https://stationery.wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=The_Pen_Addict_144%2FtranscriptThe Pen Addict 144/transcript - Revision history2026-11-06T03:05:44ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.8https://stationery.wiki/index.php?title=The_Pen_Addict_144/transcript&diff=13713&oldid=prevPencilBot: fixed spelling2026-06-23T15:39:50Z<p>fixed spelling</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' Right, Brad, let me just take a quick break and then we will jump into your mail call. I'm very excited to hear what you're saying, especially considering you made a point of it. I'm sure there's going to be some cool stuff in there. This week's episode of The Pen Addict is brought to you by lynda.com. lynda.com is an amazing service where you're able to learn new and awesome things for yourself. Start learning something new right now at lynda.com with a 10-day free trial. lynda.com is used by millions of people around the world. They have over 3,000 courses on topics like web development, photography, visual design, and business. And they're adding new courses all the time. Whether you want to set new financial goals, maybe you want to set up a new hobby that you've always been interested in, you want to learn a little bit more about that, lynda.com are the people that can help you do and achieve whatever you like. When you sign up to lynda.com, you're going to get unlimited access to all of their courses. They're adding new courses all the time, and you'll get access to all of them, which is absolutely fantastic. Whatever they're adding, you can see. You can watch. You can learn. You can learn on your tablet, on your mobile device. They have great apps to do that, as well as on your desktop and stuff like that, too. Maybe you want to learn a bit about development, web development, or you want to learn a bit about writing skills, photography, typography, art and drawing skills. Maybe you want to learn how to understand how to use light and shadow effectively. Maybe you want some great tasks to help you just practice on a day-to-day. Maybe you've got some stuff you want to learn at work, like management tips, or maybe you want to learn how to go paperless. These are just a smorgasbord of topics of which you can choose. There are so many different things over at lynda.com. You can sit and listen to me talk about it all day if you like. But what I would suggest is the best thing you can do is go and taste it all for yourself. Go and sign up for a free 10-day trial right now to lynda.com by visiting lynda.com slash penaddict. You can go in there. You can try it all out for 10 days, and I'm sure you're going to want to sign up. And if you do, you'll be helping support this show as well. So I challenge you to go and learn something new with lynda.com. That's lynda.com slash penaddict. Thank you so much, lynda.com, for their support of this show and RelayFM.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' Right, Brad, let me just take a quick break and then we will jump into your mail call. I'm very excited to hear what you're saying, especially considering you made a point of it. I'm sure there's going to be some cool stuff in there. This week's episode of The Pen Addict is brought to you by lynda.com. lynda.com is an amazing service where you're able to learn new and awesome things for yourself. Start learning something new right now at lynda.com with a 10-day free trial. lynda.com is used by millions of people around the world. They have over 3,000 courses on topics like web development, photography, visual design, and business. And they're adding new courses all the time. Whether you want to set new financial goals, maybe you want to set up a new hobby that you've always been interested in, you want to learn a little bit more about that, lynda.com are the people that can help you do and achieve whatever you like. When you sign up to lynda.com, you're going to get unlimited access to all of their courses. They're adding new courses all the time, and you'll get access to all of them, which is absolutely fantastic. Whatever they're adding, you can see. You can watch. You can learn. You can learn on your tablet, on your mobile device. They have great apps to do that, as well as on your desktop and stuff like that, too. Maybe you want to learn a bit about development, web development, or you want to learn a bit about writing skills, photography, typography, art and drawing skills. Maybe you want to learn how to understand how to use light and shadow effectively. Maybe you want some great tasks to help you just practice on a day-to-day. Maybe you've got some stuff you want to learn at work, like management tips, or maybe you want to learn how to go paperless. These are just a smorgasbord of topics of which you can choose. There are so many different things over at lynda.com. You can sit and listen to me talk about it all day if you like. But what I would suggest is the best thing you can do is go and taste it all for yourself. Go and sign up for a free 10-day trial right now to lynda.com by visiting lynda.com slash penaddict. You can go in there. You can try it all out for 10 days, and I'm sure you're going to want to sign up. And if you do, you'll be helping support this show as well. So I challenge you to go and learn something new with lynda.com. That's lynda.com slash penaddict. Thank you so much, lynda.com, for their support of this show and RelayFM.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome. Thank you, lynda.com. All right, so I had an interesting mail day today. Some things I've been waiting for. Some things showed up randomly that I was not expecting at all. And some stuff from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NOC </del>that we're testing out all arrived in one big batch about 15 minutes before we got on the show. So let's talk about this order that I made from CultPens. Mmm. And they sponsored the blog a couple weeks ago and had a nice discount. And I'm proud to say I am now the owner of the Stormtrooper Vanishing Point, which you can see right here. See? This is like a video podcast. I'm holding up like Vanna White. So I'm just getting out the box right now. This is actually a Pilot Capless. So it comes in a different box. It's called the Capitalist, not the Vanishing Point because it wasn't made for the American market. And it's pretty much as sweet as you would anticipate, Myke. Here.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome. Thank you, lynda.com. All right, so I had an interesting mail day today. Some things I've been waiting for. Some things showed up randomly that I was not expecting at all. And some stuff from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nock </ins>that we're testing out all arrived in one big batch about 15 minutes before we got on the show. So let's talk about this order that I made from CultPens. Mmm. And they sponsored the blog a couple weeks ago and had a nice discount. And I'm proud to say I am now the owner of the Stormtrooper Vanishing Point, which you can see right here. See? This is like a video podcast. I'm holding up like Vanna White. So I'm just getting out the box right now. This is actually a Pilot Capless. So it comes in a different box. It's called the Capitalist, not the Vanishing Point because it wasn't made for the American market. And it's pretty much as sweet as you would anticipate, Myke. Here.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's, I don't know. It's cool. I like seeing the expressiveness of the ink. You know, that's one thing that has turned me off of some of the extra fine and fine nibs. You don't really get to see the ink when you're writing so tiny. Now, I enjoy writing tiny and sometimes I want to do it. But, you know, why put some bright blue Kanpeki in the most fine nib you have? You're not really going to get any benefit out of it. So having these medium nibs is kind of the best of both worlds. I get a very, very fine nib still. I get an excellent performer. And I get some great looking ink on the page. And it's just kind of the best all around nib that I'm using right now. Subject to change. You know I love my stub nibs. You know I love my extra, extra fine nibs. But just for general use, I'm loving medium Japanese nibs. That's what I have in this 74 and that's what I think is making me use it so often. It's just a great all around pen. So I really, really recommend like all the Pilot line. But like the 74 and the 92 are great pens. I don't rank pens like I don't have like grade scales or ratings. But if you wanted to do like a star rating or whatever, like if five stars is the best. The custom 74 is like a five star pen because it kind of ticks all the boxes. It's high quality. It's good value. It's excellent performance. It's beautiful design. It's kind of got everything. And to me, it's just really a flawless pen. I love that pen. So that's another review. That's another review. Just spending everybody's money today. I know. Spending everyone's money. And I think I put it in the review. I'll have to pull it up. I got a lot of questions on that ink that I used in that review. That's my Scabix mixture that we've talked about. If you haven't caught all the episodes of the podcast, this is Roaring Clingner's Salix and Scabiosa at a one to one ratio mixed. It's the only ink mixture I use, but it's a killer. It's a it's a killer ink. Number one ink overall. Maybe. Just kidding. Not really. Maybe.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's, I don't know. It's cool. I like seeing the expressiveness of the ink. You know, that's one thing that has turned me off of some of the extra fine and fine nibs. You don't really get to see the ink when you're writing so tiny. Now, I enjoy writing tiny and sometimes I want to do it. But, you know, why put some bright blue Kanpeki in the most fine nib you have? You're not really going to get any benefit out of it. So having these medium nibs is kind of the best of both worlds. I get a very, very fine nib still. I get an excellent performer. And I get some great looking ink on the page. And it's just kind of the best all around nib that I'm using right now. Subject to change. You know I love my stub nibs. You know I love my extra, extra fine nibs. But just for general use, I'm loving medium Japanese nibs. That's what I have in this 74 and that's what I think is making me use it so often. It's just a great all around pen. So I really, really recommend like all the Pilot line. But like the 74 and the 92 are great pens. I don't rank pens like I don't have like grade scales or ratings. But if you wanted to do like a star rating or whatever, like if five stars is the best. The custom 74 is like a five star pen because it kind of ticks all the boxes. It's high quality. It's good value. It's excellent performance. It's beautiful design. It's kind of got everything. And to me, it's just really a flawless pen. I love that pen. So that's another review. That's another review. Just spending everybody's money today. I know. Spending everyone's money. And I think I put it in the review. I'll have to pull it up. I got a lot of questions on that ink that I used in that review. That's my Scabix mixture that we've talked about. If you haven't caught all the episodes of the podcast, this is Roaring Clingner's Salix and Scabiosa at a one to one ratio mixed. It's the only ink mixture I use, but it's a killer. It's a it's a killer ink. Number one ink overall. Maybe. Just kidding. Not really. Maybe.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, this wasn't purposeful, but I do want to just remind people that that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Chalet are doing a special on that this week. So.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, this wasn't purposeful, but I do want to just remind people that that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Chalet are doing a special on that this week. So.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yeah. And I bought this pen the last time <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Chalet put it on special. It had been on my wish list for a long time. And when I got the discount that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Chalet offered through the podcast, I didn't get any other discounts. It was just our regular podcast spot that they set us. Now's the time. Bought the orange. And I love it. Super happy with it. So. Yeah. Now this one, Myke. One more top. One more review. We're going to get to. And I'm very interested in your thoughts on this. Because I'm still interested in my thoughts on this. And it's the review I did today for the Midori Traveler's Notebook, the passport size. I reviewed this. I got this from JetPens probably a month ago. And I've been carrying it around some, using it some.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yeah. And I bought this pen the last time <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Chalet put it on special. It had been on my wish list for a long time. And when I got the discount that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Chalet offered through the podcast, I didn't get any other discounts. It was just our regular podcast spot that they set us. Now's the time. Bought the orange. And I love it. Super happy with it. So. Yeah. Now this one, Myke. One more top. One more review. We're going to get to. And I'm very interested in your thoughts on this. Because I'm still interested in my thoughts on this. And it's the review I did today for the Midori Traveler's Notebook, the passport size. I reviewed this. I got this from JetPens probably a month ago. And I've been carrying it around some, using it some.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I bought. I don't know if you remember. And I don't know how much I talked about it on the show, but not a ton. Late last year, I bought the regular size. There's two size of Midori Traveler's Notebook covers. There's a regular size, which is kind of the elongated. I don't have the dimensions in front of me. But it's a long, skinny notebook. And then the passport size is shorter and stubbier. A little smaller than a Field Notes notebook.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I bought. I don't know if you remember. And I don't know how much I talked about it on the show, but not a ton. Late last year, I bought the regular size. There's two size of Midori Traveler's Notebook covers. There's a regular size, which is kind of the elongated. I don't have the dimensions in front of me. But it's a long, skinny notebook. And then the passport size is shorter and stubbier. A little smaller than a Field Notes notebook.</div></td></tr>
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