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== Field Notes seasonal and special edition releases ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So for for our level of nerdery. So while those dropped, did you know that field notes also did a fall 2022 release? No. Me neither. If they emailed me, I didn't get it. I didn't get it either. Like I got no email and I saw online, you know, just in in the circles I'm in. And I was like, hey, look at these hatch prints right from this print show, this letterpress, this letterpress collaboration. And, you know, they've done, you know, historically field notes has done a lot of things like this. Right. So I thought this was just one of those releases like, hey, God of War release. We're going to make this special thing for this special event, except it's actually the fall release. I thought it was just some random, random release. So like I think it seems like it kind of got lost in the shuffle a little bit, despite being just a complete knockout addition. Right. This is my kind of addition. Give me all the weird letterpress, you know, printed covers.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was just telling them about the winter one coming up, but I don't see any email about the full release at all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So Kate in the chat says it's all the way back on 19th September. We would have gotten an email and it's just, this does not register with me whatsoever. And clearly it didn't register with anyone else because not once did I get asked, hey, what do I think about this fall release? That's right. Obviously. I just ignored that one. They're always right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I will say though, Brad, this, this one is like not interesting to me at all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Absolutely. Absolutely. But this is core. This is core release field notes. Right. Which is interesting to me. Right. That doesn't mean it. I think it's like a 10 out of a 10, but this is what I want. Like when I subscribe for field notes, field notes, I'm like, heck yeah. Give me this. But like, like I'm good with whatever you send me. Like I don't need, you know, a billion of these or anything like that. I'm not going to go out and buy them. But this is, this is my like canonical field notes style release. Yeah. Also agree.

'''Myke Hurley:''' With your point though. They've had a few like this. Like if this was the first one I'd seen where it was kind of like this, where it's like, oh, here's a, um, a poster and we've caught it up. And you know what? I feel like I've had stuff like this before from them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, they have, they did the two rivers one, which was museum based and it's, it's similar to that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So the best one is the, uh, the DDC factory floor one, right? The, right. Right. The random print. What was that? It's like that. Let's see. That art company does the cool prints. I'm thinking that Mon, not Monzo. That's a bank. You know what I'm talking about? Kind of. That was the company that they collaborated with to do this. And they had like a, a show, like an art show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I remember this. This was like 10 years ago, practically.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That's annoying.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know. But I think the reason why this one kind of, you know, missed my radar is because have they ever done a seasonal release that was tied into an event?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like expedition they did, you know, when, you know, the person was going across Antarctica, but that's not really an event. That's like, they did it to, you know, to raise awareness kind of, kind of thing. Like this was, this is an event edition, which they do a billion event additions every year. And this just happened to be an event addition that was the seasonal edition. So I don't know. It kind of got lost in the shuffle for me. I didn't, I didn't understand what it was. Despite being very cool. I saw these online plenty of times. I was like, yeah, that's cool. That's cool. Hey, it's for the hat show. Nope. It was the fall 2022 release one in the same. So interesting. So like, I just had to put that in the show notes today because I was going when we had these God of War ones in here, I was like, what was the fall release? Mondo. Mondo. Yes. Mondo. Mondo. Yeah. So I was curious, like, did we, have we had the fall release? And I went and looked and I was like, oh, it's those hatch ones I've been seeing. I had no clue, no concept of what was happening.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So that they did it in collaboration with something else that was going on. Right. So, okay. So they didn't have those made then.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The hatch?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, well, but they've counted it as the fall 2022 release. This is your subscriber release.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's why it's confusing. That's why I was, I was confused. I just went.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So there was a thing. Hatch were doing a thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. And Phil was like, oh. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And then, okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And they do that so often. I just thought, oh, cool. Hatch print show release. Great. Yeah. Not, oh, seasonal release. Subscriber release.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, it's like in the way that the God of War, right? It wasn't a seasonal release. Right. It was a collab thing. Or like the stuff they did with, they did it with a band once, right? I don't remember which band it was.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' With Wilco? Yeah. With Wilco. Like they did the six pack with Wilco. That was just a side release, right? Yeah. Oh, that was a great release. I forgot about that one. That was a great one. That was a great one. All right. Next, very popular, traditional pin addict topic. Twisby, Myke. Twisby dropped a new swipe color. So if you're not familiar with the swipe, if you listen to the show, you're very familiar with the swipe because they made a new entry level type of pin to go along with. With the spring in it. Yeah. With the spring in it. And, you know, in case you drop the first, it's for all the people that drop their pins. I am on the record as like, okay, yeah, whatever. But it's a great pin. It's a great entry level pin. What do you think about this color?

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a good color. I mean, it's a nice blue. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Not much to say, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, it's quite vivid, but fun. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's great. It's fantastic. And the only thing that I can think of when I saw it is literally the first comment in this from my good friend, even supposing, that's such a good color. Please make the go in some of these fun colors too. So this, my immediate reaction to this was, oh, the go is gone. It was my instant reaction because the go came out before the swipe, right? So if you're not familiar with the TWSBI go, it is, it is the, the pump spring. So the, it's got the filling mechanism where you just, it's like a physical piston type of filling. It's a very weird, unique looking pin. It's very TWSBI and it's great. It's fantastic. I think a lot of people love the go. You're a go fan, right? Like I like it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's fantastic. And then later on, here comes the swipe in the same price point, little bit simpler idea to sell to a new person, I would say, right? Little less complicated, little less fussy. And now the swipe gets the first new color and the swipes already had other colors, right? They had a regional release in China. I think it was avocado and salmon, maybe. Salmon and pear green. Pear green. Okay. Um, and go to this day has had nothing, right? So that's what I think about when I see this is like, huh, I guess, I guess the go is gone. So that's, uh, that's my take on this. I mean, it, this is great. I think the TWSBI swipe is an awesome pin. Um, I would recommend it ahead of the go easily, which we're going to talk about some of my pin recommendations later in this show. But, uh, yeah, that's, um, there's like literally nothing to say about this pin other than I instinctively think about, well, what's happening to the other pins in TWSBI's lineup.