Editing The Pen Addict 78/transcript (section)

== Rickrolling ==


'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' I know. It's basically like getting rickrolled.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, Jeff, tell me, have you started production?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I have. We're – I started cutting them out and seeing – because how we're cutting, we're using a CNC machine. So you build out the cut sheet on a table digitally. And so we've been kind of playing around with how many cases we can fit per table and how does that relay to time and all of these things. So we've got almost 60 merry apples done in the blue jay. And then we're working on some brass towns for the early birds so we can get that fulfillment out quickly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Look at you. So tell me – I mean, obviously, you've been doing this stuff for a long time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' How are these cases coming together? Like, are you happy with the original designs? Like, are they coming together really well for you? Are you finding any difficult points?

'''Myke Hurley:''' They're not difficult. I mean, we're working with a different machine than I've ever worked with before with the bar tacker. Yeah. We've already acquired that one. And we acquired one other machine just like with our own funds that's just going to do the binding. So we're set up a little more efficiently.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But the bar tacker is the real oddball. There's so many adjustments on it. I've had the – we've got this repairman in Georgia. He's been a repairman for 50 years. And I've been having conversations with him for the last week just learning this machine and trying to tweak it so if it breaks, I can fix it on the fly and we don't have to, you know, be down for days or weeks or anything.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I guess, you know, the best thing for you to do is to do all of that now, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the goal is to be prepared for, you know, in 17 hours or whatever after we get the surveys back, we're ready to go. We just have our cut list and we do it. So obviously –

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' Go on, Brent. That was – I was going to say that was one of the coolest things about working with Jeff because I don't know anything about the manufacturing side and he's got this down to a T. He's like, I really want to get this bar tacker machine. I'm like, okay, that's great. You know, it's going to give us this stitch and, you know, we're going to be able to do this. And, you know, it's going to be exactly what we need. He said, but what I really want to do is I want to get it early because I need to understand this machine and if it breaks, you know, I need to know how to fix it so I'm not having to call someone out to repair. And, you know, that's stuff that I wouldn't have considered on the front end and he says stuff like that. I'm like, oh, man, I'm glad I'm working with this guy because he's got his stuff together. It's like I wouldn't even consider that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So you guys are really kind of like the perfect partnership for this because you've got Brad, obviously you've got the expertise in this very specific field. And then Jeff, you have the ability to actually make the stuff like without each other. You know, it would I wonder if if you could have made if you could have done this.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' I'm not I'm not sure we could have.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't I don't think that I could have.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I was going to say I definitely know Brad couldn't. But, you know, because because he, you know, he can't. So, yeah, not yet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, we will be. Don't you worry about that.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' Yeah. He keeps threatening to get me behind the machine. I don't we're going to see how well that's going to work out for him.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, yeah, you have a few thousand of these things to make.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' Mr. Dowdy, so you better roll your sleeves up. Yeah. So whoever gets crooked binding, you know, those are ones together.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Not of course that won't happen.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' That will never happen. That will never happen. You know, I like I wouldn't. Yeah. Jeff knows how particular I am. And Jeff's the same way. And we look at things and we're like, oh, no, no, no. This isn't this doesn't leave the house. We'll just have to give that. My kids have a good stack going of some prototypes that, you know, we're we're not made for primetime yet. So, yeah, we won't send anything out. That's just right on the money.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The kids are doing the stress testing.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' They are. Especially my daughter. She keeps asking for more. She like fills one up. I need another one. I'm like, I don't have any more.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I bet she's just filling them up with your pens as well because they're like a never ending collection.

'''Jeffrey Bruckwicki:''' They are. They they she does know which ones are mine and she goes and gets them and fills up her pen case. Yeah, that's hilarious. So.