Editing The Pen Addict 355/transcript (section)

== Topic Shift - Pen Choice ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' And we have a two-part question. One is for me, one is for you. So this comes from Nick. Nick wants to know, Brad, if you could use just one pencil or mechanical pencil from now on and had to give up all others, which one would you keep? The lead never breaks or runs out, and the mechanical pencil has to be used with one lead of your choice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is an exceedingly brutal question, and that's the point, right? I think I could pick... I almost think I could pick a pen more easily than I could pick a mechanical pencil, and I'm going to go with the most obvious answer, even though I'm not thrilled with it. It's the Rotring 600. It's the mechanical pencil that all other mechanical pencils are measured against. It will last forever. I mean, it's the cockroach, you know, nuclear bomb mechanical pencil. It's going to live on in perpetuity, and it's great looking. It feels great. It works great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It kind of has to be the answer. I feel like if I pick something else, like the pencils that I like are the Uni Shift Pike Block, the Spoke Pencil, the Pentel Carry. If I picked any one of those, I feel like I wouldn't be being truthful with myself, and I think the answer is the Rotring 600. So yours, we're on the same path here, and this is an amazing question, I think. So Myke, if you could only listen to one podcast from now on and had to give up all others, which one would you keep? The podcast cannot be one you have any involvement in creating. The one you keep will never stop releasing episodes and will update with a new episode weekly forever. Love this question.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's going to be one of the McElroy shows. Absolutely. So it's either My Brother, My Brother and Me, The Adventure Zone, or Wonderful. Now, I'm assuming that I get to listen to the back catalogue of this show. I think that's fair. That, like, so... I think probably... Probably The Adventure Zone. Okay. Because it can transport me to another world. Like, it's between The Adventure Zone and Wonderful, because Wonderful, which is a show that Griffin and Rachel McElroy, they're a married couple, do. So it's just sweet and lovely and nice and makes me feel good. But The Adventure Zone is like this... Like, the first kind of arc of The Adventure Zone is like one of my favorite stories I've ever heard. So I'd probably go with The Adventure Zone.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And it's actually been important to you in a recent way, right? Because now you're very much into this world.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah. I started playing Dungeons & Dragons. Finally. After years.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I started playing D&D. Yeah. Good for you. Good for you. So that's all the Ask TPA. So let's let Myke pimp out his Dungeons & Dragons play. Tell us where we can find all of your lovely D&D action.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You can go to Twitch. Twitch.tv slash playingforfunfm. As well as a bunch of video games that me and Tiff stream. We have been streaming a bit of D&D recently. We're just keeping them as video on demand there for now. It's actually going to be produced and released as a podcast later on this year on The Incomparable. It's going to be a season of a show that they do called Total Party Kill. So you don't have to go and watch the literally 10 hours of video footage that we have put through so far. Because plus the first session, the video is going to expire soon, I think. If it hasn't already. But that's...

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think they give two weeks, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, actually, maybe. Yeah, well, yeah. There's... I think it's 30 days. It depends on where you are in the system. You're a partner, right? Or affiliate? I am an affiliate. Affiliate, yeah. So you get 30 days now. 30. That's right. That's right. So our first session is only going to be there for a week more. They'll be uploaded to YouTube at some point in the future. But we want to actually turn it into the show that it's going to be. Because that's going to be a lot of fun. So I'm playing that with a bunch of friends. And so that's been really great. But we stream all the time on Twitch every single Friday, pretty much. Some video game. I'm doing some Minecraft stuff at the moment now, which has been a lot of fun to rediscover Minecraft again. Brad is on Twitch, too. Twitch.tv slash Pen Addict, where you can find a bunch of unboxing stuff. And that's my favorite kind of stuff that Brad does. I like the unboxings.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's fun. I need to put... I need to upload that to YouTube, which that will be... I'll probably do that today when we get done. So last week's unboxing went really, really well. Had a good audience. And it's something I wish I could do every week. But I don't quite get all the things. But I might have enough to knock one out tomorrow. So it should be fun. And then the Sea of Thieves update comes in about two weeks. They're going to have fishing. So you can come watch me fish on Twitch. We need to play it. Once that update comes out, me and you have got to go on Sea of Thieves together. We'll do it. Because I can sit there and fish in a video game for hours at a time and not be bored.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just like steering the ship. Yeah. Just like sailing around. Thanks so much to Harry's and Squarespace for their support of this show. You can find our show notes at Relay.fm slash penaddict slash 355. We'll be back next week. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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