Editing The Pen Addict 355/transcript (section)

== Notebook Format Change ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Regardless, we've always been asked to make a side bound. Obviously we made a top bound notebook at first because we enjoy that format. I still think it's my favorite format, but to, you know, to go against, you know, the tradition of just your standard side bound pocket notebook, you know, we had to get a model in there for our customers that, um, you know, wanted to use something like that who weren't fans of the top bound. So we finally made one. It's got a great olive green cover, um, in our style, a very simple, you know, knock logo on the front made in Atlanta on the back and a mega fluorescent orange, uh, dot dash grid on the interior, which is almost an optical illusion, right? Like if I held up this notebook to your face, like three feet away, it almost looks like a blank page, but then you get up close and it's like a laser beam Tron pattern on your page. It's kind of cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, so that's a definite like addition for people. So I just wanted people to know about it, but it also, uh, reminded me that I didn't talk about using the tutu pen, which you had in Atlanta. I mean, that thing is as stupid as that and as enjoyable as I expected it to be based upon your, like our conversations. It's a silly pen, but it's great. It's, but it's like, I don't understand it, but I like it. It's very strange, but that's, that's a fun little pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's, it's fantastic. Like it is such a good, like you should never buy a pen to have a talking point, but I tend to do that because I enjoy the weirdness of pens like these. And like we talked about the Montblock M rollerball, you know, making a hate purchase. Like you should, you shouldn't do those things. Um, let me do those things for you and then I'll bring them for you to try and you can just see how silly they are. And the 22 pen is, is it's complete. Sorry, it's 22 pen is completely silly and ridiculous, but like in the best way possible. Like you said, it's just, it's fantastic and ridiculous at the same time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Speaking of which, our friend of the show, Alexander Kramer sent this to both of us on Twitter yesterday. You may know Alexander for the creation of the horrific, just upsetting coloring page. Uh, I will put in the, in the show notes again, cause we haven't had that for a while and we haven't spoken about that for a while, but there is a, uh, coloring book with online coloring book of a, just a terrible photo of the two of us. Um, and, uh, Alex has made a, uh, sailor pro gear coloring tool to help you dream up your own weird and wonderful, um, customizations of a pro gear. It's really brilliant.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's freaking amazing. He's done so many like stealth projects like this. So I joke with Alexander a lot and it's, it's a recurring theme. He puts like his heart and soul into all these projects and sends them to me. And, and then I don't respond to him for like a month. I don't feel so guilty about it. It's, it's gotten to become such a joke that he actually calls me out on Instagram all the time. Like when the, uh, the pictures of the black hole came out, like he did a little meme on his, uh, Instagram stories with an email going into the black hole. And that email was to me. So, uh, I really appreciate the humor that, uh, Alexander and I have going. Um, but he does really cool stuff like this all the time that I've seen. And I love this thing. Right. So what, uh, what amazing sailor did you make?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, I've not been able to, I've really been trying. Right. And I'm just, it's not, it's not working. Like I can't seem to get a good, um, a good combination going.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So the one thing, if I could have one improvement to this, Alexander, if you're listening, when I remove the cap, I want the, I want it to go to the side because I want to see that color. Like if I've made the cap a different color than the barrel, I want to see them all together. So like I can have the cap on in the color, then I can remove the cap to see the section in the nib.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I kind of want to see them in side by side. So I can see the beauty that I've created. Like I have like a fuchsia lime green light blue thing going on right now. And, and light orange. It's pretty dope. Like I'm all about this pen right now, but I want to see the cap adjacent to the, the beautiful barrel that I've created, but otherwise it's killer. And I've been fidgeting with this a bunch.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'm not surprised. I've been playing with, but I really, I just really haven't, uh, I really haven't gotten around it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. So it's amazing. Um, anecdotally I had an amazing moment question mark yesterday, I think. Um, so my wife was going to get her haircut and her stylist was, she's been going to for years. So, you know, they are all into each other's business, you know, as you do when you're sitting there for an hour or two, getting your hair done, you know, this about your beard, Myke, you know, you, you, you make good, you make good friends with your stylist. So, um, and I've, I've had my hair cut by her too. And she knows kind of like just what I do for a living, you know, those things just come up. And just randomly they were talking about kids and whatever. And then the stylist goes, Oh, did you know, John Tesh listens to the pen addict? Like she says this to my wife and Mary Beth is like, what? She's like, yeah. She's like, I've been, you know, discovering podcasts and I'm listening to podcasts, but also, you know, happened to catch on the radio. So John Tesh is like a U S nationally syndicated, syndicated radio host. He's, he's actually a lot of things. Um, and she said she heard on the radio, him shout out the pen addict that that's one of the pod podcasts that he listens to. And I'm like, eh, there's no way she, she misheard or something like that. But Mary Beth was like, no, the way she presented the question makes me think like she, she was really telling the truth. So I've got a, I've got a call out to the John Tesh fans out there and to John, John Tesh Twitter account, which I don't believe he manages. It definitely looks very corporate, uh, social media manager managed. Like there's no at replies to anybody, you know, it's just an outward going Twitter experience. But, uh, I've sent him a tweet and if he's a listener, I just want to know, like, cause it would be kind of cool. Like John Tesh for us older Americans was known as the host of a show called entertainment tonight in like the early nineties and was just kind of an institution really before the internet. Like this is pre internet, pre E news, pre TMZ days. He was the, uh, he was the guy. So, um, I think it would be kind of funny. So John Tesh, if you're listening, get at me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is completely lost on me, but I am excited by how excited Brad is.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He was, he was texting me about it all night last night.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, cause I want to find out if it's true. And if it's a radio show, I can't go back and listen to verify it. Right? Like if you said it on a podcast, I could find the episode and go see it, but it's a radio show, um, that I don't even know what it it's on or about or anything like that. But, um, it's, it's so random that someone would say this, that I kind of believe it. Like it doesn't sound true at all. Right. But it's so random. It seems almost accurate. So we'll see what happens. I just think it's funny. Regardless. I have a fun little story to tell whether it's true or not.