Editing The Pen Addict 412/transcript (section)

== Pelican Hubs Discussion ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, but, you know, it's a different year. It'd be up for trying a thing, right? Like, all bets are off right now. And you could still have, like, a Pelican-focused online event. I think that would be pretty cool and something that'd be pretty neat. Maybe I would attend my first ever Pelican Hub if it was online, the kind of thing. So, it's crazy times that we're living in, right? Admittedly. Like, we don't know what's going on. But, you know, seeing these two, two of the bigger events on our calendar being canceled this week, I don't think that's the end. I just don't. I don't know that we're going to have any events the rest of the year. And even if we do, who would want to travel to them? Mm-hmm. So, it's difficult to talk about. It's kind of, I kind of, it makes me sad to talk about, but, like, I get it, right? It's the right thing to do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Which, I guess, is worth mentioning the fact that we have a complete Kickstarter campaign, which is supposed to take us to another pen show this year. I think, you know, we don't have a defined plan yet because who can plan anything at the moment? But, like, I think it's pretty clear from my comments, at least, that I wouldn't feel comfortable attending a pen show at the end of September. Sure. We're not, like, we don't have an official thing to say about it yet because we want to be able to tell you what we will be doing instead. Mm-hmm. But I think it's worth bearing that in mind. And it's because I don't want to endanger anybody else or encourage that. So.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Who knows if you'll be able to leave the country?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, that's the whole thing. I won't be able to. Like, in September, I won't be able to either, A, leave the UK or, B, enter America. Right? Or, like, I have to come two and a half weeks early so I can sit in a hotel room for 15 days. Like, you know. Yeah. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, I've been telling everybody, the literal last thing on Earth I want to do right now is travel through Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. Yes. I could not think of a worse place to be is to go through that airport right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But, you know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah, yeah. On a normal circumstances, I couldn't care less. But that is the last place I want to be is that airport, the busiest airport in the world.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Let's make a pizza, Myke.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, our good friend Christian, who I'm just flabbergasted that this is where we're at now. After knowing him online for, what, seven or eight years now, and to see him grow this business like this, it's just amazing. So, he sent me- It's a massive company at this point. It's a massive company. And, like, Christian hits us up on Twitter. He's like, hey, what about this pen? Like, we have a good relationship. You've been to his house. He's cooked pizza for you, right? I believe in the past. Pizza for me, yeah. And now he's, like, got this company that he built from scratch, essentially. And so, I have the code of 16. Christian was nice enough to send me one. And I just got it last week. So, over the weekend, I wanted to test this out, right? It was Memorial Day weekend. You know, me and the family aren't going anywhere. What better way to, what better thing to do than to make the pizza? And it's kind of like, I can't believe this works. It's so good, right? My wife was definitely confused about how is this going to work? What's this going to be like? And she, like, repeatedly said, like, over the weekend, like, this exceeded any expectations I had of what this could be. Yeah. Right? Because it's small. It's compact. It gets up to 900 degrees. It literally takes 60 seconds to cook the pizzas. I need to put a picture up of one of the pizzas that we cooked. I took some cool pictures. And then, like, the other thing she kept saying was, like, this was so easy. Like, it just, you don't understand, like, how good this product is until you try it. And you're, like, you're thinking, like, oh, this is going to be weird. This is going to be hard. It's going to be difficult. And it just works. It makes incredible pizza. And it was fantastic. Like, we are hooked. She liked it so much that I didn't even get to put it up after the first day. She said, just leave it out because we're going to have it again tomorrow. Because we still have dough. And we did. So, we had it for dinner one night and then lunch the next day.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I also, like, you can, like, sear steaks and stuff in these.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, we're already looking at that and figuring out how to do that. Get a sous vide. See what's next.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sous vide steak is the best steak. And then you've got to sear it after you sous vide it. And you can put a great sear on it in one of these almonds.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. I saw a lot of pictures on Instagram today. Yeah. But there was one I want to talk about. Yep. That even I had to make a comment on. And this is from you. And literally, the comment says, swatch party. And I was like, I don't even know you anymore. So, what is happening here?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I did something I've never done before. So, you know, you remember I said I ordered all of the neon, the color neon inks, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, they arrived yesterday. And I wanted to fill some up. And I have seven bottles of ink, right? And I had no idea which one to pick. So, I thought to myself, hey, let's swatch them. And it seemed like a fun thing for me and Adina to try out. I have a coloring, which I've literally never used, but own. I've owned it for like three years. It's just been blank. Right. Because swatching is just not a thing that I've done. But I got some cotton swabs, swatched all of the inks. And now I have three pens filled with the color inks at the moment.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. Which colors? So, you have seven colors. You have everything but the yellow, which we won't go through all the colors. But what did you choose to ink up and in what pens?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, I have a Lamy Petrol with the Dude, which is the blue. Yep. I have a Twisby Go with the Joy, which is the orange. And I, years ago, bought a pen by John Twiss, a twist pen. Mm-hmm. And I have that filled with Dig It, which is neon red, but really is coral. It's a coral color.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Dig It. That's the best name. Dig It.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Can you dig it? But I have some overall comments about these inks. Yes. I'd like to hear this. They are misbehavior. Like, they misbehave. They are... Mm-hmm. This is not your average ink. No. One, they are very susceptible to that, you know, like the pollution that you get when you have an ink in a previous pen. You know, like this happens to all. You have an ink in a previous pen, it's a different color. Yes. You wash and wash and wash and wash, but you never get rid of all of it, no matter what you do, right? Yes. The water's running clear, but it's still gonna, somehow, there's something left in the feed, right? Right. So, all three of these inks at the moment aren't necessarily close to what I expect they will be after a bit more use, you know what I mean? Like, I've gotta keep running through a bit more.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Yes, you just gotta keep writing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But they are... So, it's quite interesting, right? Like, when you're in the bottles and when you're swatching them and stuff, they seem quite viscous, right? They seem thick. Mm-hmm. But they're actually very thin and wet in the pens. Yes. So, like, when I'm using them, the lines that they lay down, it looks like there is, like, still water in the ink, but that's not the case, right? Because the pens are all dry and I've used them a bunch. But they kind of spread a little more on the page than your typical ink, right? Like, it seems like it's soaking into the pages a bit more. What type of paper are you using? The panel book. Okay. It's what I use for everything.