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== Knock Product Discussion ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You can use it for other stuff.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just feel that it's set up just right. It came out exactly how we wanted it to come out, and I just – I wouldn't change a thing. So, yeah. So, we're going to have more shipping. All right. So, yeah. Please. More business in action.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just take it easy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Like, it's tough.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's tough. No, I understand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But then I also, you know, took like four Advil, like before we started this podcast because I've been banging around my arm all morning. Oh, Brad Dirty. I'm not writing, though. It's just life.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I know. I mean, like when you hurt yourself, you realize all the ways in which you use your body that you don't think about.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And so, I'm sure you're going through that, too.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's like this morning. It's like, huh, I'll be dang. You know, scrambling eggs is pretty tough. One-handed.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's how my morning was going.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah. Good times. Speaking of good times, Myke. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We have a great sponsor. I want to talk to you about Good Made Better. Look, clearly we all love using great pens, but sometimes not all great pens are very user-friendly. This is a situation that Dan at Good Made Better found himself in. He wanted to use his favorite fountain pens for work, but was generally taking quick notes. So, found himself spending more time capping and uncapping his pen than actually using it. Dan figured out he could fix his pen cap. If he could fix his pen cap in one spot, he'd have simple, one-handed use of his pen, making it easier to use it more. So, if the pen cap just stays in one place, you don't have to keep doing all the capping and uncapping. This is where the pen well comes in, which is a product you should know about because we've been speaking about this, I think, since the original. The pen well is the writing tool that makes capped pens as handy as click pens. The pen well sticks to your desk surface with a micro-suction pad. The pad is repositionable and reusable and can be cleaned if it gets dirty. It has a soft foam insert that grips your pen cap, holding it securely, so you can cap and uncap your pen with just one hand. You can simply rest the pen and the cap in between notes, making threaded caps incredibly convenient. Plus, your pen is secure, so no more rolling off the desk. It's always in the same spot, and it's easy to grab without even looking for it. They offer two different models at the moment, the classic and the traveler, in differing materials and finishes, and have something brand new up their sleeve, which we're going to talk about in a bit more detail in a minute. This is a sponsorship spot for pen well, and then we're actually going to talk about the Kickstarter campaign for the pen well craftsman. Now, the pen well craftsman is totally different in the sense of how it is made. So, the pen wells before have been made out of wood and brass and stuff like that. But the pen well craftsman is made out of concrete. So, it changes some of the basic properties of how this product works. You can go and check it out now. You can go to goodmadebetter.com, and you'll find links to the Kickstarter campaign. The pen well craftsman is obviously coming very soon. It's available on Kickstarter now. And we'll talk about that a little bit more in a minute. But I am a fan of all of these products. I think I've had three or four pen wells now. And what I have told you, what Dan put in the copy that he wanted me to get across to you, is completely true. I leave my pens when I'm recording shows in my pen well. And I can just reach out and grab it because I know where it is. I don't need to find it. And we've all had that thing with fountain pens where you leave it uncapped, you put it down, it rolls off the desk. This is the type of thing you really don't want to happen. And this is the exact type of problem that the pen well solves. It's also, it basically turns any pen into a quote-unquote desk pen, which is, I think, quite a nice accessory. It's quite a nice, like, executive desk accessory. It makes me feel a little bit more fancy. Pen well also offer the skeptics guarantee. If you don't love it within 30 days, they will buy it back and pay shipping both ways. But you're going to love it. Pen well is a unique and genuinely useful tool. That helps making pens more enjoyable to use. If you want to make a good writing experience better, go to goodmadebetter.com and use the code penaddict. And you will get a 15% discount on your pen well purchase from the site. That is goodmadebetter.com and the code penaddict for 15% off your pen well purchase. Go check them out right now. Our thanks to Good Made Better for their support of this show. They also have the travel one as well. Which is really nice as well. So there's lots of different options. They have limited edition stuff. Stands. Really just genuinely very, very, very good. I recommend it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You ready for me to get into this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, boy.