Editing The Pen Addict 190/transcript (section)

== Richard Mille ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, this next pen that we want to talk about, I'm pretty sure you're not going to find this at Kinokinia. But I got a million links on this. And I'm sure you did, too.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen in real life.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The first time I looked at it, and we're talking about the... I'm going to go with Richard Mille. I don't know if it's Mille. Mille. Richard Mille, whose watch work I've actually seen before. It's insanely impressive. I thought this was, like, super stupid and not real. But the more I looked at it, and the more I read about it, and the more I got into this pen, it's really fascinating. I mean, let's just say up front, Mille's watches are like 500 grand. So, this pen was $118,000. And I'm sure all of you have seen it by now. But I just wanted to talk about it. What do you think about this thing?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think it's incredible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It really is. It's legitimately fascinating to look at the work that went into this. I mean, he obviously just did this because he could. Yeah. You know, this isn't going to be a pen like anyone that we would know ever owns.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, it looks horrible to hold. Like, it's huge.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's enormous. It looks like a terrible functioning pen. But the engineering of how the nib extends and retracts is basically all made through a watch mechanism where you just click the top of the cap. And we have a link to the video on how it works. You just click the cap. The mechanism sets off. And you can see it all in the barrel of the pen. And then the nib extends. That's like, whoa. That's pretty sweet. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This was like the guy maybe likes pens as well, right? Because it's like expensive stuff. Yeah. And he's like, I could do that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So the article we'll put in here from the wristwatch review, he kind of summarized it best at the end. He said, basically, who this pen is for. If your safe is already full of Richard Mille watches and you want something a little different to carry around. So if you have a watch safe and you own some of his watches, then you might be in the market for this pen. Yeah. But his watches are killer. I've seen him for a while on Tennis Players. He sponsors a couple of tennis players with like this lightweight titanium model that runs like 500 grand. So, yeah, it's just like stupid expensive, but it's kind of cool. I thought like for a second, I was like, this is dumb. And the more I watched it and the more I read about it, I was fascinated by it. And, you know, not that anyone, not that we'll ever see one of these in our lifetime, but it's kind of cool that someone took the time to build this and that can build this. And he's just like, forget all of you. I'm just going to make this. I don't even care. So pretty fascinating.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We've got another link just a couple of days ago from a recent convert to the pen addict podcast, Play Repeat. I don't even know Play Repeat's real name. I didn't check it before. But, you know, he's been following us on Twitter for a little bit and just kind of stumbled into the blog. He wrote this great article. So it's essentially titled Best Strange Podcast. And it's a story of how he found the pen addict.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And so amazing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was a great story. He basically was bored with listening to podcasts, had no idea about pens or anything beforehand, typed into Google and typed in the typed in the words Best Strange Podcast into Google and ended up on us somehow and became like a full bore addict. I mean, what do you think about this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I just my face lit up reading this. It's so fantastic, like, just to hear the way that people can appreciate this show, as I know that a lot of people do, like, listen to this show and like this show and only have, like, even the slightest appreciation for what we're talking about. I just enjoy listening to me and you. And like, it was so fun. If you've got the guy's name. I don't.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It went on as About Page. I do, too. Yeah. I looked at the About Page and it's not there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, the play repeat person, who I love very much now, was saying about, like, it's listening to the way that me and you have, like, grown into our relationship over this time. That's one of the things that makes me the happiest because we are, like, the best of friends. Right. And I like that people feel that way when they hear it, like, they understand that. And that makes me, yeah, that makes me really, really happy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. See, he is a Glaswegian. So, he's in your neck of the woods. So, it's, I've had several emails over the years of people that don't care about pens, but listen to us because of our chemistry, which is, I guess, why we've lasted this long. And I find that to be strange, but there's nothing that can make you more happy than that. It's like, I'm not even into what you're talking about, but I just, like, listen to you talk. And I was like, wow, that makes you feel kind of good. So, I thought that article was really neat, especially just, I just, like, you know, Best Strange Podcast is such a, it's just such a random thing to stumble into our little world. And I am glad that he did. And it's pretty cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Related, somewhat, I just got this alert this morning. I opened up Instagram just to kind of check what was going on. And I had, I was tagged in a picture from Artist Magazine, which I had never heard of before. And in the physical issue of the March issue of Artist Magazine, we are in an article called Easel Listening. Get it? Easel Listening.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I love that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Ten podcasts to listen to while you work. And obviously for artists. And the pen addict made the cut, which is so random. Can you get a copy of that? Yeah. I'll have to find out. I've just found it this morning. It just went up yesterday. And I'll have to figure out where this, you know, I'll have to go to their website and see what I can find. So, it was pretty cool. So, I thought that was really, really neat. You know, and there's some other podcasts on there. It's just an image of the, I don't have a link to the article. I don't know if it's even online. But we'll see if we can get a hard copy of the Artist Magazine.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can read. Do you want me to read what it says? Yeah. What does it say? It says, number nine, the pen addict. You know when you're signing the receipt at a restaurant and it's one of those good pens? Have to fight the urge to take it with you? This show's for you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Isn't that how a lot of us got started? Yeah, no doubt. It's like, this pen is terrible. Then all of a sudden you find something just randomly, like at a restaurant.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You had a great little part in the refill, which is, by the way, gotta say, this is genuine. I love your newsletter. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. I don't read every word because it's too much for me. It is. Like for me, like it's too much. No, I understand. But it isn't too much. But for me, because I don't read for him. Yeah, yeah. Well, that's a balance. I like pick and choose the parts that I want to read. And I read it on the weekend, like in the morning when I'm having my coffee on a Sunday or something. I freaking love it. Oh, good. It's awesome. So there was this one part this week where someone was saying, who was it that was saying about their boss took their pen in a meeting?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' She's on Instagram. You caught me off guard. I can't think of her name right offhand, but yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And just you giving some tips, which we spoke about on the show before. Like, you know, have a honeypot around of good pens sitting on your desk or whatever. Oh, yeah. I've got to say, like, I'm going to put a link in the show notes. If you're not signed up for Brad's membership, you should be. Because genuinely, the newsletter is worth the money.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I appreciate that. There's nothing that makes me more nervous every week than writing that newsletter.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, no doubt. Because that's the one that people were paying you for. Everything else, like if you don't like it, it doesn't matter. Like, just read the next post or don't ever come back. Like, it's fine. But this one, it's like, yeah, you've got to sweat that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Amanda in the chat room reminded me. It's Heidi that did that. Heidi, yeah. I did that. I posted that because a lot of people know. But that's, like, if you're a pen addict and you're listening to this podcast, that's a legitimate issue for people that don't understand, like, the things that you're into. And they say, let me borrow a pen. And, like, we all go, we all pause for, like, three seconds. Instead of going here, we all go, what do I do?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Man, people must have thought I was so weird when I was at my desk or whatever. Yeah. Because then I would, like, reach into my drawer and get another pen out for them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. No, I did the same thing. People would say, let me borrow a pen. I'd say, okay, just a second. Set the one down that I'm using. Reach over. Grab a different one for them to use. Absolutely.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely.