Editing The Pen Addict 731/transcript (section)

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'''Myke Hurley:''' So, they're essentially clear barrels with a, I'll just say for the sake of ease, a tube inside. And you fill the tube with ink. And so, you end up with, like, DNA-like looking patterns inside of the clear pen. You're not actually putting ink into the body of the pen as such. You're more just filling these little tubes so it creates fun and interesting patterns. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And there were, like, six different patterns. So, DNA, you can imagine that pattern. Twist, swirl, Morse, coil, and party. Yeah. So, I was, like, fine. Like, I will get this pen. It was reasonably priced. I think by the time I was getting into it, I think it was either $79 or $89. It's like, sure, I'll give this a shot. And then they did a little holiday bonus set where you could get one of Endless's bottles of ink, which they've had on the market for a while. You could get the case for the pen sleeve. I don't even know what they're calling this thing. It's a self-winding case. You'll have to go look for it on the page. I think it's called The Labyrinth. But it's just, like, a little 3D printed engineered. Yeah, it's like a video. It's just a 3D. Engineered case. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is a 3D printed case. No, yeah. It's not just that. It's a fidgety case, right? Yeah. And so, like, my entire, I was all in for, like, all these things. Like, I think it was $129. Oh, and a rickshaw pen sleeve, like a geometric pattern pen sleeve, which was fun. So, I inked it up yesterday. It just came in. They were sending these out in waves. Like, it was a big project. They did, like, $360-something thousand dollars. So, it was a lot of pens. And so, I was in, like, I think that I was in the second wave. And I unboxed it and inked it yesterday on stream. You can go find an entire walkthrough. One of the good things about stream is I can just do these unboxings and just we kind of live the product together. Yeah. You know, live, how I'm, like, trying to figure it out. Chat has to help me, like, figure out, like, giving me tips and tricks. People who already got these pens are telling me to fill it certain ways. Things like that. So, you can go watch that walkthrough on YouTube. But, yeah. Like, the question is, with a pen like this, all you have to, you just start and finish the entire conversation with, does it work? Right? And then everything else is just in between. And so far, it works. Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, what you say it works, it means it has this odd way of filling the pen, but it still delivers the ink to the nib and you can use it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. And the construction of the barrel is good. It feels solid. It doesn't feel like a toy or something like that. Not that I think it looked like that in the beginning. But I think people will definitely, like, you know, not, you know, just, like, glom onto this pen. Can you? I'm looking at the Kickstarter page.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Can you just put ink in the thing? Like, you don't have to fill up the little tubes. You can just pour ink inside. Like, it looks like some images. It looks like there's just ink in the entire, like, barrel, like a full eyedropper.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, this is actually kind of one of the questions I have. I don't think so. And the reason, I think what you're seeing is actually the barrel color. Oh. Right? So, I chose clear on purpose because I didn't want a red barrel. That is confusing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's confusing. Yeah, it is. I understand now. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, the center barrel where you can see all the stuff has tints. Yeah. Okay. So, there's clear, there's green, there's red. So, but that is actually a question I have. And I don't have any good pictures yet because, like, again, I just did this yesterday. So, there's a regular version that just has the, gosh, I guess the interior design, the tubing. Let's just call it the tubing. Okay. And then there's an upgraded one that has a Japanese eyedropper seal. Now, do you know what that means when I talk about the Japanese eyedropper? They have, like, it looks like a vacuum piston.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.