Editing The Pen Addict 324/transcript (section)

== Sports Ball Discussion ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. It's really good. So it was cool. And Jason and I got to talk a bunch of sports ball. We're probably the two primary sports ballers in the Relay FM network. So there was lots of sports ball talk in that episode. I wanted to give a shout out to the Manuscripting Pod, which Les from Comfortable Shoes Studio just started. One of the things we talked about when I had her on, she handwrites her books, which blows my mind in a lot of ways, like the scope of that. And like Sarah that writes for the Pen Addict, she does the same thing. These kind of things impress me so much. She started a podcast on how she's doing all this. And it's mostly handwritten.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' John Contino, longtime friend who's blown up to like major league design proportions, finally launched his own podcast called The Nosecast. So he's talking about, you know, his story and how he came up through the ranks and all about his design. I'm a huge, obviously a huge fan of his design work and things like that. So he's only like four episodes into that show. So I want to give him a shout out. The Art Supply Posse is back, Myke. Did you know this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I did not know this until I saw it. Who knows?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So Anna handed it over to Anna. So Anna from Incantadora and Fountain Pen Companion and the internet, her and, oh, I forgot the other two hosts. They brought back the Art Supply Posse. So check back in your feeds. They just released the first rebooted episode, episode number 50. So that is now available if you want to hear about that. One of my personal shows that I listen to where I get a lot of life advice, shockingly enough, I listen to the Dave Chang show on the Ringer Network. He's a chef and world traveler and, you know, recovering everything. Like if something's gone wrong, Dave's probably lived through it. And he's building all these businesses now. And I get so much out of listening to him talk and how he's, you know, fights the demons that he has to deal with every day and just, you know, building these global restaurant chains and brands. And it's a real fascinating insight at building and creating things and fighting the demons that are fighting against you the whole way. So I get a lot out of that. And then the last one you put in here, which I want you to talk about this because this is new.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I wanted to shout out Make Do, which is a show that we've not spoken about in a while, which is hosted by Tiff Ahmet, longtime friend of the show we've had on the show before. And Julia Scott, who in case you don't remember Julia, Julia is part of the couple who came all the way from Sweden to, I think, the first time that we did the Panadict in person, like in front with an audience, maybe our second year in Atlanta, right? Am I remembering that correctly? Yeah. Yeah. So Julia and Tiff, they both do amazing art on their own. Like Tiff does a bunch of painting and stuff. And Julia, she does a lot of clay based stuff. Like she makes wonderful mugs with like these sick tentacles on the side of them. It's really great. But they have a show called Make Do, which we mentioned when it launched. I just wanted to shout out a specific episode. Like if you haven't checked out the show before, one of my favorite episodes was episode 10. It's called Ready, Set, Challenges. And they talk about setting challenges for yourself with creative projects. It is really great and encouraging to listen to as a show for any type of creative work, even though they do focus on like art based stuff. But no matter what type of creative work you may participate in, you can definitely like emphasize and feel supported by the stuff that they talk about. So I really love Make Do. So I think that people should check it out. And you should check out episode 10 if you haven't already.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think that's a recurring theme in a lot of my podcasts listening is I like to hear process stuff, right? I want to hear how you're doing things. So maybe I can learn how to do things better. How did you overcome the challenges that you've had in making things or putting words on a page or pencil to the page or keystrokes on a computer screen? I like to hear about those processes and challenges and difficulties because we can all take something away from that. And I tend to do that a lot.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good stuff. Hit us up with more. Myke Ink Dependence on YouTube. Shout him out. Okay. He does stuff. He does stuff. That's what he says. He does stuff. But no, Myke's been a guest on the show. You need to head over to the Ink Dependence channel on YouTube. Check out all his awesome videos. He did a whole knock shootout here not too long ago. And he's getting into bag stuff. You know where me and Myke spent like five or ten minutes talking about bags before we even put the show live today. So yeah, go check out Myke's reviews.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. I want to also thank Eero for their support of this week's episode. Eero have built the Wi-Fi system that they wanted to have in their own homes and they wanted to share it with you too. A fast, reliable connection in every room is what Eero can give you, even out to the backyard. The new second generation Eero includes a third 5 gigahertz radio. Eero makes it twice as fast as ever before. Whatever your Wi-Fi needs, Eero will blanket your entire home in fast, reliable Wi-Fi. The system sits flat on any surface. You just plug it into the wall with the included power adapter and you're ready to connect your Eero either via Ethernet or wirelessly. And then they also have the tiny Eero beacon. This is what you do. You plug these little things in. You can plug in as many as you want and expand coverage to all over your home. So you don't have to move to a different part of the house to get the fastest internet speed. The little Eero beacons will be able to provide you and blanket your home in that Wi-Fi. They also have a little light light in them as well, which is really cute. Having one router doesn't work anymore. You need, like light waves. Think of light waves, right? If you turn on a light in one room, it doesn't light your entire home, right? Because light doesn't travel through walls. Well, stuff can get in the way of Wi-Fi signals. So having a system which is distributed amongst multiple little pieces around the home, so like having the one big Eero and then the beacons, will make sure that you get great Wi-Fi enterprise-grade speeds all over your home. And it's so easy to set up. And Brad, I believe that you have an Eero, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I do. And I did not know what I was getting into when I got this, but I'm very impressed. So we talk all about my poor internet all the time. Yep. And like Eero doesn't make my speeds faster, but it makes my speeds reach the entirety of my house. So before I had it installed, I couldn't get really good internet Wi-Fi in my bedroom. It would basically bounce me on and off the Wi-Fi. Now when I, like the Eero app is what's blowing me away. So I can go into like my bedroom and check the speed from after I installed the Eero with the, what are the, what are the little things called you plug in the wall? The beacons. The beacons. It's the same speed in my bedroom now as it is in the living room. That's awesome. Where, yeah, where my router is, which is, it kind of knocked my socks off. I, cause I didn't think, I had no expectations, right? Because we talk about this all the time, like how frustrating it is, but it really like spread the internet coverage around my house to get the same speed, no matter what part of the house I'm in. The other thing in this app, I can see all the connected devices to, to the Eero and I can kick people off. Like when my, my kids are, you know, watching YouTube too much, I can just zap them right off the, right off the internet. I'm just kidding. But you can, you can, you can, you can set rules. Yeah. For each device just from this app, which I did. So like I can turn, you know, connectivity off to certain devices at certain hours of the day. It's a fascinating device. I didn't know everything that was involved with it till I started setting it up and now I can, I kind of can't stop playing with it. So I have all my, I have like my living room device and you can name all these devices in the app. I have the hallway beacon and I have the dining room beacon, you know, to spread out the, uh, the coverage throughout my house. The night lights come in shockingly handy. My, my wife was confused the first night we, uh, we turned it off and she's like, what is happening? I was like, Oh, there's these nightlights and you can change the brightness of them and you can turn them off if you don't like them. But you know, having kids, they like to have the nightlights in the hallways when they get up in the middle of the night. So I don't know. I've, I've been kind of blown away by it because I didn't know what this was like in reality, what it did. But once I've put it in place, I'm kind of hooked to it. Like I'm playing around in the app all the time. Like, you know, what can I do? How can I make it better? You know, is my speed good? You know, testing things out. So it's very cool. Very happy with it so far.

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