Editing The Pen Addict 315/transcript (section)

== Twitch Stream ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' I've never heard of Dark Star before. The first time I did hear of them was watching Brad's wonderful Twitch stream, twitch.tv slash penaddict. And, of course, there is a YouTube channel as well, and I'll put the links for those in the show notes. I'm just going to do everything I can to continually promote this for Brad, because he won't do it. And the other thing is, I am genuinely getting a lot of enjoyment out of watching Brad's stationary-focused streams and the accompanying YouTube videos. I watched an entire 90-minute video yesterday on YouTube, kind of throughout the day, which was just the stream that Brad did, where he was showing off some products and talking about the Dark Star notebooks. So you're referencing them. You're just referencing them. You were also showing off those other ones with the wonderful WAC packaging, which looked cool. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so we'll actually talk about the stream a little bit more here on the next topic. All right. The pen and pencil I'm bringing, the Cron Dash Fixed Pencil, which is one of my favorite items, period, but it's kind of the perfect travel item because it's a pencil that has a built-in sharpener and lead protection, all built in one. So I love, that's one of my favorite products ever made is the Cron Dash Fixed Pencil. It gets so much use by me. And then for a pen, I'm taking a shown design pen just because the Fisher Space Pen refill travels very well. It's pressurizing to refill. And I actually like using that pen in the small pocket notebook. So those are two good pocket notebook choices, you know, to write it with the fixed pencil and the ballpoint pen. And I found out yesterday, I'm apparently bringing two shown design pens because my wife saw me writing with the Lisa Franklin. And she said, ooh, what's that? And I said, and then I explained it to her. She's like, well, can I take it on our trip? I'm like, sure. That's, yeah, that's all yours now. So she's taking that one, I'll take one with a little clip because I'm clipping it into the Notco Sepolo, which is kind of the perfect little travel pouch for me. It doesn't hold too much, right? It's going to hold my notebook. I'll carry some note cards in it and I'll carry this pencil and pen in there. And they both have clips, so they sit in there nicely. And it fits in my pocket. Like I've carried this little pen envelope case more than I ever thought I would. And it's good, you know, like if we're out on the town and have little receipts and things, you know, I can stick them in there or tickets or whatever. You know, it holds a little bit more than just the notebook and pen. So that's kind of it. Like everything is going to fit in that case and that case can fit in my pocket. So I'm pretty content with this setup. So am I missing anything? Am I going to be lacking? Apparently now I need to bring a Lamy Safari because I will bring that just in case I get an orange ink cartridge. So I'll figure that out next.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's not going to be very difficult for you to buy a Lamy Safari in England. Yeah, but I don't need to buy a Lamy Safari in England. Okay. I'm just saying that like if you didn't necessarily want to bring one or even if you forgot to bring one, they're literally everywhere. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So one of the questions I got asked a lot about this trip, and this is one of the Ask TPA questions, which might be the only Ask TPA in this episode, Myke. We saved them all for next week. This is from our friend Yevgeny. Aside from the wedding, what are you looking forward to the most about going across the pond? Any golf? If not, why not? Frisbee golf counts. So number one, Frisbee golf does not count. Like I'm, you know, I'm a big fan of my, my, my hippie friends that, you know, want to drink beer and get blazed on the Frisbee golf course. And that's great. That's a great event. That is not golf. I will not be playing golf because I'm most looking forward to spending time with my wife. Seeing the sights. This is a side venture for our 20th anniversary. So our 20th wedding anniversary was last year. So this is kind of our, in conjunction with trip, you know, who get to come to Myke's wedding and then get to spend time around London. We're going to do the big, we're going to hit the big sights, you know, because we don't have two weeks to spend. So we're going to do the super touristy stuff, you know, like Tower of London. It's probably the top of my list. Victorian Albert Museum is at the top of my list. Buckingham Palace, you know, just seeing the grounds. I know it won't be open while we're there. Oh, the British Museum.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The British Museum is so great because it's everything that we saw, you know, during our time as having an empire, which is, you know, it's terrible. Some of the stuff probably should be elsewhere. But for the time that we have it, you may as well go and enjoy it because the collection of the British Museum is incredible. Like, I think this is still the case, but at least it was the last time that I went there. And when I kind of was growing up as a kid, the first thing you see when you walk in, like in the kind of entrance hall is the Rosetta Stone. Oh, nice. It's just like we have so much stuff we can afford to put something like the Rosetta Stone in the lobby. So there's a lot of really incredible artifacts in the British Museum. And, you know, I don't want to get political on it. I don't know the state of everything. Like, please don't hate on me. I just love this museum. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know those things either. But I'm a big museum guy, so I'll be in the right place. So you can assume I'm doing as much touristy stuff as possible since it'll be our first time over there and we want to hit the big stuff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Would you say, Brad, that there is a possibility that you might go and look at Trafalgar Square, London Eye, Tower Bridge?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'd say those things are highly likely.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is an in-joke right now for me and Brad, which you have to wait about six weeks to understand. But when you know, you can come back here and you can find it funny as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, they're all right next to each other, so it should be easy, right? Apparently.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We're the worst.