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== Lihitlab Bag ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. When I was writing this up in the show notes, I called it bag in a bag.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I probably have that in my review. You just can't, you can't help but do it. But, and it's Lihitlab. It's not labs. It's Lihitlab. It's a bag and bag.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let's just call it the Lihitlabs bag in a bag and just be done with it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So anyway, they make two sizes of this pouch and one is an A5 size internals and one is a A4 size, the larger. So what it's designed to do is like a lot of us carry backpacks or briefcases or some kind of, you know, other carrying tote bag, purse, whatever it might be. And we carry certain things in it. And then you can have this literal bag in bag from Lihitlab. Just take it, load it with like your stationary items. It'll fit pens and notebooks and things like that. And that way everything's all contained. You put it in your larger bag. And when you need the stuff inside that, like all your sketching, drawing, writing stuff, you just take it out and you have it all right there, self-contained. You don't have to worry about different sections in your larger bag or things being in different places. It's kind of an all-in-one, kind of help you keep things organized. I had the A5 for a long time, but I never liked it for stationary. I didn't like putting pens in it. It was too small. I didn't like putting paper in it. It just wasn't the right size. I ended up using it for like cables and loose, you know, headphones and, you know, my square reader and things just like a USB drive, chapstick, gum, whatever. That kind of like a catch-all. But, and I never really thought to go for the bigger one, which is the A4 size. It's really large, but it's made. So the larger inside pocket will carry a full A4 size notebook, which is, you know, bigger than your eight and a half by 11 standard American size paper. The A4 is in that ballpark range. So it's pretty large. But what this does is it fits the pens I want to carry. It fits the notebooks I want to carry. I can fit an A5 Nock notebook on the outside. One of the small Nock pocket notebooks on the outside. And I put my Kindle in it. You know, I have the small, like the paper white, I think it's called the small Kindle. You can fit three pens. The pen slots could be a little bit deeper. That's a nitpick. And then in the big section, I can carry not just like an A4 pad. I can carry the iPad in there. I can carry my 13 inch MacBook Pro in there. Um, so it's, it's basically what was used to be like the, um, you know, the computer sleeves where you would have people would put, buy like a computer sleeve to put their laptop in to put it inside another bag. It's like this, but for stationary, but it's great at carrying technology stuff too. It's just the right size. It fits perfectly. Like in my Topo Designs Dome bag, it's just kind of a good piece of kit to have to carry like accessories. So they're not flying around everywhere. Um, and you can just pick it up out of your bag, take it to where you need to go. Like if I'm, if I've gone to knock, have my bag, my Dome bag with the Lid Lab bag in it, you know, and I decided to go to Starbucks for a little bit. Well, I can just, instead of taking my whole Dome bag, I just reach in, grab the bag and bag, take that with me. And it's got everything I need without me having to think about it in there. It's just kind of a cool setup and it's not very expensive. It's like 21 bucks. I'm not looking at it, but that sounds right for the A5 size. Um, it's kind of a no brainer type of thing. You could use it purely as your one bag. Um, if you were fine carrying it like a folio, um, it's, it's pretty cool. It's very, very useful. I don't find the A5 size very useful. Um, it's too loose to carry too many pins in it. Like if you open up the pouch and you're not careful, things will start flying out of it. With the A5, you don't have that problem because you're not carrying pins in the large section. So, uh, my eyes were opened, uh, at the Atlanta pin show, saw a couple of people carrying these and I was like, I got to try that. And it's actually kind of a perfect fit for what I need it for.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I'm looking at these like super cheap on Amazon. Yeah. It's like 10 pounds. I'm going to buy one. I mean, I tell you why I like it. Um, you use it with a dome, right. And you can kind of just fit everything in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. It fits in there perfectly.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I think this is kind of cool. Like, so do you just sometimes just grab this thing and it's just, everything is in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So I'll just take that. Like if I'm going to go to Starbucks for a couple hours, I'll just take that and throw in my iPad. Um, you know, like if I'm going to do some reviews and want to research, research and stuff, but really I'll just have all the papers and pens that I need in it. And I can literally just go over to my dome bag, reach in, grab that out and walk out the door because I know everything's in it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Sweet, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Instead of having to take a bunch of other stuff in my bag that I don't need. Right. It's just kind of got what you need for, for like me. I have it like a review kit essentially. Right. I have things in it, products I can review in that. So it's very useful.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. For that price. I mean, yeah, you know, it's kind of great. Yeah. This is a fun looking thing. I just figured it would be useful because the Don, the Don, well, the Topo mountain briefcase. Mountain briefcase. Yeah. One of my favorite things about it is that it has just this huge, like it basically just has a huge pocket. Right. Right. Right. Which is, is kind of awesome. And I like it for that. Um, but one of the problems is sometimes everything's just flying around in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yeah. So like I have, so my laptop will go in the Don bag in the back. The, the hit lab bag and bag goes in the front big pocket. Then I have like, uh, my brass town and my Sinclair and that's pretty much it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That's cool, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Great. It's a good setup. I like it. Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' For sure. Uh, I did just realize that in, uh, when, when looking through this, uh, it was like 36 pound delivery. No. So I'm going to, I'm going to just take a look at some of the other sellers on Amazon before I go ahead and, uh, press, press that button. Goodness gracious.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Wow. It's because it would be a dispatch from Japan. Uh, gotcha. So I need someone who's going to dispatch it more locally. I think I would like it before my trip to San Francisco.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, cool. Well, you could probably get one out there. You could probably, if you made it to, you probably won't have extra time, but I bet Kino Kunea, you could check and see if they had it and just pick one up while you're there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a good idea.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cause they carry, they, I think they carry lid lab, but I'm not positive.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I'm going to keep looking around. There might be some seller that can do it in a different color to the one that I'm looking at.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Or just order it from jet pens and deliver it to your hotel while you're there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Smart. Very smart. Yeah. I've won it for the, for the travel though, but I am. I'll keep looking around. I'm sure I'll find it. One route. That's funny though. Yeah. All right. One last thing I want to talk about today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.