Editing The Pen Addict 32/transcript (section)

== Recording Process ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, how are you, Brad? I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. Just, you know, I don't know if a lot of people know that when we record these podcasts, you are late at night getting ready to go to bed and me being the third shift worker that I am, I am just fresh out of the sack. So, yeah, I'm trying to get my wits about me. But I'm doing pretty good. Doing pretty good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I must mention as well, like, so I mentioned that I said at the start that you are never a disappointment. That's because we're going to be talking about disappointing purchases today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right. This ought to be a, I'm, I'm actually looking forward to this episode because I have some interesting thoughts on this topic. So, you know, if you're ready, I'm willing to, to get right into it. I know we're going to, we're going to see what you had on the ledger for some disappointing pens, you know, then I'm interested to see what you have to say.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So I'll talk about a handful of purchases that, um, these are interesting because I will have any longtime listener, the pen addict, I will have spoken about all of these purchases on the show. And that might not necessarily be the same for you because in, you know, in the segment where every week we talk about the things that we bought, these are all pens that I have bought and have been unhappy with. So one of them was a pen that I mentioned actually probably not too long ago. Um, and it was the Oto Rook.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That almost made my list. I think that was the first, uh, the first one I left off my list. That's when I cut my list short. That was the next one going on. And I can, I can fully understand that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So the Oto Rook is a tiny, uh, fountain pen and it was, I saw it on jet pens and it was relatively inexpensive. It was $16, but it looked amazing. Like it looked like this really beautifully made pen, um, with great, you know, a great aluminium body. And it looked really great. And they have it next to like a quarter, um, on, on the, on the jet pens page. So you can see just how small it is and it arrives. And like, there is not one redeeming feature about this pen. Like all of the edges are sharp on the aluminium. The way that Rook is written on it is like in the cheapest, like standard Microsoft Word typeface ever. There's absolutely no weight to the pen in any way. And it's just a scratchy fountain pen, like a substandard fountain pen where it just feels like they've just taken any sort of point off the shelf and put it in. And it's just, you can, I don't know if you can hear, I'm like, now it's like, so scratchy. Yeah. And it's just not in any way a nice experience. The click is just uncomfortable. Um, I really, really disappointed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You have to really force it to get it open.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Really disappointed with this actually. I thought it was going to be one of those ones where you'd never mention it for finally. I have an interesting find that, that Brad doesn't know, but as is always with these things, Mr. Dowdy is always right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And, uh, no, I've, I've actually reviewed that one on the blog probably a couple of years ago by now or a year and a half or so ago. And now I gave it a pretty, pretty poor review. So I'm, I'm right there with you on that one.