Editing The Pen Addict 722/transcript (section)

== Pentel Multi 8 ==


'''Ana Reinhart:''' It's my turn to ask you about your choices.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. All right.

'''Ana Reinhart:''' So you mentioned them. I'm laughing because you and I, we just write the same freaking reviews, but the, the Pentel Multi 8.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Ana Reinhart:''' It's kind of freaking amazing, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a problem, right? It should not be good. It should be a bad product. Um, and I held off on years because I was just convinced there's no way this is good. Not only no way is there, is this good. It's like 20 to $30, depending on which, which one you wanted. Um.

'''Ana Reinhart:''' For people not to know, the Pentel Multi 8 is a multi-colored pencil, like mechanical pencil, and it has eight different colors and it holds the, like, the 1.1 millimeter leads. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Okay. It's, um, it's so useful. And it works. Number one, it works, right? It has to do that first because it's a kind of a complicated, complicated, uh, pencil, right? In the mechanism. It's just a little bit, you know, there's a lot going on with this, which. And it's chunky. Adds to the cost. Yeah. And it's chunky, but I do like the taper. Or, but how they executed it to where, and you don't know this until I got it. I didn't realize that the full lead piece drops into the bottom. So it remains straight when it comes out of the pen tip or the pencil tip in this case. Where traditionally multi-pens, they have to work around like a nose cone to just kind of squirrel out. And if companies aren't careful, you can get an angle out the tip. Um, all the good ones do it right. And it's, they make it straight, but just the way that pencil works fascinates me. And oh, by the way, it's like crazy useful for like notes. Like I'm not going to like color a bunch of pages. Like I did for the review. Like I colored a full page. Cause I wanted to see like, how long are these cores going to last? And are the colors like moderately rich enough to like hang with the standalone? Like it's never going to beat a singular standalone in color performance, right? For most companies, but it got most of the way there and the quality and portability of it and the usefulness of it. Uh, you know, consider me a fan. I was, I was surprised with that one.

'''Ana Reinhart:''' Me too. Me too. Okay. So what else have you got on your list?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I capitulated just straight from the jump. I just wanted to put on here, look, I've been team Safari my entire life and Anna being the main cheerleader for team all-star team Safari got wax this year. Like there's no two ways about it. Team all-star brought the a game. Lamy Lamy brought like a B plus game. They're fine. Like I really love the neon yellow. That's the pen I've been using the most probably like in the last month, the Safari neon yellow, the all-stars are better this year by a pretty good margin. So I just wanted to give you credit for constantly, uh, having team all-stars back. And while I, while I sit over here and pout with team Safari, I was like, y'all have disco and roller skate and I, and I have a improperly capitalized neon yellow pen. Well, what are you doing to me?

'''Ana Reinhart:''' When they released the, the, um, the disco one, I must've gotten half a dozen text messages and emails of like, they made your pen. Yeah. It is my shade of lime green with a, with a translucent pink grip section. And I was like, I know, I know they made my pen. I really don't need another Lamy, but yeah, they made my pen. So I'll probably pick one up at some point, but yeah, they did.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Same here. I haven't yet. I don't, I don't have an all-star that I use. I have a ballpoint like, but I don't have a all-star fountain pen that I ever use. I don't own one that I use. I think I have one that I reviewed way back in the day. Um, I will get one of these to, to use. Like I use my Safaris, which is pretty regularly.

'''Ana Reinhart:''' I can definitely see you with the roller skate one. That is very, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think that'd be the one. I think that'd be the one for sure. Um, the other few, uh, I just real quick on these, I was just kind of going back. I was like, Oh, what would I pick? Um, and my, my idea was, like I said, new to us products, right? It didn't necessarily have to be launched in 2026. Like the multi gate's been out for who knows how long. Um, the Visconti Mirage mythos lineup of pens is crazy good. Like kind of a surprise. Again, I love being surprised by products. Um, you can't help being in the position that I'm in or you're in to have some preconceived notions about products. And sometimes like, I'll just make a jump on one that I think like looks good and figure out, does it work good for me? And, uh, this one kind of does all the things. I just love looking at it and holding it and using it. And the performance is great. So, um, that's been a good one. Colorverse Erebus crater is such a weird ink color that it's hard to explain and how different it looks on different papers. And it's definitely been kind of my ink of the year so far, just in, I want to use it. I want to put it, I want to ink it up, uh, and lots of different things. I don't actually have it inked up right now, but it's, it's been fun. And then lastly, this is, uh, April from, uh, design fill slash the penguins post fault. She got me onto the Midori carton opener and I kind of haven't shut up about it yet.

'''Ana Reinhart:''' Really?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cause I didn't know it existed. I didn't know this was a thing. It's super, super good quality for, for what it does. It's really, really small. Um, and I open a lot of boxes. I might need one of these. What I'm figuring out is that it's great for boxes, but I'm using it for like washi tape and cutting some of my pages just on my desk. Cause it's just a little bitty ceramic blade in there. Oh, nice. Um, so I've been kind of like trimming things at my desk cause we all have just ephemera everywhere. And I, I'm actually going to get a second one for my shipping department just so I can have that. So anyway, those are kind of, you know, my kind of quick thinking, uh, products of the year so far, but I unfortunately had to give a shout out to team all star along the way. So it's okay.

'''Ana Reinhart:''' I forgive you though.