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'''Myke Hurley:''' and I was a little hesitant before that reason, but I thought at the same time, it might be interesting to see, uh, what your, what your dailies look like even right now. Yeah. I was a

'''Brad Dowdy:''' little hesitant and I agree because the switch is about to flip, um, on getting back to what my normal day to day usage and writing is. So is it, how soon is it? How soon is what

'''Myke Hurley:''' am I saying? The switch is about to flip. Like the switch is going to flip for me when

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I start using fountain pens regularly. And I think I'm going to try to do that this weekend. Like I'm feeling good enough with pencil writing. I'm going to try some like standard pens today and see how it feels when I'm writing. And then once I'm convinced I can ink up a fountain pen and actually use it instead of the ink, just sit there and not be used. Um, I, and I think that point is going to come this weekend. Um, it's tracking pretty well. It's healing pretty well. Like I don't have any, um, you know, brace or anything on it right now. So I'm going to physical therapy twice a week. And like the only place that it hurts when I write is like on the back of my hand. And that's all from stiffness from basically being a cast for nine weeks. So right. Like I got to get my hand back into that kind of shape. It like the break part doesn't hurt when I write. Okay. It's other, other things that make it uncomfortable for me to write. I should say. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, so yeah, the next time we'll do this, I'll have a full compliment of a full arsenal of pens and paper

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' So is this called burying the lead? Like what we're about to do? Yep. Is that like the dictionary definition?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I think more it's like you have an entire show prepared and then you have to throw it all out at the last minute. So you're just trying to find the best place to put it in the document,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' really. All right, Myke, what's going on?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So before, just before the show began, the Relay FM members discord lit up while in posting some information from Goldspot pens on their Instagram story. They posted what looks like a letter or email that came from Retro 51, assumingly to partners and suppliers. I haven't seen this posted anywhere else as of our recording time. And it says, greetings. About a year ago, I let you all know I was going to retire. All right, I'm going to stop right there. We're going to stop right there. So this is written from George, the founder and owner of Retro 51. This I was going to retire thing, that wasn't the initial announcement. It was like, we're retiring, right? Because that was the whole thing we were talking about at the time is that the original announcement made it seem like everyone was

'''Brad Dowdy:''' going to retire. Yeah, it was we're closing down. Like, I'll have to go back and look at it. But it was essentially, hey, we're it's I think it said we're shutting the doors or something like that.