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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:''' All right. Today's show is brought to you by our friends over at Pen Chalet. They're the company that have your favorite brands. Like Pelican and Lamy. Sailor, Kaweco, Pilot. And many, many more. They're an authorized dealer. And they bring you the products you're looking for. Whether you want a new rollerball or a new fountain pen. Maybe you want a new mechanical pencil. Maybe you're looking for some ink. Some converters. Maybe you want a pen carrying case or some storage stuff. No matter what it is that you're looking for, Pen Chalet have got it. They back it up with very fast and reliable customer service. They run special discounts twice a month. Including close out specials every two weeks. And they have free shipping on orders of over $50 in the United States. And they sell internationally as well. With very reasonable shipping rates. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens. And offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PennChalet</del>.com and click the podcast link at the top of the website. Enter the password <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PennAddict </del>for this week's special offer. And to get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at Pen Chalet. So Brad, what's caught your eye at this time?</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:''' All right. Today's show is brought to you by our friends over at Pen Chalet. They're the company that have your favorite brands. Like Pelican and Lamy. Sailor, Kaweco, Pilot. And many, many more. They're an authorized dealer. And they bring you the products you're looking for. Whether you want a new rollerball or a new fountain pen. Maybe you want a new mechanical pencil. Maybe you're looking for some ink. Some converters. Maybe you want a pen carrying case or some storage stuff. No matter what it is that you're looking for, Pen Chalet have got it. They back it up with very fast and reliable customer service. They run special discounts twice a month. Including close out specials every two weeks. And they have free shipping on orders of over $50 in the United States. And they sell internationally as well. With very reasonable shipping rates. Pen Chalet has low prices on high quality pens. And offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PenChalet</ins>.com and click the podcast link at the top of the website. Enter the password <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PenAddict </ins>for this week's special offer. And to get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at Pen Chalet. So Brad, what's caught your eye at this time?</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:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, I think it's pretty cool. Especially for the price. So, they're actually pretty hard to find. Like, I was just Googling the name. I had to go back into our show doc to find the original link where we linked to it. To find anything on the internet that I could link to again. It's hard to search. So, that's why I wanted to put it in there. Say that I got it. And I'll be testing it out. And I'll let y'all know how it is. You may want to see what I think about it before you go ordering. And I'm waiting two months for it. But I'll test it out this week and let everyone know.</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:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, I think it's pretty cool. Especially for the price. So, they're actually pretty hard to find. Like, I was just Googling the name. I had to go back into our show doc to find the original link where we linked to it. To find anything on the internet that I could link to again. It's hard to search. So, that's why I wanted to put it in there. Say that I got it. And I'll be testing it out. And I'll let y'all know how it is. You may want to see what I think about it before you go ordering. And I'm waiting two months for it. But I'll test it out this week and let everyone know.</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:''' All right. Today's show is brought to you by our friends over at <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Chalet. They're the company that have your favorite brands. Like Pelican and Lamy. Sailor, Kaweco, Pilot. And many, many more. They're an authorized dealer. And they bring you the products you're looking for. Whether you want a new rollerball or a new fountain pen. Maybe you want a new mechanical pencil. Maybe you're looking for some ink. Some converters. Maybe you want a pen carrying case or some storage stuff. No matter what it is that you're looking for, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Chalet have got it. They back it up with very fast and reliable customer service. They run special discounts twice a month. Including close out specials every two weeks. And they have free shipping on orders of over $50 in the United States. And they sell internationally as well. With very reasonable shipping rates. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Chalet has low prices on high quality pens. And offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to PennChalet.com and click the podcast link at the top of the website. Enter the password PennAddict for this week's special offer. And to get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Chalet. So Brad, what's caught your eye at this time?</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:''' All right. Today's show is brought to you by our friends over at <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Chalet. They're the company that have your favorite brands. Like Pelican and Lamy. Sailor, Kaweco, Pilot. And many, many more. They're an authorized dealer. And they bring you the products you're looking for. Whether you want a new rollerball or a new fountain pen. Maybe you want a new mechanical pencil. Maybe you're looking for some ink. Some converters. Maybe you want a pen carrying case or some storage stuff. No matter what it is that you're looking for, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Chalet have got it. They back it up with very fast and reliable customer service. They run special discounts twice a month. Including close out specials every two weeks. And they have free shipping on orders of over $50 in the United States. And they sell internationally as well. With very reasonable shipping rates. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Chalet has low prices on high quality pens. And offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to PennChalet.com and click the podcast link at the top of the website. Enter the password PennAddict for this week's special offer. And to get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Chalet. So Brad, what's caught your eye at this time?</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:''' Ron has two very expensive pens on here. That are two of my favorite pens that I've reviewed. In the Montegrappa Mia 450 and the Aurora Optima. Those are, you know, traditionally, you know, quite expensive pens. You like, make no qualms about it. That are at prices. Especially the Mia. I don't own one. I got one on loan because it was so expensive to review it. And I kind of fell in love with it. But I had to send it back because I didn't want to pay for it. Because it's very expensive. And this is like half price of what it would normally go for. And we'll have to link my review in the show notes. I did the orange one. There was three different. There were several different colors. It might have been like five total colors. Ron still has like the black. The red and the yellow left. And the neat thing about these is they have sterling silver trim. Which I was concerned about the price of this pen. Like you'll see all throughout the review I did of the Mia. I was like, how are they justifying this price of this pen? And then I realized everything that went into it. And what all the parts are made of. And what all the hardware is made of. And I was like, oh, okay. I get it. It's like, I can't. I don't want to spend the money on this now. And looking at this price has me. At least doing a double take. And same for the Optima. Which I think is one of the best all around good writing pens. Like that's your big time upgrade pen. You know, if you're making a step up from, you know, like the Lamy 2000. Like we talk about. And the Aurora Optima is like the step up from there. It's a piston filler. It's great celluloids. It's really, really pretty. And it just feels and functions exceptionally well. Very, very high quality pen. And that I love very much. So, yeah. Really good stuff.</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:''' Ron has two very expensive pens on here. That are two of my favorite pens that I've reviewed. In the Montegrappa Mia 450 and the Aurora Optima. Those are, you know, traditionally, you know, quite expensive pens. You like, make no qualms about it. That are at prices. Especially the Mia. I don't own one. I got one on loan because it was so expensive to review it. And I kind of fell in love with it. But I had to send it back because I didn't want to pay for it. Because it's very expensive. And this is like half price of what it would normally go for. And we'll have to link my review in the show notes. I did the orange one. There was three different. There were several different colors. It might have been like five total colors. Ron still has like the black. The red and the yellow left. And the neat thing about these is they have sterling silver trim. Which I was concerned about the price of this pen. Like you'll see all throughout the review I did of the Mia. I was like, how are they justifying this price of this pen? And then I realized everything that went into it. And what all the parts are made of. And what all the hardware is made of. And I was like, oh, okay. I get it. It's like, I can't. I don't want to spend the money on this now. And looking at this price has me. At least doing a double take. And same for the Optima. Which I think is one of the best all around good writing pens. Like that's your big time upgrade pen. You know, if you're making a step up from, you know, like the Lamy 2000. Like we talk about. And the Aurora Optima is like the step up from there. It's a piston filler. It's great celluloids. It's really, really pretty. And it just feels and functions exceptionally well. Very, very high quality pen. And that I love very much. So, yeah. Really good stuff.</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:''' it up. All right, if you want to find our show notes for this episode, you can go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 417. I want to thank <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Chalet and Harry's for their support of this week's episode. And of course, thank you for listening. If you want to find Brad online, go to penaddict.com and knock.co. Brad is at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M on Twitter and penaddict on Instagram. And you can hang out with Brad on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. Eastern over on Twitch at twitch.tv slash penaddict. You can find me online. I am iMike, I-M-Y-K-E. The Pen Addict is a part of Relay.fm. Go to relay.fm slash shows where you can maybe find another new podcast to add to your rotation. Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of The Pen Addict and we'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad.</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:''' it up. All right, if you want to find our show notes for this episode, you can go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 417. I want to thank <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Chalet and Harry's for their support of this week's episode. And of course, thank you for listening. If you want to find Brad online, go to penaddict.com and knock.co. Brad is at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M on Twitter and penaddict on Instagram. And you can hang out with Brad on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. Eastern over on Twitch at twitch.tv slash penaddict. You can find me online. I am iMike, I-M-Y-K-E. The Pen Addict is a part of Relay.fm. Go to relay.fm slash shows where you can maybe find another new podcast to add to your rotation. Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of The Pen Addict and we'll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad.</div></td></tr>
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