This episode is for you, the listeners of The Pen Addict Podcast. We wanted to do something special so we put together the biggest giveaway ever, and designed a special commemorative t-shirt to boot. We can't wait for you to listen to Episode 100.
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This episode is for you, the listeners of The Pen Addict Podcast. We wanted to do something special so we put together the biggest giveaway ever, and designed a special commemorative t-shirt to boot. We can't wait for you to listen to Episode 100.
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Hello and welcome to episode 100 of the Panavic podcast. The Panavics is a weekly show where we discuss pens, paper and the analog tools that we love so dearly. My name is Mike Hurley. Okay everyone get ready for this. This is our cent Peniel, which cert Penley has a nice rotoring to it. On this show it's always been Lamie and him. This is something Kawiko have made together. It truly is his and Dyer mine. People said we couldn't do a show about pens but this has proven that we Pelly can. They said it would twist be a long road ear to get here but we knew it would be a fun one. Some would say 100 episodes is really a pie lot of content but we think there's so much more left to do. Okay this is Schmidt. It's safe to say this guy is my paper mate. He is the Panavic Brad Dowdy. I'm crying. There we go I did it. Yeah and not from laughter from like emotion. My eyes are like watering up. Wow that was awesome. That took me 30 minutes today to write that. Holy crap that would have taken me 30 days. That was like the wow. Talk about something special. So that was out of hand. Thank you buddy. Thank you for doing that. That was really awesome. Episode 100. We did it. We made it here. We're here. Episode 100. Show about pens. Unbelievable. It's really unbelievable. Shall I say now we decided this a little while ago that's the last intro I'm gonna do. Yep. I may throw the occasional one in here and there but it was getting I don't know if you've realized in recent weeks it's been getting to the point where I just don't know what to say anymore. I've clearly exhausted myself. Yeah. I basically spent about 45 minutes on Goulay, Colt pens, the writing desk. Just looking at pen brands and trying to work out puns from their names and then retroactively fitting into sentences. This is why you're so good at what you do. I did not. I could not there's no way I could do that. I did not expect that that that reaction from you. It kind of threw me off. I'm really pleased that it meant something to you. I didn't either. I mean like as soon as you started I was like oh here we go. I was because like you know before we talked before the show as always right and I'm beat and peppy and I'm so excited for this and like as soon as we start reporting here comes here comes the water works. I'm like emotional. I'm a big softie. That's why we love you. Yeah. Now we have some incredible stuff to talk about today like monumental mega stuff but of course we have some monumental mega feedback and follow up that we need to get through first and it's all around one thing. Feel notes freak out. It's been crazy this week. I don't think we've ever had such a reaction to something we've spoken about on the show before. Yeah but basically I mean I haven't been keeping an accurate score about this but I would say that the response has been pretty like pretty mixed like pretty 50/50 between people that agree with you and people that think you're insane about your feelings on the field notes shelter would. Well there's definitely no middle ground. No people we ever think that it's the greatest thing ever or not and one of the funny things and this is not necessarily saying anything about my opinions. A lot of the people that said that they loved it didn't get received them if that makes sense in the same way as I did like how could you hate this they look amazing they hadn't yet received them. Right I don't think it was actually close to 50/50 I think it was more like you know about 20 about 25% on my side about 75% on you know loving it so okay I didn't think it was quite 50/50 but I mean it did you know not that I was trying to prove a point but I'm glad I'm not on an island not that I would gladly be on an island if that was the case because that's how I honestly feel about it but I mean there was other people that kind of could could see where I was coming from and you know and understood the point about how amazing and in addition this is and you know how technically awesome it is but you know you're just not gonna write in it and that's kind of where I stood and there are plenty of other people that felt like that I think the majority though love it I think in our listenership it's probably like you know one out of every four is probably on my side in the general public I would be you know just look at it like field nuts and just the general tweets it would be you know probably one out of every 10 you know would be on the yeah didn't care for it so much side but still that's a it's pretty amazing addition by field notes so that's one thing we can we can all agree on for sure and so I'm excited for you to finally get yours oh yeah so when we talked we talked like six or eight hours ago and you had you didn't have them yet so this is a this is a fresher rival since you've been home from work right yep so let's hear it well first off I this was the renewal of my color subscription mmm I have more craft packs than I know what to do it they're basically just stacking up now like yeah I just don't use them I feel like I should start giving them away so shelterwood I really know where to start I've written some notes down but I don't really know where to start with it the way that they feel and smell is incredible and it actually leads me into sort of a bit of self follow up I'll get today in a second so the way that these feel is so strange you can feel the wood grain in them but not in like it's unsanded right in it that's how it feels anyway but it's not like you get splinters but right that you can feel the wood grain and they smell so interesting and and and great actually and outdoorsy now there's been something that's been miling over in my head constantly since last week's episode you asked me if I went into a shop and saw them on the shelf would I buy them and I kind of was like backwards and forwards on it wasn't really didn't really know what to say but I've been thinking about it a lot and I think that I've come up with something like for my feeling on it if I saw these in a shop on a shelf I think it wasn't real wood mm-hmm if I'd known it was real wood I probably look at it differently which is why I feel like these differently mm-hmm does that make sense yeah I just my my whole my whole shop question would you buy him in a shop I made sure to to quantify that that in a world that field notes didn't exist where you didn't know about how awesome this brand is like if you were just going in and you saw a general row of notebooks and you had a row of notebooks to choose from and one of them included a woodcover notebook with the woodcover notebook be the one you would choose out of that row of notebooks yes you don't know again I still don't know but anyway sure okay so let me say a better thing that I don't like they have a harder job of not just staying closed but staying flat correct so the staying closed thing whatever I mainly have field notes never my field notes never stay closed anyway these definitely are more prominently open but more or less open is not an issue I mean if it's open it's open did that make sense yes no matter how open it is right it's always open doesn't matter if it's 10 degrees open or 45 degrees open yeah because it's open and most of the time I have my field notes with either my pen on like the right edge so it's keeping the book closed or I have it tucked under my keyboard so it stays closed well put my I quite a lot I put my phone on it if it serves two purposes keeps my notebook closed and it stops the vibration of my phone going into the desk and allowing everyone around me I'm laughing because I do the exact same thing with the phone that's how I if it's not in my pocket that's how I usually have it set down on my desk I reckon probably everyone is nodding along at this point the only other thing is also with that it doesn't do a great job of staying closed when you're writing in it but I'm finding that as I'm writing in it my hand tends to hold the book open anyway sure but it feels like just the shift the thickness of this and the staples that they've had to use has meant that the book suffers from that a little bit however I'm happy to sacrifice that for this paper yeah I love this paper so much like it's perfect for me because I get paper that I can use any fountain pen in it doesn't bleed through like it has a bit of bleed through but doesn't bleed through sure that it's ever gonna be a problem no matter how thick I want my pen to be fountain pens gel pens my autographic liner like all of those it's fine and it also feels great to write in I actually quite like the line because I tend to take like written notes it's not a big thing for me a lot of the times I can ignore the lines if I want to I'm not so I don't feel boxed in by that the way that I am at this at the moment I think I think currently they're probably my second favorite after dark sky wow that's great that could change after using them more because again it's the paper but man I love these the way they look like that is something special I'm gonna take this in to work with me tomorrow and I'm gonna see if anybody asks me any questions people do ask me questions about field notes and I want to see if people do the same for this one I have to imagine that yeah this is maybe the best-looking addition that the most talked about addition visually like if someone who didn't know anything about a hundred episodes of a pen podcast right they're gonna see that and go what is that and let me see it and whoa that's pretty cool no doubt like I'm happy that I've bought so many of these because I know I'm gonna use them and I'll be bombed if I only had like 550s cool you know remember I mentioned night sky last week yeah yeah so I have a benefactor I'm getting like six packs whoa I'll talk about it when they arrive sweet yeah I'm very very I was I had a couple of emails like a couple of people are for him to sell me them and I was starting to go down the process of doing it and then this person was like I don't like them I wanted a black cover then they released night what's the other ones pitch black pitch black and that's what I want so I have like a bunch of these that I don't want so do you want them I was like yes how much like just pay for shipping I'm like shh okay that's awesome cool cool thing to do yeah so I will give full credit to the person when they when they're rifle plus I don't I haven't asked them if they're they are okay you'd be mentioning is what an awesome addition that is me nice guy yeah yeah I'm happy to get more of those I really do love those and I really love these so I'm very happy well good that's awesome and you know what I'm maybe I'll come around and use one just to to say that I've used one and you know maybe my opinion will change a little bit because I do like that paper and I actually just made myself a note while we're talking since last week I forgot to order some more America the Beautiful Edition and I just made a note to myself to to do that because like I said I you know just over time and using new releases you know gives you different appreciations about all the past releases and you know America the Beautiful wasn't one of my favorites when it came out and it's kind of growing on me now so I want to make sure I have them a few more of those because it does have this this great paper that the show for what edition has superb yes sir shall we take a break and then come back and and spend the rest of the episode one talking about the show and two talking about two incredible things yeah absolutely so let's take a quick break to thank sponsor for this week's episode people that have been with us since pretty much the start of the show and that is the fine folks over at Squarespace they are the only one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website portfolio and online store for a free trial and 10% off visit squarespace.com and use the offer code goodbye Brad at checkout. 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A better web starts with your website and in my opinion better websites start with Squarespace they are super easy and super simple to use that everything is laid out in a really nice and easy to understand way everything is laid out in sort of with the way that their templates look you can drag and drop all different content types of content in you can very easily change from one of their beautiful templates to another beautiful template you can very easily change fonts and stuff like that that's all simple and easy but then the back end stuff like their statistics their apps all of the ways that you're able to plug different services in like Twitter Facebook Instagram that's all simple and easy to you know have to go digging around the internet somewhere and finding some plugin that you have to install so you can have your posts automatically tweet for you it does all of that that's all built right in I mentioned drag and drop everything in their pages when you're designing your 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very nostalgic today awesome well that's a good lead-in to the next thing I want to talk about because I'm feeling a little bit nostalgic on the pin blog of the week I was actually gonna maybe skip it this episode but it's been a good it's a bit been a good thing we've done you know for maybe 10 episodes or so and um I was like now we're gonna skip it we got a bunch to talk about you know for the for the episode 100 and things and it could end up being a log episode but it hit me when I was thinking about who to put in for the pin blog of the week and I wanted to put in the well-appointed desk my friend Anna Robert Anna Roberts Anna Reiner because she goes back so far with the pan addict and I owe her just a bit of gratitude for being there when I first started the blog and you know she's one of the first people I remember commenting on the original pan addict blogger blog she ran a blog at the time called snow angels um and we just you know we had a friendship back then you know just through this great love of stationery that we both have and it's continued on to this day and it's been awesome you know seeing her blog you know just grow and blossom now at the well-appointed desk and she's obviously been a guest on this show a few times and you know I love her to death and I just wanted to say thank you for always being there for me Anna and thanks for being there at the beginning and I really appreciated you and I just wanted to let you know that and thank you for being such an awesome guest of the pan addict podcast as well she's great one of our very very favorites oh no doubt and we'll have to have her back soon without a shadow of a doubt yep so we have two things now we don't really have more pens or paper to review in this episode we're kind of gonna we're devoting the rest of this episode to you the listeners because I have said this so many times and I stand by this fact to this day the listeners of the pan addict are without a shadow of a doubt the most fanatical and devout and some awesome listeners of any show that I do and I currently produce six podcasts they were like over the time I've done this show I've maybe look like of three or four so of all of the shows that I've done over the last four years that I've been in podcasting I've never known an audience like you guys like you care so much about the show and you love it so much and we love you for that so we've got two things the first thing that we wanted to do is we wanted to make sure that we could give everybody the ability to have something to commemorate this event me and Brad consider 100 episodes of the pan addict a podcast about pens which never really should have existed in the first place to the fact that it exists and it has an audience like you guys we wanted to give you something that you could could have so we've created a t-shirt it's a very simple t-shirt and a friend of mine is the Frank Towers put it put a very simple design together for us you can find it at teespring.com/pan addict so it's teespring.com/pan addict of course it will be in the show notes and you're going to need these show notes it's five by five.tv/pan addict/ 100 you're going to need those today they're important for the rest of the show um you can go there we're making an orange t-shirt naturally um and it just says a podcast about pens hashtag pan addict 100 we think that says all we need for for for this show um all we need to do if we sell 30 of them it means whoever puts an order and can get them there is no cap to the orders it's going to be available for two weeks we have to sell a minimum of 30 and then there'll be distributed i've used teespring before a few of my friends have two i really like these guys they do some awesome stuff but it's kind of like a kickstarter for t-shirts in that regard right you have to hit your pledge limit and then you can then the t-shirt will be printed so if 30 of you buy a t-shirt fantastic if a million of you buy a t-shirt also fantastic you're all going to get them but we have to hit a minimum of 30 i hope that's something you will enjoy um they have a bunch of different sizing options they have male and female sizes i say that and when i say that i realize that i think it's just single sizing yeah it's just single sizing but uh yeah sorry it's just single sizing if i think if you add female sizing you have to sell a similar amount of both i think it says there's two campaigns if there's a lot of call for it then maybe we'll add it i don't want to promise that right now but it's single sizing they have a sizing chart if you need it um i know i hope that will be okay um sorry if it isn't but i can't imagine that you're going to be wearing this as part of your sunday best it's a big orange t-shirt talking about a pen podcast you know and feature a future a lettering of course it's in feature i hope that you and i hope that you this is something that you will want to get um i've foreseen me and Brad buying 15 each but but we'll deal with that if necessary so it's teespring.com/panadict if you want a piece of panadict history this will be the only time that this t-shirt has ever printed yep like you said we'll run it for two weeks and uh it's it's really cool i'm excited and uh there's there's no doubt that these will get these will get printed up um they're pretty cool so now this is the thing we've been working on or should i say really that Brad's been working on well this this is something i wanted to do for a while and it's really for like mike said the the listeners it's it's for you guys that you know take an hour out of your week every week to listen to us talk about pens and paper and pencils and just the random things that we find and the things that you guys find us and the the involvement um that our readership has in the show is is really amazing you know the comments we get the feedback we get the emails the tweets everything just you know we're so grateful that we have this audience so we wanted to do something special for you so what we've come up with is a giveaway and it's we're going to make it easy for you guys um because i don't like to run through too many hoops but we also want to make it for the listeners of this podcast we don't want um what we've tried to do is come up with an easy way to do that to wherever not just getting you know random you know facebook giveaway page link and all these people rush in to this giveaway um so what we've done is created a form and we're going to i think let's go over that at the end mike we're going to go over this form and the questions and how to do it but first i want to tell everyone everything that we're going to give away and all the companies and people that donated to this episode 100 podcast it it's pretty much out of hand so what i want to do is to thank all of these people for donating items tell you guys what all these items are and then tell you how we're going to give them away let me know if you want me to jump in at any point and take over some because it's a huge list yeah it's a huge list you guys man i i am really fortunate to have some wonderful pen people in my life and you know it's awesome that you know i sent out emails and and contacted these people and every single one of them just jumped at the chance and said they would be happy to do it and do their doing it for our listeners and we really appreciate that so so let's get it underway and this is an alphabetical order it's that long of a list so i had to organize it somehow so Anderson pens Brian and Lisa Anderson i've only known them for probably probably less time than this podcast has been going but the type of people that there are they are their friends with everybody they are some of the nicest people you ever meet i've met have been person at the Atlanta pin show last year i'm going to see them again here in another week and a half and i cannot wait to get there to get myself another Lisa hug that's going to be the highlight of my year and just the helpfulness that Brian's had with me you know answering questions about just random pens and you know helping me out with a few other things that that you know i've had to do behind the scenes um he really should visit their site it's Anderson pens.net and we'll have all these links in the show notes but i really would appreciate i i don't ask for favors or those type of things very much but i would really appreciate this time in the show notes and you're familiar with all these companies go visit their sites take a look you know consider purchasing from them they've been an important part of the panatic website they've been a vital part of the panatic podcast they're huge supporters um in all kinds of ways so i i would really appreciate that um this time so what they Anderson's have offered up they've offered up a tachias staccato black broadened of fountain pen it's a really beautiful pen i have not used one um i have it at my house i've uh i've checked it out i love the design of this pen i know i'm not a gold furniture guy but mike you tell me i don't know if you're looking at this pen it looks the shape of it and the two end caps looks exactly like our vacuum attics to me it's shaped just like a back it's a really classic design it's a beautiful pen um lovely shape and they've offered this up i've had the did i say i have the broad nib model so the Anderson's have donated that to this episode and that's going to be part of the prize packages that we offer as part of this giveaway so this is one of those like boardroom pens you know yeah you're gonna look super professional pulling this out this this is a classic design it's it will never go out of style it looks beautiful and um it's awesome brian and Lisa are great and uh you know i hope um you know when i see him in a week and a half i'll be able to tell him about the uh great feedback we got from this show so hopefully they will they will see that on their end as well i'll take this next one yes please that'd be great so you feel free to add any comments so we have colt pens colt pens are uh i was i think we were lucky enough or at least i was lucky enough to come across colt pens wash doing the show because they are a fantastic uk based supplier you know they have sponsored the show in the past as well they're that kind of support for us um they what i love about colt pens is i'm able to get if i want to get something i want to get quickly i can get from colt pens like if i decide i want to get that new koeiko i can just go to colt pens i'm going to get it quick they do amazing things that we've seen in the past where they have done like they're what was their giveaway called Brad the thing that we're doing for uh the pins for kids the pin for kids they were basically doing like a match you you ordered x amount of pins they matched it and um they donated to uh a group that since uh pins do that children need in africa so they have donated an incredible amount of stuff for us so we have one koeiko colt pens mini fountain pen which was reviewed on the show in the past they've donated five bottles of colt pens thiamine ink so we have one each of the following colors deep dark blue deep dark red deep dark purple deep dark green and deep dark brown and four boxes of colt pens ink cartridges one of each of the following deep dark blue deep dark red deep dark brown and deep dark green so thank you so much to colt pens for being a awesome supplier of all things pens and you know and we've mentioned before they ship worldwide and and they do what they can to make sure things are as cheap as possible when they're shipping worldwide um and everything's really cool price they've got some amazing stuff they've got some fantastic like things that they create like all of the things that i've just mentioned they're all great products created by and four colt pens um thank you so much to colt pens for for giving all this stuff into the pen addict 100 giveaway yes you want to know how great they are they i contacted them and they said yeah absolutely we'd love to send you you know the uh the quicko colt pens mini fountain pen you know when we might throw in a couple other things so there's a couple other things turned into five bottles of their ink and four boxes of the cartridges plus i didn't put in here they have the they added in the the converter too for the uh the colt pens mini fountain pen cool so yeah of course because they're they're that type of people so uh they are they're awesome and when when they started this this whole diamond ink thing the first one was deep dark blue that was it it was a bottle of deep dark blue they were going to do like a limited run of it they weren't sure how it's going to work and obviously it's worked pretty well for them because now they have five different colors and they have cartridges and everything like that and uh i use that deep dark blue ink all the time so it's it's pretty fantastic so thank you colt pens you guys are are totally awesome and yeah i i ordered from them um shipping from you know the uk to the us has has been super simple so it's it's been fantastic and they've been uh fantastic supporters of the show i can only imagine how the anticipation must be building because we haven't explained how this is working yeah yeah these prizes are nice but you don't know how you're going to get on yet do you we're going to make you listen um next up is one of my favorite people on the planet i have a lot of favorite people on the planet that's why i ask these people to be part of this show because i i have huge respect for so many so many people in this business and none more so than mr chad don of don't paper um i i don't know what to say about chad other than i i've pretty much been along with him on the ride from the very beginning it seems since so he introduced his first product i mean since he was doing pdfs almost he started out with just you know a pdf you could download his his paper his uh grid plus lines paper designs and you know that morphed into you know the the memo book utility journals and then it morphed into these great notebooks and all these other products now he's making leather goods and everything so this is one of my all-time favorite products product lines across the board um chad can do no wrong in my book and i love the format of his paper i love the quality he puts into his designs um i love the utility aspect of everything of all the products that he comes up with so let me tell you what chads chads put into the kitty here for this giveaway he's donated a three pack of the large utility journals that's the new that's the newest release right the um was it about five by seven notebook um it's it's really killer i've got one yeah i've got um yeah i love it i love that size that's that's the ideal size for me i know it's not as portable as like a pocket notebook but man i love that size that layout just really works for me he's donated a three pack of the small writing pad that's the um like the um what do you call it like the notepad size just the regular uh perforated yeah perforated notepads he's donated one large flap jotter which is one of his best designs i think um it's just a large like stenopad of his um with the grid grid lines um paper a lot of people love that a lot that's a lot of people's favorite notebook and then he's donated the um one small idea journal which this is just if if you've never used this idea journal that he has whoever this whoever's hands this ends up in you will be impressed beyond belief by the quality of this notebook the idea journal is just a knockout product no one else makes a product like this idea journal um the idea journals that chad does is are one of my favorite products on the planet bar none so thank you chad um you're awesome and everyone you know needs to check out don't paper and you've heard us talk about it plenty of times but if you haven't checked it out please go visit chad and check out all the cool products that he has to offer next up is is mr mike dudek now the dude is like the perfect example of a listener of the show because i i would be right in saying i think that both myself and brad first came into contact with mr dudek by him sending something to us yeah this was i guess he had started the blog at that time and he was thinking about doing these pinholders right and he sent the original one um which i can't remember what was the original one called the block yeah i think it's just called the block and also the the kind of the cool i wouldn't i phone amplifier stereo thing yeah he sent them both to us um and became very active in in talking to us every week and it's to the point like where the dude is just part of the show yeah you know he's flat out blown up yep and uh he we've had him on the show um we've you know we love to talk about his products um and he's just like sort of the perfect type of type of listener really because he's very generous you know in the things that he's time and also the things that he's sent to us and again for sending something into us again today um and then he's just become a face like a friendly face and he's always got great opinions and insights to give he's now has a pen blog of his own right and and he's just dived in and has found his niche and it's become part of the overall community because now all of the listeners know if they need to know something about road drinks while they go to the dude and and and it's kind of like the perfect thing about this little community around this show and and that's why we love him to do that and he was very very kindly donated one of his fantastic pen holders the groove which is my favorite one which is the one that's got the slot in that you can put your notebooks in it's where i keep my field notes in there and he's also donated a donutility journal as well yep that'll fit in the groove yeah this is my favorite design too it's it's such a great idea completely functional completely cool looking looks great anywhere at home under office desk unless you don't want someone to steal it because it looks that good i think there's some theory involved handmade amazing stuff yeah i mean that yeah this is all mike doing this work and um in his garage or his workshop i mean he is he is knocking it out the park um with his um with his skills and in doing this and it's great to see and it's great to see what he's he's really been um recently i've been seeing all these posts about the stuff custom work that he's been doing for a lot of people so you know if you have an idea for a pin holder that you know suits your needs the best like i know he's done some for a some pencils recently and just some different layouts for different people with larger pens and things like that um you get in touch with Mike oh yeah you should definitely do handle it yeah he will totally handle that for you like if you know the great thing about him is how much he knows about pens now so if you like say i want a pen holder it's going to be able to hold it to be 580 um a like car's customs uh retract and ink uh you know like you just tell him the type of pens that you've got and he's going to make sure that that's drilled to the right size is like yep such a great guy thank you mike thanks mike we appreciate it and um boy and these listeners this is this is like the mother load and uh who still got a ways to go so this next company i have a soft spot for for many reasons and uh it's it's jet pins and jet pins for a lot of reasons besides the fact that i used to work for them i worked for them for about a year which was a wonderful experience um i learned a lot during my time with them they were one of the first people to reach out i started my blog in November 2007 i think by maybe january of 2008 it kind of picked up on it just from some of the posts i had done and our relationship started right then it's been consistent over the years um they saw enough in me um to hire me at a certain point to come work for them full-time um they've seen enough even that i no longer work for them to continue to be a monstrous supporter in my loan um they i love them so much that they're the only advertiser i have on my blog that that should tell you everything that you need to know um the people that work there are awesome they go to all kinds of links to make sure their customers are happy i really respect what they do the product lines that they carry are bar none the best in the business they carry if it's some random thing that you want they're going to carry they carry you know all the gel pens all the micro gel pens was just what i got started with and got the blog started with um up to the fountain pens that i'm using today and it's been awesome so what jet pins has given and i don't have all the details for a very special reason they have given a pilot prayer fountain pen and a bottle of pirate eroshe zuku ink notice i didn't elaborate on those on the specific prayer color the nib size or the ink color because my friend Elaine now works at jet pins wrapped the um the pen and the bottle of ink in this killer pilot wrapping paper actually i have that i forgot i had this on on my instagram michael have to pull up the link but i have a picture of these two products wrapped so this is going to be a surprise when those show up show up to someone because i don't know what arrow color the prayer is and i don't know what ink color you're going to get in eroshe zuku but you're going to have some killer pilot wrapping paper to rip open and um and discover what is on the inside so thank you debt pens for uh for doing this this uh really awesome i appreciate your continued support and uh i know a lot of people know and love jet pins uh but if you haven't definitely check them out they have yeah hydro that's that that's one of the most hydro wallet sites on the entire internet i would say so interesting thing about jet pans without jet pans there'd be no panetic podcast there wouldn't because this is how we came into contact of each other yep it was when you worked there yep absolutely so yeah without them now next one is another great uh friend of the show massive friend of the show is kara's customs um we've had dam from kara's customs on a bunch of times they're one of the companies that we love to support with what we can ever ever can do for them uh with their fantastic products and kickstarter stuff that they have and they've been super supportive of us and you know that they're always very kind to share things with us and to work with us um and you know they help make this show better by for example sending me and Brad early versions of their pens so we can give some killer reviews on the shows and stuff like that um those sort of things always help and these guys are so accommodating for us they're again kara's customs are a great part of the community because they're this small pen shop in the same way of like the dude right so they kind of stumbled into this and then as they've got sucked in to the panetic community you know dan is now becoming a pen freak himself and uh kara's customs are just that they are again like everything that's great about the sort of the kickstarter pen world you can find in these guys and they're going to be giving a way a render K in copper which is awesome so thank you so much to kara's customs for being so cool so awesome and for giving us something to give away do you yeah some of our our our friends are so great that they i didn't even get the chance to reach out to them to be involved in the giveaway before they said i want in and dan was one of those guys and that just makes me so happy i just it's mind-boggling he's like i want to be part of this let me know what you want let me or he didn't say let me know what you want he said let me know what you need me to do i said dude anything you want to donate is is awesome and he came up with the render K copper because that's they didn't have that um copper wasn't a render K that was available during the kickstarter so this is a new after post-kickstarter pen that they've actually just released not too long ago um i think this year um it's that new so it's a beautiful pen i mean it is awesome so dan thank you so much for being involved in this and being involved in our podcast and being a guest on some of our episodes and um it it's really really special to uh you know have you want to jump in and be involved um and and give something back to all the listeners of the of the penic podcast i know they appreciate it and we appreciate it so next up is my friends at word notebooks we've talked about them a bunch on the podcast mostly because mike and i you know not only do we like these analog tools but we you know we also dabble in the digital pretty heavily and we're into like note to-do lists and note-taking apps and and things like that that make our lives easier and word kind of captured a little bit of that in these notebooks to where they have a built-in system for lists and it just kind of it kind of it really hit home with me because it's very simple it's a very simple um idea that's executed flawlessly um the designs that they have are beautiful i've really they're simple but cool at the same time they make some of the coolest looking notebooks i think um and the system that they use on the inside it's very useful for people who are just doing you know task list to do list but it also came up really prominently back when we did our bullet journal episode when we had roder carol on right about the um doing the bullet journaling the word notebook came up as hey this thing is is almost like a perfect layout for um to to do your bullet journaling and because it's basically like a a bullet point system with you know different lines and and things for how you work and how you you know mark up your task and complete them so they've donated five three packs of notebooks it all kinds of different colors black orange natural and a couple different camo colors um they're beautiful and um i really appreciate um word being part of this and um thank you so much for doing this now i'm giving something away this is awesome now i can unfortunately only give away one of these because it's all that i have except my own um there are some editions of field notes which are really hard to get hold of one of those editions is the exo exo festival editions so i'm going to be giving away a 2013 field notes exo exo fuchsia three pack sealed to somebody who listens to this show that's so awesome when you told me this i was excited i just i felt like i had to to give something yeah i didn't even this is maybe the best thing that i can give yeah it didn't even cross my mind so that's awesome thank you for doing that Mike you're i mean you're the best man and i i am uh you have a whole company well yeah we have uh we have some not co-action and uh we're not ready to quite give away the cases yet um just because we kind of need to finish that whole kickstarter thing first before i start giving away a kickstarter people's cases that wouldn't go over so well for me but we're not going to talk about that right now that's a that's a later episode that's next week maybe um but what i am giving away is stuff you can't get right now and i'm giving away five packs of the not co dot dash note cards which are currently unavailable for purchase as well as five of the not co sticker packs which we have designed and had printed and are sitting at my house waiting for our store to open so you're going to get first crack at our note cards and our stickers um from not co and if you've if you've been playing along and kind of done the math there's a lot of fives of a lot of things so Mike and i are doing five giveaway packages for you guys talk about this we originally intended for one one giveaway like one person would would walk away with a bunch of stuff yeah but this grew to a point where we simply could not give this all to one person like this is more than one person could know what to do with and just to use the ink the bottles of ink alone would take you like 10 years you know it's so we have to we're gonna break it up to five prizes so do you want me over the prizes first you want me to tell them how do they enter i think i'll give a go over the packages first yep so i've broken these down into five giveaway packages that kind of gives everyone the best mix of everything that all of these wonderful people have donated so giveaway package number one it's going to be the Anderson pins tachias takata black broadened fountain pen one don't large utility journal one word note looks free pack one bottle of coat pins diamond ink one pack of the coat coat pins diamond ink cartridges one pack of the not code dot dash note card and one not code sticker pack that's just one giveaway package giveaway package number two is the jet pens pilot prayer and pilot iroshi zuku ink one don't large flap jotter one word notebook three pack one bottle of coat pens diamond one pack of coat pens diamond ink cartridges one pack of not code dot dash note cards and one not co sticker pack giveaway package number three is the caris customs render k copper with one don't small idea journal the one word notebooks three pack one bottle of coat pins diamond ink one pack of coat pins diamond ink cartridges one pack of not code dot dash note cards and one not code sticker pack giveaway package number four is the kawiko or kaveko coat pens mini fountain pen one three pack of don't small writing pairs one word notebooks three pack one bottle of coat pens diamond ink one pack of coat pens diamond ink cartridges one pack of not code dot dash note cards and one not code sticker pack giveaway number five the groove for mr might do deck the field notes exo exo 2013 fuchsia three pack for mr mike hurley one word notebooks three pack one bottle of coat pens diamond ink one pack of the not code dash note cards and one not code sticker pack that is a lot of stuff this competition is open worldwide we don't want to i'm writing saying that Brad right yeah absolutely great we don't want to restrict anymore we have world world world world audience gosh yeah um and we're giving you this this is how you're going to enter so first go to five by five dot tv slash pen addict slash one hundred you're going to find a few things that you're going to find a breakdown of all of the giveaway packages so you can see what's in each package and you're also going to find notice two different links to this in the page just to make sure that you cannot miss it so you are looking for the giveaway competition form it's listed twice on the page this will take you to a google form so it's it's mentioned in yeah so you've got the giveaway competition form it's mentioned in two places on the page to make sure that it's easy for you to see it's going to take you to a google form now on that google form we have a bunch of information that we're going to need for you to give to us so the first thing is a bunch of questions brad can you just talk people through the questions yeah we i think i'm more concerned than mike i i really want these prizes to go to genuine listeners of the podcast so what we've come up with is a set of questions about the podcast um things you've learned from previous episodes and this is not a graded quiz as in we have six questions we're going to ask that you have to fill out an answer for whether you win or not is not based on how many of these answers you get correct but we are going to vet the answers to ensure that the people entering this contest have some semblance of knowledge of this contest yep of this podcast i should say we want to make sure these go to true genuine listeners of the podcast and not just random people who are picking up on a giveaway and just entering because hey it's a giveaway and we're just want to enter so again you're not entered in the contest by getting all the questions right you're entered into the contest by we'll be by these questions and we're going to go through them here real quick by answering these questions we'll be able to tell that okay this person has actually listened to at least some of the episodes of the podcast you don't have to listen to all of them you know me not everyone some people have only picked up this show in the last five episodes you're going to be able to get some of these answers and we're going to be able to tell by that so everyone who we vet is actually being a listener of this show by how they answer these questions it's going to go into a random drawing we're going to pick five people and also let me back up on this giveaway page you're going to be able to choose what your favorite giveaway package is out of all the package packages we just listed your first and second choice you'll be able to pick and we'll do our best to give you the one that you prefer and obviously it's worth saying you can only win one package yes you can only win one package so just enter once in there's nothing preventing you from hitting up a million times but just enter once we have your email address we ask for your twitter name so we can contact you when you're done um i mean when we're ready to give this away yes and we ask about just because brad has had a lot of problems in the past with people either a not responding to emails or b not responding to tweets so we're going to do it actually also going to do like we're going to do a few things um we're gonna because we would also really like to be able to do we want to announce publicly the winners i guess so right yeah definitely so we will we will also be so this is bear in mind that also to save us in case we can't find you we will be announcing if you are a winner on the episode yes and that's going to be an episode 102 so we're running this for two weeks from today and then we'll give people yes we give people an amount of time that we haven't yet decided depending on how warm replies as to how long you the off will be maybe held up for you maybe we if we haven't heard from you we give you another chance in the next episode i guess i don't know if you should bit with the with the email and the twitter name i found the twitter name has been a godson and being able to hunt people down and give them the free stuff that i want to give them so yeah i'm not worried about that so great so everyone's going to have you'll go to the show notes you're going to fill out this giveaway questionnaire and we have six questions for you and makin i brainstormed a list of questions we came down with these six that are a good sampling of some of the topics we've talked about on the show so let's tell the i think we should go over these questions mike what do you think i think it's a great idea all right question number one what are the pins that shall not be named question number two what pen would you sign a birth certificate with question number three what is Brad's all-time favorite field notes colors release question number four you will not be greater than your spelling what is the brand name of mike's ipad and notebook case yes spelling does not count question number five mike has missed two episodes of the show name one person who filled in for him and finally what pen brand tops Brad's wish list for 2014 easy stuff right i think so yeah even if you've listened to only like the last five or ten episodes you're you're probably going to have a couple of these like immediately and there's a couple where you know where to look yeah or you can find them easily you know i i would love it if everyone attempted to get them all right but like i said it's not an accuracy quiz we just want to ensure like i said that you know this is these we put a lot into getting these prize packages and you know i i really respect everyone who all these companies that donated everything to this and i want to make sure to do right by them too so i you know hopefully you know all the listeners are gonna you know find this fun to do and um i i think it's great and um you know i'm i'm excited to be able to do this mike and i'm excited to uh i'm excited to finally launch this and get everyone that we've been building this up for a week or two and now we're we're it's actually here and uh we're gonna we're gonna release it to the world it's very simple five by five dot tv slash pan addict slash one hundred everything that you need is going to be there you've got two links to the competition entry form and we have all of the giveaway items and the packages that they're broken down into so it's very simple for you to see what's what we two episode 102 is when the competition will close and we should be announcing the winners in that episode the competition may close slightly before to give us time to to do the round of drawing but it will be around the around two weeks it will be open for um if we if we are going to close it earlier any point then me and Brad will announce this on twitter yeah actually actually yeah we'll um we'll go ahead and say it's going to end uh the monday before episode 102 so yeah that's a confusing point so monday the 14th of april will be the closing day of the competition yeah so that gives us a chance to announce everyone on up to the tuesday for episode 102 so we can count all of the entries and make sure that we're happy it's going to be like the two of us are going to make the decisions yes and we'll put that on the um show notes page just the closing date of the 14th so perfect i'm adding that as we speak competition closes on april 14th 2014 again i even wrote it out so we couldn't get our transatlantic listener base confused so i mean i know that's been a lot i hope that that's been interesting to listen to you know it's we just we're really excited by it and i hope that you will be too and look if you listen to this show enter just do it you're going to know a couple just we we really want you to enter yeah we're not we're not trying to make this hard or difficult at all we just want to to give our listeners the best shot at um getting some of these awesome prizes because it's as bred said it is really important to us that our listeners get these prizes so bred before we finish i want to say a couple of things okay i want to give you the ability to go first in case i make cry again well i just quickly before i do actually all these years you've called me girly drinks i know and now you're you're the cry baby dude i cry at Disney movies with my kids even even ones i've seen like ten times it's no joke i i cry at movies i can admit it yeah so you're girly drinks and i'm crying boy but you know mike asked me before the podcast or you're gonna write a post for um the pan addict and so you can you know let everyone know that this contest is coming up and i said yeah absolutely and he said well what's what did you put in that post so you know i know i have everything in the show notes and everything um correct you know so make sure we're on the same page and i told him when i'm putting in there and you know how i was so thankful to all the people who donated and to all the listeners who who've made this but i'm really what i didn't tell him that i wrote in there is how grateful i am for him i'm so grateful for you mike for making me do this and i don't say that in in a bad sense i you said to me multiple multiple times that we have to do this this will work and i was very hesitant first like this is the most insane idea i have ever heard in my life not only about never done a podcast you want this podcast to be about pins have you lost your ever loving mind and now we're on episode 100 so i have to thank you mike for pushing me to do this something that i would have never have done and we absolutely would not be here without you and all the about the people don't understand the behind the scenes work that goes on for mike to do this i i come on here and talk i put together some show notes mike handles all the technical aspects of it handles all posting the show notes and you know making sure the the podcast sounds good editing anything we need to do you guys just can't even fathom what mike puts into this so i want to thank you mike um seriously i mean you're the best podcast partner i could have your wonderful friend and it i mean here's to another 100 episodes because i i can't imagine you know i can't imagine doing this with anyone else you you've been awesome so thank you thank you mr dowdy you got it bud 100 episodes we've been doing this show for a couple of years um over that time to say like Brad said he had i basically bullied him to start this show with me and it is insane to think that a podcast exists about people talking about pens and paper people that i try and tell in the real world don't understand it there are people you know i basically baffle the entire podcasting community at large people it's like a joke but not in a bad way you know oh mike's the guy who does the pen show you know it is a funny thing um over this time i have gained a really important thing out of doing this show modern and modern the things that i've i've learned actually about the entire podcasting industry that this show has informed so the fact that you can actually create a show about anything you want as long as you've got people that are really passionate and want to talk about it if you do what you can to make sure that your listeners have something to care about then they will always be there for you they will support the show they will support your sponsors and the show will continue to grow and it will grow to a level that you would never have expected if you target a niche people always looking for content about the things that they love so you'll get there more than any of that the most important thing that this show has given me is one of my best friends in the entire world and that is Brad Doudy about a shadow of a doubt recording this show every week is one of the best hours that i have all week and that is mainly due to the fact that i get to be on the phone with this guy for this amount of time like of everyone that i record with i've met i've met practically all of my co-hosts now that i've ever worked with i've never met Brad but i honestly consider him one of my best friends it doesn't matter if we have not spoken all week we come on this call and it's like we've been in constant communication for the entire week because we just click we just work together and the reason that i think people enjoy the show is because of the friendship that we have over the time that we've done this show this show has helped Brad start a company and that is incredible to me and it's the listeners of this show have helped one of my best friends realize a dream and i think that without the pan addict podcast that would never have happened and i want to thank all the listeners for helping him do that the pan addict itself and Brad have helped me find and discover and fall in love with a hobby pens and this sort of stuff it's a thing that i love so much and this show allows me to do it i don't buy as much as i used to buy better than me anymore because just talking about it is all i want to do i just want to talk about pens because i have nowhere else to talk about them i don't have anyone that cares about this as much in my life as as Brad and all of you guys with 100 episodes but there was a time when i was i thought this show had gone away Brad needed to take a break and anyone that's listened would know i thought this show was gone and it made me incredibly sad to think that i was going to lose the pan addict from my life and then all of a sudden one day out of the blue Brad sends me a message and tells me he wants to start what Brad doesn't know is at this time the time when Brad sent me this message and told me the pan addict needs to come back i was doing more shows than i currently do i was recording four days a week and i was i had friends of mine that wanted to start podcasts and stuff with me and i had other projects that i wanted to do but i simply did not have the time for them like i had no more time in my calendar to have another show like it was at the point where i just i was just at capacity Brad sent me that message and i've just moved things around because it did not matter to me how late i'd have to stay up how hard it would have to work on how tired i would be the pan addict Brad and all of you listeners mean enough to me that i just want to be here every week and i hope that we do another thousand episodes because i have no intention of going anywhere so i want to thank each and every single one of you for listening to this show every week the sheer amount of you that there are boggles my mind the fact that every episode you're firing jokes at us that sometimes i don't even remember we've made and that you've got these fantastic opinions about the stuff that we talk about the emails the tweets i love it all the incredible generosity of every single one of you has ever sent anything to either of us is amazing and Brad thank you yeah seriously thank you so much mike and um yeah i i go everything he said and it's uh it's been awesome and um the best is you have to come i mean this is i i'm almost at the point where i couldn't not do this i would be very upset if this was not part of my life and you weren't in it so thank you very much thank you all for listening to episode 100 of the pan addict we'll be back next week for episode 101 i promise if you want to find these show notes i have mentioned them a million times but i will do it again five by five dot tv slash pen addict slash one hundred if you want to get the commemorative episode one hundred t-shirt go to t spring dot com slash pen addict if you would like to read the blog that started it all go to pen addict dot com that's where you're going to find all of Brad's amazing writing and here on twitter is @doudism d-o-w-d-y-i-s-m i am i'm like i-m-y-k-e please get involved in the competition we'll be back next week thank you so much for listening until then bye-bye so Brad yes say goodbye goodbye [BLANK_AUDIO]
