Editing The Pen Addict 294/transcript (section)

==Pen Addict Kickstarter Launch==
'''Myke:'''  I'm very good will consist kick Saddam like he's a an upgrade.
<br>'''Myke:'''  We launched a Kickstarter project twenty four hours ago.
<br>'''Myke:'''  For the pen addicts live twenty eighteen Atlanta with a stretch goal of Toronto again against and a little bit but we launched it yesterday because we wanted to have it done before like out before the show.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Basically just through tweeting and instagramming I'm I was pretty much incessantly tweeting yesterday we met all goal.
<br>'''Myke:'''  During the wee hours of the morning in the U. K. all I had to go to sleep I was staying awake brat because we were like three hundred dollars away.
<br>'''Myke:'''  And I was staying awake and I it was getting too late for me so the first thing I did when I open my eyes this one I've got my phone I open chrome because it was already the pages just that race that.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yeah.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Just open constantly and now we we did it because of our credible support from people like you listening we met our goal we had a goal of twelve and a half thousand dollars and what that goal does is makes the Atlanta show happens to the Atlanta show is happening I even put my flights this morning so at Lanter is done but as we mentioned a couple of weeks ago and will reiterate now we have a stretch goal of twenty thousand dollars.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Have we meet twenty thousand dollars in as of recording right now were fourteen and a half thousand.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Do twenty thousand them me and Brad will be taking our first trip together outside of the United States as will be going to the Toronto pen show will be doing me talk to you can be selling their if we if we go is that your plan.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Almost certainly not will seek to be determined it's a one day show I'll have to pack an enormous amount of stuff and then I have to work all day theoretically I could so let's let's call that a maybe I wasn't planning on it in my initial thought if we don.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Them ma'am grapple be at the show for the whole weekend so we won't be doing a live show is the current plan but we'd be doing a special episode at Toronto and if we both have time because who will be on the floor selling all day we could maybe do some fun things and walk around this show and interview people like man on the street style.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Does because we'll have the time right because we won't be walking about soft but that's if we meet twenty thousand dollars now.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Right.
<br>'''Myke:'''  We have lots of incredible rewards for you this time I think these of the easily the best rules we have a hand and I've been speaking a lot and so Brad do you wanna continue to pimp Kickstarter.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yes so real quick on Toronto just a reminder to you and our listeners this is the one day Sunday only show I think it's Sunday.
<br>'''Myke:'''  I did know that but we can still get it doesn't make a difference was still have nothing right it would accept go around the the the show so.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Write so we'll make lots of plans to do lots of fun stuff in Toronto we won't just be there that day will be there for a day or two and and do some cool stuff so.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yeah the rewards we wanted to do a new case for not we had this one designed late last year were playing around with prototypes you know when a been carried it and this is something we wanted to do forever just the style of case like a swimmer to pocket almost like a breast pocket type of case.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Even though none of us really carry anything in our breast pocket much anymore but you understand like the style in the shape it's like a slim line to Pen case it doesn't hold a lot except kind of the bare necessities your two pens and and the pocket in it since it's so narrow is only like a business card size pocket but we make a business card size no card that we like so much so it's very useful to us.
<br>'''Brad:'''  And not something we very much like the color way.
<br>'''Brad:'''  On it is called clay and sunshine yellow clay exterior sunshine yellow interior.
<br>'''Brad:'''  That's not something I necessarily what F. picked just like let me think about what colors I want but when we got out the.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Fabric swatches to pick out the color for this it was like yeah this really really works well in the feedback on the color has been exceptional so I'm I'm glad for that it looks really nice six very different him out very well yeah it's different it's in a kind of works perfectly I love it I think this is gonna be a really really good color and the pictures of the sample I had have ara a standard black tag but I put on Instagram.
<br>'''Brad:'''  What the actual tag for this Kickstarter project will be we were at our factory on Monday and I got pictures of the real tag because we've already shipped them to them had those made and now it's like a white tag with yellow Dagnall pinstripes in a P. eighteen on the back I'm gonna add these to the project page later but they're on the not co Kickstarter I mean not co Instagram page right now so I thought it looked really cool head matches the colors kind of match the case so what do you think about the tag.
<br>'''Myke:'''  I think it's sweet I like I like the little back of it.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Right.
<br>'''Myke:'''  So it's got to it so people know they know what year than the words come from a red like that and the lines is very different very different to anything helpful lovely PA eighteen so you know it's good vintage.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yes we weren't going to have this isn't a case to do like a big label and some intricate design but even just like little little tags I think are pretty cool I think like well like we did the union Jack tag god in our very first year arm that was also a yellow interior cases well so we like we like the yellow and then on top of the case we've been keeping this one top secret for a while I mean I think you all knew we were gonna do a case and we're gonna do videos.
<br>'''Myke:'''  But.
<br>'''Brad:'''  What else could we do that would be fine for us and fun for the show.
<br>'''Myke:'''  And something so cool that need a meal you could come up with the idea.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yes so we needed the real star of the show [[Ana Reinert]] from [[The Well Appointed Desk]] the third house he Texas third hosts the official third host of the panic podcast sent me a text one day she is what we think about an animal pens.
<br>'''Brad:'''  For the Kickstarter aside yeah that would be awesome and she's like of your head I'm like wait what.
<br>'''Brad:'''  So she said over these little caricature drawings which I wanna like a black.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Light what's the.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yeah.
<br>'''Myke:'''  I love them so much.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yes as you sit me over just like the little black and white initial sketches and I'm like yes like instant instant yes it but she just didn't.
<br>'''Brad:'''  You and you and I.
<br>'''Brad:'''  And I said well where's your she's like she's like I'm not doing it I'm sake we're not doing it unless you're on it and yet.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Can you have to have pink hair and she's asset or we won't do it and so she was like of but then I think she she and up are she end up loving it and it came out fantastic you can see the picture of the pens on the Kickstarter page so yes yes someone.
<br>'''Brad:'''  In Kansas city that she's worked through before to get these made so there are - she's finishing up the design this is a mock up on the page but it looks pretty good.
<br>'''Brad:'''  So we don't know what the final version a look like yet but they'll be like a brass like one inch-ish size you know with like a pin post on the back right that type of that type of really nice metal pin.
<br>'''Myke:'''  I just want to clarify full of the non southern.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Speaking.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Individuals. Brad is saying pin.
<br>'''Myke:'''  I am.
<br>'''Brad:'''  In because.
<br>'''Myke:'''  It sounds incredibly like Hussein Pen.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Me anything I have I am quite a lot when I.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Say in.
<br>'''Myke:'''  That okay well.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Who gonna do this.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Civilian it isn't so at the end of this is a loss like pins pens and I make fun of her because with the way she says it with her love the remaining accent they always sound the same so we are talking about enamel pins I don't know what an enameled pen would be like I feel like it would be very heavy and.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Would be.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Kind of strange but we're not talking about an animal pens it is an animal pen and they are wonderful and I cannot wait and I want a lot of them.
<br>'''Brad:'''  To test.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Dawn will all my clothing with the.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Well thanks for that clarification on pins versus pens.
<br>'''Myke:'''  And and and people in the chat room again confused so I felt like it was necessary I love you I love the way you speak this is.
<br>'''Myke:'''  See you all the wonderful accent of which you you have.
<br>'''Myke:'''  A clarification.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Okay now we're gonna fight with Evelyn. It is definitely not a button.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Now I don't know buttons to me of the ones that have the the the little old safety pin type situation right well like you talk it in and tuck into the other side opinion is gracious like you just push it in it's like the one step that points out.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yeah.
<br>'''Myke:'''  This is.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Where.
<br>'''Myke:'''  We get way off track now of the overall wards include videos so there will be an incredibly well produced video.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Made by the Hackett brothers, of the Atlanta show as always gets more more beautiful every single year.
<br>'''Myke:'''  And if we make it too Toronto we gonna be doing some special behind the scenes back of logs including a stop off on a trip to New York City when me and Brad gonna go to a couple of stationery stores including the new opened CW pencil still I'm gonna be doing some fun stuff with the folk over at CW pencils and all of that will only be available to to back because this is gonna be back or explosives.
<br>'''Myke:'''  And I've I'm also Brad I'm working on maybe getting some help with the video footage of.
<br>'''Brad:'''  New York are nice so.
<br>'''Myke:'''  So we're able to be in the video and have have some help that some looking forward to that so yet that's gonna be incredible going over to CW pencils and take a look at all everything that they've got going on over there is such a beautiful song to comment to see all of that including the annals of the behind the scenes of Toronto in America like it'd of Atlanta Lika a video showing you what the [[Toronto Pen Show]] looks like all of that is only possible if we meet our stretch goal of twenty thousand dollars and to do that we need your help as always we are trying to move you know we trying even harder to make it worth it for you Fred like we want to give you incredible stuff if you want so kind as to help us do this and we have a couple of different that pledge levels for the different stuff that we're offering.
<br>'''Myke:'''  A pen depends on my god the pins are only available at the fifty dollar level but that includes absolutely everything test when you want and it's the one that most people been gone for but yet so please please please help us out and we'll try not to talk about it this much in future but you know how we get this time of year was so excited because we haven't cried yet but I have felt very emotional I've had my mom texting me she finds these things.
<br>'''Myke:'''  I don't know how. She she I think she looks at my my to defeat every now and then and she always says to me and I find it so funny when she says that she calls me a clever boy and things like that happen very clever boy took it wasn't you know I I I don't think that necessarily anything to do with my intellect help this happen.
<br>'''Myke:'''  But yes my mom's been calling me a clever Bly said thank you all for helping that happen because - this is such a wonderful time every year.
<br>'''Myke:'''  And I'm so pleased that we offer really great rewards because I like that this is it like a like a two way situation when not just asking for your money to help us go on these trips like which we really for try very hard to make it worth it for you , like the listener and the backer, and I promise I'll do my best to make the videos that I make a good as I possibly can and we love you so much and thank you for a just helping every single year for us to to do the stuff it's it's wonderful and I promise I promise to you.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Old.
<br>'''Myke:'''  That Toronto is just the start of our international expansion like we want to go further with this and we want to do more but you have to do that we have to see that this continues to be a thing and and it looks like it is because I think we probably funded quicker than we ever have before we've I think a larger goal than we ever have before anyway.
<br>'''Brad:'''  The model is last single.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Lines always win.
<br>'''Brad:'''  For our goal we understood our budget just a little bit yeah we rises out because that's kind of how it works yet because you know it we.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Were happy to put a little bit money and if it didn't.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yet right.
<br>'''Myke:'''  If we only got to that level but yes so you know the.
<br>'''Myke:'''  You continuing to support us and you know if if this year is anything like last year then we know we can continue to do more you know like so.
<br>'''Myke:'''  It basically if this is something you want to see continue.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Please back our Kickstarter.
<br>'''Myke:'''  There are links in the how notes.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yes a couple things for me any amount of money to ask for is always like a big deal for us we take it very seriously and we appreciate you all support you know over the years and everything else do for us and you know we hope we're doing a good job giving you back yell all of that and more in we we really take it seriously try really hard to do cool stuff and have fun and you know that's what it's all about you know just the the way we've run things over the years I think it's pretty clear but there's always new listeners and.
<br>'''Brad:'''  New backers a new supporters coming in which we greatly greatly appreciate.
<br>'''Myke:'''  I was asked.
<br>'''Brad:'''  On Twitter if I was going to cry like with a B. tears and the thing I was like no I'm not going to cry like this is the like the fourth time we've done it now you know I'm feeling like super good about it and then bite within thirty minutes later someone said something else.
<br>'''Brad:'''  And.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Just something I read on Twitter and I'm like over there going.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yeah expand.
<br>'''Brad:'''  That.
<br>'''Myke:'''  There is yeah.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yes is like no I'm not going to cry but no it's you know.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Just the the support of the listeners and readers and fans of the show it it just never fails to amaze me up and I just want to know how much we care about all of our listeners and supporters say and thank you very much.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Couple quick things on the pledge levels it was hard to write them this year because of the length of time from the first of it to the last of it.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Yeah so.
<br>'''Brad:'''  I wanted to just make a couple of comments the video and log level it was hard to write that.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Saying you know if we hit this amount you get this we hit this amount will get you'll get this, so just know that you'll get - Toronto looks like it's going to happen I mean I'm pretty sure we're going to hit on all.
<br>'''Myke:'''  I'm very so within the via.
<br>'''Brad:'''  The video and vlog little level you get everything there's not no more money for all the things that were going to shoot videos and the other exclusive to you these are not public videos.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Never am.
<br>'''Brad:'''  And so so you're looking at at least three right now probably.
<br>'''Brad:'''  On that level.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Well made forty two but let one of them will be split of like so debate probably yeah two videos which will be the video of the show and Toronto and New York I'm thinking all party make those one video.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Gotcha that makes sense that makes sense.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Just because it is like because then I can show us traveling you know golf place to place get again on the line together that kind of stuff before but yes so that there will be but like what bash trying to say is we it says November for the delivery of those but that's when events like the Atlanta video ranked is usually done within two weeks I will be on your side it said in may yeah.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yeah there's almost always sent out in may so that leads into the pen case only level if you're not getting any videos we're shooting for the pen cases to be done in August which is the same arm.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Date we had last year which means for the fifty dollar level that should be when you get your pen case but I had to write the estimated delivery for November because that's when the last videos that you're getting are for that so I hope that makes sense I'll add that into the FAQ on the Kickstarter just kind of the more you know proper ship dates for each individual thing and we should have the animal pens at the same time to ship the cases that's what we're shooting for so look for the cases in August time frame and then I had to put down November because you're not getting those last videos until November so I just wanna make sure that was clear no one's really had any questions on that but I just want to throw that out there case in case there were questions yeah so.
<br>'''Brad:'''  I expect your first video from Atlanta in may.
<br>'''Myke:'''  As we get more moving parts the delivery date citric yeah right because it's multiple events unlike we caught change the time lines of the events that they just happen when they happen.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yeah.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Yes so you'll be.
<br>'''Brad:'''  You'll be getting delivery of your videos are cases throughout the year until we wrap it up at enough sets the Toronto shows like it weighty at the end of November October usually I don't think they've announced the date yet so it'll probably be November before we officially wrap this Kickstarter so that's why you see those dates on there.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Said last thing where fourteen thousand five hundred and ninety eight dollars as we're recording at my time three twenty five PM on the seventh of February.
<br>'''Myke:'''  I would too it would make me the happiest man on the planet if we get to twenty by next week like.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Well like I have I haven't even posted an article in the pen act yet I mean.
<br>'''Myke:'''  People to show hasn't even gone out right let in yeah they're only there's only a small amount of people to see it but you know that we.
<br>'''Myke:'''  It feels like it's possible but you never know and you know it all guy Brad I have to stop talking about this.
<br>'''Myke:'''  I'm get on the line is going to start crying wow okay that's inside out of no where some.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Yeah okay we need to move on thank you buddy.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Wait wait yet you the best.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Yeah because this next Alex not gonna make you cry right.
<br>'''Myke:'''  Though I mean I'm gonna cry reading the next I have a range to the document very poorly from the mental well being and.
<br>'''Brad:'''  Gosh.