Editing The Pen Addict 207/transcript (section)

== Jenny's Review ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. So, very cool. So, you wanted to talk about our good friend Jenny's Sweet Tooth review?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I just wanted to mention it and point people to it in case they haven't seen it for the photography. Yeah, she's out of hand. It's in the levels that Jenny reaches photography wise with her reviews of the Field Notes issues just continue to get better and better. Like, my favorite points on this review is when Jenny is showing the Sweet Tooth colors in context with all of the other colors that have been used. So, the green belly band is the same green as the soybean from the national crop on the inside. And then she shows all the yellows, all the blues, and all the reds together. That's my favorite part. But just all in all, the photography, it's just absolutely, absolutely incredible. And it's worth going to just to take a look at that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, definitely visit it. This is, to put something together like this is a lot of work. Just for one single post on one single blog. It's really cool. She did a great job setting it all up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Photographing it. Reviewing it. Again, yeah. She does awesome stuff. So, you should definitely go see Three Staples. And we'll have to see about getting her on the podcast sometime, shouldn't we, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I agree with that. I agree with that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I also wanted to just ask you the question of what's in the box. You posted a picture on Instagram that said Top Secret. And it's like a bunch of bubble wrap stuff. And I am just too nosy. And what is all this madness here?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You should have watched my Periscope earlier today. Oh, yeah? Because, so I took that picture three days ago. That stack of stuff is in the exact same state that it was when I took that picture. I have a stack probably eight or ten inches tall of an order from JetPens. And that's probably as much as I can say. It's all JetPens stuff that's coming soon, if you will. So, this is me getting ahead of the game. Adding to the monstrous stack of reviews that I have to do. And, unfortunately, the bubble wrap. I could go take this picture again right now. Because it has not been touched since I received it. So, it's just another one of those stacks I have to work through, Myke. Busy man. Keeping me busy at Pin Addict LLC or whatever it's called. Just all this free stuff all the time. Free stuff, free stuff. Working it, man. Working it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But, got to get them reviewed. Got to keep them going. Busy boy. Yes. All right. You got some Ask TPA for us?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. We got a bunch. So, we'll see if we can get to all of it. We maybe can. We can probably fly through some of it quicker than others. Because there's some I want to elaborate on. And there's some I can get through quicker. But this first batch. So, our questions are split up in two halves. One is a bunch of Slack questions that I got out of the podcast channel in our Slack room. If you want access to our Slack room, it's available to anybody and everybody. You just have to get me an email address I can send the invite to. So, get me on Twitter. Send me an email. Facebook. Whatever.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's no link anymore. There used to be a link. The link doesn't exist. Now, you have to go through Brad. Which I think is maybe the first kind of line of vetting. Maybe.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. And I've never turned anyone away. Just in case. But it's just instead of having it. It's gotten so large. Instead of just having it wide open. We'll just have this one little step. You got to make the effort to send me an email. Say, hey, I would like an invite to the Peninnoc Slack room. And then I send it to you. So, that's it. So, this is a bunch from the Slack room. So, I want to be sure to get these in for sure. So, Kvilhana. You know, we have Twitter style usernames in there too. So, wants to know about our summer plans and which shows you and Myke are planning on attending. I'll let you go first because you're attending a show that's not a pen show. It's not even a show. But what are you about to do?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I'm going to Barcelona this weekend. I'm going to Primavera Music Festival. I'm going to be seeing Brian Wilson.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He's performing as part of his kind of 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds. Have you ever seen him before? Yeah. I know how big a fan you are. Yeah, this will be my fourth. Okay, cool. I've seen him twice on his own. I've seen him once with the remaining Beach Boys. Massive, massive fan. Yes. So, I'm very looking forward to that. And then I'm going to be off to WWDC.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just after that. So, the week after we go out to San Francisco. I haven't got any pen shows planned. Maybe I'll swing by London. We're going to talk about that, right? As we spoke about last week. So, we might maybe try and get a small London crew together and roll up to the London pen show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're going to have the desk of Adam on next week as our special guest. So, we'll get some questions for him about London and do it up like we did with Tessa. So, yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, that would be awesome. Aside from that, no. I mean, I am really tempted to do DC. But I don't think I can make it work this year because I've got some other travel in August. Yeah. But I think next year I've got to do DC.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, I will be at the DC pen show in August. Which is like the first week of August. Then I will be at the San Francisco pen show towards the end of the month. And between now and then, I'm just working my tail off at Nock. And I own the pen addict stuff. So, getting, you know, making sure all my business is in order. Getting everything straight for the summer. Because I'm going to be busy this summer just with family stuff. You know, the kids are out of school at the end of this week. They're off for about nine weeks. We end up doing a little bit of traveling. My parents live one direction. Her parents are in another direction. And so, we just kind of bounce around a lot during the summer. Between that, I'm going to be up the road at Nock. We are cranking on all cylinders right now. And we'll have some more news to share towards the end of the month. About, you know, getting our house in order, if you will. And getting everyone the cases they want. So, that's my focus. The next two months. Then August, I'll be traveling to two pen shows. So, it's going to be busy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' What do you think is the chance that DC would be interested in a... In a live episode of the Panadict? Zero. Okay. Too big?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Too clueless. Too big, too clueless. Alright, well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It would be such a hassle. We would have to do it completely off-site. And just completely ourselves.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nah, it doesn't sound like fun.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, next year, I'll probably swing by. Yeah. To hang out for a couple of days, maybe. Mm-hmm. Yeah, that'd be cool. Get-togethers or whatever, but maybe no live show. Right. But, you know, I have thought about, and we have thought about, like, at some point, taking this show on the road, as it were. Yes. So, we're thinking about that. You know, where else could we do it? I would really like to do something, maybe East Coast or something like that, just so we can try and get some different people that can't usually make it out to Atlanta or whatever. So, we'll see. We'll see in the future.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Something we always talk about. It's always on the table. So, keep thinking about it. All right, RoboGym wants to know, wants us to talk about what makes some pin makers a little boring, so to speak, and why they don't get much coverage comparatively. So, I mean, this is a really, really long, convoluted question that could be answered in so, so many different ways. But I think these days, it boils down to what brands are embracing, like the social media aspect of things, like historic brands, like Parker is the first thing that comes to mind. Why are they boring and why don't they get much coverage is because they choose to be boring and not look for coverage.