Editing The Pen Addict 411/transcript (section)

== Unopened Box Mystery ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, Myke. Myke, Myke, Myke. I have a problem. What's your problem? I have a box sitting here. I actually brought it into the podcast room because I needed it in the vicinity. I have a box, an unopened box, and the address, the label is from Jonathan Brooks. In this box is something for me and something for you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I know what's in that box.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And something for Anna.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What is in the box, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm going to assume the results, good or bad, of trying to Arushi coat Alami Safari.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You would assume correctly. Yeah. And you would assume correctly in your statement, good or bad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because we have no idea if it actually worked or not.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And Jonathan's not sure. Like, he feels pretty good about it, right? But he's like, I will never do this again.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, he's told me. So, all of you that are going to see these pens eventually, hopefully, don't ask Jonathan to make them. Because he ended up having to... We'll talk about this more once we solve the question of when do I open this box. So, be thinking about that. But I will just tell you... Are you not opening it now? No. You just got the box? I have the box. I've had it for a week. Wow. And I haven't opened it. I do not know what these pens look like. Well, doesn't Anna get a say? Like, you just want me to open it and send you all pictures? That's what I want. Yeah. I'm just saying that's what I want. I'm not telling you to do it now. But that's what I want. Okay. You would be... This is why I'm having this question. I have not touched this box. I don't know what any of these pens look like. And he did specifically say all of ours are very different. Like, mine is a different style than yours. And then Anna's is different from both of ours because hers was on a TWSBI All-Star. And he said hers was easier than both of ours. So, because there's more problems with the Safari. But I don't know what any of them look like. This box is taped up and I'm staring at it while I'm talking to you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I want to know. Okay. You don't want to wait until we're like together. Nope. And see what the pens look like. And do like a whole special deal.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. So, here's the thing. If I knew I was seeing you in two months, that's one thing. Exactly. But we have like an infinite possibility of time here. In the same vein of like if you said, oh, I'll mail it to you. That could take anywhere from 10 days to 70 days, right? With the way that the mailing is working right now. So, what I want is for you to open it, take a picture, show me the picture and then send it to me. That's what I want.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What if we just like open it on video? Like what if we like recorded it or something and got on on there and did like a three-way mic and opened up the box and showed everyone their pens? I don't know. I don't know what the right thing is to do. You clearly have a, you have a defined answer. I'm not sure my answer is that defined.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My answer is I want to see it as soon as possible in whatever way or shape or form that takes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This has been sitting under my desk for a week. Do you know how hard that's been?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, because I'm right now, I want to know, right? So, like I feel the hardship of it. So, you need to talk to Anna. You need to see what Anna wants to do. I'm expecting Anna will probably want to do exactly what I want to do. And then we'll work out how we're going to unbox this thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Ooh, maybe I just shoot an unboxing vid myself. Yes. And then like post it to YouTube for everyone to see. That works for me. Like I would share it with you and Anna first, but then let everyone see what these look like.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I don't need to be a part of the video in which, you know, I'm just going to see it no matter what way it's done. So, that would be my preference.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You just want to know what's in the box as soon as possible. Don't care. Yes. All right. Fair enough.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't need it in front of me to know how I feel about it when I see it. I'm pretty proud of my restraint here. I can't believe you've done it. But I guess this is the thing though. You receive boxes all the time. Like I don't know if you have the same must open box feeling that a lot of people would have, you know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. I don't because I save a lot of my boxes to open on stream. But I will also say I had an hour long conversation with Jonathan about these pens before receiving the package. He's like, he wasn't going to send them to me until he got on the phone with me to tell me how hard it was. I told him a long time ago he should have given up because he had to remake some of the parts.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like some of the caps and things like that. Like the little finial snap ins on the caps. Had to remake them. My word.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He's insane.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's the only one it would have been if we could have unboxed them in Atlanta and just had to tell us a story. Wouldn't that have been amazing? That was his goal.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That was the goal for the whole thing. What a shame. So yeah. It's all right. So we'll figure this out. I'm not going to open this box until I know exactly how to proceed once I do. So I'll talk to Anna today and then we'll figure it out. I'm thinking maybe like a box opening video that I just record myself. Like I wouldn't do it live on stream. I just record it and then post it for everyone to check out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I expect by next week's episode that will be done. Have you met me? Well, I could know. But as soon as Anna gives the green light, I'm going to hound you. Oh, okay. Right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So that's why. Oh, I like this. I kind of have some control here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Now I'm actually getting anxious to open them. There you go. There you go. There you go. I didn't take long. No, no.