Editing The Pen Addict 457/transcript (section)

== Membership Specials ==


'''Myke:''' Yeah, so we're moving all of the bonuses for kind of May time. And as Kate has pointed out, over the last two years, and this year as well, we've raised money for St. Jude in September, and we do a big event called the Podcast-a-thon, which takes a lot of planning. And me and Stephen have realized that it would be much easier for us and everybody else involved if we weren't also, during that exact same period of time, working on our member specials. So we're recording it tomorrow, and it will be coming out in May. The exact date will be communicated a little sooner than the time. But this is also, why are we doing it in April? Well, because Myke has a bunch of these to do, and he wants to space his time out nice and effectively before everything else starts to go haywire.

'''Brad:''' Yep, and this will be haywire on our own. We're good enough at haywire without having scheduled haywire. We can manage that on our own.

'''Myke:''' Yeah, and we planned a little bit better this year in the sense of I didn't just buy whatever set I was interested in and realized it was two to three times the size in pieces, and we have a much more manageable LEGO set. And we will share details about which one and all that kind of stuff a little further on in the future.

'''Brad:''' Yep. I'm looking forward to it.

'''Myke:''' The Retro51 Instagram account is calling us out a little bit. Excuse me?

'''Brad:''' Calling who?

'''Myke:''' Us. Out. Okay. So they posted a great little post. So listen in to the pen addict and I, Myke, and we realized that there's still some confusion about tornado poppers. So here is the official definition. So they have shared the retrocabulary definition of tornado popper. A limited edition tornado designed and produced by Retro51 and sold to multiple participating authorized retro dealers. These unique pen designs get their name from how they pop into stores and then pop out. The designs reflect the latest trends, retro fun, and or latest production techniques to produce a one-of-a-kind design.

'''Brad:''' So number one, they created an entire graphic just to answer this question. Fair play, I will say to them. I like it. Number two, I read this and I'm like, I have no idea what you're talking about. And like, I'm gonna, I'm angry because I'm so confused. And then I read it again and I was like, oh, I completely get it.

'''Myke:''' And this is very similar to me, actually. My initial read on this was BS, right? Like you are creating retroactive continuity here. And then I looked over again and I went through their website and stuff. And they do not call the standard in stock ones poppers. They don't do that. And then I was like, oh, okay. They only refer to poppers when it is a limited edition.

'''Brad:''' Outside of retro limited edition.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. And I don't think this is still the best name. But I appreciate the explanation. I now see why they do it. I still think there is a better name than poppers. Because I still think that poppers indicates a knock mechanism, not a twist mechanism.

'''Myke:''' So, you know, I think that they could maybe come up with a different name there. But I appreciate the explanation. I now understand what a Tornado Popper is. That was the thing we also didn't understand. What is a Tornado Popper? Well, we know now is a limited edition retro 51 Tornado.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, because popper is a very like physical name, right? I click the pen, right? Like it makes sense that that's tied into the popper. But it's actually not related to that at all. No. It's strictly the limited editions they work with for other retailers, for other brands, for the pens like I do. Apparently are poppers. I've never called them that ever. But I would use that term interchangeably as a physical descriptor of the pen as opposed to, you know, this just kind of, you know, limited edition outside of the standard brand work.

'''Myke:''' And I guess that's what makes it a little trickier is they do have multiple types of limited editions that they do. Some are kind of their own and then some are with other retailers or individuals.

'''Brad:''' Right. So here's what we can do going forward. If there's any like historical like issues we have with retro, we can just blame George. Like this is George's fault because he's not there anymore. So we can just blame him. So anything that's like period.

'''Myke:''' We just took over this mess. Yeah. Yeah.

'''Brad:''' This is George's fault.