Editing The Pen Addict 142/transcript (section)

== Vacation Plans ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So what's going on with you? I'm on vacation. How are you doing?

'''Myke Hurley:''' What is it, President's Day today, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, my kids are out for a couple extra days, and they kind of wrap around this weird holiday school thing with these faux holidays that we have sometimes. So, yeah, kids are out for a couple days, so we got out of town for a couple days.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Where are you on the earth right now?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I am in Destin, Florida, which is on the beautiful Florida Gulf Coast. It's actually beautiful here today, and we've had some better weather than anticipated. So we're enjoying ourselves quite nicely. Thank you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' See, that explains when you took the Instagram on the beach, and I was like, beaches in Atlanta? Obviously, I didn't know this. I didn't think it was on any coasts, but it could have been like a man-made beach by a huge lake or something. I don't know how your country works.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's weird. It's big. It is definitely weird. It is definitely weird, and we have lots of weird goings on in our country. So you need to get a little bit weirder to step up your game with us. And Florida is actually one of the weirdest states in the Union, and that's like a whole ungenius level podcast thing just about Florida, which we could just call the podcast Florida, and we would never run out of material.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm pretty sure Merlin and Dan have that podcast covered. Did you see that we broke $13,000 in the Kickstarter a couple days ago?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I did. I did. I saw that a couple days ago, and that's unbelievable. So this is going to – I keep every day, or at least every other day, I have someone else tweeting me or emailing me. I'm coming to the Pen Show. So I hope the organizers of the Pen Show understand what they're getting into, and I have it on good accord that they have no clue what's about to happen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We have radioed down on the Pen Show. We are. It's going to be awesome. I'm so excited. If you hear this, by the way, as we record today, which is the 16th of February, you have nine days left to back the Kickstarter project to get yourself a video version of a live recorded episode. Episode 150 of the Pen Addict in beautiful serendipity will be recorded, and you will be able to get yourself a video version of it if you back our Kickstarter project. If not, you will have to deal with the audio, which is fine, but you won't get to see the tears in Brad's eyes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right. That's right. And all the special – I've got to put on my Myke Hurley producer hat and book a bunch of special guests, so I'm going to work on that. So you'll want to see video of that, and it should happen. I see no reason why it won't.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's going to be fantastic. We have a real grab bag today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's basically all the links I haven't gotten to in the past two or three weeks worth of stuff, and it's all really good stuff that I wanted to talk about. So I wanted to get it in there after our various conversations, but we do want to pick up on one little thing from last week, and that's the LaPen. I was actually pronouncing it wrong last week. It's not the LeePen. It's the LaPen.