Editing The Pen Addict 184/transcript (section)

== Moleskin Notebooks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I do like the gray of this 602 the best. And on any of these, what you can do, Myke, and what I've started to do is you can buy extra packs of erasers, even though the erasers aren't very good. But you can change the color. So, like, my 602s have orange erasers on the end of them now. So, it looks really cool. It looks really cool. You know what's not really cool?

'''Myke Hurley:''' What?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Someone sent me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, come on. This is cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This was pretty cool because I had never seen this. I don't know how I'd never seen this because I'm kind of an internet stalker like that. And someone sent me, hey, have you seen Myke's very first picture ever posted on Instagram? And that, it was 269 weeks ago. So, what's that? Four and a half years or something? No, five years and five plus years.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All it says, it's a picture of some handwriting, some notebooks, and Myke saying, I love a moleskin.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Explain yourself.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Five years ago. Right? Well, okay. Three years ago. What did you say about fountain pens?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I know. I'm totally with it. Hey, I've said it before. I've said it again. I started the blog on a moleskin. The pen addict first reviews for probably the first couple months were in a moleskin reporter notebook. They absolutely were. Which, actually, that looks like kind of what you have there. That's the reporter.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have a reporter. I have the original. What do they call the original? I don't remember. I don't know. Then I have one of the softcover sketchbook ones, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, the huge softcover ones. Those were always my favorite. I love the softcover. Yeah, I still have some of these floating around the house somewhere. But I just, I got the biggest trip out of this. Because, number one, I was surprised I hadn't seen it. And then, number two, just the whole context of it. You know, all these things come back to haunt us all these years later. And I just wanted to make sure I shared that with everyone. Because I have certainly fallen on my sword several times. So, you know, I thought I'd do the same for you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But, yeah, it's fun to me, though, whilst maybe not the best. It's fun to me that it is a paper, pen and paper related. Instagram was my first one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. That's very interesting in itself, right? Yeah. Because that would be pre-podcast.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, two years before.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, easily. Easily, easily. So, I don't know. I wanted to share that because that was pretty cool. Someone brought it up. Also, on Twitter, some kind of changing course here real quickly is there's a really cool campaign that was tweeted out to me yesterday, the other day before. It's called Write for Your Rights. It's done by Amnesty International. We're going to put the link in the show notes. I thought this would be cool for everyone to check out who's a listener of this podcast. It's basically a letter writing campaign for different cases that Amnesty International is taking on in trying to impact change in different cases. People have been wronged mostly from a human rights perspective. And I was reading through a bunch of these last night. And I'm definitely going to write some letters on these different cases on the behalf of some of these people that Amnesty International is supporting. And I just wanted to mention that because I know we have a bunch of letter writers in our midst. So this is a cool thing to send some letters to. And we will have the link in the show notes. So I'm going to have to pick this up because I think I'm going to I don't know if I'm going to get like full bore into letter writing, but something like this I can definitely get behind.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Put your nice pens and paper to good use.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. And there's some really good cases you can go read about these things. I'm actually familiar with one or two of the people in there, especially Albert Woodfox, who was I'm from Louisiana and the huge penitentiary penitentiary. There is Angola, which is famous for lots of not good reasons. And that was one that really struck a chord with me. So check this out. We'll have the link in the show notes for y'all to send some letters to and, you know, take a look at some of these cases and see if we can impact some change ourselves. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Should we take our final break?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Maybe something we can write these letters with.