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== Reward Campaign Dilemma ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' But then what do we do for the reward for the campaign? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That's what I got to work on. So, I mean, it feels to me like the Dallas schedule is just so good for what... We'd already made decisions around this schedule, right? It just really, really works. My money is that we stick with Dallas because I'm... You know, anything before. We've done D.C. We've done San Francisco.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want to do Chicago but can't do it this year. Yeah. Because Chicago would mean that I have to stay after Atlanta, but I can't this time because I have something I need to be home for in the middle. It's too soon.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a big gap this year. Some years are two weeks between Atlanta and Chicago and then it works better. Yeah. So, now it just... The hardest... The easiest decision is to stick with Dallas. I'm not saying that's what's going to happen, but I'd say that's likely. The hard decision is now...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because there are other benefits. But if we then come up with a physical reward, which is somehow tied to a place and that place has a pen show, right? Like, it could change again, right? Mm-hmm. Because then there's, like, the video component.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's, like, usually a second video, right? And we weren't planning on doing a live show in Dallas.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. Yeah. It's just... It's the way the Dallas show is set up with just a two-day show and a long first day. It's really not feasible to have, like, a live show starting at 930 at night on a Friday night. And that's kind of our only option. So, we were going to forego that in lieu of, you know, making a little behind-the-scenes documentary. Mm-hmm. So, I don't know. We have a lot of friends in Dallas, a lot of other friends in Texas. There's other makers in the area.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Maybe this is now, like, an open challenge to the pen addict listenership. Like, if you make a thing, contact us, I guess. We've really lost, and we do not have a lot of time to work out what to do now. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, we have Tactile Turn. We have our buddy, Will. Mm-hmm. Tactile Turns in Dallas. We have our buddies at Studio Neat down in Austin. I know that's a bit of a haul, but it's still Texas-based, you know. I don't know. I don't know. We'll figure it out. But part of the show today is me and Myke going, I don't know what to do, which is pretty rare for both of us. Yeah. We're usually pretty good at getting things done, and this really threw us for a loop. So, it's more than just Retro 51 news. It's really affecting, like, what we're doing. Our plans were for this year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It would have been much easier if it would have happened, like, three or four months ago. Like, it would have been like, oh, okay. Right. Well, let's get back to the drawing board. Yeah. You know, Brad, do you have any ideas for a product you want to make? And it's like, oh. But, like, we don't have any time. Like, it's very difficult because we have no idea and no time to come up with new ideas. And, you know, of course, we can always run the Kickstarter a little bit later, but then it's a case of, like, we go out of pocket for things, which is fine. Yeah. But it becomes much more complicated. Things just get more and more complicated the later we leave it. So, it's best to just take care of it. And then it's like, oh, yeah. Oh, boy. What a mess. But overshadowing, well, alongside of all the mess, it's just a sense of, like, loss. It's, like, so weird.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's going to be weird not having retro in our life.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm. It's so strange. I want the company, though. Like, that's what I want. Maybe the Kickstarter could be us raising the initial capital to buy Retro 51. Oh, my God. Could you imagine? That would be fun, huh? Make a little documentary about that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Founders pack.