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== Self-Defense ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it can serve as a weapon. If you have a intruder into your home.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. See, I, I can't remember the timeline, but I have one. Did you know that?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I did not know that. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I haven't spoken about it. I have one here. I have a silver aluminum one that's shown up, uh, randomly from some benefactor of some kind. Uh, you know that I, I have a habit of like knocking things against my microphone to show you the kind of sound that it makes. Yeah. I'm concerned if I hit my microphone with this, my microphone will go through the wall.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It basically a lethal weapon. Like I have it in my hands now and I have a glass desk and I'm very, I'm always very scared when I pick it up that I'm going to drop it and destroy everything in my house. This thing is incredible. Uh, an absolute solid block of aluminum, uh, with some beautiful, with nine beautifully cut holes in it. Yeah. Really awesome. Really fantastic product. And, um, I'm looking forward to receiving my orange one as well. And then I'll have two of them and then I can really get myself out of some jams if I need to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's serious business. That's for sure. I, uh, I have the blue one that I reviewed and then I ordered, I backed for a red one. So yeah, I will have, uh, definitely a backer of that. Cause they're, they're really, really, really great. Um, my pick is the Topo Designs dome paper mountain briefcase. I bought the version one when it came out. Um, it's no longer available. Version two is out now with a few tweaks, mainly color. Um, I use this bag every day and, and Myke, we still have to do, um, you know, we've been asked to do our, do a bag, um, podcast one day to talk more about the different bags. But this is my, this is my going to work bag and it's perfect for that. Fits the laptop, fix all the pens and paper I need. And it doesn't fit things that I don't need. It's not big or bulky. It's just the perfect size. Um, and it's, you know, supporting two of my favorite companies, um, to that have a collaboration between Topo and Doan. And, uh, I, I just love it. And, you know, someone who's not a stationary fan, um, but might be like a carry fan or a bag fan, um, could really, really enjoy this case.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, you know, we mentioned the bag show. I don't think we're going to need to do it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool.

'''Ana Reinert:''' We do the bag show.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've made, I've made my decision.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You've made the decision. All right. So yeah, we'll need to do it. We'll need to do it. Yes. It's a, it's a European carry. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's my nurse. So, all right, Myke, what do you got for the, uh, stationary gifts for the non-stationary fan?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Field notes. Yeah. Um, all, whenever, uh, whilst I was working a regular job, people were always so interested, um, in, in my notebooks, uh, they were small and they were interesting and they also had field notes on them and there were colors on them. So much so that it actually made its way into my leaving speech by my manager. Um, she, she said, if we offer you, uh, unlimited field notes, will you stay? Uh, which I thought was quite funny cause she's, she picked it up. Everybody in the office knew about them, uh, cause they would see me with these really strange, bright notebooks and I would go through them quite quickly. So they always saw new ones and everyone else is walking around with moleskins and putting them on the desk. And then I put like my, uh, neon yellow and purple field notes with my orange and blue Karas customs. Uh, everyone was always very confused by me, I think. Yeah. But yeah, I love, I love field notes. And we didn't mention at the start of the show when we were talking about field notes that there is a, um, factory floor edition at the moment. Yeah. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is that still available?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have no idea. Probably not. Uh, probably. I'll, I'll put a, a, a link in the, in the show notes. Um, then people can, uh, they can go to Draplin and, uh, get the, which is, I didn't know this when I saw it originally. It's three different colors.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I didn't know that either. I just saw that. I just figured they were all the same as the front color, but yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I put an order in and I'm waiting to get an email about international shipping. So I don't know what's going to happen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Gotcha.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Gotcha. They said that they would say, so we'll sort it out with you later is what the post says. So I'm just kind of waiting. Uh, I don't know if I'm going to, or what's going to happen there, but we'll see.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. There were, um, uh, I think is honestly, I think just Aaron and his wife shipped the stuff as far as I know. And with the pop, with the pop-up action, sometimes I'll place an order. Like I've ordered some t-shirts from them. It'll be like a week later. And, um, you know, they, they'll send me a note saying, Hey, we're just getting to shipping this now. Cause there's just super busy and, uh, running dom world, busy working on world domination. So yeah, I'm sure that we'll get back with you soon. All right, Myke, we got just a couple more topics to go and we have one more awesome sponsor to get to. So why don't you talk about our next friend?

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so I really like this concept. I'm a dashboard guy. I like kind of homepage landing pages. I just built a simple one and it includes my top stories from Google News, ESPN.com feed, my Twitter timeline, my Instagram feed, and how many people are on Pen Addict currently. So it brings in the actual live Google Analytics information from the Pen Addict. And I shared the – it was a private dashboard and I just switched it over to public and shared it with the chat room if anyone's interested in what Dash looks like. It's super cool and I need to build it out some more actually. So it's very useful and this is something that I personally enjoy very, very much.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, it's small right now but I need to add some things to that for sure. But it's a great product. I really, really like – I like using these types of things.