Editing The Pen Addict 725/transcript (section)

== Tostecampo ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, the one thing I didn't mention, my favorite thing. No Tostecampo.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The spelling, the use of language? Instead of field notes. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's like the whole thing. The whole thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I know, but I just wanted to mention. Okay. I wanted to mention. We did mention it. I just think it's, I love it. That's my favorite thing about it. Like, I think that is like, that's really awesome. Like, really great. And so, I wanted to just shout that out. Just be like, I just think that looks really fun. And so, yeah, that was something they didn't need to do for this edition. I feel like, but I'm pleased that they did.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. They do a good job with that level of like decision making. Yeah. To just go all in on the details. Yeah. So, yeah. Really good. Really good. So, yeah. Looking forward to it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Am I looking forward to our assignment for this week, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' You made a promise. And we're delivering. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I made a promise that we would participate in the 10 pin challenge that's going around the stationary internet. And with the premise being to, oh, this is on Inky Imaginings. This is kind of the first, this is kind of the inspiration post. The title of the post is, if I could only keep 10 fountain pens. And I think this is really a fun exercise for someone like myself or you who has way more than 10 fountain pens. Looking at Inky Imaginings, they had around 76 pens. I probably have around double that at a minimum. So, I was like, could I do this? You know, my concept in my head was like, this is going to be pretty tough. Like, I could choose what I said last week. It's a lot easier for me to decide on two pens and get rid of everything else than it is 10 pens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I stand by that because you can just have so many, so much more opportunity with 10 pens that it gets actually harder to fit 10 pens in there, where two, you have so restricted to it. I just kind of went for it and moved on. Right? 10? That's a challenge. So, I tasked you and I tasked me over the last week to come up with our list of 10 pens. So, we're going to go through it today. Right? So, just, I'll let you say how you put yours together. But mine was, I wanted to do it as authentic as possible. So, I just went from memory without looking first and said, out of the pens that I own, I just wrote them down without looking and going through like the pen drawers that I have to see. And I came up with like seven or eight, like pretty good. Like, I felt pretty good. And then like the bottom part of that list was like crazy, crazy tough. So, how did you come about your list?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I did my first five just off the hip. Yep. And then the next five, I had to refer to a note that I keep. Totally. That was how it went from it. We're like, the first five is like, yep, no problem. And this is what we were talking about. You just mentioned it now. We were talking about it last week too, of like, a more restricted list is easier. Past that five, I had to really think about what I wanted to include and why I would include it. And there was one on here that I will get to where I had forgotten how much I love it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, it's in the top ten. That's why this was a good exercise. Yeah. Right? Because of that exact reason. And like you, I think I hit the wall at six. Maybe five, maybe six. It was like really, really, really easy. And then I was like, oh, no. This is, now I have to like really decide because there's like 20 pins for five spots or something like that. And I don't know. Okay. So, how do you want to do this? Do you want me to just go list one, then you list one kind of thing? Yes. Okay. And again, these are minor in no particular order, but they are in the order that I thought about them. Right? Me too. I didn't re-rank this list. Yes. So, like. Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I agree with you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, like literally, probably like 90% of y'all could guess that I'm going to pick Pilot Murex first.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. Pilot Murex fine nib. If I was going to guess for you, I may have gone for like Custom 74, something like that, before I would have gone Murex. But I think that's a good call.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. What you got? You're not going to give anything on it. That's it. You're just going to say it. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I feel like that's the, my first two choices are pens I talk about constantly.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, you feel like you don't need to give much? The Murex is my one pen. It's my number one favorite pen. Yep. It's my, if I could only have one pen, like I'm going to pick that one. It has a fine nib. It's a steel nib. It's like, it was given to me. So, it's like, it was a gift. And then it ended up being like my favorite product. Yep. Just because of the style. It is a not for everybody pen. Yep. Because it is very thin and light, even though it's like an all metal pen, like it can kind of take a beating, but it, the grip is maybe a little bit slick, but the way it fits my hand and the way it writes is better than it. It's what I want. And just like a, just like a, a pure like technical product. It's like so good for how it's designed and then how it works on top of that. So, yeah, it's really good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mine is the Platinum 3776 Galaxy Starlight. Yeah. If I could just have one pen, this pen has everything for me. Like. Including a story. Yeah. That's part of it. It has a big, totally. It has a big story. Like I bought it for myself for a reason, which is to celebrate relay turning five. I then took it home and the nib broke and it had to be sent to Japan and I lost access to the pen for months.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Then that came back to me. I used it. It's beautiful. You've got a big chip out of it because I love it so much. I use it so much. Now it has a stacked nib from CY, which is just unbelievable. And so like that pen is just like, it ticks absolutely every box for me. So I adore it. Such a good one. That's a classic. I love it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. My second choice is a Lamy Safari. Specifically the white one with the red clip and I have a black extra fine nib on it. This is might be my most used pen. Like when I don't know what pen to ink up, I grab this one. Like this pen like travels with me. I'm obviously a huge Safari fan. And there's something about the feel of a Safari that takes me to places. Like it's a very personal thing, right? It just, even more so than the Murex. There's something about the feel of a Safari in my hand and using it that like I wish everyone had a stationary product. They felt that way about the way I feel about the Safari. I wish everyone had a product that makes them, you know, have this like really good sensation of like, man, this is really perfect for me and just like a beautiful object. And like it doesn't, you know, the Safaris are inexpensive. Like you don't have to have an expensive pen to have something that is just absolutely amazing for you. And this is my favorite, favorite Safari. This is why I buy all the Safaris, but I don't keep all the Safaris because I know which one's my favorite and no one has beaten this one in many years.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Does that one have a red finial? Yes. I found one on eBay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was kind of a special edition. Yeah. They just launched it like a one-off. Like I remember when I bought it, it was just like one fall, like in the fall, they just did, okay, we're going to do this white one with a red clip and a red finial. And that's just, it's just, there was no, it wasn't like a full release where they did rollerball, pencil, ballpoint type of thing. It was just like, yeah, we're going to do this one. I was like, that's mine. That's, that's the one I use the most. Like, it did come with a silver nib. I do have a black nib in mind. I prefer it with the black nib.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I found one to put in the show notes. Okay. And it's on eBay for $118. Really? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Gold.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Gold mine there. Yeah. This is just a, this is about three or four years old. Like I've never, like, I don't review many safaris these days. Cause right. It's just a color change. Maybe I'll review the, the new one with the, with the tactile stuff on it. But like, yeah, that's why I don't, you could probably, it's probably in my Instagram somewhere, but it would be hard to find. It's, it's my favorite. I carry it more than any pen that I own outside of maybe like a spoke roadie. Like this is, this is only a fountain pen list for the, for the record.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So this is probably a bit late to be saying this, but I have linked, I'm putting links to all of these in the show notes. So spoilers, I guess.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Spoilers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I just figured people will want to see some of these pens. And so I'm finding, I'm finding.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I guess I, but I guess I could have given you links or I can give you links. I don't want you to give me links.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cause then I would have, I have time while you're talking to Google.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. I already got all of my links. So true. True. True. True. Yeah. Myke and I did not share our list with each other ahead of time. So I don't have, I don't know what Myke's going to say. I know one pen Myke's going to say, uh, I could probably guess like, one or two more, but like, all right. Uh, you're up.