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== Pen Selection ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So now I'm going to pack a Lamy Safari for my trip just so I can't get up myself there. But we'll talk about more when I'm packing in a minute. But the great unanswered question for your upcoming nuptials, Myke, were the notebook that you were going to use for your vows. We've talked about this before. And, you know, you were trying to decide on – you and Adina were doing handwritten vows, and you were choosing notebooks, and you hadn't picked out your notebook yet. So have you come to that decision?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Are you willing to share with us that decision?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, of course. I decided –

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I decided – like, I was going through things and kind of looking at what I had and tried to feel like I'd pick the most appropriate, and I've gone with Snowblind. Nice. Because it's white, which is, like, nice and neutral and obviously fitting of a wedding. But also they have that cool color-changing thing where they go blue. And so I thought that it might, you know, it might look pretty nice. I have no idea if the color will change where we are, but I kind of like the fact that it's a little weird one. And I've never really gotten to use Snowblind. Like, actually, in picking this was the first time that I ever got to stick it out of the window and see the color change because when these first arrived, it was, like, winter in the UK and it just wouldn't work. Yeah. Like, I just couldn't get it to do the color change. And as Tony has noted in the chat room, yes, it is something blue, I guess, which is funny. So, yeah, I've gone with Snowblind.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's kind of a perfect selection. A couple people picked that – suggested that. I think Ginny Three Staples suggested that. And I was like, I didn't even consider that, but it's kind of the perfect choice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know what? I actually think that it was Ginny that made me think of it because I just realized this wasn't in my initial picks from last week. So, this was Ginny's idea. Thank you, Ginny, for the suggestion. It was a great suggestion.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, in retrospect, it's kind of perfect, I think.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. Yep, I think so, too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, that's only part of the equation, right? You have to physically write these vowels in there. And the whole world wants to know what ink you're using in the Visionnaire. What? Allow me orange.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, no Visionnaire, I take it. So, what pen are you going to use to write this in?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've written the vowels in already. I still have my kind of wedding speech to write in, and I think I'm probably going to use the same pen. I feel like this is not a surprise, but I think it makes a lot of sense. I used the Retro 51 that you and Lisa engraved for me. Oh, no way. Yeah. It felt perfect. I was looking at my selection of pens on my desk here, and I was thinking to myself, one, I need this to be in a bold color so I can clearly read it. And I want to make sure that I'm limiting the possibility of bleed, and it's got to be clear. Like, I don't want to use one of my stub nibs or something. Right. I want it to be nice and clear. And I thought that a Retro 51 would do that, right? Because I have just black ones, and it's nice and clear. And then I saw the engraved one there on my desk, and I was like, well, this is perfect. So... Nice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And actually, that blue kind of matches with the white there pretty good, so that's probably a good setup. Mm-hmm. So, yeah. Cool. I didn't even think about that until you started talking. I was like, oh, I bet he's going to pick that one. Yeah, cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' May we ask what Adina has chosen?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have no idea.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Y'all keep it that separate from each other.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Knowing her, she'll use one of two pens. She'll either use a Retro 51, or she'll use one of the free clicky pens that comes with Field Notes. She freaking loves those things. The big classic? Yeah. It drives me crazy. I'm like, look at what I have for you here. But, like, you know, come on, look at what I have for you here. You can choose anything. Sure, sure, sure. But she loves those things. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're a great pen. You know, maybe I pick something for the wedding, but hey, if she likes it, or...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I'm not going to take away from her what she enjoys, but I can judge her.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, this marriage is off to a wonderful start. Wonderful start. All right. Tell us where else we can get off to a wonderful start today, Myke.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So what's funny, I looked at these pens, and I didn't even realize the colors. I said, wow, this is a really Brad-focused sale page right here, because I love the Lamy Pico. I have this exact white one. That's my favorite one that I use all the time. I rave about the Platinum 3776, and this Charteres Blue even has a soft, fine nib option on it. And then the AL Sport Red is one of the newer colors, which looks fantastic. So yeah, this is a great theme and great pens. Like, I couldn't have picked out better pens myself, so great job, Ron.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There is something about July 4th, which is funny to me, in which I am currently responsible for many of my friends to either be back in London, back to be in London, or traveling to London on Independence Day. It's just something funny to me about that. Welcome home, everybody!

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right, I always enjoy the Queen Elizabeth memes on July 4th. I get great enjoyment out of those. It's pretty funny. All right, so I am leaving for this trip very soon myself, and the question always arises, what stationery am I going to pack on any trip? Not just this trip, but on any trip I take, it's important for me to take either a little or a lot of the things I like, depending on the trip. So this will be a very active, busy trip for me and my wife. And, you know, aside from attending your wedding, we'll be, you know, being tourists in London and the surrounding areas. So I want to have a kit that's going to travel well and do the things I need when I need them to perform. So, you know, I don't need, like, all my fountain pens and big notebooks to, you know, write these big diatribes and journals, but I like pocket stuff, you know, pocket notebooks, pocketable pens, pens that are going to travel well. So I've narrowed this down into one little small kit, and the biggest question, I pretty much knew what pen and paper I was going to take. Oh, excuse me, what pen and pen case I was going to take, but I didn't know what notebook I was going to take. And then it hit me. I haven't reviewed my Dark Star notebook yet, and that's a UK-based brand. So that's, like, the perfect opportunity for me to test out this Dark Star notebook. And they're really nice looking, and they've gotten really good reviews. The paper's really good, good quality, so I'm anxious to take that. So that's going to be my pocket notebook of choice for...