Editing The Pen Addict 267/transcript (section)

== Meetup Plans ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' But yeah. So let's talk about meetup real quick. In the past, we've been able to commandeer a room just to do some a quick gathering of saying hi and door prizes and sweating it out in the sauna room that they tend to give us every year. We're not going to have any of that this year. So Friday night will definitely be a big bar meetup night. So there's nothing official planned. I don't have any giveaways or prizes. Maybe I can score some things while I'm there. But there's going to be no official like pen addict party. But we will do a meetup and that's going to be Friday night because Saturday night has a bunch of other stuff going on. And Friday night, the schedule looks open. So, you know, once Myke and I are done, we'll try to do I'm guessing this, Myke, we'll try to do our recording early. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My plan is we do it straight as soon as we finish the show. Like we just head up to the room, record the show, and then we'll be free for the evening.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So Friday night plan on being a big bar get together night. That's that's the plan. I do have to work Friday night. I have to write the newsletter. So I might have to vacate for a little while. I'll see. I've done it where I've gone up late and wrote it and gone to bed. I've done it where I've gone up early and come back down to the bar. So we'll just got to just have to play it out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I can do this in shifts, Brad. Right. Like we record the show. You go away. I edit and post. I come down. You go away. I'm right. Like we can do this in shifts.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Because I like getting it done early. So I don't have to worry about it the rest of the night. Because if I don't if I do it late, I'm worrying about it. And like all of a sudden it's 11 o'clock and I haven't started and I got a couple hours worth of work. I'm going to be a dead person. You saw me. You've seen me pass out in the bed with my computer. I've seen it every year. It's not a pretty thing. So I discovered this plan in Chicago. You know, if I get something to eat, go knock it out and I can be done by like nine o'clock. Well, then I can just have the rest of the night to, you know, hang out at the bar and be a normal person. So Friday, we will definitely be hanging out and partying at the bar and sharing pens and paper and all that stuff. At some point, this is probably the least amount of sleep I get at a show because it's so busy. But at some point, we will go to bed because Saturday, it's usually crazy. Like you don't know what time it is. The people are nonstop from open to close. You know, we'll get someone to bring us lunch. And Saturday is just kind of a nutso day. Like it's really crazy. So I'm trying to mentally prepare you for that. It could all fall flat depending on how the show goes. If it's anything like previous shows, it's going to be crazy. If this show has a new meta, then I don't know what the results are going to be. But I anticipate it will be busy. And then after the show, Saturday is the Susan Worth Memorial, which I am definitely attending. Yeah. So if any of you would like to come, it's at the show. They'll be just doing some, I don't know if they're going to have like a video montage thing, but they're just going to allow people to say a few words. You know, Susan's tables will be set up in Memorial. I think it's a good time for a lot of us to get closure on Susan's shocking passing earlier this year. And, you know, this is the biggest and best way to do it to get everyone involved. So that will be Saturday night. And then I know Myke and I have a dinner to go to Saturday night. And we should be back at the bar, though, after that, I would imagine. But Saturday will be... You can always assume that every day ends with back at the bar. Every day ends with back at the bar. And there will always be people at the bar. And I hope this place has a good bar. Because the other DC show had a great bar set up. I loved it. Even the... That's one of the... DC and LA have been a couple of places where the bartenders remember me. Which is good and scary. So this is a new hotel, new setup. So I hope the bar area is good. From pictures, it looked pretty good. But we'll see. There will always be something going on at the bar during pen shows. It's the primary meetup area. If you're going to meet anyone, say meet me at the bar. And they'll probably be there. So as insane as this trip already sounds, we still have to work Sunday. But that's a pretty chill day. I have one meeting slash interview to do Sunday morning. I don't think you have any plans. I don't have any other plans. Just plan on working. And it's pretty chill once you get to the afternoon on Sunday. I remember it being busy early and midday Sunday. But I remember the afternoon calming down. That's when I got to shop a little bit last year.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Was Sunday afternoon. So yeah. All in all, I love DC as a show. I just, you know, we're going into the great unknown.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm looking at photos here. And the bar looks fantastic in this hotel.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It looks huge. I thought the same thing. Yeah. I thought the same thing. So I hope it looks good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That looks really, really cool, man. I was just looking at it now. Like it looks, it looks really nice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like it looks like there's tons of space. Once the hotel was decided on, that's the first thing I checked. I was like, okay, this will work. I remember saying that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, like we say like the back at the bar thing. Like honestly, I don't think I have more than one pint of beer for the entire evening. It's more that it's just like, it is where everybody congregates and everyone's hanging out, you know?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Let's be honest. This is where our crowd likes to go.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like this is what we do. And, you know, it's not because of you or me. It's because these people that come to these shows that are our age and our, you know, levels of pen collecting and purchasing, you know, we tend to like our beverages and our food and what better place to hang out at a pen show than at the bar. So yeah, it's a, it'll be a, it'll be a packed house. I'm sure it'll be pretty awesome. That's, it's the best part of the show to be perfectly honest. And I'm like you, I'm not a big drinker. Like if I've had three beers in an evening, that's like a lot. So where I'm not saying at the bar, meet me at the bar because I need to get my drink on. It's because I want to hang out and talk with people.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, definitely. Definitely.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And it's also good that the bar scene is at night because then you can't go drunk pen shopping. That's always a bad idea. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's good that those things tend not to happen at the same time. I mean, theoretically they could, but that would probably be a bad idea. Yeah. I'm not sure that would, I mean, it might be good for vendors.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Actually be good for business. So yeah, I hope the bar is open all day while I'm working and y'all come see me. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. We should do that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just don't, just don't bring, don't bring me drinks at the table cause I won't drink them. So what are you shopping for, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So I've been thinking about this. There's quite a, there's quite a few things on this list, but like, I'm not expecting to buy maybe more than two things, honestly. Um, right at the very top of the list and I'm really going to try my best to walk away with one of these is the new Canalea pens. Haliacala. Haliacala. Oh my God, Brad, help me. I can't say it. No, that's good enough. Haliacala. That's super cool. Yeah. Haliacala. Silhouette. The new one that we spoke about last week. Like I can't stop looking at pictures of this pen. So like this is, this is really like strongly on my list as something that I would be disappointed, like really disappointed if I don't leave the show with one of these. Um, cause I really love it. Uh, I want to take a look at some Aurora pens in more detail to, just to use them. I don't feel like I've really used them and I kind of want to get what the big deal is. So that's something for me. I have no intention of buying, but it's something that is on at least like my window shopping list. Um, I'm going to be picking up the M90 from you, which I'm very excited about. And outside of that, there's kind of two, two things that I'm going to be keeping an eye out for. Um, I've wanted a new Sailor Pro gear for a while because I love that pen so much. I just want another one of them, but I don't want to buy any of the standard color additions. I want one of the special additions and there are so many special additions that I'm going to be on the lookout for something cool that catches my eye. Cause I'm sure that there will be some available for sale, right? From someone.