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== AL Star Design ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, it's, it's like someone took sandpaper to the AL star, um, the, the metallic style and made it satiny or matte looking and it looked awesome. Well, should I buy one? Well, of course. Like I don't buy these, like in, in general, I don't buy the AL star cause it's, I prefer the safari. So I usually get the limited edition safaris. Um, I don't really care for the AL star for some reason. I just, I like the plastic, plastic barrel, not the, uh, aluminum barrels for some reason, which is kind of strange, but yeah, I mean all the UK, all the UK stockists have them already or at least taking orders from them.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. Well, I'm going to get one. Okay. And, uh, we'll see. I mean, I don't know where I'm going to buy it from cause the pen shop doesn't, oh, there you go. It's got a fine nib in it. Okay. Whatever. It doesn't seem like they can choose. I mean, the shoes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hmm. Well, I'll find, I'll find one. I'll buy one and then, uh, we can see. I can, I can tell you what it looks like. Yeah. Plus, I mean, even if it's a metallic color, honestly, that, uh, it is, it's interesting to me. I like the color a lot.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. The, the picture is actually reposted on one of the pens. I wonder if the, just the original ones down, go look at that link real quick.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. Let me take a look at it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You see it in the, uh, in the IG, in the chat room. Yep. This is a different pen from Lamy's marketing, in my opinion. What on earth? But it could totally be the lighting. It could absolutely, it's probably just the lighting. Right? But that's a different pen. I like this one better.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Cause if, if you look at like, there are some other photos where you can clearly see it shiny. Right. There's something going on with the lighting of this Wonder Pens photo. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Unless this is, this isn't the Safari, is it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, they're calling it AL star.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I know, but anyway, it's interesting. I think it's, I think it's, we're making too big of a deal of it. I think it's purely lighting, but that picture just begs questions. Right. Yeah. It's different from what they do. And I want the one in the picture, not the one in the Lamy marketing. Yeah. Me too.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Me too. I'm still gonna, I'm still gonna pick this up though, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Which, to revert back, which is why I choose the Safari. Because I like that color better. That's a color you end up with on a Safari.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You reckon they'll bring the Safari out in that color?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I would hope so. That'd be a great color. Maybe I'll wait then. They've done turquoise recently, like three, four years ago they did turquoise. But, I mean, they post two or three green ones three years in a row. So, I wouldn't be surprised to see this come out in Safari. I would much prefer it there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'll see if I can, I mean, I'm struggling to find one right now. Yeah. It's difficult to buy from the websites, but I'll take a look at it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm sure this is all much ado about nothing. We're making more of a big deal about it. But I thought it was interesting, because they're very different looking.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Really? I mean, what we're looking for is Lamy to bring out the pen that we want. You know, how hard can it be?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, it's going to be hard, because the next pen in the list is the pen I want. And you haven't seen this yet, because I just put it in before we started. But why don't you feed me first? Oh, no.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've just seen the title, and I'm terrified.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, let's get after it.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, you ready?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm ready. All right, let me click this link then. So this is a, the title is New Bung Box Sailor. What? I saw this, this came out. What is this?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yesterday, I don't know. So we need, we need the chat room to get involved in here because I haven't totally sussed out what's happening here, but it's a Sailor Pro gear with the gunmetal finishings, with the metal section, with this sparkly orange barrel, and I'm about to just pass out right here in my chair. Like, I don't, I want to go through the screen or I want to fly to Japan because I need this pen in my life. And I can't quite get all the information I need.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's a translation on it. Yeah. Not so much. That kind of says pre-orders are coming. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Not so much.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's like a page on their website which has the pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So. How do you get it? It's, yeah, so it's looking, the chat room's saying it's actually gold, not orange. I don't care. It's gold to me. Amazing. It's still beautiful. It's amazing with the black trim. Like, this is, this is, yeah, it's a fifth anniversary. I don't know if it's fifth anniversary of Bung Box. Pre-order sales beginning soon. I just don't know much about it. I can't totally, totally kill. So it looks like it's a Bung Box fifth anniversary pen. And, yeah, we're, this is, I'm going to do some work. I pretty much going to break. Like, I was trying not to buy any pens before the LA pen show, but I think I'm just going to have to go and figure out a way to purchase this because it's going to be mine. Yeah. I really want one. It's pretty awesome. Looks like they're going to have a special ink for it too. Sailor ink, which, you know, they have millions of sailor inks, but, Myke. I want it. Yeah. So, when the Japan world tour comes, we're going to, we'll do the live show at Bung Box.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And this time we'll just tell people that, you know, we're just going to use all the money for pens and they're not going to get anything.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. We can't even go anymore.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Amazing. So, anyway, that's happening. This one is normally wouldn't even be show note or podcast even warranted. But I got this email and I thought it was interesting enough to put in here because Blue Bottle Coffee is super well known for what they are. They're very high end, very particular coffee shop. I know you visit them when you go to WWDC in San Francisco. Or New York. Or New York. I've subscribed to their beans before. They're wonderful, make wonderful coffee. So, I got this link that they are now selling a notebook. It's called the Blue Bottle Waterproof Journal. Like everything Blue Bottle does, it's beautiful. I'm just curious what made them do a waterproof journal other than for baristas as they're measuring their Aeropresses for the World Aeropress Championships. And they might get splash on the notebook. Why else do we need a waterproof journal? I would buy this because it's reporter style. I love the style. I love the look. I love the blue belly band. I don't need waterproof paper. And they don't even make note of that, by the way, a bunch of your pens aren't going to work on this paper. And also, it's $28. But that's Blue Bottle's thing. I don't really have any reason to mention this. I don't have much to say about it other than it was more of a, huh, that's weird. Do you have anything to say? I just wanted to kind of point that out. It's like, I don't know what they're trying to do here. It would be great if this was just a regular paper notebook because it's super cool looking. But, oh well.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, there's too many levels of weird.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. So, I'm not weird for thinking this is weird?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, like, why are you buying? Why are they making it? Why are they making a notebook? Why is the notebook waterproof? Why can you buy 20 of them at one time? They have like a quantity. You pick a quantity of notebooks and it goes from 1 to 20. And they're $28 each. I don't understand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're 6 by 3 and 3 quarters. So, that's barely bigger than a Field Notes, right? It looks great. It looks awesome. It's got a pin slot on the, it's got a pin loop on one side.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It has their signature blue bat like color as the little elastic that goes around it. You know, I can't work it out. I can't work out why this thing exists. It doesn't make any sense. I don't think they sell anything else like this. Like, they sell like tote bags, like merchandise, but they don't, yeah, I can't get my head around it, Brad. I don't understand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, no big deal. I mean, it's cool. But, yeah, I just, you would sell a lot more if it was normal paper. So, that's my hang up. You know, they're not marketing as is, as this is your baristaing technical notebook, right? To keep all your measurements and calculations and timings. And, by the way, if you spill something, it's not going to ruin anything. Nope. None of that. It's, hey, we made this sweet notebook. By the way, it's waterproof. We're not going to tell you that most of your pins aren't going to work in it, though. So, I just find it odd. It's not a big deal. But I got that link and I was like, okay, this is cool. And I wasn't going to talk about it. Then I kept thinking about it and that just annoyed me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's strange. It's just strange.