Editing The Pen Addict 394/transcript (section)

== Shift to Pen Show Plans ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so let me dig into this next paragraph, and then we're going to elaborate on that. So this is the second important paragraph in their goodbye letter. It says, The plan for this year is to stay in business for the next six to nine months as we wind down. We will keep inventory of a select product group through March. Plus, we have plans for five to six new popular designs yet to come. At the same time, Retro will be working with dealers to produce their own exclusive designs. So 2020 will be filled with several unique and fun Retro designs. So, yeah, it sounds like you have everything in the pipeline is going to continue to come out, but there's probably no new projects in the works, which makes sense. So we've been talking about our pen addict events for this year since, I don't know, Myke and I decided on this probably as early as ever, probably like back in September.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So we were going to do this last year, but yeah. Oh, we had a scheduling conflict. My travel couldn't work out, so we didn't do it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So what we wanted to do was, aside from the Atlanta pen show, go to the Dallas pen show, visit Retro 51 and make a Retro 51 for backers of the project. So we had that in the plans this year. That's actually why I had been talking with Retro 51 recently when all this came out. And now we're not. Like, I think it's as clear as that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is the part where I don't know the words to say because I'm super confused as this just all got finalized yesterday. And now our plans for the Kickstarter, the Retro 51 event, and the Retro 51 design we were going to make for the Kickstarter, which wasn't finished, so we weren't in the queue.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's now off the table. So we're starting from zero, and this is where I'm a little bit lost in this whole thing. This is where yesterday's news really messed me up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We are starting from scratch about 10 days to two weeks before we should have the Kickstarter campaign live to make sure that we can get the money in time for April. So we're at a bit of a loss right now about what we're going to do. And so one of the reasons that one of the many reasons that we wanted to do a Retro 51 was so the onus was not on Nock this year to produce a reward. And change it up. Yeah, and to do something new, but that was also a thing of like, okay, maybe it's time we start working with other people in the community and we start making other limited edition products, right? Right. The first of those was of course going to be a Retro 51 because of how much we love that company and how they have been so woven into the history of the show, right? That it just made perfect sense that the first company that we would work with outside of Nock would be Retro 51. But now we don't really... Because as well, it wasn't just that we were going to make the pen. We were also hoping to go to their factory and like shoot video of making it and like behind the scenes at Retro 51 and all that kind of stuff. So we can't do that now, which makes things very difficult. And much love to Dallas, right? But like that was the reason we were doing the Dallas Pen show. So that reason has changed now. And depending on what we now do for the campaign, it puts the second show up in the air again. Now we haven't... It's kind of funny. Me and Brad have not actually really spoken about this yet. We were deciding to have some of this conversation on the show today. Like we've had some very brief conversations.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because this really just all happened last night.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And so we don't really know what to do. So of course we do in Atlanta, right? Like that's a lock, right? But we now need to decide what we're doing for either the second show or the physical reward and both. Yeah, both. Right? Because I would love to go to Dallas, right? Because I have friends in Dallas who I can spend time with. And it's like a great reason. Plus the Dallas Pen show is a perfect time for me because I'll already be in America for the second annual St. Jude Podcast-a-thon. That's happening. We're doing it again. And like the Dallas Pen show is basically within a week or two when I'll be in Memphis. It's like it's perfect, right? I can go out for that, jump over. Brilliant. And then also there's an added benefit there of it reduces the cost for the podcast-a-thon because I can fly out to America on... I'll already be there, right? Right. So it's like it all balances out, right? So it's... So we don't know what to do now. So like, yes, we can do Dallas, right? Like, why not? We'd love to.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.