Editing The Pen Addict 227/transcript (section)

== Pen Design ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' At first I laughed at it. Then I started reading through their press stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, you went further than me. About how amazing

'''Myke Hurley:''' this thing is.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah, now that's, that's too much. If I, if I did that, I, I'd probably have the same feeling. But the, I mean, you know, this is on Elon Musk's desk and Jeff Bezos's desk and that's about it. They've probably sold two of them so far. But, you know, sometimes designers and builders want to sow their, sow their wild oats and, you know, they get a, they get a crazy idea and, you know, I'm all for that. Flex their creative muscle a little bit. I'm all for that. They went for it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But then it starts showing up in general news.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, now, okay, that bothers me. Right? I don't need this on, do this, like, Gizmodo and Engadget.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do this and sell it direct to millionaires. Right? Right. Don't then start sending your PR press release out to Engadget and Nerdist. Like, these companies don't find these things randomly. You've sent it to them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I will agree with you on that part. Yeah, this needs to go in the Rob report, you know, or some other, you know, high-end luxury stuff, you know, instead of just the full, the full press slam for, you know, tech and gadget sites where the...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Put it in Harper's Bazaar,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' right? Like,

'''Myke Hurley:''' you know. Right. It just really annoys me because people send it to me that don't listen to this show, I think, to kind of make fun of me. I don't know. Right? Because they think, like, not to be mean, but to be like, it just undermines the fact that people think this is a weird hobby. So I think that people send it to me because they're like, oh, look at this dumb hobby of yours and this silly, look at this silly pen that I'm sure you would love. And it frustrates me. Because, yeah, it just, I don't like it. It just annoys me. I mean, this is a really great looking pen. But you don't need it. It actually is. You can make a pen that looks like this that doesn't cost $20,000. You could do that. You could make it $2,000.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right? That's way better. It doesn't need to be $20,000. It doesn't need that huge stand with a tiny astronaut on it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That says you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wow. We should take a break.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, say what you wanted to say about it. I'm being probably unnecessarily angry about it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, there was nothing I want to say about it. It's insane and it goes in the bucket with all the other insane pens that we always make fun of. It is beautiful. It is beautiful.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It is. And everything about it, like the way that it stands up with that little thing and you take the pen, it's amazing.