Editing The Pen Addict 210/transcript (section)

== Lamy Tipo ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So let me talk about this Tipo real quick. This is actually one of my favorite weirdo Lamy pens. I love this pen. Not everyone does. It has a little bit of a slick grip. The ridges are plastic, so it's a little bit slick. And then the knock is just the clip. And it's a little bit awkward the way it pokes out. I happen to love it. It's just a cool feeling plastic barrel. And it fits the Pilot G2 refills, which means it fits the Pilot Juice refill, which means I have my Tipo on my desk at all times with a Pilot Juice blue-black .38mm refill. I love this pen. It's just really cool. And then I scrolled down his offers mic. He snuck something in here that's pretty crazy. It's the very last item on the list, and it's the Pelican Special Edition Suvarian M800 Burnt Orange Fountain Pen. This is a killer pen, and it's $570. The retail is $845. Street price is usually around $700-ish, I think, at other sites. For $570, that's a huge break on a pen that was very, very popular. They launched that in 2015, and it's a limited edition, so when it's gone, it's gone.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's tempting. Not going to lie.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a good deal on that pen. Not going to lie. So take a look at that. But, you know, that's the opposite ends of the spectrum between the Tipo and the Burnt Orange, but wow, that's crazy. That's a good deal. Yeah. So you can tell the pause. Yeah, I can hear those words turning. I'm really thinking about it. Yeah, that's a good price on that for a really, really great pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cool. Thank you so much to Pen Chalet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Let's not spend my money during the show, but wait till after. All right. So last week, so we recorded early for last week's episode, but I don't know if you got anything that I didn't get, but I got more feedback on last week's episode than I've gotten on a show in a long time. I don't know if you noticed that by chance. Did you?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I didn't see much more than usual. I think maybe a lot of it came direct to you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I think most of it does. Anyway, so I was just curious if you had anything. Everyone really appreciated the honest conversation around the burnout topic. And even Ed, who we spoke about on the thing on the show, because we were kind of referencing, you know, some of the tweets he had to me and, you know, he wanted to talk about that topic. He's like, he, you know, he thought the show went well and he's like, y'all want me to come on and talk about it? And I was like, you know, we have gotten so much feedback on that episode. I actually went and re-listened to it this morning and I felt pretty good about it myself. So I am trying to get Ed on next week. It's not signed, sealed and delivered yet, but we'll do that. So any more questions you guys have on the topics we discussed last week about blogging and, you know, doing this as a business and burning out and, you know, responsibilities and things like that, let us know. And I'll send out a tweet once we finalize it to make sure that Ed can arrange a schedule to come on. But we'll talk about that. Everyone really, really appreciated that topic. I got more wonderful emails about that specific topic than I have in a long, long time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I'm not surprised. You know, whenever we cut to the bone, as it were, some people tend to enjoy that. You know, if you've been listening to the show for a long time, I think people care about us, because people care about you especially, I'm sure. And they want to, you know, if you kind of talk about something raw like that, it connects with people.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. So on the opposite end of that spectrum, we got a ton of feedback on the Ackerman conversation we had from one of our emailers about us butchering the names. So Ralph did two awesome things. Number one, he recorded a video on YouTube with all the pronunciations. And separately from that, Myke, he created an individual file for each name, shared those in Dropbox if someone wants to build a soundboard. So every name of the 30 Ackerman inks, or 31, has its own sound file. So if anyone feels frisky and wants to make a soundboard, we have all the files. And thank you, Ralph. That was freaking amazing. Yeah. How cool is that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I watched the video today. Uh-huh. It doesn't matter how many times I watched this video. There are names in here I will never be able to say. And my favorite thing is when every now and then they just throw an English one in there. Yeah, right. Like Chinatown Red. It's like, a minute ago, you're talking like, making these sounds like, sounds that I can't make. And then it's like, oh, Chinatown Red. Like, what? What are you doing?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So not only that, not only did Ralph come through in a big way, Gerard, who is also in Holland, he made another video of the Akramal inks, of all the pronunciation. Actually, the sound quality is a little bit better in his. And then he also has Jay Harbaugh and Orochizuku videos that he linked to me as well, where he's pronounced all of this stuff. So how cool is that? Our listeners are amazing. I know. These are fantastic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So thank you, Ralph. Thank you, Gerard, for doing this. This is so cool. I'm just fascinated by doing this. And I listen to these things. And I'm like you. It's funny. And I even got another email about the shocking blue name, how it just seemed to be just a regular name. And the gentleman, I don't have it pulled up right now. So I apologize. I'm missing your name. But he said that was related to an actual band from that region, was how that name came about. So I'd like to look into that a little bit more, because I think that's pretty funny.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. Well, they're all in the show notes in case people want them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So we'll have all these links. You should go listen to these videos and brush up on your pronunciation skills. And I will do that and I will still butcher them. So but I'll work on it. You know, maybe I can maybe I can perfect like the inks that I own. That should be my goal. You know, I can't do them all. But the ones I talk about all the time, like 28 and 8. I should work on those. 28 was one of the hardest, though. Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' 28 is one of the hardest. All right. Well, I'm going to do here. OK, I'm going to I'm going to bring it up so I can hear it. It won't come through in the in the audio of the show. So it's just in my headphones here. I want to see if I can bring up number 28 and see what I can do based on the pronunciation from Ralph. All right. OK. Yes. So where are we? OK, so I'm just going to listen to this now. See what I'm able to put up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, my God, I can't. I don't think I'm going to be able to do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Try one more time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hang on. This is like live Rosetta Stone.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is tough, man.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just close your eyes. All right. Be the ball.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hufquatia Grun. That is my attempt. That is my attempt there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That was wonderful.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Hufquatia Grun. So now you you you now own Akramo Annunciations on the show. Good job. Nailed it.