Editing The Pen Addict 562/transcript (section)

== Preview of the upcoming Chicago Pen Show and plans for a recap. ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I am, uh, I'm heading to the Chicago Pen Show at the end of this week. Jelly. Jelly.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want to go. I love Chicago.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's good. So, I'll be going in Friday afternoon. I'll get to the Pen Show, then leaving Sunday morning. My usual, my new routine's working well. So, I haven't been there in five or six years, I'm thinking. I have to go back and look and figure out exactly. Obviously, pre-pandemic. But I think it was even a couple years. Like, you know, more like 2018-ish. 2017, 2018. Something like that. So, I'm anxious to get back and see what the show's all about. See all my friends in the area. Yeah. Um, you know, check out all the fun stuff going on at the show. So, um, I see Edison has already come up with their show special like they did in Baltimore. That they, they got their hooks in me at Baltimore. And this one's just going to be a problem for me again. Like, I don't need another Edison pen after just buying one. But they're doing a Brockton shape, which is one of their smaller pens, which you know I like. Last one I bought was the Beaumont. They're doing this in a Jonathan Brooks material called Dragon Knight. You can imagine how cool this looks. It's very different dark shades, um, of blues. And lighter and darker blues. It has a translucent mint ink window designed specifically to show only the clear section of the converter. So, it looks like it's a built-in part of the pen. Like, this is, there's only going to be 15 at the show. Just like the last, um, you know, the Palomino Waltz at Sunset that I bought at Baltimore. So, I have no idea if I'm going to get this pen. I'm going to try not to. My goal is to not buy this pen, Myke. Will Brad pass or fail? Um, place your bets now. So, it's great looking. Um, I'm also going to spend some time with Plotter. Um, hanging out there, checking out all their stuff. Hopefully, I'm going to get my initials painted on my Plotter by their staff there. Which is something I wanted since San Francisco. Um, so, one of the, like, the creative director, Plotter, had some, some really nice, like, initials painted on their cover. And I've been talking to them about that. It's like, oh, how do, how do they do that? What materials do you use? You know, like, what specific paints? And in Chicago, they're actually going to have someone there physically doing that. Um, as, you know, like, an add-on. Like, you can pay to get that added to your new cover or your existing cover. So, I'm going to bring my Nero, Plotter Nero that I bought in San Francisco. See if I can get, uh, queued up for that. That's my plan for that. And I was also thinking with my Plotter. I don't really have it, like, you know, I saw the, um, the Edison pen, right? Like, I'm not really necessarily shopping for any pens. But I was thinking about my Plotter. And I just happened to run across someone's, I can't remember if it was an Instagram post or on Mastodon, um, about the Lamy CP1. And I've always loved the Lamy CP1. And I don't own one. And I'm wondering if that would be, like, a perfect permanent Plotter pen. Um, I did not mean that to be completely illiterative like that. But it's a, like, the, my Nero, my Plotter Nero has a pretty thin, uh, pen loop on there. And the CP1's a thinner pen. And if I could have a permanent kind of pen for that spot. Like, I'm always trying to, I keep a spoke pen in there a lot. I keep a spoke roadie in there a lot. You know, they're thinner traditional pens. But the fountain pens are usually too wide for that. And I'm thinking maybe I'll get a Lamy CP1 and get, like, a needlepoint nib grind. And that will be my official Plotter pen. Um, I don't know. I'm thinking about that for my pen purchase at the Chicago Pen Show. So, um, side note related to Lamy. And this is probably, like, a whole different topic. But we've talked about this enough recently. They put up a new, um, Instagram post on the Lamy Global page. Create your own Lamy Safari. What are they trying to tell us, Myke? They want you to buy lots of Lamy Safari. That's what they're trying to tell. Hey, if you buy three, you can mix and match. Or, or they should just make an orange Lamy 2000. All right. We're not going to get into that too much. But I was like, what are you? Okay, Lamy. Like, you're, you're, you're lining us up for something here. So, um, back to Chicago. Uh, Kimberly and Sarah, both who write for the Pen Addict, are going to be there. So, we're going to try to record something in person there. Maybe a friend of the show episode, uh, for Pen Addict members. Maybe just some fun silliness I publish. Who knows what we're going to do. But I'm going to bring my microphone. Um, we'll see. So, and we're just going to hang out. Have fun. Like, I'm just going to these shows to chill out and have fun, really. Talk to people. See things. Have a good time. Relax. Um, these have been pretty relaxing for me. Um, we'll try not to buy too many pens this time. I've, I've bought a lot. At the Baltimore and Atlanta Pen Shows earlier this year, we need to slow that roll a little bit. Um, where we're not managing our, uh, our acquisitions properly right now. So, we'll see if I can continue down that stretch as I link to all the things that I want to buy at the show. So, we'll see.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I'm very jealous of you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And if anyone's there, definitely, definitely pull me aside. Say hi. Interrupt me. Like, I'm very, uh, happy to talk to anybody. Anybody want to, want to chat and say hi. I hope you're there. If you have any questions, need any help at the pen show, I am, I am all yours. That's all I'm doing all weekend. So, uh, well, it's all set Friday afternoon, Saturday, not all weekend. I won't be there Sunday. So, definitely stop by, say hi, and, uh, let me know if I can help you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, we can look forward to a review next week of the pen show? Yep. We'll do a recap, uh, recap episode next week. All right. Until then, if you want to find Brad online, I guess Instagram's probably pretty good for some pen show updates. Instagram's good. Instagram.com slash penaddict. Uh, Brad is also a penaddict on Mastodon. He's on Mastodon.social. It's the server that Brad is on. He's at penaddict. You can find him there. Brad is on twitch.tv slash penaddict. Usually three times a week. I'm assuming not so much, potentially, when you're traveling. Although, I guess it won't interrupt too much, will it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, let me, let me go ahead and say this now. Next week, I have Grand Jury Duty. Oh, yes. My Twitch streaming is probably going to be zero next week, but I have a status page. Uh, penaddict.status.lol. Is that the correct link? Um, hit that up. I will let you know if I'm planning on streaming next week. Normally, I would, but Grand Jury Duty is probably going to take up most of my time next week, which stinks.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You would think so. You'd think so. Uh, penaddict.com, spokedesign.com for Brad's other work. You can find me. I'm at imike, mike.social, and Mastodon, and you can find my products at cortexbrand.com. Thank you to Pen Chalet and Enigma Stationery for your support of this week's episode. But most of all, thank you for listening. Until next time, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad. See you next time.

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