Editing The Pen Addict 19/transcript (section)

== Top Five Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' We did. We did. We talked in last week's episode. On the day we recorded, I had written a post on penaddict.com about my top five pens. And that's a post I've done for years and kind of on an unscheduled schedule. It's one of those, you know, I always want to do and keep updated. And I always know it's time when I start getting more and more emails. I was, where's the list? Where's the list? Do you have an updated list? I was like, okay, I need to get this out. I need to be more scheduled on it. Do it, you know, once a quarter or at least twice a year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Or just when there's a significant change.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right, right. I think that was kind of the delay this time. And, you know, if there's not a bunch of – there used to be a lot of turnover in my top five list. You know, when I started the blog and trying and discovering all kinds of new and different pens that I'd never seen in my life. And, you know, not that I'm still not discovering those things. It's just that the rate of change has become slower and the ones I like I'm latching on to more. So I actually had a little, you know, in my intro I was like, you know, this – it took me so long because there was finally a big change in how my list looks. You know, we could link back to some old top five lists. And it's mostly, you know, the micro-tip gel-ink pens. You know, the high-tech Cs, SinoDXs and things like that. But this top five list was kind of a change for me. So I thought it would be a good episode for the podcast.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, what I'll do is I've linked to the post in the show notes. But I'm going to put a link to the top five category that you have. So people can just go back and read all of the posts that you've tagged with top five.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. And actually I think I need to update some of those tags. I think back in the day I wasn't tagging it properly.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It looks like there's quite a few in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay, good, good. I'll double check and see if there's a few more I can add into that list.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Now I'm going to lay claim to some of the change that you had. I think it's this show that changed a lot of your top five because you started moving into fountain pens. That's right. And I think that is this show that helped you do that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think you're probably right. I would have to go back and look on any top five I've ever done before. I'm not sure that there was a single fountain pen on there. I'd be willing to bet there's not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If I look at the full 2011, which was the previous one, you have no fountain pens on that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That sounds about right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, none at all. Not even a Kaweka.