Editing The Pen Addict 408/transcript (section)

== Pen Releases Discussion ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Apathetic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So we won't spend too much time on it. But Blackwing did a bracket of all of their pen releases. So I think it was a 32 pencil. I said pen releases. Pencil releases. So they did... They made a bracket, you know, like a Final Four basketball, sports, or any type of event type of bracket. And so the Final Four... I'm not going to go through the entire bracket. But the Final Four are the 155, which is the Bauhaus edition, versus the 811, which is the library edition. I don't know if that's the official names of these or not. But... And then that was one competition. And then the second competition was the Natural, which is the recently released wooden natural barrel of the... I don't know if that was 602 or Extra Firm. I think it had an Extra Firm in the core. And the 16.2, which is the Ada Lovelace edition, the black and white. Or I should say white and black edition. So out of those two brackets, the 811 beat the 155. So the library beat the Bauhaus. And then the 16.2 beat the Natural. So it was 16.2 Ada Lovelace versus 811. Myke in the final. And guess who won? 811 won. Hooray! I was kind of... Yay! Myke is apathetic! Woo! Woo!

'''Myke Hurley:''' Woo! But I'm shocked. I am very surprised that 811 won. As great of an edition as it is, I'm glad it won, though. Because it's a spectacular edition. It's a tribute to libraries. And it's this cool green kind of gradient. It glows in the dark. It's got the firm core. It's a great pencil. I didn't think in no estimation if I would have put my own bracket together would have 811 even been in the final four. Although it deserves to be there. And I'm glad that it won. I would have picked probably 16.2 all the way. Which I'm glad that that made it into the final match. And that's probably one of my all-time favorites. Although I probably would have had a different final four with only 16.2 in it. But I wanted to throw that out there. We'll have a link in the show notes to the bracket. If you're a pencil fan or a Blackwing fan, you can check this out and see how some of your favorites did. For example, the traditional 602 got knocked out early. Which was a shock for me. I don't know if it would have made my final four, but it was a first-round loser. So there you have it. There's your Blackwing bracket for all of y'all to go inspect and Myke to ignore and delete this from his feed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Bloop.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Bloop. You probably have an 811 there, Myke, somewhere in the stash that I've sent you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I don't doubt it. It glows in the dark. You should at least go glow it in the dark. Okay. Have a rave. Bust out the glow sticks. Have a rave. Use your 811. You can do this. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have faith in you. I'll make it happen.