Editing The Pen Addict 135/transcript (section)

== Nakaya Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I agree. The Nakayas are better looking than this, and that's Nakaya money.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, that's something.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Plus, it has gold trim, you know? And we all know about how you feel about gold trim.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' If the cap... It has this weird, like, silver rhodium band in the middle of the pen, but the rest of it's gold. Which is... It's actually a little bit off-putting. That one band.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, okay. I thought that that was a demonstrator.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-mm. Oh, you think that's the ink window? Maybe that's the ink window. Okay. So, maybe so. It's hard to tell, but I think you're right, actually. I always get that. Yeah, in the one picture, I can tell. I think that is the ink window. Yeah. It looks a little bit odd there. I'd rather it just be solid orange, I think. But, yeah. If it was... If it didn't have the gold trim, I might have bought it. I might have jumped on it. In this form, I'm actually tempted, but it's just not perfect enough to spend that kind of money on it, like you say. Yeah, you don't want it. But a beautiful pen, nonetheless. And the numbering on the blind cap at the bottom of the pen is really cool. It's a very classic looking numbering on there. I like how they did that. So, that's pretty neat. Pretty neat. I became a more active Redditor over the weekend, Myke. Instead of wasting my time looking at cat pictures or cringe pictures or GIFs and wasting time on Reddit, I decided if I'm going to spend time on Reddit, I should use that time better and in the greater good. So, I created a new Reddit account. If you're a Redditor, you can follow me. My username is pen underscore addict.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I was just using that account to, like, browse all the pen boards. You know, there's fountain pens and notebooks and stationery and pens. And, you know, there's about 20 boards that I follow. And I'm trying to be more active and just answering questions and leaving comments and things like that. And I found a really amazing post last night of a soccer commentator named Nick Barnes there in the UK. Works for BBC Radio. He does his prep notes in the most amazing format that I've ever seen. So, have you had a chance to go through the pictures of these notes?

'''Myke Hurley:''' These are stunning.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, we'll have this in the show notes. This is at relay.fm slash pen addict slash, what are we, 135?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep, that's it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' If you don't check out anything else from this entire episode, if we drive you crazy about all this other talk, do yourself a favor and go click this link. It's amazing. He uses, you know, he's an announcer. So, he's announcing the game live. And, you know, he's doing his show prep and has all his notes about the players and the teams and the stats and everything. He has what looks like a big 8.5 by 11 hardbound notebook where he fills out the teams. He colors in the different kits they're wearing that day. He colors in, you know, the funniest thing is he colors the pitch in like the mowing pattern with the highlighter where it looks like the lawnmower on the pitch has, you know, made those stripes. He colors it that way. So, he uses the Statler Tripus fineliners to do all his writing. I exchanged a couple tweets with him yesterday. He uses the Stabilo highlighters to highlight everything. And he uses a fountain pen, looks like a pelican, to write in some of the bigger lines. And, you know, he colors in all the nationality flags of all the players. I looked at this for a good 30 minutes, like, expanding all these pictures and just kind of taking in all the details. It's really, really fascinating.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's insane. Like, it's way more than is necessary, you know? You know, like, really, like, just incredible. Really, really incredible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Like, a couple people were giving him grief, like, you know, if you're an announcer, you shouldn't have to write down all this stuff, you know, to remember all this. And he's like, that is so not the point. I do this because I enjoy doing it. And it's like art and a relief to me to do this. It's like an expression. So it's nothing but pure enjoyment for him to do this. So it's really fascinating.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He's, like, cutting and pasting, like, logos and stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, logos. Yep. Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's some kits as well. Like, this is just so beautiful. Like, it's so, you know, he's drawing the little flags. Like, it must be like a catharsis, you know? Yeah, totally. It's got to be. It's just got to be.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Really, really incredible.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This would be something I'd love to flip through one day. Like, if I had a whole book of this, I would totally buy a book of his finished product. Like, if they reprinted it, just to look at it, it's fascinating. If you can't tell, I'm really taken by this. I said in our show notes, I put, in my dreams, my notes look like this. And that's the truth.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, for sure, man. Like, really, these are something. There's something else. Like, really, really something else.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. So, I want to fire things up a little bit from, we've been talking about a bunch of links, follow-up notes, news, all that stuff. I want to talk about some products now, some specific products that have been a little bit polarizing, I guess is the right word in our little community. But why don't you talk about another one of our really, really good friends today.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' I do. I do. And I started to look at them one night. And then I was like, okay, you just got to stop until you can sit down and have time to really commit and play around with some of the new templates. So I started to. Then I was like, chill out for a minute and wait till you have a little bit more time to decipher all the new templates. So yeah.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome. Thank you, Squarespace. And thank you to our listeners for supporting us by using that. It really does. Squarespace is one of those that we get pinged at during the week. Hey, what was that code again for Squarespace? I'm going to build something. So it's really nice to get that support from all the listeners. So it's really great.

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