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== Field Notes Editions ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I figured it was time in our Field Notes love fest that we have on the podcast here to now that the Ambition edition's out and there's a nice clean break at 25 released Field Notes colors editions. These are the subscription editions that I thought it would be fun to rank them. And we're going to go from 25 to 1, Myke. These are my rankings on what I think about every Field Notes edition that has been released so far under the color subscription header. So these are all the ones that Field Notes puts out quarterly since 2008, I think, was the first edition. And now we're 25 editions in. So we're going to make some people mad, Myke, talking about not ranking their favorite edition high enough and, you know, lots of arguing and disagreeing and agreeing, which is exactly what it should be. These are my rankings. No one else's rankings. And, Myke, you can yell at me, you know, as I go through this. But actually, you and I, for the most part, are on the same page on what we think about some of these editions.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I'm looking at this list and I'm not sure. Now, the reason I haven't put together a list is because I have not tried all 25 editions. So I'm just going to shout at Brad as he gets them all wrong.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's one of the reasons why I wanted to do it, because I actually do have all 25 editions.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Look at me, la-dee-da, I'm Brad Dowdy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, speaking of which, if anyone has a sealed three-pack of Butcher Orange, I'm still interested, so get in touch. If you need some extra money for Christmas, let me know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Are you being serious right now? Yeah. Do you think there is anyone?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Who knows?

'''Myke Hurley:''' They've got to be expensive, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how much I'd pay, so we'll see.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Anytime I ever mention it, no one ever comes with anything. So, we'll see. That's the one I still need, but regardless. I've actually used a Butcher Orange, and we've talked about that and showed some pictures of that. There's actually one or two editions in this list that I have not actually written in, but I'll be correcting that as we go through the years. But let's get into this list, okay? Yes. So we're going to go reverse order. We're going to start with number 25, what I think is the worst edition, and that's the Expedition edition. Yeah. Yeah. Wah, wah, wah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, it is kind of unfair to put the Expedition in a list. Could not agree more. Because it was built to be different anyway.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. You know? So I look at it from my usage perspective. A lot of people, like, hunt these down. When they ran out of one of their printings sold out, because this became a stock edition. So one of their printings sold out, and they just haven't had, there was a gap between when they had to reprint them and get them back in. And a lot of people were clamoring for them because they really fit a specific need. They're a great addition, you know, for people that, you know, work in the field and need, you know, some more waterproofness and durability out of their editions. And you use ballpoints or pencils because that's really the only writing instruments that work on the paper. It's the plastic paper, the Yupo paper. And that just doesn't work for me. So I never use these editions. And I don't know. It's just one that doesn't interest me. I think a lot of people, I don't know if they'd have it as their number one edition, but I bet it's top five for a lot of people. And that just goes to show you that these are made for a lot of different uses, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, there will be some people that this will be their number one because it allows them to write in crazy conditions or something, you know?