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== Lamy Pikachu Set ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' With this other Lamy that flew by us today, there is a Pokemon Pikachu Lamy set exclusive for what seems to be China. And I don't know how I'm going to get this, but I need it. I need it desperately. It is a Pokeball case, like a rectangular case, which includes a, like a soft, looks like it comes with a soft case as well, which is, or maybe these are separate. It's difficult to tell, but at least it's a yellow Lamy Safari with a Pikachu tail logo on it. And it's yellow with a brown clip. There is a Pikachu like a topper that you can get, which goes onto the clip and a Pokeball pen stand. I need this so badly. Like, I cannot even, like, this is the marriage of, like, two of my favorite things in the entire world. Pens and Pokemon. With a brand that I already know and love. I am, I'm dying. I'm dying for this. I need, I need it so badly. And it's like one of those things, like how? I'm like searching around the internet. Like, how do you buy this? Everyone's just like, you know, I'm translating all these tweets from, from, I assume Chinese, if it's in China or maybe it's in, I don't know. But like, and it's all just like, oh, Pokemon Lamy released. But like, where though? Like, you can't just say that. Like, is it not coming? Yeah. Is it coming later? Is it already sold out? Like, none of this is, is information that I need. The information I need is, this is where you buy it. Or like, this is how you get one. Like, I need it. So, please, if anybody knows how I can get a hold of one of these, I really, I need to know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, this is a bigger package than I've seen them do for just about anything. Yeah, it's bigger than the line package.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a big box of stuff. And like, everything is branded. Like, I don't know what color the ink cartridges are. I hope they would be yellow, but I bet they're not. But they've got like, Pikachu's face on them. It's, oh my god.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Yeah. Like, I'm not a Pokemon fan at all. Like, I was, I totally missed that, you know. It's like, why?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't, I don't understand why this is a Chinese exclusive as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, I don't know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Surely it would make more sense for Japan than China. I don't understand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know. It looks amazing. What, I mean, I'd buy it just for the box alone. I mean, this whole kit is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I do these regional exclusives as well. Let me buy it, Lamy. What is wrong with you?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And the thing about it is, like, this, this yellow pin with the red clip they've done. Like, this is, these are stock colors for them. But how they built it around this entire setup is amazing. But yeah. Is it? Yeah. It just looks wonderful. It looks wonderful. I don't, I can't say enough nice things about it. So, Myke needs one. So, listeners, let us know. How? Someone help me. How? Yeah. What, what I need, Myke, are one of these new Musgrave pencil t-shirts. Okay. This is all new to me. And I've kind of seen, like, some pictures going around, but I didn't realize the whole reboot Musgrave's gone through recently. And part of that is from the Erasable podcast, episode 106, with Henry Huland, the former president, owner of the, of the company. He's been in the company for 50 years. It's his family's company and just a great storyteller on the Erasable podcast. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to him. You listen to him talk and you're like, this guy's seen some stuff in his day. You know, I mean, he could tell some really good stories. It was really fun to listen to his interview and especially, like, the specifics around manufacturing. Like, he got into the nuts and bolts of it. And the interesting part was the transformation Musgrave is starting to go through. I guess they started it listening to the show, listening to it, listening to him talk. And he was there with the person who was helping him do a lot of the marketing stuff. They're trying to move the company forward. You know, a company that's been around for 100 years and trying to make themselves current and up to speed with the market. And I can do nothing but applaud them for having the foresight to do this. Like, you know, they're working with people to make these t-shirts and to work on their social media and to make their products available. And importantly, tell the story of why Musgrave is great. And I thought it was very cool. I'm going to get some of these t-shirts. I know some of our listeners have already purchased these t-shirts because they sent me the link saying, hey, I purchased these t-shirts. But I don't know. I love hearing stories about companies like this and companies that are willing to go outside of their comfort zone to stay relevant in this super fast pace changing marketplace that we're in right now. So all credit goes out to Musgrave. Thanks for the interview. Erasable team. It was very fun. And, you know, this is a guy you want to sit down and have a drink with this guy. And you would probably just, you know, your jaw would be hurting from smiling so much. That's what I felt like listening to Henry Huland tell these stories. So it was fantastic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I wasn't listening to you because Jesse in the chat room found the link to the place where you buy these. These Pikachu bands.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's all right. I'm the pencil guy on this show anyway. This has been established.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The website is not helpful. If you don't, if you only speak English, it is not helpful. Even with the translation, because there's like pop-ups and stuff that you won't translate. So I don't know what to do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You're not going to be able to get any work done until this transaction is complete.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I'm starting to understand that maybe I have no way of completing this transaction.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we'll make it happen. Well, we know people. We'll make it happen.

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