Editing The Pen Addict 109/transcript (section)

== Pen Product ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool. So anyway, so one other new, another new product in the non Kickstarter category that Myke and I mentioned last week, one of both Myke and I's favorite pens, the TWSBI 540 rock got a redesign into the TWSBI 580 RB. Um, it's basically the same looking pin, um, just done with the TWSBI 580 hardware, which is better than the 540 build. And as far as build quality goes. So we mentioned them last week and we all know how TWSBI is a little bit funky about actually release dates and releasing products. This one, they didn't play around. They showed it like a week before they put it out for sale. It came out for sale on Monday. Um, and I got tweets saying, Hey, it's out there. So I went and bought, bought mine like immediately.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Yay. It's super cool. If my husband liked fountain pens, it would be perfect for him.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That would be up his alley.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I think this is a great looking pen and I'm excited to get it. I don't, I don't know how fast it'll get here maybe by next week, but, um, yeah, I'm cool. And we'll, we'll definitely talk more about this when it comes in, but I just wanted to know, let everyone know who is, is interested in this pen. And it does exist for real on TWSBI site right now. And you can actually purchase it, which I did. Um, I think they're on their regular site and on their Amazon store right now. Then I think by the end of the month, I think people like Goulet pens and others who carry TWSBI products, I think they said they'll be in. And this one we talked about last week, the end cap on the top of the barrel, having, um, the different USA flags. This is just the traditional ROC, uh, sun emblem on there. So I don't know if they're coming out with that USA, uh, flag emblem or not. So, but anyway, I, I did order it. Um, there was 0% chance that I was not going to order that. That was, that was the lock of the year that I was going to order that pen. And, and, um, and I'm, I'm actually scared. I've been scared to use my 540 one because they're so fragile and Myke's broken his. That's the one, the one pen that I love so much that I never use. And I always talk about, you know, buy pens to use them. I've always been scared to use that one because I didn't want to break it because they're just historically fragile. So I'll be using this 580. It'll probably never go uninked.

'''Anna Reinert:''' I used my 540 until I gave it to a friend who lost all of her pens. Oh, that's true. And so far she hasn't said anything about it breaking. So maybe we got a good one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good. Good. I like that. I like to hear that. Um, I made a pact with myself at the beginning of the year that I knew I was going to be spending a lot on pens this in 2014. And I made a pact with myself. It's like, okay, I know my budget for pens this year is going to be larger than normal. So I told myself, it's not really a new year's resolution, but it's something I'm going to strive for. And I'm going to stop. One thing I'm going to cut out or try to do better on is buying clothes. So I told myself that I'm not going to buy any new clothes this year unless I absolutely have to have like out of need, right? Just not buy stuff out of want or desire or anything. So I've only bought- How's that working out for you? It's actually working out well, except for four items. I've bought two Pen Addict t-shirts when we launched on Teespring. And now my friend Myke Dudek has launched a t-shirt, the Dudek Modern Goods t-shirt, which I have backed on Teespring. And now our friend Dan Bishop from Karis Customs launched a t-shirt on Teespring. So now I've purchased four t-shirts this year. That's the only amount of- the only clothing I've bought this year have been t-shirts from Teespring.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, I thought the Pen Addict project went really well. And Myke's shirt looks awesome. It's- he has actually two designs. He's got the block design, and then he has the saw blade design. I think the block design's already filled. He's calling it the Simple Gray t-shirt, which is the Dudek Modern Goods with the block. And then he has one with the same design with a saw blade around it. I backed the saw blade one, and that one hasn't fulfilled yet. But I wanted to just mention that out there. You know, they're such good supporters of us, and I'm such big fans of their work that I wanted to put Myke's and Dan's Teesprings in the show notes and mention them. You know, plug them just because they're good guys, and they deserve to have their t-shirts made. Agreed. But Myke's, yeah, I want the saw blade one on Myke, and then the Karis Customs one. They've had the slogan forever, at least as long as I can remember. The slogan is, it's quality, bro. And this big thumbs up logo. And they did that on the back of the t-shirt, and it's just fantastic. So-

'''Anna Reinert:''' Excellent.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have not bought any clothes this year except Teespring t-shirts, which is kind of hard to believe. And so I should be good on t-shirts here for a while, I'm guessing.

'''Anna Reinert:''' I'm pretty much in the same boat, although I didn't make a New Year's resolution about it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it wasn't really a resolution. I was just being a dork. I was like, let's see if I can handle this because I'm not a clothes horse or anything. But, you know, like if I see good deals, I'll just buy them knowing that, you know, I'll probably wear them. And then you end up with a stack of clothes that you never wear. So I was like, let's just, you know, don't buy clothes unless you need them. So I've been very good except for Teespring t-shirts from my friends. So I'm happy to support them.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Excellent.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This next link, I don't think I would have ever caught. But this morning, our favorite pen addict podcast mascot, Kanuni Renneshen, sent me this tweet. She says, look at this link, check out the last item. So she sends me a buzz feed and it's basically a listicle, which is what they're known for. And I'm so anti-listicle, it's not even funny, which is a list article. It feels weird to say. But, you know, it's the 103 reasons, you know, why you should work at a standing desk. You know, those type of articles. All right.

'''Anna Reinert:''' I opened the link.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Have you not seen this yet?

'''Anna Reinert:''' No, I just opened it. All right.