Editing The Pen Addict 408/transcript (section)

== Shift to Hank Green Marker Video Discussion ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So it's cool. It's cool. All right. I got this link a bunch over the past few days. I don't know if you got it or not. It was Hank Green on markers. And I don't know if anyone knows of Hank Green. But he's, would you call him a science writer or YouTuber? How do you describe what Hank Green does? Hank Green is like the OG YouTuber.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like the Green Brothers, like Hank and John, were like the OGs. Like of like sitting in front of a camera talking about interesting stuff. Then they have like branched out into lots and lots and lots of other YouTube projects. They are education focused YouTubers primarily. But now are both successful writers. Hank has followed on after John. But John Green has written books that have become movies now. Yeah. He's the main book writer.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. But Hank is now getting ready to publish his second novel. But John's books like took off quicker. I mean, he started first. And now like, you know, Hank has seen good success. I've really, I've been meaning to read Hank's first book for a very long time. Maybe I should make that a quarantine project. But I very much enjoy it. They are the Vlog Brothers. Like that's their channel. That's what they were known for. And they're great. Like they have a very unique style. And the way that they speak, like the cadence of their voices has informed so many other YouTubers. And of course, Hank was responsible for creating PodCon. So I've had the great pleasure of meeting and speaking with Hank on a number of occasions now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Good, good. So yeah, I figured, I don't know if you watched this video, but with Hank's second book coming out, he was signing, I don't know how many copies. It looked like thousands. With the amount of papers in this test that he was doing. So he said, well, if I'm going to sign all these books, I'm going to order all the permanent markers on Amazon. And that's the gist of this video that we're going to link in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's fantastic. Well, the video we will link is the longer version.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So there's like. Which is only nine minutes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, but the Vlog Brother videos are about three, four minutes long. But then Hank had a longer cut on his channel.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, this one's nine minutes long. And it seemed like it lasted about two minutes. Like that's how good he is. And he just blasts through this and he reviews probably like 20 markers.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Should I spoil the ending or should we let people watch it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think we should let people watch it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. I enjoyed the ending thoroughly. I was like, I'll be damned. I was like, huh. There's a reason for things, right? Yeah. So, yeah. It was good. I enjoyed it. But he went through a lot of pens. The couple of ones that are really terrible. He really enjoys going in on those pens that are just awful. So, I appreciated that very much. But yeah, the winner. The winner was a good one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just assume. Isn't it John involved in Wolverhampton Wanderers? Is it Wolverhampton or is it a different football club?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think I would have run across that by now. It must be a different football club.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's like, so there's, it's like this wonderful long running thing with him and a football team. Wimbledon. Maybe it's a fan. Thank you, Kate. It's Wimbledon. Okay. That's just like this fascinating, like, love affair. Yeah, it's like with Wimbledon AFC. I wished I could point to something which could indicate his involvement, like, in some kind of succinct way.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's pretty cool. I haven't found, like, a super fan of Wolverhampton yet. I mean, I know that's like a celebrity or famous internet person or something like that. But yeah, that's pretty cool. That's really cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'll put, I'll find, like, something. I'll put, like, a link in the show notes to try and give you an idea of it. Nice. Nice. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would love to see that. I miss, I miss my football, Myke.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm. I'm sure you do. I do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I really do. Genuinely.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't doubt that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm. Football and baseball are just, like, I just super miss. Just, like, it's wonderful comfort background noise that I can have on all day while I'm working. It's great.