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== Saint Louis Pen Show Overview ==

* It's back. Let's go. It's Saint Louis Pen Show season, baby. Let's go. The exposition. Wait, let me get my mug.
* The exposition de Stilo Saint Louis is back for another year. If you love the feel of cursive writing with a fountain pen or documenting your thoughts and ideas through journaling or, hey, even just doodling. The 2025 Saint Louis Pen Show is the place for you. It's Thursday, June 26th through Sunday, June 29th. And this year, their Friday night event includes a vintage pen panel, a, quote, pen tasting. You can work that out for yourself. Yes. And a free dessert party. Especially don't get the pen tasting and dessert party mixed up. There are some exciting new classes for 2025, including writing with a quill. You also learn copper plate, cursive, flourishing, book binding, letterpress, and card making. There will be classes on the four types of journaling and a class on celebrity signatures and how to make yours special. Or you can sit in on the significance of writing with Brian and Lisa Anderson. There are over 20 classes over four days. So there's something for everyone. Okay. So you're probably thinking, I love the sound of this. How can I get there? The Saint Louis Pen Show is at the Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet on the beautiful Westport Plaza. There's plenty of free parking, loads of restaurants, and it's just 10 minutes from the airport. You can also get a special pen show room rate of $143. Breakfast included. Oh, man. I love it when the breakfast is included, Brad. It's like one of those. Same, same. That means there's going to be a sick buffet. That's what that means. Well, I actually don't know that, so don't quote me on that. That's usually what that means, but who knows what the breakfast is like at the Westport Plaza, Sheraton Westport Lakeside Chalet. There will be 95 vendors from 42 different states at the show, including Sailor, Pens Empire, Retro 51, and Specialty Hues, as well as Artisan Pens and Pencils from Countrymade, Heinz, Derail Pens, and Magnolia, and so much more. Go and check out the St. Louis Pens Show website at stlpenshow.com. You can find a link in the show notes to that as well. You can buy your tickets at $10 per day admission, $20 for a weekend pass, and $30 for a trader pass for all show access. For a fun-filled and educational weekend, don't miss the St. Louis Pens Show this June. Visit stlpenshow.com for all information and tickets. That is stlpenshow.com. Our thanks to the St. Louis Pens Show for the support of this show and all of Relay. And we got a late addition to the ad read, Myke. Oh, I love it. Right before publication.
* We have some online exclusive-only St. Louis Pens Show t-shirts that are going to be available pre-show, so you can get them and wear them to the show. So they are the Got Ink t-shirts. We'll have a link in the show notes. All kinds of different colors with, you know, maybe a horror story type of situation, ink spill going on on the front. I've seen that. But you can pick your favorite ink color. I can get orange if I want it. You know, there's purple, there's blue, royal, gray, burgundy, all the things out there. So Got Ink. If you can't even attend the St. Louis Pens Show, you can get a shirt. I love this t-shirt so much. I think this is hilarious. I've got to say just in general, St. Louis Pens Show, heck of a team over there. Great sense of humor, if you remember from last year, which is why I like shouting St. Louis. The Exposition to Stilo, St. Louis. I have a great mug that you brought from London to me in London, I think. Yes. Yeah. I brought it last year. So I have learned there will be another mug this year. It will not be the same design. So just keep your eyes peeled for that. I hope it still carries with it the flavor. You never know. You never know. I mean, do you have faith in this show? I do. Because, I mean, when you lead the show content with all the fun classes and activities you can do, just count me in. I'm going to disappoint my wife one year and go to the St. Louis Pens Show. Because that's the running joke that I've mentioned a thousand times. It's always my wife's birthday week or weekend. So I'm never home or I'm never free to travel to a Pens Show. So that's the running joke. And, you know, one year, you know, maybe I'll save that for like, you know, a couple years, you know, when she hits like a, you know, a real landmark birthday. I was like, honey, we're going to St. Louis for your birthday. Buckle up. Pens Show time. I definitely had forgotten the reason that it would disappoint your wife. I was like, has she got like a feud coming on?
* The Pens Show organizer's like, what's the deal? Yeah. Yeah. So she's not a fan of St. Louis. You know, dislikes the Mississippi River.
* You know, it's just very. She doesn't like, you know, like curved architecture in the sky. Who does? The St. Louis, like the St. Louis Arch is like, it, you know, gives her vertigo just looking at it. So, yeah, we're not going to be able to be in St. Louis. I think we did an ingenious about the St. Louis Arch. Yeah. No. Nice. Nice. All right. Thank you, St. Louis Pens Show. I look forward to hearing all about it and should be, should be epic. So. All right, Myke, we got a shout out of the week this week. Shout out of the week.
* Where are all the emails? Okay. That's the name. That's the name of our friend June Thomas's. Email. I've been on our email list for a while. It has changed over the years. And this is the new title of it. And June, way back, Myke, this, I looked at it. She was on Pen Addict episode 189. Yep. The problem I had with that is the date on that is 2016. I'm like, that's almost 10 years ago. That's horrible. That June was on the show. That's wild to me. In like my headcanon. Like that messes me up. Because I still talk to June frequently, you know, a couple times a year, just checking in. But she's awesome. And her emails are awesome. Awesome.
* Stationary content from time to time. She's a big stationery person in general. So y'all should go follow her email because she rules and her email is epic. Brad, I'm going to have to ask you some clarification here. What exactly are we linking to?
* Oh, yeah. I didn't put in the link to sign up to it. Yeah. I just like how do you follow emails? Do I have to hack them? Like what am I doing? It's an email newsletter. Okay. And I seem to have gotten bogged down in finding the episode she was on and forgot to paste in the link to actually sign up. Excellent. So where all the emails. Myke, I will tell you where all the emails are momentarily. And we'll put that link in the show notes. Is it Pugtown's newsletter? Is that the one?
* I'll get it for you. I just want to make sure I get you the right link. So.