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'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. I am dying to talk about this video and it is for the Montegrappa Game of Thrones Winter is Here pen. I don't even know where to start because number one, I'm a Game of Thrones fan and I've actually, you know, I've obviously been following, you know, the Montegrappa releases of their pens, you know, since they first started doing them a couple of years ago and reviewed a couple. And with the series coming to a close this year, Montegrappa went all out with the edition that you reviewed in this video. That's called Winter is Here. Can you just give me your non-video review thoughts of what this pen is? And we'll have these show notes for you. Go over and click this and I'll add a picture in of this pen because it's one of the most amazing pens I've ever seen. And that's like not necessarily a positive or a negative. It just is, right? It's an outlandish, outrageous, technical work of art that you got your hands on to review. So tell me about that a little bit.

'''David Parker:''' A quick aside is do you have any of the Game of Thrones MLB bobbleheads? No, I don't. You should look those up. Okay, look those up. They have a bunch of it. You know, they'll have like Akuna sitting on the Iron Throne type of thing. They have things like that. But if you look up MLB Game of Thrones bobbleheads, they're pretty cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Amen.

'''David Parker:''' That's one of the things that I'm very fortunate about is that, you know, I've built up my channel and built up a lot of fantastic relationships so that I could kind of get my hands on just about anything out there to review from one source or the other. And when a cool pen like that comes out, I know, okay, I think it was like $7,500 or something like that. The vast majority of us are not buying that pen. But that doesn't mean that it's still not cool to take a look at and kind of oogle over and go into the detail because there's a ton of detail on that pen. And it's kind of interesting to say all of the work that went into it. And, okay, as a themed pen, does this work as a themed pen for Game of Thrones? And it was kind of cool because on one side you had the Night King and then on the other side was a White Walker. And there was just lots of little details in the pen as well that had decent references to the show. And so I felt it was a decent representation. They had that and then they had another model called the Iron Throne, which was one of their previous high-end models for the Game of Thrones as well. And on that one, the entire cap had swords going all the way around, which were kind of cool as well. But I thought it was well done for what it was. Right. And if I didn't care about money, then that thing would look pretty cool sitting on a shelf. But it was somewhat well balanced and so that I felt like you could use this pen. It wasn't something that was just so unreasonable and unwieldy that it couldn't be used. And I thought it looked pretty cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That actually, it reminds me of the Montegrappa Chaos pen, which we've relentlessly mocked on the show. But I actually had the opportunity to try one out when we were in New York last year. And I got a newfound appreciation for that pen. I was like, I get it now. Look, it may not be for me, but I understand. And I understand why it's for the people who bought that pen. And it was actually kind of enjoyable. And if you have the right situation and the right pocketbook, maybe that's a cool pen for you.

'''David Parker:''' If you own enough Ed Hardy shirts, then it might be worthwhile. And that was, you know what, for the longest time, I wanted to review that pen. Just because there's not a lot of serious reviews out there on that pen. Right. And so, again, is it something that a lot of people are going to go out there and buy? No. But is it fun to at least play with and take a look at? And we've mocked it endlessly, mainly because of the video and just some of the marketing behind it. Right. But then it was fun to sit down and actually say, okay, but is it really a good pen? And, you know, it's one of those things. It either matches your personality or it doesn't. But if it does match, it's done very well. And it looks very nice. And the lost cast waxing that they have is an amazing technique. And it is gaudy and it is opulent, but it's a decent pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And back on the Thrones video, I also enjoyed it because, like you were saying, all the extra content that you put in there, you're obviously a Thrones fan. You sound like a book reader, I'm guessing.

'''David Parker:''' I've done both. I've read the books and watched the shows. I think I actually started the shows first, which actually kind of made it helpful to where I started the show. And then maybe after like a season, then I said, okay, I got to go out and get these books. And basically it just helped me put faces to names. I think that was kind of the best thing that it did. So then I kind of had a better picture in my mind who some of these people were.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And I thought you did a good job. We won't do any spoilers here, but you made some predictions for the final season. And hey, not a bad record, I felt.

'''David Parker:''' Well, yeah, that was part of the fun is, okay. You got to do a review on this pen, but then also take a couple of minutes and actually talk about the show. And that's kind of one of the things I like to do is just, okay, what else can I talk about that's interesting, that's not going to deter too much from this and make people want to turn it off. But if you're watching a Game of Thrones review about a Game of Thrones pen, you're probably a fan of the show and don't mind a little content about the show. Yeah.