Editing The Pen Addict 53/transcript (section)

== Music Preferences ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Official show mascot, Kanuni Raneshin. I have one for you both. The most embarrassing music track that you're happy to admit to. I guess this is something that we love. I think that maybe even saying that the very best of the Beach Boys is on my Desert Island Discs, it might be bad enough. I don't know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, well, this is actually really easy for me because I have a six-year-old daughter and, you know, you can name any music that, you know, a six-year-old girl will be into. But mine and her – our jam right now is we're into Taylor Swift. We are never, ever getting back together.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, there's a –

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We rock it out on some Taylor Swift right now, so I'm not too embarrassed to admit that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Brad is an unfortunate person to have on your RDO friends list as he ruins the heavy rotation.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's – you know what? If there's one thing that drives me crazy, it's that. And, you know what? There's nothing I can do about it because my – between my wife and kids getting into my RDO account, it's like ruin. Like everything at the top is, you know, Taylor Swift and One Direction. And, you know, now I get these notifications for like, you know, you might like or here's some new albums, you know, from One Direction. I'm like, oh, man, y'all are killing me. So, yeah, you have to dig a little deeper in my RDO listening because, yeah, they – you know, with the kids, the short attention span, there's probably about 10 songs that are in heavy rotation. And we're talking like five times a day each. So it definitely skews everything.

'''Myke Hurley:''' How do you physically store your pens and equipment from Brian Esposito? I think we've covered that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yeah. Tupperware, basically. But, no, I use like the large storage bins. I think we covered it. That works best for me right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' At Uncle Larry, 1112 – 112, I think. I'm not sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Sorry. I really screwed you up on these. I think that's probably – it's probably just Uncle Larry. I think that looks like some kind of minute thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' 11,218 minutes ago. So, ever use Clairefontaine 3.5 by 5.5 side staple notebooks? Cheaper than Field Notes and more fountain pen friendly but are thicker. I think it might be safe to say that both me and Brad don't use Field Notes just for their paper qualities. Like, they are great but we love the designs and the collectibleness of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right, right. And I think – I know which Clairefontaines he's talking about and I think I haven't used them because I don't think they come in graph. I think they might only come in lined. I will double check and if I'm wrong about that, I will order some because I definitely would like to check those out. I think I know which ones you're talking about. I've looked at them and I think I passed over them for that reason but I could be mistaken. But I'll check back into that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Theodore Liu has asked two questions. What's your favorite second fountain pen? If someone has a typical entry pen like a Preppy or Safari, what would you recommend to them next? I think we covered that earlier.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, well, I would like to elaborate though and say, you know, look at – we talked about the Pereira but I would look at the TWSBI, the TWSBI 580. It's a good price point. There's a lot of value in that pen, you know, as far as what you can do with it and the quality is great. It's a really good second fountain pen. That's the one I'd move – like if you're going Lamy Safari for – it's kind of your entry-level pen. And I'd look at a Pereira and I'd look at a TWSBI very, very hard.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Favorite use of or seen with a pen in a movie? Mine is the explodable Parker ballpoint from Goldeneye.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, see, I've got nothing on this. This is one I actually looked at and thought about.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I can't come up with anything. I can't come up with anything.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And he – and Theodore is given his – the open interrogation scene in Inglourious Bastards. A very close second is the tank scene from Indie Free.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I'll have to think about that. I do have a favorite book – a favorite book paper scene.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Go for it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is just a brag. My sister is a bookbinder in the movie The Good Shepherd. It's about a particular book and she actually made those books as props for that movie. So that's pretty cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That is very cool. That is very cool. Okay, rapid fire.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I like this one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Black or blue ink?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Blue.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Black cap or retractable?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Retractable.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cap, even though I never post them. Highlight or underline? Line. Highlight. Underline. Cursive or print?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Print.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Cursive.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is why this show is so good. We're on the exact opposite so far.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I kind of go in between both. Lined or graph or dots?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Graph.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Dots. Even though I don't use enough of them. It's just my preferred of all of those. Staples, glue or spiral?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a tough one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' For me it's staples because there's a lefty. There's never any issues.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm going to go staples as well on that one.