Editing The Pen Addict 239/transcript (section)

== Pen Shows ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So everyone's pretty anxious about getting the pen show season underway, and we've talked about it a bunch in the last few months, you know, what shows I'm going to and things like that. But Philly is kicking off the year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' First out the gate.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And Franklin Kristoff helps put on the show. They're one of the promoters of the show, and I got a question in the Slack room the other day, generally saying, how does one go about getting a Franklin Kristoff special pen show edition if you can't be at the pen show? I was like, well, you kind of can't. So unless you have some really good friends that want to buy stuff for you, take pictures. I see people, you know, they have like the mad rush. Every day they hold pens to sell first thing Friday, first thing Saturday, first thing Sunday at all the pen shows they go to. You know, different batches. You know, they don't sell everything out on Friday. They want, you know, other people to be able to get to some of the pens. And, you know, I always see, you know, that's where all the first crowd is always at in the mornings at a pen show is around the Franklin Kristoff table. And then you see people with their phones out because they're being proxies for other people who can't make it to the show. Mules, you can say. Yeah, the mules to get them to carry their goods back for them. It's really, really funny. So in a good way, I love that Franklin Kristoff, they just started really focusing on this last year, I think. Maybe a little bit in 2015, they'd have some. And then they realized, oh, this is a thing we can like expand on. And so they really did that last year. I did pick up one from them in Chicago, which is a little blue 45 that I enjoy. So it's cool. And they usually have special stamping on them for that. Like mine says IPO on it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And they're just cool. So there's going to be a lot of people, a lot of pen addicts at the Philly Pen Show, a lot of good vendors. And everyone, if you're in the area, you should really consider checking it out because pen shows are fun. It's just a cool atmosphere. Even if you don't even have to spend a dollar, it's just cool to go and hang out and talk to people. So it's very, very fun. So are we going to have a blizzard this year? Hopefully not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I hope so. Not, I mean, you know what I'm saying.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Although, hey, the show went on and they had a blast last year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I forgot about that. That's crazy. It was cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we do stuff with pen shows, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' We sure do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We sure do.