So this week I had the honor to be a guest on the Pen Addict Podcast. Normally the PA podcast is recorded live with Brad and Myke, but when someone is going to be out on vacation, there are occasionally pre-recorded episodes, and this week I was the lucky guest.
It was my first time being on the other side of the podcast so to speak, and I enjoyed that aspect. I have a much greater appreciation of what is involved ever since starting up the DWRDNET Stationery Feed, so I loved to see what the guest side of the podcast experience is like. The PenAddict is an audio only podcast, but we did record on Zoom, so in all reality, if felt like chatting with a friend more than a recording.
Brad asked about how I got into the hobby and more all the way up to how the podcast got started, and then we also talked about other stationery interests as a whole. I got to touch on my first ever trip to Vanness, as well as being fortunate to have some local stores like The Gentleman Stationer or Butler Stationery in town, which were not around when I first got into the hobby in 2013.
As the title of this post and the podcast reference, we did get into the latest adventure into typewriters. That is a part of the stationery world that has really clicked with me lately, and I liked to be able to talk through some of that. We talk about how I have started to take some of the typewriters out of a new local bookstore (The Raven Book Lounge), and use them for letters or journaling while sitting at the bar. We talked about my interview with Richard Polt of the Typewriter Revolution as well as gave the shout out of the week to Michelle Geffken of Paperblogging.com. Both of these podcast episodes were linked in the show notes, and since both Richard and Michelle are also fountain pen users, it really shows how we all approach the hobby from different paths, but there are many common things that are there if you take some time to inquire about them.
We touched on my journey into pen making as well, and I was able to give some proper shoutouts and credit to people like Nic of Pens By Pasquale, who really helped me get started down that aspect of the stationery hobby.
So let me know what you think of the episode in the comments, and if there is anything that we talked about that you would like to see a post about or more information, please leave that below as well.