Editing The Pen Addict 682/transcript (section)

== Which is a horrific thought, but also an exciting one because me and Brad are going to be back together again. ==
* Which is a horrific thought, but also an exciting one because me and Brad are going to be back together again.
* Yeah.
* Very excited about.
* So, we're going to be doing the podcast with them.
* I'm going to put a link in the show notes to it.
* It's going to be on YouTube.
* So, you can put a reminder or, you know, you can just click to remind, you know, like, what do they say?
* They call it set a reminder.
* Notification.
* You can already put a notification on.
* Hit the bell.
* Hit the bell.
* Hit the like.
* Hit the subscribe.
* That will be there.
* Please tune in.
* We're going to have a really, really fun time.
* I'm really excited.
* We're going, as we always do, bigger and better than ever.
* I want people to go and check this out.
* We're going to have a fun time.
* And Brad's going to be a wonderful addition to the crew.
* And I can't wait.
* So, all of this information and more is available to you right now at stjude.org slash relay.
* Yeah, I'm super excited.
* We had our first, like, big Zoom call last night.
* I mean, y'all have been working on it behind the scenes.
* But, like, some of the, for lack of a better term, talent who's not, like, directing the show.
* So, we all got together last night for a big Zoom call.
* I am so excited.
* Like, it's great.
* I'm just, I'm more excited than nervous.
* Like, I'm 0% nervous and 100% excited.
* There's not really any need to be nervous, if that makes sense.
* Yeah, yeah, yeah.
* Like, that's what it is.
* I don't get nervous for the podcast-a-thon until, like, we're just about to go live because I just want to get the intro right.
* And then everything else, you're just having fun with your friends.
* It's not like a live show where there's, like, an order.
* No, no, no.
* Like, it feels, it has a totally different energy in that way.
* Yeah, yeah, yeah.
* So, it's going to be fun.
* I look forward to it.
* We're traveling next week.
* We'll have a guest podcast next week in your feed.
* So, don't worry.
* We're not going to miss a week.
* I am working on that.
* What else I'm working on is, for the first time this year, I built my own fundraiser.
* Like Myke was talking about, you can do or anyone can do.
* Literally anyone can go do it.
* I've never done this before.
* And, you know, I just went for it.
* So, you know, I made a few goals to raise, you know, my initial goal was $5,000.
* Like, I think I can do this, you know, given what I've done in the past.
* And, you know, made some kind of artistic goals for me, you know, puts me like out of my comfort zone in like writing or creating art on postcards or doing ink ponies.
* I've kind of come out of my shell a little bit on the creativity part of what I like about stationery and use those as some incentives to raise money.
* So, we have a link in there in the show notes to my campaign.
* We're getting close to $10,000 raised.
* And I've bumped up the goals a little bit here.
* So, we got a goal of $15,000 now.
* And I think we might get to it.
* I'm going to keep adding incentives as we go.
* Like, I wasn't fully prepared for this, right?
* This has been a good learning experience for me as this is how I'm going to do things going forward.
* I think it's worked out well.
* I think we were not concerned, but like thinking that this would generate fewer donations than the like raffle system.
* But it actually seems like that is not the case at all, which is amazing.
* Amazing.
* So, I'm so thankful for the generosity of your community specifically.
* Yeah.
* And like the makers in the community, like they look to me like early in the year and say, hey, we want to donate something for Relay.
* And I told them earlier this year, it's like, hey, I'm doing things a little bit different.
* And I don't know exactly how I'm going to do this or how it's going to go.
* And they're like, I don't care.
* I'm going to send you the products and you do whatever you want.
* And so, I've been able to like every $1,000 milestone, I just put up an open giveaway on the blog.
* And so, we've got like, what about eight now?
* Eight or nine up there now?
* I know.
* I think I might owe one right now.
* So, like I'm out.
* I'm like, I'm waiting for products to come in.
* People are still sending me products.
* I'm waiting for pens to come in.
* So, we might have to catch up on a couple of these as we go.
* But yeah, it's been eye-opening.
* It's been fun.
* And it's been important work to help raise money for St.
* Jude.
* And I'm looking forward to next week.
* Stjude.org slash Relay.
* And the link to Brad's fundraiser is in the show notes too.
* If you want to go and check that out and give and get some of Brad's exclusive Pen Addict rewards that he's done, which is amazing.
* Yep.
* Very cool.
* And those go alongside the Relay rewards.
* So, you can get all the things.
* Yeah, you can get everything there.
* Yeah, they're not locked in.
* So, this is the way it works.
* Like the stuff that we offer.
* So, like the stickers and the digital things are available to everybody who creates a community campaign.
* And then people who create those community campaigns can also have their own rewards that they give as well.
* Yeah.
* Yeah.
* All right.
* So, Patricia wrote him.
* Ready to get into a few things?
* Yes, I am.
* A lot of feedback on this one.
* Oh, really?
* Okay.
* Oh, yeah.
* Just this came to the feedback form.
* Maybe you got more by email.
* I thought I actually put it in the list, but maybe it's just still living in my notes.
* It's living in your seat of the house somewhere.
* Patricia says, I attended my first Pelican Hub last year.
* Everyone who attended was given a bottle of Pelican's Ink of the Year.
* You mentioned that they don't give away ink anymore at the hubs.
* So, I wanted to share my experience.
* Yeah.
* I definitely got a lot of people reach out, and I was totally wrong on this.
* I thought I had heard that there weren't as many ink bottles being sent, like a one-to-one type of situation.
* But it turns out there are.
* I even had someone reach out to me that participates in a well over 100 people hub, and everyone left with a bottle of ink.
* So, it's kind of amazing and fascinating.
* So, it's pretty, pretty cool.
* So, maybe I just got my wires crossed on that.
* So, my mistake.
* And I love to see it.
* You definitely love to see this.
* I hope it continues.
* Like, you know, I just hope that's just such a cool thing for Pelican to do that they don't have to do.
* And it's pretty awesome.
* So, shout out to Pelican, and my apologies for the mistake.
* I can't.
* What do we say?
* Like, we retract?
* We're retracting the statement from the last episode?
* Yeah, I retract.
* Yeah.
* Yeah.
* It was just, Brad hears things that don't exist.
* Amazing.
* And as we're talking, I was like, why isn't this in the show notes?
* And then I found new content to add to the show notes.
* So, let's keep going, Myke.
* Yeah, the show notes are growing as we speak.
* So, that's good.
* I was like, why isn't that in there?
* And I was like, oh, well, I missed this whole section of the show notes.
* And so, it's just some small things I want to talk about.
* So, let's keep going.
* That's new stuff for me.
* I look forward to finding out what these Sailor pens are later on in today's episode.
* That'll be fun.
* Annabelle wrote in and said, regarding the listener comment about the Energel RTX pens being a lot visually, I do agree, but love the Energel ink.
* So, I buy Energel refills and put them in a more aesthetically pleasing Uniball 1P or 1F body.
* My question is, why does this feel like cheating?
* I mix and match different brands of fountain pens and ink all the time.
* But when it comes to gel pens, I feel guiltier about doing so.
* Like, the ink and body are supposed to stick with each other.
* This is the most Pen Addict podcast question ever.
* Like, I love this question so much because we all think this.
* At least I do.
* I think about this all the time.
* It's like, well, I have this pilot refill and I'm about to steal it to put it in something else.
* Is this what I'm supposed to do?
* Does it feel odd?
* And like Annabelle says, I don't really worry about that with a fountain pen.
* If I have a pilot fountain pen, I could put sailor ink in it and really not even think about it.
* You know, as long as I like the aspect of that ink, that color ink and that color pen.
* And like, I wouldn't care.
* But I think about it on these gel ink pens.
* And I said, you just have to go for it, right?
* Like, this is why you're listening to a podcast about pens is because you know you love the inner gel.
* But that barrel is just not good enough.
* And therefore, you're going to switch it into something nicer.
* And that's why you listen to the show.
* Like, you're one of us.
* If you do that, like, that's a one of us thing, right?
* Because you have found the thing that works the best for you.
* So, yeah, I don't feel weird about it.
* It does.
* It feels like cheating in that it makes me giggle.
* It's like, oh, well, this barrel is so bad.
* I'm just going to use this in this other brand's other this refill in this other brand's barrel and just go for it.
* Because that's what I like the most.
* And I don't know.
* That just makes you like, you know, 100% pen addict, I think.
* And I love it.
* So, yeah, just go for it.
* And don't don't feel like you're cheating on the brands.
* And, you know, if they want you to use one of their barrels, maybe they should make a better barrel.
* You know, how about that?
* I would say, yeah, like, Annabelle would go a step further and find, like, a third-party maker's barrel that this ink will fit in.
* Do you think that it would?
* Oh, sure.
* No, no, no.
* All these, the Energel refills fit in a lot of third-party barrels.
* I mean, SpokePen makes one.
* Yeah, I didn't even go there with that.
* SpokePen is awesome.
* There's a lot of, yeah, there's a lot of different companies that will make pens, Tactile Turn, Big Eye Design.
* There's plenty of Keras Customs.
* There's plenty out there.
* Like, if you want a really upgraded barrel, you can look into that and just swap your Energel refills into those.
* So, yeah, totally.
* Maybe it's just me.
* But, like, if I'm going to switch around, I'm going to make it worth my while, you know?
* Yeah, you can get that one barrel.
* Like, I use Energels in, you know, our Spoke Rody XL fits Energels.
* So, you know, that's where I use.
* I swap out our stock refill to an Energel needle tip refill, and that's what I use in my Rody XL.
* So, yeah, that's great.
* There you go.
* That's a challenge for you, Annabelle.
* If you do it, I want to hear about it.
* And James wrote in and said, In the last Ask TPA, you mentioned using brass shims to clean out the fibers of tines.
* The method I like to use is the metal sheets that are inside of security tags from DVD cases.