Editing The Pen Addict 291/transcript (section)

== Sailor Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So, going back to those Sailor 1911s for a moment. There is a place you can pre-order them right now and get a great price on them. And that is Pen Chalet, who is sponsoring this week's show. Pen Chalet have great pens from all of the companies that you're used to dealing with. Right? Like Pelican, Lamy, Pilot, Namiki, of course, Sailor, Kaweco, Monteverde. And they're an authorized dealer of all of them. Pen Chalet believe in customer satisfaction, which is why they offer fast and reliable customer service. It's why they have free shipping and all those of the $50 in the United States. And also, great rates for shipping overseas. They have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. This is what Pen Chalet is all about. They only offer the highest quality products. And not only do they have every type of writing instrument you could conceive of, they also have a bunch of different accessories as well. They're always running special discounts and sales. There's always new stuff going on to Pen Chalet. And you can always get yourself a good deal because you listen to this show. So, if you go to PenChalet.com, that's P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T.com, and click the podcast link at the top of the website, you want to enter the password Pen Addict. That is where you will get your hands on a 10% code that you can use on absolutely anything at the Pen Chalet. And also, this week's offer. So, again, can't talk about prices on this one, but there are some Lamy gift packs available. So, Safari or AL Star fountain pens. And they will come with either notebooks or ink and converters. So, Ron has some, like, packs that he's selling right now. Some Lamy's. You should go take a look at them because the deals are good. Yeah, I don't know that you'd call it selling.

'''Jim Cantore:''' I think he's pretty much giving them away. Okay. You should go look at this. The prices, as Ron is wont to do, these are ridiculous prices on actually some limited edition colors that are not part of the regular lineup. So, this is really good. So, this is some good dressing, some good sets.

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'''Jim Cantore:''' All right. So, I'm pretty sure we've talked about this at least once in the past, but it might be like all the way back in the double digits of the show because I kind of remember this. The topic came up again. I think it was an email from a listener. It said, would you make your own handwriting font? And they were talking about my handwriting and they would love to see a font in my handwriting. And I've gone through trying to make a font from my handwriting. And as far as I've gotten a big pad of paper, sat down, really focused on what I wanted my letters to look like, sent them, you know, I forget who I even sent them to. And then never did anything with it. I'm like, I'm kind of like, okay, this is cool. And it's also very awkward and uncomfortable at the same time that like my handwriting would be what someone types with for various reasons.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Do you think about, I mean, would you ever do this? Like, do you have any reason to want this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No one wants my handwriting. Like, I know it's like an off joke of the show that I don't have good handwriting, but I don't. Like, I don't even want it.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Right. Right. But like, could you see like someone doing this? Like our friend Myke Rohde did, like had a really good use for his, right? He's wrote the sketchnote handbook and then he created a sketchnote typeface from his handwriting to use in the book. That's a cool use of digitizing your handwriting. I would feel like really awkward unless I had some kind of use for that. Especially to let other people use my handwriting. That's interesting to me. Like, I can't quite put my head around it. I get that, you know, it can kind of look cool from time to time. And sometimes my handwriting looks really awesome. I think most of the time now it needs a lot of work. But I just find the concept of it a little bit weird. And I don't know if I could ever get past that to ever do that for myself. So, or much less like share it out with the world. So, I get the idea. I know that it's a thing. But I'm not sure I want to go there with my own handwriting.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yours would be a contender though. Because you do have an interesting and kind of unique style, I think.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Yeah, I'd have to work a month or two to kind of clean it up. But, yeah, like I could see it. I just don't know that I'm comfortable, like, making that happen. I don't know. It's a weird thing. You know, then, you know, next week I'll have my own digitized handwriting. So, you never know. You never know. An article that got shared around a lot this week in the stationary world was from a site that I follow regularly, Creative Boom. They do some really cool stuff. 22 awesome online shops for stationary addicts. When you clicked over to this link, Myke, what were your initial thoughts?

'''Myke Hurley:''' There are some cool ones on here. Like, there's some people that we frequent and know. And I'm happy to see that, right? So, like the Stationer and Present and Correct, which is awesome. And CW Pencils. So, there are some great ones on there. But there's some weird inclusions. So, again, another one that I like, the Journal Shop. I've shopped from them. I actually got a bunch of field notes from them. Like, rare field notes. Like, they were holding on to a couple. But then they've got stuff like Paper Chase on here, which is like a really big, like, just like a huge high street brand. Like, to the point where I'm like, I'm not 100% sure why you're including them on this list when you're, like, you've got CW Pencil on here. It's like, you've picked these really interesting ones from across the world, but then include, like, a high street brand. It's like a peculiar mix here. It almost feels like somebody will, like, you have to find this amount. And then they went and found that amount.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Yeah, I was looking for the word. I'm with you. I think peculiar is the right word, right? So, you know, I haven't heard of, you know, 80% of these shops, which is fine. But it's because there's a wider definition of stationary than what we normally dabble in, right? So, this has, like, greeting cards, right? Which is totally fine. Like, that's cool. But, like, it's got a lot of stores on there for that type of, you know, get your invitations printed type of stores. Like, Present Incorrect is one of my favorite shops to, like, go look at cool stuff. They do some really neat stuff.

'''Jim Cantore:''' How CW Pencils isn't, like, second on this list, I don't know, if not first. But it's just, like, it's kind of a weird list. It's definitely UK-based, which is cool.

'''Jim Cantore:''' I don't know. It's, like, throw cult. This isn't online shops, right? This isn't a physical shop. 22 awesome online shops. Why isn't cult pens, like, number three? You know? Or jet pens, you know, for, like, crazy, unique stuff. So, but, I mean, it's just a perspective thing. Like, I know our perspective is jaded to all the brands and companies we love. But I thought it could be better. But I did learn and remind myself of some companies, like, Mark and Fold. Like, I want to, I've, they've always been on my list to order something from. They make really neat notebooks. This is a good list to go check out. It's a, it's peculiar. Yeah, it's good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is a good list. It's good to exist because there are some bigger and smaller companies that deserve this attention. But it's, I just find it strange to see some inclusions on here that it kind of colors the list in a weird way. But it is great. And I'm happy, I'm always happy to see this stuff because.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Yeah, I love seeing Caroline and I love seeing Tessa on there. It was awesome. So, so now I'll make myself a note. I'm going to do 23 awesome online shops for Stationery Myke.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Stick it to the creative boom, people. What do you think?

'''Myke Hurley:''' You show them.

'''Jim Cantore:''' You show them, Brad.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Yeah, that's not going to happen.

'''Jim Cantore:''' I had a weird listen to a podcast that I love. A weird thought from a podcast that I love. That probably out of all of our listeners, I'd say probably one other person might listen to this podcast. So, it's actually called The PauseCast, which I'm sure drives you absolutely insane. The naming.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But it's for a reason. No. It's for a reason. Because there's a clear reason. There's a joke.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, it's with Joe Posnanski. So, that's where the PauseCast come from. And Joe is a sports writer I've followed for years for his baseball writing. And with a gentleman named Michael Schur. Are you familiar with Michael Schur, Michael? Before I linked it. I'm not sure about Michael Schur. Not sure. So, he is well known. He first got his break writing for The Office, the US version of The Office. And then he is the creator, the writer of Parks and Rec. Oh, okay. Interesting. And The Good Place, which is a new show. So, he's a big writer in the Hollywoods. So, he's a behind-the-scenes guy. But he's created a bunch of big... My gosh. It's tragic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's like no way to link to the specific episode.

'''Jim Cantore:''' I tried so hard. My gosh. It's horrible. And they don't care. Like, they don't care. They just want to get online and talk. So, they're two guys that, you know, have a lot of similar interests. And it's mostly about sports. And then, like, Michael's writing. So, but I listen to it because I love it. They have a lot of baseball. They have some baseball players on that are as regular guests that I enjoy. So, it's just a fun listen for me. And then every episode, they do a draft of something. You know, one of the most recent ones was something you're familiar with. They did a draft of Christmas songs. Okay. And they just had me rolling. You know, I was crying. They had other guests on. And it's just hilarious. So, this week's episode, they did a draft of the top office supplies. They did an office supply draft. I immediately, once I got to that part of the episode, I turned it off. I was like, we're doing this. Okay. Like, I didn't want to listen. I still have not listened to what they said because I didn't want to jade this because we're going to have an office supply draft. What do you think about this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love a draft. Me and Jason on Upgrade, we draft multiple things every single year now because Jason is a big draft guy. Gotcha. Draft rules are always important to me. And I have created a rule set here. We're going to do five total picks. So, one of us is going to get three. One of us is going to get two. So, we end up with a list of five. And we're going to do a coin flip for who gets to go first. Therefore, the person who gets the three picks.

'''Jim Cantore:''' And as a point of clarification, we're talking like office supply cabinet. You're in the cubicle farm in corporate America type office supplies. We're not talking about like Sailor Pro Gear on Myke's desk. We're talking about like... He's like categories is what I was thinking of, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Not even specific products as such.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Right. It'd be the category of product in your big corporate job that you're trying to protect on your desk from other people stealing is the way I kind of looked at it, right?

'''Jim Cantore:''' So, yeah. And I guarantee you out of the listeners to this podcast, I bet Jason Snell is highly likely to listen to this podcast because he is actually a sports ball guy like I am. Yep. So... All right. I'm going to let you pick. Do you have said coin to flip?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I am using Google to flip this coin. Okay. So, heads or tails? I'm going heads. Heads. All right. Heads. Flipping. Heads. So, you get to go first. All right. So, that means I get three picks.