Editing The Pen Addict 223/transcript (section)

== Kickstarter Campaign ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I'm pretty excited too. I don't really know what's happening right now. We're like rushing to jump on this podcast and go live and get it recording. Why is that, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' You launched your Kickstarter for the Lanier Briefcase yesterday. We're going to talk about this later on in the show, but we had to rush because there is a goal of $35,000. When I started my intro, the pledge level was at $34,600. We're now at $34,822. I think we're, what, two or three backers away from hitting the goal live on the air. Yeah. So, like, there's nothing we can do about it, because by the time you've heard this, it's happened, but still going back at anyway. You're going to find out later on in the show why, but I know there are a couple of people in the chat room now that I'm sure have been holding off. This thing is going to fund today live on the show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Maybe I'll cry again. Who knows?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, 30 minutes before the show, we're about $1,000 short, and I was like, oh, you know, if this thing, the pace keeps just trickling in, which it's been going fine. I mean, the project's been going completely fine. But I was like, well, at this little trickling in pace, it's not really going to get over during the live show, but I think I'll be wrong on that one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think you're definitely wrong.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think we're going to hit it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think you're definitely wrong. We're only a couple of people away. It's going to happen at some point on the show today, so I'm going to keep my eye on that. I've got a little window just open in the background there, so we'll wait until I scream. Yeah. And once I scream, we'll know that it's been done.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, Hot Cup 11 called it yesterday. She said, I bet it funds on the show live tomorrow. And I said, well, actually, I hope it is funds by the time I wake up in the morning, which it obviously didn't because we're talking about it now, so...

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, this is way better. This is way better to fund on the show than when we sleep in.

'''Unknown:''' This is what it's all about, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's not better for my nerves.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Of course it is. It's a way better feeling. I mean, I know you've got the nerves, but you wake up and it's like, hooray, but this is like building to something. We're going to capture it live. This is amazing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We will.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But we've got some follow-up. I wanted to just say, obviously, I was away last week and you and Carrie did a fantastic job. Absolutely loved the episode. So thank you so much to both of you for putting that together whilst I was in the air somewhere.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we got a lot of good feedback on that too. Carrie was awesome. I loved the show. I thought we did a good job and I was happy with the outcome for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You're a good host, you know. I try. No, you are. You did really great with the ads. You should just take over.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I need some practice ad reads, but no, I don't want to take over.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, you did a good job, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, this is why we've been so successful because we have this mojo. Like you do the hosting and I do the talking and that's how we roll.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That is how we roll.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' When that script flips like it did last week, I almost forgot like the ads. I had to pull them up right before the show started. I was like, oh, I need to get the reads. And then, you know, I still don't want to read, like read, read the ad. So, you know, I kind of, kind of, you know, just kind of talk my way through them and insert some Bradness into it. But hopefully it went okay for you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I loved it. You did a great job.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Good, good, good, good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Brad, we just hit one more. We're one away.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, then why is mine not refreshing?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's one away.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah, there it is.

'''Myke Hurley:''' One person away.

'''Unknown:''' One away. Like, should we even start on these topics? Do you know what? It might be two away because it's the $80, right? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I think they count shipping in the pledge goal. Oh, they do, yeah. So, that's why the math is a little bit off from like, you know, how many people have backed versus how many dollars are in kind of thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, that's such a pain for you, right? Yeah, we'll talk about that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We'll talk about that at the end. We'll save all that to the end. We're one away.