Editing The Pen Addict 154/transcript (section)

== Kickstarter Video ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good, good. Before we get totally locked in with all the stuff we have in today's wonderful show for everyone, I'd like to relay my feels if I have a minute.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, please do that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so I watched our video from last week and we'd already seen it, you know, the pre-release version, but I watched it again. And man, that was such a good time. I love that video.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, the video is now out. Like for Kickstarter backers, if you haven't seen it, go to Kickstarter and you can find out about the video. Just log in and there'll be an update waiting for you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so we released that last week and I think everyone should have that in their inbox. Give us a lot of good feedback and we'd love to hear more if you're still watching it. But I was getting pictures of it, like people watching it on their big screen TV. I'm like, oh my goodness.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, how great.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And everyone seemed to enjoy the after show, which was not available on the regular podcast feed. That was my favorite bit, actually. It came out really well. It was just an off-the-cuff kind of a chatting thing. And it came out really well. So, yeah, I wanted to mention that primarily because you talked a lot about the Pen Show on Analog, your podcast with Casey Liss. And this week's episode that just came out yesterday, Analog number 39. You want to talk about that for a second? And everyone can chime in and listen to that. And it's a lot of stuff you've covered here, but you did take it a little bit different route on that show, which everyone should go listen to.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I mean, we spoke on the show and we spoke in the episode afterwards about how great it was to spend time with everyone and stuff like that. But there was a topic that I wanted to cover and felt that Analog was a good place for it where it was kind of just like talking about nerdiness. Because Analog is a show that's focused towards the Apple tech crowd, right? Right. Where we're traditionally nerds and geeks, right? That's the thing. Although this stuff is now more cool again. You know, computers are cool now. Right. But, you know, we're still very nerdy about the things that we're nerdy about. But because we're all, because it's like this big community that I'm a part of, everybody that's in that community doesn't really see it as nerdy anymore. Because we're, you know, from a point, because we're all in it together. And whenever I go to these conferences, I'm so used to them now that they just seem like a normal type of thing, like conferences and events. But when I was at the pen show, I was able to re-experience the extreme nerdiness. Especially because it's a community that I'm part of. I definitely skew with the stuff that I do more in the tech community than in the pen community. Sure. Where, you know, you're definitely more in the pen community, right? Because 100% of your output, basically, is in the pen community. Yeah. Where the pen addict is maybe one sixth or one seventh or something like that of my output. So it's really interesting to go and be around people. And just the thing that I usually can only talk about once a week, I could talk about constantly for an entire weekend in the complete, completely unabashed and as totally as much as I want. And it was fantastic. And it was nice to talk to Casey about it as well, because obviously Casey wasn't there and he didn't really have a lot of frame of reference for it. So it was nice to talk to him about it as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I thought it was a good conversation and how you and Casey were trying to tie it into somewhere where you both had been like WWDC and how does these types of things compare and what the differences are. And, you know, how they compare and contrast. So it was a really good listen. I thought y'all did a good job. So everyone who listens to this should definitely check it out if they don't already.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's in the show notes. Yeah. And added to the show notes, we had several mentions since we released the Kickstarter video about getting the giveaway pins out to everyone. And I'll probably do that later this week. We've got three cool sets of pins or three cool pin packages to give away. And I'll put all the details on the Kickstarter page for backers. And I'm also going to send out the survey this week because the cases are well along in production. So I want to go ahead and get everyone's address. Definitely.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The pictures of me making the cases haven't been released yet, have they?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. Have you seen them? We're going to do that after. If people start complaining, we have these blackmail pictures. But no, I have not seen them. So I'm not sure I want to at this point.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, no, no. They're really good. It's just they're great. But they're not like they're weird or anything. But there was like some pictures of me doing them like it was daytime, right? And then we're like, these aren't dramatic enough. So then Jeff shut the garage door. So it looks like I'm basically cutting the flaps from because they're all sewn together. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Right. I'm cutting them in the dark, basically, of just one little lamp. And it looks like I've kind of, you know, just been left in the shop all evening. They're really good pictures, though. They're really good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've got to check them out. Yeah. So we have all had all you have to handle everyone's cases or at least a lot of them. So, you know, these cases are definitely hardcore pen addict podcast cases. They have all of our love. Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They were at the party. They're hanging around with us. Can we talk about the giveaway now? Sure.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just don't have all the details in front of me for I know pretty much what we have, but I think there's kind of some side items and I want to get the names right of the pens and things like that. But, I mean, we can talk about it in general terms if you want. Sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So you don't want to talk about the pens themselves?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Let's do it next week so I'm prepared and have specifics, but I'll post it out there. And I don't know, maybe we can announce it next week on the show or something like that. I think we should do it on the show.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think that would be a good idea. All right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I will put all the items out in Kickstarter just so everyone knows what the things are and then we'll announce the winners on next week's episode. I like that idea.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's democracy, folks. Democracy in action.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, it is. Yeah. You would think Myke and I would talk and plan these shows beforehand, but, you know, that's how we roll here at the Pen Addict Podcast. Yep. Episode 154. Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, he's worked for us for 154 episodes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' If it ain't broke, don't fix it, my friend. That's right. That's right. All right. I got...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, whilst we're on the subject of feelings and stuff like that, there is an interesting thing in there, which is how, like, I mean, I know that I have felt it recently. It's like, you know, I miss you because we don't get to talk very often because of the way, even though, like, our days line up a bit, they still don't line up very well. Right. I mean, mine and your day lines up better than you and anybody else in America. Right. But, you know, so it does always suck to me, you know, we actually don't get a lot of time to talk, which is one of the reasons I think we both enjoy doing the show so much because we actually get a couple of hours of each other's time every week. But... Yeah, I think so. It is tough. And sometimes... The show doesn't suffer, but sometimes it can be difficult. Sometimes it is tough for us to get the show prepped because, yeah, it just is. I need to be alright, I think, as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, no, I mean, you know, it's... Like I said, you know, we've been doing this a while now. We kind of know what each of us bring to the table and how it's going to work. You know, we both show up knowing what the other one's going to do for the most part. And I think we have it handled pretty well, you know, as far as I'm concerned. And, you know, every now and then, you know, I get a little bit worried. Do we have enough content to, you know, fill up a whole show? And every time I worry, we always do, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, because as we're talking, I'm adding more and more things that are popping into my head.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We've already added... Since we've come on Skype, our togetherness, we've already added, like, three new items. Yeah, we're good.