Editing The Pen Addict 304/transcript (section)

== Atlanta Pen Show ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So let's set the stage real quick just on the departure. So after the Atlanta Pen Show, I brought Myke to the airport, let's say 4 p.m. Eastern time in the U.S. for Myke's late flight. It was like a 10 o'clock flight, right? Yeah. By the time I drove home, I got home about 5 o'clock, had dinner with the family, went to bed really early because I was tired, like 8.30, I think I was in bed. Woke up in the morning, all rested and ready to go at 6 a.m. I don't know that you had actually landed at home by that point and I've already had like a full night's sleep. It was close to them. So that'd be like noon, be like noon-ish, your time. You still hadn't landed yet and I've already had like a full night's sleep. So I felt a little bad for you there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I mean, that's how it happens. I will say I slept basically the entire way on the plane, but that's not real sleep. No, no. You know, like you can do it, but it's not real. And then obviously I'm dealing with jet lag, so that's that. But I'm fine. But it's just one of those things where I now kind of just feel all over the place. Like I don't really know what day it is. I don't really know kind of where I am. So I've got that whole thing going on. But it's all worth it for the Atlanta Pen Show. So if you're listening to this episode and you have not yet heard episode 303, the live episode from the Atlanta Pen Show, you want to change that. I understand that like because we released these episodes super close together, like some people might miss it, right? I kind of feel like that that's a possibility. So if you haven't yet heard it, you can just go back and listen to it in your podcast app of choice or something like that. So you can catch up because it was an incredible show. I think one of my favorites for like a bunch of different reasons. It was an emotional show. It was a fun show. And we had, I think, our largest audience we've ever had for a live show. The room was bursting this time, which was great. And it was incredibly hot in there, I think, because of that. But it was great fun. And I'm really pleased everybody came out. We had a great time. And we realized during the show that next year is our fifth year at the Atlanta Pen Show. And we're kind of ruminating on that a little bit, right? Like we want to do something big and special, even more so, because it's going to be our fifth year, which I can't believe we're approaching so soon. So once again, thank you for everybody that helped us with that. Of course, this is not it. We still have a bunch of exciting things to come later in the year. But thank you for helping us get to Atlanta.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was the biggest and best yet for me, for us, for Knock, for Pen Addict. It was awesome. The show was packed. The Pen Show, the Pen Addict Podcast Live was packed. The bar was packed most nights. And, you know, I'm out of superlatives. It's like I don't want to oversell it, but it was perfect. It just went really, really well from all the aspects that I hoped it went well. And, yeah, it was just so much awesomeness, you know, the entire weekend. And I appreciate everyone that came out and said hey to us and supported us and took pictures with us. And it was just, it's really fun. It's definitely the highlight of my year. It comes and goes too fast. You know, I feel like it ran up on me like super quick. And then we, like, busted through it and now it's over. And I'm a little bit sad, but I'm a little bit okay with that because I was super tired. So I have caught up on my sleep, unlike you. But it was amazing. I, you know, I don't know what to say. I hope everyone gets the opportunity to come to a show as fun as Atlanta once in our life, whether it's this show or not. You know, there's lots of other great pen shows, but Atlanta's special for us for a lot of reasons and for me personally. So it lived up to everything I hoped it would live up to. So it was great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But on the show this year, one of the big things was that neither of us had bought anything. But we changed that, I think, on Sunday. I know I did. We kind of went out and bought some stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So I did. I did as well. So Sunday is always quiet at the Atlanta Pen Show, although it seemed a little bit busier this year than usual, I thought. So that was good. Like, no complaints there. But, you know, Sunday's the day that we all get to walk around like you, me and Tiff all got to, like, walk around together at the show for a little bit, you know, which is cool.