Editing The Pen Addict 312/transcript (section)

== Video Games ==


'''Madison:''' Yeah. That should be, that's worth your price of admission. Yep. Just go hang out with Jeff and, you know, bring him some water and french fries when you see him. He will be very much appreciated.

'''Madison:''' Speaking of new shows, Myke, I've been kind of beating around the bush on a new project I'm going to take on here. And it's not, like, a complete secret, but I haven't been totally obvious and obnoxious about it. But I am starting a Twitch channel, which, if you've entered any of my giveaways, you saw me teasing the Pen Addict Twitch channel. And the main question, I would imagine, is why? Why do you want to do that? And I've been watching Twitch for probably the past year and getting used to the platform and seeing what's available out there. And also having thoughts of how can I do more to help people in the stationary world. You know, I talked recently about doing an office hours thing, you know, booking, like, an hour, you know, or two hours, you know, a couple times a week to have people and talk to them directly. And I figured, well, why not just set a place and time where I can be there live and you can come talk and basically ask me anything. And I figured Twitch is kind of the place where I want to do it, not just for the stationary part of, you know, the Pen Addict. But, you know, I also like playing video games. So I'm going to do some gaming on there, too. But I think what I'm going to try to do, it's a little bit different. It's not what Twitch is normally built for, but it's grown their non-gaming channels, whether it's in they have a directory called IRL, which isn't where I'll plan on being. But there's a directory called Creative where a lot of people are doing drawing and artwork and things like that. So my plan is to have a twice weekly show, maybe around two hours, two days a week to where I focus on a topic. And we're going to reach way back and kind of start from scratch. Like, you know, I'm going to do an entire show on gel-link pens, right? I'm going to do, you know, multi-pens, mechanical pencils, regular pencils, you know, work our way up to fountain pens. So I'll do a little bit of educational content, talking about those types of things. And then I'll do a lot of chat integration content. So, you know, asking me questions, rolling with what the chat wants to talk about, things like that. You know, I see that happening, you know, twice a week during the weekday mornings or afternoons, Eastern time. And then nights and weekends, you know, I'll pop in for some games. When I started doing the pen addict as a business, it no longer became my hobby. Well, I kind of picked up video games as that hobby replacement. And I figured I could jump on and play video games. And you can ask me pen questions too, or you can ask me video game questions. So it's just another way to put myself out there, to share with the community, give back to the community, and have fun while doing it. And those are my focuses in my career now is have fun and help people. And this seems like a great place to do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I obviously agree. I basically did the exact same thing recently.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, yeah. It's funny.

'''Madison:''' We came upon this independently, which is hilarious.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But it's something that, I don't know. There are these shifts every now and then. And, like, Twitch has kind of started to really push itself into some new and interesting places. So the tools that they have and the things that they make available to people that want to stream, that's getting better and better. And then the way that they allow, the way that they give tools for people to make money on Twitch as well is getting more interesting. So this is why a lot of people are moving towards it. So you should go to twitch.tv slash penaddict and twitch.tv slash playing for fun FM. Yes.

'''Madison:''' And maybe eventually we'll do something together. I hope so.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Imagine that. Yeah.

'''Madison:''' We definitely will, actually. I mean, we'll play video games together. Yeah. It's funny. I don't do these things quickly or randomly. Like, I've been planning this for about a year. And then over the past two or three months, my plan became more solid. And that's when I first mentioned it to Myke. And he's like, by the way, this channel just launched, Playing for Fun FM. I'm like, sweet. That'll be fun. So you and Tiff are just wonderful on the Playing for Fun podcast and on the Twitch broadcast. So one thing I didn't mention is when I'm going to start this. I'm hoping to finish my setup late next week. So about a week and a half from now. But just keep an eye out. I mean, if you follow me at all, you'll know when I go live. So, you know, you'll have it figured out. But I'm shooting for about a week and a half from now. I'm still waiting for a couple parts to come in for my setup. And then we'll be good to go. And we'll figure this out together. So I look forward to it.