Editing The Pen Addict 438/transcript (section)

== Holiday Gift Guide ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' From RelayFM, this is The Pen Addict, episode 438, and it is our holiday gift guide for 2020. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace and Good Made Better. My name is Myke Hurley, and I have the real pleasure of being joined by Anna Reinert. Hi, Anna.

'''Anna Reinert:''' Hello, Myke. So good to hear your voice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And you, you get top billing today, I've decided. Brad's also here. Hi, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I was trying not to laugh, because I didn't catch it at first, but once you said you had the real pleasure, I knew it wasn't going to be me. And then I tried not to bust out laughing right there, because it was accurate.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's not that fake pleasure that I usually have. Brad is also here with his busted arm. Hi, busted arm, Brad. Hey, busted arm, Myke. How are you doing? So, quick, just decide, are you doing okay?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep, yep, all good. Gets better every day, which is what you, I think, want to say when you have a break like this. So, yeah, very content with, you know, the situation progressing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, we are, the band's back together, and we are doing our 2020 holiday gift guide. I think still with ample time to make sure that you have the gifts in mind for, so what I like, actually, what I like about our holiday gift guide is, you can give this to somebody in your life, and they can pick things, but this is also a place where if you're thinking, I need to tell people what I want for the holidays, we are now here to give you a bunch of suggestions for things you can tell people in your life to buy you as a pen addict. So, as we have had for the last couple of years, Brad has put together some categories for us, and then the three of us have some suggestions in each category. So, would you like to explain how we're going to start this thing off, Brad Dowdy?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, so, we always kind of talk about how do we set up the gift guide episode, and it's worked out better in this format where we just pick a general category of gift. There might be a budget involved, there might not be a budget involved, but instead of doing strictly, okay, what do we buy for $25, what do we buy for $50 a weekend?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Or like, what's the best ballpoint, what's the best fountain pen? It gets a bit repetitive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, Ana has plenty of articles about that, I have plenty of articles about that, you can find out those things. You can ask us directly, I'm sure Ana would, you know, be glad to help you, you know, pick out whichever specific pen you want, but these are kind of little groupings if you have less information, but still have a budget, or just kind of an idea you want to surprise somebody. Some of these are pretty standard ideas, and then some of them came from our Twitch chat the other day, gave us some little one-off categories to feature to have fun with. So, yeah, it's pretty standard gift guide setup, I would say, to be quite honest.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, where are we starting? The basics and beginner.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we're starting with the basics, and that's kind of how we'll go. We'll kind of start small, start with the basics, then we'll ramp up into some weirdness as we get through. We'll each, you know, take the category, we'll each give our own answers, and we'll just kind of rotate through the answers. I'm up first for the basics beginner set, and I put in a little sentence of note for what each category is. This one is build out a kit for someone, also a kilt, but that's a different category.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'll take a kilt if that's what we're doing. I wasn't prepared.