Editing The Pen Addict 334/transcript (section)

== Topic Shift - Pen Reviews ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So this is just a really long way to say that Brad will be talking about what he likes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I'm pleased that you're able to get to a point where you can come to terms with it in a, you know, in a good way. Yeah. And use it as a base to do more of what people want you to do. So I'm very pleased.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I put in this link, you know, and we'll just talk about it for a second because I did a review on Monday from the Muji 2B pencil, which you were there for me to purchase.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And just to give you a little insight about this post, the amount of detail that I considered writing about this pencil would have taken. And I think that's, that's what I enjoy doing is like breaking down a product. I don't care if it's a 50 cent pencil. I don't care if it's a $500 pen. Like I like breaking them down, trying to figure them out. I'll also tell you whether I think it's good or bad, but I want to figure out other things too. Um, and this stinking 50 cent pencil sent me down a path that I was giddy over. And that's why I think I'm good at what I do because I get stupidly happy about the markings on the barrel of a 50 cent pencil and what font they're in and how that relates to the other Japanese pencils. That's completely normal for me. Yeah. That is no second thought that I was going to do that. Like it didn't even register with me not to talk about that. And there was so much more to talk about that I didn't talk about because it was even stupider than that. Right. I like, I looked at one of the wood slats for this pencil compared to a different natural wood pencil and how the slats laid together. It's, it's really, it's really crazy. It's really crazy. How, how, how my brain works sometimes, but like you take that little example and you multiply it by the entirety that I've been doing this in my entire life where I lived this life before I started sharing it online. And I believe that's why I'm here today. It's just who I am. Like that's how I work. This is what I enjoy. And I'm going to share it with people and I hope you like it. And I think they do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you would like to find Brad's work, contact Brad, tell him how much you love him. You can go to Twitter. He's at Dowdyism, Pen Addict on Instagram, twitch.tv slash Pen Addict. Anything going on with the Twitch? What you got coming up?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh man, I've been really slow on the Twitch. I might try to get a stream up on Thursday. I've been very inconsistent and you know, my consistency is the key on Twitch. Why don't you pimp your Twitch? Cause there was a new one out, new, new podcast episode, this out for playing for fun. And you'll have been very active on there. So you pimp yourself because I haven't been doing a good job.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So playing for fun is the show that I do with Tiff Ahmet, the host of Make Do on Relay FM, where we pick a video game every month that we love and we talk about it and we talk about just the good stuff. So even if, I would say, even if you're not a big video game person, even if you sometimes listen to some video games, but you haven't played the game that we're talking about every month, I think it's worth checking out because it's just two best friends talking about something that they enjoy. Wink, wink, like the Pen Addict. Right. So there's a lot, you know, there's a lot of just niceness to find in it, but we do stream. We stream now every Friday at 10 a.m. This is new. We now are on our schedule. And I think that that helps people. Right now we're playing Half-Life, which is my first time playing the game. Yeah. I will say that I am not immediately in love with this and I'm really hoping that I'm getting more grips of the game as we go through. But it's not easy for me. But we're getting there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I laughed when y'all chose that because that game predates you. That was like a heyday game for me, right? Where that was like it. That was like what you played and it was amazing. But that was kind of like before your cycle.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Tiff finds it unacceptable that I haven't played it. Yeah. It's worth checking out. But I'm also follow me on Instagram. I'm imike, I-M-Y-K-E on Instagram. You can find show notes for this episode at relay.fm slash penaddict slash 334. Thanks again to Kane11, Harry's, and Squarespace for their support of this show. And we'll be back next time. Oh, by the way, two weeks time, we're going to do a big episode of Pen Horror Stories. We've been saving them up. We've got loads in. And also hashtag Ask TPA Questions. So if you have a horror story or a question that you want to send in, please do. Full episode. Full episode. Where can people, you can tweet with the hashtag Ask TPA for the questions, but where can they send the horror stories?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Hello at penaddict.com. And I have got, gosh, I bet we've got a dozen or so that we haven't read yet. So yeah, that, Ask TPA, we're just going to dedicate an entire episode to catching up on all those things because we've been so busy recently.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So that's going to be in two weeks time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye, Brad. Bye, Brad. Thank you.

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