Editing The Pen Addict 309/transcript (section)

== Lucky Dip Phrase ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So like a lucky dip is you've got like a pile of stuff, maybe like a pile of wrapped things, right? Imagine like a bunch of prizes locked up in some little boxes, and they're all kind of like in a barrel, and you just reach in and grab one. It's lucky, and you just dip in and grab one. Lucky dip.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Logically, it makes sense. But lucky dip, where I live, involves like a can of Copenhagen or Skoll. So it's not really like the same type of thing. I don't know what that means either. Tim, I don't have a great answer for you, because I have this problem too. I know I've got some of my Franken and Kristoff Masuyama nibs mixed in with some things that I don't... I'm going to have a hard time telling apart, and I'm regretting that now, because those are tough to come by. The one solution I've used, not regularly, is to use the ink vials that you get the samples in, those little four millimeter vials, and you can drop the nib in there and label it on the outside. So that's probably the best way to do it. But I haven't found a great solution other than that, and I definitely have a mess of nibs that I know I have some really nice stuff laying in. This is one of those questions that I love.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We get questions like this for this show. We get questions like this for Upgrade too. where someone has a problem that they don't want to have to fix themselves, and they are just hoping that we have some kind of magical way to help them. But unfortunately, Tim, you already knew the answer to this question, and it was half of a day of sitting with a magnifying glass and a bunch of little pots. That's what is ahead of you, my friend.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That is what is ahead of you. So lucky dip those things. Lucky dip. And then when you lucky dip and pull one, investigate it, write it down, and save it in a little vial. And you won't have to lucky dip anymore on your nibs. All right. Capital Y1 says, I think you guys have ruined me. Ever since I began using Nanami Crossfield and Hobonichi Cousin, all non-Tomoe river paper feels awful. What is one to do? You just got to own it, York. You can get every size of paper, pad, notebook, planner in Tomoe river paper now. We're spoiled in that aspect. That no matter what you want, what format you want to write in, you can get something with Tomoe river. So, I mean, it's not going to be in your office photocopier. But I think anywhere else, you should be able to cover yourself even from little small pocket notebooks to giant A4s and larger sizes. So, yeah. So, just own it. Own the Tomoe. Get it everywhere. All right, Myke. We have one of our favorite types of Ask TPA questions. Okay. The big hypotheticals. So, this is a two-parter, but similar. And I'll read through the entire thing for both of us. So, we each have a part in this. So, this is from Dave. He says, for Brad, let's try a hypothetical. Suppose you're elected the next president of the United States. As your first act as president, in a small room of the Capitol, just off the stage where you just took your oath of office, you sign about 700 executive orders, repealing just about everything your predecessor has done. So far, this is factually correct. As you're the new American president, you want this act to celebrate the best of all things American. Upon which American paper have you had your staff print these executive orders and which American pen and ink do you use to sign them? So, that's my part of this question. Myke's, as you can imagine, is similar yet different. So, let's go there. For Myke, let's say that you have led your massive following to rise up and overthrow the queen. You've slaughtered her and her family. This took quite a turn, Myke. I don't like this. Releasing her dragons back to the wild and taking her realm by force. You're quite a jerk. I'm way nicer. Or however you become the great leader of Britain. He does. There is an out there. You know, he thinks that's like Dave's, you know, assuming that's how you would take control. But, you know, there is an out. Or however you become the leader of Great Britain. After your scribes have used up all of the royal family's blood, drafting odes to your greatness. You need a new ink. You must similarly choose the best of British ink, paper, and pen to record your royal decrees. What do you use?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want to start by taking an umbrage with this, the way that everything is done in this question. So there are like just many things that are wrong because if I wanted to take power in this country, becoming the monarch would not be the way I would do it. I would just be the prime minister. But I don't understand why you just get to be elected, but I have to slaughter somebody. That's what I don't understand. That doesn't seem fair to me. No, it's not fair. It's reasonable. No, I don't think it is. But there we are. Plus, I also don't really have any good answers for this question anyway.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is a very difficult question. So with me, the pen part is easy, at least in the thought that I gave it. And I could be forgetting something, but I'm going to go with Parker.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, Parker has a huge traditional relationship with this company. It may not be owned by, I don't even know who owns Parker now, but it originated as an American company and was, you know, a huge, huge part in the forming of the writing industry in this country. So I would probably get, you know, 700 Parker dual folds, the classic Parker fountain pen to sign all of my 700 executive orders because every signature, you have to give away the pen. So I would do that. I would probably get French paper company to print up anything that I needed, which exact paper brand I would use. I don't know. But French has been around for a while. They're a well-known, well-known printer. And the ink's kind of the kicker. Like, you know, there's old, you know, American inks like Carter's and then the basic stuff like the Parker stuff. Is there any modern American ink I would use? You know, the Birmingham, I don't know what they call the Birmingham Ink Company. Are they making their own inks? It's Papier Plume, Papier Plume's, I guess, making their own inks. So yeah, I would have to figure out which company I would want to use. It wouldn't be Noodler's. I know that's the easy, the easy one. But although they're one of their permanent inks actually might be pretty good. So maybe the like the Noodler's bulletproof stuff, that might be pretty good for executive orders. So I don't know. That's a, it's a really hard question. Just come with like the, the, the pure American traditional type of setup. Um, there's just not a lot of wonderful options. Do you have anything, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' For, for the American?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' After you kill everybody? Oh yeah, of course. After you kill everybody.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh, I just, I don't really have anything for paper or ink. Um, but I guess if I was gonna choose something for a pen, I would maybe go with like something more modern because that's what I'm all about. And I would maybe go for like the, then the Mi Suixion, which is a pen that I really, really like a lot. Um, and I know that's maybe a little bit controversial, but I love it. Um, and I've been enjoying using it a lot recently and it's a, uh, British made brand. So yeah, that works for me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. A Johto might be another good one. That's a more modern brand. I was looking more classic brands.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was thinking of a Johto, but, um, I prefer the fountain pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Like I could do, if I was going modern, you know, I'd probably go like Frank and Christophe or Edison, something like that. Mm-hmm. Paper wise, yeah, I don't know, I don't know what paper to use. Is, is WH Smith a classic British company? And then ink, uh, diamine? Well, but they're a stationer.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They don't make good stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I didn't make, I didn't pick like an original paper maker. Like French is a printer, essentially. I just let them pick me the good stuff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, but like they only sell stuff and the stuff that they make themselves is all white label and it's not good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yep. But that was, uh, that was an interesting question that I don't know if we did like a super great job on. We'll have to put some more. Well, I'm sure we'll get a lot of follow up on this particular question, especially how evil you are. But to wrap this up, uh, the question on everybody's mind this past week, Myke, unfortunately, um, this is one of those, those internet things. Those darn people on the internet and their things. We need to know. The people need to know. Robo Jim wants to know, especially Yanni or Laurel.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you want to find our show notes for this week's episode, you can go to relay.fm slash pen addict slash 309. I want to thank Harry's pen chalet and Joe Perra talks with you for the support of this show. Can you tell what I'm doing right now, Brad? I'm refusing to engage the show in this meme. Uh, you can find Brad's work over at pen addict.com and he sells amazing products at knock.co. He's on Instagram. He's pen addict. He's dowdy. He's on Twitter. And I am I Myke. I am Y K E. We'll be back next time. Uh, if you want to submit a question for the show, just send out a tweet with the hashtag ask TPA, or you can send something in the pen addict slack as well. If you're a member of the slack group and we will be compiling them for future episodes, please keep them away from memes that date the show. Horrifically, uh, we'll be back next time until then say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad. See you next time.

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