Editing The Pen Addict 298/transcript (section)

== Atlanta Show ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. Yep. So, if I don't have a ton by Atlanta, I'm going to have worse problems than showing up to the show without a seat case. So, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' table meaning that they will sit and like kind of captain a table for the night and then we'll sit around maybe six or eight people around the table to come and talk with them and learn from them for like between 10 and 15 minutes and then we make them get up and move the attendees make them get up and move to the next table to go learn from the next so we ended up with six tables and it was the perfect sized event because in san francisco it became so large i was yelling between two rooms and moving people between two rooms and it was kind of a mess but even though it went off like everyone loved it this was a little bit more in sync as far as moving it and the people who hosted the table i'll give them a quick shout out it's martin ferguson jim rouse dan keller dan don community member chris roth from right notepads veto grippy from story supply oh and dan keller's from good made better jim rouse from franklin christoph and martin ferguson from martin's pens so great great people it's perfect right because martin can talk about vintage pens and repair jim rouse can talk about nib grinding dan keller can talk about manufacturing with his pinwheel products dan don can talk about inks and nibs and paper and how they all work together and chris roth and veto both talk about notebook production and paper qualities and printing so it was just fantastic these these people just did a wonderful job the people who were moving around the mixer had a great time and uh it was a really really fun event um i don't want to say it went off without a hitch but it feels like it went off without a hitch right i had a everyone seemed to have a good time have a good time you know there was you know we were a little bit tight on space but we made it work you know we just kept stealing chairs that we probably weren't supposed to steal and you know that's just kind of what you do at a pen show you just kind of make it happen and uh

'''Myke Hurley:''' it was fun so that was fantastic that there is a show that i will be at at some point where you're able to do this because it sounds like a really fun thing like i was thinking about it because i saw some of your instagram stuff and i was like there's no way i could host a table because i just i i'm not confident enough in my knowledge right but like i would love to participate like to go and talk to these people uh right and kind of find out more about what they do i was thinking like if brad asked me to host a table what could i even what would i even be able to talk about i feel like i would spend like the majority of the time being taught by other people who were just sitting there but i think it's a really fun thing and i hope that i can i can see it in action

'''Brad Dowdy:''' at some point yeah so i don't know where else we'll do this again i don't know what other shows will have the opportunity to do this and where it would work well but whenever we we do we will let everyone know but and it's a fun event you should try to go to um you know if you've if you want to learn more or just hang around people um you know with similar likes and tastes and that kind of rolls into the saturday night event which i kind of felt like you what you were just talking about the pen show after dark event sponsored by kenro industries is just really a hangout and get together where a bunch of us sit at like the similar tables we sat at for the pen mixer we just came and hung out and talked with people who wanted to you know talk about the pen show and talk about what pens you have and what type of paper or you know just various things it was just more of a concentrated uh you know group of all of us pen addicts all at one time like away from the bar to where we can all be kind of more together and so i've been to these plenty of times um at different pen shows and i'm always just hanging out and you know talking to carrie mixing and mingling having a drink whatever and for some reason i this time was i don't know if it was different or better or what but i just sat down at a table and talked to a bunch of people and we just chit chatted back and forth about whatever like some of them wanted to know about like my business stuff other times we were just talking about pens and i had the best time just like sitting down and chatting i never stop when i'm at a pen show right i almost never sit down the entire time at a pen show and that was one of the few times where i could just stop and talk to people with like without having to worry about anything else other than the people in front of me and i just had an awesome time it was uh it was really cool and tony in the chat room reminds me that that worked out perfectly on saturday night mike because there was a kid rock concert in town like two blocks away so this seemed to be one of the hotels of choice so the bar the bar was very very packed that night so um it was kind of right so you

'''Myke Hurley:''' weren't in the bar right so like you had your own little chill area away from the kid rock oh my gosh it was kind of amazing like kid rock i'm not shaming you like i'm not trying to do that but like i i can imagine it being a little bit of a rowdy bunch is yeah mostly a different crowd different

'''Brad Dowdy:''' crowd but yeah it was fun i mean nothing nothing stupid happened but uh of course it was uh but it was nice to have our own space and i just i didn't realize until after that event how little i stop going at a pen show like i never have time i feel to like just stop and and take it all in and i got to that night and that was like one of my personal highlights right just being able to sit and talk with people you know we do that at the bar you know most nights but it's always loud and raucous not necessarily but you know it's hard to hear and things like that this was just i don't know i really enjoyed just sitting and hanging out and talking with people so that was fun i it's been a while since i've been to a show where i met so many new people um atlanta's usually like that san francisco's like that because it's a cross country right so not everyone makes the trip so you know it's it's a good place to meet new people but this show i got to meet just all kinds of people i've talked to online and never met before and a lot of vendors like chris i mentioned before from right notepads that guy's awesome like i i said in our show notes i'm gonna read this i usually don't read right off our show notes i said chris roth is a national treasure this guy will end up with a statue somewhere even if it's inside his own print shop that's that's what i he's like that kind of like outgoing gregarious character right i mean he's a character in like all the best ways and oh by the way he makes like the best notebooks and printed goods on the planet right so it's this really interesting mix just watching him go at it all the time and he helped me out a lot at the pen mixer he you know held down a table bought a brought a bunch of printed goods to be able to talk about and it was just awesome to finally meet him and we talked together we've talked online for years but to get him to meet him in person it was pretty cool and then he also had a table like right across the aisle from us you know kind of at an angle in in the cool kids room so i got to pick up a bunch of new notebooks from him um he did so he was showing off some some printed pads where he was like really happy with like the letter pressing technique he used so just getting to listen to talk to someone who's so passionate about like what they do it was really cool so

'''Myke Hurley:''' sounds like we've convinced him to come out to atlanta chris sounds like i know i know i don't know if

'''Brad Dowdy:''' we can i don't know if we can get him on a plane he said he's done dc before but i'd never seen him there so it must have been pre our time there and uh he's done baltimore but uh he said he had so much fun at this show he'll probably just stick with baltimore that's his hometown that's where right is so right we'll see um you know and he uh he definitely paid out on the the goldfield free drink chips that they sent uh-huh in the mail so if you're a subscriber you got you get subscriber extras and the last set was the goldfield um notebook set and with it came like a little plastic chip it said good good for one free drink at right notepad so he pretty much carried around a

'''Myke Hurley:''' 12 pack with him at all time that's really fun i like that that's really really good yeah so it was