Editing The Pen Addict 584/transcript (section)

== Toby the Dog ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So that one moment, Toby's there, right? And you call Toby and he looks at you. Toby reminds me of a human.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. How so?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't know. Just the way he looks. He has a charismatic look. Yeah. Yeah. Like he has a, his face is a very interesting look. He has like very distinct eyes. And the way he gets up and looks at you is almost like if, if there was a human in the room with you, he just gets up and looks at you and he's just not approving. And then he just gets up and walks off. I don't know. Something about Toby reminds me of a human.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He's funny. He's, he's, he's a good pup. He, he's, he's almost consistently. If I'm in this room, he is here with me. Like, yeah. And if he hears something around the house, he'll go figure out what it is. And then he'll come back. Like I could be the only one in the house. He's in this room with me. Like, cause I, cause I'm in here most of the, most of my days working. So yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Your keyboard.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We've got to, we've got to help you out with that keyboard.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is, this is the space where I want the, the nice keyboard. So I have, what's the one I have in my other room? Keychron. Like that's in my other room. Like one of those. But this is just the, the keyboard. I think I said it in the video. I don't know what this is. It's just the one that came with the computer.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, as you said at one point, it says gigabyte on it, which I thought was very funny.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's obviously the brand. But I don't know what that means. It's like, is that the brand or is that the model?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, it's the brand gigabyte. It's like a personal company.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like it's like, I don't ever type on this computer.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Like I don't do any of my writing. So literally as I sit right now, my MacBook Air is in front of that keyboard. And if I was typing, if I was writing, that's what I'm doing. Right. So it's just pushed under the stand right now. And that's where it goes most of the time. Like the most action that keyboard gets, if I'm, if I'm playing a game, that's like a, you know, a WASD game or something like that. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There was something funny to me where, um, like when I came to realize that this is all one desk for you, that you already have a microphone on that desk and you move that microphone away to use the other microphone. I just thought that was funny.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Like I could be like a real professional, you know, like the, the editors that put together your video for you. Like I could be that, that little professional and have this wired in correctly.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm not really sure where this came from that. Like I have like a team of people to help me make a video. I made that video. That was just me. All right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just knew I did like such a technically poor job. I was like, I'm just going to own it. I thought it was great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And most of my, I think it was really that different to mine. I just thought it was good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, uh, so here's what, let me just tell you, like, so I have my podcast microphone and amp, which is what I bought years and years ago that you told me to get for this, that you, yeah, I could relay got me. And this is the same one from years and years and years ago. And it's really good. And we like it and we know what we're getting at it. And I could wire that all into my computer, but I don't because if I go on the road, like if I travel on vacation, I will take this setup with me. Yeah. Right. So I have an actual separate mic for streaming, uh, that's on a boom arm attached to the desk. So my podcast, my wave. Yeah. Yeah. They all got a wave. It's really good. Like it's super good. And like, it's, it has whatever the, the type of microphone allows me to like talk anywhere, not like having to talk straight into the mic. Right. It picks up like a wider range of, of my, uh, sound, which that wouldn't work really for stream using my podcast mic for that. So my podcast mic is just on like a desk stand in the amp and those come, uh, up to the table when I'm recording, like I am right now. And then when I'm done, I'll set them back down behind me. So that's really the only time I use this, this setup.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh, you were really down to the dregs on that fire on fire.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Pretty happy about that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You had a bottle of fire on fire and it was like the tiniest amount. And it's also pretty funny. You knocked it over at one point in the video and you just like straight up, just like smack. It was gone down. You know, that's very funny. Luckily those things are made of plastic and you had the cap on. Um, all right, Brad. Now the biggest thing you took issue with right in my video and you shamed me, you publicly shamed me that I had my canalea pen in the pen cup. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And so, well, okay. The canalea pen with the metal band, the my lay lay band.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You didn't know that though. When, when you, you started.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, I saw it as visually there. That was the problem.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think if we run back the tape, then I, I, I indicated that to you. Well, I don't understand. There are so many pens just like randomly on your desk, like smashing into each other as you're talking. Like you're just like pushing things around and you've got like this huge chunky metal pen smashing into an acrylic pen, you know, like there are pieces flying left, right and center. I think if you slow down the video, you can see that, you know, chunks of acrylic just like flying all over the place. What's going on with you over there? Why are all these pens just like all over the place?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. We hit that. We hit this video threshold at a bad time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I got caught out on that one for sure. Um, so I try, this goes back to like the, the whole inked pen. How many fountain pens do you have inked up at a time? And I'm currently like at a like close, like pushing 20, which is a ton for me. So I have different areas that pens live in. Like, you know, I'm staring at two pen cases right now on my desk. Like all those loose pens are gone from, from my desk. They're properly stored. So that was kind of a category of needs to be cleaned or needs to be like, that's the category is like, I need to do something with these. So those pens in that section were something needs to happen here. They need to go into storage. They need to be cleaned or they need to be inked up and put into a pen case. So that was a transitional area. And yes, I will admit that even while I was shooting, like, obviously they're not getting like banged around while they're on my desk, you know, I'm working or stuff. But while I was shooting the video, I was like, oh yeah, that's a little bit awkward. Cause I think like one of them might even been disassembled and I don't know. It was just, yeah, that was, that wasn't a good spot for me. That wasn't a good look for me, admittedly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But right now they're, they're gone. I have, I have two platinum Curie DOS on my desk resting on the smand. And then I have one, one pen that I'm using in my notebook. Those are the only exposed pens on my desk right now compared to what it looked like.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But as we say, right, like, and as we said before, like this does happen and I'm sure it happens a lot. So it's only fair to show, right? That's how you live your life. We're just humans.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I wasn't going to hide from it. I wasn't going to hide from it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The five-year journal that you have looked really cool. I like it. I just like the look of it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a good size. I couldn't have done it. And the A5 five-year journal would have been too intimidating for me. But I am even impressed with myself how consistent I've been. Like, I think I haven't written, let's see, I'm up to October 1st. So like, I'm like two days behind, three days behind, which that's about as far as I'll get. So like, I will update that today. Yeah. You know, note down what I've done. I've been very consistent with it. I'm enjoying using it. And it's nice to see the bookmark, you know, being three quarters of the way through the book. And then, you know, come around the turn of the year, we'll get to write the second entry on the annual pages, which I'm actually very much looking forward to. It takes some time. Like, it's a commitment, obviously. It's a five-year notebook. But the beauty of it doesn't really come into play until you reach that second year when you can, you're now writing on January 1st, 2024 on the same page you wrote on January 1st, 2023. And you can kind of contextualize it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, because like when you were skimming through it at first, I was like, oh, he's missing so many days. It's like, no, that's the other years. Yeah. Right? And so like, it's weird. It is a weird thing when you look at it. And it's odd that like, you have to put in a year before you start to get the benefit from it. But it is that kind of commitment product.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So once you cross that threshold, it's going to be like, oh, yeah, that's pretty cool. I see why like, I committed to this first year. But it's a weird concept. And I admit it took me forever. Like, I didn't know if I was going to be into this, but I took a shot. And it's stuck. And I'm pretty happy about that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Also, at one point you make, I don't even know if you make a reference to it or not, but there's just like a bunch of empty pen tubes on the desk. Like hidden under, you like pick up a notebook and there's just like a bunch of tubes, plastic tubes underneath everything, which is very funny to me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's, those tubes, we use those for spoke pens. And that's probably me. I had a bunch of, we've had a bunch of prototypes across my desk here the past couple of months getting ready for the end of the year. So I will, I will remove the pen from the tube, but like, I need to do something with the tube. So it just lives there until I do something with it. And the pens off being used and testing and doing whatever I'm doing with it. And the tube was like, well, that tube needs a home. And it might be a few days before, like I go take it out into with the rest of the tubes at the spoke shipping department. So yeah, sometimes those things live there.