Editing The Pen Addict 331/transcript (section)

== Gel Pen Selection Discussion ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I think I want to go. I just want to go see, like, the gel pen selection. Like, I want to see. It is wild.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, if you've never been in there and, like, to get to see this huge amount that they have.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. And when I was looking on the map, since it's literally, like, two blocks, I think, from the goods for the study, I was like, well, you know, if we manage to get to that, then, like, walking two blocks is no big deal. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. That's perfect. You know, we're open to other requests if there's some hole-in-the-wall places we need to hit or some big places we're forgetting. But between Fountain Pen Hospital, CW Pencil, goods for the study, Kino Kania, Muji. I mean, that's a day. And I don't even know if we'll get to all of that. And, Myke, you're going to be doing a little something special while we're attending all these shops for our Kickstarter backers, right? Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So, you know, because this isn't really a thing that we can do with people because it's a lot and it stores and stuff like that, as we kind of had promised and will definitely deliver, I'm going to be recording video of our experiences in these places to put together a special vlog that will be going out for the backers of the Kickstarter campaign. So that's going to be a fun thing. That's going to include New York and then going up to Toronto and the Toronto Pen Show. So it's going to be the whole thing. So that will be a fun video project that I'm going to be putting together to thank our Kickstarter backers who made this possible for us. Because, again, while this isn't like a big live show because we haven't been able to put that together, we're going to be recording an episode when we're in Toronto to talk about our experiences of all of this, which will come out next week, next Wednesday. But we will also have this video, which will come out hopefully not too long after that. So you can actually see what we are up to instead of just hear us talk about it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We'll be making trouble, I'm sure. Yes. I mean, that goes without saying. Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Absolutely.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' And I also put that we want to eat all the things, right? We want to eat all the things in New York.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's true. Oh, 100%. So, like, I need, like, legit bagels. I need legit pizza. So shoot us your recommendations. I did get, like, Anna's got some recommendations. I did get another recommendation for in Toronto, which we're going to talk about in a second. But, you know, places that you know we're going, if there's somewhere, like, we should eat, like, I mean, y'all have seen me. I like my food. So, and I want to eat, like, the good stuff. So, like, bagels and pizza. See, to me, that's the good stuff. But that's what New York's known for. So we're going to do that. All right. So Friday, we get in Toronto. And depending on how exhausted we are, I'm sure that's the afternoon, evening, we're going to get around town a little bit because we'll be pretty packed the rest of the weekend. Where do we want to go in Toronto, Anna? Because I have, I'll admit, I haven't done all my research yet for Toronto.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've never been to Canada before.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Me neither.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right? So, like, there are things that I, people keep telling me I need to eat poutine. So. Oh, yeah. I'm in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Count me in on that.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Me too. Well, there's another pen shop up in Toronto called Lay Wines, which was recommended that we needed to see. Absolutely. So I put that on the list. And it looks like it's not far from the venue for Scriptus. So, but I don't know if they'll be open on the same day as Scriptus. So I don't know if we can coordinate that where we go beforehand or something. I don't know. But anyway, definitely want to visit Lay Wines. It was highly recommended. There's a small stationery shop called Curiosa that is sort of on the opposite side of town, but looks really interesting. And somewhere along the way, as I was looking at a map, I saw a place called the Lockhart, which is a Harry Potter themed bar. And I was like, I'm just putting that on there. So if anybody has been there and can recommend an either thumbs up or thumbs down on that one. But when that popped up on the Google map, I was like, I'm going to have to write that down. That seems like a perfect way. That would be pretty great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Very, very much. Enjoy that. Because as of literally last night, I finished a rewatch of all the movies. Nice. So. If that's a thing, that's good. A bar called the Lockhart.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah, that just sounded like fun. And it was actually, it seemed like relatively close to either Wonder Pens or like within like probably an Uber, you know, an Uber trip or something. We could probably get there pretty quick. So I was like, that looks like fun.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah, there's going to be, I mean, with none of us ever having been to Toronto, I fully anticipate on having my mind blown. So you better deliver Toronto. But I don't think you'll have to. I hear it's a pretty amazing town and I can't wait to get up there. So the problem I'm having or have had because I've packed already, right? You know, I've packed. My luggage is on the airplane right now. Yeah. I don't know that I've packed correctly because I don't know about y'all, but I'm already making a shopping list and I've put it in the show notes of the things I want to leave this trip with. And originally I was thinking I would just take like a single like large big bag backpack. Like I have this Tom Ben Aeronaut that could fit all my clothes for the whole trip. But I'm going to come back with more stuff than I left with. So I'm really struggling thinking about packing for this trip because I don't know how many things I have on the shopping list already, like four or five things. So do y'all have anything picked out that you know you're going to buy? Because I do because I am a problem child that way. It's like I am going to these places and I need to get the things. Have y'all have y'all done this same mental gymnastics thing that I'm doing?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm trying to lie to myself. So no.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. I'm lying to myself. But like you, Michael, you have spent so much on sailor pens recently to not buy anything. This is what I'm telling myself. And we'll see how that goes. Huh? I think it's going to go very well for me. I'm going to at least bring some other empty knock case with me for some possible small, hopefully small purchases that I'll make. But I'm really trying to keep this under control.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I'm just so excited to like visit a lot of these places. I know I'm going to end up buying things and spending money, but I don't actually have any sort of list prepared. Like I'm so excited to actually be at Wonder Pens and be at CW and some of these other places that I'm like and go to Scriptus. Like I know I'm going to buy things and I have no idea where I'm going to put anything.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Exactly. So I don't know.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I'm going to come home with them jammed in the pockets of my coat.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's true. We're going to have to we're going to have to pack warm. I cannot wait to get to New York and Toronto. I hope it's freezing the entire time because. Shush your mouth. Yeah, it's been it's we're still just like stupid temperatures here in in Georgia. So at CW, Caroline has introduced a pen in collaboration with Caran d'Ache and it's 849. And, you know, I love everything about it. And it's Viking themed and it's expensive and I'm going to buy it. Like, OK, it's a I mean, it's a straight up lock. Like, I hope there's one there by the time I show up.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Carolyn, are you hearing this? Just put one aside for Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's 100 percent bought. And that's before I even like who knows what else I'll end up with there. Right. I mean, that's going to be a real issue for me. CW pencil more than anywhere else. Right.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Well, think keep keeping in mind, they have the capacity to ship. So you could probably have her put everything aside for you and ship it back home. That's true. I bet she'd do that for you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's going to get me even more trouble. Yeah. So I'm here to help. Yeah. Thanks. Like, I know I got to pick up some more of the baseball pencils and like there's a bunch of things that I need. Right. Capital in need. Absolutely. So and that doesn't even count me going into the sticker room like the sticker room there.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Like it's well and you're going to have to take some of those home for the kids.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The sticker room is what is I know is going to bankrupt me. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Those at least pack easy. Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Those will pack. Yeah. They pack flat.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I'm already shopping at Wonder Pins, too. I've always enjoyed their Franklin Kristoff special edition. The color of that pen. I don't I don't know if it even has. What do they call it? It's a it's like this translucent brown.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's they started out in the model 20. They make a pocket 45 now. But two of my favorite.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Favorite models. So it's a translucent gray. It's really pretty. I've always liked it. So I'm going to hopefully pick up one of those if they have any of those in stock. I know just like any stores that carry limited Franklin Kristoffs. They're in and out just because number one, they're awesome. And number two, you can't get a million of them at a time. So that's great. And then I've always been fascinated with superior labor's leather goods. So I might end up with something from that. Probably one of the bigger items than this as opposed to the smaller items. I don't know if they still have like the A5 case, but I might buy like the the pen and wallet case is one that they they sell now. I've always enjoyed the look of the superior labor goods and I've always held off buying it until I've seen it. So I know Wonder Pins carries a good amount of stock. And of course, Liz takes every picture with her dang case in there and makes them look so good. It's it's going to be hard for me not to to end up with something from superior labor on that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And then I haven't even gotten to the pen show yet. Like I'm not shopping at the pen show except maybe the inks. How good do those inks look from KWZ?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I really like the maple. That one looks really good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. That long. That might be something that if there's any left because I know it's the limited edition that they're doing for the show. I would be interested in that because I think I'm still looking for it for a really good red.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, I am not a red person. This looks like an amazing red for me. It looks really, really good. And paired with the blue, like having those inked up side by side and in complimentary pens and nibs and using those on the same page. They work really, really well together. I don't know what it is about these two colors that really gets me. I like my blues and reds together. So yeah, I'm all about it. So I am a little bit scared of this trip just from the amount of that. I'm going to go a little bit crazy. So y'all will be responsible for reining me in and then I'll tell you where to stick it and I will buy it anyway. Okay.

'''Ana Reinert:''' We'll be prepared for that. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like that you, you know, again, you know yourself, you know, that's the most important thing. Just know yourself, Brett. It's scary, Myke. Scary. All right. So is that everything? Should we move into some Ask TPA? Yeah. Oh, no, it's not everything.