Editing The Pen Addict 158/transcript (section)

== Field Notes ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm good, I'm good. We're going to talk about the new Field Notes today, because I got mine in hand. I'm so very jealous. It's pretty impressive. We're going to talk about that later. And we're going to talk about just stuff in general, and as a topic, just the topic of stuff. Because I've had an interesting week in my mailbox, like, the past five days, so I kind of want to talk about that. And it can take on a lot of different forms once we talk about that. Cool. But we have some killer follow-up this time, though, because our hashtag AskTPA worked like a champ. See, I told you. Okay, I am so happy about this hashtag, because I am very guilty on this podcast of losing track of things I want to talk about. But especially communication that comes in via form of a tweet, an email, some other kind of message somewhere on Instagram or Slack. And, you know, I have a document I can put all these things in, but I have to go manually. Number one, I have to remember to do it. And then I have to copy it into the place where I'm going to keep it. And, you know, I am bad about forgetting, you know, I just, my mind's going a thousand miles an hour, and I just forget sometimes. So this hashtag AskTPA, I went and looked last night for the spreadsheet, and you would put it in there, because we hadn't even talked about, how am I going to get these out? And I looked, and I saw you had it all set up. It's got everything right there that I need to just grab from and go for. So I appreciate everyone who's using the hashtag AskTPA on Twitter. It really works well.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'll give you a top tip as well. Okay. When people tweet questions to me, and they don't use it, I reply to them and use it. So at least my tweet comes up, and then I can follow the conversation chain, because it has the link in the spreadsheet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, that's a really good idea. So keep those questions coming via AskTPA. If you send one in, and I don't get to it, that doesn't mean I've ignored it. It just means, you know, there's some days I can go through some quicker than others. Some result in larger topics, so it might come down the line. So this is a really, really good thing for us to, you know, kind of stay on top of the things that you guys want us to hear us talk about or questions you want us to answer and things like that. So it's very, very good. So how about we get into some AskTPA follow-up?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Sounds like a great idea.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. This one's for you, Myke, because I already know the answer. This is from a real Leah to Z. All right. First question. When will we have the Pin Addict with video?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Maybe once a year.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Really? I was going to go with never. Well, I mean... Because I know you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If, you know, if we do Atlanta again, then I would like to film it. We probably wouldn't have the same production that we had this time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that was serious business. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because it's unlikely. I don't know, but I feel like it's unlikely that we would do a Kickstarter. Maybe we could do a Kickstarter every year. I don't know that yet. I haven't made my mind up about that. We haven't even spoken about that. But I would like to do the video. You know, it might even be that we sell the video every time, so we don't do the Kickstarter, but we pay up front, then we can pay the video production. But if we ever do shows in person, me and you, then I think it's nice to video them. I don't feel that way about my other shows. So we're recording this a little bit early, but I'm in San Francisco, as you are hearing this. And I'll be recording a bunch of shows in person with people, but we don't video those because there's nothing to get out of it. But with the pen addict, you get to see the stuff that we're talking about, the pens and that kind of thing, and we can do all the extra stuff that we did with the Atlanta videos. So I think it makes sense there. If I was ever going to do video components to a show, the pen addict would probably always be first because it makes the most sense. But, I mean, I have absolutely no plans of getting into video podcasting. Yes. Like, just full stop. I just have none.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, there will never be a video podcast. There might be bonus video footage or something special we do once in a while. This will never be a video podcast ever, ever. Just because, yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It would have to change so fundamentally it would be a different show at that point.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I want to backtrack a little bit and rewind because you mentioned it. We're actually recording early, and this will be heard by everyone on Wednesday. So I want to congratulate you on the podcast you launched last week with John Syracuse and Merlin Mann doing Reconcilable Differences, which was killer. I listened to that last night, and then I chimed into the new CGP Grey and Myke Hurley. What's that one called? Cortex. Cortex. I wanted to call it chronic, which you kind of need to be onto that. It was amazing. And I actually sicked the pen addicts on CGP Grey this morning because he posted a picture of his Retro 51, which I think you got him to buy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I made him buy it, and he had some things that he wasn't sure about. So I actually – he is currently the owner – not the owner, but he is the caretaker of one of my Karis Custom inks. Oh, okay. I gave him the one with the Retro 51 refill in it. There you go. He felt the Retro 51 was a little short, but the fact that he posted a picture of it today tells me that he still maybe prefers that to the Karis.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so I gave him a thumbs up on the pen and a thumbs down on the legal pad he was using, so we're going to have to work on that. Oh, I'm working on all of that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Don't worry. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I sicked the pen addicts on him unknowingly this morning. And so anyway, congratulations on a big week, and it's really amazing. Happy to be a part of the Relay family, seeing stuff like that, that you and Steven are kicking some butt. So I should have dropped that in at the beginning, but I forgot. All right. Back to the Ask TPA follow-up, and this is also from Aurelita Z. Just wondering why you guys never mentioned John Mottashaw or Richard Bender when talking about nib customization in the pen show, because they rarely come. Mottashaw, I think, does like two shows a year, LA, maybe DC. His work's awesome. When I buy from nibs.com and get something modified, he's the one who does it, so he's wonderful. Bender is, he might even be retiring. I know he went to Raleigh this year, but he rarely goes to a show, and I've never had any work done from him. And, you know, there's just plenty of other options that are easily, more easily accessible and do just as good as work as Mottashaw or Bender. And I have talked about Richard Bender two pen shows ago where he worked on one of my nibs just to adjust it, and I didn't like it. But that wasn't really a customization. That was just a tweak.