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	* All right. We got another new product, uh, one that we have talked about before, one that again, I've just started using and that's the dominant industry ink archiving book. Mm-hmm. Myke. Um, this is something we've talked about in the past. This is the second version. Um, the first one was like Atlantis or something that's, it's kind of themed. So dominant industry is an ink maker and they also make kind of ink swatching accessories to where, you know, like little tools to help you explore, um, your ink colors and play around with the inks and see what you can do with them. And then last year, or maybe two years ago, their first ink archiving book came out and it's this really thick, you know, probably like 200 page book that has a really fountain pen friendly paper to color. Right. And not just any type of coloring, like fountain pen ink coloring as you've so perfectly put in here in the show notes, extreme adult coloring. I know we've spoken about this product a bunch of times. I don't think I understood truly what it was until I watched your, your stream. Like I watched a clip of, I watched you using it on stream, but that you're, you're just, it's, it's, it's, it's like a, an excuse to put ink on a page, right? You're coloring in essentially with fountain pens or like swatching. I don't know how this didn't click with me, but I think it actually took me seeing how you were using it to understand exactly what it was for. Yeah. So there's a couple of ways that I did it. And like with any type of coloring or, you know, swatching or testing, you have to find the way that works the best for you, right? There's different ways to do it. So the way this book is laid out and I'll find a picture or we'll put a link in the show notes to this one page that I did. I'll find it and send it to you. On the left-hand side of the page, there is kind of a, the, the concept is, Hey, what colors are you getting ready to use? Right? So there's little squares and little lines where you can color in the square. Say it's this color. Like for example, the first one on my page is pilot or Roshizuku Toro, which is like a yellowish orange. So I colored it. So I took a standard dip pen and dipped it in the ink bottle. So I got the full color expectation of what that color would look like using it in a traditional fountain pen. So on this left-hand side of the page, there's room for like eight, there's eight boxes for eight different colors. I use six and played around with these six colors. So on the left-hand side, I use the dip nib, right? So I can get the, what is the pure out of the bottle color? Okay. Then on the right-hand side is like an image. So mine is like a little town. And it's got like some houses, a street, you know, a horse-drawn carriage, an elephant. Like, you know, there's just all kinds of whimsical, like there's cats, you know, and an elephant and a cat riding a horse and just fun stuff like that. It's a long walk, the design. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this book is intense. Like, and it's only like $22 for this book. And it's like, it's crazy how much stuff is in here. So on this side of the page, what I did is I have a little palette where I dropped some ink from each of these bottles that I used on my testing page, right? So these six inks that I used in each little palette section, I took some drops of ink, put them in there. And then I took a water brush and then I took the water brush to the actual scene and just tried to paint however you wanted. But it's really for playing with color and seeing what types of ranges some of these colors have. And then also just like having fun coloring, right? Like, you know, coloring this elephant and coloring this house and seeing how these inks behave on a really, really good paper when they're washed, right? They're washed with like a color. And, you know, they're lighter and darker depending on how much water in this water brush. It's essentially water coloring with fountain pens, but you're using this like a, I use a singular water brush and you just kind of clean it, rinse it between uses here between switching colors or you can mix them all up, right? It's just a fun way to use your fountain pen inks and just have a little, you know, little you time spending coloring. And it's so enjoyable and so fun. I love trying to pick out the colors. Like before I looked at this page and looked at what colors I wanted to use. And I tried to pick a range of colors that I would use that would give me kind of the aesthetic that I wanted. And it's just fun experimenting with that. Like, you know, there's just have fun, make a mess, explore the colors. Like I really, really want to just like keep going on this. And this paper is like really good for this. Like it holds your water well. Like it's, it's, it, it, you think it would be like, I don't know, kind of tough to use, but man, it, it shows off the ink well, holds the water well. And, uh, it's really good. So I highly recommend this. If you have a lot of fountain pen inks and this feels like what to do with them all made for the person who bought too many ink vents. Yeah. Yeah. This could be your ink bit filling notebook. And you would like, what am I supposed to do all these vials? Exactly. Provide the product for you, you know? Exactly. So yeah, it's just fun to mix and match. So like the next, next page I'll do, you know, I'll pick a bunch of new colors and see how that goes. And you can skip around, pick whatever colors you want, you know? Um, there's so many pages you could cut some out, send them to friends and things like that. But like this, this, like a lot of notebooks, this book is made to be destroyed, but, um, they, they kind of, the way they designed it, it makes you just want to fill up the whole thing and, and, and use it. So it's really cool. Highly recommend, um, this ink archiving book. I'm definitely late to the party on this and, uh, could not be more pleased with, uh, everything that it offers.		* All right. We got another new product, uh, one that we have talked about before, one that again, I've just started using and that's the dominant industry ink archiving book. Mm-hmm. Myke. Um, this is something we've talked about in the past. This is the second version. Um, the first one was like Atlantis or something that's, it's kind of themed. So dominant industry is an ink maker and they also make kind of ink swatching accessories to where, you know, like little tools to help you explore, um, your ink colors and play around with the inks and see what you can do with them. And then last year, or maybe two years ago, their first ink archiving book came out and it's this really thick, you know, probably like 200 page book that has a really fountain pen friendly paper to color. Right. And not just any type of coloring, like fountain pen ink coloring as you've so perfectly put in here in the show notes, extreme adult coloring. I know we've spoken about this product a bunch of times. I don't think I understood truly what it was until I watched your, your stream. Like I watched a clip of, I watched you using it on stream, but that you're, you're just, it's, it's, it's, it's like a, an excuse to put ink on a page, right? You're coloring in essentially with fountain pens or like swatching. I don't know how this didn't click with me, but I think it actually took me seeing how you were using it to understand exactly what it was for. Yeah. So there's a couple of ways that I did it. And like with any type of coloring or, you know, swatching or testing, you have to find the way that works the best for you, right? There's different ways to do it. So the way this book is laid out and I'll find a picture or we'll put a link in the show notes to this one page that I did. I'll find it and send it to you. On the left-hand side of the page, there is kind of a, the, the concept is, Hey, what colors are you getting ready to use? Right? So there's little squares and little lines where you can color in the square. Say it's this color. Like for example, the first one on my page is pilot or Roshizuku Toro, which is like a yellowish orange. So I colored it. So I took a standard dip pen and dipped it in the ink bottle. So I got the full color expectation of what that color would look like using it in a traditional fountain pen. So on this left-hand side of the page, there's room for like eight, there's eight boxes for eight different colors. I use six and played around with these six colors. So on the left-hand side, I use the dip nib, right? So I can get the, what is the pure out of the bottle color? Okay. Then on the right-hand side is like an image. So mine is like a little town. And it's got like some houses, a street, you know, a horse-drawn carriage, an elephant. Like, you know, there's just all kinds of whimsical, like there's cats, you know, and an elephant and a cat riding a horse and just fun stuff like that. It's a long walk, the design. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this book is intense. Like, and it's only like $22 for this book. And it's like, it's crazy how much stuff is in here. So on this side of the page, what I did is I have a little palette where I dropped some ink from each of these bottles that I used on my testing page, right? So these six inks that I used in each little palette section, I took some drops of ink, put them in there. And then I took a water brush and then I took the water brush to the actual scene and just tried to paint however you wanted. But it's really for playing with color and seeing what types of ranges some of these colors have. And then also just like having fun coloring, right? Like, you know, coloring this elephant and coloring this house and seeing how these inks behave on a really, really good paper when they're washed, right? They're washed with like a color. And, you know, they're lighter and darker depending on how much water in this water brush. It's essentially water coloring with fountain pens, but you're using this like a, I use a singular water brush and you just kind of clean it, rinse it between uses here between switching colors or you can mix them all up, right? It's just a fun way to use your fountain pen inks and just have a little, you know, little you time spending coloring. And it's so enjoyable and so fun. I love trying to pick out the colors. Like before I looked at this page and looked at what colors I wanted to use. And I tried to pick a range of colors that I would use that would give me kind of the aesthetic that I wanted. And it's just fun experimenting with that. Like, you know, there's just have fun, make a mess, explore the colors. Like I really, really want to just like keep going on this. And this paper is like really good for this. Like it holds your water well. Like it's, it's, it, it, you think it would be like, I don't know, kind of tough to use, but man, it, it shows off the ink well, holds the water well. And, uh, it's really good. So I highly recommend this. If you have a lot of fountain pen inks and this feels like what to do with them all made for the person who bought too many ink vents. Yeah. Yeah. This could be your ink bit filling notebook. And you would like, what am I supposed to do all these vials? Exactly. Provide the product for you, you know? Exactly. So yeah, it's just fun to mix and match. So like the next, next page I'll do, you know, I'll pick a bunch of new colors and see how that goes. And you can skip around, pick whatever colors you want, you know? Um, there's so many pages you could cut some out, send them to friends and things like that. But like this, this, like a lot of notebooks, this book is made to be destroyed, but, um, they, they kind of, the way they designed it, it makes you just want to fill up the whole thing and, and, and use it. So it's really cool. Highly recommend, um, this ink archiving book. I'm definitely late to the party on this and, uh, could not be more pleased with, uh, everything that it offers.
	* Let me tell you a place where you can get this Dominant Industries notebook. It's where I got mine, Myke. With a great discount. It's our friends at Pen Chalet. Pen Chalet sell authentic, amazing rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, all the accessories you're going to need, like notebooks and refills and converters and carrying cases. They have products from your favorite brands at the best prices you're going to find. Pen Chalet runs special discounts twice a month. They have closeout specials every two weeks too. And they're always adding new products to the site. You're always going to find new stuff being added to Pen Chalet. New products from brands that you know, and maybe brands that you don't. They're really good at curating an excellent selection of products. Pen Chalet have fast and reliable customer service. They ship internationally with great shipping rates. And they do free shipping on orders of over $75 in the U.S. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens and offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to ~~PennChalet~~.com slash ~~PennAddict~~. It's there that you'll find a code that you need to save 10% on anything at Pen Chalet. But you'll also see a selection of exclusive offers because you listen to this show. What have we got, Brad? Here's what we're going to do, Myke. We're going to do what they call in the business a call to action. Which, you know, like is a horribly creepy thing to say. Like it's words that I hate, but here's what we're going to do because this page is set up for us. You go over to Pen Chalet and you buy your dominant industry ink archiving book, right? And then you go click on the YouTube radio podcast button. You type in the code ~~PennAddict~~. You don't even need to do that. You can just go to ~~PennChalet~~.com slash ~~PennAddict~~. You know, you can type it in. Yeah, there you go. And it brings you right to this page. Monteverde color changing collection found pennings. Let's go. Right there at the top. So you have not only a set of fun colors to play with, these colors also change with this little solution that they have. So you have like double the pleasure, double the fun with all of these inks, Myke. So you can get black to green, blue to neon yellow, burgundy to orange, deep blue to pink. Imagine all of these colors in the dominant industry ink archiving book. I'm just saying it's something to think about. Brad, even more, once you scroll down the page, incredible prices on vials of inks. Oh, yeah. So Colorverse inks, Hiroshizuku inks, Private Reserve, Sailor, so many more. So again, like perfect if you want to do the dominant industries thing. Yep. And if you don't, if you're just looking at fountain pens, say, Brad, I just need a fountain pen. I need some cool fountain pens. They have the Endless Captiva here, which is the kind of like twist piston that I've always said I was going to buy. And now it's at a really good price. It's got this barrel cut out on the back end of the barrel that it has like the piston mechanism in there. It's really cool. The Kaweco original, like if you don't like the shorter Kawecos, this is the full size aluminum barrel Kaweco. That's a great price and a really, really great pen. And Estabrook JR, they did the Fantasia edition. And so this is a good limited edition that is now on sale over there at Pen Chalet. So yeah, lots of stuff this week to go check out. So go to pennchalet.com forward slash penaddict. And that's where you can get your hands on these incredible deals and discounts. So thanks to Pen Chalet for their continued support of this show and all of Relay. All right, Myke, we got our shout out of the week. Shout out of the week. Did I do okay for you this week? You left me space. I feel like I've been letting you down. Yeah, I did. Which is the important thing. I had to get back in the routine. It took me a while, admittedly, admittedly.		* Let me tell you a place where you can get this Dominant Industries notebook. It's where I got mine, Myke. With a great discount. It's our friends at Pen Chalet. Pen Chalet sell authentic, amazing rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, all the accessories you're going to need, like notebooks and refills and converters and carrying cases. They have products from your favorite brands at the best prices you're going to find. Pen Chalet runs special discounts twice a month. They have closeout specials every two weeks too. And they're always adding new products to the site. You're always going to find new stuff being added to Pen Chalet. New products from brands that you know, and maybe brands that you don't. They're really good at curating an excellent selection of products. Pen Chalet have fast and reliable customer service. They ship internationally with great shipping rates. And they do free shipping on orders of over $75 in the U.S. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens and offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to PenChalet.com slash PenAddict. It's there that you'll find a code that you need to save 10% on anything at Pen Chalet. But you'll also see a selection of exclusive offers because you listen to this show. What have we got, Brad? Here's what we're going to do, Myke. We're going to do what they call in the business a call to action. Which, you know, like is a horribly creepy thing to say. Like it's words that I hate, but here's what we're going to do because this page is set up for us. You go over to Pen Chalet and you buy your dominant industry ink archiving book, right? And then you go click on the YouTube radio podcast button. You type in the code PenAddict. You don't even need to do that. You can just go to PenChalet.com slash PenAddict. You know, you can type it in. Yeah, there you go. And it brings you right to this page. Monteverde color changing collection found pennings. Let's go. Right there at the top. So you have not only a set of fun colors to play with, these colors also change with this little solution that they have. So you have like double the pleasure, double the fun with all of these inks, Myke. So you can get black to green, blue to neon yellow, burgundy to orange, deep blue to pink. Imagine all of these colors in the dominant industry ink archiving book. I'm just saying it's something to think about. Brad, even more, once you scroll down the page, incredible prices on vials of inks. Oh, yeah. So Colorverse inks, Hiroshizuku inks, Private Reserve, Sailor, so many more. So again, like perfect if you want to do the dominant industries thing. Yep. And if you don't, if you're just looking at fountain pens, say, Brad, I just need a fountain pen. I need some cool fountain pens. They have the Endless Captiva here, which is the kind of like twist piston that I've always said I was going to buy. And now it's at a really good price. It's got this barrel cut out on the back end of the barrel that it has like the piston mechanism in there. It's really cool. The Kaweco original, like if you don't like the shorter Kawecos, this is the full size aluminum barrel Kaweco. That's a great price and a really, really great pen. And Estabrook JR, they did the Fantasia edition. And so this is a good limited edition that is now on sale over there at Pen Chalet. So yeah, lots of stuff this week to go check out. So go to pennchalet.com forward slash penaddict. And that's where you can get your hands on these incredible deals and discounts. So thanks to Pen Chalet for their continued support of this show and all of Relay. All right, Myke, we got our shout out of the week. Shout out of the week. Did I do okay for you this week? You left me space. I feel like I've been letting you down. Yeah, I did. Which is the important thing. I had to get back in the routine. It took me a while, admittedly, admittedly.
	* My routine is apparently to continue to shout out many people that we have shouted out before. This week, I want to shout out Sugar Turtle Studio. Tom's a great friend and a great part of our community. Was just at the Chicago Pen Show. Always has a great table. Always teaches great classes on journaling. And this time, I wanted to bring up the Sugar Turtle Studio Instagram because Tom did a fun post where it's called, birth month equals you as a pen. So I want to read these, Myke, and see what you think about your choice. And people can go look at these and see what they are. This is just something, you know, Tom's making up and does a really, really, did a really good job with this. And it's super fun. So this is you as a pen, what your birth month says about you. So January, you're a dip pen diva. I hate it. Okay. Yeah, hate it. Can't handle this dip, honey. I'm a January baby. And I don't like to be. You're January? Yeah, I don't like to be described as such. Why was I thinking you were February? All right. Because I'm January 31st. Like, I'm at the end. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. So yeah, lots of people, like someone in here is like, I would like to file a formal complaint as a June baby. So there's all kinds of fun stuff in here. So Myke already is taking the L. Myke is a dip pen diva. Sorry, Myke. February, you're a cocoon cutie. I don't know. I thought you were a cocoon cutie. Yeah. I'm so close to it. But my baby is. You know, she's one in February. Exactly. Perfect. So your baby's first pen will have to be a cocoon then. So that's a big first pen. But we can see what happens.		* My routine is apparently to continue to shout out many people that we have shouted out before. This week, I want to shout out Sugar Turtle Studio. Tom's a great friend and a great part of our community. Was just at the Chicago Pen Show. Always has a great table. Always teaches great classes on journaling. And this time, I wanted to bring up the Sugar Turtle Studio Instagram because Tom did a fun post where it's called, birth month equals you as a pen. So I want to read these, Myke, and see what you think about your choice. And people can go look at these and see what they are. This is just something, you know, Tom's making up and does a really, really, did a really good job with this. And it's super fun. So this is you as a pen, what your birth month says about you. So January, you're a dip pen diva. I hate it. Okay. Yeah, hate it. Can't handle this dip, honey. I'm a January baby. And I don't like to be. You're January? Yeah, I don't like to be described as such. Why was I thinking you were February? All right. Because I'm January 31st. Like, I'm at the end. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. So yeah, lots of people, like someone in here is like, I would like to file a formal complaint as a June baby. So there's all kinds of fun stuff in here. So Myke already is taking the L. Myke is a dip pen diva. Sorry, Myke. February, you're a cocoon cutie. I don't know. I thought you were a cocoon cutie. Yeah. I'm so close to it. But my baby is. You know, she's one in February. Exactly. Perfect. So your baby's first pen will have to be a cocoon then. So that's a big first pen. But we can see what happens.
	* Maybe a Cortex Mark 1. March, you're a mild liner magician. That's our friend Rob. I don't know if he's born in March, but he is a mild liner magician. He's already testing other highlighters and going, nope, it's not as good as the mild liner. So, which is just a fact. April is a Pilot G2 OG. I'd feel pretty upset if I was for April, April baby and stuck with the G2. So who knows? April would be, I don't know, maybe a Johto. May is the Mont Blanc mama. That's a big W. Yeah. If you're in May, I'm starting to think, what's the name of the person who runs Sugar Total Studio? Tom. Tom. I think Tom was born in May is what I think is going on here. Yeah. Yeah. That's an elite. That's the S tier right there for May. Then we have June. June's pretty solid. June is the big bitch, which I feel like I can say. No, you can't say that. So this is the first time in pen addict history I think I'm going to have to bleep you. Man. Man, that stinks. Yeah. But I don't know. So June is pretty solid. I'm down with June. Mine's coming up soon and I don't even know what it is. I forgot. All right. July is a brush pen beauty, which I can get down with that. I like my brush pens and you can have fun brush pens. So August. Let's see. Let's see what I am. August. Found pen freak. Yeah. Let's go. Now, come on. This is cyberbullying.		* Maybe a Cortex Mark 1. March, you're a mild liner magician. That's our friend Rob. I don't know if he's born in March, but he is a mild liner magician. He's already testing other highlighters and going, nope, it's not as good as the mild liner. So, which is just a fact. April is a Pilot G2 OG. I'd feel pretty upset if I was for April, April baby and stuck with the G2. So who knows? April would be, I don't know, maybe a Johto. May is the Mont Blanc mama. That's a big W. Yeah. If you're in May, I'm starting to think, what's the name of the person who runs Sugar Total Studio? Tom. Tom. I think Tom was born in May is what I think is going on here. Yeah. Yeah. That's an elite. That's the S tier right there for May. Then we have June. June's pretty solid. June is the big bitch, which I feel like I can say. No, you can't say that. So this is the first time in pen addict history I think I'm going to have to bleep you. Man. Man, that stinks. Yeah. But I don't know. So June is pretty solid. I'm down with June. Mine's coming up soon and I don't even know what it is. I forgot. All right. July is a brush pen beauty, which I can get down with that. I like my brush pens and you can have fun brush pens. So August. Let's see. Let's see what I am. August. Found pen freak. Yeah. Let's go. Now, come on. This is cyberbullying.

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	* All right. We got another new product, uh, one that we have talked about before, one that again, I've just started using and that's the dominant industry ink archiving book. Mm-hmm. Myke. Um, this is something we've talked about in the past. This is the second version. Um, the first one was like Atlantis or something that's, it's kind of themed. So dominant industry is an ink maker and they also make kind of ink swatching accessories to where, you know, like little tools to help you explore, um, your ink colors and play around with the inks and see what you can do with them. And then last year, or maybe two years ago, their first ink archiving book came out and it's this really thick, you know, probably like 200 page book that has a really fountain pen friendly paper to color. Right. And not just any type of coloring, like fountain pen ink coloring as you've so perfectly put in here in the show notes, extreme adult coloring. I know we've spoken about this product a bunch of times. I don't think I understood truly what it was until I watched your, your stream. Like I watched a clip of, I watched you using it on stream, but that you're, you're just, it's, it's, it's, it's like a, an excuse to put ink on a page, right? You're coloring in essentially with fountain pens or like swatching. I don't know how this didn't click with me, but I think it actually took me seeing how you were using it to understand exactly what it was for. Yeah. So there's a couple of ways that I did it. And like with any type of coloring or, you know, swatching or testing, you have to find the way that works the best for you, right? There's different ways to do it. So the way this book is laid out and I'll find a picture or we'll put a link in the show notes to this one page that I did. I'll find it and send it to you. On the left-hand side of the page, there is kind of a, the, the concept is, Hey, what colors are you getting ready to use? Right? So there's little squares and little lines where you can color in the square. Say it's this color. Like for example, the first one on my page is pilot or Roshizuku Toro, which is like a yellowish orange. So I colored it. So I took a standard dip pen and dipped it in the ink bottle. So I got the full color expectation of what that color would look like using it in a traditional fountain pen. So on this left-hand side of the page, there's room for like eight, there's eight boxes for eight different colors. I use six and played around with these six colors. So on the left-hand side, I use the dip nib, right? So I can get the, what is the pure out of the bottle color? Okay. Then on the right-hand side is like an image. So mine is like a little town. And it's got like some houses, a street, you know, a horse-drawn carriage, an elephant. Like, you know, there's just all kinds of whimsical, like there's cats, you know, and an elephant and a cat riding a horse and just fun stuff like that. It's a long walk, the design. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this book is intense. Like, and it's only like $22 for this book. And it's like, it's crazy how much stuff is in here. So on this side of the page, what I did is I have a little palette where I dropped some ink from each of these bottles that I used on my testing page, right? So these six inks that I used in each little palette section, I took some drops of ink, put them in there. And then I took a water brush and then I took the water brush to the actual scene and just tried to paint however you wanted. But it's really for playing with color and seeing what types of ranges some of these colors have. And then also just like having fun coloring, right? Like, you know, coloring this elephant and coloring this house and seeing how these inks behave on a really, really good paper when they're washed, right? They're washed with like a color. And, you know, they're lighter and darker depending on how much water in this water brush. It's essentially water coloring with fountain pens, but you're using this like a, I use a singular water brush and you just kind of clean it, rinse it between uses here between switching colors or you can mix them all up, right? It's just a fun way to use your fountain pen inks and just have a little, you know, little you time spending coloring. And it's so enjoyable and so fun. I love trying to pick out the colors. Like before I looked at this page and looked at what colors I wanted to use. And I tried to pick a range of colors that I would use that would give me kind of the aesthetic that I wanted. And it's just fun experimenting with that. Like, you know, there's just have fun, make a mess, explore the colors. Like I really, really want to just like keep going on this. And this paper is like really good for this. Like it holds your water well. Like it's, it's, it, it, you think it would be like, I don't know, kind of tough to use, but man, it, it shows off the ink well, holds the water well. And, uh, it's really good. So I highly recommend this. If you have a lot of fountain pen inks and this feels like what to do with them all made for the person who bought too many ink vents. Yeah. Yeah. This could be your ink bit filling notebook. And you would like, what am I supposed to do all these vials? Exactly. Provide the product for you, you know? Exactly. So yeah, it's just fun to mix and match. So like the next, next page I'll do, you know, I'll pick a bunch of new colors and see how that goes. And you can skip around, pick whatever colors you want, you know? Um, there's so many pages you could cut some out, send them to friends and things like that. But like this, this, like a lot of notebooks, this book is made to be destroyed, but, um, they, they kind of, the way they designed it, it makes you just want to fill up the whole thing and, and, and use it. So it's really cool. Highly recommend, um, this ink archiving book. I'm definitely late to the party on this and, uh, could not be more pleased with, uh, everything that it offers.		* All right. We got another new product, uh, one that we have talked about before, one that again, I've just started using and that's the dominant industry ink archiving book. Mm-hmm. Myke. Um, this is something we've talked about in the past. This is the second version. Um, the first one was like Atlantis or something that's, it's kind of themed. So dominant industry is an ink maker and they also make kind of ink swatching accessories to where, you know, like little tools to help you explore, um, your ink colors and play around with the inks and see what you can do with them. And then last year, or maybe two years ago, their first ink archiving book came out and it's this really thick, you know, probably like 200 page book that has a really fountain pen friendly paper to color. Right. And not just any type of coloring, like fountain pen ink coloring as you've so perfectly put in here in the show notes, extreme adult coloring. I know we've spoken about this product a bunch of times. I don't think I understood truly what it was until I watched your, your stream. Like I watched a clip of, I watched you using it on stream, but that you're, you're just, it's, it's, it's, it's like a, an excuse to put ink on a page, right? You're coloring in essentially with fountain pens or like swatching. I don't know how this didn't click with me, but I think it actually took me seeing how you were using it to understand exactly what it was for. Yeah. So there's a couple of ways that I did it. And like with any type of coloring or, you know, swatching or testing, you have to find the way that works the best for you, right? There's different ways to do it. So the way this book is laid out and I'll find a picture or we'll put a link in the show notes to this one page that I did. I'll find it and send it to you. On the left-hand side of the page, there is kind of a, the, the concept is, Hey, what colors are you getting ready to use? Right? So there's little squares and little lines where you can color in the square. Say it's this color. Like for example, the first one on my page is pilot or Roshizuku Toro, which is like a yellowish orange. So I colored it. So I took a standard dip pen and dipped it in the ink bottle. So I got the full color expectation of what that color would look like using it in a traditional fountain pen. So on this left-hand side of the page, there's room for like eight, there's eight boxes for eight different colors. I use six and played around with these six colors. So on the left-hand side, I use the dip nib, right? So I can get the, what is the pure out of the bottle color? Okay. Then on the right-hand side is like an image. So mine is like a little town. And it's got like some houses, a street, you know, a horse-drawn carriage, an elephant. Like, you know, there's just all kinds of whimsical, like there's cats, you know, and an elephant and a cat riding a horse and just fun stuff like that. It's a long walk, the design. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this book is intense. Like, and it's only like $22 for this book. And it's like, it's crazy how much stuff is in here. So on this side of the page, what I did is I have a little palette where I dropped some ink from each of these bottles that I used on my testing page, right? So these six inks that I used in each little palette section, I took some drops of ink, put them in there. And then I took a water brush and then I took the water brush to the actual scene and just tried to paint however you wanted. But it's really for playing with color and seeing what types of ranges some of these colors have. And then also just like having fun coloring, right? Like, you know, coloring this elephant and coloring this house and seeing how these inks behave on a really, really good paper when they're washed, right? They're washed with like a color. And, you know, they're lighter and darker depending on how much water in this water brush. It's essentially water coloring with fountain pens, but you're using this like a, I use a singular water brush and you just kind of clean it, rinse it between uses here between switching colors or you can mix them all up, right? It's just a fun way to use your fountain pen inks and just have a little, you know, little you time spending coloring. And it's so enjoyable and so fun. I love trying to pick out the colors. Like before I looked at this page and looked at what colors I wanted to use. And I tried to pick a range of colors that I would use that would give me kind of the aesthetic that I wanted. And it's just fun experimenting with that. Like, you know, there's just have fun, make a mess, explore the colors. Like I really, really want to just like keep going on this. And this paper is like really good for this. Like it holds your water well. Like it's, it's, it, it, you think it would be like, I don't know, kind of tough to use, but man, it, it shows off the ink well, holds the water well. And, uh, it's really good. So I highly recommend this. If you have a lot of fountain pen inks and this feels like what to do with them all made for the person who bought too many ink vents. Yeah. Yeah. This could be your ink bit filling notebook. And you would like, what am I supposed to do all these vials? Exactly. Provide the product for you, you know? Exactly. So yeah, it's just fun to mix and match. So like the next, next page I'll do, you know, I'll pick a bunch of new colors and see how that goes. And you can skip around, pick whatever colors you want, you know? Um, there's so many pages you could cut some out, send them to friends and things like that. But like this, this, like a lot of notebooks, this book is made to be destroyed, but, um, they, they kind of, the way they designed it, it makes you just want to fill up the whole thing and, and, and use it. So it's really cool. Highly recommend, um, this ink archiving book. I'm definitely late to the party on this and, uh, could not be more pleased with, uh, everything that it offers.
	* Let me tell you a place where you can get this Dominant Industries notebook. It's where I got mine, Myke. With a great discount. It's our friends at Pen Chalet. Pen Chalet sell authentic, amazing rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, all the accessories you're going to need, like notebooks and refills and converters and carrying cases. They have products from your favorite brands at the best prices you're going to find. Pen Chalet runs special discounts twice a month. They have closeout specials every two weeks too. And they're always adding new products to the site. You're always going to find new stuff being added to Pen Chalet. New products from brands that you know, and maybe brands that you don't. They're really good at curating an excellent selection of products. Pen Chalet have fast and reliable customer service. They ship internationally with great shipping rates. And they do free shipping on orders of over $75 in the U.S. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens and offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to PennChalet.com slash PennAddict. It's there that you'll find a code that you need to save 10% on anything at Pen Chalet. But you'll also see a selection of exclusive offers because you listen to this show. What have we got, Brad? Here's what we're going to do, Myke. We're going to do what they call in the business a call to action. Which, you know, like is a horribly creepy thing to say. Like it's words that I hate, but here's what we're going to do because this page is set up for us. You go over to Pen Chalet and you buy your dominant industry ink archiving book, right? And then you go click on the YouTube radio podcast button. You type in the code PennAddict. You don't even need to do that. You can just go to PennChalet.com slash PennAddict. You know, you can type it in. Yeah, there you go. And it brings you right to this page. Monteverde color changing collection found pennings. Let's go. Right there at the top. So you have not only a set of fun colors to play with, these colors also change with this little solution that they have. So you have like double the pleasure, double the fun with all of these inks, Myke. So you can get black to green, blue to neon yellow, burgundy to orange, deep blue to pink. Imagine all of these colors in the dominant industry ink archiving book. I'm just saying it's something to think about. Brad, even more, once you scroll down the page, incredible prices on vials of inks. Oh, yeah. So Colorverse inks, Hiroshizuku inks, Private Reserve, Sailor, so many more. So again, like perfect if you want to do the dominant industries thing. Yep. And if you don't, if you're just looking at fountain pens, say, Brad, I just need a fountain pen. I need some cool fountain pens. They have the Endless Captiva here, which is the kind of like twist piston that I've always said I was going to buy. And now it's at a really good price. It's got this barrel cut out on the back end of the barrel that it has like the piston mechanism in there. It's really cool. The Kaweco original, like if you don't like the shorter Kawecos, this is the full size aluminum barrel Kaweco. That's a great price and a really, really great pen. And Estabrook JR, they did the Fantasia edition. And so this is a good limited edition that is now on sale over there at Pen Chalet. So yeah, lots of stuff this week to go check out. So go to pennchalet.com forward slash penaddict. And that's where you can get your hands on these incredible deals and discounts. So thanks to Pen Chalet for their continued support of this show and all of Relay. All right, Myke, we got our shout out of the week. Shout out of the week. Did I do okay for you this week? You left me space. I feel like I've been letting you down. Yeah, I did. Which is the important thing. I had to get back in the routine. It took me a while, admittedly, admittedly.		* Let me tell you a place where you can get this Dominant Industries notebook. It's where I got mine, Myke. With a great discount. It's our friends at Pen Chalet. Pen Chalet sell authentic, amazing rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, all the accessories you're going to need, like notebooks and refills and converters and carrying cases. They have products from your favorite brands at the best prices you're going to find. Pen Chalet runs special discounts twice a month. They have closeout specials every two weeks too. And they're always adding new products to the site. You're always going to find new stuff being added to Pen Chalet. New products from brands that you know, and maybe brands that you don't. They're really good at curating an excellent selection of products. Pen Chalet have fast and reliable customer service. They ship internationally with great shipping rates. And they do free shipping on orders of over $75 in the U.S. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens and offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to PennChalet.com slash PennAddict. It's there that you'll find a code that you need to save 10% on anything at Pen Chalet. But you'll also see a selection of exclusive offers because you listen to this show. What have we got, Brad? Here's what we're going to do, Myke. We're going to do what they call in the business a call to action. Which, you know, like is a horribly creepy thing to say. Like it's words that I hate, but here's what we're going to do because this page is set up for us. You go over to Pen Chalet and you buy your dominant industry ink archiving book, right? And then you go click on the YouTube radio podcast button. You type in the code PennAddict. You don't even need to do that. You can just go to PennChalet.com slash PennAddict. You know, you can type it in. Yeah, there you go. And it brings you right to this page. Monteverde color changing collection found pennings. Let's go. Right there at the top. So you have not only a set of fun colors to play with, these colors also change with this little solution that they have. So you have like double the pleasure, double the fun with all of these inks, Myke. So you can get black to green, blue to neon yellow, burgundy to orange, deep blue to pink. Imagine all of these colors in the dominant industry ink archiving book. I'm just saying it's something to think about. Brad, even more, once you scroll down the page, incredible prices on vials of inks. Oh, yeah. So Colorverse inks, Hiroshizuku inks, Private Reserve, Sailor, so many more. So again, like perfect if you want to do the dominant industries thing. Yep. And if you don't, if you're just looking at fountain pens, say, Brad, I just need a fountain pen. I need some cool fountain pens. They have the Endless Captiva here, which is the kind of like twist piston that I've always said I was going to buy. And now it's at a really good price. It's got this barrel cut out on the back end of the barrel that it has like the piston mechanism in there. It's really cool. The Kaweco original, like if you don't like the shorter Kawecos, this is the full size aluminum barrel Kaweco. That's a great price and a really, really great pen. And Estabrook JR, they did the Fantasia edition. And so this is a good limited edition that is now on sale over there at Pen Chalet. So yeah, lots of stuff this week to go check out. So go to pennchalet.com forward slash penaddict. And that's where you can get your hands on these incredible deals and discounts. So thanks to Pen Chalet for their continued support of this show and all of Relay. All right, Myke, we got our shout out of the week. Shout out of the week. Did I do okay for you this week? You left me space. I feel like I've been letting you down. Yeah, I did. Which is the important thing. I had to get back in the routine. It took me a while, admittedly, admittedly.
	* My routine is apparently to continue to shout out many people that we have shouted out before. This week, I want to shout out Sugar Turtle Studio. Tom's a great friend and a great part of our community. Was just at the Chicago ~~Penn~~ Show. Always has a great table. Always teaches great classes on journaling. And this time, I wanted to bring up the Sugar Turtle Studio Instagram because Tom did a fun post where it's called, birth month equals you as a pen. So I want to read these, Myke, and see what you think about your choice. And people can go look at these and see what they are. This is just something, you know, Tom's making up and does a really, really, did a really good job with this. And it's super fun. So this is you as a pen, what your birth month says about you. So January, you're a dip pen diva. I hate it. Okay. Yeah, hate it. Can't handle this dip, honey. I'm a January baby. And I don't like to be. You're January? Yeah, I don't like to be described as such. Why was I thinking you were February? All right. Because I'm January 31st. Like, I'm at the end. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. So yeah, lots of people, like someone in here is like, I would like to file a formal complaint as a June baby. So there's all kinds of fun stuff in here. So Myke already is taking the L. Myke is a dip pen diva. Sorry, Myke. February, you're a cocoon cutie. I don't know. I thought you were a cocoon cutie. Yeah. I'm so close to it. But my baby is. You know, she's one in February. Exactly. Perfect. So your baby's first pen will have to be a cocoon then. So that's a big first pen. But we can see what happens.		* My routine is apparently to continue to shout out many people that we have shouted out before. This week, I want to shout out Sugar Turtle Studio. Tom's a great friend and a great part of our community. Was just at the Chicago Pen Show. Always has a great table. Always teaches great classes on journaling. And this time, I wanted to bring up the Sugar Turtle Studio Instagram because Tom did a fun post where it's called, birth month equals you as a pen. So I want to read these, Myke, and see what you think about your choice. And people can go look at these and see what they are. This is just something, you know, Tom's making up and does a really, really, did a really good job with this. And it's super fun. So this is you as a pen, what your birth month says about you. So January, you're a dip pen diva. I hate it. Okay. Yeah, hate it. Can't handle this dip, honey. I'm a January baby. And I don't like to be. You're January? Yeah, I don't like to be described as such. Why was I thinking you were February? All right. Because I'm January 31st. Like, I'm at the end. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. So yeah, lots of people, like someone in here is like, I would like to file a formal complaint as a June baby. So there's all kinds of fun stuff in here. So Myke already is taking the L. Myke is a dip pen diva. Sorry, Myke. February, you're a cocoon cutie. I don't know. I thought you were a cocoon cutie. Yeah. I'm so close to it. But my baby is. You know, she's one in February. Exactly. Perfect. So your baby's first pen will have to be a cocoon then. So that's a big first pen. But we can see what happens.
	* Maybe a Cortex Mark 1. March, you're a mild liner magician. That's our friend Rob. I don't know if he's born in March, but he is a mild liner magician. He's already testing other highlighters and going, nope, it's not as good as the mild liner. So, which is just a fact. April is a Pilot G2 OG. I'd feel pretty upset if I was for April, April baby and stuck with the G2. So who knows? April would be, I don't know, maybe a Johto. May is the Mont Blanc mama. That's a big W. Yeah. If you're in May, I'm starting to think, what's the name of the person who runs Sugar Total Studio? Tom. Tom. I think Tom was born in May is what I think is going on here. Yeah. Yeah. That's an elite. That's the S tier right there for May. Then we have June. June's pretty solid. June is the big bitch, which I feel like I can say. No, you can't say that. So this is the first time in pen addict history I think I'm going to have to bleep you. Man. Man, that stinks. Yeah. But I don't know. So June is pretty solid. I'm down with June. Mine's coming up soon and I don't even know what it is. I forgot. All right. July is a brush pen beauty, which I can get down with that. I like my brush pens and you can have fun brush pens. So August. Let's see. Let's see what I am. August. Found pen freak. Yeah. Let's go. Now, come on. This is cyberbullying.		* Maybe a Cortex Mark 1. March, you're a mild liner magician. That's our friend Rob. I don't know if he's born in March, but he is a mild liner magician. He's already testing other highlighters and going, nope, it's not as good as the mild liner. So, which is just a fact. April is a Pilot G2 OG. I'd feel pretty upset if I was for April, April baby and stuck with the G2. So who knows? April would be, I don't know, maybe a Johto. May is the Mont Blanc mama. That's a big W. Yeah. If you're in May, I'm starting to think, what's the name of the person who runs Sugar Total Studio? Tom. Tom. I think Tom was born in May is what I think is going on here. Yeah. Yeah. That's an elite. That's the S tier right there for May. Then we have June. June's pretty solid. June is the big bitch, which I feel like I can say. No, you can't say that. So this is the first time in pen addict history I think I'm going to have to bleep you. Man. Man, that stinks. Yeah. But I don't know. So June is pretty solid. I'm down with June. Mine's coming up soon and I don't even know what it is. I forgot. All right. July is a brush pen beauty, which I can get down with that. I like my brush pens and you can have fun brush pens. So August. Let's see. Let's see what I am. August. Found pen freak. Yeah. Let's go. Now, come on. This is cyberbullying.
	* That's like just I think Tom was maybe Tom has no clue what my birthday is, but I feel like, you know, I'm just going to pretend like he did and he's just like sucking up to me right now with the found pen freak. So we'll we'll we'll give Tom a shout out for that. So September novelty pen nincompoop. Wow. Like I think you got to take the L on that one in September. If you're September, you like you're using like floaty pens and just other like silly stuff. Maybe you're what is your yoinks pen?		* That's like just I think Tom was maybe Tom has no clue what my birthday is, but I feel like, you know, I'm just going to pretend like he did and he's just like sucking up to me right now with the found pen freak. So we'll we'll we'll give Tom a shout out for that. So September novelty pen nincompoop. Wow. Like I think you got to take the L on that one in September. If you're September, you like you're using like floaty pens and just other like silly stuff. Maybe you're what is your yoinks pen?

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	* All right. We got another new product, uh, one that we have talked about before, one that again, I've just started using and that's the dominant industry ink archiving book. Mm-hmm. Myke. Um, this is something we've talked about in the past. This is the second version. Um, the first one was like Atlantis or something that's, it's kind of themed. So dominant industry is an ink maker and they also make kind of ink swatching accessories to where, you know, like little tools to help you explore, um, your ink colors and play around with the inks and see what you can do with them. And then last year, or maybe two years ago, their first ink archiving book came out and it's this really thick, you know, probably like 200 page book that has a really fountain pen friendly paper to color. Right. And not just any type of coloring, like fountain pen ink coloring as you've so perfectly put in here in the show notes, extreme adult coloring. I know we've spoken about this product a bunch of times. I don't think I understood truly what it was until I watched your, your stream. Like I watched a clip of, I watched you using it on stream, but that you're, you're just, it's, it's, it's, it's like a, an excuse to put ink on a page, right? You're coloring in essentially with fountain pens or like swatching. I don't know how this didn't click with me, but I think it actually took me seeing how you were using it to understand exactly what it was for. Yeah. So there's a couple of ways that I did it. And like with any type of coloring or, you know, swatching or testing, you have to find the way that works the best for you, right? There's different ways to do it. So the way this book is laid out and I'll find a picture or we'll put a link in the show notes to this one page that I did. I'll find it and send it to you. On the left-hand side of the page, there is kind of a, the, the concept is, Hey, what colors are you getting ready to use? Right? So there's little squares and little lines where you can color in the square. Say it's this color. Like for example, the first one on my page is pilot or Roshizuku Toro, which is like a yellowish orange. So I colored it. So I took a standard dip pen and dipped it in the ink bottle. So I got the full color expectation of what that color would look like using it in a traditional fountain pen. So on this left-hand side of the page, there's room for like eight, there's eight boxes for eight different colors. I use six and played around with these six colors. So on the left-hand side, I use the dip nib, right? So I can get the, what is the pure out of the bottle color? Okay. Then on the right-hand side is like an image. So mine is like a little town. And it's got like some houses, a street, you know, a horse-drawn carriage, an elephant. Like, you know, there's just all kinds of whimsical, like there's cats, you know, and an elephant and a cat riding a horse and just fun stuff like that. It's a long walk, the design. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this book is intense. Like, and it's only like $22 for this book. And it's like, it's crazy how much stuff is in here. So on this side of the page, what I did is I have a little palette where I dropped some ink from each of these bottles that I used on my testing page, right? So these six inks that I used in each little palette section, I took some drops of ink, put them in there. And then I took a water brush and then I took the water brush to the actual scene and just tried to paint however you wanted. But it's really for playing with color and seeing what types of ranges some of these colors have. And then also just like having fun coloring, right? Like, you know, coloring this elephant and coloring this house and seeing how these inks behave on a really, really good paper when they're washed, right? They're washed with like a color. And, you know, they're lighter and darker depending on how much water in this water brush. It's essentially water coloring with fountain pens, but you're using this like a, I use a singular water brush and you just kind of clean it, rinse it between uses here between switching colors or you can mix them all up, right? It's just a fun way to use your fountain pen inks and just have a little, you know, little you time spending coloring. And it's so enjoyable and so fun. I love trying to pick out the colors. Like before I looked at this page and looked at what colors I wanted to use. And I tried to pick a range of colors that I would use that would give me kind of the aesthetic that I wanted. And it's just fun experimenting with that. Like, you know, there's just have fun, make a mess, explore the colors. Like I really, really want to just like keep going on this. And this paper is like really good for this. Like it holds your water well. Like it's, it's, it, it, you think it would be like, I don't know, kind of tough to use, but man, it, it shows off the ink well, holds the water well. And, uh, it's really good. So I highly recommend this. If you have a lot of fountain pen inks and this feels like what to do with them all made for the person who bought too many ink vents. Yeah. Yeah. This could be your ink bit filling notebook. And you would like, what am I supposed to do all these vials? Exactly. Provide the product for you, you know? Exactly. So yeah, it's just fun to mix and match. So like the next, next page I'll do, you know, I'll pick a bunch of new colors and see how that goes. And you can skip around, pick whatever colors you want, you know? Um, there's so many pages you could cut some out, send them to friends and things like that. But like this, this, like a lot of notebooks, this book is made to be destroyed, but, um, they, they kind of, the way they designed it, it makes you just want to fill up the whole thing and, and, and use it. So it's really cool. Highly recommend, um, this ink archiving book. I'm definitely late to the party on this and, uh, could not be more pleased with, uh, everything that it offers.		* All right. We got another new product, uh, one that we have talked about before, one that again, I've just started using and that's the dominant industry ink archiving book. Mm-hmm. Myke. Um, this is something we've talked about in the past. This is the second version. Um, the first one was like Atlantis or something that's, it's kind of themed. So dominant industry is an ink maker and they also make kind of ink swatching accessories to where, you know, like little tools to help you explore, um, your ink colors and play around with the inks and see what you can do with them. And then last year, or maybe two years ago, their first ink archiving book came out and it's this really thick, you know, probably like 200 page book that has a really fountain pen friendly paper to color. Right. And not just any type of coloring, like fountain pen ink coloring as you've so perfectly put in here in the show notes, extreme adult coloring. I know we've spoken about this product a bunch of times. I don't think I understood truly what it was until I watched your, your stream. Like I watched a clip of, I watched you using it on stream, but that you're, you're just, it's, it's, it's, it's like a, an excuse to put ink on a page, right? You're coloring in essentially with fountain pens or like swatching. I don't know how this didn't click with me, but I think it actually took me seeing how you were using it to understand exactly what it was for. Yeah. So there's a couple of ways that I did it. And like with any type of coloring or, you know, swatching or testing, you have to find the way that works the best for you, right? There's different ways to do it. So the way this book is laid out and I'll find a picture or we'll put a link in the show notes to this one page that I did. I'll find it and send it to you. On the left-hand side of the page, there is kind of a, the, the concept is, Hey, what colors are you getting ready to use? Right? So there's little squares and little lines where you can color in the square. Say it's this color. Like for example, the first one on my page is pilot or Roshizuku Toro, which is like a yellowish orange. So I colored it. So I took a standard dip pen and dipped it in the ink bottle. So I got the full color expectation of what that color would look like using it in a traditional fountain pen. So on this left-hand side of the page, there's room for like eight, there's eight boxes for eight different colors. I use six and played around with these six colors. So on the left-hand side, I use the dip nib, right? So I can get the, what is the pure out of the bottle color? Okay. Then on the right-hand side is like an image. So mine is like a little town. And it's got like some houses, a street, you know, a horse-drawn carriage, an elephant. Like, you know, there's just all kinds of whimsical, like there's cats, you know, and an elephant and a cat riding a horse and just fun stuff like that. It's a long walk, the design. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this book is intense. Like, and it's only like $22 for this book. And it's like, it's crazy how much stuff is in here. So on this side of the page, what I did is I have a little palette where I dropped some ink from each of these bottles that I used on my testing page, right? So these six inks that I used in each little palette section, I took some drops of ink, put them in there. And then I took a water brush and then I took the water brush to the actual scene and just tried to paint however you wanted. But it's really for playing with color and seeing what types of ranges some of these colors have. And then also just like having fun coloring, right? Like, you know, coloring this elephant and coloring this house and seeing how these inks behave on a really, really good paper when they're washed, right? They're washed with like a color. And, you know, they're lighter and darker depending on how much water in this water brush. It's essentially water coloring with fountain pens, but you're using this like a, I use a singular water brush and you just kind of clean it, rinse it between uses here between switching colors or you can mix them all up, right? It's just a fun way to use your fountain pen inks and just have a little, you know, little you time spending coloring. And it's so enjoyable and so fun. I love trying to pick out the colors. Like before I looked at this page and looked at what colors I wanted to use. And I tried to pick a range of colors that I would use that would give me kind of the aesthetic that I wanted. And it's just fun experimenting with that. Like, you know, there's just have fun, make a mess, explore the colors. Like I really, really want to just like keep going on this. And this paper is like really good for this. Like it holds your water well. Like it's, it's, it, it, you think it would be like, I don't know, kind of tough to use, but man, it, it shows off the ink well, holds the water well. And, uh, it's really good. So I highly recommend this. If you have a lot of fountain pen inks and this feels like what to do with them all made for the person who bought too many ink vents. Yeah. Yeah. This could be your ink bit filling notebook. And you would like, what am I supposed to do all these vials? Exactly. Provide the product for you, you know? Exactly. So yeah, it's just fun to mix and match. So like the next, next page I'll do, you know, I'll pick a bunch of new colors and see how that goes. And you can skip around, pick whatever colors you want, you know? Um, there's so many pages you could cut some out, send them to friends and things like that. But like this, this, like a lot of notebooks, this book is made to be destroyed, but, um, they, they kind of, the way they designed it, it makes you just want to fill up the whole thing and, and, and use it. So it's really cool. Highly recommend, um, this ink archiving book. I'm definitely late to the party on this and, uh, could not be more pleased with, uh, everything that it offers.
	* Let me tell you a place where you can get this Dominant Industries notebook. It's where I got mine, Myke. With a great discount. It's our friends at ~~Penn~~ Chalet. ~~Penn~~ Chalet sell authentic, amazing rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, all the accessories you're going to need, like notebooks and refills and converters and carrying cases. They have products from your favorite brands at the best prices you're going to find. ~~Penn~~ Chalet runs special discounts twice a month. They have closeout specials every two weeks too. And they're always adding new products to the site. You're always going to find new stuff being added to ~~Penn~~ Chalet. New products from brands that you know, and maybe brands that you don't. They're really good at curating an excellent selection of products. ~~Penn~~ Chalet have fast and reliable customer service. They ship internationally with great shipping rates. And they do free shipping on orders of over $75 in the U.S. ~~Penn~~ Chalet has low prices on high quality pens and offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to PennChalet.com slash PennAddict. It's there that you'll find a code that you need to save 10% on anything at ~~Penn~~ Chalet. But you'll also see a selection of exclusive offers because you listen to this show. What have we got, Brad? Here's what we're going to do, Myke. We're going to do what they call in the business a call to action. Which, you know, like is a horribly creepy thing to say. Like it's words that I hate, but here's what we're going to do because this page is set up for us. You go over to ~~Penn~~ Chalet and you buy your dominant industry ink archiving book, right? And then you go click on the YouTube radio podcast button. You type in the code PennAddict. You don't even need to do that. You can just go to PennChalet.com slash PennAddict. You know, you can type it in. Yeah, there you go. And it brings you right to this page. Monteverde color changing collection found pennings. Let's go. Right there at the top. So you have not only a set of fun colors to play with, these colors also change with this little solution that they have. So you have like double the pleasure, double the fun with all of these inks, Myke. So you can get black to green, blue to neon yellow, burgundy to orange, deep blue to pink. Imagine all of these colors in the dominant industry ink archiving book. I'm just saying it's something to think about. Brad, even more, once you scroll down the page, incredible prices on vials of inks. Oh, yeah. So Colorverse inks, Hiroshizuku inks, Private Reserve, Sailor, so many more. So again, like perfect if you want to do the dominant industries thing. Yep. And if you don't, if you're just looking at fountain pens, say, Brad, I just need a fountain pen. I need some cool fountain pens. They have the Endless Captiva here, which is the kind of like twist piston that I've always said I was going to buy. And now it's at a really good price. It's got this barrel cut out on the back end of the barrel that it has like the piston mechanism in there. It's really cool. The Kaweco original, like if you don't like the shorter Kawecos, this is the full size aluminum barrel Kaweco. That's a great price and a really, really great pen. And Estabrook JR, they did the Fantasia edition. And so this is a good limited edition that is now on sale over there at ~~Penn~~ Chalet. So yeah, lots of stuff this week to go check out. So go to pennchalet.com forward slash penaddict. And that's where you can get your hands on these incredible deals and discounts. So thanks to ~~Penn~~ Chalet for their continued support of this show and all of Relay. All right, Myke, we got our shout out of the week. Shout out of the week. Did I do okay for you this week? You left me space. I feel like I've been letting you down. Yeah, I did. Which is the important thing. I had to get back in the routine. It took me a while, admittedly, admittedly.		* Let me tell you a place where you can get this Dominant Industries notebook. It's where I got mine, Myke. With a great discount. It's our friends at Pen Chalet. Pen Chalet sell authentic, amazing rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, all the accessories you're going to need, like notebooks and refills and converters and carrying cases. They have products from your favorite brands at the best prices you're going to find. Pen Chalet runs special discounts twice a month. They have closeout specials every two weeks too. And they're always adding new products to the site. You're always going to find new stuff being added to Pen Chalet. New products from brands that you know, and maybe brands that you don't. They're really good at curating an excellent selection of products. Pen Chalet have fast and reliable customer service. They ship internationally with great shipping rates. And they do free shipping on orders of over $75 in the U.S. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens and offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to PennChalet.com slash PennAddict. It's there that you'll find a code that you need to save 10% on anything at Pen Chalet. But you'll also see a selection of exclusive offers because you listen to this show. What have we got, Brad? Here's what we're going to do, Myke. We're going to do what they call in the business a call to action. Which, you know, like is a horribly creepy thing to say. Like it's words that I hate, but here's what we're going to do because this page is set up for us. You go over to Pen Chalet and you buy your dominant industry ink archiving book, right? And then you go click on the YouTube radio podcast button. You type in the code PennAddict. You don't even need to do that. You can just go to PennChalet.com slash PennAddict. You know, you can type it in. Yeah, there you go. And it brings you right to this page. Monteverde color changing collection found pennings. Let's go. Right there at the top. So you have not only a set of fun colors to play with, these colors also change with this little solution that they have. So you have like double the pleasure, double the fun with all of these inks, Myke. So you can get black to green, blue to neon yellow, burgundy to orange, deep blue to pink. Imagine all of these colors in the dominant industry ink archiving book. I'm just saying it's something to think about. Brad, even more, once you scroll down the page, incredible prices on vials of inks. Oh, yeah. So Colorverse inks, Hiroshizuku inks, Private Reserve, Sailor, so many more. So again, like perfect if you want to do the dominant industries thing. Yep. And if you don't, if you're just looking at fountain pens, say, Brad, I just need a fountain pen. I need some cool fountain pens. They have the Endless Captiva here, which is the kind of like twist piston that I've always said I was going to buy. And now it's at a really good price. It's got this barrel cut out on the back end of the barrel that it has like the piston mechanism in there. It's really cool. The Kaweco original, like if you don't like the shorter Kawecos, this is the full size aluminum barrel Kaweco. That's a great price and a really, really great pen. And Estabrook JR, they did the Fantasia edition. And so this is a good limited edition that is now on sale over there at Pen Chalet. So yeah, lots of stuff this week to go check out. So go to pennchalet.com forward slash penaddict. And that's where you can get your hands on these incredible deals and discounts. So thanks to Pen Chalet for their continued support of this show and all of Relay. All right, Myke, we got our shout out of the week. Shout out of the week. Did I do okay for you this week? You left me space. I feel like I've been letting you down. Yeah, I did. Which is the important thing. I had to get back in the routine. It took me a while, admittedly, admittedly.
	* My routine is apparently to continue to shout out many people that we have shouted out before. This week, I want to shout out Sugar Turtle Studio. Tom's a great friend and a great part of our community. Was just at the Chicago Penn Show. Always has a great table. Always teaches great classes on journaling. And this time, I wanted to bring up the Sugar Turtle Studio Instagram because Tom did a fun post where it's called, birth month equals you as a pen. So I want to read these, Myke, and see what you think about your choice. And people can go look at these and see what they are. This is just something, you know, Tom's making up and does a really, really, did a really good job with this. And it's super fun. So this is you as a pen, what your birth month says about you. So January, you're a dip pen diva. I hate it. Okay. Yeah, hate it. Can't handle this dip, honey. I'm a January baby. And I don't like to be. You're January? Yeah, I don't like to be described as such. Why was I thinking you were February? All right. Because I'm January 31st. Like, I'm at the end. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. So yeah, lots of people, like someone in here is like, I would like to file a formal complaint as a June baby. So there's all kinds of fun stuff in here. So Myke already is taking the L. Myke is a dip pen diva. Sorry, Myke. February, you're a cocoon cutie. I don't know. I thought you were a cocoon cutie. Yeah. I'm so close to it. But my baby is. You know, she's one in February. Exactly. Perfect. So your baby's first pen will have to be a cocoon then. So that's a big first pen. But we can see what happens.		* My routine is apparently to continue to shout out many people that we have shouted out before. This week, I want to shout out Sugar Turtle Studio. Tom's a great friend and a great part of our community. Was just at the Chicago Penn Show. Always has a great table. Always teaches great classes on journaling. And this time, I wanted to bring up the Sugar Turtle Studio Instagram because Tom did a fun post where it's called, birth month equals you as a pen. So I want to read these, Myke, and see what you think about your choice. And people can go look at these and see what they are. This is just something, you know, Tom's making up and does a really, really, did a really good job with this. And it's super fun. So this is you as a pen, what your birth month says about you. So January, you're a dip pen diva. I hate it. Okay. Yeah, hate it. Can't handle this dip, honey. I'm a January baby. And I don't like to be. You're January? Yeah, I don't like to be described as such. Why was I thinking you were February? All right. Because I'm January 31st. Like, I'm at the end. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. So yeah, lots of people, like someone in here is like, I would like to file a formal complaint as a June baby. So there's all kinds of fun stuff in here. So Myke already is taking the L. Myke is a dip pen diva. Sorry, Myke. February, you're a cocoon cutie. I don't know. I thought you were a cocoon cutie. Yeah. I'm so close to it. But my baby is. You know, she's one in February. Exactly. Perfect. So your baby's first pen will have to be a cocoon then. So that's a big first pen. But we can see what happens.
	* Maybe a Cortex Mark 1. March, you're a mild liner magician. That's our friend Rob. I don't know if he's born in March, but he is a mild liner magician. He's already testing other highlighters and going, nope, it's not as good as the mild liner. So, which is just a fact. April is a Pilot G2 OG. I'd feel pretty upset if I was for April, April baby and stuck with the G2. So who knows? April would be, I don't know, maybe a Johto. May is the Mont Blanc mama. That's a big W. Yeah. If you're in May, I'm starting to think, what's the name of the person who runs Sugar Total Studio? Tom. Tom. I think Tom was born in May is what I think is going on here. Yeah. Yeah. That's an elite. That's the S tier right there for May. Then we have June. June's pretty solid. June is the big bitch, which I feel like I can say. No, you can't say that. So this is the first time in pen addict history I think I'm going to have to bleep you. Man. Man, that stinks. Yeah. But I don't know. So June is pretty solid. I'm down with June. Mine's coming up soon and I don't even know what it is. I forgot. All right. July is a brush pen beauty, which I can get down with that. I like my brush pens and you can have fun brush pens. So August. Let's see. Let's see what I am. August. Found pen freak. Yeah. Let's go. Now, come on. This is cyberbullying.		* Maybe a Cortex Mark 1. March, you're a mild liner magician. That's our friend Rob. I don't know if he's born in March, but he is a mild liner magician. He's already testing other highlighters and going, nope, it's not as good as the mild liner. So, which is just a fact. April is a Pilot G2 OG. I'd feel pretty upset if I was for April, April baby and stuck with the G2. So who knows? April would be, I don't know, maybe a Johto. May is the Mont Blanc mama. That's a big W. Yeah. If you're in May, I'm starting to think, what's the name of the person who runs Sugar Total Studio? Tom. Tom. I think Tom was born in May is what I think is going on here. Yeah. Yeah. That's an elite. That's the S tier right there for May. Then we have June. June's pretty solid. June is the big bitch, which I feel like I can say. No, you can't say that. So this is the first time in pen addict history I think I'm going to have to bleep you. Man. Man, that stinks. Yeah. But I don't know. So June is pretty solid. I'm down with June. Mine's coming up soon and I don't even know what it is. I forgot. All right. July is a brush pen beauty, which I can get down with that. I like my brush pens and you can have fun brush pens. So August. Let's see. Let's see what I am. August. Found pen freak. Yeah. Let's go. Now, come on. This is cyberbullying.

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	* From Relay, this is The Pen Addict, episode 664. Today's show is brought to you by Squarespace, Pen Chalet, and Factor. My name is Myke Hurley, I'm joined by Brad Dowdy. Hi Brad. Hey Myke Hurley, how are you today? Oh, I'm good. I'm real good. I'm tired actually, I'm a little bit tired. Well, I think you probably have good reasons to be both, to be good and tired. Thank you. Yeah, I mean, you know, lots of life reasons, lots of product reasons, which I want to talk about today, because that's what we do on this podcast. One of us, not named Brad, had a product launch this past week, and I want to talk about the Sidekick Pocket Notebook, which we've referred to, like we talked about it last week, you know, that it was coming soon. So, give us the rundown of this finally getting out there into the world. Sidekick Pocket is the newest product from Cortex Brand, and it is a series of pocket notebooks in three layouts. We have lined, to-do, and dot grid. They each come in a great color, which is the first like real big color that we've added to our product lineup, which I'm really excited about. So, we do have, the lined is yellow, to-do is blue, and dot grid is orange. You buy a two-pack of 60 pages in each. The paper, I'm, so some, I did a stream yesterday, Brad, where I kind of showed off the product. So, I'll put a link to that in the show notes. Someone asked me, like, if you sent them to Brad yet, and I was like, no, because I'm scared. I'm always, I'm scared to send stuff to you. But if you do want a pack, I will send you a pack. No questions asked, but it's terrifying to me. But I am genuinely really intrigued for your opinion on the paper that we're using. So, we're using a 100% recycled paper called Accent from our friends at GF Smith, which is not the paper that we use in all of our products. We use Munkin Links for that. That was going to be my question on the last thing you sent me, which I didn't think it was the recycled paper. So, yeah, that was, that's Munkin Links. We use that on everything. But we use this here. And there was a couple of reasons for this. And, you know, this is actually, so we're trying our best to sell this at a price which we think is really good and really competitive. Which I actually think for a two-pack, with the pricing as it is right now, it is really, I think it's great. This is genuinely, Brad, the first time in a long time people have said, hey, these are really good prices. And no one ever says anything positive about our pricing. Because we make all these products in the UK. They're inherently more expensive because of that. And we use very premium materials. But I wanted to play around with materials of this one. We're using a different cover, which is Colorplan, also from GF Smith. But we're, because of that, I wanted to, like, play around with the paper, see what was out there. And they recommended I try this paper. I was very suspicious of recycled paper. Sure. As a fountain pen user, essentially recycled paper causes a lot of issues because the fibers are inconsistent in recycled paper. I mean, fibers can be inconsistent anyway. I've learned so much about paper fiber direction and how it can affect the way that fountain pens feel. But with recycled paper, you could have fibers from all kinds. And it can create an experience where you're writing with your fountain pen and it skips or, like, splurts ink all over the page because it catches on a fiber. But one of the things that they tried to do with this was to make the paper as consistent as possible. So, there's, I, you barely, if ever, see any flex in this paper either. I feel like I see flex of non-gloy color in this paper as much as I do in regular paper, right? Because it can always happen. There can be things that get into the pulp. But there is not, like, little flex of a color in this. And it's not, they're not bleaching it to achieve that. They're just working very hard to get good paper going in to get a good result on the other end. And it has created a paper that genuinely works for fountain pens, which, that's my feeling. Now, this is, again, it's like, I said it's about all of our products. We do not make fountain pen products, but I think all of our products are fountain pen friendly. And I think the sidekick pocket, even with its 100% recycled paper, fits into that. Like, I often forget that we're using the recycled paper in these products because I think it's genuinely really, really good. And so, yeah, it's like the other sidekick products, flip over cover, very hard backing board. So it doesn't flex.		* From Relay, this is The Pen Addict, episode 664. Today's show is brought to you by Squarespace, Pen Chalet, and Factor. My name is Myke Hurley, I'm joined by Brad Dowdy. Hi Brad. Hey Myke Hurley, how are you today? Oh, I'm good. I'm real good. I'm tired actually, I'm a little bit tired. Well, I think you probably have good reasons to be both, to be good and tired. Thank you. Yeah, I mean, you know, lots of life reasons, lots of product reasons, which I want to talk about today, because that's what we do on this podcast. One of us, not named Brad, had a product launch this past week, and I want to talk about the Sidekick Pocket Notebook, which we've referred to, like we talked about it last week, you know, that it was coming soon. So, give us the rundown of this finally getting out there into the world. Sidekick Pocket is the newest product from Cortex Brand, and it is a series of pocket notebooks in three layouts. We have lined, to-do, and dot grid. They each come in a great color, which is the first like real big color that we've added to our product lineup, which I'm really excited about. So, we do have, the lined is yellow, to-do is blue, and dot grid is orange. You buy a two-pack of 60 pages in each. The paper, I'm, so some, I did a stream yesterday, Brad, where I kind of showed off the product. So, I'll put a link to that in the show notes. Someone asked me, like, if you sent them to Brad yet, and I was like, no, because I'm scared. I'm always, I'm scared to send stuff to you. But if you do want a pack, I will send you a pack. No questions asked, but it's terrifying to me. But I am genuinely really intrigued for your opinion on the paper that we're using. So, we're using a 100% recycled paper called Accent from our friends at GF Smith, which is not the paper that we use in all of our products. We use Munkin Links for that. That was going to be my question on the last thing you sent me, which I didn't think it was the recycled paper. So, yeah, that was, that's Munkin Links. We use that on everything. But we use this here. And there was a couple of reasons for this. And, you know, this is actually, so we're trying our best to sell this at a price which we think is really good and really competitive. Which I actually think for a two-pack, with the pricing as it is right now, it is really, I think it's great. This is genuinely, Brad, the first time in a long time people have said, hey, these are really good prices. And no one ever says anything positive about our pricing. Because we make all these products in the UK. They're inherently more expensive because of that. And we use very premium materials. But I wanted to play around with materials of this one. We're using a different cover, which is Colorplan, also from GF Smith. But we're, because of that, I wanted to, like, play around with the paper, see what was out there. And they recommended I try this paper. I was very suspicious of recycled paper. Sure. As a fountain pen user, essentially recycled paper causes a lot of issues because the fibers are inconsistent in recycled paper. I mean, fibers can be inconsistent anyway. I've learned so much about paper fiber direction and how it can affect the way that fountain pens feel. But with recycled paper, you could have fibers from all kinds. And it can create an experience where you're writing with your fountain pen and it skips or, like, splurts ink all over the page because it catches on a fiber. But one of the things that they tried to do with this was to make the paper as consistent as possible. So, there's, I, you barely, if ever, see any flex in this paper either. I feel like I see flex of non-gloy color in this paper as much as I do in regular paper, right? Because it can always happen. There can be things that get into the pulp. But there is not, like, little flex of a color in this. And it's not, they're not bleaching it to achieve that. They're just working very hard to get good paper going in to get a good result on the other end. And it has created a paper that genuinely works for fountain pens, which, that's my feeling. Now, this is, again, it's like, I said it's about all of our products. We do not make fountain pen products, but I think all of our products are fountain pen friendly. And I think the sidekick pocket, even with its 100% recycled paper, fits into that. Like, I often forget that we're using the recycled paper in these products because I think it's genuinely really, really good. And so, yeah, it's like the other sidekick products, flip over cover, very hard backing board. So it doesn't flex.
	* And it's also the same, it's made of the same paper that the cover is. So there's a color consistency throughout the product. Rounded corners on the bottom and perforated pages. So you tear them out when you're done with them. But unlike other sidekick products, you can more easily keep a couple of pages in this one and just flip it around. It actually works pretty easily for the pocket notebook. Yeah, I'm really pleased with it. I was very nervous about putting this product out into the world because there's a lot of new things going on here for us. But the response so far has exceeded my expectation. I've been very happy. People seem very excited about it and the sales have been really, really positive. Like, I'm very pleased with it. And there's been way less pushback than I imagined. Like, I was expecting a lot of, yeah, but I would like this color. And like, yeah, but I would like this layout or something. And we've got some of that, but not much. And most people who say it have said to me, I would like yellow with a dot grid, but I bought the dot grid anyway. And because I do believe with these products, like, be open-minded because these covers, the colors are so incredible that I think people will dig it when they get them. Even if you're a bit like, do I want an orange notebook? I will tell you right now. I don't think I need to tell listeners of this show. But the answer is yes, you do want this orange notebook because it looks amazing.		* And it's also the same, it's made of the same paper that the cover is. So there's a color consistency throughout the product. Rounded corners on the bottom and perforated pages. So you tear them out when you're done with them. But unlike other sidekick products, you can more easily keep a couple of pages in this one and just flip it around. It actually works pretty easily for the pocket notebook. Yeah, I'm really pleased with it. I was very nervous about putting this product out into the world because there's a lot of new things going on here for us. But the response so far has exceeded my expectation. I've been very happy. People seem very excited about it and the sales have been really, really positive. Like, I'm very pleased with it. And there's been way less pushback than I imagined. Like, I was expecting a lot of, yeah, but I would like this color. And like, yeah, but I would like this layout or something. And we've got some of that, but not much. And most people who say it have said to me, I would like yellow with a dot grid, but I bought the dot grid anyway. And because I do believe with these products, like, be open-minded because these covers, the colors are so incredible that I think people will dig it when they get them. Even if you're a bit like, do I want an orange notebook? I will tell you right now. I don't think I need to tell listeners of this show. But the answer is yes, you do want this orange notebook because it looks amazing.

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