Editing The Pen Addict 360/transcript (section)

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'''Myke Hurley:''' We all know that. I'm just super unhappy with the first two items in our document today. Like, one I don't want to do, and the other one I'm just really mad about.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, one I didn't want to do, but we should, and the other one I'm going to force you to do, which is the first one. Because it's a big deal in the stationery world, Myke. And I know, you're not a Game of Thrones hater, but you're not a watcher. You're not a watcher on the wall. Okay, so I'm not interested in it. You've lived through eight years of this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I missed it, right? Like, I missed it. And then, by the time that I was even remotely interested in it, I knew too many spoilers, because the internet can't stop themselves from making Game of Thrones into memes. Then I knew, like, a bunch of things that happened in the show, which would make it less enjoyable for me to watch it. And then I've seen clips of it, and the violence, and stuff like that. It's just not for me. I don't begrudge people that watch it. Adina, like, my wife loves the show, like, absolutely loves it. But it's just not my cup of tea.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Totally get it. Totally get it. And especially since you didn't catch it in the beginning, and you're just like, you know, you were, I think you mentioned it maybe like three or four years into the series was when I first kind of heard you talking about it. It's just like, I'm beyond that point to go back. I'm not interested in enough to go back and, you know, commit some time to this. So, I don't know if you know, Myke, but it ended this past Sunday. I'm very aware of that. Because you are a citizen of the internet. So, yes, you cannot get away from it whether you like it or not. Are we about to do some super light spoilers? I think I have it in my head to where I cannot spoil it. Okay. But I was going to give a tiny spoiler warning, but I'm going to do my best not to, and I think I can get around it. So, there is maybe one of the best characters in my book of the show, maybe certainly top two or three characters for me, is a knight named Brienne. And she is just this amazingly awesome character. And she's been in the show, I think, since season one, if not season two. She's been around a long time. She's got a huge role in the show. So, throughout the whole show, she's just been a great character. So, the end of the show, we're going into the last episode. She is, you know, essentially back in the keep of the castle. And she is writing notes in a book that essentially tracks the stories of all the famous king's guards, all the protectors of the king and the monarchy. And she's writing the story of one of them in a book. And as you could guess, this story has been written with a feather quill pen and a dip bottle of ink. And she's doing a really nice job. You know, it's a big, huge, beautiful book. It's like a thousand-page book. You know, it's like one of those things you close and it's like ten stories tall. So, she's doing her writing and she's writing about this person. And you can see how heavy the ink's going on the page. Like, the shots get in, like, really close and you can see the details of the letter. And it's like, you know, a sixteenth of an inch thickness of wet ink on the page. And then she goes and shuts the book. And I about had a cow right then and there. My Twitter feed blew up all that night, all the next day. It was like, it was the no heard around the stationary world. I don't know what failure did Brienne just have right there for a character that is so well done. We can just chalk it up as an effect of the writing this last season, which is a whole thing. And that's kind of like, you know, kind of how a good metaphor for how they ended the show is closing the book while the ink is still dry. But I just wanted to bring this up because so many people brought this up to me. There's articles written on the internet, Myke, which I shared just about this scene. That's how big of a deal it was. Regardless of anything that went on in the rest of that episode, this was the most important for us here at the Panatic, Myke. And we needed to cover it. I mean, this is what we do. This is the news we needed to cover. Mm-hmm. So I will let you off the hook on that one and begrudgingly talk about the next one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm so mad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And we'll talk about your feelings because I'm not as mad as you. And I think that came out in this. I did not want to talk about this, but I felt if we didn't, we're going to have to answer the questions anyway. So we might as well cut to the chase. So our lovely Ask TPA from our friend Ralph last week about the writing on the hamburger paper was amazing. And, you know, I obviously enjoyed it. We said it's the question of the year. And after the show ended last week in the chat room, like literally within a minute, one of our friends said, I think you got trolled. And I don't know why it didn't cross my mind as weird as that email and question was to look into it before I chose to read it. But I enjoyed it so much. It was really well written, well done, and it was funny. But one look at the originating email probably would have given me the answers that I needed. But I didn't. I enjoyed the story. I felt like sharing it. And I'm okay that we did. The person who wrote it, we asked them for a shot of the inkwell, which they actually listened and provided. Myke, I don't know if you want to share that in the show notes. You may not. And I'm good with either decision. I'll leave that in your hands. Because as they always say, don't feed the trolls, right? That's the thing. But I didn't feel there was much malice in this, right? And I'm not upset about it. You know, it took me maybe five minutes to go, oh, like I think he got us good here based on what I could figure out in just my very minuscule amount of Google Foo. And then he sent me an email. I replied back to him in his real name saying, ha ha, you got us. You did a really good job. You're a good writer. And he basically replied, ha ha, thanks. You know, that was fun. So, yeah, confirmed. Troll job. A little bit sad about it, but not really. It was a fun story. I will continue this story. Hopefully this story will continue to be a memeable part of this show. And I think it's part of the lore now. And maybe we can get Brienne to write it in a wet nib and slam the book down on it. I don't want this to become a thing, everyone. It kind of can't, right? And we're going to get this later. We have an ass TPA that I would immediately had a red flag on, but in a fun kind of way, right? We're a fun show. We don't. We're not out there taking people off to where there's like a love-hate of the pen addict, right? There's not factions of the pen addict, right? Where a subset of listeners would, you know, go out of their way to necessarily attack the show. They would just not listen, right? Who's going to go through an hour of this nonsense? You either listen to us or you've never heard of us. So this person is actually a creative science fiction writer. So like everything that they did was really well done. And I don't think it's good. That's why they got us. This person's a writer. And I mean, they got us. And I'm willing to admit, hey, I got gotten. And I'm okay with it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We got got. And like, I like tip my hat. You got us. But like, I just, that's not everyone writing their most elaborate phrases.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, now you're warned, right? Yeah. I mean, and I will do a little bit better job digging a little bit deeper ahead of time. You know, once it happens once, then you're on high alert now. And I don't think it's something that's going to happen very often. But I can't wait to get to this question we have at the Ask TPA at the end of the show. It's going to be fun. All right. We got the two verboten topics out of the way, Myke. Let's talk about something fun now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Something unexpected, I think.