Editing The Pen Addict 138/transcript (section)

== Notebooks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So I got I have one thing I want to cover real quick, Tony, before we get into it. And a little bit behind the scenes last week, Myke, I'm going to I'm going to give up our our behind the scenes chat. Last week, when we ended last week's episode, we talked a lot about the I guess kind of our main topic was how many notebooks we're carrying. And we talked about a bunch of other different topics during that episode. And both Myke and I stopped recording that episode. We hit stop and we both go. That was terrible. It was like we both felt we had we were we weren't on our we didn't bring our A game last week. And I think it was a lot of it. We had some technical difficulties throughout the show. So we were both frustrated, a little bit disjointed. But Myke, I got to be honest with you. I don't know that I've gotten more feedback from a single episode than we got on that episode about talking about notebooks.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Why does this always happen? Like I'll never understand. I feel like every bad podcast I ever make ends up being the good ones. Like and I don't know why that is. Like maybe I should just stop trying and then become like the most successful podcaster in the world.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right. So me and you, we were equally frustrated. We both were very frustrated at the end of last week's episode. Like we just didn't do a good job. You know, we want to do a good job for everyone. And, you know, make sure we put out a good episode. And both of us, without even talking to each other, felt the exact same way about how it turned out. I cannot tell you how much feedback we got for that episode. So that's why I have no follow up in this episode. And next week, we'll just do an entire follow up on that notebook episode. Wow. Because I have that much to talk about. I, it's easily the most feedback we've ever gotten on a single episode.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Wait, unless the feedback was the show was terrible. I mean, you haven't. Okay, just checking. Like, you sound like we got so much feedback and everybody universally hated the episode. No, no.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was everyone telling us about their notebooks. And I want to say that we are on the low end of the notebook carry scale by far.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, yeah?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, everyone who I told we're going to talk, we're going to follow up on all their emails and comments that they sent in for that episode. Look for that next week because that's a good, that's an entire episode just on following up on what everyone does with their notebooks.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's what I wanted to bring up for that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, let's get into it, Tony. How about that? Before we do, we want to talk about one of our good friends and sponsors, Myke.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thank you lynda.com.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I already feel like I'm back in shape from last week. I feel like I'm knocking it out of the park already, Brad. This episode is probably going to be terrible. If that's how that works.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think there's some seriously good energy going on in this episode. I know Tony well enough to know how good he is at this. So I'm fairly confident that this is going to be one of the greatest episodes ever. So no pressure, Tony.

'''Anthony Sculimbrene:''' No pressure.

'''Anthony Sculimbrene:''' If Myke's copy read is any indication, this is going to be a hard act to follow. Myke, do the best copy read? It's crazy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's all locked in my brain, man. He's the man. He's so professional.