Editing The Pen Addict 204/transcript (section)

== Pen Purchases ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' That is just stunning. So you bought that. And what else did you buy at the pen show?

'''Tiff Arment:''' Oh, what didn't I buy at the pen show? This really should be the question.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, that's the way to do it. Oh, you got a Franklin Kristoff of a music nib, right?

'''Tiff Arment:''' I did. I got, I got that. I got a Karis Customs. I got a Parker 41, which Brad helped me purchase from the, the lovely and, oh, come on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The lovely and talented Susan Wirth.

'''Tiff Arment:''' Yes. Thank you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That pen. I've actually fallen in love with that pen. I almost bought that pen for me in Chicago. I just didn't get around to doing it.

'''Tiff Arment:''' Yeah. The debutante one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Because it's such a cool color. That blue color with the, and the way the cap's designed is really, really good looking.

'''Tiff Arment:''' Yeah. The cream color. It's so pretty. It's so pretty. It writes really nice too. And, you know, she's replaced the bladder fill system. So it's, it fills and writes wonderful. And I also got a-

'''Myke Hurley:''' What is it called?

'''Tiff Arment:''' The debutante. Debutante. Yeah. Parker 41. I like that. They come in different colors, but I have the teal one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've actually found a picture of the exact one that you have, which is great. Like, it's like the teal with the white cap and the kind of gold. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

'''Tiff Arment:''' That's it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's beautiful. It is beautiful. So you've got a vintage pen, a Newton pen, a Franklin Christophe. Yeah.

'''Tiff Arment:''' I got another vintage Waterman flex nib pen.

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

'''Tiff Arment:''' Man, I got so much stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We should have given Tiff the scavenger hunt. That would have been like the pen addict scavenger hunt. Buy a modern pen, buy a custom pen, buy a vintage pen.

'''Tiff Arment:''' I did all those things. You did them all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You checked all the boxes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I did.

'''Tiff Arment:''' I even got a retro 51 too, so.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, you have to. That's a given. So what are you doing with these?

'''Tiff Arment:''' Right now, I'm just like writing, filling up notebooks with like writing the same word over and over and over again, trying to make it look perfect. Um, or just doing little doodles. And I just feel like I'm writing all the time, but it's nonsense. You know, like I'll write out song lyrics or I'll make lists that are actually useful for something I need to do. But, um, yeah, I just, I'm constantly using them because I just really like the way they feel and I hope to do some like lettering artwork with them and various things that I've seen on Pinterest and other people that I very much admire. They're the things that they write with them, but I'm working up to that because I'm still practicing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I've put in the show notes, a couple of pictures that you tweeted. One was an Instagram photo. One was on Twitter. Like of you just playing around with the pens. Um, which I think, I mean, that's exactly, that's what, I mean, I said like I've been using stuff. That's what I've been doing. Like I just filled up a whole page of a notebook yesterday of just little scribbles and words with the new stuff that I've been receiving. And every now and then when I pick up my sky at night pen.

'''Tiff Arment:''' Oh, that pen, Myke. I love that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cause it sits on my desk always in its little stand and I just pick it up cause it's so impractical to write anything with, right? The music nib is just makes it impossible. So I just sit and just draw little boxes and write little words. And I'm just finding again, like you are like just an enjoyment in just using the stuff again, which is just awesome.

'''Tiff Arment:''' Yeah. It's, I have notebooks filled with garbage. Like it just looks like scribbly garbage and some of it looks cool and I'll take a picture of it for Instagram, but most of it's garbage, but it's, it's all about the practice, right? So when I go to a pen show and I sit down and I'm like, oh yeah, let me test your pen. And then I look at beautiful flourished handwriting. I'm like, oh, that's just me. I'm just that talented.

'''Tiff Arment:''' I didn't practice for 12 weeks straight writing one letter.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This just flows from my hands. I can't even help it.

'''Tiff Arment:''' The talent just oozes from my pores.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, uh, you expect to return to the Atlanta pen show?

'''Tiff Arment:''' Oh, absolutely. It will certainly be a yearly pilgrimage. I had such a great time. I met so many amazing people and learn so much. It just, it was just a great, amazing weekend away surrounded by things that pretty much only I like in my current life circle. You know what I mean? So yeah, it was great. I went on a road trip with a friend of mine, uh, this weekend and I talked her ear off about pens and I'm pretty sure she was like, okay, great. Wow. Super interesting.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm going to drop you off here, right?

'''Tiff Arment:''' Make your own way back. Well, I was the one driving, so she was stuck with me. But yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. There's a little topic that came up, um, from Joe Crace about top three pen brands. And we're going to talk a little bit about that because it's an interesting kind of thought experiment to go through. But before we do that, let me thank Harry's for sponsoring this week's episode. It's time to stop compromising on your shave and get started with Harry's. If for some reason you have yet to make that switch over to Harry's razors, I know that you're going to be paying too much for a comfortable shave or you've settled for a lower quality razor. Don't do that to your skin. Get Harry's. Get a good shave at a good price. It's simple. You can get the best of both. Harry's make their own blades and that's how they can guarantee this. They can make sure that they have great quality German engineered five blade cartridges that are going to give you a close, comfortable shave because they make them. And because they make them, they can keep the cost down. And on average, an everyday shaver saves over $150 a year when they use Harry's. Over one million people have switched to Harry's and you should be one of them. You won't need to be wrestling to get blades from behind plexiglass cases anymore. You'll be able to order online and be at the checkout within 30 seconds and they'll be shipped to your door for free. Harry's have a set called the Truman. It's just $15 and you're going to get yourself a razor, moisturizing shave cream and three razor blades. It's time to stop overpaying for a great shave. Go to harrys.com right now. You'll get $5 off when you use the coupon code PENADDICT with your first purchase. That's H-A-R-R-Y-S.com. Coupon code PENADDICT to check out. You'll get a special $5 off. You're going to end up with products that look great, feel great, smell great. Thank you so much to Harry's for supporting this show and RelayFM.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So I saw this link in your newsletter, Brad, as I do every week. And I will once again thoroughly recommend that people go and sign up and become a PENADDICT member at PENADDICT.com slash members because Brad does one of my, if not favorite, one of my kind of top two favorite email newsletters. It's actually an email I look forward to receiving, which is very rare in my life. Well, thank you. So you should go and read that. And one of the things that I found was in the newsletter was from our friend Joe Crace at the Gentleman Stationer. And Joe wrote a post about his three favorite pen brands. And this isn't something that we talk about. We talk about our favorite pens, right? Quite a lot. And we have what our new favorites are and our top five pens. But brands is a different thing because, you know, this kind of requires that you know a little bit more about the company or have a lot more than just the one pen. So I want to start because I think mine are the least exciting.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have my three and I kind of have a runner up. We have Tiff on the show. Tiff hosts top four. So I've gone for four, right? That's how it works.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's how it works. You're going to cheat just like Marco.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. I'm taking a page out of Marco's book and just refusing to pick the amount that even I set for myself.