Editing The Pen Addict 171/transcript (section)

== Funny Story ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do you have time for a funny story?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I'm flying back from Vegas and I'm sitting, I think I'm sitting in the airport and I'm looking through Instagram and I posted, oh, it's like my goodbye Vegas post. You know, I had like the Paris Eiffel Tower, the hotel, we're saying goodbye Vegas, whatever. I get a comment in that thread about, I'm not looking at it right now, but the, the guy says something, you know, related to pens and, you know, oh, said, well, you're out there for a pen show. And I said, no, just for pleasure. And, uh, but you know, the Las Vegas pen show needs to be a thing. And then he replied back, said, by the way, this is Chris from work. I Googled best pens and I saw your name in the byline. And I was like, oh my God, this is really weird.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You've been discovered.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Several people, a lot of people at work know, but he's actually a pretty new employee. Um, so it was funny and I was like, oh my God, that's pretty crazy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's always scary when people find you, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So it was a trip, um, but I enjoyed it. He's a nice guy. And so, uh, now when I go back to work, we're gonna, we're gonna talk pens. I'm gonna have to bring him some pens to try out. So he's a pen guy, clearly. Yes. He's a pen guy. So that, that was, that was, uh, that was my funny story about, uh, Google and finding me. So I'm, I'm quite easy to find, um, if, if you're looking for me, I'm not hard. All right. So let's, let's get to your, uh, your ink list. What do you got?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mine is super simple. And any long time listener will know all of these, uh, Hiroshi Tsuku, uh, Fuyugaki and Konpeki. So the orange and the blue, and I'm adding Jeho Bon Emerald of Chivor in there, uh, because I think it's really pretty and I like it a lot. I have to say though, uh, well, I would want to qualify this a little bit. But so I picked up my Karas customs that I kind of modified, right. To use the other day. And I'm doing it right now. And the ink is not flowing very easily. Oh, it is 100%. Is it clogging up in there?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So that is a word of warning. Like I haven't used it for a couple of weeks. Like I'm trying it right now. I used it two days ago and no ink is coming out of this thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hmm. Okay. So yeah, that's how the, like the stormy gray was, um, for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But if I give it a little shake, right. I can get it flowing, but, and it's flowing fine now, but this is not a problem that I have with other pens that are sitting in here. Right. So I've just picked up the pro gear. Definitely haven't used the pro gear in the same amount of time. No issue. Flowing straight away.