Editing The Pen Addict 250/transcript (section)

== New Products ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, while we have you, Anna, we want to find out what you're into these days. What kind of new products, new pens, inks, papers, all that fun stuff. So, let's start it off with some pens. Do you have anything that you're anxious about, anxious to see, anxious to try on the shopping list? What do you have going on?

'''Ana Reinert:''' Does the stuff that I'm waiting for delivery count?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Absolutely. If something you're excited about, that'll do.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Oh, I was so bad this week. Well, you know, when people place a lot of orders for things, the space credits.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm, yep.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Go ka-ching.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep.

'''Ana Reinert:''' So, yeah. Yeah, I bought myself a little present.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. That's what you should do.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah, I ordered a Sailor Fresca. Well, yeah. I love that color. Yeah, I know. First, I had to bother Brian and Lisa at Anderson Pence. I'm like, you guys don't have a fine or an extra fine.

'''Ana Reinert:''' And Brian's like, I put one in there for you. Hit buy now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's awesome.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. I think they were probably like, either they were on the road for the Long Island show or they were like packing to leave. But yeah. That's funny. I was like, I'm sorry. I keep bothering you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, that's a great color. Like I am. Yeah. I, that's one I stare at. Just like, come on, man. I know. Yeah. That's a great color.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I couldn't resist. Yep. So, yeah. I ordered one. He's like, I'll put it in the mail today. I'm like, thank you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And these Lady Schaefer script shirts. This is your thing, like at pen shows. Yeah. You're like on the hunt. What's going on with these pens?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I don't know. I'm just, I'm a junkie for them. Yeah. The way you feel about the, about the Schaefer pocket pens, that's me in the script shirts.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I can see why. They're really cool.

'''Ana Reinert:''' They're really cool. Like besides the whole like horrible, like ad campaigns that they did in the sixties for these, like they couldn't have been like more sexist with the ad campaigns. The pens are so pretty. It's a pen for ladies. I wish we had the internet back then.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know? Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' For all the jokes that we make about like Mont Blanc and their horrible ad campaigns, like these pens are so, they're just, I love them. I don't know why. But yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think the difference is though, is that you shouldn't still be doing that today. I mean, it shouldn't have been done then, but people accepted it. Like, but you shouldn't still be doing it today. No way. You know, that's a Mont Blanc kind of get away with, with marketing like that in 2017. It's ridiculous.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Absolutely. And, you know, besides that, like, even like when I'm like looking for these at pen shows, like the people that have them are usually the older gentlemen and they get excited about them. They're like, aren't these gorgeous?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I'm like, yes.

'''Ana Reinert:''' So even the guys who have them are like, aren't these the prettiest? So it's like, they appreciate like how lovely these pens are. Yes. Stunning. They're just so, and like when, like usually like you'll uncap them and the, the like grip section will be a different color. So they'll, you know, it'll be like, you know, black and gold, you know, a pattern and then you uncap it and it'll have like a red plastic section. So it's like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wicked.

'''Ana Reinert:''' They're just so cool. So anyway. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' How many do you think, how many of those do you have? You think?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I think, I think I'm up to like six of them. Six or seven. Yeah. So, and they're, none of them are the same. So I've managed to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's what, that was coming out of my mouth. They are all like very different.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. And I've been able to actually like, they, they changed the designs a little bit over time. Cause they did them for like, I want to say almost like 20 years or something like from the sixties, almost into the late seventies or something like, like early sixties to the late seventies. So they started to square them off and they kept changing the designs. They eventually, I guess, became like the lady Schaefer. So they started to do like the white dot, but they kept some of that sort of like netted engraving on them. So they sort of kept that sort of script cert look, but they became just the lady Schaefer eventually. So they kind of kept going. So they're really interesting.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's such a hard, that's such a hard name to say. It's a dopey name. What does it even mean?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Does it have any meaning to it?