Editing The Pen Addict 351/transcript (section)

== Kickstarter Topic Shift ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Let's talk about something that hasn't moved slowly. Oh, boy. Good grief. Good grief. I'm going to say it in the way that Brad would. You're completely smashed it for the Pan Addict Kickstarter. We were talking last week about, oh, wouldn't it be nice if we could beat our 720 backers, our highest backer number? As we record right now, we're two hours away from the campaign ending. So if you're hearing this, it's too late to have backed. But we're sitting at 894 backers at $46,000, which is unbelievable. I was hoping we'd maybe get to like 725 people or something. But it was either, I think it's like a mix of like people really enjoyed the last episode because it was full of emotion. And then the Kickstarter reminder emails go out and then bang. And we're sitting up at nearly just like just a hair's breadth away from 900. We just went up to 895, Brad. I'm looking at the page right now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So these numbers aren't real. Like I don't get it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They are real. And they might not feel real, but they are definitely real.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like I look at like the jumps and gains that it's had like over the past couple of weeks are not supposed to happen. Right. Like it's super abnormal. And I'm very, very happy about that. Right. It's kind of crazy. So, you know, but it's still hard. Like it's all the feelings. Right. It's like, oh, my gosh. Like look at all this support. It's amazing. And, you know, what can we do to, you know, make sure we do the best job that we can for everyone that's backed us. And I know they really don't care about us, Myke. They really probably just want the case. It's like forget those guys and gals doing the show. So, you know, like all the things.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So whatever the reason, I don't care.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So we did talk about doing one thing and I mentioned it before. Actually, two things. Just for the backers of the Kickstarter. So we have the sticker sheet. And as soon as we released that sticker sheet email, I started getting emails. How can we get more? Because I want to save one and I want to use one. And I got that message like a lot. So we're going to at least give everyone two sticker sheets. Yeah. And that sounds like a little thing, but it's actually quite expensive. Like I had $1,000 in our budget for stickers. The first quote that we got, like these are expensive, nice sticker sheets, is $2,500. So we're spending $2,500 at least on stickers, Myke. So just so, you know, we have the money. Everyone wants to, a lot of people wanted to keep a sheet or give a sheet to someone else. And then like use some of another sheet. So why not give them two sheets? So, you know, this is just little things that we can do like that, you know, for our backers. We're also getting the full Hackett video experience, which we're now able to afford to do. Like we always get the Brothers Hackett in Atlanta who do an amazing job with our video. And since we're doing the video and the live show in San Francisco, we're going to have Singular Hackett. But now we're going to have Brothers Hackett to help us ramp up our video quality for San Francisco. So we're able to do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, that means we're more likely to be able to get closer in video quality. You know, there is an issue with like gear, right? Because they are able to drive to Memphis where they can't drive to San Francisco. But it does mean we're likely to get a better video than we would have. So it goes into stuff like that. And, you know, there are various expenses. And we're hoping that we may be able to have some money left over that we can do some fun stuff with. But we're going to get Brow's got to put on his green accounting visor and sit down with a calculator. And then we can know. But just rest assured, like the money that everybody's raised, we're able to do all of this. We're not paying out of pocket for any of it. And we'll be able to provide a much better overall experience and product for the people that back the campaign. So thank you so much for doing it. And we're just a couple of weeks away from it all kicking off.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So close. Yeah, like I'm glad Atlanta's not next week. I need like two more weeks, then I'll be good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, that's exactly what you've got, my friend. Next episode, our next episode, we'll start the Anna Ryan at Double Bill that everybody looks forward to so much. So we're going to have Anna on the show next week to talk about whatever topics we have next week, but also to pregame the Atlanta Pen Show. And then the week after that, the episode will be coming out kind of over the weekend of that week, because that will be Pen Show week. So we'll be pushing the episode out to later in the week because we'll be recording our live show in Atlanta.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So episode 352. I always try to buy you time till at least Sunday, and then you usually have it done before we go to dinner on Saturday. I'm not going to like totally schedule you for that, but you always surprise me how fast. It will be up Saturday night.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We're recording Saturday. It will be up Saturday night, like 100%. Like 100%. It's even easier to put those episodes together than it is this, our regular episodes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's true, because we're all there, all one file, just clean it up a little bit however you need to. That makes sense. That makes sense. So you're the professional.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've usually got the episode like posted by the time all the gear has been broken down. That's true. Before dinner, that's for sure.