Editing The Pen Addict 367/transcript (section)

== Interview Question ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so what, if you had to pick, you're going to an interview for the Fountain Pen YouTubers Association, and you have to show off your favorite videos to the association. What are you going to pick to submit?

'''David Parker:''' I am very proud of my Lamy 2000 review. Oh, nice. And that the reason being is because there are a thousand Lamy 2000 reviews out there. You can find tons of Lamy 2000 reviews. And that through my research, something I was very proud of is I was able to come up with some facts that I had never heard in any review. And that mainly it was because the gentleman, Mueller, I believe that was his name, who designed the Lamy 2000. He actually previously used to work for Braun, the shaving company. And that his claim to fame was this specific Braun shaver. And if you look at the Braun shaver that he designed, it looks exactly like a Lamy 2000. It's the same black with the silver up front. It's in essence the same design, but in a pen. And that I had never seen anyone make that connection. And so that was kind of a proud moment for me because I was able to do a review of a pen that a thousand people have done, but yet come up with information that no one had ever heard of. Or at least I hadn't heard of.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm going to tell, let me tell you something right now. Let me stop you right here. I don't watch a lot of video content. The way you describe your video content makes me want to watch all of it. Like, because I've watched, you know, a handful or dozens of videos and they're all just fascinating. But then the things you say about doing the ink with the movie themes and trying to find the story that hasn't been told. You got to watch David's videos, y'all. And I have to do a better job at watching all the videos that he produces because you can hear it. He like really gets it and really is like putting his all into it. And you learn something from it, which I think is the coolest thing. So anyway, I just had to drop that on you right there.

'''David Parker:''' I mean, everyone kind of takes in their information differently. There are certain people that, you know, hey, all I want to do is post to, you know, the Fountain Pen Network and that's all I want to do. And that's perfectly fine. Everyone, you know, consumes in the way they want to consume. Some people love video reviews. Some people like more blogs. And so there's enough content out there for everybody.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. Totally agree. So I'll have to watch the Lamy 2000 video. I have not watched that. I noticed before I talk about my favorites, I noticed that the two, at least if you go by whatever YouTube's popular metrics is, I guess by view count, your video for the fake Montblancs and the pens I regret buying are the two most watched videos. Is that accurate based on the numbers that I saw?

'''David Parker:''' Yes. Those are the two most watched videos. And it's interesting that those are the ones, we'll say with negative titles, but just kind of skewed negative. Yeah, I think that's telling. I was going to bring that up. Absolutely. And I have a tendency to be very positive and that I, you know, I'm a positive person. I like to skew positive. I'm not afraid to tell you my opinion, but there's a way to tell it in a way that doesn't make you feel like I'm yelling at you or going on a rant or making it difficult to listen to. So sometimes you have to kind of listen between the lines to say, okay, he is being a little bit more critical here because I have a tendency to do it in a more genial way.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I'll say on the regret pens, like you would regret the pen, but then you'd give an example of, hey, something similar, but I don't regret or something better, like a better choice.

'''David Parker:''' And that's exactly why, because I didn't want to do a video that was just negative, negative, negative. I hate this pen. I hate this pen. I hate this pen. And so it took me a while to figure out, okay, how do I make that into something more listenable that isn't me just complaining for saying I hate this. So that was my alternative was basically I'd say, hey, this pen doesn't work for me, but this is a pen that's similar that really does. And so I was able to kind of justify it in a way skew positive, even though I was going over pens that really didn't necessarily work for me.