Editing The Pen Addict 375/transcript (section)

== Capital Pen Show Discussion ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' You just sent me, I'm intrigued about it. You sent me a link to an Instagram account called at Capital Pen Show. Uh-huh. It is, as the description says, an exciting new London pen show for 2020 in association with Izod's pens. Um, Izod's are a company in the UK who are one of the dealers of some high-end brands. Like, uh, they, they work, they're like Mont Blanc and stuff like that. So they do a lot of interest in stuff. They have a lot of interest in pens available. Um, they, they work with Robert Oster as well in the UK. They're the authorized dealer, retailer, one of the authorized retailers of Robert Oster in the UK. So like they understand that, I guess that that's the kind of important thing, but they, they seem to be mostly a dealer of some, some brands. Right. So I, I honestly, I'll tell you, I don't know a lot about Izod's.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And like you, I got a link and just a link. And I clicked the link and I saw it was the capital pen show. I'm like, Oh boy, we're going to have to talk about this DC sub show thing again. And it's got like a name. That's totally where my head went when I saw the capital pen show. I was like, Oh man. Right. Because you know, we're the only ones that matter. But, um, this is interesting because it seems to be separate than the, what is it? The London writing equipment show that is now twice a year, right? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cause the London writing equipment society, this is a completely different thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. And they're like, you know, they have the location, they have the dates, they have everything. So I don't know. This is just something to pay attention to. I'm our, Myke and I's interest is certainly peaked because we've talked about this before. Right. Would it be worth it for me to come like over to the, the LWES, which you felt and me seeing, you know, what it was like, didn't seem like it was necessarily like worth a trip. But if this becomes a thing, I don't know. We might have to reconsider that. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. They've got a robot. It was the show Inc London bus red, which looks great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's already built, already made or already in the queue. Yep. But, um, to have a retailer who seems to be, you know, pretty connected behind the show. I'm interested. Let's see what happens here next year. It could be interesting. And we definitely have some friends over there we can talk to and see how it's going and see if we can get some more information, but that would just kind of dropped out of the blue.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I'm, so it says the show will bring together many leading retailers along with some special guests, exclusive products and workshops that will showcase the amazing talent and skills in our industry. The shows for the pain community. Are we the special guests? I don't know. No one's reached out to me. I mean, frankly, I find it almost insulting at this point. Right. You're off the list. But it's going to be June 13th, 2020. I mean, June is always a danger for me anyway, because who knows when I'm going to be in San Jose. It's in central London. It's near Hyde Park. They've got a great location. They've got a great name. The Capital Pen Show is a great name.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm intrigued, to say the least. Right. Because I'm hoping that this will be at least getting to what I think we should have here in London.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Deservedly so. Like, it needs to be a much larger scale. And I think if Tokyo is any indication, I mean, I know the community is much more built in in Japan, but that was their first year last year. And they exceeded, like, every expectation under the sun in how a city like London doesn't really have that destination pen show. Like, there's a few cities in the world that can pull off a destination pen show. London's one of them, and they haven't had that for a long time. It's more just been a local show, essentially. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, interesting. We'll be watching.