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== Kickstarter Update ==


'''Brad:''' Because you're not shipping right now? You're doing something other than shipping?

'''Myke:''' Well, I have one less panic shipping item on my list, which is the NotCo Wax Canvas Kickstarter. That is officially closed. Hooray! We have Katie barred the door and... You've done what? Knocked that one out. Don't worry about it. What'd you do? Katie barred? Katie barred the door. Yeah. What is that? Oh, that's, just look that up on the internet, not now, and you'll figure out that this is probably an entire UnGenius podcast. So, that actually should go to the top of your UnGenius list for all the issues that phrase can cause. So, anyway, we knocked that one out, no pun intended, by we meaning I did. And, so, yeah, I shipped everyone who I had an address for. I have 27 orders I'm going to be hunting down. And then, probably tomorrow, I'll release the remaining extras. So, anyone who missed out on that, you should sign up to the NotCo newsletter to know when they are live on the site. So, I should have, you know, a decent amount if you missed it. You know, you'll want to get it in the first few days, kind of thing. And then, yeah, that's a wrap on that. Because the spoke pen, Myke, is taking up all my time in the best way possible.

'''Brad:''' Just before we move to the spoke pen, I just wanted to state for the record, because I think it's quite an important achievement, that you actually completed this campaign within the estimated delivery time.

'''Myke:''' Yes.

'''Brad:''' Now, that's a rare thing to do with Kickstarter. So, I just wanted to point that out, because, you know, good job.

'''Myke:''' Thank you. I thought about that when I was typing up the final update. I was going to go and look at the dates that I had promised and all that stuff. And which I was, like, very happy with the dates, like, as we scheduled. And then it went well. Like, it was efficient. There were no mistakes. We didn't get, you know, 900 pens and have to return them all because they weren't numbered. You know, things that you don't anticipate or put in your schedule.

'''Brad:''' You didn't have global pandemic that canceled all of the events that you were planning on doing. That kind of stuff.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, I am happy with how it went. I'm happy with the cases. I'm happy with the feedback on the cases. Everything around it went as intended, which you can't really ask for more than that when you're dealing with a Kickstarter, right?

'''Brad:''' I would completely agree. I think you did a good job.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. Yeah. Can I talk about SpokePen now? Yes, please. Just to not get too far ahead of ourselves, I'm going to talk about a lot of other people today because I'm tired of talking about my stuff and your stuff. Okay. So, we're going to talk. We're going to give a lot of shout outs today on some other stuff. But I do have to give these updates, right? So, the SpokePen has gone extremely well too. And we're still on track with our nibs. But let's just say our big round of nibs that we ordered to get into the second round has taken a circuitous route. Is that the word? Circuitous route to me. They are currently, well, as of yesterday, they were vacationing in Hawaii.

'''Brad:''' Oh, so they're not stuck in the Suez Canal.

'''Myke:''' They're not stuck. You've seen this, right? They're not stuck on the Ever Live. Or is it Ever Live? Oh, my God. I saw this and it was like- It's fascinating.

'''Brad:''' It makes me feel ill now because I know what this means for people, right? Like in a way that I never would have really cared before. It's like, oh, whatever. Like stuff's going to get delayed. But I can so imagine having products on a boat that's stuck somewhere because it's a stupid container ship. Yeah.

'''Myke:''' But yeah, I'm so pleased that I don't have to deal with that route anymore. If this was on a live stream, I would watch it 24-7. Yeah. I am covered up with this right now. I'm checking the shipping routes. I'm checking the backlog in the various entries and exits. Is it still stuck as of this morning? I haven't timed it.

'''Brad:''' As far as I'm aware, yes, it is still stuck. Yeah.

'''Myke:''' This is an amazing- And it's going to end up being not a joke here. After yesterday was kind of a joke, it's very quickly turning into not a joke on what's actually happening.

'''Brad:''' Like if you look at all of the ships that are now stuck waiting for this thing, it's getting pretty serious.

'''Myke:''' It's getting dicey. So anyway, my nibs are not in the Suez Canal. That's good news. They were one day from being delivered to me. And then the next day, they were in Hawaii. And therefore, we have gone ahead and ordered a backup set of nibs, a much smaller order. We had a very large order of nibs heading my way that is now vacationing. And the secondary small order just to release some of the order pressure should be here today. Right.

'''Brad:''' So the original order you don't have, but you've got a new order that's arriving.

'''Myke:''' A new small order, but it's arriving for me to then ship them out to get etched. Right. So it's a process. But I have to have the nibs before I can get them etched. And it's like a quick, it's, you know, pretty quick turnaround. Um, but we had to basically just take what was remaining, get them overnighted and just try to get some of these orders out. We're still, even the, the vacation nibs are still like, they're still within, you know, our early April timeframe. So we're not too worried about it as long as they actually do, um, get on a return flight and make it to my house. Right. So, um, that's, that's where we're at with fulfillment, but otherwise we're shipping everything, everything else is out. Lots of roadies, lots of pencils, lots of, uh, lots of good stuff going on in, in the spoke world right now. So very happy. Thank you all for all of your continued support. Um, had a roadie restock last week, sold buckets of those. Did you see the flame one? The flame one?

'''Brad:''' Yeah. Yeah.

'''Myke:''' Brian is all about that one. It sold super well. It's a hot rod. We have some, it's a hot rod. Yeah. We have some, we have a new one he showed me yesterday that I won't spoil, but like, I'm very happy with it. Uh, so yeah, it's, uh, spoke is, uh, in full production mode right now, which is great.

'''Brad:''' Good.