Editing The Pen Addict 69/transcript (section)

== Visionaire Kickstarter ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Just very quickly, I mean, just to continue the ongoing topic, ongoing topic number two. I've paid for my Visionaire, so the Visionaire Kickstarter has now ended. Did it fund? Just about. So, I'm bringing it up now. Well, the final goal, well, the final score is $324,393.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Pledged against the $15,000 goal for the Visionaire. I have paid for mine, and we'll be expecting it before the end of the year. So, we will be able to revisit that topic at a much later date. I can't wait. Maybe I'll have to send it to you, you know, that's what I'm thinking. Like, I will use it. Yeah, actually, I would like to try it. And then send it to you. And then I'll give my opinion, and you can give your opinion. And then I can decide if I need you to send it back or not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I feel like that's only fair with the way that it's gone, so we'll probably have to do that. Okay, yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Then you can review it. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I might have some, there might be some other people that got in on it too that might be easier for me to get it from. But yeah, we'll figure something out, and I will definitely get my hands on one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I bet you don't get a review version.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. No. Probably not. I'm guessing not.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We should jump into the real topic for today. But I think before we do that, shall I pay our bills, and then we'll jump in?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sounds like a plan.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Away we go, Mr. Dowdy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, so Brian, when Myke and I, we were talking, I guess, a couple weeks ago, we knew we were going to have you on. I guess we had you scheduled. And I started talking to Myke, I think it was probably after last week's podcast. I said, you know, what's Brian, what is Brian's job title at Koodle or at Field Notes? Is he the project manager? Is he the art director? We were bouncing things back and forth. And I was like, you know what? As many times I've talked to Brian, I don't know the exact job title. Or maybe you're just the jack of all trades. What's the official on the paperwork job title for you?

'''Bryan Bedell:''' I don't actually have one. I don't think we, I mean, there's at Field Notes here, you know, Koodle Partners, which is the parent company, which is mostly what we do as Field Notes now. There's only seven people here in the Chicago office plus Aaron in Portland. So I do a little bit of everything. But I come from a design background. I guess, you know, art director was, you know, we used to be an advertising agency and I was an art director at the ad agency.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' And, you know, most of what I do is related to the, you know, art direction and photography. I do all the product shots.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' You know, I help Steve with the videos and, you know, and then do a lot of the design on the books. And, you know, or if Aaron and Jim do the kind of basic design, I'm usually the guy going through and cleaning them up and, you know, getting everything ready for print and nailing everything down and, you know, going to the press checks and stuff like that. So, you know, mostly art related. But then I also, you know, I take orders on the phone. I help pack boxes sometimes. I take out the trash. We all do a little bit of everything here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's awesome. That sounds like a great setup. And I still didn't know that you were only looking at, you know, seven employees. That's just fascinating. The way y'all have grown since this whole thing started to be able to keep it, you know, manageable. That's just kind of a testament to how you guys do business. That's pretty impressive. Lean and mean. Yeah. That's the way to do it. So we're not too far off from the next fall edition. Do y'all have a release date for that? I mean, I know that's probably, you know, getting ramped up here and about ready to go.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Yeah. We're looking at, you know, real soon. I don't know. Do you guys come out? Well, you guys come out pretty quickly after you record, right? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This will be out today. Yeah. It'll be out tonight. Yeah.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Oh, okay. Yeah. So we're hoping within a couple weeks. Everything's looking pretty good. There's a couple snags that haven't happened, but we're worried about them. So we don't want to promise anything. But I'd say we're hoping like about two weeks from now. We're looking probably mid, late September.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool. Yeah. It's awesome.

'''Bryan Bedell:''' Yeah. Early to mid September, hopefully. But we're almost into September. Yeah. So maybe like the second.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I don't want to, I'm obviously not going to ask you about anything about the edition because I like to keep that secret. Just like Myke was saying, you know, I don't want to know beforehand. It's become a thing. Yeah. That's it. I was like, I want to be surprised like everyone else.