Editing The Pen Addict 131/transcript (section)

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'''Myke Hurley:''' I received an awesome package today that I think you knew about. You at least knew some of it. I don't know if you knew all of it. Yeah. So I have in my hands one of the new standard issue DDC factory floor, like the triple pack. Yeah. That came to me via a third party, a new third party, a new secret third party.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And it's our friend, your friend, Sarah, who you met for XOXO, right? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's exactly right. Yep. Sarah lives in Portland, and she made a trip to the Draplin pop-up shop just for us, Michael.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, that's just, she's too nice. But there was more in that package, Brad. Do you know about this part?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That I don't know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I think this may be one of my favorite things I've ever been given. It's RelayFM greetings cards.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I can't remember the name of the process, but what is it called when you cut out?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' She cuts papers with lasers.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Die cut, is that?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's laser cut. Laser cut. It's literally lasers cutting. She has a company called Candy Spotting, where that's what she does. She does projects, you know, greeting cards and various other huge amounts of projects where she cuts out all the designs with lasers.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I'm just blown away. I have six cards here. I've put a link to a picture of them in the chat room. They're in beautiful Relay Blue, and they just look incredible. And I am absolutely blown away by them. So thank you, Sarah. And Sarah also actually put an Oregon sticker in the package for me, which I've now stuck straight to my laptop. Because I'm missing my Portland stickers from my original MacBook Pro.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' From the pre-spill days.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, cool. Actually, I did know about the Relay cards, and they're really, really sweet. She showed them with me beforehand, and I was like, oh, he's going to die when he sees those. So that's pretty cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, just so blown away. So thank you so much to Sarah for doing that for us. Because I always, not always, I get these things. I get things in the post every now and then. Like, there are just things that arrive for me from listeners of this show. Like, I also had a listener, Mel, send me some cool stuff. And she actually wrote me a letter from inside of Bung Box. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mel is our primary Japanese translator for the show. If you didn't know that. Ah, okay. That's who that is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. And Mel sent me a bunch of, like, they're from Muji. And they're, like, bookmarks. You know, like the little threaded bookmarks that you get inside of Moleskines and stuff. Like, a selection of those that you can put into other notebooks. Which is really cool. So you can kind of clip them in. So I get these awesome things from people. But when this arrived and it was like candy spotting, I was like, somebody bought me some sweets or something. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. That's Sarah's company name.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm putting those in the show notes. And I, so thank you, Sarah. I haven't thanked her privately yet. But I'm interested in maybe having some relay cards made now. Ooh, nice. Add a bigger stack. Maybe to send out as my own Christmas cards or something. Cool. Because I love these ones and I don't want to use them. I want to keep them forever. Awesome. Did you get any of the factory floor?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I did. I did. I got some from Sarah and I ordered a couple more from the site. So, yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Pretty sweet, huh?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've got the full hookup, yeah. So I'm just waiting to crack one open and get using it. It's going to be sweet.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have a complaint to make.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My usual complaint.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Customs. I just want to complain about customs. So I have something which I've ordered, which I'm so excited about. And I hoped it would be here by now. But it's sitting in customs. It entered customs two days ago now. And that's all it says. So I don't know if I'm going to get one of those letters, which is going to make me pay like another $100. I may get that. But it's the whole thing that I'm sitting here. And I don't know what's going to happen next. I'm just sitting and waiting to find out if and when I'm going to receive this awesome package. And I've kind of teased it, but I figure I'm just going to go for it now. And Brad doesn't know about this, what I bought here, but I think he's going to be interested. I've bought the Topo River Briefcase.