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'''Brad:''' So I have to, I had to look this up. So the very first thing, I'm still on it. It's called the D. Charles Designs Leather Pen Wipe Non-Refillable Pen Care Supplies. And it's a 50% off item on the site. And I'm like, what is this exactly? So I've gone over to the page. And it's basically something right up my alley. I'm like, oh, yeah, I could use this. It's basically a case that holds a chamois or several, you know, like the, you know, that soft kind of leathery material that's used to clean and dry things. And, you know, to get off fingerprints, things like that. It's, and I'm one that's particular about like smudges and smears on my pens. Like I don't necessarily care about the nib. But I do, you know, if I have a pen that I can see my fingerprints on it, I'll get one of my eyeglasses cloths, like a microfiber, which may not be the best thing. But I do, you know, I don't know if I can see my fingerprints on the pen. I noticed that too.

'''Myke:''' Those colors and that shape is wild.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, so the, the Briolette's one of the, I think one of the original designs or maybe in the second round of designs, it's a smaller Bennu pen. The price is outrageous. If you like the outrageousness of their materials that Bennu uses, that's a really, really good deal to get into one of those pens and to try one out for the first time. So yeah, that looks, that looks awesome. And then they have one of the larger models, the Supreme, but they just have like a singular design on that. But the Briolette has several, several designs at a price that I've, I've never seen the Bennu pens before. And I'm a Bennu pen fan and we're going to have a new one, one of their new models coming out. We're going to have a review on that, on the penannict.com soon. But I am a fan of the Bennu pen. So yeah, definitely check those out.

'''Myke:''' All right, you should go and check this out for yourself right now. Go to penchalet.com, click the podcast link at the top of the website and enter the password penaddict to see these wonderful deals and get that 10% code that you need to save anything at any time at Pen Chalet. Our thanks to our friends over at Pen Chalet for their support of this show and RelayFM.

'''Brad:''' All right, a couple of news items before we get to our main topic and I'll go ahead and lay it out there. We're going to talk about my Monday update to the top five fountain pens between $100 and $200. That's going to be the bulk of our show today. But I couldn't help but put in a couple of short topics before then. Number one, I had to show you this, Myke. So I don't know how to explain this to our audio listeners. So you're going to have to go to the show notes for this. But the short version, you sound concerned about me adding this, but I had to do it. So there's an Instagram account of a Pen user. The Instagram account is called LikeNateChampion. And if you click on this link, it is the wildest, craziest Pen stand that you've ever seen. And I had no idea what is happening here. And the story goes that LikeNateChampion was talking about just, you know, telling a story about, you know, the dragon sitting on the pile of gold. And someone sketched the dragon sitting on a pile of gold the way he was talking about it. Then the next thing you know, someone 3D printed the dragon sitting on the pile of gold. And there was one, two, three, four pens, I think, sticking out of this thing. So there's this massive 3D printed dragon.

'''Myke:''' Where did this come from? I don't even know. It's a dragon on a pile of gold, which has a bunch of pen caps sticking out of it. The dragon is wearing a cowboy hat and has a mustache. And there are two or three places on this sculpture to put pens on.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, I think it's a representation of what LikeNateChampion's desk would look like as someone who is a very avid collector of pens. And this was the idea of what his desk must look like. So maybe he is the dragon. He is the dragon. And there's some really fancy pens in this dragon. You know, it's like Mont Blanc's and two Mont Blanc's.

'''Myke:''' I can't believe somebody made this.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, so this is three. It's huge, right? Like, it's hard to get the scale of it. But these are not small pens that are in there, like the pen in the dragon tail. It just makes me wonder how big this dragon really is. And this was a fun thing to add to the show just because I think it's just a cool community thing that happened, right? Like, no one's going to be able to go buy this, nor should you want to. But it's kind of perfect for the little stories that, like, Nate Champion, you know, was talking about his pens. And this representation that someone had an idea to make this. And the community, you know, someone else drew it. And then someone else made it. And then now there's a dragon sitting on a pile of gold pen stand on someone's desk out there in our community. And I just think it's cool. I think it's really, really neat to see.

'''Myke:''' It sure is something, Brad.

'''Brad:''' It is something, yes. It really is something. Do not send me a dragon sitting on a pile of gold pen stand. But I think it looks good on you. That's my best answer. What I do want to be sent to me, Myke, is one of these Drillog pens. We've talked about this a couple times.

'''Myke:''' These are the really wild-looking dip pens, right?

'''Brad:''' But, like, needle-tip dip pens as opposed to the lighter nib.

'''Myke:''' With the kind of channels. They're like, because it looks like they kind of put channels into it, which are really intriguing-looking. We spoke about them on the show some time ago. And they posted from their Twitter account and said, In order to deliver Drillog to the world, we are planning to launch a crowdfunding campaign outside of Japan. So we can naturally expect that they will have a Kickstarter campaign coming. I'm guessing. And I am amped for it. Because they posted some images. And they've basically got what looks like a rainbow of these pens. I don't know what you call them pens. But, yeah, I'm into this big time. I really hope that they also do, like, I don't know, like a fancy bottle or something to go along with it. But, yeah, I'm into it, man. I can't wait for this.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, it's a highly engineered dip pen. If you haven't heard us or clicked through these links, it's unlike anything you've ever seen. Like, just imagine, like, a very engineered, you know, machined pen or mechanical pencil. But this is made to be something different for dip pen testing. Yeah. And they're very expensive.

'''Myke:''' The only thing I'm not sure about with these, right, is looking at the images, is how high up they have to be held.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, because the dipped part of the nib is lengthy. It almost looks like the nib section. But that's actually where the ink is being reserved to continue working.

'''Myke:''' Yeah, basically where I would typically hold the pen, that's what you dip the ink in.

'''Brad:''' Right. And even their handwriting image, you know, the person's holding the pen way back. Yeah. Right. So, it's interesting. Like, this is not a thing for everybody. This is something that I've wanted for a while because this is my level of pen nerdery. But, you know, they're probably going to be like $300 each or something like that. And, you know, I will be first in line just because I want to try this. And it looks like my type of product. But, like, I wouldn't rush into this if you're not really into this kind of thing. It's one of those deals. But, yeah, I hope they – I guess they've gotten some good feedback from, you know, their launch. Really, just earlier this year, they opened their web shop and they shipped to Japan only. And I know a couple of people have gotten, you know, their hands on them in other regions, you know, getting friends to ship them or using, you know, services, things like that. I haven't bothered to do that. It's okay. But now, yeah, I'll be in. So, you can imagine we will be sharing this information when it goes live, you know, on however they decide to do it. I look forward to it.

'''Myke:''' Nice. Nice.

'''Brad:''' Big topic today, Myke. All right. What have we got?