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== Pelican Hubs Event ==


'''Myke:''' You know what else works for me, Myke? Pelican hubs are back. This is another event you could go to.

'''Brad:''' There's probably some, some good access in this to be honest.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. But you know what? It's one of the coolest things that a manufacturer does for the community. Like I am shocked continually that how big this is and how such a good job Pelican does. And what this is, if you're not familiar, because we haven't talked about them in years because they were not being run due to, you know, pandemic reasons for since 2019 was the last time that they did it. But Pelican will do an annual event where they say, hey, sign up if you want to, you know, coordinate like a little club meeting in your area. And Pelican will essentially kind of sponsor the meeting by sending you, you know, paper and inks and, you know, Pelican samples and things like that just for your little get together. And it's a worldwide event. There's groups that get together, you know, from all over and meet up. And it's like a little pen club meet up. And Pelican has done such a great job. And in years past, they were sending like entire bottles of their ink of the year inks to, you know, like if you had 10 people at your meeting, they'd send you 10 inks. If you had 44 people at your meeting, they'd send inks for everybody. I think they did kind of wind that down because it was getting to be really, really big and expensive to do. But Pelican is really in on this kind of community aspect for pens and stationery. It's something I can really, really appreciate. I've never been to one myself. There's usually one in Atlanta. I think reading the requirements, as long as you have seven people, you like you can run a hub. Like I could run one here in Macon if I felt I could get like seven pen friends into Macon and did one. Or some of the bigger ones, you know, rent out a room at a restaurant or meet, you know, at different places for these get together. So they're really cool. They're back. Joshua at the Pelican's Perch has all the details. We'll have a link in the show notes if y'all are interested. The kicker this year, it's twofold. One, it's moved later in the year. It's moved into November. Normally they're in September. And two, you have to sign up by August 21st, a.k.a. Brad's birthday, to be able to participate. So they've pushed out the date of when they will take place, but move forward the date for when you have to sign up. Like from their announcement time to sign up time is less than three weeks. So if that's something you're interested in, you need to go read this information and get to signing up. So it's something I need to look at. I need to look at the November calendar, see if I can sign up, see what's going on in Atlanta. I probably wouldn't try to do one here, but, you know, maybe I could do something in Atlanta. So I keep threatening to do one. And then it's been a few years since I've had the opportunity to try. So maybe we'll try again here soon in 2022.

'''Brad:''' When you said that about your birthday, I involuntarily threw my hands up in the air. Why? So what? It's got nothing to do with anything.

'''Myke:''' That's why it was good to just sneak in there. Yeah, you nailed it because it got me.

'''Brad:''' I was just like, so?

'''Myke:''' I'm very talented that way.

'''Brad:''' You really are. You're a professional.

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