Editing The Pen Addict 268/transcript (section)

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'''Myke Hurley:''' But there was, there's a lot more going on today, but we should take a break. Yes. I want to take a moment to thank our friends over at Harry's for supporting this week's show. Harry's is all about a great shave at a fair price. And this is exactly why over 3 million people have switched to Harry's. Their founders, Jeff and Andy decided to create Harry's because they were fed up with overpriced razors and blades. So they bought a German factory with over 100 years of blade making experience to ensure the highest quality for their blades, which they sell at half the price of the leading five blade razor directly to you over the internet. And all of Harry's products are backed by a 100% quality guarantee. Now, me and Brad are not sharing a room this year. So like, I feel like at some point I'm just going to have to break in to just get a real sniff of your stuff. Come check out the counter. Of all of the amazing products.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. It's all there. All the Harry's products I travel with in the Harry's dop kit. Naturally. Which, um, that's my, that's my go-to travel bag for all my, my Harry's goods and all my other items. But yeah. And I will say I'm looking at his face right now. Brad looks really well kept. Yeah. Even at, even at this hour, you know, I, uh, my eyes might look a little bloodshot and saggy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But my face tells a different story. Thanks to Harry's. Brad's got to look his best. You know, he's, he's the pan addict. You know, he's the Brad Downey. I'm nobody here. We haven't said what Brad Downey is about yet. We'll talk about that just after I finished talking about Harry's. Harry's is so confident. You're going to love their blades. They want to give you their trial set for free. You just need to cover shipping. The free trial set includes a weighted ergonomic razor handle, five precision engineered blades of a lubricating strip and trimmer blade. They're rich lathering shave gel and a travel blade cover as well. This is $13 of value for you to try out. Look, stop messing around. If you haven't got Harry's in your life yet, fix it. Go to harrys.com slash pan addict right now and get started with their free trial offer. You just need to cover shipping. Thank you so much to Harry's for their support of this show and Relay FM.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So a quick anecdote about the, it relates to the disaster in just a more funny way. Last night, Lisa Van Es checked in and she was kind enough to go ahead and get an extra table for knock. She's like, you know, it's hard enough to get a table booked here. And Lisa gets actual responses from Bob, the show promoter, and I never get email replies. So it's like, yes, just give me my table. So she goes to pick up the packets you get when you check into the pin show normally. And it's got, you know, list of events and it's got your name badges in it. She came to me after she picked up her package. She said, I've only got two name badges. I gave him six names and I just have hers and mine. And she's like, you know, he asked me for this list of names. He, you know, prodded me saying, you know, asked me multiple times for, you know, to finally finalize the list and she ends up with just a badge for her and me and when she should have six of them. So she said, I think you have your own package over there as knock. So go check. And maybe the rest of them are in there. So I go check and get ours. And this is all Thursday night, way before any of this happened. None of this. I wouldn't be able to do any of this this morning. Yeah. They were letting people at least check in last night. So I go get mine and the lady says, go ahead and check that while you're here. Check the badges. I was like, yeah, that's kind of what I needed to do anyway. I pull out two badges and it's two random people I've never heard of in my life. So we're like, this is a place. We pretty much, this is expected. Like this is like you could, it was a 50, 50. It was probably like 90, 10 that this was going to happen. 50, 50 is a little too generous. So she's like, ooh, yeah, that's here. Just take these blank ones and fill them out. So this morning we see Lisa Van Ness and she's got my actual printed name badge. And it comes out Brad Downey. D-O-W-N-Y.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He's nice and soft.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I'm a big softie. Big softie. I'm more, I'm more, I'm more Charmin with the hee hee when you, when you poke me more. That was a little more Pillsbury. Doughboy, I guess that too. But the ridiculousness of that is we have to provide those things digitally to the show organizers, right? We're not calling over the phone and they're not taking down my name wrong, right? We're passing these things on in a digital fashion and they still can't get the names right. So that's kind of the weekend in a nutshell so far.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So now we have a new nickname for our soft and cuddly Mr. Downey.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So Brad Downey is my official name this weekend. I don't know how long we're going to let that one go though.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So our table is in a weird place. Yes. But it's not as bad as we thought it was going to be, right? So there is... It's as close to as bad as it could be. It's on the edge. We are on the edge. Potentially. So literally we're on the edge. So there is a big ballroom and then a hallway that runs around the perimeter of the ballroom. We're not in the ballroom, which is probably, you know, that's central. We're like in the hallway, but in the very far left corner of the hallway that if you're literally in the ballroom, there's walls in front of our faces, like you can't see us. You have to go around. But the thing is, we're fine. We're next to Vanus. There's a bunch of other like really good vendors in that hallway, like Edison's there, Sailor's there. So people are walking through. I mean, we were worried when we were setting up, like, is anyone even going to find us? But they did. There's enough pool in that hallway to get them down to where we're at. So it's fine. It really is fine. Like, there's a whole other room where it would have been worse to be, which where the Canaleo Pen Company is. And they're just like blocking the hallway for everyone, right? Because everyone's just going in and just like checking out that thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, because that room was an afterthought, right? So that room, when we're sitting in the cattle pen this morning, Bob is off somewhere because he shorted himself on tables and needs the hotel to open up an emergency ballroom for him. And this is not a ballroom set for a pen show. I don't know what it is. It's got two, it's like got a couple levels and stairs and walls and ramps. It's super odd. It's nothing you can explain, you know, without seeing a picture of it. And, you know, we could have been in there. I feel bad for the people in there. I don't think they're getting the traffic. Like, even though that's the first thing you see, you're not really going in there until you go get your registration, which is past that room. Yeah, yeah. So it was an afterthought, emergency, you know, kind of overflow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So we are in, we're in not the best, but not the hardest place to be. Yeah. So, I mean, we're doing fine, right? Because as well, like people want to come and see the products anyway. Right. It's like we have that going for us. It's like people actually know Knock and they want to come knock. They want to come and see you. They want to come and see me. They want to come and see Jeff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So today we have that going for us. Tomorrow is where I'm concerned because a lot of the people that saw us today are here all weekend. They've seen us. I need new people to see us. Yeah. Right. That's where my consternation lies.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just because there's like, so basically the hallway, there's like a bunch of open doors and it kind of funnels people into the hallway from the ballroom. So like, I think it will be fine. We'll see. Tomorrow is going to be in the pudding.