The Great Fountain Pen Draft and TWO Special Guests! | Pencast 110

[@LaurenceWillis]

NAILED THE INTRO

[@plaipie]

Yay for the Pencast Sticker Sheet! Hope the next version has a Drew on it. Love Brian with his travel log but he only has ONE hammer!

[@cmbrez]

Petition for you to play a highlight reel of Brian's best Pencast deep dives during your absence next week.

[@kurisquare]

a compilation of every time Brian mentions the Lamy 2000 😂

[@jolienkrispijn]

You totally nailed the intro, Drew!!! Well done! And Hiiii Andrianne!!! Good to have you back on the show ❤️

[@brianmassier]

I really appreciated your answers and comments on Cadcock's Q & A about what to write with all the pens in one's possession. I have been a journal writer for about 20 years in the digital format, but since acquiring 40 or so fountain pens have been writing cursive journals quite often. Drew's comments about writing letters of appreciation to people was spot on. My experience is that just a short Thank you card with some personal note is a wonderful way to solidify friendships. Thanks for your insights.

[@Soyokaze404-yc1dt]

I missed it yesterday, but I am so excited to get my pencast on today while I draw. Adrianne you rocked! And you totally nailed that intro Drew! Thanks for all you guys do. It may seem small but this pencast means the world to me, and I'm sure many others. The lists today are really helping me with my shopping cart too.

[@edwardstaats4935]

Happy Birthday Adrianne. Always great to see you and love how you and Drew interact

[@pen_journal]

That Pen Draft is just so dope! We need more of that!! Well done guys!

[@debbiebitner1885]

I loved the discussion about Mt. Everest. I actually met Beck Wethers several years ago when I was in charge of the guest speaker for an event at the Kennedy Space Center (I worked for NASA). I had seen a videotape of him recanting his experience and knew he would be perfect for our event. Everyone was captivated by his retelling of the catastrophe, but to be honest, he wasn't a very interesting person in person. He was very quiet and left immediately after the event. Nevertheless, he gave a fascinating presentation. Thanks for the memories!

[@GregoryCM]

I am soooo glad that the Myers-Briggs question got brought up, and discussed. As always, great job. Now onto the rest.

[@bluejchou4404]

I love your enthusiastic energy Drew. Never let it go! 🎉

[@NikSawyer]

Welcome back to the Pencast Adrienne! ❤

[@SnowDragonka]

Well hello there! I didn't imagine this would be the day when I find a kindred soul in more ways than just fountain pens. A fellow boardgamer! I love how Adrianne talks about them, it echoes greatly my own thoughts. It's the figuring out how things work that makes it so much fun, the puzzle. Oh I love that! Thank you for that! Also I use my boardgames as an excuse to use my fountain pens, cause I do rules overviews by hand just to help remember and understand the rules, it helps me. But now I have to know... which game would you get Drew to learn? :)

[@MohamedMElbadwihi]

When I was little, I had a 108 in 1 games Gameboy cartridge. I lost the Gameboy, but kept the cartridge, and 20 years later I bought a Gameboy for $20, dug the old cartridge up, and it worked like a charm. Memories

[@twms7654]

Thank God for name cards in the intro, I thought 'jeez, Brian changed a bit'😂

[@jowright9577]

Love your shirt Drew..! So delightful see Adrianne again and ro meet another team member in Brandon 😊

[@Gouletpens]

Thank you! - Drew

[@heathergleiser]

1. Estie oversized sparkle in tanzanite 2. Pelikan 205 in apatite 3. Lamy Al-Star in petrol 4. Sailor Pro Gear in northern lights blue 5. Twsbi Eco in indigo blue/bronze Total: $962 The pen draft took some thinking! I wanted to say the green demonstrator Pelikan M600 but that would’ve blown most of the budget.

[@nerdartastic]

So much great moments in this episode. Pen draft was so fun and agree it would be interesting to see another with Brian as well. Detailed information about your hobbies was so cool. Interview with Brandon was awesome (fellow blue Jay's fan here). Drew's insight into writing correspondence and how we never actually tell someone how great they are was so true. I appreciate this podcast so much.

[@tinathebear]

Drew, please do not relax! I love watching your energy in all your videos!

[@bluejchou4404]

Great to meet you Brandon! You seem like a very happy go lucky kind of person. It must be fun to work with you. You have very nice eyes too! 😁 It's so fun meeting the Goulet team members. 🎉

[@robinmosenfelder6226]

I sent my oldest brother a letter. His response.."I was charmed"

[@JefferyHall-ct2tr]

Hi Friends!: Another enjoyable pencast! Really like the interview segment with a member of the Goulet Pens family! Keep 'em coming! See you in a couple weeks!

[@Veronica_penpaperinkandstudy]

Pen draft was AMAZING whoever asked that you’re a legend! Love those types of questions. Please do with Brian

[@jolienkrispijn]

Andrianne, cool to hear you're coming to Europe!! Have fun! In the Netherlands we drink hot chocolate too. And just whatever else people like. If you drink alcohol, I would highly recommend some Belgian beer, it's awesome. In Amsterdam, try to go to some places that are a bit away from the tourist stuff. It's a nice city, but the tourist stuff is very crowded and just not so nice. Anyway, enjoy your stay, I'm sure you will have a good time!

[@davidparrishproductions5082]

Don’t ever relax, Drew, don’t you go changing. You are perfection out the box.

[@jackruaro]

You guys should expand on the draft by having a theme for every week, e.g. "Draft 5 pens for Halloween for $1000," then have the viewers vote on the winner. Make it a running thing with a prize and a consequence.

[@kanorah]

In january I sent love notes to my kids. They were so charmed I kept doing it, now there are close to 10 people in my mailing list. I can't wait to see how your color changing inks do on cardstock.

[@davegoodridge8352]

I know I'm late this week. However I was wondering if you all could make a little video showing the process of fulfilling an order? From it showing up on a computer to billing then it being sent to shipping and so forth. Thanks guys hope you all have a great week

[@randallhuggins3683]

As for what/who to write: Before you throw out junk-mail, check to see if any includes prepaid postage envelopes. If so, write a letter to some stranger that likely has the lousy job of opening unsolicited credit card offers or life insurance policies or whatever mountain of mess you've been provided. Treat it like a "message in a bottle" or a "prayer to a demi-god". Peace!

[@FlybyStardancer]

I’m a natural collector too, Drew. I also joke that one of my hobbies is collecting hobbies. 😂 I have a lot of hobbies. I love sharks too Adrienne! I also wanted to be a marine biologist and study them! Here’s a question for when you talk about the Diamine Inkvent Calendar- have you heard from Diamine what the star bright property is? Like how they released chameleon last year and that is shimmer that changes color depending on the angle of the light source. Thanks!

[@cynthiak2216]

You are awesome Drew! I appreciate your energy and enthusiasm for what you are talking about on your videos! A very bright star⭐️🤩⭐️

[@chillausmc]

Adrianne has a soothing voice and great personality. More please. Oh snap, is Drew ever going to go on a trip? Brian and Adrianne on pencast? She did a great job with Drew and wonder if she can keep Brian in check too. Good job team

[@annelemaitre302]

I love freeze dried Skittles! One movie I haven't heard Drew list is "Excalibur". Has to be one of my favorite movies all time.

[@maryannehommel103]

Oh my word, I must have seen that 50 times. I just watched a making of documentary on Prime.

[@annelemaitre302]

@@maryannehommel103 wish I would have seen that!

[@sharlenezuhlke1561]

Love seeing Adrienne again and Brandon packs my stuff. Hooray.

[@user-gl5ld9vm7i]

Great interview with Brandon. Please continue to highlight the various members of the team.

[@jamespicht1128]

I usually listen to this pencast in the background as I tidy up my office or organize my bookshelves, but sometimes I just have to stop and sit down to listen or look. That's usually to look at a pen that you're reviewing, but every once in a while it's because one of you says something so outrageous I have to respond. Drew! A main sequence star like our sun can remain on the main sequence for about ten billion years. Six or seven stars are born in the Milky Way galaxy every year, with a total of about three solar masses. A small number? Also in a year, stars totaling one solar mass die. At over 13 billion years old, the Milky Way is still producing more stars than are dying. The best estimate is that the galaxy now contains over 100 billion stars. Of those 100 billion stars, you can separate out about 5,000 with the naked eye. Most of those are within a thousand light years of Earth. And almost all of those are still alive. Betelgeuse may have gone supernova by now, we don't know. But we can see that it's in its death throes. Polaris (the North Star, also designated Polaris Aa), on the other hand, is nowhere near death, which in stellar terms means its millions of years away from dying. Polaris is a yellow supergiant, about 70 million years old, burning hydrogen much more quickly than the sun. That means it won't live nearly as long as the sun and will probably die in about 5 million years. Almost all the stars you can see in the sky are still "alive". You're seeing ancient light, but not the light of stars long gone. When you see that haze of the Andromeda galaxy, larger than ours and 2 million light years away, you're still seeing mostly stars that are still living. You have to look at galaxies billions of light years away to see stars that have largely since died, but they're being replaced, so none of those galaxies are completely dead unless they've suffered some cosmic catastrophe. Look at the night sky and you'll see a living cosmos, not the fossil light of a dead one. Adrianne, the James Webb telescope (JWT) can see farther back in time than any other because it sees more distant objects. But when it looks at Polaris, it looks no farther back in time than your own eye. The light captured by the telescope takes the same amount of time to reach it as the light that hits your eye. So the JWT can't show us whether Polaris is already gone. Greenland sharks are predators, but there's no evidence that one has ever attacked humans. They swim in cold oceans, and any pirates who ever hit that water probably died within minutes of hypothermia. A Greenland shark may have nibbled on a pirate or two as they sank to provide nutrients to creatures of the deep ocean.

[@Gouletpens]

Marvelous insight! Thank you! Glad to know Polaris is still alive and well! - Drew

[@jamespicht1128]

@@Gouletpens I apologize to Adrianne for calling her Allison, by the way. I was so agitated by the premature death of Polaris that I'd probably have misidentified my own wife.

[@Emilie_B]

I love this additional information. Copied it in my journal, to have something to write about and to remember it when I look through my journal later on.

[@RedouaneSebbar]

Hi there love the show! As A Moroccan living in the Netherlands (hope you’ll have a lovely vacation Adrianne) I have to say Saylor has it exactly right. The “Sailor Pro Gear Slim Tea Time III Moroccan Mint Tea - mint & sugar” is pretty clear. The green is the mint (also know as “Neh Neh” it’s not spearmint but a different kind of mint) the golden yellow is the tea and the white (sorry drew cream in tea is not common in morocco hahaha) is the sugar. But the “Sailor Pro Gear Tea Time III Moroccan Mint - kissan” is really unexpected kissan (prenounced in Arabic “key san”) means glasses. The pen does not represent tea, but a very traditional type of decorated tea glass (we drink tea in glasses). If you google image “moroccan tea glass red” you’ll see some examples (they are in different colors but red and the translucent are the most common). Hope this wasn’t too long to read. love the content keep it up.

[@RedouaneSebbar]

Love the moroccan mint tea ink btw. they dont have it in the netherlands yet, but will get it as soon as it is available!

[@adamssify]

I live in Gent, Belgium. Beautiful city ! Enjoy it Adrienne!

[@lilyplants6266]

2 points. I very much enjoyed hearing Adrianne's point of view. And had more fun with this pencast cause I got to participate by pausing and writing my own list of pens and seeing those of others. Didn't know about Drafts. Anything you can do to enable us to participate with pen related questions would be great.

[@mellow-jello]

Sheaffer calligraphy pens in the 80s & 90s turned away a many kids to grow with bottled ink pens. Mine was a cartridge filling pen, and contained 3 nibs. Of course once used up, nowhere to buy refills:(. Fast forward 2022, my fountain pen revival.

[@tbayless8324]

Good video, Happy for Adrienne on the Pen cast... On the sticker thing....NO HAMMER ON BRIAN... UGH!!! And is Whitney still around, would love to see her again.

[@nourin_siddique]

Ikr that's the first thing I noticed too

[@beckyisj]

"Should recreation be this difficult?" 😭 but I truly admire Adrienne's commitment to fun!

[@TatyanaHallMusic]

Of the new products, the Endless Explorer refillable journal sounded right up my alley as I'm in love with Traveler's Notebooks and the whole system of it. I was intrigued by the idea of cactus leather and looked at the product on the Goulet pens website. I noticed that at the bottom of the description, there's a note that says there is a typo on the back of the box claiming it is made of cactus leather instead of full grain leather. That explains Drew's confusion on how it could be classified as full-grain leather if it was in fact made of cactus. Just an interesting detail that I noticed! I am hoping to get one soon, yay for 7 mm grid. I'm also ecstatic to see the Goulet pencast stickers available as a set, can't wait to purchase!

[@carolw5290]

Another way you could use your pens, which ties into journaling in a way, is stream of consciousness writing. I take 10 minutes of quiet in my day (like when having my morning coffee) set my timer to 10 minutes and just sit and write whatever comes to mind. It doesn’t have to make sense, but you just write as your brain thinks. Very interesting to re-read after the fact, and can be useful to see any ‘themes/trends’ which come up in your ‘subconscious’ - can give you an opportunity to look into those things a little closer if you’d like. Love using my pens for this. Good pens, good paper and amazing thoughts…

[@sajjadhusain4146]

The Pen Draft segment was a lot of fun. For what it’s worth I guess my pen quintet within $1k would be: Sailor PG (black&chrome-zoom nib) $312 Kaweco Lilliput (BB) $115 Platinum 3776 Bourgogne (Music) $208 Lamy Aion (Dark Green) M $76 Pilot E95s Burgundy (M) $144 Total :$855

[@phi1688]

Heck yeah, will definitely be ordering some ink samples soon. Needed an excuse to try that ink lol

[@jamesbaird1342]

So I learn so much. I'm shaking up my green and red inks to make Christmas cards. Hey I collect perfume about 60 bottles usually below $120.00 per and I have about 600 1948 and 1949 quarters. Big Phillies fan . Grew up in L.A. Disneyland way back.

[@dbrickner5292]

Drew, the leather jacket would make a great starting point for a Halloween Mobster. You of course would embellish it with bodyparts hanging from the pockets, guns, etc., you know, the Drew touch.

[@JamieVRodriguez]

41:28 This is such a great mindset for anything!

[@CoachNatalia]

Drew! My fellow corgi owner, you nailed the intro! Adrienne (sp?) , loved your input.

[@MrG0CE]

4 THINGS : 1: I WOULD LOVE TO SEE U IN THAT JACKET ! 2: I GOT AMAZED WITH THE USE OF MENTAL WALKING AND MENTAL DRIVING, PERFECT ! 3: I LOVE EVERY TIME ADRIANNE TALKS ABOUT SCIENTIFIC STUFF, LIKE ABOUT THE WAVELENGTH OR IN THIS CASE ABOUT THE LIGHT VELOCITY

[@susanstouse6705]

Adrianne, on my visit to Amsterdam, I learned that the locals start their day late. We went to the Anne Frank house early in the day. My students and I were the only visitors! When we left, the line was blocks long. Hope that’s still true. Van Gogh museum is big enough to accommodate everyone. Bon voyage!

[@MelissaElsworth]

I’m in my nib size completion phase. So I have a TWSBI Diamond ALR 580 with all the attachable nibs. I just completed my LAMY Safaris with all the steel and black nibs. Thinking about doing the same for the Al-Stars as well as the TWSBI Ecos.

[@ctakahashi]

Dang it! I just received my order! Now I have to order again for the pen sheet!

[@MelissaElsworth]

Ideas for using pens that’s not journaling. Letters to service members, nursing homes, there is also International Correspondence Month in Feb that can start pen pals. I also copy song lyrics (that’s a sort of journaling) Also never discount writing stories.

[@yorkdox7]

Drew, you are the best, but instead out Goulet when you did the intro, I thought I heard Kool-aid!!! Too funny!!! I am sure it was just me!! Either way it was a great episode!!

[@harmonybat]

Death on the Nile is incredibly beautiful. A Haunting in Venice is also incredibly beautiful, but I don't know if it's out on video yet.

[@johngrubb007]

On the subject of what to write. I do what I call 'brain dumping'. I'll just write what I'm thinking about. It can be like a conversation with myself. Sometimes it's what is going on in life, what some future plans are, or even what changes I need to make. I'll also write about the pen that I'm using. What I think of it, how it writes, and how it feels. Is it reliable or is there a specific ink it likes? Brain dumping is basically a collection of meaningless meanderings and I've filled many notebooks with it.

[@karenholden4740]

Love the pen draft!

[@Gouletpens]

it was fun! - Drew

[@hktz1]

Me: CAT! Goulet Pen Company: Understood.

[@CoachNatalia]

Drew: "Should recreation BE THIS difficult?" Totally resonates with me:)))

[@karlshewchuk6463]

PUMPED for the endless 7mm dot grid. I really hope they release some recorder notebooks with it. If they released a B5 recorder with 7mm dot grid I would buy a lifetime supply

[@TymberJ]

The perforated pages in the Endless Recorder are great. If you don't want to tear the page out, the perforations are utterly ignorable. But more than once I have been journaling in a cafe and another pen enthusiast shows up, so I've been able to let them try out whatever I've got on me, and then tear the page out to take back and compare with their inks back home. Pretty sure I've sold at least a couple bottle of Sailor Manyo Koke that way.

[@melodyf2373]

Drew, what about making some leather journal covers from your jacket? Repurpose to something you love now.

[@davegallagher1109]

DREW! The leather jacket now needs to make an appearance on the Pencast! 😂😂😂

[@Gouletpens]

Noooooooooooo - Drew

[@paulherman5822]

Can you please cover loose paper? Everyone covers notebooks, journals and planners, but looseleaf seldom gets mentioned. Not everyone journals or uses a planner. Some still write letters. Reasonably priced fountain pen friendly envelopes would also be greatly appreciated, if covered. They're really never mentioned. As to the pen draft, I'd expand to vintage, for myself. 😁 Preferred them since my first Esterbrook J. Which is not that difficult to clean. Nib units remove easily, making it easy to get at the ink sacs for cleaning. In my experience, easier than some cartridge converter pens. 1: A Wahl-Eversharp original Decoband type with the adjustable nib. Wahl-Eversharps are my favourite gold nibbed pen. So, around $500 with some searching. 2: A Parker 51. I love the Vacumatic version over the aerometric type. It's almost a requirement for any vintage collection, though they're very dry writers usually, and VERY stiff. They're from the heyday of carbon copies, so... And available all day long for $150. 3: A Sheaffer's Balance Junior. I like the shape, and the Junior nib is fairly flexible. And lever filler pens are easy to work on, if needed. Even though the Sheaffer's tend to be "glued shut" with a proprietary shellac based sealant. Available for around $100, restored, though mine have been significantly cheaper. $25, tops.😁 4: back to Wahl-Eversharp. A Skyline from the 1940s. Again, my favourite gold nibbed pens, and there's the visual interest of the Henry Dreyfuss Art Deco design. Looks like a Skyline train. Which he also designed. Can be $100+, all 3 I own have been $36, max. Just gotta hunt.😉 Highly underappreciated, IMO. 5: GOTTA include an old Esterbrook. My first love. 😁 MANY nib options, very durable, easy to restore and clean, and the patterns, especially the earlier ones. The chatoyance! Restored, if you pay more than $60 for the J series, you have been ripped off. I've never paid more than $26, and many still work right away. Sacs are still working after 70+ years. Not unusual for a lot of vintage pens, in my experience, but Esterbrook seems to have a higher success rate for this. I still like the 2668 or 9668 firm medium nibs. My first was a 2668, and a better writer than the original gold nibbed pen that I had. Just A really great pen, IMO. You can even get one with the "BELL SYSTEM PROPERTY" imprint, de rigeur for ANY Esterbrook collection. And there's so many out there, regularly sell for around $10. 😁

[@theibecks]

From the second you started talking about hobbies I knew Adrianne was going to say she was a scrapbooker. 😂 (I was too)

[@dr.d723]

You should all take a Myers-Briggs test because there are gradations of Es vs Is, etc. So, for example, I have always tested as an E, yet as I have gotten older, I tend to process things internally rather than talking to someone about it. Also the J is the person who likes closure. In other words, if there is something "hanging", the J will want to bring it to completion, as opposed to a P who is o.k. with it hanging. BTW, the draft was fun. Perhaps you should do a similar draft, only that you are drafting pens for the other person.

[@judyjacobs5827]

Agree completely about taking the MBTI and having a trained person interpret it for you. The eight terms in the digest and the many combinations thereof do not mean precisely what we think of in ordinary usage. Describing yourself based on what you think you are is about as accurate as claiming to be a surgeon because you removed your kid's splinter, or a traffic engineer because you wrecked your car.

[@plancreatecope]

Perforated sheets are good to use when you mess up in your journal. You can cut out the same amount of paper and cover your mistake with a glue tape.

[@heathergleiser]

As a hockey nerd I am cracking up at the Brandon interview because I know exactly why being a Flyers fan is depressing. Given the way things went for the Penguins last year, I can empathize! The meet the team segments have been great and I’m excited for more.

[@pontoon_cat]

Love the shirt Drew! And it's great having Adrienne back again! Your last team-up was actually the first contemporary Pencast I watched (i.e. the week it was released). For the draft.... I mean, no Lamy 2k? No Pilot VP with the EF (that was on your "best nib list") instead of the Schon (same price as the VP and you already had the Lilliput)? I'm sure there will be a lot of comments on this section of the Pencast😄 Speaking of Retro gaming, you talked a lot about building your own emulation. Ever try what Analogue has to offer? I have their Pocket (handheld) and have used a buddy's SuperNT and it is fantastic. Pricey, but they're using FPGA (not emulation) and the build quality in my experience has been phenomenal. Their next offering is going to be an N64 reboot in 2024 that I'm already saving up for.... 😸

[@pontoon_cat]

I just had fun adding some things up and got a very interesting list (with one of the choices being out of stock but Goulet still sells it): 1) Lamy Al-Star - medium - 40 2) Pilot E95s - fine - 144 3) Pilot VP - extra fine - 168 4) TWSBI 580 ALR - broad - 65 5) Sailor Luminous Shadow King of Pens - medium - 580 Yes, this list encompasses A LOT of variety in the fountain pen world and even gets you a KOP under the draft cap. Total is 995 😁

[@spiderwrangler4457]

Drew, you need to get into leatherworking to be able to modify or repurpose that out of fashion jacket into something usable! With your sewing and costume building, it'd be a worthwhile additional hobby...

[@blakehawkins3296]

I can’t believe the timing on this, I recently swapped out the nib on my charcoal safari for a broad 14k black one. I was planning on getting a set of black/grey inks with gold shimmer and wanted to get a set of samples and the one I was looking forward to the most was “I am cat”. I was watching this podcast to see what other ink sample I could get, but instead I get a sign that I need to get those inks now

[@alexanderminuzzo4839]

I need everyone else's pen draft now.

[@oscarmedina1597]

Opus 88 Opera, Gravitas Sentry Paisley Skittles, Leonardo MZ Blue Hawaii, Pilot 743, Waterman Carène Essence de Bleu

[@AspasiaB]

Drew! I don't know if you've heard of this online shop called British Food Shop. They warehouse various, well, British foods (and some other countries too but mainly UK) and the others ship out from California. Maybe they have those candies you mentioned? 😊

[@jess53nz]

Great episode and nice to see Adrienne again (sorry "not Brian goulet"

[@elitestarquake3597]

Coins: a nice British Royal Mint alternative to the half crown could be the Sovereign or Half Sovereign. They still make those but there are some lovely antique collectibles out there. They are gold coins though so can get pricey.

[@hktz1]

It is very exciting to see my interest in the NFL and fountain pens collide. The NFL draft is just as fun as the Super Bowl. FUN FACTS: 1) The worst team in the league gets to select first in every round and then they go in order, with the Super Bowl winner going last. The theory being that they have access to greatest talent and can turn their fortune around. It doesn’t always work out that way. 2) Teams can trade up and down in order on the night, and can trade future picks, so you can have more or less picks than the seven you’re theoretically entitled to. The least in NFL history is 4 picks in seven rounds and the most is 14. 3) My favourite team, the Ravens, have never had the first overall pick. Good sign LOL.

[@kristiw.1823]

The Explorer by Endless is my favorite journal! I love Regalia paper and the size and feel of the Explorer is so perfect. Thrilled you guys are carrying it now, but annoyed that I didn't see it before placing the last order. Sigh. 🙄😉

[@justusspace]

At the beginning speaking on your personality alignments, I got a kick out of how often my name (aka yall sayin Justice) was said. Might need to clip that into my new ringtone!! Regarding the A5 Endless Explorer, I LOVE that it’s a camel color. It’s like the TRC big brother!

[@octoberfox3399]

Are Narwhal Pens any good? A store near me has started selling them and I'm just curious what your opinion is?

[@laurelpeace1976]

Canada. Every single trip. 😊

[@kellymcdaniel6272]

I always start with Canada at Epcot💜 And we did a Goonies themed family road-trip last year🎶”I can’t tell if it’s an a# or a bflat!” It’s the same thing Andi…

[@AlainSTO]

So as a graphic designer, definitely want to know what your favorite pen logos are and your favorite ink label designs.

[@lilliang5725]

Drew - crystal bic 1.6mm broad pens are great (well, for ballpoints) not at all dry or scratchy

[@TJulieta]

Purchasing my sticker sheet prompted me to go through the other stickers again, and for the first time, I saw a barnacles nib sticker!?! How do we get that back in stock? Should I start a petition?

[@kurisquare]

I had to stop what I was doing to check on “sharks are older than the North Star” because I could not BELIEVE this!! I work at a Planetarium, so I’m definitely adding that to my list of surprising space facts!! (here’s one for you: did you know you can fit EVERY OTHER PLANET in the Solar System between the Earth and the Moon? it’s very, very far away!)

[@bluejchou4404]

Wait! Adrienne and her husband have a KZbin board game channel?! Name please!!! How fun we watch board game geek whenever our family it thinking of a new game.

[@Heffalumpen]

Question for the podcast: I'm somewhat new to fountain pens and have been going through an exploratory phase. I have bought a lot of pens in a short time, and sold almost as many. The experimentation have thought me that I like Pilot and I like very fine nibs. I have 823(M), VP(F) and CH92(F). CH92 in Fine is my absolute favourite, but I wish something like that existed with a snap cap. Any recommendations? (I have a Lamy 2000, and like that too, but it's a lot stiffer than the CH92)

[@StealthyGypsy]

Drew, so totally agree with you about the exorbitant price of fast food. I can’t afford to eat out anymore. I cringe at the prices. Only one company still has reasonable prices and that is In-N-Out Burger, so most of the country is out of luck. Are we doomed? Will the prices ever go down at all?

[@williamtoler4196]

Polaris (the North Star) is a triple star system, and while the brightest of the three in the system is younger than the oldest shark fossil record, the oldest is 1.5 billion years old, making it by far the oldest thing on the list described in the show :-)

[@pacificsword1632]

Ooh that intro. Nicely done

[@culinarykid92]

1. Esterbrook Estie Botanical Gradens with Techo nib 2. Lamy Safari Cream in medium nib 3. Sailor Pro Gear Slim Stealth Purple with broad nib 4. Twsbi Eco Royal Jade (maybe Indigo with bronze trim for color variation) either in stub or fine nib for nib variety. 5. Pilot Custom 743 Verdigris with FA nib. Lamy 2000 will replace the Sailor if Drew's Slim removes it from the draft.

[@creamsiclecat]

I wanna know what Adrienne's recommendations are for beginner boardgames! I've always been interested in them but never took the dive haha

[@Gouletpens]

She says that Sagrada, KingDomino, Isle of Sky, and Wingsong are great for beginners! - Drew

[@kattz753]

Drew - if you took that jacket to someone who works with leather, they may be able to alter it into something that you will wear. My friend had a really long one from the 70s. They shortened it into a jacket.

[@melodyf2373]

Canadian here. Brandon, we will give you honorary citizenship for sure!

[@CoachNatalia]

So I have a question for you guys. Which Fountain pen manufacturer has the best customer service in your opinion? (From a standpoint of a customer) As a retailer, you guys rock, but not everyone does. When purchasing a pen from a different retailer I want to be sure, if something is wrong with my copy of a pen I can get it resolved. Appreciate your input.

[@EastWind123]

Oh my gosh, Adrianne, I'm obsessed with Mt. Everest, too. I follow the goings on every year and have read Krakauer multiple times. I have this weird fascination/disgust with people who climb it and very mixed feelings about it. I know WAY more about the climb (and the base camp trek) than a middle-aged, kinda out-of-shape woman has a right to. 😆 We'd have SO much to talk about - Beck Weathers' story could keep me occupied for hours. -Kristine

[@djpatel459]

Is it just me or did anyone else get an ad here! Not that it matters to me but I figured I put it out there if the goulet folks are wondering.

[@Stitchxavi]

Adrienne!!!

[@CIRCLEDARK]

Rockyyyyyy!!!