Editing The Pen Addict 167/transcript (section)

== Pen Show ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I am really good. I am really, really busy. It's a busy week here at the Pen Addict household. Got the DC Pen Show coming up later this week, which we're going to talk about on this episode. Do some DC Pen Show etiquette. Otherwise, I've just been running around. I feel like everything is going crazy all at once. Kids are getting ready to go back to school and activities are starting. So, you know, once the end of summer hits around here, things get a little bit nuts. So, but it's good. I'm here. I'm talking to you. You know, it's, you know, one of my favourite hour of the week. So, I say we get it started. Cool. Let's jump into it, Brad. Yes. So, hey, before you... We have a lot of stuff to talk about on your ledger, which is good. But one thing our listeners want to know, which I've had more than one person ask me this, is what are you writing with right now? A mechanical pencil. Your mechanical pencil. Be more specific.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My Rotary 600.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. And what paper?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm using the pad that you sent me, which I can never remember the name of.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Spiral pad. Spiral pad. We keep it simple. The NotCo spiral pad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, on the spiral pad, I... Whoops. Just banged it against the desk. Aside from that, I have found two things happening. One, I'm going through this faster than I did the Arts and Sciences for two... Well, but this goes into point two. This is for two reasons. Point one is I don't use the back, which I would on the Arts and Sciences. I would use both sides. Mm-hmm. The other is, for some reason, since having this pad on my desk, I've been writing a lot more, and I don't know why that is.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Huh. That's interesting. That's good, I think. You know, that's a good thing to be doing. And, you know, you can always flip it over when you're done. You know, run through it one side the whole way, flip it over, and then run through the whole back side of it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you know what? I hadn't thought of that. That's a pretty good idea. Although, part of the problem is, one of the reasons I've been writing so much is also one of the reasons that I can't write on the back of this thing. And that's because of a certain ink that I got, which I'll talk about in a moment.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. We're going to talk about it in a second.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. But maybe I'll do that. But I also think that's one of the reasons I've been writing a lot and stuff like that. But we'll see. I mean, I could do it. I mean, you know... Yeah, yeah. Your paper, even with the ink and the nib that I've been using, is actually surprisingly usable. Good. That's good. Unlike the product that I'm about to start talking about.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Uh-oh. Yeah. Oh, I can... Yeah. That's... I can see that. But before you do that, before you do that, let me say, I'm using Alami 2000. I just inked it up with the Quiz Iron Gaul Turquoise, which I'm getting ready for the pen show. So I'm inking this one up to carry on the plane with me and have it the pen show so people can test out this quiz. I guess I'm going with quiz. K-W-Z Iron Gaul. I don't know how to pronounce it, if there is a pronunciation. Um... And I'm using the Nock, um... The dot dash pocket notebook. So... And this turquoise Iron Gaul ink is wicked awesome. It's going to be really cool. So... All right. I wanted to mention that because people are asking. I always have a pen and paper handy for the show, even though I'm not necessarily writing. I will jot down some notes. You write a little bit more during the show than I do. But, um... I can't not sit here at the podcast and not have a pen and paper next to me. It's like I would... I would lose my mind. Just like you and Casey talked about on Analog this week. You know, how... You know, what you're fidgeting with while you're recording. I can't just sit here and not... Not fidget with something. So I usually keep the pen in my hand and click the cap or write a little bit note. No doodle. You know, what game are you playing right now?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm actually doodling right now. Okay. So I'm not in game phase yet. I'm in doodling phase. I do a lot more doodling during this show than I do in other shows. The thing is, like, I like the idea, because I think somebody mentioned this, of doing that, like, at the start of every episode. But I think, for me, it would be really boring.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I do, too. Just because it's... I don't have a lot of variance in this. And the reason is I am in a very tiny location. So I have to physically bring stuff into this room where I record. And I don't have a desk, like, a traditional desk setup. So I'm usually always using the same pad because of the format, the reporter-style format of these, the .dash notebook, and then just whichever pen I use. So it would be... We won't do this every episode, but people do just want to get a flavor every now and then of, you know, if we're using something particular during the show. So... But I think you're right. It would get boring really quick.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I mean, for me as well, like, I have the element of noise. Yeah. Yeah, because it was a while into using my Karas Customs Inc. all the time that I would edit and hear these weird sounds and then realize that it was me screwing and unscrewing the cat.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, you hear that way more than I do. Yeah. You probably cuss me sometimes when you're listening back. You hear some click or something random like, what is that? Was that me? Was that doubting?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Talking about Karas, actually, I received my cube.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like the one that I ordered. Yeah. It's a beautiful orange.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's awesome. And I got the red for my Kickstarter backing. It's great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm very much in love with the orange color that I've got because it's not bright like the orange that they make the inks out of. It is like a deeper color. I really, really love it. And I actually now have two of these things on my desk. I'm worried that they're going to bring my desk down. So I put them at separate edges. That's right. For the time being.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You need to balance it out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But what I have now is I have like a tier one and tier two system. Oh. So I have the tier ones right next to me. And then the tier twos on the other side of the desk where they always used to be. Cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's good. I like it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I'm very happy about that.