Editing The Pen Addict 213/transcript (section)

== New Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So. There's. No one is coming to market. With something that's blowing everyone else away. And. Maybe they won't. I don't know. You get. You get new players. Like the. When the pilot juice happened. That was pretty cool. But. It's not better than the DX. So. We'll see. And it's not as loved. As the high tech C. So. Anyway. That's that. I wanted to. To go over that. And.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That was good. I enjoyed that. Because it's. I don't know. It's putting into context. A little bit. Of something that we maybe don't pay so much attention. And. To anymore. Which is the ballpoint market.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. And we're going to talk about that. A little bit more. Which is why I want to talk about that. There's a couple of questions we have. In the S. PA. About like. Why I'm using.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Not some non-fountain pens recently. And I'm actually using. Ballpoints a lot. That aren't. Jet streams. So. We'll talk about that. As we go. You want me to hit a few of these questions? Oh yeah. I'm kind of going to go randomly. But. I mean. Sort of in order. So. You know. Hopefully you can. You can. You can keep up with me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' How do you go randomly. But sort of in order.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because I don't think. I can get to all of them. But I'm going to go down the list. And probably skip. If I skip one. I probably won't come back to it. Does that make sense?

'''Myke Hurley:''' That makes sense now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. All right. All right. Like I'm not going to do the bottom first. Then jump back to the top. But I might skip as I go down. But I do want to hit this first. Part of this first question. From Hutch. He asked it. Actually a week ago. And I saved it off since then. Because he asked. What's your ideal writing environment? And he gives like some examples. Classic study with wood grain. And leather bound books. Coffee shop. Cabin in the woods. Like if you could set up. You had carte blanche. And have your ideal writing environment. What would it be?

'''Myke Hurley:''' For me it would be a coffee shop. Like a nice coffee shop. There's a couple that I can think of. There's one in Bath. That I really love. One of my favorite coffee shops. In England. I don't go there very frequently. Obviously. Because it's like a long way away from here. But it's like a few hours. I would just go there to work. But I like kind of. The bit of hustle and bustle. And I can put on some headphones. And listen to some stuff. And I've got good coffee. And good treats around me. And it's just a nice chair somewhere. To sit and do some work. Or do some writing in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So are you better in hustle and bustle? Or solitude?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It doesn't really bother me too much. Because I will tend to create my own solitude. Even in hustle and bustle. Right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm very much like that. My ideal writing environment. Would actually be. A coffee shop. In a cabin in the woods. That would be pretty sweet. Or a coffee shop. In a hut on a beach. The coffee needs to be there. Because I need the coffee. The coffee is my drug. That's the thing that gets me going. But I'm like you. I can create my own environment. I do like coffee shops. I do like being around other people. Because it doesn't distract me. It's. I wouldn't say it's calming. But you know. I feel like okay. I'm here to do some work. I don't people watch. You know. If I'm going to do work. You know. I'll go. It's fine being around people. I'll pop on the headphones. And I'll just go. And you know. If I need a break. Every 10 minutes. I'll pop my head up. Look around. Take a drink. You know. Then get back to it. And it's an easy. Coffee shops are actually an easy environment. For me to work in. So. If it was ideal though. It would probably be. In a cabin on the woods. Or on the beach. I do like water. And I do like the solitude of the woods. So. He also asked. And I couldn't. I thought about this question now. But you actually put an answer in here. So I want to. I want to ask you about. The pen personalities. This is also from Hutch. He says. Take a celebrity. Or a fictional. Fictional character. And then pick a pen. That mirrors their personality. For example. What pen is most like Donald Trump? And I think we just took the answer is. I think the question is. What pen is most like Donald Trump? Because after you say that. I can't think of anything else. Anyone else. I would want to compare a pen to. So what do you have. For Mr. Trump. And I have one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would probably pick. You know. Like that Sylvester Stallone pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's what I was going to pick.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Was it Montegrappa Chaos?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That feels very Donald Trump.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's totally the right. Good answer. I mean. That's the Donald Trump pen. Is the K. And the expensive one. Not the cheap one. Like the $65,000 one. Yeah. Like the most gaudy. Tacky. Uh. Pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Ridiculous. Vapid. Useless.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like that's not the link. That you put in there. But that's what I was going to go with. So that you said that. That's just perfect. I mean like. That's the answer. There's. There's no arguing. There's no. There's no other option. That's the Donald Trump. Of the pen world. Oh my god.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I did pick a second character. I went with Darth Vader.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm a little. I'm a little mad at you for this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I picked the Stormtrooper pen. The. The white and black.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. The one I have. Thanks a lot. Thanks for being a super chain.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You're very Vader like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know. Yeah. But now. When I look at that pen. You're going to make me think of Donald Trump.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No. Don't think of Trump. It's got nothing to do with Trump. These are. These are two completely unrelated.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh. So you're saying that one. So if Darth Vader had a pen. Yes. It would be the Stormtrooper. Gotcha. I'm tracking you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. This is. This is what I would say is my Darth Vader pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. I'm with you there. I like that. Plus he would. You know. Every time he would get mad. He would just crush it in his hand. And the Stormtrooper would die.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Which is good. Because it's also. It's not like super expensive. So he could just get another one. Like I mean. It's expensive. But it's not like the Monte Graffa pen. Oh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well. I mean. It's not like the Empire is lacking for cash. So he's probably got dozens of them. Good point. Yeah. Yeah. So. That's good. I love it. I love it. All right. So I definitely want to hit this one. From Josh Barrow on Twitter. Why doesn't Myke ever talk about Retro 51 pencils?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have a couple of them. I have one of the Apple ones. And I think I have another one. Just a regular one. They just don't excite me in the same way that the Tornado does.