful pen cases literally in Nepal. And it's a great group of people who are, you know, uplifting some of the workers in the region and making cool products and, you know, giving back to their community. And they've really branched out into like stationery pouches. So I want to give them a shout out. I've used some of their cases. I have some of their cases. They've sent me some of their cases and they just launched a new model. So I wanted to be sure to give them a shout out. These new cases, these new six pin sleeves are just beautiful. We're going to have a review up on the blog, but you don't need to review to see how cool these cases are. Handmade, beautiful fabrics.
* And the money goes back to support the communities there that they work with in Nepal. And I just couldn't be happier to have a good relationship with them. They're always texting me or they're messaging me and saying, hey, we got a new thing coming up. Can we send it to you? Or, you know, here's a product launch. They're just been wonderful to work with. And they've been really enjoying like seeing some of their cases in some of the makers, makers pens. Like if you buy a maker's pens, like for some of the makers in our communities, like at a pen show, they're using their sleeves. So it's just a really cool, really cool business, really great story. So definitely go check them out. If you're not giving them a follow, check out the products. So they're wonderful. So in what could have been a second shout out of the week, because I know I've shouted out Chronodex many times are my good friend Patrick Ng's planner system. The new, the latest, the latest 2025 second half of the year. So he does them every six months, you know, in January and July, the July to December Chronodex is out. And we, this one comes with a lot of changes, Myke. So I put this in the, the, the note I put in with the Chronodex. And I think this is maybe a tagline that, that Patrick should think about uses using. He can quote me on this, the coolest stationery product. I have no intention of ever using. So I love this. I would like to just rephrase that to just, you know, Patrick wants to use it. Maybe like the coolest stationery product I haven't used yet. You know, fair enough. It might be nicer for Patrick rather than just like, I love this, but I ain't ever going near it. Well, he might've got me because, um, he's escalating Chronodex. So number one, let me put this out there. He's never charged for this. It's always been free. He's deciding to charge for this, which I think is great. Like I'm all aboard. Like he's been doing this for 14 years, building these files, building these PDFs, putting them out there for free. He just decided to create Scription Studio. So you can go to ScriptionStudio.com. We'll have a link in there. I'm, I'm all for it. Like I'm all for it. So where, where he almost got me is there is an edition called the Chronodex nuclear power inspector edition. Yeah. What's going on there, Brad? He basically got customer feedback from Jared, the nuclear power quality inspector that he needed some different things on his Chronodex page. So he built it for him. Do you know what the important factor of this edition is, Myke? Tell me. It's in us letter size 11 by eight and a half, which is just a horrible format. But Jared probably has requirements in his job and he's probably carrying around a lot of us letter size paper or notebook fittings. And Patrick has made, I don't know why this makes me laugh so hard. Thankfully, this is a digital product. It is a digital product. I was terrified that he had made physical versions of this. No, this is, this is all, Chronodex is all digital. I don't know if Patrick might make his own made, you know, hand bound notebooks. So do people just print, people tend to just print it on paper they like. They've always been this way. So Chronodex has always been this way. It's always just been a PDF. I knew there was that, but I always thought that there was a product too. You know what? Like sometimes in my mind, I get Chronodex and Travelers notebook like completely intertwined.
* Because I know a lot of people put them in their Travelers, right? Yes, exactly. So yeah, like the normal, the normal format would be good too. How do people do that though, Brad? I don't know. How do you put it in your Travelers notebook? I don't know. There's formats, Myke. No, but like how do you print onto the Travelers notebook?
* Oh, no, no. So they, they would, there's a, I've seen a stamp in the past. Oh, okay. And I've seen, you could just get printer size. You could get like an A4 size and, and print two sides of it to fold it and make it A5 size. Or make A5 slim. So a lot of people will adjust the printer aspect if they want to print this out. Apparently, according to Jackie, there is a nuclear power inspector that frequents the pen addict slack. So I guess I'll be happy. I wonder if it's Jared. We got to find out. I'm not familiar with this. So this is, it would seem likely. Yeah. You know, but you never know. Yeah. So the stock Chronodex download is A4 size, which makes sense, right? So you fold it into A5. So you have, basically, you'll end up, if you print both sides, that's four pages, right? So front, back, front, back on a folded A4. So it works out like that. But anyway, shout out Patrick. He's got his new home for Chronodex at ScriptionStudio.com. So you'll go check that out. So I'm going to wipe the tears from my eyes. I don't know why I enjoyed that so much. I was like, I got to put this in. This is amazing.