Editing The Pen Addict 72/transcript (section)

== Field Notes ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So there's some more Field Notes insanity.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Speaking of good stuff. We had that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I posted about that Butcher Blue three pack.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, it ended up going for four hundred and ten dollars, which is just ridiculous, I think.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Um, yeah, I was ninety dollars off, wasn't I?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I was I was like thirty dollars short. I was like three eighty something. So, um, yeah, it's it's pretty insane. And I've got a comment about this, but I want to I want to talk about this. Um, the spreadsheet that someone on the Field Notes group on Facebook called created.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Look at this. I hadn't seen this.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So you haven't seen that yet? No, I want to be able to post be able to share this with anyone who's interested in Field Notes because this is a really good resource. The guy that was doing it, what this is, is there's a guy. Um, and boy, I forgot to say him. Jeffrey Higa on the Field Notes Facebook group. And what he did was I think it's from I want to say it's from like January 2013 up until.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it looks like all of the year.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Beginning of September. What he did was create a Google Doc, Google spreadsheet that tracked the sale of every Field Notes, Field Notes auction on eBay. And not just that, it doesn't say like, you know, Butcher Blue, you know, four hundred and ten dollars. It's got like the very specific like items. Like the American Tradesman, when it shipped, it shipped out with a carpenter pencil. And it shipped out with like a card that told you how to sharpen a carpenter pencil. And it came in a little Ziploc bag. So he's got, you know, if the auction was just the notebook, it says, just a notebook. If it says American Tradesman with the pencil and instructions went for this much. The American Tradesman without the pencils this much. The American Tradesman with pencils, instructions, but no bag went for this much. It's insane. The amount of work this guy put in.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's crazy. This is crazy. Looking through some of this and you see how, so like he's got, for example, there have been three Butcher Blues sold this year. The most recent had 35 bids and it sold for four hundred and ten dollars. There was one in the end of August that had one bid for free free nine. But there was one in March that had one bid for thirty five dollars.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's amazing. This is this is really cool stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Bravo.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Bravo, Jeffrey.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. And the reason why he was posting it on this is he can't keep up anymore. He needs he wanted someone to take over the spreadsheet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it's it's pretty it's pretty intense. He's done a extraordinarily thorough job. So I don't know if anyone's taken up the mantle yet to keep this going. I certainly can't do it. But he was doing like he. Yeah, he did it for the whole year. Well, it's got five hundred. What is it? Five hundred and thirty eight entries so far. And I included another link in there, Myke. Like the last link where one of the different guy in the field notes group, Cody Williams. He took that spreadsheet data and like made charts and graphs and all this stuff off of it. It's hilarious. You just got to you just got to look at it and see what he did. Although for some reason, the image isn't coming up for me right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, no.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Maybe. I wonder if he took down his his sources. Photos aren't don't seem to be working. Is that the same for you?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Might be a Facebook thing. Hopefully.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Maybe it's a Facebook thing. But anyway, you go back and what this guy Cody did was he made if you actually if you scroll down, you can see some of them where he's got like auction price, you know, graphs and through the whole thing. And he just made all these charts off of this spreadsheet that Jeffrey did. So it's it's pretty crazy. You guys think that we're crazy on this podcast?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We don't even sniff what some people are doing out there. Not even close. And this makes me feel pretty good about myself.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hey, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I but I see something like this and I just nerd out. I was like, oh, this is beautiful. I can't believe someone did this. And it's it's pretty amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hey, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Did you get the email? What email? From Field Notes. Oh, I did. I did. Came today. Came today. Shh. Don't tell anyone. I know. Next week. Well, this one, I think. Next week. Next week. Check your inbox. I'm very excited.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, so speaking of which, back to the Field Notes. I don't have this in the page and I can find the link later. But on the Field Notes Facebook page, there was a link. There was a someone posted a thread. OK, so what's your guess for what this next edition is going to be? You know, because people now like to speculate. Mm-hmm. Um, what are the things are going to be? And it's it became a I don't know. It's probably a hundred post deep thread on there. Do you want to hear my guess? Do you want to take a shot? Do you want to you want to throw something out there? I mean, it's really just it's really just throwing darts and just totally total random wacky guesses that people had. But I liked I liked my guess, actually, and I might steal this idea for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have quite literally no idea at all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So I guessed.