Editing The Pen Addict 680/transcript (section)

== Introduction and Welcome ==

* From Relay, this is The Pen Addict, episode 680. Today's show is brought to you by Squarespace and Pen Chalet. My name is Myke Hurley. I'm joined by Brad Dowdy. Hi, Brad. Hello, Myke. How are you doing today? I'm good. I know, like, we've obviously had so many opportunities to have this kind of conversation over the show's history, but being at 680, you're like staring down the barrel of 700. You know? Yeah. For sure. Yeah, I was just talking, just a little quick sidebar. When I did the Atlas event, and I didn't mention this in the recap, so we did a Q&A session. And one of the questions was, what's the bit of content you're most proud of in, like, anything you've ever done, right?
* And the first thing that came to mind was our episode 400, and that's what I said. Mm. Because we have such a long-running podcast, and it's intimidating for new users to come in. And we did that as, like, a jumping-in point, and it ended up being two episodes. It was so long, 400 and 401. We always say, well, that's a good place to start. You don't have to start at the beginning. It's cool if you do. It's pretty amazing that you started at the beginning. We still have people starting at the beginning. I still get messages and emails, like, here's where I just heard about X.
* And I'm like, yeah, that's so cool. And I was, this is a long way of saying, like, yeah, maybe we need to do that again, like, in the not-too-distant future. Maybe 800, I don't know. That's still, like, two years away, two and a half years away. But I was thinking about that recently. And yeah, like, 400 seems like yesterday, and now we're on 680. It's like, I almost feel like we need a new jumping-in point. But yeah, it's good. It's good stuff.
* Maybe 700 is, like, a good opportunity to do that. Maybe every 100 episodes is probably, I mean, it's like two years. Yeah, like 700. Yeah, like 700's still, you know, half a year away. Not even. So that's, like, early next year. So we'll think about it. So maybe for 700, we kind of do a shorter entry point. Because actually today, one of the topics I have is, that I just wanted to cover, is a very, like, first 10 episodes type of topic, which y'all will see when we get to it.
* And, like, I like doing that stuff. Some of that stuff needs to be talked about, even if some people have heard that, or some people, you know, very experienced users, like, I'm always reminded. And I said this in that Q&A also, that, you know, I always do try to think about how we might have someone listening for the first time today, and what are they interested in, and what do they want to hear us talk about.
* So, yeah. It's not this conversation, so I apologize to any new listeners. Yeah. Sorry. Especially as we're about to get into more administrivia, which isn't super helpful, or interesting to most people, but I guess it's something you need to know about. Starting from next week, we will be recording and publishing this show on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays. Dun-dun-dun. This is a change that I needed to make, because another one of my podcasts is moving from Wednesdays to Thursdays. Spoilers.
* We're also, for people that listen live, we're going to be recording the episode an hour early. So, we'll be recording live at 9am on Thursdays, and then the episodes will be releasing on Thursdays. There is a... Depending... It's kind of a weird thing, like, there might be a little bit of, like, unexpectedness for a while about what time on a Thursday the episode will publish. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, yeah, let's put that out there. Like, normally, on Wednesdays, you're pretty, like, efficient and quick, because you have that time to do that.
* Thursday, it might just be late afternoon US time. Exactly. When it gets to it. So, like... It's either going to be, like, similar-ish time, or a few hours later than normal. But, like, it will always come out on Thursdays. Yes. It actually depends on how long is the episode will actually depend on when the episode is released in the day. Because if the episode is shorter, I have enough time to publish. If we go a little bit longer, then I will need to wait until I'm done with my other show that day.
* Yeah. So, yeah. Or if I say bad words. Or if Brad says bad words, which does happen on occasion. Yeah, pretty rare. Like, twice ever. Mm-hmm. That's two times is an occasion. They have both occasions.
* 680 episodes. Yeah. I like my ratio. Every 340 episodes, on average, we'll get to us. I'll write down when I'm due again. So, nothing else is changing. It's all about sustainability for me, if I'm being honest. So, I very appreciate Brad moving the show. So, that's amazing. And, yeah. So, nothing else is going to change, except the fact that we're just slightly changing our release schedule. Find yourself a new Wednesday podcast. And delete one of your Thursday podcasts.
* Just get rid of them. We're taking over. I'll create a new podcast called Your New Wednesday Podcast. There you go. And then we'll just go from there. Yep. And it can be a recap on the previous episodes of The VanEdit. There you go. You know? There you go. There you go. That's what we'll do. All right. You ready to get in some pen things? Yeah, baby. So, I try not to do what are we using too often, right?
* Because I think you need time. And it's not something I want to do every week, right? I don't want to say, hey, what did you use this week? But this one is kind of coming pretty quick on the heels of the last one we did, which was still like a month or more ago. Because my whole pen show adventures over August have changed the things that I'm using. And what's funny, and it's something I'm going to write about soon, is the things I'm using.
* I mean, it's obvious, but the things I'm using the most are things I've acquired the most recently. But what happened was I also acquired things at the DC Pen Show two weeks before the Atlas Stationers show. But I'm only using the stuff I got brought home from the Atlas Stationers show, even though the stuff from DC is like elite and amazing. So, anyway, that's a me problem. Yeah. But this starts with the Estabrook SD Funky Town in orange.
* I am falling more in love with this pen the more I use it. Not just because it's orange. I actually, so when they came out with these four colors, the neon colors, pink, yellow, green, and orange, I wasn't sure orange was going to be my favorite, despite being the orange person. And I actually, I think it probably is now the more that I've gotten to use it. It has these subtle sparkles that hit when I'm writing.
* They're kind of golden, match the trim of the pen. And this Yovo nib, you know, standard Yovo nibs are some of my favorites. This extra fine is so fine. Like, I love this nib. So, my writing is really, really tiny and clean with it. So, it's just been a good fit so far. I like the traditional basic Estabrook shape of a pen. You know, just like the classic cigar type shape, torpedo type shape, whatever you want to call this one.
* And it's great. I have it inked up with Sailor Ink Studio 260.
* I don't use many of the ink studios. You're more of an ink studio person than me. You probably have more ink studio bottles than I do. You have at least like three or four. We have like eight. Okay. Yeah. Because I knew you and Idina had bought several different colors.
* And they're, I mean, Sailor makes the best inks. They're incredible. I'll say that. They're incredible. All of them. They're so consistent. No matter if you're going with a store brand. Like, I use a lot of the Kobe Nagasawa inks. And Kingdom Note inks. And they're all Sailor inks. And they're the best. They make the best inks. So it's a light green. And I didn't need to buy this one. But I wanted to buy this one. That's what happens when I'm in person and trying to match a pen with an ink.
* And it's great. Nailed it. I'm also using the Leonardo Memento Magico, which we spoke about recently. We spoke about all these pens recently. Except the next one.
* I'm loving the feel of this pen. I didn't realize this pen was really, really for me. Given the size. It's a piston filler, but in a very comfortable, nice weight, good feeling pen. And I'm enjoying the Van Demons Nightfall ink in there. That's the new kind of dual chroma shaders that I wasn't sure I was going to be able to write with. But they're pretty fantastic. Next up actually is a DC Pen Show pen. And this is one I'm testing for review.
* It was given to me by Little Hollow Customs. This model is called the Mistress. And I'm fascinated with it. I am a huge fan of metal section fountain pens. Or metal front end pens or pencils to begin with. It doesn't have to be a fountain pen. Metal towards the writing end. And then, you know, acrylics or wood or other materials towards the back. That's the kind of weighting that I like when I'm writing. And this one has, I think it's nickel silver is the material.