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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thankfully, no.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thankfully, no.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, then you'd be no good for cooking a pizza. This episode is brought to you by ~~Uni~~ Pizza Ovens, the world's number one pizza oven company. They let you make restaurant-quality pizza in your own home. You've got to get to those high temperatures because that's what will get you the results that you want in a very quick time. You'll be able to cook pizza in as little as 60 seconds. The high temperatures is what sets an ~~Uni~~ Pizza Oven apart from a conventional home oven. They're also incredibly quick to heat up. In just 20 minutes from turning them on, you'll be at temperature, which is enough time to get all your toppings ready and get your first base started. Then you'll be ready to go. And you'll have pizza faster than, like, you'll be able to, like, cook pizza faster than you can make it. You know, that 60-second time is no joke. They have a whole range of wonderful ovens over at ~~Uni~~ Pizza Ovens. You could get the wood pellet-fueled Fyra 12. They have the multifuel Kara 12G for maximum portability. It's made for those who like cooking on the go, camping, and getting out into the wilderness. If you want the convenience of gas but love the flavor of wood-fired cooking, then you can check out the Karu line. But, you know, so you get wood and charcoal out of the box with those models, the Karu models. But you can also add an optional gas burner for cooking flexibility, too, so you could do whatever you like. They have great options whether you want to cook with wood, charcoal, gas, or even electricity with the Volt 12 pizza oven, where you can make pizzas both indoors and outdoors. This is the oven that I have and adore. I know that Brad has one of the Karu ones. Yep. And so we have like a whole variety here at the Pan Addict Podcast. I like the flexibility of being able to cook indoors and outdoors. And that's why I love that I own the Volt. Like it's really, really amazing for me. We love cooking pizza with our ~~Uni~~ Pizza Oven. And I'm very confident that you will, too. But Uni Ovens are for more than just pizza. You can cook juicy burgers, sizzling fajitas, buffalo wings, and so much more. ~~Uni~~ Pizza Ovens start at just $299. With free shipping to the US, UK, and EU. And they also have a vast variety of accessories. Cast iron cookware, pizza peels, thermometers, and so much more. You can even buy groceries from Uni. You know, like the stuff you're going to need to actually cook the pizza. Toppings and sauces and all that kind of stuff. I like to buy our stuff from Uni because I know that they've done the taste testing and the hard work. And then I can just benefit from their experience. Listeners of this show can get 10% off their purchase of an ~~Uni~~ Pizza Oven. Just go to uni.com, O-O-N-I.com, and use the code PENADDICT2024 at checkout. ~~Uni~~ Pizza Ovens are the best way to bring restaurant-quality pizza to your own home. So just go to O-O-N-I.com and use the code PENADDICT2024 at checkout. Now, our thanks to ~~Uni~~ Pizza Ovens for their support of this show and RelayFM.		'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, then you'd be no good for cooking a pizza. This episode is brought to you by Ooni Pizza Ovens, the world's number one pizza oven company. They let you make restaurant-quality pizza in your own home. You've got to get to those high temperatures because that's what will get you the results that you want in a very quick time. You'll be able to cook pizza in as little as 60 seconds. The high temperatures is what sets an Ooni Pizza Oven apart from a conventional home oven. They're also incredibly quick to heat up. In just 20 minutes from turning them on, you'll be at temperature, which is enough time to get all your toppings ready and get your first base started. Then you'll be ready to go. And you'll have pizza faster than, like, you'll be able to, like, cook pizza faster than you can make it. You know, that 60-second time is no joke. They have a whole range of wonderful ovens over at Ooni Pizza Ovens. You could get the wood pellet-fueled Fyra 12. They have the multifuel Kara 12G for maximum portability. It's made for those who like cooking on the go, camping, and getting out into the wilderness. If you want the convenience of gas but love the flavor of wood-fired cooking, then you can check out the Karu line. But, you know, so you get wood and charcoal out of the box with those models, the Karu models. But you can also add an optional gas burner for cooking flexibility, too, so you could do whatever you like. They have great options whether you want to cook with wood, charcoal, gas, or even electricity with the Volt 12 pizza oven, where you can make pizzas both indoors and outdoors. This is the oven that I have and adore. I know that Brad has one of the Karu ones. Yep. And so we have like a whole variety here at the Pan Addict Podcast. I like the flexibility of being able to cook indoors and outdoors. And that's why I love that I own the Volt. Like it's really, really amazing for me. We love cooking pizza with our Ooni Pizza Oven. And I'm very confident that you will, too. But Uni Ovens are for more than just pizza. You can cook juicy burgers, sizzling fajitas, buffalo wings, and so much more. Ooni Pizza Ovens start at just $299. With free shipping to the US, UK, and EU. And they also have a vast variety of accessories. Cast iron cookware, pizza peels, thermometers, and so much more. You can even buy groceries from Uni. You know, like the stuff you're going to need to actually cook the pizza. Toppings and sauces and all that kind of stuff. I like to buy our stuff from Uni because I know that they've done the taste testing and the hard work. And then I can just benefit from their experience. Listeners of this show can get 10% off their purchase of an Ooni Pizza Oven. Just go to uni.com, O-O-N-I.com, and use the code PENADDICT2024 at checkout. Ooni Pizza Ovens are the best way to bring restaurant-quality pizza to your own home. So just go to O-O-N-I.com and use the code PENADDICT2024 at checkout. Now, our thanks to Ooni Pizza Ovens for their support of this show and RelayFM.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. I have a few more things I picked up. And this is all, again, like this is all going to be reviews, giveaways, all kinds of stuff I'm going to use for like the blog and different things. So I definitely picked up the Retro 51 Turtle Rescue. I think this is one of the cooler ones that they released in a while. I talked about this on the show. So if you listened to last week's show, like I think I 100%ed my shopping list. So I think I got all the things I had planned on. So that's a great one. I haven't opened it up yet to use it. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do with it. It'll probably be a giveaway item because I tend to do the rescue pins as a giveaway item to also kind of promote the charities that they support, like I've done the Owl Rescue and other things like that. So it's a good way to put that out there and get some more eyeballs on it. So that's the way I think about a purchase like that. Like I've reviewed a lot of Retro 51s. I just reviewed a big shot recently. But I'll tend to like it'll be something new and different for me to want to review the Turtle Rescue. I would rather give it away and shine a light on what they're doing for that. And while I was grabbing that for my friends Marty and Kimberly, I picked up a Rickshaw Sinclair. You may have heard of this case, Myke. But this was the Ink Journal model. So my friend Tom Otto runs Ink Journal and he has an Ink Squid logo that he uses. And then this one was just in like this rainbowy color. I was like, oh, it's just on the table, just like calling my name. The last thing I need is another Sinclair. Like I get them all the time. Like Mark just like I'll go to the mailbox like on Thursday and there'll be like a Sinclair in there. But this kind of the one I bought is called Sorbet Squid.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. I have a few more things I picked up. And this is all, again, like this is all going to be reviews, giveaways, all kinds of stuff I'm going to use for like the blog and different things. So I definitely picked up the Retro 51 Turtle Rescue. I think this is one of the cooler ones that they released in a while. I talked about this on the show. So if you listened to last week's show, like I think I 100%ed my shopping list. So I think I got all the things I had planned on. So that's a great one. I haven't opened it up yet to use it. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do with it. It'll probably be a giveaway item because I tend to do the rescue pins as a giveaway item to also kind of promote the charities that they support, like I've done the Owl Rescue and other things like that. So it's a good way to put that out there and get some more eyeballs on it. So that's the way I think about a purchase like that. Like I've reviewed a lot of Retro 51s. I just reviewed a big shot recently. But I'll tend to like it'll be something new and different for me to want to review the Turtle Rescue. I would rather give it away and shine a light on what they're doing for that. And while I was grabbing that for my friends Marty and Kimberly, I picked up a Rickshaw Sinclair. You may have heard of this case, Myke. But this was the Ink Journal model. So my friend Tom Otto runs Ink Journal and he has an Ink Squid logo that he uses. And then this one was just in like this rainbowy color. I was like, oh, it's just on the table, just like calling my name. The last thing I need is another Sinclair. Like I get them all the time. Like Mark just like I'll go to the mailbox like on Thursday and there'll be like a Sinclair in there. But this kind of the one I bought is called Sorbet Squid.

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	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Five separate times, I was told how one excited they were just about the landscape of ~~stationary~~, but two, how they were each focusing on.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Five separate times, I was told how one excited they were just about the landscape of stationery, but two, how they were each focusing on.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' Kind of reimagining their product lineups and how they position themselves in the market. And this is unprompted conversation that they're just having with me. Hey, let me show you what I'm doing. Here's why I'm doing it. And here's what I'm thinking for the future. Like they were, this was, these were just like the general conversations that people were having with me. And this goes for makers. It goes for retailers. It went for so many different people in the industry. Like it wasn't one same type of vendor. Like it wasn't all retailers telling me the exact same thing, or it wasn't all makers telling me that exact same thing. It was across each of them. And while the concept was different, I mean, the concept was the same. Each of them had a different idea on how they were going to execute, like changing up their product lineup, positioning themselves in the market. Like say, like for example, a maker might want to, might feel comfortable with the current product lineup they have. And now they're thinking about mixing in, hey, should I do a more premium offering? Or conversely, should I do a more entry level offering? Vendors were thinking about how do I work with the newcomers to the space? And what do they see? You know, my offerings, you know, are they welcoming to a newcomer, right? It was just super unique. Like I literally heard it from one of the first people I talked to. I was like, oh, that's really cool about how they're thinking about their position in the market. And then I would go talk to someone else and they would literally have the same conversation with me. But going in, say, if one was going, oh, I'm going to focus on more like high end specialty stuff. The other one would be is like, yeah, I want to work on, you know, my entry level offerings. Like it was really, really interesting to see how much all of these vendors were thinking about this. And they were all generally like very positive about the landscape, which was nice to see. So that was kind of a surprise, I guess, in that everyone in that room was thinking about how they can continue to do their job better. And not that you, I shouldn't be surprised at that. But it was that the amount of changes that they were talking about were more than just like standard. Yeah, I'm going to make a new pen design or, yeah, I'm going to start carrying this product lineup or, you know, whatever it is. It was like very specific. I want to try to focus on this type of customer. And here's how I'm going to approach. And I was like, dang, OK, let's do this over and over again. So it was very, very cool. It was enlightening. And I guess maybe it's just because it's been so many months, probably, what, eight months since I've been to a show. So that's a pretty long amount of time. And just like the product runs and things like that and having people having time to talk about that stuff. I thought it was enlightening and kind of cool. Like I enjoyed hearing that. I was my ears perked up every time someone was talking about here's what we're doing next. And those things from one vendor to the next would be completely different, but they were all equally as excited. So that was kind of nice to see.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' Kind of reimagining their product lineups and how they position themselves in the market. And this is unprompted conversation that they're just having with me. Hey, let me show you what I'm doing. Here's why I'm doing it. And here's what I'm thinking for the future. Like they were, this was, these were just like the general conversations that people were having with me. And this goes for makers. It goes for retailers. It went for so many different people in the industry. Like it wasn't one same type of vendor. Like it wasn't all retailers telling me the exact same thing, or it wasn't all makers telling me that exact same thing. It was across each of them. And while the concept was different, I mean, the concept was the same. Each of them had a different idea on how they were going to execute, like changing up their product lineup, positioning themselves in the market. Like say, like for example, a maker might want to, might feel comfortable with the current product lineup they have. And now they're thinking about mixing in, hey, should I do a more premium offering? Or conversely, should I do a more entry level offering? Vendors were thinking about how do I work with the newcomers to the space? And what do they see? You know, my offerings, you know, are they welcoming to a newcomer, right? It was just super unique. Like I literally heard it from one of the first people I talked to. I was like, oh, that's really cool about how they're thinking about their position in the market. And then I would go talk to someone else and they would literally have the same conversation with me. But going in, say, if one was going, oh, I'm going to focus on more like high end specialty stuff. The other one would be is like, yeah, I want to work on, you know, my entry level offerings. Like it was really, really interesting to see how much all of these vendors were thinking about this. And they were all generally like very positive about the landscape, which was nice to see. So that was kind of a surprise, I guess, in that everyone in that room was thinking about how they can continue to do their job better. And not that you, I shouldn't be surprised at that. But it was that the amount of changes that they were talking about were more than just like standard. Yeah, I'm going to make a new pen design or, yeah, I'm going to start carrying this product lineup or, you know, whatever it is. It was like very specific. I want to try to focus on this type of customer. And here's how I'm going to approach. And I was like, dang, OK, let's do this over and over again. So it was very, very cool. It was enlightening. And I guess maybe it's just because it's been so many months, probably, what, eight months since I've been to a show. So that's a pretty long amount of time. And just like the product runs and things like that and having people having time to talk about that stuff. I thought it was enlightening and kind of cool. Like I enjoyed hearing that. I was my ears perked up every time someone was talking about here's what we're doing next. And those things from one vendor to the next would be completely different, but they were all equally as excited. So that was kind of nice to see.
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	'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, you know. Look, the one time that people said I didn't say it, I did say it. I was just quiet. You know?		'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, you know. Look, the one time that people said I didn't say it, I did say it. I was just quiet. You know?

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' We have an accidental Squarespace website this week. I didn't plan on that. But the Erasable Podcast is celebrating their 10th anniversary. I know I've given them a shout out before, but I will always give them a shout out because I love what Andy, Tim, and Johnny do over at the Erasable Podcast. Your favorite podcast about pencils and all things ~~stationary~~ and really fun stuff. And I just so happen to be a guest on their 10th anniversary show, along with some of my great friends who have been on the show in the past. So they kind of did a recap. I spent about, I don't know, gosh, probably, I don't know how much made it in the episode. It just came in the feeds last night, so I haven't listened to it yet. But I spent probably 30 or 40 minutes talking with Tim and just kind of like reminiscing about stuff. So I am very anxious to give this one a listen. Some awesome people that were guests and they make an awesome show. So it was really cool to be a part of that. It's good to, it's awesome to see them celebrate 10 years of a podcast about pencils, Myke. So fantastic shout out.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' We have an accidental Squarespace website this week. I didn't plan on that. But the Erasable Podcast is celebrating their 10th anniversary. I know I've given them a shout out before, but I will always give them a shout out because I love what Andy, Tim, and Johnny do over at the Erasable Podcast. Your favorite podcast about pencils and all things stationery and really fun stuff. And I just so happen to be a guest on their 10th anniversary show, along with some of my great friends who have been on the show in the past. So they kind of did a recap. I spent about, I don't know, gosh, probably, I don't know how much made it in the episode. It just came in the feeds last night, so I haven't listened to it yet. But I spent probably 30 or 40 minutes talking with Tim and just kind of like reminiscing about stuff. So I am very anxious to give this one a listen. Some awesome people that were guests and they make an awesome show. So it was really cool to be a part of that. It's good to, it's awesome to see them celebrate 10 years of a podcast about pencils, Myke. So fantastic shout out.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' Congratulations. Congratulations.		'''Myke Hurley:''' Congratulations. Congratulations.
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	'''Myke Hurley:''' Me too. All right. I've got some follow-up. All right. This is mostly from questions over the last couple of weeks. So Matt wrote in to say, thank you for answering my question about modular notebook systems for work on this past week's episode. I wanted to update you and let you know what I decided. I got a Galen leather A5 zip folio and some Nakabayashi and Midori A5 dot grid notebook inserts. I put a small piece of washi tape on the front of each insert and then stamped it with the first letter on a different project at work. That way I know which insert belongs to which project and they all fit in a beautiful folio. Yeah.		'''Myke Hurley:''' Me too. All right. I've got some follow-up. All right. This is mostly from questions over the last couple of weeks. So Matt wrote in to say, thank you for answering my question about modular notebook systems for work on this past week's episode. I wanted to update you and let you know what I decided. I got a Galen leather A5 zip folio and some Nakabayashi and Midori A5 dot grid notebook inserts. I put a small piece of washi tape on the front of each insert and then stamped it with the first letter on a different project at work. That way I know which insert belongs to which project and they all fit in a beautiful folio. Yeah.

	'''Brad Dowdy:''' So heck yes. I think kind of the way we ended that or I ended that discussion was to meet your needs. You're going to have to roll your own somehow. Like I don't know clearly what the answer is, but there's going to have to be some building of a system that's going to work perfect for your needs. And I think you found it right. Like you have a folio, you can put it, some of the thinner A5 notebooks like that Midori sells and Nakabayashi sells and have an awesome folio, awesome paper quality and awesome kind of segmentation between the projects, which was kind of the key here. And just like literally have fun building this thing. Right. So I think this, this comes up a lot as people get more experience trying to figure out what they're wanting to use that. We do have a lot of opportunities in the ~~stationary~~ space to roll your own using a few different products to build the perfect thing for you. So that's fantastic.		'''Brad Dowdy:''' So heck yes. I think kind of the way we ended that or I ended that discussion was to meet your needs. You're going to have to roll your own somehow. Like I don't know clearly what the answer is, but there's going to have to be some building of a system that's going to work perfect for your needs. And I think you found it right. Like you have a folio, you can put it, some of the thinner A5 notebooks like that Midori sells and Nakabayashi sells and have an awesome folio, awesome paper quality and awesome kind of segmentation between the projects, which was kind of the key here. And just like literally have fun building this thing. Right. So I think this, this comes up a lot as people get more experience trying to figure out what they're wanting to use that. We do have a lot of opportunities in the stationery space to roll your own using a few different products to build the perfect thing for you. So that's fantastic.

	'''Myke Hurley:''' Gotta love it. All right. Next up comes from Scott, who says a suggestion for Matt. So the previous you mentioned that, although Matt seems good, but this is maybe how other people wanted to do it. They're the same. We're looking for a modular A5 dot grid refill that can take a lot of ink. Definitely check out Levenger's free, free leaf pad. They may, they take all of the ink that you can sling at them with no issues. Do you know this?		'''Myke Hurley:''' Gotta love it. All right. Next up comes from Scott, who says a suggestion for Matt. So the previous you mentioned that, although Matt seems good, but this is maybe how other people wanted to do it. They're the same. We're looking for a modular A5 dot grid refill that can take a lot of ink. Definitely check out Levenger's free, free leaf pad. They may, they take all of the ink that you can sling at them with no issues. Do you know this?

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			\| name = The Pen Addict
			\| number = 610
			\| title = Sorbet Squid
			\| date = April 10th, 2024
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			[[Myke Hurley]]
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	'''Myke Hurley:''' From RelayFM, this is The Pen Addict, episode 610. Today's show is brought to you by Pen Chalet, Unipizza Ovens, and Squarespace. My name is Myke Hurley. I am joined by Brad Dowdy. Hi, Brad. Hello, Myke Hurley. How are you?		'''Myke Hurley:''' From RelayFM, this is The Pen Addict, episode 610. Today's show is brought to you by Pen Chalet, Unipizza Ovens, and Squarespace. My name is Myke Hurley. I am joined by Brad Dowdy. Hi, Brad. Hello, Myke Hurley. How are you?

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