Editing The Pen Addict 163/transcript (section)

== Doodling ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' But what I am doing with this, that I was never doing with fountain pen since it really works well, is doodling. Yeah. So I sit and I draw little geometric shapes. I draw little squares and cubes and circles and make little patterns because I would sometimes do this with a fountain pen, but one, it's not as easy to do. And the other, I was like, I'm just wasting ink here. And I never feel like I'm wasting graphite. Like, I don't know why. I mean, I am both, but it doesn't feel like that. So I'm really excited about this. I'm really excited that I just filled out my, uh, backer reward.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. For the pen show. For the pen show. Pen show. Pen. I call it pens. Penso.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Penso. Penso. The lead holder. Penso. I'm trying to bring it up. The fancy lead holder. Pen. Penso. Pen. Pen. Pen. Pen. Pen. X. !

'''Myke Hurley:''' Good. Good. Good. So I'm hoping that that comes soon. And I'm seeing like, well, here's another thing for me to deal with. I assume that's going to need to be sharpened though, right? Yeah, it's probably how that's going to work.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So it comes with a sharpener. Oh, does it? Yeah, it comes with a, you know, I think they're called a pointer. It's called something different with those type of LEDs. I think it's a LED pointer as opposed to a sharpener because you're making a point on this long LED. I don't know. It's just terminology. Yeah, apparently it ships with that. So we'll see. But it was hard for me not to buy like one or two more because I got the black one. Then they ended up coming out with all these different colors. They ended up, you know, like they had a green. Did they have a blue maybe? Anyway, it ended up from like the original three colors and ended up being like a good six colors or so. And I was tempted to just add in another one, but I restrained myself just because I don't know how much I'll use it. And I know the black one is pretty sweet. So, you know, I'm anxious to get those. And they blew out their rewards.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, they did $334,211. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, man, this was an amazing pencil conversation. And I feel like any continuation of the show after this will just be a letdown. And, you know, I promised some Ask TPA follow up and we got some good questions, but I want to spend some time on some of them. So I think that might be good for next week. What do you think?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I kind of like sprang this on you anyway.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was wonderful. So I'm really excited about this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm really excited about this. And I will now do something I shouldn't do. I would like suggestions from the audience. What should I be looking at in this mechanical pencil world? Because I'm sure there's more than just the Rotary 600, right? Because that seems to be what everybody suggests. But, like, is there really good graphite that I should be checking out? Or lead? I don't even know what the term is.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I use them interchangeably. I don't think you're wrong either way. But, yeah, it just... Whatever. Whatever you want to say, I think it's fine.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, specific stuff that I should be looking at, I'm interested to know. I would be surprised if there's as much variation as there is in the Phantom Pen world. I can't imagine that's the case. I'm sure there's lots, but I can't imagine it's as varied. But I would love to know about anything else that you guys enjoy and why you like it. Because, you know, I might want to check some more of this stuff out. But right now I'm very happy with the two that I have. And I'm very, very happy that Colt Pens sent me down this journey. And I bought the Rotary from Colt Pens as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, cool. And, I mean, this is the stuff I grew up on, you know, these engineering drafting style pencils. So, I'm obviously a huge fan. And it's kind of cool to see you get into this a little bit. It's a neat thing for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. If you want to find the show notes for this week's episode, you want to head over to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 163. If you want to find us online, there's a couple of ways you can do that. You can find me. I'm at imike, I-M-Y-K-E, on Twitter and Instagram. And if you want to find Brad, you can go to penaddict.com, which is a website I heard that existed once. Or you can find him on Instagram. He's penaddict on Instagram. Or at dowdyism, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M, on Twitter. And we'll be back next week with another episode of The Pen Addict. Thanks again to our sponsors, Harry's and Fracture, for helping make this episode possible. But most importantly, thanks to you for tuning in. Until then, say goodbye, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.

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