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	'''Myke Hurley:''' It was proven in like, I mean, I did a bunch of shows with you, right? Like obviously you and Jeff did way more, but I was there for different shows and helping out at different places. That's the only show where we were completely sold out. Yep. We shut down. I think by like Sunday morning, which is quite a lot. Sunday morning. Because there was nothing to sell anymore.		'''Myke Hurley:''' It was proven in like, I mean, I did a bunch of shows with you, right? Like obviously you and Jeff did way more, but I was there for different shows and helping out at different places. That's the only show where we were completely sold out. Yep. We shut down. I think by like Sunday morning, which is quite a lot. Sunday morning. Because there was nothing to sell anymore.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. There wasn't. And that was the one also where like on Friday and Saturday, people could not physically get to our table because it was so pinched in the layout. So those were the before times and the bad times. I can't speak on the show because I haven't been there since around that time, but we're still at the same hotel. Last year they had their own challenges with hotel renovation, which you can't really put on the show promoters, but they were dealt a bad hand and kind of had to deal with that. I'm hoping, knock on wood, I haven't heard anything about like construction or weirdness in the show this year. We'll see how it goes. I'll actually be on site to discover this myself. But I will say, Myke, credit to the show promoters. The website's been updated. Remember how bad their website used to be? I mean, it was tragic. It wasn't one, basically. Yeah. Yeah. It was just basically like a GeoCities era website with no information. There's a lot of information on here. You can buy your tickets online. Yeah. I've bought my tickets online. They're going to have an interactive floor map. Like, they're just, it's, I'm pleased, right? Like, just, hey, I would like to come to your show. Can I do the things? Oh, yes. Here's how you book the hotel. Here's where you can order tickets. Here's the different ticket packages you can buy. Here's this. Here's that. I was like, huh, okay. Like, you are making it easy for me. That's meaningful to someone like me who's traveling to a pen show. And I think that's meaningful to everyone. Like, this is a show, if you're planning on going, even if you're just going one day, I would highly recommend buying tickets online, right? Like, it used to be a thing at the shows that you went to where you would go out Saturday morning and you would just get your camera out, start the video, and walk from the entrance to the end of the line. It would be like, you know, a couple hundred yards or something like that. It was just lines and lines and lines of people. So, I hope with online buying, you have your little QR code. Hopefully, you can just scan it and it's reasonable to get in. So, I am looking forward to it. What I'm most going into this show as, given my travel, right? So, I'll get there Friday afternoon, hope to get on the show floor by like one or two o'clock. And then, I'll be there all day Friday, all day Saturday, and then I won't be at the show Sunday. I leave Sunday morning. So, that is a short time frame for a really big and busy show. So, my word of the show is going to be discovery, right? Since I haven't been here in a while, there's going to be a lot of people that exhibit at this show that haven't been at some of the other shows I've gone to. Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco last year. That I want to make a point to meet. One of the interesting things, and this is, again, shout out to the showrunners. They sent out an email. It's like, hey, look at all these international vendors we get, right? So, they actually sent out an email saying, hey, we're getting vendors from Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Holland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Turkey, and the UK. Like, they're making a point to promote these people that are making the effort to come to this show. So, and that's a lot of the people that I'm making a list to see at the show, right? So, I've even made a list in the show notes here, and we'll put them in here. But, like, London Pen Co. is someone I've followed on Instagram, and they make, you know, they make their own pens. They're actually from Canada. So, not your London, the Canadian London, Ontario, I'm guessing. You know what I mean? So, they get you. Yeah. You know, more astilos will be there, which they carry a pen called the Old One, which is not my type of pen, but it's a very famous, popular pen. And I'd like to see that, you know, there at the show. I think I screwed up these links in the show notes, as I'm finding out right now. But we will fix that moment. I will fix that momentarily. Leonardo ~~Penn~~, the CEO of Leonardo ~~Penn~~, Salvatore Matron, will be there, right? I don't know that I've ever talked to him in person, right? And Leonardo makes some of my most favorite pens in the world, right? Like, I love Leonardo ~~Penn~~'s. Leonardo's going to have representation there. Salvatore's going to be there. I want to meet him, right? I got to meet Toru from Toyococraft last year in San Francisco. I want to say hi to him again and thank him for coming to DC, right? Like, I really think about this type of stuff. You know, want to see, you know, the new stuff from Toyococraft. And I need to consider how big of a suitcase am I going to bring to see this. You know, then there's like, there's several designers from Turkey that are going to be here. Studio. Oh boy, I'm not going to get this well. Studio Aga Kakan. And, you know, they like custom make pens and NFP design. And, of course, my good friends at Galen Leather. I haven't seen Unis in a while, right? So, I'm making like a list and we're kind of like checking this out. One from the UK, Myke, Shibui North. So, I've seen her pens on several of the websites. Several Instagrams, people buying those pens from Shibui North. I want to see those. So, this is going to be a good event for me personally to see a bunch of things I haven't seen in person before. This is why I made the decision to go to D.C. and like alternate between D.C. and San Francisco. Because not everyone, like this has a good European focus. Even though we get a lot of Japanese representation, you know, or Asian market representation here. But not everyone from like Europe is going to make the jump all the way over to San Francisco. And the same with, you know, some of the Asian market from, you know, over to San Francisco, but not all the way to D.C. But you do get some crossover like Toyoka Craft. I know Nagasawa is going to be here.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. There wasn't. And that was the one also where like on Friday and Saturday, people could not physically get to our table because it was so pinched in the layout. So those were the before times and the bad times. I can't speak on the show because I haven't been there since around that time, but we're still at the same hotel. Last year they had their own challenges with hotel renovation, which you can't really put on the show promoters, but they were dealt a bad hand and kind of had to deal with that. I'm hoping, knock on wood, I haven't heard anything about like construction or weirdness in the show this year. We'll see how it goes. I'll actually be on site to discover this myself. But I will say, Myke, credit to the show promoters. The website's been updated. Remember how bad their website used to be? I mean, it was tragic. It wasn't one, basically. Yeah. Yeah. It was just basically like a GeoCities era website with no information. There's a lot of information on here. You can buy your tickets online. Yeah. I've bought my tickets online. They're going to have an interactive floor map. Like, they're just, it's, I'm pleased, right? Like, just, hey, I would like to come to your show. Can I do the things? Oh, yes. Here's how you book the hotel. Here's where you can order tickets. Here's the different ticket packages you can buy. Here's this. Here's that. I was like, huh, okay. Like, you are making it easy for me. That's meaningful to someone like me who's traveling to a pen show. And I think that's meaningful to everyone. Like, this is a show, if you're planning on going, even if you're just going one day, I would highly recommend buying tickets online, right? Like, it used to be a thing at the shows that you went to where you would go out Saturday morning and you would just get your camera out, start the video, and walk from the entrance to the end of the line. It would be like, you know, a couple hundred yards or something like that. It was just lines and lines and lines of people. So, I hope with online buying, you have your little QR code. Hopefully, you can just scan it and it's reasonable to get in. So, I am looking forward to it. What I'm most going into this show as, given my travel, right? So, I'll get there Friday afternoon, hope to get on the show floor by like one or two o'clock. And then, I'll be there all day Friday, all day Saturday, and then I won't be at the show Sunday. I leave Sunday morning. So, that is a short time frame for a really big and busy show. So, my word of the show is going to be discovery, right? Since I haven't been here in a while, there's going to be a lot of people that exhibit at this show that haven't been at some of the other shows I've gone to. Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco last year. That I want to make a point to meet. One of the interesting things, and this is, again, shout out to the showrunners. They sent out an email. It's like, hey, look at all these international vendors we get, right? So, they actually sent out an email saying, hey, we're getting vendors from Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Holland, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Turkey, and the UK. Like, they're making a point to promote these people that are making the effort to come to this show. So, and that's a lot of the people that I'm making a list to see at the show, right? So, I've even made a list in the show notes here, and we'll put them in here. But, like, London Pen Co. is someone I've followed on Instagram, and they make, you know, they make their own pens. They're actually from Canada. So, not your London, the Canadian London, Ontario, I'm guessing. You know what I mean? So, they get you. Yeah. You know, more astilos will be there, which they carry a pen called the Old One, which is not my type of pen, but it's a very famous, popular pen. And I'd like to see that, you know, there at the show. I think I screwed up these links in the show notes, as I'm finding out right now. But we will fix that moment. I will fix that momentarily. Leonardo Pen, the CEO of Leonardo Pen, Salvatore Matron, will be there, right? I don't know that I've ever talked to him in person, right? And Leonardo makes some of my most favorite pens in the world, right? Like, I love Leonardo Pen's. Leonardo's going to have representation there. Salvatore's going to be there. I want to meet him, right? I got to meet Toru from Toyococraft last year in San Francisco. I want to say hi to him again and thank him for coming to DC, right? Like, I really think about this type of stuff. You know, want to see, you know, the new stuff from Toyococraft. And I need to consider how big of a suitcase am I going to bring to see this. You know, then there's like, there's several designers from Turkey that are going to be here. Studio. Oh boy, I'm not going to get this well. Studio Aga Kakan. And, you know, they like custom make pens and NFP design. And, of course, my good friends at Galen Leather. I haven't seen Unis in a while, right? So, I'm making like a list and we're kind of like checking this out. One from the UK, Myke, Shibui North. So, I've seen her pens on several of the websites. Several Instagrams, people buying those pens from Shibui North. I want to see those. So, this is going to be a good event for me personally to see a bunch of things I haven't seen in person before. This is why I made the decision to go to D.C. and like alternate between D.C. and San Francisco. Because not everyone, like this has a good European focus. Even though we get a lot of Japanese representation, you know, or Asian market representation here. But not everyone from like Europe is going to make the jump all the way over to San Francisco. And the same with, you know, some of the Asian market from, you know, over to San Francisco, but not all the way to D.C. But you do get some crossover like Toyoka Craft. I know Nagasawa is going to be here.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Kobe with Kobe Inks and things like that, which I think they've done the D.C. pen show before. So, it's great. And that's barely scratching the surface, right? Like I'm not talking about all the people that I want to see that I see all the time. Like Ian Schoen, you know, and Franklin Kristoff. And like all my favorite vendors, you know, Van S. Pens. And just on and on and on and on. I am going to have to take this show as I'm going to have to like put in the work on the Friday and Saturday I'm there and be pretty efficient to make sure I get done what I want to get done as far as visitation, conversation, seeing things, testing things, talking to people. This is going to be an extremely busy show for me. And so, I'm trying to get in that mindset where like if I go to Baltimore, like I've generally gone there every year. I know who's going to be there and I can just roll in even kind of without a plan and know I'm going to be able to get it done. At D.C., I don't know that I can walk in the door and think that, right? Like I have to think about, hey, you know, am I going to go see Hugh and Carol from Canalea? When am I going to see, you know, Jonathan Brooks, right? Like all the people I normally see, but I want to see what new stuff do they have? What are they up to? You know, what kind of, you know, even if I've talked to people regularly, I still want to know what's going on. What the hell's the show going? So, it's going to be a very busy show and I'm actually pretty hyped about that, right? Like I'm very excited to go. I don't know if you could tell just by the way I'm talking about it. Like I am really, really anxious to get rolling on this show and just crossing my fingers that it's going to be good. I have a feeling like it should be completely fine, but I'll be there to find out for myself for a change. So, that's the game plan, at least the start of a game plan. That's the framework of my thought process heading into the D.C. ~~Penn~~ show. So, like when I get to the hotel, like from the airport, I'll drop off my bags and it's go time and it won't stop until I leave Sunday morning. So, I'm really, really excited. What I don't have ready yet is my own packing. And when I say everything I just said out loud, I don't need to pack hardly anything at all, right? As far as stationery, like things to bring of myself, right? Like I'm going to bring almost nothing. I'll bring like one of my spoke pens, my roadie, which I like to travel with, you know, maybe a couple of fountain pens that I'm using. And that's about it. I'll bring an empty case or two, you know, my Sinclair cases, like the Rickshaw Sinclair cases. Like I'm going to bring an empty one, maybe two empty ones.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Kobe with Kobe Inks and things like that, which I think they've done the D.C. pen show before. So, it's great. And that's barely scratching the surface, right? Like I'm not talking about all the people that I want to see that I see all the time. Like Ian Schoen, you know, and Franklin Kristoff. And like all my favorite vendors, you know, Van S. Pens. And just on and on and on and on. I am going to have to take this show as I'm going to have to like put in the work on the Friday and Saturday I'm there and be pretty efficient to make sure I get done what I want to get done as far as visitation, conversation, seeing things, testing things, talking to people. This is going to be an extremely busy show for me. And so, I'm trying to get in that mindset where like if I go to Baltimore, like I've generally gone there every year. I know who's going to be there and I can just roll in even kind of without a plan and know I'm going to be able to get it done. At D.C., I don't know that I can walk in the door and think that, right? Like I have to think about, hey, you know, am I going to go see Hugh and Carol from Canalea? When am I going to see, you know, Jonathan Brooks, right? Like all the people I normally see, but I want to see what new stuff do they have? What are they up to? You know, what kind of, you know, even if I've talked to people regularly, I still want to know what's going on. What the hell's the show going? So, it's going to be a very busy show and I'm actually pretty hyped about that, right? Like I'm very excited to go. I don't know if you could tell just by the way I'm talking about it. Like I am really, really anxious to get rolling on this show and just crossing my fingers that it's going to be good. I have a feeling like it should be completely fine, but I'll be there to find out for myself for a change. So, that's the game plan, at least the start of a game plan. That's the framework of my thought process heading into the D.C. Pen show. So, like when I get to the hotel, like from the airport, I'll drop off my bags and it's go time and it won't stop until I leave Sunday morning. So, I'm really, really excited. What I don't have ready yet is my own packing. And when I say everything I just said out loud, I don't need to pack hardly anything at all, right? As far as stationery, like things to bring of myself, right? Like I'm going to bring almost nothing. I'll bring like one of my spoke pens, my roadie, which I like to travel with, you know, maybe a couple of fountain pens that I'm using. And that's about it. I'll bring an empty case or two, you know, my Sinclair cases, like the Rickshaw Sinclair cases. Like I'm going to bring an empty one, maybe two empty ones.

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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Pizza season.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Pizza season.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' You bet, baby. This episode is brought to you by ~~Uni~~ Pizza Ovens. They are the number one pizza oven company in the world because they make a fantastic range of surprisingly small ovens powered by your choice of either wood, charcoal, gas, and they even have an electric model now, too, to let you make restaurant-quality pizza at home. You can make them in your own backyard. And the electric oven allows you also to cook these things indoors as well. So you can have fantastic pizzas for you, your friends, and your family all summer long. ~~Uni~~ Pizza Ovens are incredibly easy to use. They're super portable and will fit into outside spaces. ~~Uni~~ Pizza Ovens, they reach incredibly high temperatures. Like, we're talking about, like, up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit. This is what enables you to cook restaurant-quality pizza in as little as 60 seconds. That is the high temperature. Like, that high temperature, that's the key. That's the thing you need to separate these pizzas from what you can make in a conventional home oven. Uni have a wide range of products. One of their most popular is the Uni Coda 16, which will let you cook up to 16-inch pizzas, with an innovative L-shaped burner at the back to give you even heat distribution. The Uni Vault, which I mentioned, which is their new electric indoor and outdoor oven. They also have the multi-fueled Uni Karu as well, which can use wood, charcoal, or gas. But this is just a few of the options, let alone all of the accessories that Uni sell. You can get peels, cutters, thermometers, aprons, tables, and so much more. They also make an awesome app to help you perfect your dough recipe and give you loads of pizza-making tips. Brad, are you cooking up a storm in the Dowdy household right now?		'''Myke Hurley:''' You bet, baby. This episode is brought to you by Ooni Pizza Ovens. They are the number one pizza oven company in the world because they make a fantastic range of surprisingly small ovens powered by your choice of either wood, charcoal, gas, and they even have an electric model now, too, to let you make restaurant-quality pizza at home. You can make them in your own backyard. And the electric oven allows you also to cook these things indoors as well. So you can have fantastic pizzas for you, your friends, and your family all summer long. Ooni Pizza Ovens are incredibly easy to use. They're super portable and will fit into outside spaces. Ooni Pizza Ovens, they reach incredibly high temperatures. Like, we're talking about, like, up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit. This is what enables you to cook restaurant-quality pizza in as little as 60 seconds. That is the high temperature. Like, that high temperature, that's the key. That's the thing you need to separate these pizzas from what you can make in a conventional home oven. Uni have a wide range of products. One of their most popular is the Uni Coda 16, which will let you cook up to 16-inch pizzas, with an innovative L-shaped burner at the back to give you even heat distribution. The Uni Vault, which I mentioned, which is their new electric indoor and outdoor oven. They also have the multi-fueled Uni Karu as well, which can use wood, charcoal, or gas. But this is just a few of the options, let alone all of the accessories that Uni sell. You can get peels, cutters, thermometers, aprons, tables, and so much more. They also make an awesome app to help you perfect your dough recipe and give you loads of pizza-making tips. Brad, are you cooking up a storm in the Dowdy household right now?

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' We are. And let me tell you, my favorite highlights of cooking in that oven is getting those crispy edges. Getting it on the crust. Getting it on the cheese. Getting it on, like, if you throw pepperoni or peppers on there. Getting that little, just that little char. While the rest of the pizza cooks perfectly, having that little edge on there. Oh, man. This is, like, I need to do this for lunch today. This is making me hungry.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' We are. And let me tell you, my favorite highlights of cooking in that oven is getting those crispy edges. Getting it on the crust. Getting it on the cheese. Getting it on, like, if you throw pepperoni or peppers on there. Getting that little, just that little char. While the rest of the pizza cooks perfectly, having that little edge on there. Oh, man. This is, like, I need to do this for lunch today. This is making me hungry.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' Listeners of this show can get 10% off their own purchase of an ~~Uni~~ Pizza oven. You just use the code ADDICT2023. A-D-D-I-C-T-2-0-2-3 at checkout. At uni.com. That's O-O-N-I dot com. ~~Uni~~ Pizza ovens are the best way to bring restaurant quality pizza to your own backyard. They are the perfect tool for the job and are always in high demand. So if you want one, go to uni.com and use the code ADDICT2023 for 10% off. A thanks to ~~Uni~~ Pizza Ovens for their support of this show and Relay FM.		'''Myke Hurley:''' Listeners of this show can get 10% off their own purchase of an Ooni Pizza oven. You just use the code ADDICT2023. A-D-D-I-C-T-2-0-2-3 at checkout. At uni.com. That's O-O-N-I dot com. Ooni Pizza ovens are the best way to bring restaurant quality pizza to your own backyard. They are the perfect tool for the job and are always in high demand. So if you want one, go to uni.com and use the code ADDICT2023 for 10% off. A thanks to Ooni Pizza Ovens for their support of this show and Relay FM.

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| name = The Pen Addict
| number = 575
| title = SUPERSHOW
| date = August 2nd, 2023
| hosts = [[Brad Dowdy]]<br>
[[Myke Hurley]]
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| link = [https://www.relay.fm/penaddict/575 Episode 575]
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