Editing The Pen Addict 111/transcript (section)

== Nakaya Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' What else do we have? Yeah, this past Sunday was Father's Day, and we got a cool email from our friend Mikey Reak, who is a pen addict listener extraordinaire, one of the many, many pen addict listener extraordinaires. And I just thought this was a really good email, and it kind of gets down to the core of why we do what we do. So I just wanted to read this from him real quick. He says, I wanted to say thank you again to you two. Leading up to Father's Day, I was thinking of what can I get to surprise Dad? What kept coming up in my head were pens, pencils, ink, and paper. Why? Well, after starting to listen to the podcast, I started to get interested in fountain pens, paper, and the like, and my dad took notice. I remember my mom saying that Dad used to collect pens when they were younger, but I didn't realize what pens he had. With my interest growing, he pulled out a few cigar boxes of the pens that he kept over the years and started cleaning them up again. A couple had some dried up ink. He had some Parker 51s, Schaefer's, and Mont Blancs. I've since had a few passed down to me, for which I'm very grateful. The last couple times that I went to visit, we turned wooden pens, ballpoint and fountain together. And the last time he came to visit me, we went pen shopping together at a local shop. Now he works with a fountain pen in his pocket most of the time, and I don't remember him doing that before. It's fun to see him pick up an old hobby that he had years ago. We Skype every week and every now, and then we talk about getting some new inks, or he asks what's happening on your podcast. I've had a good relationship with my dad growing up, but we have a stronger relationship now after starting to listen to the podcast. For that, I can't thank you enough. Thanks for being office, Mikey. How cool is that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' That is very cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That is super cool. I mean, that makes you want to get up in the morning and record a podcast about pens, doesn't it, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It sure does. Mikey is a friend of all of the shows that we do. He is. He's always got great feedback for us. He does. I'm pleased that he provided the pronunciation of his surname, because I always ruin it, and he always reminds me. So I'm pleased that you did it this time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, he did it. I think out of all the times I've talked about him, I think I've gotten it right once, like early on. And then for some reason, I just, you know, recessed and went back into butchering it every time. So now every time he emails us, he gives us the phonetic pronunciation of his last name.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But yeah, I still, unfortunately, ignore it. I know. It just happens when you're in the heat of the moment. Thank you, Mr. React. There you go. I did it this time. Brad, did you get any pen-related items for Father's Day?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I did. I did. I am the new owner of another Nakaya.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh!

'''Myke Hurley:''' What? What? What? That's incredible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so I've been saving this for a future podcast where we'll have a lot more specific pen talk, and we will go through some of the new pens I've gotten recently, including a Nakaya. I worked in a work bonus Father's Day kind of thing going on. So yeah, I have a new Nakaya.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Was this a surprise or did you order it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I ordered it, for sure. For sure. I got the approval. She's like, what do you want? And I was like, I want this. She's like, okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Was that her passing out first?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. No, I do a good job of prep work. Right. So as long as you do your prep work right, the shock and surprise is handled in advance. Hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So anyway.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm sorry for ruining the surprise.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nah. Nah. I put it on Instagram.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, did you?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it's out there. It's out there, but I haven't talked about it really otherwise.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. A couple more things. A couple more things real quick. Yeah. Yeah. Well, speaking of prices of these things, you got this link about the online pen auction that went down, I guess, this weekend.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we'll put in a show notes just so people can go see this catalog of this pen auction. We had a follower on Twitter, Chris Gottlieb, in Australia, and there was an auction going on in Paris and it was online and it had like, I don't know, 300 lots of really nice, expensive pens. And he was following along this auction and he started buying stuff. He bought a Visconti Wall Street and another Visconti Ada. And he said, oh, I was trying to get this Nakaya Piccolo and this other Dana Trio pen. And every time he tweeted, he was just like boggling my mind. I was like, I can't believe this is actually happening. And we're having a Twitter conversation about a guy. He basically said, yeah, I was in my bed at 2 a.m. on a laptop following an auction about pens in Paris and buying fountain pens online. And it's just kind of, I was like, man, this is why we do this show also.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's just so much stuff here on this page.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Isn't there?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And Josh, I'll have to send you this link. It just goes on and on and on. It's very old, expensive, classic fountain pens. It's pretty amazing. Now, are you a fountain pen guy at all, Josh? I think in reading your site, you're mostly, I don't think you are, right?

'''Josh Ginter:''' Not yet. No, I haven't dove in the way I'd like to, but it's on the to-do list. Don't worry.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We'll take care of that for you.