Editing The Pen Addict 31/transcript (section)

== Gift Guide ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, maybe we will. So what have we got coming up on today's show? What's going to be our main topic for the show today?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, we thought, and I hadn't really considered this, doing something like this. And you mentioned it a few weeks ago just when we were talking off the record. And you said we ought to do like a gift guide, a pen addict podcast gift guide show. Just give some of our favorite items. Everyone knows all the normal products we talk about. But we just thought we'd give some other ideas for gifts for yourself, gifts for others. There's maybe some things that people haven't thought about or we haven't spoken about specifically for different types of users, for different types of gifts for the upcoming holidays. So I think we'll do a little gift guide show today.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Excellent. Before we do that, though, should I give thanks to our sponsor for the week before we kick off?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That would be great.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's right. Get the wallets open.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thank you, Squarespace.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, so you ready to get into this gift guide?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have been born ready.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I've got just some general topics or suggestions for people if they're looking for someone who's new to pens or someone who's experienced with pens or someone, something that they can get easily at the store or something that they would have to get only online. So we'll just run through a few topics, and we'll just kind of fill in the blanks as we go. And this was kind of a list that I put together, so definitely chime in with what – if there's anything that you want to add to that list or anything like that. Retro 51. I know. I know. So Retro 51 and Pilot Vanishing Point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Boom.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That was amazing. We just threw down the mic.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're done.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hang on. Wow. Brad, I am so proud of you right now. That is what they call boom.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, man. We wouldn't do that to you guys. I know that's what everyone's expecting us to say.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Look, basically, I know I said I wasn't going to mention this, but I feel that this needs to happen. So I mentioned last week that we were doing something called the Golden Headphone Awards, which is our awards of the year, and people can suggest their favorite moments. I really want that moment right there to win an award. So if you haven't, for some reason, gone and voted for your favorite moments and shows and hosts, there's another link in the show notes where you can go to 70db.net forward slash golden headphones. Please vote episode 31 of the pen addict, Brad Bangs' desk. I really want to award Brad for that moment. That was pure comedy. I did not see it coming. Well done.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I had no intention of doing that either. It just came out. As soon as you said Retro 51, I was like, oh, I'm going to do this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, man. Anyway.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So item one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I purposely didn't include either of those pens in my list just for reasons we all know too well by this point. Yeah. But I did in the very first topic that I did put down. It is a fountain pen related topic because I always get asked, you know, I want to start in fountain pens. I've never used a fountain pen. Which one do I buy?

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I guess this is good for a gift guide because you could be buying it for somebody who doesn't use them as well.