Editing The Pen Addict 498/transcript (section)

== Episode Plan ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Yeah, me neither. All right. So let's talk about episode 500, Myke. All right, let's do it. Two weeks from now, episode 500. So I've been sweating this a lot, if y'all couldn't tell, being that we haven't had any, you know, real concrete answers on what we're going to do for episode 500. So I decided, like, the things that I don't like, right, are talking about myself, talking about how great the show is, you know, all of those things that, you know, getting people to call in to tell you their favorite thing about the show. Like, I get all that. Like, all of that's fun. I like hearing it for other shows. I hate putting myself. I hate putting myself in those shoes. So, and 500 episodes. It feels like, like, when we did episode 400 and 401, kind of the new starting point, that feels like yesterday to me still. I don't know why. I think they were just such good episodes, right? And they kind of had this good kind of stake in the ground type of bit. And so it's been two years since then. And we've obviously got some new things we can put in, maybe episode 800, you know, the new starting point. So I was trying to figure out what we could do to celebrate. And I think what I want to do and what I've set up for us to do is to get some listener involvement and hear from you, specifically, not what you think about the show. So, again, like, I don't need to hear, like, the love fest. Oh, I love the show. It puts me to sleep every night. We've done it enough times now. It's not a complaint, right? I appreciate it. Obviously, we love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Brad doesn't like talking about himself. I love talking about myself. But we've, you know, we've had a bunch of anniversaries on this show over the last, will be 10 years. 10 years, yeah. Yeah, we've had more than enough anniversaries. And we've spoken about this kind of stuff already. So now we're asking not for that, but to celebrate something else.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What I want to do is take episode 500 and tell everyone that listens about everyone's favorite stationery. So I've created a form, a Google form, where you can tell me and Myke, what's your favorite stationery? What's your favorite pen, your favorite pencil? Why do you love it? Why is it special? And me and Myke are going to commit to reading all of those answers on episode 500.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Caveats! Hello, I'm Myke Hurley, and I'm here with caveats. Brad has, like, a very grand idea, which I mostly agree with. But I have a couple of things. So just write what you feel. I know it's a big question. So the question that we're asking you is, tell us about your favorite stationery item and what makes it so special. This could be in history. It could be now, right? And it could just be, like, something super simple. Maybe it's your favorite eraser, whatever. We just want to know what is your favorite piece of stationery and what makes it special to you. We will read all of them that are readable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, that's my caveat.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I'm down with the caveats. There will be some editing if necessary. Yes. And we will read all of the answers that are fit to print, if you will.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And this is the thing. We are going to do all of it, no matter how long it takes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I made Myke commit to it. So, like, I don't know, are we going to get 10 replies? Are we going to get 100 replies? Are we going to get 200 replies? I don't know. But that's our commitment to you, is we're reading everybody's favorite stationery for everybody else who listens to the show. And that's what I want to do for episode 500. And I hope y'all are cool with that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Which has made me think, I wonder if we should start that episode a bit early.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We could. We could. Should we do it an hour earlier? I'm just kidding, because I do two shows on Wednesdays, which is actually, it's pretty good because I was going to mention, you know, we do record this show live. And we record it live every single week, usually at 10 a.m. Eastern time. But we'll record this one an hour earlier. So, yeah, we'll confirm that next week, but that should be fine. Yeah. So this would be the plan. It'll be February 9th is the recording of the episode and should be now at 9 a.m. U.S. Eastern time, 2 p.m. GMT. You can listen. If you're a RelayFM member, you can listen in the RelayFM members Discord and there's a live chat there. Or you can go to RelayFM live and you can listen along live, too. Just in case you want to hang out with us that day, because it's going to be a special day. Because just as a reminder, the reason why this episode is triple special for us, I guess, because episode 500 records on the exact 10 year anniversary of this show. So we recorded episode one on February 9th, 2012. So that's why we wanted to do it all. And we have spoke about it a bunch of times, but making it all kind of match up. And so, yeah, we're going to be recording and we want your involvements. If you go to the show notes, which you can find in your podcast app or at RelayFM slash PenAddict slash 498, you'll find a link to a questionnaire there called the PenAddict episode 500 questionnaire. Click it. Give us your name. It can be however you want your name said on the show and your answer to the question. We will remind everybody next week. But obviously, you know, you have to get your answer in before the episode begins.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You have two weeks. You have two weeks.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I would say February 8th is probably your likely deadline. Right. If you want to make sure you're on the episode, get the answer in before February 8th.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I'll be doing like a general audit the day before at least. So get your answers in. I will put it on the blog as well so we can bury Myke's time frame that day as long as we can. And who knows? Maybe it's a two-parter, Myke. Maybe we have to go to episode 501. That'd be fun. But yeah, I think it'll be fun. That's why I'm giving us the extra time. All right. I think we can do it. We can do it. All right. Another thing I can do, Myke, is sell out of everything I have for NotCo as I wind it down this year. I put out the inventory update yesterday and it is almost gone. Okay. So it's been good. Everyone has been waiting for this last inventory update. If you are not on the NotCo newsletter, I'm sorry. That's where it was announced. But there's still stuff available. So go check it out before it's gone. I tried to get almost everything in there that I could. And who knows? When I'm done shipping this, there will not be a big inventory push. There might be a few things left over that maybe I'll take to the Atlanta Pen Show. We'll do an Atlanta Pen Show episode coming up soon and give you at least my plans on that. I don't know if Myke and I are going to do anything for that yet. We haven't even discussed it. Is there one? There is one and I have told Jimmy that I will be there and give me my regular tables. But to be determined, things change every day. So I'm not guaranteeing anything.

'''Myke Hurley:''' When is it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' First weekend in April, I believe. I don't have the date in front of me. That's why I said we'll kind of go over that, the dates and times, if it's looking like it's a go. There's no Kickstarter campaign still this year. No, no, no. We're not doing anything like that. So Myke might not even travel for this one. It might just be like a little party.