Editing The Pen Addict 319/transcript (section)

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'''Myke Hurley:''' A podcast about pens? No. Yes. Isn't that a fake show that doesn't exist?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, it's definitely a multiple choice question. It's very possible it doesn't exist, except in our minds, and you're part of it for 319 episodes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, not 319. You've been a part of the 319. I haven't. Yes. I just missed the last two. We'll just give you 300-ish. Yeah, sure. We can go with that. Maybe. Yeah, I've probably broken 300. Who knows? But I wanted to extend my thanks to Jesse and Les for filling in for me. There is an Ask TPA question that we're probably going to get to later on in the show, so that addresses kind of my feelings about those episodes, so I won't say too much right now. Except for the fact that I wanted to thank both Jesse and Les for filling in. Brad, you did a great job, as always, as interviewer Brad, and you even did the ads this time, which was a lot of fun to hear.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, like, I feel pretty good with interviewer Brad. I feel pretty good with ad read Brad. You know what I'm not in your category with yet? It's the intro. Your intros are, like, really good. My intros, I have to, like, really think about them. Yours feel very natural. I'm, like, I'm scattered through the intro. So I'm listening to your intro to this show, and I'm like...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Thousands and thousands of intros that I have committed to the annals of time at this point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So Jesse and Les were awesome. They made my life easy on these two weeks you were away, gallivanting and traipsing all over, across the world. Yep. At least about halfway across the globe, I'm thinking, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' We went out to Paris, back to London, then to San Francisco, then to Hawaii, then back to San Francisco, then to London. It was quite a trip.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And how are you recovering from this? I can't imagine.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My body is somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean right now, but I'm good. I'm happy to be here, genuinely. Like, as much as I didn't want to leave Hawaii, which I really didn't want to leave Hawaii, it's the greatest place on the planet. I was also... When we were back in San Francisco, which is really good because we kind of had some time to adjust before going back to real life, I was ready to come back to work. Like, I was missing it. But I was ready to get back in front of the microphone again because I do love what I do. So I was really... I genuinely was like, okay, I need to... I have some stuff I need to say. And I have not... And Indiana's bored of listening to me. So someone else needs to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And it feels good to get back into the routine. Like, I have that challenge. Like, when I get out of my routine, like, I'm good for a little bit. And then there comes a point where I start having to, like, scratch that itch. Like, I need to go back and do the things that I do. So, like, I'm good with this break. Now it's time for me to focus on what I need to do again. So, good. Glad to have you back. Did you have any stationary tales to tell from your honeymoon? My guess would be no. But I always have to ask you these questions when you go away for a while. It's like, what did you do with your pens and paper while you were away?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, not particularly. When I was in Paris, I was with a friend of the show, Tiffany Arment. And we, like, kind of scouted out a couple of little stores that we were walking around. And, you know, it was stuff that I've seen mostly before. But we did go into this one store that looked like it was mostly a bookstore. But it was selling the Y Studio pens. Oh, nice. Which I was really surprised to see. I was like, huh, okay. And they had the desk pen and the one that you hang around your neck.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' A belt loop. But, you know, we'll go with neck.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I always thought that that went around the neck.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Doesn't it have, like, a lanyard or something?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It does, but it's short. It's not a chain pen. It's theoretically a belt loop pen. I always thought that that was.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because it's got, like, the little hole in the top, right? It does. So, I always thought that people hung those around their necks. That makes more sense to me. A little large and weighty. That makes more sense to me than hanging it on your belt. I feel like hanging a pen on a belt is a really bad idea. Because it would be banging against your leg all the time. And it would get. It would drive me insane. Yeah. I feel like you'd have more control of it around your neck. And you'd also strengthen your neck muscles. You would on these brass pens. But, yeah. And then, just the other thing was I was just really disappointed in myself. Because I really intended to take my canalea pens to Hawaii.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Especially because we stayed right underneath Haleakala. And I was. And we saw lots of sunsets in Haleakala. And I can attest that the colors. The yellows and the pinks. And the grays and the blacks that are in the Haleakala sunset. Are accurate. Because we saw a lot of those. There were a lot of oranges and pinks as well. But it just depended on where you looked and what the time was. I forgot to take them. I was very disappointed in myself, Brad. Very, very disappointed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm disappointed. I'm sure Hugh and Carol will share their disappointment with me. When I see them this week. And if they don't. I will make sure to throw you under the bus.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, I posted one picture that was a sunset picture. So, you can kind of get an idea. I put it on my Instagram. The best comment. The very, very best comment. Came from Jonathan Brooks. And he just said, how inspirational. Which I liked very much. Very, very much. But, yeah. So, whilst I haven't got any pictures to share of my pens with the scenes that I was seeing there. What I will say. Just to try and make up for it. Is the work that everybody is doing over at Canalea Pens. They are doing an incredible job at recreating the beautiful scenes of Hawaii. So, you can rest assured that when you pick one of those pens up. And we are going to talk about one later on. But you can rest assured that you are getting something that looks accurate in color. And, again. I don't know how they do it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That's still beyond my comprehension. So, being gone for two weeks. You had the opportunity to get a backlog of things we needed to talk about. Yeah. And, to be honest. This first topic I had already forgotten about. Because I just assumed it was over. But it turns out it's not. So, why don't you fill us in on the great podcast thread of the Lamy orange ink cartridges. Yep. What's going on now? I thought we had ten boxes coming.