Editing The Pen Addict 196/transcript (section)

== Gold Furniture ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh, I think I have one with a, with gold furniture. It's the, uh, the giraffe one. Okay. Uh, I think I have that and it has gold furniture. So I'll be keeping my eye out, I think, uh, for this, for this retro 51 here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Someone asked me, he said, there's an announcement coming up. You have any idea what it is? I said, no, I have no idea, but it's spring. So let's go with cherry blossom. You know, it's cherry blossom time. They said, oh, you were close. So, uh, props to me on that one. But I, I would pick, I would pick the coffee one. I think the coffee one's better looking, but that's me. But I, the bouquet is really, really pretty. And, um, Jeff reviewed the coffee one, which is a gold spot exclusive. Um, it's really good looking. I actually have one on the, on the desk here, um, as well. Um, they were nice enough to send us a couple of these. Um, I love like the, the copper finish, you know, like the dark copper finish, um, much better than the gold furniture, you know, um, or the, I don't know what they call this, bronze or copper. I'd have to look at the specs, but I just think it's, it's a really pretty pin. It's definitely more my aesthetic than the bouquet. But, uh, despite the fact that design on the bouquet is really killer.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I wish that they would have gone with a design rather than words personally, like even just like a coffee bean design. Uh, I like the texture. I have a, it looks quite similar to the texture of the basketball one, maybe just inverted. Um, I like it when they make textures on them. So yeah, uh, this is, this is a good idea. There are parts of this coffee tornado that I like. I just, I don't like the overall design of the, of the words. I prefer when they use imagery. So, uh, I'm going to be keeping my eye out for, for the bouquet because I think that that is a, uh, that's a beautiful one. See if I can try and catch the bouquet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, you should do that. Did you catch it at Matt's wedding?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, actually I was considering it. Get some elbows in the way, but I thought I might upset some people.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Okay. Um, so yeah. And, uh, I know retro 51's got a bunch of other stuff in the pipeline too. So the, there's even more and more and more and more common. So, and there's some cool dude. I've seen some cool things that I can't talk about, but you'll know when it happens for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, why are you doing this to me? Also, I have something to say here. It's a retro 51.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm sworn to secrecy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have, I have something to say here. Why are they not showing this stuff to me? I am the retro 51 guy, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They didn't send this to me. One of our, one of our listeners, Penhall sent it to me. I didn't know about it. They said, Hey, look at this. He just forwarded it onto me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is ridiculous.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Well, use your 50 retro 51's for this next project. Okay. This is kind of cool. And I was just sent this this morning. I was like, Oh, I got to put this in the show notes. Cause it's really cool. I'd never heard of this, but there's a project called dear data. Some of our listeners may have heard of this. Have you heard of this before? Myke? Nope. So like in, in 2014, two people started a postcard exchange where weekly they would exchange a postcard of the things that happened that week during, uh, based on a specific topic. So they would take a week and write a postcard or draw a postcard of all the drinks they drank for that week. And then they would exchange them. So, and then the next week they would do animals they saw and things like that. So every week had a topic, sent one postcard exchange back and forth. Well, that kind of blew up. It turned into a whole book and everything like that. So I just wanted to put this link in the, in the show notes for everyone to see. Cause it's kind of cool because, um, website five 38.com, which those in the U S are probably familiar with it. I don't know how much this site gets out. Um, it started by a guy named, uh, Nate silver. I was a huge Nate silver fan when he was working for baseball prospectus. He's one of the founders of baseball prospectus and y'all know my, my baseball, uh, fandom.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He's a guy. Yeah. So he's a, he's a numbers guy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And then he got, um, popular for election stuff, right? Like that's his big bag now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He started working for, um, I don't know if it was the wall street journal, the New York times. And he was there, um, he was their election numbers guy polling. Uh, he was doing all the modeling, the predictive modeling for election results. You watch house of cards.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. You seen the most recent season? No. Okay. Cause they basically, they create one of those characters to be him.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So he got a lot of press, uh, four years ago, um, because he like nailed, I think he hit like all 50 States.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Um, well, didn't he like accurately predict the Obama stuff in a way that everybody thought would be impossible? Like the actual results didn't make any sense, but he predicted them was right. That's how I'm familiar with him anyway.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. So that's how that's. So now he's blown up on the political side. He doesn't do anything with sports, um, very much anymore. He'll write a few articles here and there, but it's all political stuff now. So five 38 is really his political blog, but this data thing they're doing, actually doing a contest. They're saying, keep track of all the podcasts. You listen for seven days, pick any seven day period in March and, uh, send them a postcard about it. I thought that was pretty cool. And maybe our, uh, maybe our, this is like the perfect thing for our listeners to participate in. Um, cause they're listening to us, they get to use their stationary and, uh, you just visualize somehow, you know, how you listen to podcasts. You can draw their logos or write their names or do something cool. So we'll have that link in the show notes. I thought it was just kind of a neat thing that, uh, one of our, uh, our listeners sent it, sent that to us this morning. It was very cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Um, you can tell by looking at these postcards that these are, I could tell that these people were data visualizers because the way that they choose to display the data is so peculiar.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yeah, absolutely. There's some, there's some cool imagery in this, uh, in this, in this post. I mean, it's not that very, not that many images I haven't gone to, to, to the, uh, gallery. There's a gallery of all the stuff. I think, um, I haven't gone through that yet, but just the ones in the image are very cool. I like it. I like it. Um, remember, remember right after new year's when our good friend, my custom puppet got, uh, got the big run on new year's Eve for all of his, uh, calligraphy work on Instagram and got all these followers. Well, another guy I follow on, uh, Instagram just got the, uh, Huffington post just did an article just on all of his calligraphy and handwriting and flexi nib styles. King Blotto the third, which is an amazing name. I don't know the full story around it, but I imagine it's an awesome story. And I don't know if you follow him on Twitter, but I've been following him for a while and it's cool to see this just appear on Huffington post yesterday out of the blue. Like, uh, some listeners sent that to me and, uh, all his videos are so good. Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Another one. I love watching, uh, a custom puppet. Like I just love watching it. Yeah. Hearing them. Exactly. I always put the sound on for those. That sound is so beautiful. The sound.