Editing The Pen Addict 315/transcript (section)

== Shipping Forwarders ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' And I know they exist, but I want personal rec, like recommendations from listeners, right? Like people that have used these things bunch of times and they know they're good. So.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So we send them to, um, there's a place in New York and then a place in Portland, depending on which side of the country we're going.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, okay, cool. All right. Well, let me know. Yep. But yeah, I still want to hear from people though. If they have recommendations.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure. Sure. Sure. All right. So I'm saving my money for Pen Saatchi because I'm not going to be buying the 2018 pilot vanishing point limited edition. This pin is called crossed lines. And what did you think when you saw this Myke? So this is a link on Reddit, but this link came from Hamilton pen company, which is a British fountain pen retailer. So this was an email from them to their mailing lists showing the new pilot, uh, 2018 lemon edition pilot. Anyone found it anywhere? Like, can it be found? I looked, I looked, I looked on Hamilton's website and it wasn't listed yet, but I mean, I don't have any reason to think this is not true. I mean, if it came from an official source, a pilot retailer from their email list, I don't have a problem discussing it. So there, there is a risk we could be wrong. I, I'd say this is probably a high certainty of existing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So like, this is a, seems like a super strange pen to photograph. And I feel like it could be photographed way better. I'm assuming this is an official press, like an official product shot, but it's a pen that has a bunch of vertical and horizontal lines on it. But there is a line from a light from the photos that also goes down it. So, well, is that a line that's on the pen? Like it's not good photography. And also it's just not a good looking pen, especially because why don't the lines line up?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, I don't know what to say other than, you know, you're, you're preaching to the choir here. I, I, you know, it's fine. It's a perfectly fine pen. It will do well. Their lemon edition vanishing points always do well, but it's just super boring. Super, it doesn't make any sense. Like they really did such a good job these last few years with the crimson sunrise and the twilight and all these gradient colors and super pretty wild stuff. And this is just looks like a, your basic stock vanishing point. You know, that, I don't know. It's fine. I have no interest in it. I don't get it. It's like the Burberry plaid kind of model. You know, it's just got these lines in it. And it'd be nice of like, okay, can the lines be metal inlays? You know, do something special. It's like your 100 tier anniversary pilot. Give us something, man. I don't know what's going on here.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. But this isn't the 100th anniversary pen though, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it's not, but it's still their 100th anniversary year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, it's definitely not anything related to their 100th anniversary, but it's just, it's a letdown, you know, and I don't buy all these. I didn't, I didn't even buy like the super pretty ones I was just talking about. You know, I don't need any more of these, but this is just like not even on the, on the radar. I don't get it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I would say that like, I feel that, I don't know. I'm trying to be hopeful here, right? That they didn't want to make it too special because they have room special pens coming still.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know. I don't know. Hey, we'll go with that. Like I would like, I hope we get some kind of fancy vanishing point for the, for the 100th anniversary, but who knows, who knows what they're going to do. So anyway, I wanted to share that because we just got that. I got that in a, in a Twitch chat this week, Myke. So Twitch has been useful for product information as well. And when I saw that, it was just, you know, the resounding meh.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, and that's a wrap on this episode, Myke. It was definitely not a resounding meh episode. This was a fun episode. I enjoyed talking about silly things like Lamy orange inks and sparkle inks and Cosmos fountain pens and Japanese pens and vanishing points. This was a very pen addict, pen addict episode, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Most definitely. And if you want to find the links to everything we've discussed today, you can head on over to relay.fm slash pen addict slash 315, or you should check in your podcast player of choice. Hopefully the links will be right there. If you need them, you can find Brad online. He is over at pen addict.com. He's dowdyism on Twitter, pen addict on Instagram, but you want to go to twitch.tv slash pen addict where you can follow Brad, you can subscribe to Brad and check out what he's doing over on Twitch, which is a lot of fun. I am at iMike, I-M-Y-K-E, and we'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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