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== Pen Review Discussion ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. So let's talk about that. Our good pal, Myke Dudek, got a review sample. Did you get a chance to read through and kind of get his thoughts on it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Brad, I read this as soon as I saw it, right? Right. Immediately.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Everyone wants to know everything about this pen. It's like, okay, first I tweeted it. Then I went and read it myself. Yeah. And I'm really going to need to get this pen in hand because Myke brings up a couple points that you can't totally nail down in pictures, right? The in-hand feel and where some of the shapes hit in the barrel for just the way the mechanics of the pen work.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have never hit a roller coaster as quickly in a pen review as I did with this one. Do you know what part I'm talking about? Yes. Where you can remove the clip, right? They even give you a tool to remove the clip, but then it's left of this little plastic piece.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's, yeah. It's, I mean, we're going to have to get this in hand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I genuinely think that with the clip removed, this will be a more comfortable experience for me than the vanishing point. Partly because the vanishing point's clip goes significantly lower down the pen, which is, I reckon is going to be like in my, that's kind of like where I hold, I hold quite low. Right. So I think that this pen is going to be pretty comfortable for me, maybe even with the clip, but I think the pen actually looks better without the clip. And then the funny thing is that plastic part that remains, there's like a plastic part, which protrudes from the pen to attach the clip to, that would then be a roll stop, which isn't the worst thing in the world. Although it seems to already have another one, but. Right, right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So it's definitely going to be, definitely be funny.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm jazzed about this pen, man. Oh, I am too. I've taken a 180 on this. Like it's, I'm just so intrigued about it. And so it's not, this conversation is not ending because by next week's episode, I will have gone to that launch event.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. So that's later this week. Is that what it is? Yeah. Like Friday, Saturday, something. Yeah. So you're going to, you'll get one before I do. Well, I don't know if I'm going to be able to buy it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know about that. I assume, I assume I will be able to, but I don't know what this event's going to be like.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I would assume so, but yeah, that would be weird if you couldn't purchase one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I will try significantly hard to walk away with one of those pens. Outside of stealing it, like I will do everything I can to have one for next week's episode. But even if I haven't, I will have extensive testing time. Yeah. Which means we're not done talking about this yet. No, we're not. This is a, this is like, honestly, this pen, you know, I remember when we first started talking about Vanishing Point, right? Like that was like multiple weeks of conversation, which ended up with me and you both owning one. Like, right. And this is a really exciting entry, like for, for a bunch of different reasons. Cause it's like, there's, there's a lot of questions around it and there's more intrigue. There's like more and more intrigue. Like why did they make it clear plastic? Why does the knock spin, right? Like it was like kind of forgotten about that. And I was like, dude, I love your review, but you didn't talk about the mechanism, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, he probably had to break it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, but like he didn't talk about like the, the, the, the click knock and twist.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like the, the, the fuddiness of it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know I'm, cause it like it, it, it twists, right? And I wanted to see, hear more about that. He spent a lot of time talking about the, the nib and the way that the nib functions and stuff, right? Like how it comes out of the pen. But like the whole point of this pen, its whole reason for existing is the knock, knock, twist, knock, knock, twist, right? And I want to know more about that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So isn't this fascinating that we can spend 20 minutes on a, on a single pen? Yep. Like I love this. I genuinely love this. You know, listeners may get tired of like this specific conversation, but I thoroughly enjoy just like thinking about this. You know, even though it's, you know, just patently ridiculous.