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== Kickstarter Plans ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're getting ready to work on our Kickstarter for Atlanta. And maybe something else? Why don't you spill the beans? Even though I think we've alluded to this before.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We have. We have. But we're getting all the final parts in place now. By hopefully the end of the month, we will have the Kickstarter ready to fund for the Pan Addict US Tour, I guess, where we're going to be hitting Atlanta in April. Same as last year. It will be me and Brad and hopefully Anna as well. I don't want to speak for her right now because I don't know her plans. But we will be doing a live show. We're planning on it. Yeah, planning on it. Live show with video. We'll be there the whole time on the knock booth. We'll be doing a bunch of fun stuff. But the big thing that we do in the show, we do meetups. And then we're also this year building into the Kickstarter to fly me out to DC. The DC Pen Show in August. Now, the DC Pen Show in August, we're going to basically run it like how we ran the first Atlanta show. I will be there with Brad. We will both be there. We will do a meetup, right? And we'll be able to hang out with everybody. We'll probably do. I mean, we'll do like something official, but we'll be at the bar wherever the bar is for the whole time when we're not at the stand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They have a great bar set up in DC.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So we'll be there. And me and Brad will be recording in person. But we won't be doing a live video or anything of this one. It's just going to be a live show. Yeah, no studio audience. No. But what I'm planning...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Unless a few people can sit on our bed or something while we record.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. But I'm planning on doing something special for the DC Pen Show for backers. I mean, we'll get into this later, but... Yes. Where I've been getting into video stuff recently. Yes. I'm planning on putting together like a special backer-only vlog of the DC Pen Show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm glad you said that because I've been writing the details of the Kickstarter and I already fully pimped you in for that. Good man. So I'm glad you committed live to that because I have written that down.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And we have a... What are they called? A reward level? Yeah. We have a reward level this year. We have a physical good as we do every year. And I think you're going to be very excited about this one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So... Yeah. So the first year we did a special high tower, which came out wonderful. It was forest green, yellow, and we had a Union Jack flag tag on there, which was awesome. So... It's so cool. Last year we did the Pen Addict Notebooks, which were a hit with the embossed logo and the cool cover. They were awesome. And we're not ready to say what's going to take place this year, but I think we're going case most likely. That's what we're shooting for right now. Some type of pen case. And we'll have more hopefully by the end of the month because honestly we need to get this going.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's a pen case made by Nock that you most likely don't have one of. Right? Is that fair to say? It's very unlikely.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I would say 25 or 40 people or less have this case if we do this case. So yeah. Very few people will have it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We just want to... We're talking about this so we can kind of let you know it's coming. If you want to put any money aside for it. Right. And also we like to talk about these things because it nails me and Brad down to actually getting this thing done by the end of the month. Which we need to do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. Yep. Yep. Then you... While we're talking you went and threw this in right under our Atlanta DC. What are you doing to me here?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I have mentioned in the past my strong desire to go to Chicago. Just to go to Chicago. It's a place that I've wanted to visit for a long time. There are people that I want to meet there. I won't be able to do the Chicago Pen Show because... What is it? Like a week or two after Atlanta?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No more than two. Yeah. No more than two weeks.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That one has never worked for me which is a shame. However, there is a conference that I have spoken at in the past called Release Notes. And it's been... They're doing their third year this year. The last two years have been Indianapolis. But this year in October Release Notes is going to be in Chicago. Oh, cool. So, it's very likely that I will attend. Because this is a good thing. They usually have great speakers. They usually have people that I know as speakers. A bunch of my friends tend to go to this conference. And plus, it's in a place that I want to go to. And the reason I mention this is because if I go to Chicago, I'm going to go to the Field Notes HQ. I will barge my way in there. They won't be able to stop me. And yes, as Glenn has pointed out, I will buy out the whole place.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, finally, I might be going to Chicago.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, I got a Christmas present that you're going to be super jealous of from one of our listeners who happens to be in the chat room. I'm not going to call her out just yet. But they, yeah. I just need to get a frame for it. And then you'll be super jealous.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I know what you've got. I don't know, like, exactly the configuration. But I know what you've got.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Love you, Christine. I mean, so, yeah, you should do that. Like, I mean, I haven't gotten to see the new layout. It was under construction. They had some of the walls up and some of the flooring in. But it looks pretty awesome from all their Christmas party holiday pictures. So, I think they're pretty happy about how everything turned out. It's in the same building. It's just in the floor level of the same building instead of, like, on the third floor. So, very cool. Very cool. So, I wanted to throw in – you threw that note in. And I threw this note in right before we started. I just noticed on Twitter this morning a bunch of people retweeting that it's World Sketch Note Day. So, I wanted to throw that out there for everyone. Our good friend, Myke Rohde, got this all started up. He's the sketchnoter extraordinaire. I love looking at all of his work. And then everyone else who does this type of visual note-taking, I love looking at all their work. I think it's just fascinating.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, when I was at XOXO in 2014, I met a woman named Susan Lynn. And it's because I saw her sitting there sketchnoting. So, we struck up a conversation and a friendship. And she makes wonderful sketchnotes. So, I'm always following her and Myke and everyone else who does these sketchnotes just because I think they're cool. So, today's World Sketch Note Day. We'll have a link in the show notes. You can go follow along, see what these sketchnoters are up to, and maybe join in. I think it's really, really cool. And, you know, adding to my list of people we need to get back on, Myke's been on at least once, if not twice. I think twice. And we'll get him back on here, hopefully this year.