Editing The Pen Addict 199/transcript (section)

== Colored Ink ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. We're super special. Um, this, uh, this next one though blew my mind. Um, and you've probably gotten some links about this too. Yeah. And it's a, it's a Kickstarter for the golden ratio coloring book by Raphael Araujo. Um, I don't know what to say about this other than it's stunning.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's too much for me, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's well, it's too much in, in lots of ways. It's too much in, um, trying to manage the coloring, like the results of this coloring is pretty amazing. Like people who did these colorings based on his drawings are really talented. Um, mine wouldn't come out that way, but I'd give it a shot, but it's, it's very expensive. Um, relatively speaking. So this is actually one that I'm going to hold off on as much as I like it and enjoy it. And I've almost clicked it. Um, it's basically like $40 for the coloring book to get it shipped to the U S which I don't necessarily need a $40 coloring book. Um, and if I want it later, maybe they'll reprint it later and sell it, you know, differently. But secondarily, like what you're getting at is, I don't know that I could actually physically color in these drawings, but it looks awesome. It looks so fricking cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't think I would know where to start with it, to be honest.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. But, um, let me just say it's done 185 grand so far. So it's doing pretty well. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, I got that sent, uh, sent to me a bunch and I thought it's just spectacular looking on the exact opposite end of the spectrum. We have something that's craptastic looking and that's, um, one of the Esther Brook models that went up on mass drop recently. And I don't even know the model name or number of the pen. And y'all know where I stand on Esther Brook. If you've listened to this, um, podcast, any, any length of time, but, uh, it is the listener. I think. Excuse me. This one's called the N two.

'''Myke Hurley:''' M M for mother.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' M M M two. Okay. Okay. So this M two, um, kind of tried and failed on, on mass drop and it didn't fail because it, no one bought it. It failed because it's actually a piece of crap and everyone in the comment section called it out. So, um, none more so than friend of the podcast, Phil Olin, who wrote a blog post called Fester Crook, the modern Esther Brook, which I love that title. Um, he does a great post and our good old buddy, Robert Rosenberg, uh, ended up calling Phil. Does that sound familiar to you?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. For anyone who's not keeping track, that's the guy who now owns this company.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So if anyone who's listened to our show, they know how many times, uh, Mr. Rosenberg called me and I'm surprised my phone hadn't started ringing since last night when that post came up, but, uh, he, he doesn't really do online very much. So he'll have to be told that that post is up there, but, uh, he's too busy focusing on Phil right now to deal with me again. Um, because just like Phil, I don't really have any reason to answer his phone calls. If he would like to converse, um, on the record, any way, shape or form, uh, my doors are open any day, anytime. Just let me know, Bob, and, uh, and we'll knock it out. But, uh, right now the year happily we'll have you on the show.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. You know, if you want to come on the show, we can, we can make that happen. Oh, I know that's why I'm saying it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, I'm welcome to have him go on the record anytime, but it's his job is to, to office obfuscate everything that he does, including the manufacturing of these pins, these M2s. There's a very high likelihood. These cost about two or $3 to make in China. And he's trying to pass them off as a $50 revamped Esther Brook. And it's embarrassing and he should be embarrassed and he should close up shop or he should do things right. And he's just a horrible businessman and a horrible person. And this whole thing's, it's really a joke. So at this point, and unfortunately, Bob is not in on the joke, uh, because he is actually the actual joke. And, uh, he can't seem to grasp that and deal with it in a proper manner. So, you know what? That's on him.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hey, back off. I proposed to Phil in his comments section. I just saw that. I just saw that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Somebody else to watch out for now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. His wife, Phil's wife came on it and admonished me in Slack last night. So Phil's taken.

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'''Myke Hurley:''' So next week, we will be in each other's arms. I mean, I'll be in Atlanta.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We are sharing a room. We are sharing a room, and there'll be hugs like last time. So I wanted to know, what is on your shopping list for the Pen Show?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I refer to our show notes a lot, and it's a living document that Myke and I share, and Myke put this in there, and I thought this was a great idea. What's on your shopping list? Because we usually talk about that. What are we looking for at the show? And when mine was still blank this morning, right before we recorded, Myke started quizzing me. It's like, what's going on? You don't have anything on your shopping list for the Atlanta Pen Show. And I'm like, we're going to need to talk about that. So here's the thing. I'm buying that Mont Blanc, and that's like the entire budget for the Atlanta Pen Show. And it's going to be like at the exact same time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You're buying it at the show, or no?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, no. It's just, it's coming like now. Okay, good. Like within the next week or two, it's going to be ready for purchase. Like I haven't paid for it yet, because it hasn't arrived, but it's basically in route to Anderson.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Basically, my horror here is I'm scared you're going to have it at the show and what that might do to me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There is a high probability, again, that this might be my show purchase, because I might be able to get it then. No, no. I don't know for sure yet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I really hope this isn't a Pro Gear scenario, because the Pro Gear was like a third of this price.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, exactly. Exactly. So, you know, I don't know when they leave for the show, but they probably leave like, they'll probably leave Wednesday. I don't know if they'll leave Thursday. It's because it's probably more than a one day drive for them. So if it shows up, I guess they bring them to the show. I didn't talk specifically about it, but that timeframe for me purchasing that pen is going to be like right around that time. So that's my Atlanta shopping list for the most part. So unless you sell lots of cases, this might be all you buy. Well, no, not even that. It's just what am I looking for these days to add to the collection? What do I need or want to, that I've seen differently to write with? I'm always interested to see what Franklin Kristoff has on offer there. They always bring some new things that they've been working on, some prototypes. I like to get in there and see what kind of cool stuff they have. I definitely want to see if, you know, Lisa's bringing any like inks from Bung Box that I don't have, things like that. As much as I talk to Lisa, I don't know what her current Bung Box ink inventory is like to, I don't know, have anything held. I have been working on something on the backend that I kind of need to remind another vendor about that they're supposed to bring to me and sell to me. But I'm not going to spoil that because it very well might not happen. That's the number one thing on my shopping list above and beyond the Mont Blanc. And if they both, if I'm able to get it, we can just do a whole show on it because it'll be that awesome. So I'm going to leave that out there. Huh? I'm going to leave that hanging out there because it's a really, really, it's, it's one of the most Brad pens on the market and it's not currently on the market. It's an old, it's an older pen. What are you up to? It probably wouldn't take, it probably wouldn't, no, it probably wouldn't take people very many attempts to guess at it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I don't know. I haven't checked in with them in the past few weeks to see if it's still available and if they will bring it to me and allow me to purchase it from them. So we'll see. I will let you know, but that will be, those are the things I'm looking for at the show.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have a small list. So basically what I learned from the last show is I'm going to buy things that are completely new to me. That, that was what I noticed last time that I didn't really know, having not gone to a pen show at this scale before. So I have a very short list of stuff that I really want and then everything else I'm going to set aside a budget, which I've not worked out yet that I'll be bringing with me, the things that I'll be able to buy when I'm, when I'm there. One of the things that I'm, I'm looking for is an ink, which is a rare thing for me to do to add an ink to my collection. So I don't really use a lot, but we spoke about this a couple of weeks ago, the Ackerman number 28, half-gratia grown. I don't even know how to say this. It will be in the show notes. It's a beautiful green. That's a must, that's a must have.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that is an awesome ink. Good, good choice there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I've not really added, as I say, I don't really add a lot of inks to my collection, but this one was like, wow. Okay. I want this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think that ink is something else.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't remember how it came up, but I know that me and you were talking about it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' When we had Aziza on, she was raving about it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it's one I'd already owned and reviewed, but the way she does ink reviews just really sets things off. And that's when we really got deep on the 28. And that's probably what pushed you over the edge.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. So that's what I'm going to look for. I'm trying to find a good link for that for the show notes, and I'm struggling.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Well, I'll get you one afterward. She's got one on her page.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, great. Yeah. Oh, I found a fan S. There you go. Yeah. Perfect. That would be perfect. Because that's, yeah. What a fantastic color.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They should have that there unless they're sold out. I doubt they are.