Editing The Pen Addict 229/transcript (section)

== Podcast Intro ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' From RelayFM, this is The Pen Addict, episode 229. Today's show is brought to you by Harry's and Capto. My name is Myke Hurley and I am joined by Mr. Brad Dowdy. Hello, Brad Dowdy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, you're not just joined by me today. I mean, I appreciate that I'm joining you today and that you're joining me, but what I'm really appreciative of is Brian and Lisa Anderson from Anderson Pens joining us. Hey, Brian and Lisa.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Good morning. Hello.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' How are y'all?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I cannot believe that we are 229 episodes into this show and we're just having you on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What is it?

'''Brian Anderson:''' Well, we just wanted to make sure you had it all together before we were out.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, make sure it was legit. What we had to do, Myke, is we had to make sure that we were always ahead of them in podcast number. That's true. I know. Y'all are like over 200 though, right?

'''Brian Anderson:''' We were, yeah, there were a couple weeks where we really didn't want to do a podcast because it was right before a show or right after. And we were like, no, we have to because Brad's like one ahead or one behind or whatever. So we're competitive that way.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we did 201 last night. Wow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Congratulations.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, congratulations. That's pretty awesome. We'll talk more about that as we get through the show. But gosh, between us and y'all, that's well over 400 podcasts about pens. Did you think this would ever be like a thing?

'''Brian Anderson:''' Well, you know, if you do the math, that's over eight years. Wow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's kind of scary. Don't do that to me again, Lisa.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm not good at math.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, I mean, I think most everyone listening to us or, you know, that has been around the pen community a while are familiar with Anderson Pens and Brian and Lisa Anderson and the world tour that they're on and the awesome shop that they have. But I think, you know, there's probably some listeners that aren't too familiar with it. So I wanted to just take a step back just for like a second and talk about how before there were pens, before you were like doing pen shows, before y'all even knew each other. Like, Lisa, how did, were you into fountain pens like as a thing as you were growing up? And like, did this turn into something as you were older? Or was it just something you kind of latched onto later in life?