Editing The Pen Addict 190/transcript (section)

== Notebook Design ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I say we can say what we're doing. All right. We're going to do a really cool notebook this year. It's going to be a Pen Addict orange cover with an embossed Pen Addict logo and the sweet NotCo paper that we use. That's fountain pen friendly. So we're going to get that up here very, very soon so everyone can check that out and everyone can back it if they're interested in seeing the video for the Kickstarter, back it if they're interested in getting the notebooks, but importantly, back it so we can get Myke over here and do all these things.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We've been working on a notebook idea for a long time. It's something that we've both really, really wanted to do, and I'm very, very excited to get it out there. I think people are really going to love it. So, yeah, we'll wait and see what people think, but I'm very excited about it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah. And then Mountain Biker Dave already in the chat room is saying we need an Atlanta pickup option. I think we can definitely work on that. I can't say for sure because we don't know the production dates as far as the notebook goes, but I think that would be a high probability of happening where you'd be able to pick up your notebooks at the show. But we'll just have to wait and see how that is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, we'll work that out. That's more than possible to do, I'm sure. If they're produced in time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And the notebooks will be memo book size, standard field note size, three and a half by five and a half, three packs, pocketable notebooks of awesomeness. So, yeah, we're pretty excited. I've got a mock-up I'll have on the Kickstarter page. So, I'll be sure to let everyone know when it launches and it'll be up before next week.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And as Brad said, we're going to be doing... I just need to call you dad. That's a whole thing for another time. Wow. As dad said, we're going to be doing a video again. So, there'll be a video only tier and the video will include the video episode of the show, which will either be episode 200 or 201. We're still trying to work out how we can make it episode 200.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's going to be 200. It's just going to happen. We're just going to have to take a week off or something.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And that's what I'm thinking probably do, but I'm just looking at our schedule.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Which we never do. We hate doing that. And we did it this Christmas, which was fine. But, you know, during the regular year, we never miss.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But we've got to make it 200. It's got to be 200. It would be so upsetting if the live episode was episode 201. Yep. And we're going to be doing the backstage stuff and the video only stuff. So, obviously, you'll get the audio of the episode. But, like last year, Kickstarter backers got a little bit of extra where we showed the stuff that we'd find that was really interesting and stuff that we'd bought over the show. And there's going to be, you know, correct me if I'm wrong, we're going to do a few different tiers this year to get more or less of the notebooks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like one or two packs of the notebooks. Yeah. So, we'll try to break it down. So, you know, you can buy just one pack or you can buy several. And, you know, also on the video, we're going to do it different this year in that we're going to have a live audience this year. Like everyone had to listen out in the bar and that kind of didn't work very well for everyone last year. So, we were kind of off alone. But this year, we'll have, if you make it to the Pen Show, we will have a live audience and then hopefully a little after party there as well. So, all those details forthcoming. Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, look out for that. We really, really appreciate it. If you want to support us, we would be very, very appreciative because the Pen Addict live at the Pen Addict Pen Show, at the Atlanta Pen Show is an event that we really look forward to now. So, we hope that we can make it happen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's our one big event a year. So, it went so well last year that we're anxious to get back and do it again, even bigger and better this time. All right. So, let's get into this episode. We got some follow-up just from last week's episode. Our episode with June Thomas on the NYC stationary tour just got universally loved by everyone. I mean, not that all of our episodes are universally loved, right? But we got a lot of...

'''Myke Hurley:''' It was a Supergore episode.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was. It was really excellent. It turned out even better than I expected, mainly because June Thomas is awesome. I mean, there's not much more you can say about how great she is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And everyone loved that episode. And then, just a couple of days ago, our friend Elaine from Jetpens, who runs the Owl Inc. blog, she just did her NYC stationary attractions blog post, which was fantastic. Yeah. She has a lot of pictures from CW and pictures with Caroline and Caitlin and all the other places that she went to. Elaine does awesome work on her blog. So, we'll have that link in the show notes. It's kind of in conjunction with... It fits into what we talked about last week a lot with a lot of pictures. And I didn't know you could get custom pencils at CW. So, she got Owl Inc. pencils there stamped.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I didn't know that. If I would have known that, I would have been walking away with a ton of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, she got Owl Inc. pencils stamped with the NYC January 2016. So, that's pretty cool. And, you know, she went to the Strand bookstore in Kinokinia. And she did find out that June was talking about the rolling a joint article that's up in the pen section. And Elaine took a picture set. It's still there. So, we have a picture. We'll link in the show notes. I thought that was hilarious. Just the extra space on the article about the Sino UM-153 that Kinokinia posted happens to have an additional little article on how to roll a joint. So, you know, the pen addict can also share other things, apparently. So, you learn a lot by purchasing pens at Kinokinia, apparently.

'''Myke Hurley:''' A little bit of extracurricular activity there.

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