Editing The Pen Addict 401/transcript (section)

== Stationery Wiki Mention ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. People will send us images. And, again, I've genuinely, like, forgotten about it. We've recorded a lot of episodes. We forgot some good stuff in here. And this was, that was a classic. I'm not going to lie. We had a ton of fun with that. One of the other frequent topics is the stationary wiki. So, if you go to stationary.wiki, you will find the hard work of Matthias from Blystift. Alexander's also got his hands in that. And it's a great resource for listeners of the show, people who are interested in stationary. People who are interested in sharing information can, you know, create and modify existing pages. It's just a very cool resource. You know, there's a lot of Pen Addict podcast information on there and different links and shows. All kinds of crazy, crazy stuff. So, it's really, really fun. So, make sure that you have the stationary wiki bookmarked. And contribute if you can. I think that would be a cool way to give back to the community if you were ever so interested. This next one, Myke, is when I started thinking about all these other things that I forgot. Yeah. You know what else I forgot? I forgot how bad. Yeah. I forgot how bad we pronounce certain items. It was G. Herban that started it all, right? Was that the first time where we were both, like, really stuck on pronunciations and had people... People would record the sounds as files and email them to us on how to pronounce things. Yeah. Is that it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' We've not ever really been very good at pronouncing things. And also, kind of, over time, just stopped worrying so much, you know? Yes. Definitely. Now, the G. Herban pronunciation, so this is G. Herban, J. Herban, or whatever you would call it, Inc. J. Herban. This was a video that had been produced. This video no longer exists. It is not on YouTube anymore. I've tried finding it, and I cannot find it, which is a shame. But they basically went through and listed out, had somebody in a beautiful French accent list out the actual pronunciations of every single one of their inks. It doesn't exist anymore. I can't find this video on YouTube. They've taken down the original one, and I can't find another version of it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Well, our listeners have a mission now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If anybody knows where I can find it, please, we'll put that in follow-up. But it was actually very useful. It was. And helping round out some of our hard edges when it came to French pronunciations.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And that translated over to Ackermann as well, the Dutch Inc. brand. We had a soundboard at one time for Ackermann inks. I do not remember that. Where you could just push a button. I want to say our friend Chuck created that. But that was another one where I had an entire file of someone reading down the pronunciation of all. I think it's 30 inks in that lineup. They sent me a file of them pronouncing all of them. And it's fantastic. We don't take ourselves that serious to where we can't take feedback about how to pronounce things that are very tough to pronounce.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And there are times where we will give up on a pronunciation. You know? And just kind of be like, look, this isn't... We just can't... We can't get this right. You know? And then that just becomes part of the lore, I guess.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Yeah. Speaking of lore, Brad's pen show wife comes up from time to time, which I didn't even think to mention this, but we actually talk about it a lot. So Anna Reinhart and I, if you didn't know, Myke, we're married, at least as far as pen shows go. But not really. But she is my pen show wife because, as the story goes, who I've become really good friends with Andrew, who originally, let's say, caused this story. But it's one of the greatest stories in pen addict and pen show history. And the story goes that I was at the DC Pen Show. I want to say 2016. It was at the old hotel. So 2015, 2016, and me, Anna, and Matt Armstrong from the Pen Habit are standing at the elevator waiting to go up to our rooms. And the elevator arrives from people coming down. And the gentleman gets off the elevator, sees Matt. And Matt is no longer blogging at Pen Habit or making his YouTube videos, but he's a very famous stationary YouTuber. And if you're not interested with Matt Armstrong, you should go find the Pen Habit channel because he has some great videos on YouTube. So this gentleman walks out. And whenever we're with Matt, he's the most recognizable because he's on video all the time. So the guy goes, oh, you're Matt. You're, you know, Matt Armstrong from the Pen Habit. And Matt's like, yeah. And then he kind of looks at Anna and her pink hair wonderfulness. And he's kind of thinking, he's like, I've recognized you. I'm not sure who you are. Then he's like, oh, you're Anna from, you know, the Well-Appointed Desk. And they talk for a second. And then he looks over at me and he goes, and you're Anna's husband? And we all just go, yes. And we like left it at that. We go, yes, this is, I am Anna's husband. My name is Brad. And we saw Andrew the next day. And we were like, look, we need to talk to you for a second because this was the most joyful thing that has ever happened to any of us at a pen show. To have this type of conversation to where I'm not the one recognized with all of us. And just Matt and Anna got so much joy out of that that I then became Anna's husband the rest of the pen shows from here to eternity.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I love that story.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's such a silly story.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's the best. Thank you, Andrew.