Editing The Pen Addict 139/transcript (section)

== Production Limits ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So let's talk about the limit. Yeah. We've placed on this and why we've done this.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, so my feeling was when we were just brainstorming this, I was like, I don't want to have an open-ended product available for this. Because what we're trying to accomplish here is to not make money off of this necessarily. You know, it's not something, we're not using this to fund a business, right? Or, you know, do something else with the money and like make a profit and put money in the bank.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This isn't to financially fund 10 episodes of the Panatic podcast. Like, we're not funding a season of the show and like this is a way we're doing that. Like, none of that is happening here. It's effectively, it's for a one. And the idea of this is to pay for my airfare and for maybe mine and your hotel. Yeah, hotel. And for the video editing production.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right, right. And then a lot of the cost goes into the case manufacturing and the materials and all that stuff. So there's lots of costs involved in this. And we've got it figured out to where any of the profit basically funds all that travel and video expense and all those things like that. So I wanted to limit it because I didn't want all this extra, you know, I'm saying like it would have been a given. But I didn't want the option of having like all this extra money and having to decide what to do with it. I didn't think that was right for this project. So we limited the cases to 300 cases for that reason. That would give us more than enough to do everything we wanted to do for this project without having, well, you know, number one, you know, we didn't want to make a thousand cases necessarily for this at this time. You know, we have 300 is a good number for us to knock out and get everyone their cases in a timely fashion. And we didn't want to end up having a long, strong, drawn out, you know, manufacturing time to get, you know, backward rewards to everyone. And then secondly, we just wanted to fund this trip and fund something very cool and have a very good result, you know, from the video.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And yeah, the other thing to think about, like we have the cases, but the video is the other part. And we will basically, the current plan is we will record an episode of our show that will be recorded like we always do. It will be an audio show, an audio episode, but there will also be video cameras pointed at us during that episode. So naturally what that does, it will change the dynamic anyway because we're both sitting there, but having the cameras there will change it. So if you want to listen to that episode, I would strongly urge that you do at least throw down the $10 because the episode will be different. And I genuinely, and this is not me trying to push you to give us the money. So it's not, I hope that you don't consider that to be our intention because we're fine for the money. Because we're about to, like, we're very, very close now, Brad. We're at $7,185. This is not like, you know, we were joking about a telethon. I'm not asking that, but like, it's like, if you're thinking about it now, because we will be recording that episode and it will be a video episode. We'll be saying like, oh, do you see this? Like we'll have stuff in our hands or whatever, right? Because it's going to be on camera. So that will be one thing. And then we're also going to try and shoot some other video of like, what was it like in the show floor? And we'll try and get some video of you guys selling your wares and that kind of thing. And that will only be in the video like that. We won't release any audio of that because there's no audio to release. So we are only having the video as part of this Kickstarter. So if you back at either tier, either the $10 tier or you back at the $35 tier, you will get a, we will, once the video is edited together, which will hopefully be pretty quick. Within a couple of weeks after we, after the pen show, we will get that out to you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. And, and to, to add onto the video stuff, I've got a lot of, of friends and people, you know, I hope to get talking to at the show. So maybe we can do some quick interviews, you know, as long as we're not, I haven't, I haven't asked anyone yet to be part of it. But, you know, I've got some people that we talk about on the show, like the Andersons, I'd love to get Brian and Lisa on, and I'm sure they would be up for it and things like that. And we're going to have a bunch of listeners have already said that they're going to be there. So we'll have a bunch of other people that you hear, hear us talk about, you know, like Jeff Abbott, who writes for the pen addict, you know, he's going to be there. And, you know, it'd be good to get him on video and Dan Bishop in the chat rooms asking if he shows up in Atlanta, does he get to be on the show? He absolutely does. So this is going to be a party and we're going to record it all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Totally. Like that, that's, that, that is the, that is the plan. Like everything is going to go on that video. Like, and as much of it as makes sense will be, um, will be in the audio, but a lot of it will only really make sense on a video.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. Right. So the video content will be a lot greater than the audio content for the show for sure. All right. So I want to talk about, um, I want to talk about reactions of people that aren't familiar with this, Myke. Yeah. And like, you've had some interesting reactions from our relay, uh, coworkers. You've had some interesting reactions from family. Why don't you talk about how people, how the outsiders feel about this too. They're kind of getting a glimpse of something today that was a little bit unexpected.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're pretty close now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's going to happen during the show. I didn't think it would, but $125 to go. Yeah, I hoped it would.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And when I was looking at it, it was like, yeah, it could happen. But now it's like, this is happening.