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== Prizes for St. Jude Fundraising ==


'''Myke:''' Yeah. So last year, we kind of did one prize, right? Yeah. It was the custom Lamy Safari from the wonderful Jonathan Brooks. This year, our incredible community of makers and friends. Yeah. We're having to beat them off of a stick. Yes. Wanted to give us stuff.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. Yeah. So I've had this field notes collection that I've wanted to use for something good for quite a while. We've talked about it for years. So now's the time for me to donate my field notes collection. And this is the grand prize. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Releases one through 42 from Butcher Orange to Butcher Blue to Grass Stain all the way up to issue 42. Like you could, they're up to 51 now. You can pick up any, if you want to like really flesh out your collection, you can get all that stuff like for cover price. But this is the old rare stuff, giving them, you know, as a prize to raise money for the kids. Like that's what I wanted to use this for. And I've been holding off on doing it until it was the right time. Now it's the right time.

'''Myke:''' And I'm going to reiterate all of this for you to really land, I think, the magnitude of this prize. Because one person will win the first 42 editions of Field Notes. A sealed three pack of every single one of the first 42. Some of these are just not available. You may be, as the winner of this, the only person with a few of these editions in a sealed three pack, for all I know. Because some of them are that difficult to find. They do not exist anywhere else.

'''Brad:''' I'm sure I'm not the only person with this collection, but this is one of the few collections. This is certainly the only one that you can acquire and without having to pay like through the next.

'''Myke:''' This would be an incredible amount of money to buy. Obviously, we recommend that whoever wins this doesn't try to flip them, you know. But like you do you. It's your gift. It's your prize, I should say.

'''Brad:''' I want money for the kids. You do whatever you want. Fair enough. So, once I mentioned that we were doing this, of course, our wonderful friends in the community started reaching out to donate more prizes for this raffle. Including Jonathan Brooks, once again, is donating. I almost don't know how to explain this, but we're going to call it a Carolina Pen Co. Plus Spoke Pen Pen Pen. So, what this is, is the Spoke Pen Icon, which is the fountain pen. And Jonathan engineered and built an acrylic eyedropper insert for the icon.

'''Myke:''' I want this one.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. So, I'll have pictures of this. So, it's basically a sleeve designed to fit into the Spoke Pen Icon that you can eyedropper. So, that's going to be a giveaway item. So, Jonathan made that special just for this giveaway. I have also a Canalea Pen Co. Kona Cherry, the Myke 2021 Pen of the Year, voted by Pen World readers, I believe that is correct. The Kona Cherry, also one of my personal favorites, courtesy of our friends at Canalea Pen Co. I also have a Kasama Tala in Ultum, which is another personal favorite pen of mine from the wonderful Mark Bacchus, a.k.a. the Nib Griner. And he is kindly donating not just that, but any nib grind you want. A nib grind of choice on that nib that's in the Kasama Tala. Again, I'll have links and pictures when I post this. More details on that in a minute. And, speaking of Ultum, I have a Shone Design Ultum via our good buddy Ian Shone. I think that has a fine steel nib in it. So, this is a really awesome pen that Ian has kindly provided for a giveaway here.

'''Myke:''' It's worth noting, these are all individual prizes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, each one of those pens will be awarded to separate individuals. It's not like one big grand prize.

'''Brad:''' Correct, correct. So, we're going to have a bunch of winners. And we might have more. I'm not telling anyone they can't donate a prize to this between now and September 21st. If someone comes up with September 20th, hey, let's include this. It's going on the page. So, the page will be live on the Pen Addict blog on Thursday. It was when I'm going to actually officially, you know, have everything written up. Have all the pictures. Have all the details and specs of all the products we have so far. Have all the details in case, you know, you didn't quite follow us today. But you're welcome to go ahead, starting today, donate to St. Jude. So, you know, email your receipt to stjudetpenannic.com. And for every $10 you donate, you get one raffle ticket. And we'll be raffling off all of these prizes to individual winners after the closing of this raffle, which is September 21st. So, you know, that's what we have right now. I'm expecting we'll have more. I have irons in the fire trying to get some more items. And I'm sure once this goes live to where I have someone to link it, someone can link to it, we'll hopefully start getting a few more things in. So, I appreciate everyone's support. And I am excited to see what we can do this year, Myke. Me too. So, I checked last year. The Pen Addict was responsible for a little over $11,000. And it was just awesome. So, I have to beat that this year.

'''Myke:''' When we were preparing for our campaign this year with Allsac, which is the fundraising arm of St. Jude, that's the name of it. It's like two separate companies in one, which I'm sure there's a million legal reasons why that has to be the case. But Allsac's entire purpose is to raise money for St. Jude. They specifically mentioned this as one of the important parts of the campaign. The Pen Addict part. The Pen Addict part. Because it raised a lot of money. And so, we would like, you know, this is a podcast focused solely around commercialism.

'''Myke:''' Right? Like, that's what we talk about. Buying things. So, please give a little bit of money, whatever you can, to St. Jude. So, I'll talk you through one last time the way that you go about this. Go to stjude.org slash relay. You make a donation. You'll get sent an email receipt. Forward that email receipt to stjude at penaddict.com. And that will enter you in. Every $10 that you pledge to St. Jude will be one raffle ticket.

'''Brad:''' Yep. Yep. So, last year, I took all the entries. For every $10, you got a line on a spreadsheet. And then, we went over to random.org and picked random numbers. Told it to pick a number between this range. And that's how we did it. So, we'll do it the same way this time.

'''Myke:''' Maybe, Brad, if you were up for it, me and you could get on stream together and do a big grand prize drawing.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. I think we can figure that out. I think we can make that happen. That'd be fun. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.