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== NotCo Kickstarter ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' The NotCo Kickstarter. Done right is. For the Wax Canvas, Brasstown, and Sinclair. There's, like, four days left. Maybe it ends on Sunday. It's, like, the Kickstarter math is always weird because they don't roll over the hours for, like, you know, entire days. They'll, I don't know. It's interesting. They make it look like it's going to end on Friday, but the actual end date isn't until Sunday. So if you're interested in this, we're creeping up on 500 backers and $40,000 raised. We'll get close to those things by the end. We'll see if we tip over those numbers. Those would be just nice raw numbers to hit, but, man, it's heckin' good right now with what we've reached. I'm very pleased and thankful for all y'all supporting this. I'm excited to get these. I'm excited to get this order in, Myke. I'm excited to, like, get the machines going again for NotCo Goods, and thank you all for your support. And there's a few days left if you're interested.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. I'll put a link in the show notes. It's been going great. I'm super pleased for you. Yep. And, yeah, I'm really excited to see. What's the delivery date on these?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I put... March? I think I put March. Yeah. Like, I gave myself six months knowing... So any... I've said this out loud before, so this shouldn't come as any surprise. Any time frame I give for a manufactured good is double the quote that the manufacturer gave me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. So when I was setting up this project and I'm talking to the manufacturers, like, if we order X amount, what is my time frame to receive these? And they'd say, like, 10 to 12 weeks. I'd say, okay, cool. 24 weeks it is. That's what it takes, though. It's just how it is. And you're thrilled if you hit 24 weeks at that point. Absolutely thrilled. That it's 100% gonna happen that way. So you can do the math on any project or any release I am ever giving you. Any release date. You know that Brad was told half that time. But there is no benefit for me ever, ever, ever saying the accurate manufacturer time from what they quoted me. None. Absolutely none. None. So there you go. Welcome to the inside baseball, even though I've said that before. So there you go. No, I think that's the right... I think that's right what you're saying. So that gives me the biggest chance to be right on delivery dates. As much as I would like to tell you 12 weeks and deliver them in 12 weeks, like, that's doing no one any benefit.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. You may want to hit Ask TPA or two. We have a quite long one here at the beginning. So this might be our Ask TPA for the day because it's broken up into multiple...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And I mentioned to this questioner, this came in via email, and I said I wanted to take this one on the show. So I've not replied to them saying that I want to take it on here. But I want everyone else to know, we have a bunch of Ask TPAs in the queue, which I'm always, like, building it up. We're going to get to all of these. So it just may not be today. But we'll just keep running through them. Keep sending them in at hashtag Ask TPA on Twitter or email me at hello at penact.com.