Editing The Pen Addict 139/transcript (section)

== Live Broadcast ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Joe Steele said, I hope this broadcast turns into a telethon. You know, let's go to the phones. And it's like we're raising money while we're live on here. We didn't mean for it to be that way. But now that it's it's just like the timing worked out. Number one, Myke wanted to launch this when we launched the show today, guys. So I talked him out of that. And well, he talked himself out of that because he said, I'll never be able to record the show because I'll be watching the Kickstarter so much. So we decided to launch it this morning and just looks like the the math. So happens we might actually get funded while we're recording this show. So it's happening.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' There seemed like a real I don't know, there was a real niceness to launching it when we're on the show because there just seems something that's fun about that. But I think what I said to you in the Slack was I realized I didn't want to do it because it would be 45 minutes of me just screaming.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think we're still pretty much on track for that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So let's talk about some of the stuff that that's kind of by the way, if you're not enjoying this, like if you're listening to this and you're not enjoying this, I'm sorry. This is all you get in today.

'''Myke Hurley:''' If you keep if you keep wondering when the show is going to start, this is pretty much it. This is all you get in. Because I actually before this, I actually had a massive episode planned and maybe we'll get to we might get to some of this stuff, Myke. But I I don't know that you're in the in the in a good place to talk about anything besides this. It would be kind of hard for me. So, yeah, what you're going to say, let's get to some of the questions and some of the feedback that everyone's been asking. Is that what you were alluding to?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' One of one of the interesting parts and you can address this is that we've effectively created an Australian themed case here.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That did not cross my mind even one time until I started seeing some of the backers come in and, you know, we're getting a bunch of, you know, go Australia. I haven't seen any Aussie Aussie Aussies yet in in in my feeds or in the backer comments yet. But I'm sure those will show up between that and the Union Jack. And it's just like this perfectly Australian themed case.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Green and gold are the national colors of Australia. And then, of course, the Australian flag has the Union, which, by the way, I have yet to correct you on this. Technically, it's called the Union flag. The Union flag. OK, everybody calls it the Union Jack, but it's not actually called the Union Jack. It's it's actually called the Union flag. I don't know why that is off the top of my head.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Interesting. Interesting. So I will work on that. Probably not at all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But we all call it the Union Jack. I call it the Union Jack. Everybody does. But it is like the technical name is the Union flag.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So, yeah, we ended up making this perfectly Australian pen case, which was completely lost on me when we were designing it. I just want some really cool colors. These are colors that I've had on since we before we started knock. You know, it takes us a while. Unfortunately, we can't do all colors at once. You know, that's just not how our business runs. As much as we would like to do every color for everybody all the time, we have to pick and choose. And I was dying to get this one out there. So I'm glad we were able to use it for something cool like this. But, yeah, we didn't have the Australian flag in mind or the Australian colors in mind when we were building it. But we are happy to own it now. And we're glad to make all the Australians happy.