Editing The Pen Addict 610/transcript (section)

== Cooking and pizza ovens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm cooking, Myke. Indeed. So, we might as well talk about cooking.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Are you getting up to 950 degrees Fahrenheit?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thankfully, no.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. I have a few more things I picked up. And this is all, again, like this is all going to be reviews, giveaways, all kinds of stuff I'm going to use for like the blog and different things. So I definitely picked up the Retro 51 Turtle Rescue. I think this is one of the cooler ones that they released in a while. I talked about this on the show. So if you listened to last week's show, like I think I 100%ed my shopping list. So I think I got all the things I had planned on. So that's a great one. I haven't opened it up yet to use it. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do with it. It'll probably be a giveaway item because I tend to do the rescue pins as a giveaway item to also kind of promote the charities that they support, like I've done the Owl Rescue and other things like that. So it's a good way to put that out there and get some more eyeballs on it. So that's the way I think about a purchase like that. Like I've reviewed a lot of Retro 51s. I just reviewed a big shot recently. But I'll tend to like it'll be something new and different for me to want to review the Turtle Rescue. I would rather give it away and shine a light on what they're doing for that. And while I was grabbing that for my friends Marty and Kimberly, I picked up a Rickshaw Sinclair. You may have heard of this case, Myke. But this was the Ink Journal model. So my friend Tom Otto runs Ink Journal and he has an Ink Squid logo that he uses. And then this one was just in like this rainbowy color. I was like, oh, it's just on the table, just like calling my name. The last thing I need is another Sinclair. Like I get them all the time. Like Mark just like I'll go to the mailbox like on Thursday and there'll be like a Sinclair in there. But this kind of the one I bought is called Sorbet Squid.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it's just or Sorbet. Yeah, the color is called Sorbet Squid. That is a weird, weird name. I just like saying it and I like looking at it and like I like I got to figure out something to do with that. Like, again, that's probably something I would give away down the line or whatever. But it was that was one of those up got him type of situations where it wasn't on my list. But like, OK, I did have some room to to pick up a fun case like that. The Divine Pens Plus pen stands I had seen online and I knew they were going to be at at the show. And they're these really unique pen stands made from like different acrylics. They have different materials in them. And then they have like a little little bottle stand on there to rest your pens in. Or you could even put ink in there if you wanted. It'd be kind of a tight opening if you wanted to use it like an inkwell. But they're just really neat. And like the kinds I got, if you look up, we'll put a link into their site and you can go see. There's all kinds of different ones. They have things from like beach scenes and stuff like that until the ones that I bought were more like what you would see from an acrylic fountain pen pour as a base. Right. So like the swirls and colors and things like that. So I went more that route as opposed to like the scenes type of route. So those are really cool. I was excited to get that. And then I always tried to support some of the local, more local, like small makers there. So there was a book binder there, Plimpsest Design. They were from North Carolina. This was their first show. And they bound their own notebooks and brought them. So like that's one of those things is like I'm not going to be like a paper snob. I don't know what the paper is like. But I like the artwork and I like the style of binding that they used and things like that. So I bought some notebooks from that. And like, again, like all of this stuff, like I'm going to be giving away, you know, in various platforms as we go forward. You know, maybe I'll use one of those. Maybe I won't. But like I just like trying to leave a little bit of budget to pick up these random things like that that you see to show that you're not always expecting. When you when you walk in, like that's not something you're going to have on like a shopping list. Right. You're going to find you're going to find those things as you walk in and walk around and kind of see who's doing what and, you know, what makers are new to the show and things like that. So I always like to give them support and a shout out and things like that. It was super fun. So that was that was kind of the shopping list, I think. Like, honestly, like it's a lot, but not too much. Like I said, I just got one thing for me, which I'm super thrilled about. Like, I think that's how my personal shopping has gone recently. Like if I'm like dedicated to having like one specific thing at a show, that would be great. So we'll see. You know, who knows? Who knows how things will hold up in the future?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Was there anything you was tempted to buy but didn't pull the trigger on?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. My my friend John Tello at Hello Tello. He makes some really neat pins. I have a couple of his pins already. He made a shorter version of a pin that I actually put on Instagram. Someone asked me that like a similar question. Is there anything you saw that you wanted but didn't didn't buy for whatever reason? And it was that pin. So it's a it's a really neat shape that I wouldn't think would be comfortable or feel like great. And then I picked it up and I was like, oh, this is really nice. Like, I really like it. And the one he had like on his table is like purple and like a like a bright yellow chartreuse green ink window. And, you know, the cap threads on the back. But you like can't see the threads. Like I didn't even see the threads in the beginning. So it was really, really neat. So I did like that at the show. So that was kind of my that's on my mental list. Like one of these years mental list, like which is another great thing to go to pin shows. Right. Like you can't buy everything at a show. So you kind of look around and see what's up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You'd say overall very successful year at the pen show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Easily for me. Right. Like this is the one of the easiest decisions I make all years to go to the Atlanta pen show. It's very consistent. I wrote it up for for members this weekend after I got home. And I just I just noted how consistent the show is every year. You know, some people, you know, may not like the same things that I like. And of a pen show. So it may not be for them, but for me and my needs and the way I like to do things and, you know, have it be like a pretty chill, calm, great experience, you know, where it's like just the right amount of crowds and just the right amount of vendors and just the right amount of busy. Yeah, it's it's, you know, for me, it's kind of in that Goldilocks range because it's easy travel. Like I'm not exhausted getting there to begin with things like that. So, yeah, like very successful for me. I didn't hang around Sunday, so I don't know how the vendors were feeling, but I know between Friday and Saturday, like I only heard positive comments about the crowds and sales so far. So in general, like I could follow up afterwards and see like after overall how it went. But I had a pretty good vibe from the vendors as well.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What other pen shows do you have coming up this year?