Editing The Pen Addict 374/transcript (section)

== World's Fairs ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. See, we just did a, on a genius, we just did like a double episode about world's fairs. So really I should have, I should have got this one. We did, uh, the history of world's fairs and then, uh, an episode about the first world's fair, which was in England.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, cool. Yeah. I'm, I have so much memorabilia from the 33, 34 world's fair in Chicago. I kind of have like stupid knowledge about it. Um, Bob got the discovery retro 51. That was the he did. He, he managed to get a pen for the show and, uh, for like the entire weekend, there was a shelf on the Venice inked stand of new old stock Pelican 4001 that nobody noticed. I don't know what they thought it was. I didn't even know what it was. And then I finally asked Lisa, I'm like, what's this? She's like, Oh, it's new old stock Pelican ink. I'm like, what do you mean? New old stock? She's like, we found it in the basement. You have got to be kidding me. She's like, no. I'm like, how much are we selling it for? She's like 20 bucks. I'm like, I'll take

'''Anna Reinhart:''' two. Yeah. I saw the old bottles on top of the rack. I figured it was something new that

'''Brad Dowdy:''' they were just like relaunching. Nope. That was actually old. Nice. I know. So I got some of that. And then another friend of mine was selling, um, old Waterman vintage bottles. So I bought that too. And then I muleed a mug for, um, one of Julia's Scott's mugs for Laura. Man. I, I know it's crazy. And I didn't, I would like went with the intention of not buying anything. Yeah. And then it exploded.

'''Anna Reinhart:''' Yeah. I didn't have anything on my shopping list. I knew there were plenty of things I was going to check out. And I came home with plenty of stuff like for review and for giveaway and stuff like that, which we'll, we'll talk about in a minute. But for stuff I bought specifically for me, I bought a pen wrap from Bungu box. They make these cool fabric wraps that I bought the first one in DC when they were there, whatever it was four or five years ago. And then they had a new, a different color this year. So I had to get that. And then I got a needle point nib grind, um, from Nagahara on my sailor Rialo, which was awesome. That's what I'm using today. I've been writing a bunch with it. It's really, really awesome. It writes like a 0.25 pilot high tech C, which is kind of amazing. Maybe a 0.3, nothing, nothing, uh, wider than that. So I am super happy. I got to sit with him and, uh, have a nib grind up funny story about that pen. So that was the YY pen club and there was only 50 of them made. So it was just as Japan only really specific thing. And so I sat down for my, my time, my appointment and handed him the pen. And he just looked up at me and like held the pen out me like, what is this? So basically he asked the translator, he said, how did you get this? And, uh, I said, I know some people. And he says, who do you know? Uh-oh. And I told him, I told him, I told him, um, well, I'm friends online with Jacob who goes by food, a fan on Instagram. They're like, ah, Jacob. Okay. So apparently, uh, no, no, no, no, no. He was just very serious. He's like, how did you get this? Um, so it was funny. And, um, I know Myke, you're not a huge fan of the cap band, uh, fonts on there, but Nagahara, uh, it was translated to me that he told them that they had to put the 10th on there for the 10th anniversary. So he was part consultant for this pen as well. So that, that was my good little story.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I am perfectly fine with them, like putting something on there, but just not that fun. Sorry. I just can't abide by it.

'''Anna Reinhart:''' I know I'm with you. But anyway, it was just a funny story is like, we were just sitting around, he wasn't paying attention until I handed him that pen. Then he was like, what is this? Like, where did you get this from? You shouldn't like, basically like, you shouldn't have this kind of thing. So it was, it was kind of funny. Um, all in good fun type of stuff. So yeah, that was great. So those were the only two things that I bought for me. I didn't buy any pens or inks. Um, despite the fact that I came home with a bunch of inks. So we'll talk

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'''Anna Reinhart:''' little gift. Yeah. It's a really solid, well done water bottle. It's like, you know, the metal aluminum, you know, tall flask probably holds 28 ounces or some 32, something like that. It's very large, very heavy, very significant. It's got Penchela logo, Estabrook logo, and they're not really stickers on them. It's the way it's, I don't know what the, what the process is to, to do this. It's almost maybe like a screen print. I don't know exactly, but it looks, it looks fantastic. And that was definitely something I took home and I really enjoy that.

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'''Anna Reinhart:''' All right. So lest we think, I came home with very few things. I was given a bunch of stuff and I bought some other things for giveaway. So these aren't really all necessarily personal use things, but stuff I got given to review on the blog or stuff I bought to give away. And Anna and I were lucky enough to be around some awesome vendors. We got to hang out in their area as much as ours throughout the weekend. One of them being Galen Leather with, we both got their prototype writer's medic bag, which is the new hotness they shared on their Instagram. It's really great. And I think both of us will be fair to say that it needs some work before there is a final release version of this, but we each have one to play around with. I got mine in the traditional tan leather. Anna got hers in what color, Anna? Green. Green. It's fabulous. Yeah. I'm just sitting here

'''Myke Hurley:''' with my mouth open. Brad told me because apparently he got first pick and he said that he was extra happy that he chose to tan because of how mad you would have been, Anna, if you got the green. Oh, I totally would have traded. I totally, yeah. No. You're just a nice guy. Yeah. I also got a purple

'''Anna Reinhart:''' Galen Leather five-shot pin case from Van S to review. Anna and I also talked, with Ahsan from Coal Creek Leather, who was next to the knock booth all weekend. I think Friday, he was a little confused on like what was going on. And then this was his first pin show ever. And then by Saturday and Sunday, he was like all in with like the pin show experience and vibe and

'''Myke Hurley:''' all the people and stuff. Yeah. Like he came up to me on Sunday and he was like, oh, Brad was talking to me about what you guys do. And I listened to the show and it was really good. So that was awesome.