Editing The Pen Addict 121/transcript (section)

== Brad Doughty ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So what else has been going on in the world of Brad Doughty? That's what I want to know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I've been a busy boy. So XOXO was two weekends ago. This weekend was our fodder stack fall festival at Nock where we, uh, we opened the doors to the fair wage sauna. And, uh, let everyone in and showed them around the shop and, you know, uh, got to meet a bunch of customers and fans and all of our families came. Uh, Jeff and I had a really good, um, really mind bogglingly good turnout to this. And, uh, the positivity around, uh, the shop on Saturday was something I haven't experienced yet. And it just kind of validated that we're doing something right. And, you know, we had people driving from Tennessee and from North Carolina, South Carolina coming to visit us. Um, it was pretty unreal that, uh, people would take the time to drive all these hours to, uh, come by our, our, our little shop and then watch us make cases. And we, you know, we had some giveaways and, um, you know, we did a pin swap and we cooked for everyone and, uh, just really kind of hung out, had a good time. It was quite an event. And I think we can, uh, safely say it was a success. And that just gives us the, the motivation to do it, uh, even bigger the next time it was kind of an open house event. So you could just kind of drop by and, um, it was unbelievable. Every, everyone was great. And, um, you know, uh, maybe, you know, next year we do it bigger. And then maybe the year after that, we can go on like a world tour so we can come visit all you guys. How's that sound?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Do that. I would like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Not co world tour. So, and, uh, Patrick, I want to come. You can come. Maybe we'll come to you. Um, you know, up in, up, up in your neck of the woods, that would be a good place to come for sure. Oh, dude. I got a place for you to stay too. Oh, I'm there. I'm there. So Patrick was teasing me, uh, before this episode about a prototype that we made. Um, we've teased it on, um, we teased it on our Instagram feed. Actually, Jeff teased it. It was kind of the, we've gone through about three or four prototypes of this. Um, I don't know. I guess you would call it a folio type case. We haven't, we haven't named it yet because we don't know if we're going to deliver on it yet, but, um, it's getting, uh, some positive reviews. We made one, we gave one away. We had a raffle. Um, we made one that day. We keep tweaking the design a little bit. So we wanted to update the design and we gave one away that day.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' Um, so you definitely should have come Patrick, but, um, man, I'm just, I'm, I'm heartbroken.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So it's like this little folio case. It can fit like two memo books or a memo book and some note cards on the right side. Um, can fit, you know, business cards. It's got a pin slots on the left side and it zips close and it's got two pockets behind the main pockets.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' So it's just one of these things that the moment you see it, you're going, yes. Why didn't you make this all along? Why, why wasn't this part of the launch? Like, you know, you could have kickstarted that alone and made your goal.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like seriously. Yeah, I think so. And, you know, I don't know if we'll like kickstart any new not code designs, but that's a thought. I actually hadn't even considered that.

'''Patrick Rhone:''' Look, if, if a writer Carol can make like 35 grand or whatever it's up to now off of a new website and some videos, you can do the folders or the, or the, or the, or the fully of, Oh yeah. We got to come up with a name for this. Yeah. The folio case, uh, uh, Kickstarter seriously.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So it's, it's gotten really, we, we broke it out, um, around this group of people, um, at the shop this weekend and, uh, feedback was super positive and we got about three different designs out there right now. So we're, we're still working on finalizing what we want that to be. But, um, a lot of people want some, um, some type of zip, um, zip case too. So that kind of solves that problem and holds pins and holds notebooks. So it's, uh, kind of a cool thing. And this is, uh, my partner, Jeff just comes up with this stuff, um, mostly off the top of his head. And he gets an idea, breaks out the fabric and the scissors and just starts going to town. And he goes, look what I made. And I'm like, this is awesome.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And that happens a thousand more. Yeah. That happens more than you can believe. So, uh, I'm, I'm lucky to have a partner like Jeff in this business. Um, he, uh, we're, we're a good team. That's for sure. So it was good. It was good. Uh, man, I've been busy. I've been busy. It's been some good weeks and Myke, you haven't been busy. You've been lounging on the beach in Italy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like I'm bouncing across the country and I get texts from Myke with his, with his pasty legs out on the Italian beach under the umbrella.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Hey, they were still out. Hey, I was jealous, man. Pasty or not, those, those bad boys are out.