Editing The Pen Addict 142/transcript (section)

== Dwayne Photos ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' He is. I have several more pictures from him in my inbox. I didn't, I didn't get them uploaded at all, but we'll have these in the show notes. He also showed me a really neat wooden barrel one, which I'd never seen before. I'll send that over to you after the show. And it, it looked larger than the normal vanishing points. Or as they say, which I have to state this, which it kind of drives me a little bit crazy about pilot, but I love them so much. I'll give them a pass. They use different names in different countries. Right. So people don't know when I, you know, when I typed, um, on that original Instagram post that I love those VPs. They don't even know what a VP is. It's not a vanishing point over there. It's the capitalist, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's the capitalist here as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So the U S continues to get it wrong on so many levels and naming conventions is one of them. We're not more important than everyone else. So I wish people would get that through their heads, but you know, I, Myke, I am pro metric system. Awesome.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just want to throw that in there. I appreciate that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know. So you're right. Uh, to circle back around, Dwayne is our hero. Thank you, Dwayne, for going to take those pictures and, um, confirming what I kind of thought was going to be the case, but I was holding out one little strand of hope that I was wrong.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So basically Dwayne stopped you from making a stupid decision, you know, like maybe taking a risk or something.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, it was, uh, the, the evidence presented itself that the, was probably not going to line up to be a non-metallic orange vanishing point. And, um, the evidence, uh, bared out in this case.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sure did. Unfortunately.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. We have more orange things to talk about besides the orange t-shirt that I'm wearing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You wearing an orange t-shirt?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I am.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You wearing the pen addict t-shirt?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I am not. I'm wearing my, uh, Draplin heavy duty t-shirt because I'm a heavy duty individual.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, there you go.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Can't argue with that. Yep. So let's get into more orange stuff right after we talk about one of our friends.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I'm going to give you the floor, Michael. You say in our show notes that I'm wrong, and I would like to hear why.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You are categorically wrong. So I was looking through my RSS app today, and I saw, posted a couple of days ago, Pilot Hiroshizuku Fuyugaki Inc. Now, not only did you review this with like a paragraph, you didn't even tell me about it, which tells me all that I need to know. You kept this to yourself because you knew that if I saw this, I would uncover you for the liar that you are. Clearly, you're being paid off by the, I don't know, the Sailor Review Board or something.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, the Sailor contingent is paying me off to write bad things about Pilot Fuyugaki so you can go buy inks that Sailor doesn't even manufacture anymore. That's exactly what I'm doing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I knew it. See, I knew it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I've had this ink sample from Lori, great listener, great reader of the blog and the podcast. She sent me a couple of ink samples and I've been very delayed in getting this ink reviewed. And I finally inked it up and used it for a little while. And it's a really good ink from the Pilot Hiroshizuku line. I just feel like I could say that about every ink from the Pilot Hiroshizuku line. They are some of the most well-behaved, most trusted, most really perfect inks if you can find the color that you want. And for me, that color is not Fuyugaki.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's orange. And that's about it. That's why the review was so short. I mean, I don't know what I'm going to say. You know, I like the ink. I don't love the ink. I'm not going to buy a bottle of it. I was thankful to have a sample of it before I committed my dollars to purchasing the full bottle. But I know you drink the stuff. So I'm going to let you tell us why it's so wonderful.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I love orange the same as you do. But unlike you, Mr. Brad Dowdy, I'm left-handed, if you'll remember. I do. And the reason that I came across and stick to my Hiroshizukus, especially the Fuyugaki, is because practically all other ink has an insufficient dry time for me. And I have been able to find a fantastic orange. So just once again, proving Brad Dowdy's elitist, right-handed orange ink agenda that he's been pushing on this podcast for the entire time. That's all I'm going to say about this. I had nothing more to add. You'll be hearing from my lawyer.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Get in line.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's the second time today I've threatened a lawsuit onto a co-host. So this has been a productive Monday.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good Monday for you. Not so good Monday for your co-host. I'm getting litigious in here. So, yeah. So, you know, honestly, if this is an ink that I tried very early on, it might have latched on a little bit more. But my eyes have been opened to a few other inks that fit my personal taste a little bit better. And I end up liking an orange ink with more yellow in it, which is a brighter ink, than an orange ink with more red in it, which is a deeper ink. So it's just personal taste. And you're wrong. And that's pretty much it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. Well, there we go. All right. It's the last episode. We're not going to make it to it later.