Editing The Pen Addict 407/transcript (section)

== Introduction ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' From RelayFM, this is The Pen Addict, episode 407. Today's show is brought to you by Pen Chalet and Harry's. I am joined, as always, by the man with the plan, Mr. Brad Dowdy. Hey, Myke Hurley, thanks for having me today. Is that how this works? Mm-hmm. Oh, okay. I appreciate you having me on the show. Oh, good. Thank you. You've had me on 407 consecutive episodes, but I still appreciate it. It is a trade secret that I am actually the owner and proprietor of ThePenAddict.com. It was a poker game, and I won the rights, and that can be entered into the lore of the show. Yeah, yeah, there you go. There you have it. So, appreciate you having me back for the 407th time.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We'll see how you do. Maybe I'll have you back next week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think I'm doing okay, Myke. I'm efforting this Kickstarter pretty well. I'm not going to lie. I'm doing a fine job over here. If I do say so myself. If I do say, in Kickstarter management world, I'm crushing it. Like, this is no Visionaire happening over here. We're not putting India ink in your fountain pens, people.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, except for the part where we have absolutely, completely not been able to fulfill anything at all. We're doing pretty well on this one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is like a total fake Kickstarter. Like, we just did a project to collect money to spend on a different project. Yes. That's where we are right now. Just kidding. Just kidding. I have the pen, Myke. It's here. That's it. Prototype. It's a prototype. It's not the actual thing. Oh, yeah. I don't have 888 of these here. So, that would be quick production. So, I have the prototype. I have signed off on the prototype. I've paid a 50% down payment for the production of the pens. And I'm feeling pretty hyped about it. So, that's where the pen manufacturing is. Now, we're working on the poster manufacturing with Anna and Bob at Skylab Letterpress. So, we have a sneak peek of the poster that, you know, like, again, this is in the early stages. And, you know, the layout could change. And we're working on, I finished out fleshing out the names for the, all the top disks. You know, we're going to have an index, right? We wanted, if we were going to do this pen, we knew, myself included, people would have questions. Oh, what is this? What is this finial design? What is that finial design? And so, part of the campaign is we're also making a poster to give you the index. So, you can look up, say, oh, that's a really neat little top disk. What pen was that from? And that's what this poster will be. So, what do you think about that? It's going to be an 8x10 poster. So, you think you can, you know, maybe big enough to frame, but you can at least hang it and have a reference to it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, I have a question for you. Look into the poster. The poster will be in the show notes if people want to see it. So, there are some blank ones right now. Well, it's, and I'm assuming some of the blank ones are because you don't know the names of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Or we wanted to get the official names, yes. So, that has all been taken care of as of this recording. Excellent. It's not on the physical copy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. The number one, the 1951, was that designed for this campaign?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. Oh. Do you know what number one is?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is pinball, which I thought it was a generic, but it's the bumper. Or it's, you know, the top, not the bumpers, but what are the circular discs that bounce the ball? Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I know what you're talking about. That's actually that design from pinball.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't remember the pinball version. Okay. Yep. So, that is just a 1951 logo. Because I was going to say if they made that for this campaign, then that should be called celebration. Because funnily enough, there isn't a top disc for this pen then.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, 51 is the top disc, but it's the classic retro 51 logo.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I was looking at it the wrong way around. But, okay, so here's the question I'm going to ask them. Have they ever used that logo as a finial design before?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I would wager. So, what you're getting at is can we call it celebration?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'll find out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay. Other than that- That's a good question. I like that question. Any of the blank solid colors, have they all been used?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Any of the blank solid colors?

'''Myke Hurley:''' You see, like, number 34 is just a blue. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, that's part of the design, right? So, under the clip are four solid colors. Red, blue, green, and silver. Those are the original four finial colors from the very first tornadoes that they made. So, there is a historical significance to those.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Amazing. I'm loving learning all these little details.