Editing The Pen Addict 126/transcript (section)

== Pen Chalet ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' okay Mr. Dowdy let's talk about our friends at Pen Chalet I've got so much to tell you about these guys today I want to start off by just mentioning a couple of things that you already know Penchalet.com is the place to buy amazing rollerballs fountain pens ballpoints mechanical pencils and so much more they have all of your favorite brands like Kaweco Pelican Lamy Pilot and so many more they're adding new styles all the time they've got loads of great deals they have free shipping on orders of over $50 in the continental United States they sell international with very reasonable shipping rates and they offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee you're going to hear you're going to hear in a moment why I'm rushing for all of that because I've got some good stuff first thing you want to go and do go to penchalet.com and you want to go up to the top of the website at penchalet.com click on the little radio and podcast button and enter the code penaddict this is where you're going to find a bunch of special deals now whenever you go to the checkout at penchalet.com you always want to use the penaddict code checkout that's going to knock 10% off anything you buy but if you go to that radio and podcast link at the top you're going to find some special savings and some special deals just for penaddict listeners today's deal is mind blowing we've spoken about this pen a little bit in the past it's called the Lamy Dialogue 3 now the reason we've spoken about this before is because this kind came up a lot in the earlier days I think of the show where we were talking about the vanishing point and me and Brad had always had our eye on one of these I think it's fair to say because it's kind of like the vanishing point but it's a Lamy and it's a retractable Lamy fountain pen now I don't know how Ron at the pen chalet is doing this but it usually retails at $385 if you use that little you go up to the top you hit the podcast button you enter pen addict as the passcode you're going to get a discount of the Lamy Dialog 3 to $269 and 50 then if you use the pen addict code at checkout you'll get another 10% off taking it down to $242 and 50 this is a saving of $140 off this pen now this is some serious magic that Ron is running right here so this magic takes a few business days so if you order this pen which you should to make sure that Ron is getting these deals he's going to be buying them in a group order so it's going to take a couple of business days and then they'll be shipped out to you so you should really be jumping on this because this is an incredible deal would you agree Brad

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah that's that's kind of crazy

'''Myke Hurley:''' so $242 and what did I say is this going to be $242 and 50 cents after you use the pen addict code at checkout don't forget that by the way anything you buy at pen chalet dot com you can get 10% off if you use the code pen addict even if you're buying one of our secret specials like the Lamy dialogue three but I have one more thing I want to talk about today there's going to be a link in the show notes to pen chalet's fountain pen day giveaway so you want to go over to the show notes at pen addict dot com slash no so not pen addict dot com it's relay fm relay dot fm slash pen addict slash one two six I'm going to go with that relay dot fm slash pen addict slash one two six you're going to find a link to the pen chalet fountain pen day giveaway they are giving away loads of stuff on fountain pen day like the pelican

'''Myke Hurley:''' jerrywood jherbin ink a platinum president and loads more and they're also doing a bunch of special discounts on that day as well so you want to go especially to pen chalet dot com on november 7th they've got all the details there about the stuff that you can expect pen chalet are helping to support the fantastic day that is fountain pen day on november 7th so you want to go check them out so all the information you're going to need is in the show notes for this week's episode but pen chalet dot com pen addict as your code everywhere you're going to get some fantastic deals thank you so much to pen chalet for their continued incredible support of this show we love them for the things that they do for us

'''Brad Dowdy:''' awesome thank you pen chalet

'''Myke Hurley:''' if you didn't get any of that go back and listen to it again I know there was a lot there

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I was about to say that was a lot of stuff alright so I have a few top five lists that I want to go over real quick if that's good good by you

'''Myke Hurley:''' yeah yeah definitely

'''Brad Dowdy:''' alright so the overall list is that's kind of an interesting list that's actually one of the harder things to put together it's just kind of a general list of pens that are really really good that I've got a lot of experience with and can really vouch for like if someone's looking for a certain type of pen and their needs fit like a pen in this overall list I know pretty much they're going to like the pen you know because people do ask it's it's hard to give recommendations but people you know people want answers they want something definitive and so that's that's kind of the whole reason this whole list came about to begin

'''Myke Hurley:''' with I've

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yeah and you know we'll see if there's any surprises I don't know but the overall list I had the the twisbee 580 at the top of the list last time and you know it's moved down to number two and that's no knock on the pen at all but I just got to thinking about the uniball sino dx .38 also known as the um 151 when people are shopping for it I got to thinking and I wrote this that if someone finds this blog and they've only been using things that they get out of the office supply cabinet at work or the famed hotel ballpoint pin or the uh the the pin from the doctor's office you know with the with the funny uh logo of you know two people sitting in a bathtub holding hands or something like that um what pin would I tell them to just try to see what they're missing you know what pin is simple enough for them to say well this is a pretty normal regular pin why would this be different than anything and then to actually be a really really good performing pin good enough pin to say oh I see something is different about this pin and I can tell that it's better than anything else and that's the uni ball sino dx and it's always been a top five pin um it's always been um the micro gel ink pin that I recommend more than anything

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think that your reasoning for this is is interesting and I don't know if I agree with it obviously this is your list so you can make it any way you want but the reasoning of it's a new a new reader uh is I get it I mean it's very logical because that's probably the people that are probably hitting this page the most often are those people but I don't know if that means that it should be I mean you kind of you say recommendations right and it doesn't necessarily mean your favorite right so do you have a favorites list

'''Brad Dowdy:''' it's really hard to separate those two right because

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have a I'm going to talk about my list and my list is my favorites and I don't think that the uni ball sino dx 0.38 millimeters is your favorite pen in the world

'''Brad Dowdy:''' it's not but it's probably like it's probably top five though

'''Myke Hurley:''' but like your Nakaya is not in this list

'''Brad Dowdy:''' right and so

'''Myke Hurley:''' that's not a recommendation but I'm sure that's going to be in your in your favorites

'''Brad Dowdy:''' yes yeah for sure like recommendations is a hard thing because that's what I'm recommending others to buy it's it's it's not necessarily my list the most of the other lists are what I would choose personally in each of those categories to use the recommendations is kind of a little bit different it's what pens I would tell other people to use

'''Myke Hurley:''' so you don't have though then because you need another list you don't have your top five personal favorites then do you

'''Brad Dowdy:''' no not really not not that encompass all the things I have it's kind of in the the top five fountain pens the some brainers list that we came up with a year or so ago that's kind of my personal favorite fountain pens but it doesn't encompass other pens is like gel ink pens and and ballpoint pens and things like that so yeah it's all right