Editing The Pen Addict 133/transcript (section)

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. We got another, I got an interesting email in the inbox.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I don't have it up so I can't say her name because I can't remember it right now. But she sent me an email saying, hey, I have two friends, these two guys that do a YouTube video series called Pen Talk. Pen Talk with Tony and Santi. Pen Talk with Tony and I was like, I get a lot of emails. Sometimes I, you know, I don't blow everything off. But, you know, sometimes I'm just like, oh, well, yeah, okay. Let me check out your thing. So I went and looked at this. And it's actually pretty cool. These two guys looks like high school students. And let me stop this before I start blaring it in the ears. They go through, they have like this three episodes now, I think. And they talk for about 30 or 40 minutes each episode. And they're talking about just like the regular everyday pens. And she said it would make their Christmas. It would be a wonderful Christmas present if I could talk about them on the Pen Addict podcast and shoot them a link out. So there you go, Tony and Santi. We're going to put the link in the show notes, which you can find at relay.fm slash penaddict slash 133. And we'll send everyone your way to check out. If you have some time to kill, check out these guys. Do some pen reviews. It's pretty good. They're young guys. So it's pretty funny watching them go to town on this stuff. But they know their stuff and they get into it a bunch. So definitely check those out if you have a few minutes to spare. And Merry Christmas, guys.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hey, this is cool. I like this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is cool. It's totally cool. So hopefully they'll do more. I think the last one was like a month or two ago. So, you know, hopefully this will give them an incentive to keep doing it. And, you know, keep putting that content out there. And, guys, if you make a new video, send it my way so I can see it and I'll link to it. And I'd be happy to. So very good job. One more bit of follow-up from last week's episode. We talked about pen spotting in public. And we got a bunch of feedback. Got a bunch of email feedback. Bunch of Twitter feedback. And here's a couple of them. Kim lives in Budapest, Hungary. And she said, here's some feedback on spotting fellow pen addicts. She says, I live in Budapest and can't help but wonder whether I'm the only Hobonichi planner owner in this city. I see lots of moleskins and reasonably good gel ink pens in coffee shops of Budapest. But no fountain pens at all. Which is surprising. And thanks for the great show. If not for the pen addict podcast, I wouldn't order Hobonichi in the first place or go back to using fountain pens. So I think that was the general consensus in all of the pen spotting emails I got. That it's still all of us pen addicts really don't see our compatriots out in the wild, if you will. They're there, maybe hidden in the shadows a little bit. But still, we got lots of work to do to infiltrate the mainstream and get awesome paper and awesome pens in people's hands. And that's what we're efforting to do. Right, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. There's nothing stopping us.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Right. So our favorite pilot, Jimmy Reeks, he gave the airline pilot take. He said, all the pilots I know fall into four pen camps. Cross Sentry, Pilot G2, Uni Sino 207, Zebra F301, and free hotel pens. So that sounds about right. And we haven't done a pen blog of the week in a while. And we'll make this unofficial, official pen blog of the week. Jimmy started a new website called pensandplanes.com. So you can check that out. We'll have the link in the show notes. And he did a great review on the Pilot Elite, which I have to apologize to Jimmy. That's what got him started down this path of fountain pens. He won that on a giveaway I did. That was a fountain pen giveaway. Fountain pen day giveaway I did on the pen addict. And he won. And he reviewed that pen. And he didn't have any fountain pens before owning a Pilot Metropolitan like a month or two ago. And now I think he has a few fountain pens. And he's gone off the deep end in a quick, fast pace. And he decided to blog about it, which is even better for all of us. So we can all see the pen in action. What a beauty that is. It's a really neat pen, isn't it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, very much. Really neat pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Very much. So I was happy to be able to give that one away. So I love it. I don't even have one of those. I'm going to have to get one of those one day. So it's pretty cool. And check out pensandplains.com.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that video was hypnotic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I could. It was unfortunate because I looked and this is the only one of these they have so far. And I hope that lynda make more of them because I was just like blown away.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I could watch that over and over again. And it's mostly watching Aaron go through Photoshop and just like talk out his design as he's clicking. And like the way he works, like I said, it's hypnotic. I just watched him. I was just like my eyes were bugged out. I don't even know if I blinked. It was a very cool video. And I had a bunch of people send me that link, including Mikey Reak in the chat room. I'm going to give him a shout out because he's the one that sent me the link. But we got a bunch of those.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mikey sent it to me too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's super good. It's super good. And everyone should check that out. And then if you want to learn how to have those mad skills that Aaron has, you got to check out Lynda because that's what they do. They help you do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They do indeed. I know we've threatened this a bunch of times, but we need to get him on the show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we do. We do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I'll do the editing necessary.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, because we got to let him go. You can't restrict him.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. You can't restrict him at all. I would love to have him on this show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. I will effort that. I'm going to scribble, scrabble right now. Effort Aaron Draplin.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's a term that I'm not familiar with.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. To effort something. It's not a common term, and it's probably not the exact use, but I'm going to make an effort to get him on. So it's certainly not a proper English usage, I don't think. So, and Mikey's asking in the chat room, did we see his TED Talk? Yes, I've seen the TED Talk. It's super good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have not seen that.