Editing The Pen Addict 250/transcript (section)

== Atlanta Show ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, Ana, are you ready for Atlanta? I'm ready. I am ready. Oh, no.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. I'm ready to get back into the show. Am I ready for the pen show? I am not. No, no, no.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Myke, are you ready for the Atlanta pen show? Nope. Hmm. So am I ready? Nope. Nope. It's too soon. Too soon to be ready. I was impressed that Ana was ready, though. No, no, no, no. All right. So let's give a quick outline. I'm starting to get questions, as we probably all are, about the show, about what's going on, the events, the location, all of that. One thing the Atlanta show does is it's not a huge show. So everything's right there, like at the show. So the show opens on Friday, and it runs through Sunday. So it'll be normal hours, like 10 to 5 for regular badge holders. I think they open at 9 for the weekend pass holders. The weekend pass holders also get a cookout on Friday night that the show puts on every year. They do a really great job. I know it was packed last year. A bunch of us went to that. So that's fun. You know, they cook out hamburgers and hot dogs and have drinks and all kinds of things like that. And then...

'''Ana Reinert:''' For the vegetarians, there's nothing for you to eat at the cookout.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So Jeff...

'''Ana Reinert:''' Be pre-warned. Go across the street to the grocery store, and there is lots of yummy... They have like a little deli place and salad bar.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Perfect. So Jeff did not attend the cookout last year because he had a wedding to go to. So good pro tip there. Um... Then Saturday, show is all day long. And then that evening is the Panatic Podcast with Myke, myself, and Anna. Um... We're gonna work on a special guest or two to join us during the show. Do something a little bit different this year. Maybe to talk to some people that you've... You guys and gals have been asking us to talk to. So maybe we'll get a couple of people on the show. Let's not finalized yet. Can we make suggestions? You can, but I already have a list. And I don't want to say them publicly yet because it's not confirmed. But I think you'll be very happy.

'''Ana Reinert:''' All right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So...

'''Ana Reinert:''' I'll make suggestions offline.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Okay. So... And that's after the show Saturday night. And that's literally right around the corner from the showroom. And I mean in like inside the hotel around the corner. So it's 20 steps, 30 steps to walk around to the room that we have the podcast in. Then we'll have an after party there. In the little side room we have. We had pizza last year. We're going to do the same thing again for everyone. And then Sunday we all walk around like zombies and try to sell the last bit of stuff that we have on our table. So it's a really straightforward schedule. Just know that we're going to be there the entire weekend. It's going to be fun during the show. It's going to be fun after the show. You know, the hangout at the bar time is always the best.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Sunday can be a little smelly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sunday can be a little rough. Sunday is Waffle House Guarantee Day. There's a Waffle House attached to the hotel. So you will see a lot of us there. We always get a few good pictures from the Waffle House. And yeah. So what's your working plan at the show, Anna?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I'm working for the Van Ness Pen Shop Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I believe Van Ness will be in the what we've dubbed the cool room.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Which is the new, last year's new room. We call it the cool kids room.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yes. Which is across the hall from the previous new room, cool kids room.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's actually the first room you can walk into.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah. So it's probably the smallest of the three rooms.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, definitely.

'''Ana Reinert:''' So I believe in that room is also where, like, Jonathan, is Jonathan Brooks going to be in that room? And.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He was there last year.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Karis Pens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And Sean Newton was in there too.