Editing The Pen Addict 367/transcript (section)

== Relationship Discussion ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think I know. Yep. That's awesome. That is too cool. All right, David, we are knocking it out here. You are, I could just pick your brain for like another hour at least, but at some point I'm going to have to let you go, but I still have some other things I'm going to get into. Sure. But before we, before we jump off this video training, get into like some of your personal pens, like I want to hear about like some of the things that you're into. Do you have a pen that you want to review that you haven't been able to access yet?

'''David Parker:''' I mentioned it before, but I've been very fortunate to kind of develop relationships with a large number of manufacturers and distributors and retailers. And so I can kind of have access to a large number of pens that, that I wouldn't otherwise purchase. Um, you know, when I started off, what I have ever thought that it was possible for someone to loan me an $8,000 pen. Uh, no, uh, no way, but they have, um, you know, but I'm in a unique position where for the most part, if I want to review a pen, I can figure out someone who will loan it to me. Um, for the longest time I wanted to review that monograppa chaos, uh, mainly because like I said, no one out there had done that. Um, and at the DC show last year, I was able to do a review of that. Uh, and that there's a few things out there that I'd like to review. I'd like to get my hands on a monograppa samurai again, just because no one really done a review of the samurai. Um, there was the Faber-Castell pen of the year, uh, for this past year, I thought was kind of cool. And the one that has me fascinated lately is the, uh, the ST-Dupont seven C's, which, uh, might have one of the coolest displays I've seen. It's like the pen sits in that little teak boat, like a sailboat. Yeah. And that I just think those would be fun videos to make and to talk about and to show. And, you know, these are pens I'd never purchase. They go for insane amount of money, but it's fun to play with them, uh, or play with them, uh, for a while.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's awesome. Um, have you ever, uh, I'm going totally off topic here cause I'm thinking about it. Have you ever reviewed one of these, I'm going to say more outrageous type pens and gone, I really need to add that to the collection. Have you ever thought about that?

'''David Parker:''' You know, I think at that point it comes to how much, like I said, how much do you care about money? Right. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And we're in a position where we need to care about money for quite a while.

'''David Parker:''' Yes. Uh, and that, okay. If it literally made no difference to me and I, you know, I just, it wasn't that much to me then, oh, would it look cool to have one of those, you know, that the, all the Monograppa game of throne pens just sitting on your shelf. Uh, yeah, you know, they'd look kind of cool, but, um, but then at that point you're, a lot of times I say this when I'm reviewing, uh, we'll say an expensive pen, but at that point you're not buying a pen. You're buying a piece of art. You're buying a collection, uh, basically a possession, uh, something to cherish over a period of time. You're not just buying something to write with cause then inevitably someone's going to say, oh, I could write with a Lamy for the same price, you know, or for a lot less.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''David Parker:''' Uh, and that at that point they don't quite get it. And that, um, you, you're buying, you're buying a piece of art and the craftsmanship and other things other than a writing instrument.