Editing The Pen Addict 721/transcript (section)

== New York Stationery Fest ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yoseka hosted. Yes. So we'll be there all three days. We're going to have some scheduled talks. Yes. Um, I have times I'm hesitant to post them yet because we shouldn't far enough out. Just wait until they're, they're ready to, to announce it. But basically once a day for like, uh, one to two hours, we're going to host something. Yes. Right. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, probably in the afternoons on each day. Yep. Um, you know, we'll host a talk or of some sort. So,

'''Myke Hurley:''' so if you are coming or think you might want to go to New York stationary fest, which is from July 30th to August 1st in Brooklyn, New York, you, we will be there. So we'll be hosting things so you can come see us at, and we'll also be at the show. So you'll definitely bump into us. So I know we'd kind of been hinting at it and teasing it, but I thought, no, maybe now we should just say it. Um, so yeah, we're both going to be there. It's the first time that we have both been at a pen event in six years, seven years. So, which is unbelievable to, to think. It kind of is.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It kind of is. So yeah. Um, we did see each other one for Relay 10, but I know you're not. We've seen each

'''Myke Hurley:''' other a few times now, right? But like a pen event, this is the first time since, I guess, San Francisco 2019? Yes. That was the last proper pen show that I went to. That's crazy. So yeah,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' our, our events, our talks, like these should not be ticketed, you know, um, you know, like they have a lot of workshops and things. It's such a massive event and a lot of it's ticketed. Ours should just be, Hey, here's the schedule. Come pop by and see Brad and Myke interview somebody kind of thing. So that should be all it is. So, uh, I'm, I'm getting excited, right? I can't wait. I haven't let myself get too excited yet. Maybe till like we get into July, but man, that's coming fast. Uh, but to kind of rewind back to the, um, the, the little topic here of us, uh, having guests number one, thank you, Tony for last week. Um, I love Tony. She does such a great job with feed your creativity. Uh, I've gotten to know her pretty well over the last couple of years. A lot of people see her pen shows, uh, and her, and her husband, Ruben, uh, they're just great, great people.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Here's, here's what I'll say. My, my, my sum up of Tony from your conversation. Tony is an entrepreneur. Yes. Like through and through. Yes. Love it. Won't stop. Can't stop.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like I could, yeah, I could ask like way more questions like about that. Like maybe that's, maybe that's another, another part of the topic, uh, a future episode, but I am apparently going to sit with Tony at the St. Louis pen show next week, which she will be at and we'll do something. I don't have any details yet, but, um, so look for me maybe on her YouTube channel, feed your creativity, uh, coming soon. Also next week. And the whole point of me giving Myke grief, I just do it. It's, it's, um, I'm just trying to deflect. Everyone thinks it's all deflection. And it's not not me, but it's not all me. It's the point, you know? Yeah. Well, the funny part is like the WWDC was not on our schedule. No, it wasn't online. It just happened. Right. That's what I'm saying. I had a week. We had like a week. We're like, okay, I guess we're doing this, which is always fine. Like we can always make it work. And I was like, yeah, so that was great. But next week is the St. Louis pen show and I'm going to be going. So I have asked Anna to join me. Um, and we'll just do a St. Louis pen show preview episode, uh, next week's episode. Cause she will be there, uh, as a vendor and as a teacher. So, uh, we'll get, we'll get on. But anyway,

'''Myke Hurley:''' I guess on the, the week after we'll, we'll do a big recap. Cause I want to hear your experience.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Should be good. Cause I'm, I'm hosting an event, uh, or our talk. I'll be giving a, like a Q and a session and then we'll do, we're going to, we have some other small things.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Um, and I'll just say, you know, just, they've been a sponsor, but now it's sponsoring this, but it's July, uh, June 25th, 28th, the St. Louis pen show. In case you're still thinking of going, Brad's going to be there. Yep. If you're listening, if you're listening in this,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' uh, you know, uh, in the next day or two, um, it's one week, one week away. So, um, yeah. So I'm getting, uh, excited for it. Although I really haven't put any thought much into it yet, which is kind of my side reason for having Anna on. It'll force me to get more prepared for the actual show next week. Um, cause this will only be my second show of the year because this is when it starts to ramp up for me and why I'm kind of took things easy in the first half of the year is because starting now it's pretty much on every month until November for me. So, which is great. I'm looking forward to it. All right. Should we do a show about pens? Yes. Well, specifically about paper. So, uh, from Trevor, FYI, I, I, I saw this note, Myke, I purposely didn't click this link. So FYI, the Kukuyo auxiliary is back in stock at the paper mine order. Two of the A4 ledgers just to be safe. Um, this was a surprise notebook entrant for me that, um, came out of an ask TPA question and basically one, have you ever seen this to why can't I get it anymore? Was the question. And then we had a lot of feedback saying, Oh, well, you know, if you shop at Amazon Japan or go through all these, you know, hoops and hurdles to get the notebook, you can actually get it. But our good friend Blake over at paper mind has them in stock. Yes. I'm purposefully not ordering this for reasons, which will become clearly apparent, uh, momentarily. I say that. Uh, he said, did you just press by? Well, I'm scrolling through. Well, no, no, no, no, no. I'm scrolling through it now. This is such a unique product.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. There's nothing like this. I think this is, this is why we had that question. Cause it's like the person was using this product was out of stock and they were worried they couldn't get it anymore. And like, they need this, like this layout, which is, I would say like very, very financial ledger

'''Brad Dowdy:''' kind of looking, you know, it's a ledger book. Yeah. Honestly. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and it's hard bound and it's, and it's fountain pen friendly. It's fountain pen friendly and it's, it's fancy bound, right? Like it looks like it could be on like a bookshelf from a hundred years ago type of situation. They also have, have a small version, a B5, 100 page version, as opposed to an A4, 200 page version, which is a behemoth. I had to Google it, but this is case binding. I thought

'''Myke Hurley:''' it was, but I didn't want to just say it in case it was wrong, but that's what this kind of binding

'''Brad Dowdy:''' is called. So there's pretty much very few notebooks in our space, at least like the most popular fountain pen friendly ones never come in this type of binding. So having Kikuyo do this, I don't know. It's just kind of a very particular notebook in the best way possible. Right. Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We like our peculiarities. And so it's one of these products that like, it's so particular that if this works for you, there probably isn't a replacement, right? Exactly. You, you are like in on what makes this thing, the thing. And so if this thing stops being a thing, you're out of luck.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So the good news is that it's backed by Kikuyo. It's one of their products and they're a massive, massive company that does deal with office stationary. They're probably shipping this

'''Myke Hurley:''' to financial companies, right? Like they make this for banks in Japan or whatever, you know,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' and it exists for that reason, as you say. Yeah. So I don't know. I'm not in a rush to go get it, but if I did it, B5 100 page would be all I need just to like play around with and test. So anyway, thank you for the followup. I'm glad to see that they're, they're continued to be available. Cause I think it's just a neat product and like someone in, in a non, you know, traditional financial accounting ledger type of situation, like a, a pen addict could have a lot of fun with a book like this. Speaking of a notebook, you could have a lot of fun with Myke. I snuck this into last week's episode. Um, but I launched a notebook collaboration. Yes. So sick, Brad. MD product. I am thrilled with this. Can you please hold one for me? I'll bring you one to New York. That's what I want. Thank you. They are selling well. There's plenty left in stock. Like I ordered 500 of them. We have about half of them left. So congratulations. In good shape. That's pretty great. For like, it feels like this has been pretty low key so far. It has, it has, it has. And I, and I, I didn't keep it that way on purpose, but like, you know, it's when I looked back at the original requests, could we even do this? Yeah. Was 16 months prior to delivery. So that's how long it's been in the, in the hopper. And I couldn't talk about it until I actually physically got it. It's such a stunner. The kind of like the,

'''Myke Hurley:''' the orangey like copper orange stamp on a cream is a good combo, Brad. Yeah. That is

'''Brad Dowdy:''' real good looking combo. Yeah. I love the shape. The shape is kind of Goldilocks size. It's B6 slim, which I think is pretty much a fake size, you know, past me would like give myself grief over choosing this size, but I think it's just such a proper size. It's kind of a tall and skinny notebook, which has become something that I've come to enjoy over the years is like my favorite types of layouts. So the thing, the feedback I've been getting so far on this is mostly been from people who haven't had an MD product before going, OMG, I can't believe the quality of this notebook.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, okay.