Editing The Pen Addict 387/transcript (section)

== Pen Addict Podcast ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' From RelayFM, this is The Pen Addict, episode 387. Today's show is brought to you by Squarespace. Moo and hello, my name is Myke Hurley and it is that time of year. We're in the peak shopping season as the holidays are about to begin, so there is no better time than right now to do The Pen Addict Gift Guide. I think we're earlier than we usually do this thing in December, but Brad will be back to the Pen Addict Gift Guide. We're really on it this year and we're doing it before the end of November. Hi, Brad Dowdy. Hello, Myke Hurley. How are you? I'm fine and dandy, my friend. Yeah, I was looking just before we recorded today because I was checking that we do a pen holiday gift guide to the title of every episode that we do this on. And last year we did it in December. The year before was the end of November. So we got back into the swing of things this year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, and I still feel like it's late. I feel like we should be like mid-November at the latest for a gift guide because people shop early.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is shopping time. This is it. You've got the discounts going on. But anyway, if we are doing our big special episode, then we have to have the third and most wonderful host of The Pen Addict. That is Anna Reiner. Welcome to the show, Anna.

'''Anna Reiner:''' Hi, how are you guys?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Very good. Very good indeed. Now, Brad, you like to try and mix things up on us every year and you have, I think, quite a good idea for how we're going to do the gift guide this year, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, and I like to have a gift guide that kind of plays loose with the rules. So it's just not the standard answers for all the questions you would expect for a gift guide. Now, there's some of that in there, but I just kind of, you know, try to freshen it up every year because...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We've got some rules this time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, got a few rules. So we have some standard, you know, keep it under this price rules and we have some standard general topic rules. But I think it came out pretty fun, you know, looking at all the answers that we filled out. And I think we're going to have a good time with this episode.