Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Cozy Games.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I just bought a bunch of pens.

So we've been talking a lot about notebooks and stuff on this show over the last few weeks.

We're actually going to talk a little bit more about it on this show.

But a thing that I should admit that I don't talk about a lot here on the Vergecast or in life

is that on the side of being like a digital note-taking lunatic, I'm also kind of a notebook

lunatic. I go through these phases every once in a while where I'm like, okay, I'm going to

become a notebook guy. I spend too much time on my phone. My phone is really useful, but what I need is just when I'm going to write things down, I'm going to do it on pen and paper.

It's going to be great. Love it. I always forget that the real problem is that my handwriting is

awful and that my hand hurts when I write too much. So I just buy a bunch of notebooks. I'm like, this will fix it. So I have like old like five star

school notebooks. I have I have a bunch of like mole skin knockoffs. I have an actual mole skin.

I have this thing called the tote book from a company called Studio Neat that I really like.

I have one that I bought at Staples. This one is my journal from high school in which I wrote a bunch of poetry to my girlfriend that no one is ever allowed to read. But the thing that I've realized most is that A, I need a notebook that is with me most of the time. So what I usually end up doing is getting like a little field notes thing that can just sort of live in my pocket. But the main thing is I need pens, like a million pens.

I don't want to spend any money on pens. So I'm going on Amazon and I bought these. They're

called the pilot precise V5RT. I think I found them from a wire cutter review that was like,

these are good pens that you don't have to press super hard on. So I bought 12 of them. And my plan is just to put them everywhere, like one in the car, one of my backpack,

one at my desk, one upstairs, one next to the bed. And then the goal is just to like always have

a pen within reach. I try to carry a pen around, but I find I'm pretty good at having my notebook with me, but terrible at having my pen with me. So I'm going with like an infinite pens situation. It's going to be great,

and I'm going to write in notebooks more often. Anyway, that is not what we're here to talk about today.

It's a holiday week, at least here in the U.S. It's Thanksgiving. So instead of normal

newsy verge cast on a week where there's not really any news,

we figured we'd do something slightly different. So what we're going to do today is we're going to

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