Editing The Pen Addict 74/transcript (section)

== Listener Interaction ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So, in last week's episode, you will remember that I was very panicky about mentioning a listener who I had bumped into. A listener of the show was wearing a 70 decibels t-shirt and I was deliberating over the person's name.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, you were very worried whether you were getting it right or not. How'd that work out for you? Yeah, I got it wrong.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I actually then went into last week's show notes and updated it after I realized my grievous error. But it was actually Dylan Ian Carter, who is the fantastic fan of the show, who came up to me at the 5x5 meetup in Portland. So, Dylan, apologies. Your name is not Jason as much as I... Do you know what? I actually said that his face as well. I was like, Jason? He was like, no. I was like, oh, I think you're somebody else. That was why I did it, you see. For some reason, I think that his name is Jason. It was stuck in your head. Yeah, but that's not the case. He is, in fact, a very handsome, very lovely listener by the name of Dylan. So, Dylan, thank you for being awesome. And I am ashamed. I will die by my own pen sword for that mistake.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, glad you got that cleared up. Indeed. What else do we have? Right. I mentioned that the London Pen Show is coming up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is that, like, next week or something?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's this coming Sunday.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, wow. So, just in a few days.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm. So, we have the London Pen Show on the horizon. So, there's a couple of things. I want people to send in their suggestions to me for things that I should be looking out for. I don't really have a very big budget. But I am expecting to be making, like, a trip out for the London Pen Show. Also, as well as that, if you are a UK-based listener and are going to be at the Pen Show, let me know. Because if there's a handful of us, then maybe we'll get together and have a beer afterwards or something like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Which might be quite nice. Very nice. Very nice. I need to work on doing more meetups. I think maybe that's in the cards in the future, you know. Yeah. Need to get out more. I've never really done any in London. 2014 might be the year for the Pen Addict meetup.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Maybe I'll be out. If we're going to arrange it that far in advance, maybe I'll have to show up, too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. We'll have to do some stuff like that. That's always been on my radar. Just, you know, hard to get all that coordinated and stuff. But, yeah. Love it. So, yeah. Y'all let Myke know if y'all are going to be at the Pen Show. That'd be cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And then we can...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He'll get your name wrong there, too.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Exactly. And then next week I can come back with a list of people. And it's just all random people. I list the cast of, I don't know, Glee or something like that instead. I received my field notes. Oh, good. Yeah. I want to hear what you think. Here they are right here.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I got the... Did you mention the little thing that they come in?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The six-pack holder?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. I couldn't remember that. Yeah. That's a nice little addition. I don't really know what to do with it. I know. But I've got it here. I guess I'll have to find somewhere to put it. Because they're currently sitting outside of my archive memo box thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I like them very much, the little box. The whole package itself is really nice. You've got the little coasters, which are nice and thick. And the books are weird, right? Not in a bad way, but they're not field notes, as I know them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You think it's the cover?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, the cover. Like, to touch them. They don't feel like field notes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's the new style cover. I mean, that was one of the... Add-ons in the right word. But that was one of the specific features of this edition, was that satiny type color. And it was funny. I just reviewed that Rodeo R notebook. It had the same type of cover. And I've felt those on different other stationary products in the past. So it's not a new thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I have a theory about why I think that they are this... They've got that waxy, varnished cover. So if you get them wet, it doesn't destroy them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right. If you spill your beer on them, you're in good shape.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I love the colors. The colors are very old to me. Very, very nice colors. I haven't used one yet. I look forward to it. Because I'm kind of... I'm not sure how I feel about the cover. I love them, but also I'm weird about them. Like, if you gave me, I would be very happy with it. But it's just because I know what this is. And when I pick it up, it feels strange. Okay. But I like them. I like the way they look. I think they look fantastic. The colors are great. So the covers are nice if they're removed. But the fact that they're not my normal Field Notes feels strange. But I like that it's more durable.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'm interested to see how it wears. I remember now, if you remember back when we had Brian on the show, Brian Bedell from Field Notes, remember how he said he was carrying a folded up piece of cover in his pocket to see how it would wear?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I think that was this cover. Because I'm interested to see how it's going to wear, too, because I've been using mine a ton so far. I'm completely in love with the Hefeweizen grid color. That's one of the best things ever in my book for me. But what I'm seeing is, okay, so like you open it up and the cover, you know, you have the finish on the outside cover. And then the inside cover, it's a little bit different finish, but it's still different than your normal Field Notes cover. And the inside covers are black. So when you open up the cover, like if I've had it, you know, folded back around itself or something like that, there's a break, just like any other book would, in the cover next to where the binding is. So that shows up white, right, because you're wearing it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So like it cracks there, you know, like it normally would. I'm just wondering how that's going to wear over time, like if there's going to be any cover issues. So I wonder if that's why he was carrying it around so much. And I'm interested to see because I have noticed that. Like I wonder if that's going to be more prone to kind of coming apart there, but to be determined. It needs some more wear testing. But I don't think it's going to be an issue. It's just something that I noticed because the covers are black and you can see the white cracking through.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I had like an interest in,

'''Myke Hurley:''' on my original XOXO edition, it has an interesting wear in it where the colors just come away. Which is strange. I don't really know why that happened, but I kind of like it. So I wonder if it might be like that, like you've got these cracks in it and it will show the paper underneath. Yeah, I think that's just, I mean, that's just part of the idea. One of my favorite things about the XOXO one that I've got is that it's got these awesome like white patches on the back.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay, yeah, exactly. That's what I was going to say. It's one of those things where it's just a nice wear pattern that actually becomes, you know, something you like about the book. I see the Expedition editions, people that have been using those a bunch, they have that, like the wear pattern through the orange cover. Yeah, it's really nice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I like the wear, but like saying that it's going to wear, I kind of hope that they do. There's a part of me that really likes that.