Editing The Pen Addict 239/transcript (section)

== Pen Goals ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. This is one... This is, like, my... My theme in pens this year is to elevate my pen addict status. Oh. So, there are, like... I think there are, like, two pillars, right, of being a pen addict.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. Like, to get to that... I'd like to hear this. Like, to get to that top tier, one of them is buying a pen from Sean Newton.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And then the other is buying a Nakaya. Like, they are, like, the final boss stage.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right? Like, they're, like, these two... Like, custom pens and super expensive fountain pens are, like, a theme in what we get into with the fountain pen stuff. Right? Like, they are kind of, like...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, it kind of became an eventuality, right? Yeah. But, you know, I don't want it to be that way. Like, I don't want... I want someone to use their awesome Pilot G2 gel ink pen and love this show the same. Like, there's no... No, no, no. This is not a requirement.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But it's... I just feel like at the point where I am now, like, having done this show with you for so many years, like, these are, like, the two things that are missing. Like, because I am a fountain pen person. Right. And I have bought many custom pens. And I've bought some very expensive fountain pens. I've had some expensive customs made. But these are, like, I consider to be two holes in my collection. Gotcha. And so I have plugged one of them now for, honestly, what I thought would be about 50% of what it would cost me to get in price-wise. Like, I was expecting to spend closer to $1,000 on a Newton pen. Like, I don't know why, but that was just my assumption. Oh, yeah. And I think it might just be because people tend to request lots of weird and wonderful things of Sean, which pushes the prices up. But what I want is exactly what I saw. Yeah. So this was, like, one of those things where I was, like, let me see how much it costs. Like, I just said, like, give me a quote. And he told me what it was before shipping, like, $200 and something. And I'm, like, yeah, I want it. Like, yeah, this is a no-brainer for me because I get to achieve, like, a little personal goal in my pen addictness with one of, like, this is just going to be a jewel in my collection. Right. This will be, like, how I have my sky at night sitting on my desk at all times. Like, I will try and find some kind of stand for that thing that can do it justice and it will just sit there on my desk in all of its glory. Like, my sky at night sits in its little stand. Yeah. You know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, just get Jonathan. I mean, he makes the materials to get him to make you put an order in for a stand at Atlanta. I was thinking that. So, you'll have it later in the year. You know. Absolutely.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I might ask him to do that. That's a very good idea. So, yeah. So, this is just something that I want. Second is an Akaya. Like, I am going to get one this year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I'll spoil something that I was going to talk about later. But I've ever so slightly changed the Akaya that I want to get. I was digging around on their website and they have made, I don't know how new this is, but the one that I love, I can't say the names of them very well. It's the Akaya that has, like, the lines kind of scraped out of the middle of it. Like, it's orange with, like, the black kind of scrape.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's the Nagoro style.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. But they have made one where they've inverted the colors. Yeah. So, it's now black. And they scrape out with these. So, it has these big red lines in it. Yeah. And it looks like the most incredible evil pen. Yeah. And this is what I'm going to get.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. This is the one. I don't think it's even close. And, you know, I'm an orange guy. I love my orange Nagoro. This one's better. Without question.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I saw it and I was like, that's what I need. So, I don't know what it's going to take for me to get it. Like, this is going to be part of a journey of getting this thing from financially. And then also just, like, how you go about ordering. Like, I know it's not difficult. But it's, I know that for many people, it's a little bit daunting.