Editing The Pen Addict 335/transcript (section)

== New Stationery Items ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. We're going to get into some new stuff that has crossed our desk. But before we do that, I just wanted to give a shout out to the Mavis podcast, Myke. Your country mates. I was on with Julian and Andrew on the Mavis podcast last week. Episode 28 has been released. And we just had a fun talk about pens and papers. So Julian K. and I have followed each other on Twitter. We couldn't even figure out how long. It's been like seven, eight years. He's always been into pens and paper and stationary goods. And so it was nice to get on there. And he's hooked his friends into the analog world. So they talk about pen and paper on their podcast regularly. So they had me on to talk about it even more. And I just want to say, Myke, they are huge fans of the Pano book. So we spent quite a bit of time discussing how I use the Pano book and why I like that product so much. So it was a good show. So feel free to feel free to add it to your downloads list over this long holiday week here in the U.S. You'll have some time to listen to it. So that's great and all, Myke. But I want to talk about this next topic. Actually, I want you to talk about this next topic because this is something you did, something you wanted very badly. And it happened. So what do you got?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let me see if I've got some audio for you here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would like to thank Pen Addict listener Derek for getting me the Lamy Pikachu set. Oh my gosh. From China. Derek got one for himself and one for me. I have it. The box is huge. It's massive. One of the reasons is because I didn't know this until I opened it, that it makes those noises. That's unreal. So there's like a little sound box inside and it makes those noises for as long as it's open. And as I realized earlier in the episode, sometimes, weirdly, when it's closed, I don't know why it's doing that. I am so happy with this pen. So I want to run through what you get, right? So you get the box, this presentation box looks like a Pokeball. You get the Lamy Safari pen. The pen is yellow. The little band that goes between the grip section and the pen body is black, right? So they're picking up all the colors here. The clip is red. So you've got Pikachu's body. You've got the color of his ears, the color of his cheeks. And then there is a brown Pikachu tail painted onto the back of the cap. Oh, no way. And it comes with these two little charms that you can put on, right? You clip it onto the cap. One is a sleeping Pikachu and one is a Pikachu face, right? So you can choose one of those. It comes with a Pokeball, which is a pen stand, which is cylindrical. It does not have a flat bottom and it's weighted. It's weighted so it wobbles.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is... And you can put the Lamy Safari right on top of it. It's perfectly fit to put the Safari in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is so far superior than anything I ever thought it would be. Yep. You're blowing... The more you talk about it, the more you're blowing my mind about this. I didn't realize how detailed this was going to be. Like the sounds and the pen rest. I didn't even notice like the tail on the pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I have a Pikachu's Tallulah case.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They made a little case. It's like zip open. It's got two pockets. It doesn't have a specific pen pocket. It just has two wide pockets and a little net pocket on the front, which comes with it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, I see it now in the picture.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So you get some Lamy ink cartridges in a Pikachu box. They're blue, which is a shame, right? But I understand. And that's their stock. Yeah. But they made a special box, though, at least, which I think is cool. And then... Zipper has a little charm, it looks like. Yep. The Pikachu tail. And the pouch itself on one side has like debossed Pikachu and Pokeball kind of icons. And then what I love inside is it's got Pokemon in Chinese. Like the logo in Chinese. This is for sale in China only. Ha ha. Suck it, Lamy. I've got one. I am thrilled with this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Can you tell me... Like I've done the conversion for what this cost. Can you tell me what it cost you? Can Pikachu tell me what it cost for you to get all this shipped to you?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So there is a slight wrinkle in the story where the shipping was really expensive. Sure, sure, sure. For various reasons. About like the size of the box. And then it was like you could choose to have it like quickly or it's going to take forever. Right? Like there were a couple of different options for it. The entire thing cost me 204 Canadian dollars.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. So...

'''Myke Hurley:''' So 164 US dollars.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. That's crazy. Like... Not like egregiously priced. Like I'm...

'''Myke Hurley:''' So the shipping was like 100 Canadian dollars.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That was how it ended up working out. And it was like various issues around the shipping. Shipping can be difficult. And this was just the shipping that we ended up choosing. Yes. I would say for me personally, 164 dollars for this, including shipping. I would pay more than that. This is like a limited edition set of something that means so much to me. And I would want it. And I've got it. So...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Just the base Chinese translation. Like if you picked it up over there, just like if you were in store, it would cost you about 70 US dollars. Which I don't get it. Like this is a lot of stuff. Like for... Like they've done... Like the Bear, the Line Friends safaris were more expensive than this. And you got way less stuff than you're getting with this. That sounds like the right price. What you ended up paying for it, even with all the shipping in it. That's crazy. I really had no idea. Because I didn't pay this much mind because I'm not a Pokemon fan. But I saw this. I was like, oh, that's really cool. But it's even better than I thought it would. Very cool. Yeah. I like it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Again, it was better than I thought. Like I didn't know that it all made sounds. And I didn't know like the level of detail that is in some of these elements. Like I am thrilled with this. I am absolutely thrilled with it. And I filled it with the yellow Robo Oster ink that I have.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, cool. That was smart. I didn't even think to ask you that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I am very, very excited. I think this will keep a permanent place on my desk because it has its own pen stand. So why would it not?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it's a Pokeball pen stand.

'''Myke Hurley:''' A Pokeball pen stand with a yellow Lamy Safari and a little sleeping Pikachu attached to it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, I want one of these and I'm not even a Pokemon person. Yeah. Well, I miss Pokemon was the generation like where I wasn't interested in that type of stuff. It was right in the middle for me. Like it could have come before or later. I would have been in, but it wasn't. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, there is still a possibility that I have a second one of these. So I'll let you know about that. Yeah. This is one of those things where I have multiple people offer me and I took all the offers because I wanted it that bad. Right. Well, they limited them pretty much. Exactly. And it was like you had to get it in China. Right. Like, yes. And I think that I think Derek was in China, I think, which was how he was able to get it. So I got backups and I'll deal with the backups if I need to. But this was something I wasn't going to let pass me by because I would have been really upset. I tried to get it on my own and I couldn't. Like I tried as many ways as possible and it just wasn't going to work out for me to get it on my own.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Harder to buy direct from China than Japan and some of the other countries.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm hmm. Mm hmm.