Editing The Pen Addict 315/transcript (section)

== Lamy Cartridges ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I have no idea what it is. Like, it might just be the way that I put cartridges in Lamy pens because they are trickier to do, right? Like, it has a real, like, you have to apply some real force to it to get the cartridge to connect. So I was like, screw this. I want an Amazon. And I bought two things. I bought just a Lamy Safari, a white Safari, and an aspirator. There you go. It's like, this is not happening to me again. So this morning... Hilarious. So I've ruined two of these cartridges. So this morning, which I feel, like, just the worst about in the world. I'm just so frustrated at myself that this happened. But it arrived today, put the cartridge in, and it works. It's orange. There was one other thing that I did, Brad. I bought 10 packs of these cartridges. A what?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The orange?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Sweet. Did they arrive? No, I don't know. I've been told that it's been dispatched.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. So, yeah. My thinking was... It was two things, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' One, I feel like I owe you these, and I've ruined two of these cartridges, right? So I just felt really bad about it. So I'm hoping that it arrives so I can give some to you. Nice. And the other thought was, like, there is a ticking clock on these cartridges, potentially, right? Because I don't think they're supposed to be sold. Right. So I just decided I would buy a bunch. So I have 10 of them, 10 packs. And it cost me 20 pounds. Right. Yeah, that's perfect. Because they're just paying... That's nothing. They're two pounds a box or something.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. They're dirt cheap. So... That's amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I bought 10 packs of them. Just some kind of, I don't know, like, some kind of payment for what I've done. I was so annoyed at myself. I... Just so annoyed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Let me put a bow on this topic with this, at least for now, at least until I get the cartridges. This is one of the most asinine topics we've ever covered on this show. It is so unimportant. At the same time, this is why I love us. Then I love that we do this. This is what we do. We've got to be investigators, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' We love it when there's a puzzle to solve.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But we haven't solved anything. We haven't solved absolutely anything. We've just made up a bunch of stuff. Bought some not-for-sale ink cartridges. No. Oh, no. Like, this is such... We've cracked the case. This is the biggest non-story topic we have ever covered on a show that covers completely non-story topics.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is the most important thing we've ever done.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're going to win a podcast award for this investigative story.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is Serial Season 5 here, man. Like, come on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I'm going to go back to my contact in Heidelberg, and we're going to infiltrate the Lamy factory, and we're going to go through their garbage and see when the Lamy orange is coming out. Yeah. Yeah. So I think we can do this. So this has been fun. It's not over yet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And if it was any other ink color, we wouldn't care. But, you know, I'm the orange guy. Myke's a big fan of orange. And it's Lamy, and it's a basic color, and we want it. So we're going to make this happen one way or the other, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' We're the best and the worst.