Editing The Pen Addict 148/transcript (section)

== Travel Logistics ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So you're coming in Thursday. You'll be there way earlier. I'm going to be there than Myke. Um, so Myke's coming in.

'''Ana Reinert:''' So I can get the good room.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, you can get the good room. That's one thing we got to figure out. Cause all the rooms are in my name. So I'll have to sort that out. Um, but, and Myke and I will be in late Thursday evening. Um, so I'm thinking Thursday night, there's probably not going to be anything going on. Maybe we can meet up in the hotel bar or something like that. But I, I would be surprised if Myke and I got to the hotel before like 10 o'clock because I got to pick up someone else from the airport right after Myke lands. So it's kind of a two for one deal. So, um, we'll probably be there like around 10. And so if anyone's, if anyone's coming in Thursday, I think there's not a lot of people coming in Thursday, to be honest, most people are coming in Friday or Saturday. So on Saturday after the show is the big knock party. And I say big, it's really not. It's like our space is really small and we're just going to like show up and hang out and chit chat. But it's really just something that we did in the fall at knock and it worked really well. Had a lot of our friends and some of our customers come and just hung out. We, you know, just drank and ate and chit chatted and, you know, had like a, uh, pen show and tell and things like that. So this time we're going to, um, we're going to have starting at seven o'clock on Friday night. We're going to have a party at knock. And I got all the quotes for the buses today, Myke. So I'm going to get that. I'm going to get that booked. Um, it's not good. I'm not going to go full party bus, like with like neon and stuff. I'm going like, like business, like generic bus because they are super expensive, like way more expensive than I imagined. Um, so we'll have transportation, everyone from the hotel to knock, which you never know in Atlanta on a Friday night at six, between six and seven o'clock, trying to get everyone back and forth. It should only take about 20 minutes. It's not like it's forever away, but you never know with Atlanta traffic. Um,

'''Myke Hurley:''' we'll sing bus songs or something. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We'll sing bus songs.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So 99 bottles or something.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And there'll still be people driving. So, you know, other people can pick up and, uh, and help drive, um, as well. But most importantly, the bus will help everyone shuttle back from knock to the hotel, because we're going to have beer and we're planning on food. Um, I'm not totally a hundred percent decided, but it's probably going to be pizza. Yes. Um, we'll order, get all that brought in and, you know, we'll just have music and have fun. You know, we have a field note swap. If anyone wants to bring field notes to, to share or trade or do any of that, we'll have a raffle. Um, a bunch of our, our supporters for the party, such as Kara's customs and dudek modern goods have provided goods to give up for us to give away, to raffle off at the show. I mean, excuse me at the party. And, uh, it's just going to be a really fun hangout time. Um, everyone can see the shop at knock, um, see what we do there. And it's just kind of something we wanted to do for everyone. And hopefully, you know, I'm going to be able to get the Anderson's, there. Um, you know, I still might want to ask them. I keep alluding to the fact and I keep teasing. I'm like, yeah, I should probably ask y'all, you know, if y'all can come that night. So, um, I'll work on that. So it should be a really good, really good time, really good, fun crowd, a kind of a place where all like the pen addict people that have come to the show can come and mingle together. Um,

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was just thinking this episode must be killer for the people that ain't coming. I've just realized that it must be like, Oh, you're killing this guys.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm sorry. I feel guilty. I feel guilty about that. I do. I have like this guilt about that, but, um, we'll, we'll try to make a good product for everyone to, uh, to see what it's all about. And hopefully maybe next year they can come too. Yeah. So, so Friday night is the big party. If you're, if you're can only make it one night, you want to come Friday night. Um, even if you don't go to the pen show, come, come hang out with us at knock and we're going to have a good time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That's probably going to be the best hanging out time. Like the whole time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's like, if you want to talk to people and meet people, um, that you've only met online, that's going to be the place to do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, because Saturday after the show ends, we're going to record the live, uh, podcast and video. And I keep saying live. I mean, we're recording it live, but the biggest question of all is, are we going to have a live studio audience? And that's what we haven't defined yet. Also streaming live.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Ooh. I, we may still be able to do that audio video. Um, provided we have a good enough internet connection. Yeah. And so if, but yeah, that it should still be, we should still hopefully be able to hook that up, um, to make that work. So people will be able to tune in live as normal so they can hear us at the show, which I think will be a lot of fun for people, um, who can't make it. That would be great.