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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Okay.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Okay.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' This episode is brought to you by our friends over at Pen Chalet. Do you remember that? We do pens around here. They're not, they're not tire chalet or anything like that. It is the wonderful people at Pen Chalet. Because we know that really what you're interested about around here is pens. And Pen Chalet, oh boy, have they got the pens. From all of your favorite brands, you can get Pelican pens, you can get Pilot pens. Namiki, Sailor, Kaweco, Lamy, Monteverde, Estabrook. The list goes on and on and on and on. And they're an authorized dealer of all of them. They're adding new products all the time from new companies and new types of products. Whether you want a rollerball, a fountain pen, a pen holder of refill, ink, carrying cases, every type of accessory, every type of product you're looking for, Pen Chalet has got it. Always go to Pen Chalet first for a few reasons. One, they do 100% satisfaction guarantee on their high quality products. They do special discounts twice a month. They do free shipping on orders of over $50 in the US. They sell internationally with great shipping rates. And because you listen to the show, you can get 10% off anything at Pen Chalet by going to ~~PennChalet~~.com and clicking the podcast link at the top of the website and entering the password ~~PennAddict~~. And you will get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at Pen Chalet. And also, you will be able to peruse some special offers only for ~~Penn~~ Addict listeners. Like what, Brad?		'''Myke Hurley:''' This episode is brought to you by our friends over at Pen Chalet. Do you remember that? We do pens around here. They're not, they're not tire chalet or anything like that. It is the wonderful people at Pen Chalet. Because we know that really what you're interested about around here is pens. And Pen Chalet, oh boy, have they got the pens. From all of your favorite brands, you can get Pelican pens, you can get Pilot pens. Namiki, Sailor, Kaweco, Lamy, Monteverde, Estabrook. The list goes on and on and on and on. And they're an authorized dealer of all of them. They're adding new products all the time from new companies and new types of products. Whether you want a rollerball, a fountain pen, a pen holder of refill, ink, carrying cases, every type of accessory, every type of product you're looking for, Pen Chalet has got it. Always go to Pen Chalet first for a few reasons. One, they do 100% satisfaction guarantee on their high quality products. They do special discounts twice a month. They do free shipping on orders of over $50 in the US. They sell internationally with great shipping rates. And because you listen to the show, you can get 10% off anything at Pen Chalet by going to PenChalet.com and clicking the podcast link at the top of the website and entering the password PenAddict. And you will get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at Pen Chalet. And also, you will be able to peruse some special offers only for Pen Addict listeners. Like what, Brad?

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right out the gate, the Colorverse Nebula 2020 weekly planner. The Colorverse Nebula notebooks are getting rave reviews across the Pinternet. I have ordered some for myself to test. Anyone who has written about them for the ~~Penn~~ Addict has loved them. And people outside of the ~~Penn~~ Addict family have told me how much they enjoy these notebooks. So this is the planner version for 2022 at a really, really good deal, practically half off. Also, one of my favorite products is well known on the show, the Caran D'Ache 849 ballpoint. So Caran D'Ache, I actually haven't even seen these Style 3 Claim Your Styles version 3 ballpoints. But the Claim Your Style version 1, version 2, and version 3 all have a really big sale going on right now at Pen Chalet. And that's about as good as price as you'll ever see on these pens. They sometimes get a little bit discounted. But this is even, I have a ~~Penn~~ Addict edition 849. And these retail for more. But after the discounts that Pen Chalet are running right now, they come out to less. So that's a really, really good price for really one of my favorite pens. This is one of those endless lists that just goes on and on and on. There's some really interesting gift items in here. There's actually one of the Cross Classic pens. You know, the basic skinny cross pen. They actually have a really updated version that's pretty inexpensive. You know, it's like, I don't need that pen personally. But maybe you have someone in your life that needs a stocking stuffer. And that looks like a pretty killer pen for a pretty great price.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right out the gate, the Colorverse Nebula 2020 weekly planner. The Colorverse Nebula notebooks are getting rave reviews across the Pinternet. I have ordered some for myself to test. Anyone who has written about them for the Pen Addict has loved them. And people outside of the Pen Addict family have told me how much they enjoy these notebooks. So this is the planner version for 2022 at a really, really good deal, practically half off. Also, one of my favorite products is well known on the show, the Caran D'Ache 849 ballpoint. So Caran D'Ache, I actually haven't even seen these Style 3 Claim Your Styles version 3 ballpoints. But the Claim Your Style version 1, version 2, and version 3 all have a really big sale going on right now at Pen Chalet. And that's about as good as price as you'll ever see on these pens. They sometimes get a little bit discounted. But this is even, I have a Pen Addict edition 849. And these retail for more. But after the discounts that Pen Chalet are running right now, they come out to less. So that's a really, really good price for really one of my favorite pens. This is one of those endless lists that just goes on and on and on. There's some really interesting gift items in here. There's actually one of the Cross Classic pens. You know, the basic skinny cross pen. They actually have a really updated version that's pretty inexpensive. You know, it's like, I don't need that pen personally. But maybe you have someone in your life that needs a stocking stuffer. And that looks like a pretty killer pen for a pretty great price.


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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, like, I can't even get to the bottom of this list. The Diplomat Arrow rollerballs are a huge percentage off. The ~~Pennider~~ Metropolis rollerballs with all kinds of different colors are, like, it's non-stop. So definitely go check out ~~PennChalet~~.com right now. Use the code PENADDICT. And there is something there for you, I promise.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, like, I can't even get to the bottom of this list. The Diplomat Arrow rollerballs are a huge percentage off. The Penider Metropolis rollerballs with all kinds of different colors are, like, it's non-stop. So definitely go check out PenChalet.com right now. Use the code PENADDICT. And there is something there for you, I promise.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' Thanks to Pen Chalet for the support of this week's episode.		'''Myke Hurley:''' Thanks to Pen Chalet for the support of this week's episode.
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	'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, also it's livery.		'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, also it's livery.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Livery. Yeah, sorry. I'd rather say it livery. But I heard something like livery. I like it. We should start doing that. Like the sailor livery. Sailor livery. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We have some hot off the press, literally, a topic to discuss today. And this relates to an envelope I received in the mail from one of my good ~~Penn~~ friends who happened to be at the Tokyo International Pen Show and happened to acquire me some of the Sanzen Tomoe River Successor paper, which I just opened yesterday on stream. So we can put in a link to my recap of the stream. So if you want to see me testing inks and kind of giving my long form rambly thoughts on my first look at this paper, you can do so. But I have it here in front of me, Myke, and I would like to discuss it if that's good with you. I would, I desperately want to know. First off, my good friend Jacob at Fooday Fan, go check out, we've included this link to his review of the Sanzen paper that's up on his blog. I haven't had that amount of time to spend with the paper yet to do a full proper linkable review. But Jacob's is fantastic. He goes through all the different tests that you would want to see in testing out this paper compared to the version 1 and 2 of Tomoe River paper. So go check out what Jacob has to offer. So my first look was throwing ink at the page with a folded nib, right? So I'm putting a lot of ink on the page. And then I did a little bit of writing. So for round two, I'm going to do a lot more writing because that's what really most of us use this paper for. But the idea with this paper is to recap, Sanzen is a manufacturer that bought Tomoe River in name from Tomoe Gawa Paper Company. So Sanzen is the new owner of the Tomoe River brand with the intent to make a similar paper to the famed original Tomoe River paper that fountain pen fans love and rave about and is used in a lot of products.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Livery. Yeah, sorry. I'd rather say it livery. But I heard something like livery. I like it. We should start doing that. Like the sailor livery. Sailor livery. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We have some hot off the press, literally, a topic to discuss today. And this relates to an envelope I received in the mail from one of my good Pen friends who happened to be at the Tokyo International Pen Show and happened to acquire me some of the Sanzen Tomoe River Successor paper, which I just opened yesterday on stream. So we can put in a link to my recap of the stream. So if you want to see me testing inks and kind of giving my long form rambly thoughts on my first look at this paper, you can do so. But I have it here in front of me, Myke, and I would like to discuss it if that's good with you. I would, I desperately want to know. First off, my good friend Jacob at Fooday Fan, go check out, we've included this link to his review of the Sanzen paper that's up on his blog. I haven't had that amount of time to spend with the paper yet to do a full proper linkable review. But Jacob's is fantastic. He goes through all the different tests that you would want to see in testing out this paper compared to the version 1 and 2 of Tomoe River paper. So go check out what Jacob has to offer. So my first look was throwing ink at the page with a folded nib, right? So I'm putting a lot of ink on the page. And then I did a little bit of writing. So for round two, I'm going to do a lot more writing because that's what really most of us use this paper for. But the idea with this paper is to recap, Sanzen is a manufacturer that bought Tomoe River in name from Tomoe Gawa Paper Company. So Sanzen is the new owner of the Tomoe River brand with the intent to make a similar paper to the famed original Tomoe River paper that fountain pen fans love and rave about and is used in a lot of products.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's been a long road to get here from a stationary fan perspective, right? So Tomoe Gawa stopped making, stopped using the original machines for the Tomoe River paper that everyone loves. And that caused some problems because their replacement was very poor. It was not representative of the original at all. So it's been a challenge ever since then to see, hey, are we going to have something similar? And I think Sanzen has done a really good job here.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's been a long road to get here from a stationary fan perspective, right? So Tomoe Gawa stopped making, stopped using the original machines for the Tomoe River paper that everyone loves. And that caused some problems because their replacement was very poor. It was not representative of the original at all. So it's been a challenge ever since then to see, hey, are we going to have something similar? And I think Sanzen has done a really good job here.

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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, that was a really, really fun episode, and I've been wanting to talk with Annabelle on the show for quite some time now. I think her story is amazing, and she's doing awesome stuff, and I wanted to share it and get her on in chat. So, it was a huge, huge thanks to Annabelle for doing that and making the time. Yeah, we had fun. So, I don't know if you caught one certain part of it where I need you to coordinate the London ~~Penn~~ Show one week apart from the Dutch ~~Penn~~ Show so I can travel to both on the same journey. So, I'm going to need you to work on that next year, okay?		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, that was a really, really fun episode, and I've been wanting to talk with Annabelle on the show for quite some time now. I think her story is amazing, and she's doing awesome stuff, and I wanted to share it and get her on in chat. So, it was a huge, huge thanks to Annabelle for doing that and making the time. Yeah, we had fun. So, I don't know if you caught one certain part of it where I need you to coordinate the London Pen Show one week apart from the Dutch Pen Show so I can travel to both on the same journey. So, I'm going to need you to work on that next year, okay?

	'''Myke Hurley:''' What happened to the Capital ~~Penn~~ Show?		'''Myke Hurley:''' What happened to the Capital Pen Show?

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was their first year was going to be the 2020 year. Was it? It was going to be year one of that. And so, then I have not tracked what's happened from then with that particular show. I just know that the standard, what's the London writing equipment show?		'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was their first year was going to be the 2020 year. Was it? It was going to be year one of that. And so, then I have not tracked what's happened from then with that particular show. I just know that the standard, what's the London writing equipment show?
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	'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, also it's livery.		'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, also it's livery.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Livery. Yeah, sorry. I'd rather say it livery. But I heard something like livery. I like it. We should start doing that. Like the sailor livery. Sailor livery. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We have some hot off the press, literally, a topic to discuss today. And this relates to an envelope I received in the mail from one of my good Penn friends who happened to be at the Tokyo International ~~Penn~~ Show and happened to acquire me some of the Sanzen Tomoe River Successor paper, which I just opened yesterday on stream. So we can put in a link to my recap of the stream. So if you want to see me testing inks and kind of giving my long form rambly thoughts on my first look at this paper, you can do so. But I have it here in front of me, Myke, and I would like to discuss it if that's good with you. I would, I desperately want to know. First off, my good friend Jacob at Fooday Fan, go check out, we've included this link to his review of the Sanzen paper that's up on his blog. I haven't had that amount of time to spend with the paper yet to do a full proper linkable review. But Jacob's is fantastic. He goes through all the different tests that you would want to see in testing out this paper compared to the version 1 and 2 of Tomoe River paper. So go check out what Jacob has to offer. So my first look was throwing ink at the page with a folded nib, right? So I'm putting a lot of ink on the page. And then I did a little bit of writing. So for round two, I'm going to do a lot more writing because that's what really most of us use this paper for. But the idea with this paper is to recap, Sanzen is a manufacturer that bought Tomoe River in name from Tomoe Gawa Paper Company. So Sanzen is the new owner of the Tomoe River brand with the intent to make a similar paper to the famed original Tomoe River paper that fountain pen fans love and rave about and is used in a lot of products.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Livery. Yeah, sorry. I'd rather say it livery. But I heard something like livery. I like it. We should start doing that. Like the sailor livery. Sailor livery. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We have some hot off the press, literally, a topic to discuss today. And this relates to an envelope I received in the mail from one of my good Penn friends who happened to be at the Tokyo International Pen Show and happened to acquire me some of the Sanzen Tomoe River Successor paper, which I just opened yesterday on stream. So we can put in a link to my recap of the stream. So if you want to see me testing inks and kind of giving my long form rambly thoughts on my first look at this paper, you can do so. But I have it here in front of me, Myke, and I would like to discuss it if that's good with you. I would, I desperately want to know. First off, my good friend Jacob at Fooday Fan, go check out, we've included this link to his review of the Sanzen paper that's up on his blog. I haven't had that amount of time to spend with the paper yet to do a full proper linkable review. But Jacob's is fantastic. He goes through all the different tests that you would want to see in testing out this paper compared to the version 1 and 2 of Tomoe River paper. So go check out what Jacob has to offer. So my first look was throwing ink at the page with a folded nib, right? So I'm putting a lot of ink on the page. And then I did a little bit of writing. So for round two, I'm going to do a lot more writing because that's what really most of us use this paper for. But the idea with this paper is to recap, Sanzen is a manufacturer that bought Tomoe River in name from Tomoe Gawa Paper Company. So Sanzen is the new owner of the Tomoe River brand with the intent to make a similar paper to the famed original Tomoe River paper that fountain pen fans love and rave about and is used in a lot of products.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's been a long road to get here from a stationary fan perspective, right? So Tomoe Gawa stopped making, stopped using the original machines for the Tomoe River paper that everyone loves. And that caused some problems because their replacement was very poor. It was not representative of the original at all. So it's been a challenge ever since then to see, hey, are we going to have something similar? And I think Sanzen has done a really good job here.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's been a long road to get here from a stationary fan perspective, right? So Tomoe Gawa stopped making, stopped using the original machines for the Tomoe River paper that everyone loves. And that caused some problems because their replacement was very poor. It was not representative of the original at all. So it's been a challenge ever since then to see, hey, are we going to have something similar? And I think Sanzen has done a really good job here.

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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Okay.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Okay.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' This episode is brought to you by our friends over at ~~Penn~~ Chalet. Do you remember that? We do pens around here. They're not, they're not tire chalet or anything like that. It is the wonderful people at ~~Penn~~ Chalet. Because we know that really what you're interested about around here is pens. And ~~Penn~~ Chalet, oh boy, have they got the pens. From all of your favorite brands, you can get Pelican pens, you can get Pilot pens. Namiki, Sailor, Kaweco, Lamy, Monteverde, Estabrook. The list goes on and on and on and on. And they're an authorized dealer of all of them. They're adding new products all the time from new companies and new types of products. Whether you want a rollerball, a fountain pen, a pen holder of refill, ink, carrying cases, every type of accessory, every type of product you're looking for, ~~Penn~~ Chalet has got it. Always go to ~~Penn~~ Chalet first for a few reasons. One, they do 100% satisfaction guarantee on their high quality products. They do special discounts twice a month. They do free shipping on orders of over $50 in the US. They sell internationally with great shipping rates. And because you listen to the show, you can get 10% off anything at ~~Penn~~ Chalet by going to PennChalet.com and clicking the podcast link at the top of the website and entering the password PennAddict. And you will get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at ~~Penn~~ Chalet. And also, you will be able to peruse some special offers only for Penn Addict listeners. Like what, Brad?		'''Myke Hurley:''' This episode is brought to you by our friends over at Pen Chalet. Do you remember that? We do pens around here. They're not, they're not tire chalet or anything like that. It is the wonderful people at Pen Chalet. Because we know that really what you're interested about around here is pens. And Pen Chalet, oh boy, have they got the pens. From all of your favorite brands, you can get Pelican pens, you can get Pilot pens. Namiki, Sailor, Kaweco, Lamy, Monteverde, Estabrook. The list goes on and on and on and on. And they're an authorized dealer of all of them. They're adding new products all the time from new companies and new types of products. Whether you want a rollerball, a fountain pen, a pen holder of refill, ink, carrying cases, every type of accessory, every type of product you're looking for, Pen Chalet has got it. Always go to Pen Chalet first for a few reasons. One, they do 100% satisfaction guarantee on their high quality products. They do special discounts twice a month. They do free shipping on orders of over $50 in the US. They sell internationally with great shipping rates. And because you listen to the show, you can get 10% off anything at Pen Chalet by going to PennChalet.com and clicking the podcast link at the top of the website and entering the password PennAddict. And you will get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at Pen Chalet. And also, you will be able to peruse some special offers only for Penn Addict listeners. Like what, Brad?

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right out the gate, the Colorverse Nebula 2020 weekly planner. The Colorverse Nebula notebooks are getting rave reviews across the Pinternet. I have ordered some for myself to test. Anyone who has written about them for the Penn Addict has loved them. And people outside of the Penn Addict family have told me how much they enjoy these notebooks. So this is the planner version for 2022 at a really, really good deal, practically half off. Also, one of my favorite products is well known on the show, the Caran D'Ache 849 ballpoint. So Caran D'Ache, I actually haven't even seen these Style 3 Claim Your Styles version 3 ballpoints. But the Claim Your Style version 1, version 2, and version 3 all have a really big sale going on right now at ~~Penn~~ Chalet. And that's about as good as price as you'll ever see on these pens. They sometimes get a little bit discounted. But this is even, I have a Penn Addict edition 849. And these retail for more. But after the discounts that ~~Penn~~ Chalet are running right now, they come out to less. So that's a really, really good price for really one of my favorite pens. This is one of those endless lists that just goes on and on and on. There's some really interesting gift items in here. There's actually one of the Cross Classic pens. You know, the basic skinny cross pen. They actually have a really updated version that's pretty inexpensive. You know, it's like, I don't need that pen personally. But maybe you have someone in your life that needs a stocking stuffer. And that looks like a pretty killer pen for a pretty great price.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right out the gate, the Colorverse Nebula 2020 weekly planner. The Colorverse Nebula notebooks are getting rave reviews across the Pinternet. I have ordered some for myself to test. Anyone who has written about them for the Penn Addict has loved them. And people outside of the Penn Addict family have told me how much they enjoy these notebooks. So this is the planner version for 2022 at a really, really good deal, practically half off. Also, one of my favorite products is well known on the show, the Caran D'Ache 849 ballpoint. So Caran D'Ache, I actually haven't even seen these Style 3 Claim Your Styles version 3 ballpoints. But the Claim Your Style version 1, version 2, and version 3 all have a really big sale going on right now at Pen Chalet. And that's about as good as price as you'll ever see on these pens. They sometimes get a little bit discounted. But this is even, I have a Penn Addict edition 849. And these retail for more. But after the discounts that Pen Chalet are running right now, they come out to less. So that's a really, really good price for really one of my favorite pens. This is one of those endless lists that just goes on and on and on. There's some really interesting gift items in here. There's actually one of the Cross Classic pens. You know, the basic skinny cross pen. They actually have a really updated version that's pretty inexpensive. You know, it's like, I don't need that pen personally. But maybe you have someone in your life that needs a stocking stuffer. And that looks like a pretty killer pen for a pretty great price.


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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, like, I can't even get to the bottom of this list. The Diplomat Arrow rollerballs are a huge percentage off. The Pennider Metropolis rollerballs with all kinds of different colors are, like, it's non-stop. So definitely go check out PennChalet.com right now. Use the code PENADDICT. And there is something there for you, I promise.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, like, I can't even get to the bottom of this list. The Diplomat Arrow rollerballs are a huge percentage off. The Pennider Metropolis rollerballs with all kinds of different colors are, like, it's non-stop. So definitely go check out PennChalet.com right now. Use the code PENADDICT. And there is something there for you, I promise.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' Thanks to ~~Penn~~ Chalet for the support of this week's episode.		'''Myke Hurley:''' Thanks to Pen Chalet for the support of this week's episode.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' So when are we going to start talking about pens and the different colors as their livery?		'''Brad Dowdy:''' So when are we going to start talking about pens and the different colors as their livery?

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