Editing The Pen Addict 14/transcript (section)

== Retro 51 ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Exactly. You know, expect me to talk about this as maybe as much as I talk about the Retro 51. I know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're going to have to change the name of our show or something.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I know. John, I still think I need more use. Like I can't say that the Vanishing Point is my favorite. Like the Retro 51 is my favorite pen of all time. Like I love it. I love it. But I've not used the Vanishing Point enough because even though, you know, it may be a better pen, it's in all respects, for example, it still doesn't mean it's my favorite pen. Right. You know, it's like I would say the Dark Knight is a better movie than, I don't know, Spider-Man. But I prefer Spider-Man, for example. Gotcha. You can appreciate that something is better doesn't mean it's your favorite.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. And I'm on the same page with you on that. And I don't want to, just because I spent that amount of money, I don't want that to make, to force me into saying this is my favorite pen of all time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Exactly. Because it doesn't have to be that way. Right. You're allowed to just, I don't want to, exactly. I don't want to force myself into feeling like this has to be the best pen I've ever used because it's so expensive. Exactly. You know, if I would have got this today and didn't like it, I just would have sold it and you probably would have bought it from me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. You know? Yeah. I wouldn't have recouped your customs fees though.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, I don't think it would. It's so expensive.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It was nearly $100.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. That's ridiculous.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It was ridiculous. So the shipping in total came to $150.

'''Myke Hurley:''' God.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That is just massive. Yeah, I'm never doing that again. But it was worth it, worth the wait, and it actually is worth the wait. Yeah. Because if I, you know, if somebody gave me this pen and I used it, I would have paid that amount of money for it. Yeah. You know? So I'm happy with it. Let's talk about our first sponsor this week before we move on because we do have some other pens to talk about today. This episode is brought to you again by the fantastic company that is Squarespace, who provide you with everything you need to create an amazing and professional website. I want to tell you about a fantastic opportunity, a new offer that Squarespace has. When you sign up with any annual plan or buy annual plan, which start at the equivalent of $8 a month, Squarespace will give you a free custom domain. This is along with their reliable web hosting, powerful website creation tools, and WYSIWYG editors all in one beautiful package. You choose the domain that you want, which can include .com.net.org, and it remains yours. You don't need to jump through any hoops with DNS management, A records, C names, all that sort of stuff. Squarespace will take care of all of this for you right out of the box. This further makes Squarespace the perfect solution for somebody who does not want to have to get their hands dirty every day coding. It also makes the perfect solution for if you want to help a friend, relative, or local small business to set up a website. This makes Squarespace perfect. And if you, with your new fancy domain, want an email address that's associated with it, so if we want bradlovesvanishingpoint.com, if Brad wants, say, mail at bradlovesvanishingpoint.com, then Squarespace make it very easy to integrate and set up Google apps as well to give you that. Squarespace's plans start at the equivalent of $8 a month for the annual plan and $10 a month for the month-to-month plan. You can find out more about this by going to squarespace.com forward slash 70decibels, where you can start your two-week free trial with no credit card required. And if or when you choose to buy, if you use the coupon code 70decibels5 at 70decibels5 at checkout, you'll get 10% off your first purchase, and Squarespace will know that we've sent you. So thank you very much to Squarespace for sponsoring The Pen Addict and 70decibels. So what else do we want to talk about today? At the end of last week's show, you received a mammoth order, which made probably one of my favorite moments in the history of this show when you were opening that box.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah. It was pretty funny. I got a lot of feedback on that, which I didn't expect. And I was thinking, oh, this is horrible. This is terrible radio, if you will. And I'm just sitting here opening this box. No one can see what I'm doing and anything like that. I was like, oh, this has got to end sometime soon. But I had a bunch of people tweet me saying that was funny, and that was kind of neat. So that was pretty cool. But yeah, and what stinks is I started my new job, right? So I opened that package, and I've hardly got to use anything. I've got two new fountain pen inks that our German friend Lucas sent me the pronunciation of the one I was butchering over the air last week. And I'm not even going to go there this time because the file he sent me, it's like this is a really serious German pronunciation that I can't even – you know, my speech does not even go those directions to where it was.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You just have the correct usage of your tongue to manage it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah. He was awesome sending that because it was really good. And in the name of the brand, the Roar and Klingler, I'm not even remotely close in what that sounds like. But anyway, thank you, Lucas, for sending me that. That was fantastic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And they're in the show notes for last week's episode if you want to check them out again.