Editing The Pen Addict 350/transcript (section)

== Brad's Hangover ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' This will be an extra noisy episode. Mostly, though, because we're cheering for our 350th episode, which I'm pretty happy about.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Brad celebrated too hard at the Pen Addict 350th episode party last night, and now he's in a sniffly situation.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, totally hungover. Like, I'm wrecked. It was a party of one last night, Myke.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. Well, congratulations to us both. They probably said it couldn't be done, but here we are, 350 episodes into this little show about pens. Mm-hmm. We, again, we started this show all the way back in February 2012, so we've been going for seven years and one month, which is an absolutely astounding thing to think about, which is, I think, even more impressive than 350, the span of time that this show has taken. And, you know, we'll probably say a little bit more towards the end of the show, but we couldn't do this without the support of our listeners. So thank you all so much for everything that you do for us, for tuning in every week, and for backing our Kickstarter campaign. We are very close to breaking all of the records. So we mentioned last week that this is the most subscribed to financially Kickstarter campaign that we have ever done on this show. Mm-hmm. We're going to be away from our most subscribed in backers campaign of all time, which is absurd and amazing. But I know the reason. It's because this case is so dang good. And we now have a link in the show notes to a Kickstarter update, which shows prototype images of the Burton A5 case, which is bigger, better, and more wonderful than you'd ever imagined. Brad had forgotten to tell anyone, including me, that the case actually was padded, which is nice. I think that's pretty cool. But you can now take a look at the images so you can see kind of just what fits in one of these cases. And, oh, boy, it's a lot. Like, a Hippo Noto and a Nanami Crossfield, two huge A5-ish books and a bunch of pens. And, yeah, so you can fit an absolute ton of stuff in one of these cases. So it's still time to go and back the campaign. And you should, especially because we have stickers. We spoke about those before, too. So we're going to be doing a sticker sheet at the very kind of top-tier level of the campaign. So if you go for, like, the case and the videos, you also get a sticker sheet. The sticker sheet is also going to be in the show notes. And it is amazing. It is amazing. It's crazy good. So you can go and check that out as well. This is, like, what is it, six stickers? So there's all of our heads and a taco sticker and a waffle sticker and a Golden Gate Bridge sticker as well. Anna is absolutely, like, just knocked it out of the park. So you will get those and the case and the videos if you go in for the big top-tier. So, yeah, thank you so much to everybody who has backed so far. And if you're still on the fence, I hope that these images and all of these details that are on the Kickstarter page now will help push you over the edge.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, we're in real trouble here, right? I mean, you know why. Why? I mean, this is, like, peak level goods for this campaign. Like, this seems like the pinnacle of what we've ever done. Oh, so we're in trouble for next year. I'm already sweating next year, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, we got that. We got that on lock. We got next year taken care of already. I'm not worried about that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do we?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. Yeah, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because when I got this case out of the envelope that it shipped to me, I was like, oh, man, this is so good. It was like, and then I, like, within five minutes, I was like, oh, man, how are we going to beat this next year? Because we're really putting a lot of money into this case this year. Like, this is, like, probably, we probably didn't set this up right for what this case is really, you know, costing and is really worth and what's going to sell for eventually. But that's not why we do this. We do this just to have enough money to, like, do these travels, right? This is not a profitable venture for us. So we're, like, happy to, like, I'm totally thrilled to do that. But I, like, worry. It's like, man, I've really set myself up for next year, haven't I?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, you know, you clearly, you're the brain that came up with it. So you can do it again. But we have plans. We have ideas. We do. We do. We have some good stuff in the hopper. Some things that we were hoping to do this year but couldn't do. But they're going to be amazing. So we have those in the hopper for a future year. So you can go back to the campaign. All the links in our show notes, relay.fm slash penaddict slash 350. Or you can search for The Pen Addict on Kickstarter and you will find what you need there. So thank you to everybody that's backed. And we're really excited because we think we've got something amazing for you all this year. And I think you're going to love it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, quick San Francisco show table update. I got my table paid for it this morning.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, that's good news.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I got an email, like, yesterday. Hey, Brad, did you need a table? That was the extent of the email. It's like, hey, we got all your messages or anything or that. It's like, did you need a table? I'm like, yeah, I need a table. So then they sent me the invoice and I paid for the table. So we're good. We're in business. Thank you. Good news. Poof. Poof.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So should we move on?