Editing The Pen Addict 142/transcript (section)

== Visionaire Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Everyone's favorite pen, the Visionaire. Woo-hoo! So you remember a couple weeks ago we had that Visionaire on eBay. Someone sent me a link to a Visionaire that popped up on eBay. It was selling for like 99 cents or $1.15 at the time. And we all got a huge, huge kick out of that. Well, guess what? The guy who put the post up, the eBay post for the Visionaire, he emailed me. So I said at the time on that episode that I guarantee this guy is a listener or girl is a listener of this podcast. And it turns out that they are. Excellent. So I want to read this email real quick, at least part of it. So he says, hello, Brad and Myke. My name is Dave, and I'm the guy who's eBay auctioned for the infamous Visionaire you read and linked to in episode 140. Love you, Dave. Love you, Dave. You're the best. He says, you put the right eyeballs on the auction, which led to a much higher selling price. $15 is what it went for than I'd expect it. So that was awesome. He said, but what's really great is how it brings me full circle with the pen addict. You see, the very first episode I listened to was number 64. I was already a Visionaire backer, and though I'd previously tested the inky fountain pen waters years prior with a pair of Kaweco Sports and platinum carbon desk pen, I was still a neophyte. Well, needless to say, I loved the podcast and immediately began listening to all the episodes from the beginning. The Visionaire was a bust, but as you had both, so hopefully predicted, I tried some other quality brands and became completely hooked on fountain pens. This is exactly what we hoped would happen, right, Myke? We said, if anything good comes of this Visionaire thing, it's that people who are beginners in fountain pens take the plunge, and hopefully the quality of the Visionaire would not turn them off completely. And they would be interested enough to kind of pursue that line of thinking further. What other fountain pens are there out there? What other inks can I use? Is there something different besides this? I see this is a problem. It doesn't really suit my needs. Can I fix that? And it's really, really cool. So I am happy to see that someone like Dave was willing to kind of make that leap from the Visionaire kind of into the next thing. And he goes on and he bought a TWSBI 580 AL in orange, which neither of us have yet. So he continues saying, I never could have imagined that the Visionaire would once again connect me to your show. That thing is truly a cloud with a silver lining. So I wanted to thank Dave for reaching out and for putting his Visionaire up on eBay because really no one should have that thing in their house because it might get struck by lightning.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So what are you going to do with your Visionaire now, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cherish it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And when you have a child, you're going to sign the birth certificate with it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's any reason to keep it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hmm. Okay. All right. I see that there. So, well, I think we'll end it on that, Myke. We got some more things to talk about, including the Nakaya review I still want to get to. But we've covered a lot of ground in this podcast, and our listeners have a lot of links they need to be reading while they're listening to our podcast. So why don't you tell them where they can find those awesome links that I have so thoughtfully curated for everybody and how they can find us online.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, they can go and find the links at relay.fm slash penaddict slash 142. But Brad, I have some late breaking news.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, late breaking news. This is my kind of news. What you got?

'''Myke Hurley:''' From our friends over at Pen Chalet, we have another deal. So Ron has just, like, got it in in the wire today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Ron, are you in the chat room?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Ron, can you hear us? We've got the Platinum President in Burgundy with a gold nib.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. This looks pretty good. I am not a gold furniture guy, but I like the red resin pins, and that's what the President is. It's very much shaped like the 3776, and it looks like the same type of style, but it's got a lot more flair to it. Yeah, it's fancy. This is what a red resin gold nib pin should look like. Like Pelican makes that sweet 400 tortoise that's got just really pops off the red and the gold. So this is something I'm going to look at after the show and see kind of what we got, what we have here. I don't know that I've seen this pin before, to be perfectly honest with you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So we have the Burgundy Fine and the Burgundy Medium nibs, both gold. The pen usually retails for $275, but for pen addict listeners, after the coupon, you can pick it up for $148.50. Thank you, Pench LA, for getting that in there just before we finish the show today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thanks, Ron.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He's always that. Ron, he just goes the extra mile. He can't. These days, he can't even let the show finish, and he needs to put another deal for pen addict listeners.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, Ron's the best. I reviewed my Orange Pilot Custom 74 that I bought on the show from Ron a few months ago. I reviewed that today on the blog.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Awesome. I'll put that in the show notes, which I already mentioned where you can find them, but I'll say it again. Relay.fm slash pen addict slash 142. Or you can find them in your podcast app of choice. If you'd like to find us online, there's a couple of ways you can do that. If you want to find Brad Dowdy, you can find him at Dowdyism on Twitter, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M, and he is penaddict on Instagram. Also, if you want to find Brad's fantastic work, go to penaddict.com and knock.co. I am Myke Hurley. I am at iMike, I-M-Y-K-E. And I must ask, if you've never listened to my show, Inquisitive, you should pick it up from this coming week's episode. I've been working on something really special, and I hope that you enjoy it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm excited for that. I will tell you, I'm excited for that. I did not. Myke offered up us Relay.fm host a sneak preview, and I didn't listen to it because I want to listen to it when it drops. But I did hear last week's episode with Merlin, which was awesome as the precursor. So I have this built up, Myke, and I'm pretty darn sure you're going to deliver.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I really hope that you'd listen beforehand, but it's fine that you don't.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I hope that everybody else does tune in, though. So I think it's going to be something quite exciting. And I hope that listeners of this show will enjoy it, too. But until then, we'll be back next week. Thanks again to our sponsors of this week's episode, Lunda.com, Squarespace, and our good friends over at Pen Chalet, who just can't stop getting you those deals. They love getting you those deals, and we love Pen Chalet for that as well. But most importantly, thank you all for listening. Until next time, say goodbye, Bradley.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye, Casey.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What's going to get out of here? LAUGHTER LAUGHTER

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