Editing The Pen Addict 270/transcript (section)

== Backer Vlog ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' All right, so should we talk about, I promised an update on the backer vlog last episode. Yeah, it's good timing. I'm going to get lots to talk about on that. Yeah, my update is I completed it, and it's published. It's just a private YouTube video. If you are a backer, you should have got an email or something like that. It will be going out to you. It's also in the backer updates on Kickstarter.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep, and I sent that out yesterday afternoon, I believe. Got a lot of good feedback on that. I haven't gone and checked. I don't know if anyone leaves comments on the private videos.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They do, and they have, and they've been really good so far, which makes me happy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know, I got a few emails that were good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It was tricky to put the vlog together from a videoing perspective. I wasn't sure what I should be showing and what I shouldn't be showing, and I kind of did it up towards more of the people than the pens, and I hope that people enjoyed that. I hope that people got something out of it. I wanted to kind of do my best to show what they're like, like what the pen shows are like.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and I think that's something we can focus more on in the future as well, because I got an email. It was a really good constructive criticism email that, you know, I love your pen show visits, but your focus has changed, and I want to know more about the show itself, and the vendors, and the new products. And I'm like, yeah, I get that, because I've gone, now I go to work pen shows instead of visit pen shows, right? So that content's a little bit different, but I think that's something I can, you know, think about and change in the future, and I thought you did, hopefully you did a good, people think you did a good job of capturing that, and I thought it was very cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Thank you very much.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep, and so there are people who are wanting to know if they can get access to the video and to the Pen Addict podcast live recording video. If you are interested in doing that after the fact, you can email me, hello at penaddict.com, and we'll talk about the details on getting you access to that if you are interested. So I don't mind doing the video stuff after the fact, and I can just send like PayPal invoices or whatever. We can't do any Sapelos anymore. Those are done and gone.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, that's the thing, because there are people that come to the show later and they want to get the videos, and we try and accommodate where we can. So, you know, you can, Brad will work it out with you, and then any money can go in towards next year's fund, I guess. Or, I mean, we still got more this year, which we're going to talk about kind of at the end of the show today. Yeah, we might want to get that one rolling. Yeah, you're telling me. We keep talking about it. Yeah, I agree. At the end of last week's show, during last week's show, I mentioned that I was going to head over to Kinokunia. Oh, my God. Did I get it right? Yeah, pretty good there. Which is a very populous pen and bookstore in New York, because it was like a couple of blocks from my hotel. So I went there, and there was an abundance of stuff, like an overwhelming amount of pens in this place. I can see why people go mad for Kinokunia, because it is gel pen heaven. There was just absolutely every type of pen you would ever wish for. Now, I am not a gel pen person, so for me, I didn't really buy anything. I was just looking around. I bought a gift of a Colito, who were a bunch of different colors for someone. And then I ended up buying some blue Pilot M90 cartridges, like some blue Pilot cartridges for my M90. Sure. Because it was all they had. And they had an interesting fountain pen collection. They had some nice pilots, like they had some custom-made 23s and stuff like that in there, which I was really impressed with. I was like, well, I've actually got a pretty serious list of attention points. They had a pretty serious collection, but their fountain pen collection was really small and quite restricted. And they had some ink and stuff like that too, like Hiroshisuku. And then they had a bunch of washi tape stuff and a bunch of interesting notebooks. They had a larger collection of Moleskine than I was expecting, but also a large collection of Leuchtturm. So it was a cool experience to see a store like that, but it doesn't carry the stuff that I'm necessarily too interested in buying, nor would I have expected it to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right, right. Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. That is interesting about the fountain pen setup, and it makes sense that it's all Pilot, because I'm sure they have a pretty big Pilot account with all the other things that they carry. Yeah, they had everything, man. Pencils and erasers.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They had like Preras. They had the whole shebang for the Pilot stuff. They had a couple of sailors, like what is the 1911s? But it was mostly Pilot stuff, and they had the whole gamut. They ran the whole gamut.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and it's also, like you said, they had the Moleskines and Leuchtturms, but I know it's a huge Japanese notebook store too, and I know a lot of people. I know that's not your thing at all, but I know a lot of people will go there and just stock up on all kinds of weird notebooks. This was weird for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I reckon I was looking in the wrong place, because I didn't really come across any. I mean, I don't know where the Japanese notebooks were. Sure. It was really busy in there, I will say that. So I didn't look at everything. It was packed full of people, and I was waiting for maybe like 10 minutes to get somebody to give me some ink. Oh, wow. It was super hot that day, and I was kind of just like, I'm getting out of here. I might pop back though. I mean, I'm going to be in New York for like another two weeks, basically, after this. I love the chat room. They're already saying where it's at.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's on the back wall, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Back wall. All right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like our chat room knows these things. It's amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I might head back there. I might. I mean, I have notebooks. I've got notebooks for days now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. And I know, like I would go in and maybe not buy many gel pens, but I guarantee you I'd buy some notebooks.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. I mentioned at the start of the show that it is kind of RelayFM's, and wait, is. I don't know why I keep saying kind of. Like 100% is RelayFM's third anniversary this week. Yes. Three days from the birthday. Yeah, I know. Wow. Man, this time three years ago, I don't think I was functioning very well as a human being. But what that means is that starting the beginning of this week, it's already begun, our RelayFM members bonus shows go out. So if you are a RelayFM member, you will already have a feed for our members, which includes a bunch of bonuses. If you become a RelayFM member, then you will get sent an email with an RSS feed and a link so you can go and subscribe in your favorite app of choice. Basically, throughout the month, you're going to get bonus episodes of all of your favorite shows, including this one. Our episode goes out later this week on August 17th, which we spoke about before. And it's me and Brad taking a real interesting, emotional, in-depth look at his favorite Joy Division songs. Honestly, it's one of the best things me and Brad have ever done together. So if you enjoy this show, it's a very different feel, right? Because we tend to be pretty happy on this show and Joy Division music by design is pretty sad. Sell it, Myke. It meant something to both of us and I think that it is, I think that it's a really, it's a really emotional thing and it's very interesting to hear Brad talk about all of his feelings about the music. So you can become a Relay.fm member by going to relay.fm slash membership and you can choose any show that you want to support or all the shows and you will get all of the same bonuses and benefits, including something that's new this year. Our amazing designer, Frank, has created desktop wallpapers of all of the Relay.fm shows. This will be in the email for new members and if you're an existing member, we sent out a newsletter this week which has a link to that in it as well. So go find out more. Go to relay.fm slash membership. We'd love it if you supported the Pen Addict, but you can support any show and you will get all of the same benefits and bonuses. And I want to say for anybody that has already signed up or anybody that's going to, thank you so much. Obviously, we are advertising supported, but your support helps us continue to do things and it gives us a base that we know the support is always there no matter what advertising we have. And that is a real, real great thing to know that we have that there so we can continue making the show easily and can continue making and doing interesting and weird stuff too. So we really appreciate your support.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, congratulations to you and Stephen for three years and congratulations on the new site redesign launch. I know you've been putting a lot of hard work into that. So I just wanted to make sure you got credit for that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We have a fresh coat of paint over at relay.fm, which is really nice. So you can do that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep, yep. So as great as you were talking about Frank's design work, which he's awesome. We all love Frank Forgotten Towel on Twitter. And do you think he could pull off a Rubik's Cube mosaic like our friend David, Mr. Fig Boot can? It's kind of incredible, right? I don't know anyone that could pull this off. I don't know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He explained this to me and I still don't know how he did it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And he goes through it all in the intro to the video. And I'm just looking at this video and all the time-lapse stuff. The amount of time he committed to this project is insane. And that's why we love him, right? We love these people that go deep into like crazy stuff like this. It's so impressive. It's so cool. And congratulations, David, for getting this out. I know it was months worth of work to do this. And I don't know if I should spoil the ending of the video. No, we definitely shouldn't.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's a surprise at the end. Basically, Dave, he put together this incredible video of using and solving Rubik's Cubes to create the logos of some of your favorite pen companies. Mm-hmm. And the Nock is in there too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so like there's a big Nock logo in there. He, you know, he's so nice. He like asked, he's like, hey, I'm doing this project and it involves like 600 Rubik's Cubes and I want to make a Nock logo. Is that okay? I'm like, yeah, that's okay. But I appreciate him asking. But I'm like, yeah, that's awesome. So it's really good. Yeah, it's really, really good. So we have a fig boot level of items to get to here this week. But I know we need to talk about some other pens first, right?