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== Office Supplies ==


'''Jim Cantore:''' Yep. So, for my number one pick in the office supply draft, Brad Dowdy chooses the stapler.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, nice pick. That's a good pick.

'''Jim Cantore:''' So, my reasoning behind stapler at number one is everyone is always looking for a stapler in your office. They're very expensive. You know, it's a more pricey item in the office. It's more personal to people. Like, if people steal that or try to make off with it, you're going to... It's going to be a big deal if your stapler goes missing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because it's harder to get a new one.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Yeah. Because they're pricey. Pens are everywhere. Papers everywhere. I think the stapler is the most important office supply in, like, your general office environment. Just from a value perspective. I think it's, you know, there's some cost to it. I even... When I had my corporate job, I brought my own stapler. That's how important that item was to me. I had a personal stapler. And, like, I would have to hide it in my desk. Like, that's not one of those things you keep out on the desk. Because it was a nice stapler. And, you know, you're always copying things and printing things off. And, you know, you need some way to bind them. So, I just... I think stapler is the clear number one choice in the draft of office supplies.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Stapler is very good. Stapler was on my list. It didn't rank as highly, but I didn't think of it in the way that you did. So, I'm rearranging my personal list. And I'm going to... My pick, my number... So, the number two pick, is something that is not rare because of the cost. It's just rare because people don't tend to have them. But everybody wants them when they're around. And that is highlighters.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Ah. That's a great pick. Like, I mean, for an office, yeah. You got to, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, oh, man. I just burned through highlighters in the marketing job. Because I don't know why this is. But the only effective way to, like, read long-form copy is to print it. You got to print it. And then you can highlight it up. And what I do today is if I have long-form copy, I turn it into a PDF. And I bring it into a notes app. And I sit with my Apple Pencil. And I highlight stuff. There is just something about that idea of, like, sitting with it and marking on it that you're more able to kind of, like, pick things out. So, when I was, before I'd send an email communication or whatever, or I was looking over copy from the advertising agency, I'd print it out. I'd highlight it up. I'd scribble all over it. So, highlighters, number two.

'''Jim Cantore:''' I think very highly of the highlighter. In my own personal top five, I had highlighter listed. So, this is a good pick. And, you know, you actually stole one from me there. So, pick number three in the office supply draft. Brad Dowdy selects the post-it note.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Ooh. You took it from me.

'''Jim Cantore:''' I think it's an absolute mandatory office stationary item to have.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's the only way anything gets done. It's post-it notes.

'''Jim Cantore:''' They're all over your desk. They're all over your monitor. You scratch a note. You take it over to your friend's desk. You know, you leave your manager a note when he's on his three-hour martini lunch. When he comes back, hey, come see me. You know, it's not an email or a text. It's a post-it on his keyboard, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Um, I think, you know, post-its and secondary to that, you know, it's yellow post-it. But I think, like, pink post-it, I mean, that's very highly sought after in the office environment. If you have pink post-its, you know when the office supply cabinet's getting filled or you know the person making the purchases. So, you can get something besides standard basic yellow post-its. So, I think that's a mandatory must-have item in the office.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, let me just say at this point, speech bubble post-its, thought balloon post-its, no place for me. I have no desire. All I want is a square, maybe the big rectangle ones. But, like, I just want a post-it note that has straight sides and four corners. Like, that's all I ever want from a post-it note.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Yeah. We don't need the Japanese scenery laser cut post-it that's been making the rounds on Twitter. And, like, on Reddit, I saw on Reddit this thing had, like, 80,000 upvotes. It's amazing, not at the office.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let me tell you, I looked at this, right? You know what I'm talking about. And all I could see, yeah, all I could see was the impracticalness of it all. Because as some of these post-it note things are, I mean, how am I going to find this? I mean, it's got to be in my mention somewhere. I need to find it.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, I can put it in the show notes.

'''Jim Cantore:''' We'll link it in the show notes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But as I was, like, looking over it, it's, like, all I can see the whole time is, like, every time you get further down, you have less of a post-it note. Because, like, the building that is being, like, chunked out of the post-it note block is just taking away from the post-it note that you have. They're very beautiful, but not usable.

'''Jim Cantore:''' Plus, how much does that thing cost? Like, I have no idea. I never looked that far.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, I looked at it.

'''Jim Cantore:''' It's got to be, like, $20 or something like that, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I figured, I think I would quite like one, but purely as just a thing to just pull all the post-it notes off. Like, not to actually use, but just, like, to... Oh, I would empty it out immediately. Yeah. Like, because I don't want to wait.

'''Jim Cantore:''' I would just flick... Yeah, no. I would just flip through the whole thing with my thumb and then rip it all out to make the scene, then have a stack of paper.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.