Editing The Pen Addict 167/transcript (section)

== TWSBI Eco Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So shipping is so fast. Yeah. So I haven't ordered an eco yet, but I'll probably pick up a one or two. I want two of them. Uh, I'm going to try to two different ones just so I can monkey around with one. Um, I'll probably pick some up at the pin show this weekend. Great. Yup. So let's talk about that pin show. Huh? We got anything else we need to cover? We need to talk about another one of our friends.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, we do. Uh, aside from that, I think I'm, I've got everything taken care of. So it's all of my stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You've had a, you've had a, uh, a good pin week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, it's felt good, man. I had my hands covered in ink for a couple of days, you know, like just changing inks around and ripping nibs out of their sockets.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So proud of you. Can you imagine, you know how far we've come like in the last two years?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I know. I know. I think about it every time someone tells me they're listening from the beginning or something.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. We just had one or two people tweet us this week. I know I've had at least one say, Hey, I'm just on episode 10. Do I need to keep listening through? Well, I mean, they said they were going to listen all the way through and I was like, you know what? You will get a lot out of listening from the beginning.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. People, people ask me sometimes like, Oh, I've come across the show. Like, shall I go back? And it's like, I say, what I tend to say to people is if you can, you definitely should. Yeah. Because more than anything else, if you're kind of interested, but not already super nerdy about this stuff, you should go back because our nerdiness has increased tenfold, both of us, since when we began, especially with the amount of time we devote to fountain pens. When we started this show, what was that three years ago now? Mm-hmm. Neither of us really knew anything about them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, it is useful. If you're listening to this and maybe it's your first episode or you've been listening for a few weeks, I would really recommend going back and listening from the beginning. If anything, you're going to have a lot of podcasts to listen to, right? Yeah. Because we're like 167 episodes in, so it will last you a long time, which is always fun if you enjoy the show. Yeah. But you will learn a lot as we learned. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There's a lot of interesting things that happen in the first 30, 40, 50 episodes. Yeah. Like, you know, saying I'll never use a fountain pen to using fountain pens to taking a break. I still get emails for the taking a break episode. I need to go back and listen to that one sometime.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I was thinking about that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I still get emails on that episode. I don't remember the episode. It's in the late 20s, I think. Like, I don't remember the episode number, but I think it's in the late 20s. We'll have to go back and get it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, it was a sad episode.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Because I remember, I don't know, I was just talking about the show and was saying, you know, it's three years old, but it's only 167 episodes in because we took a break for a period of time. And all I remember was you were busy in life.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's what it boiled down to. And what's funny is now, as we totally go off on a tangent, is that I feel like every week I just feel so refreshed doing this show. Like, it's the first time. Like, I feel like I always, I've said it before, I feel like we're just getting started now and we're like on 167. Like, I just feel now that we're just like, we've, I guess we've hit our stride, but I feel like we're just really getting underway. And, you know, three years into it, which is a great feeling to have, to be honest. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We are in a very long stride here, my friend.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And that's how I like it. It's awesome.

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