Editing The Pen Addict 50/transcript (section)

== Vacuumatic Pens ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's, yeah, I think so. I mean, it's fascinating. You, like, can't stop looking at it. It's a fascinating pen. Yeah. It's amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So to come across something like that, I mean, that's amazing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. That's a good point. Yep. And, you know, it's hard to do that on eBay or through a retailer, you know, online, right? Until you can go lay your hands on it, see what it looks like in the light. And, you know, I'm a bad photographer and there's people that take a lot better pictures than I do. And they still sometimes can't do the pen justice because it's a hard thing to photograph, you know, to get all the colors right, to, you know, express that, how a pen really looks to someone else, you know, on a computer screen. So, yeah, doing it in person at a pen show is a huge benefit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Awesome. Is there anything else you want to add today?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't think so. I think I've got so many pens now that I don't know which ones to use. So I guess it's a good problem to have. I definitely have an addiction.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That is a very good problem to have.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. So you can catch up with me and Brad on social networks. I am iMike, I-M-Y-K-E, on Twitter and app.net. Brad is dowdy, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M, on Twitter. Oh, I must mention as well, I was giving Dan Benjamin Pen advice today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Rabbit hole alert.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, somebody tweeted him and was like, now that, because Dan's been sick, he wasn't recording anything last week. Uh-oh. Somebody found the show, our show, and is now a confessed addict. Let me find them. It's Andrew, oh, sorry, Andrew, Saussure. Okay. He tweeted, this is what happens when Dan Benjamin is out for a week. New listener, new habit. And he's got a couple of autographic liners. Oh, cool. So he started off right. Well done, Andrew. Welcome. Yes, well done. And so then Dan was like, you know, what is this? And then was reminded that we do the pen show. And then he was talking about it. I was listening to him on the frequency and he was saying, you know, Myke apparently knows a lot about pens. And Hattie was like, yes, the pen addict. And he was like, mm-hmm, pen addict. And then, so then we were talking, I was like, look, I was like, this, I said, this show is a runaway success, Mr. Benjamin. And he was like, okay, give me some, give me some, some things to buy. So let me tell you all the things that I told him that he should be getting. Okay. Retro 51. Mm-hmm. Lamy Safari. Mm-hmm. TWSB. Mm-hmm. Autographic Liner. Mm-hmm. Hitek C. Mm-hmm. Zebra Sarasa. Mm-hmm. Kurutoga. Oh, perfect. And the Prera and the Koeko. They were, because basically I was just sending him through and he was telling me what he did and what he didn't like. So I think we might follow it up later on this week. But he, yeah, he said he was saying what he liked and what he didn't. And he just finished it with, I guess we need to talk a little bit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' He really liked the retro, which I knew that he would, because everybody would. And he picked out the Space Invader one and thought it was brilliant.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, that's cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And he was like, he sent me a picture of a converter. And he was like, what the F is this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I was like, that's if you want to use bottled ink. So he wants some new pens. So the pen addict is even helping the big boss man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good, good. Well, if he really gets into it, we'll have the big boss man on the show one day.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That would be a good idea, actually. Once I get him, once I sort him out with what he needs to buy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, once we really set the hook, we'll reel him in and get him on the show.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, you can tell us what he thinks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. That's hilarious.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So you can read Brad's site, penaddict.com. I urge everybody to go and read the two-part post. I mean, you've heard a lot of it here, but I really, really enjoyed it. And also you get to see some beautiful images as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it was fun to do. I'm not a part one, part two kind of guy, and it's really not that long. But I did it more because I wanted to give the pens justice. I didn't want to do one huge image post where these pens kind of get lost in the shuffle. So I kind of broke it down into two smaller posts. And they're both up on the site right now and got a lot of good feedback from them. And yeah, it was fun to write up. And it was certainly more fun to make the purchases in the first place. Awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Brilliant. So thank you very much, Mr. Dowdy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. You will refer to me as his Bradness from now on.

'''Myke Hurley:''' His Bradness. His Radness, the Bradness. Yes. And we'll be back next week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, we will.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. Thanks very much for listening.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Talk to you later.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Bye-bye.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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