Editing The Pen Addict 128/transcript (section)

== Giveaway Winners ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' We picked two winners from the comment section on the podcast blog post. And winner number one is Carol at Curly McD on Twitter. The comment is Christmas is coming. What can I possibly get that Brad doesn't already have? That's true. And the second winner is the appropriately titled win.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That was the name in the comment.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What a great name.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And the comment is interesting option to pop over to Paris from England to buy a German notebook taunting an American in the process. That was amazing. There were so many amazing comments in that comment section. I think I read all of them. If not, I read most all of them and was just cracking up. So what we asked you guys to do was to leave a comment in the blog post just saying, you know, making it known that you actually listened to the show and you guys did a great job.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Same deal for the, you know, it would be the same deal for the Fiend notes as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. For the Fiend notes, we're going to do the exact same thing and we'll announce it next week. But Carol and when Carol, I can actually tweet you on, on the Twitters and get your information. And when you need to get in touch with me via Twitter, email, somehow you need to get in touch with me. And we will arrange these very cool Kaweco Sports to send out to you guys. So congratulations and thank you, CultPens, for doing that. That's really, really cool. I appreciate that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, thank you very much, CultPens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' One of the things we haven't been doing, and I tend to do this, it seems like about every month or two, I kind of go through some of the news and things that have kind of launched in the pen world on the podcast. And this one really, really caught my eye yesterday. Stephen Owen on Twitter sent me a leak. Hey, have you seen this? And apparently, Esther Brook, the name Esther Brook, has been bought and is relaunching as a new, as a, basically the Esther Brook brand is relaunching. So the vintage Esther Brooks that we all love and rave about, they're coming back as a new, fresh brand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And he sent me the link of these pens that is the first batch that they're coming out with. And I retweeted that. And let's just say the comments were less than stellar.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't like the logo. Wow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm not sure I like anything about it, except the color in the middle of the barrel. Those are kind of the vintage, some of the vintage Esther Brook colors.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The more I look at it, the more I don't like. Yeah. So. Oh, that's a shame.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So there's not too many redeeming aspects to this pen, but this is an introduction.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're doing 150 of each of these three colors. It's a green barrel, blue barrel, red barrel. We'll have the link in the show notes, which you can get at relay.fm slash pen addict slash 128. Did I get to do that right? You sure did. Look at me. Props to me. Y'all should go look at these pens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't like them. I mean, that's not something I would ever want to own.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But when I went to the website, I think it's esterbrookpens.com. This is the introductory pen. And then they're going to redo some of the J series pens. And I hope they're more accurate reintroductions to the traditional Estabrook model. This does not look like any Estabrook I've ever seen. It looks like some concept pen that they've come up with and felt was the right thing to do. So, you know, maybe this will sell well. But I'm more interested in what's coming next. And so hopefully the next reworking of the Estabrook J series will be a more traditional pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Why do you think that, though?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think they were just trying to get their name out there for this one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But, like, the website is just so...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's like... I think we should have found out about this and we should have bought them. Yeah. Because I feel like we probably could have done. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Or, yeah, I'm not sure what's going on.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Or at least had, like, a whip round.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's something to keep an eye on. So hopefully they do the brand right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This stuff is always so upsetting.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it is. It is. It is. Sometimes it's done right and sometimes it's an attempted money grab. Even though that's not really the right word. But it's a, you know, it's trying to force something that's not necessarily there when you could do the brand right by, you know, keeping it... Doing respect to the older models instead of trying to trade off the name.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Any highlights of it being done right that you can think of? Like, who's come back and done it in the pen world?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Maybe, like, the pencils, the Black Wings.