Editing The Pen Addict 82/transcript (section)

== Anderson Pins Podcast ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So, Anderson, how are you, buddy? You sound a bit clogged up today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so I've got the plague or the SARS or something. I've just got a bad head cold, and it's just – if anyone watched the Anderson Pins video from last night and you saw, I had a little cough started, and it's ramped up quite considerably since then. So, if you catch me – if I don't catch my mute button in time today, I apologize. But, yeah, feeling a little under the weather, but I was excited to get this show going today. So, we've got a lot of cool topics to talk about.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, we're talking about – so, I mentioned here that we've got the Anderson Pins podcast, which you were on, and I've listened to about 25 minutes of the show because it's 100 minutes long, which is awesome. So, one thing for anybody that doesn't know – I mean, people know the Andersons, right? If they listen to the show. I'd say for the most part. Yeah, we spoke about them a couple of weeks ago that they're about to open their own pen store, and they're a husband and wife, right? Yes. As a husband and wife team, I found it kind of amusing because I assumed that they were in different rooms of their house to record the show, which kind of made me smile, if that's the case. Yes. And they had you on, and you were talking about the show, and you said very nice things about me in the show, which was awesome. And up to where I am at the moment, you've basically just shown off the knock cases in video form, which is kind of cool for people that haven't – well, nobody's really seen them in the way that you showed them, I think. So, that was nice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Actually, now that you say that, there's a couple models that we've finished that are completely manufactured that I don't think I've shown, other than the static photos. There were some of the static photos on the Kickstarter, but yeah, I showed up, showed some of the cases that were ready, some of the production cases that are ready to ship. So, yeah. Y'all check that out if y'all want a sneak preview of the cases.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like, in use as well. What was the name of the one where it folds out in the middle?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That rolls out? Yeah. The Brasstown.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, so you even show, like, the unfurling of the Brasstown.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah. And that was one I had loaded up, and it looks really cool. And that was the Midnight in Foliage color, which I don't think a lot of people have seen, but I think was probably the most popular color across all of the – like, we had three primary colorways. You know, the Mandarin Orange and Mango interior, and then the Steel exterior and Blue Jay interior, then a Midnight exterior and a Foliage interior. And I think when I toted it all up, I think the Midnight, the Dark Navy with the foliage, which is kind of like the greenish-gray interior, I think that was the single most popular colorway across all the products, which I found interesting. It was pretty cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And then there were only two people that bought the orange ones, which was me and you. Yep. That was the Pan Addict podcast special, just to do them all. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We got a lot of orange – a lot of orange arters. It was pretty close. It'll be interesting to break down the percentage. I'll have to do that since it's all sorted out real nicely. I can break down the percentage of color choices. That would be pretty cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You should just take a look at mine. You should just pull mine out and have a read of it. If you haven't already, I don't know if you've taken a second to look at my survey.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Not yet. Not yet. We hadn't shipped anything yet. We're probably a week and a half, no more than two weeks away from starting to ship the early birds.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Wow, really?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So I don't think – it might be late next week where I can get the early birds out. If not, it'll be the following week. So I announced that on the Anderson Pens podcast last night. So in case you all didn't catch that, that we're going to get these early birds going.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Is that going to be just domestic or international as well?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, it'll be international. Whoever ordered an early bird, we had December ship dates on those. So those will be shipping soon. Wow. Could you? Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. Get in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So anyway, check out the Anderson Pens podcast. It's a video. It's actually a vidcast. If you will. The link will be in the show notes. Never say that again.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I know. I'll never forgive you for that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wow. Yeah, I know. I've pushed a button there, folks. So I'll march that one down for future use. It's just a podcast. It's just a podcast. Yes, and they call it a podcast. Good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, check that out. It's – yeah, like Myke said, it's a good hour and 45 minutes long. So I'll set aside some time and you can see my ugly mug on the screen. And we talk about a lot, you know, about how the pen addict got started and just my pen addiction and how the blog got started and the podcast and then on to Knock. And then we just talk about general pens in general. And it was a great time. We could have talked for probably another 30 minutes easily. But at some point, we had to cut it off.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Indeed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. But it was good. It was good fun. And I'm glad I didn't have the plague too bad when I was recording that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just keep it for this show.