Editing The Pen Addict 488/transcript (section)

== Physical Endurance Changes ==


'''Myke:''' You're becoming stronger every day. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Unstoppable. Yep. All right. This episode is brought to you by Pen Chalet. They sell authentic, amazing rollerballs, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, refills, inks, converters, accessories, everything you're looking for, they've got it. And they are an authorized dealer of all of your favorite brands. Pen Chalet believe in giving you the very best service that they can. So they make it fast, they make it reliable, and they do free shipping on orders of over $50 in the US, but they sell internationally. You can ship all over the world. And they offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee on their high-quality products that they offer to you at the lowest prices that they can. Pen Chalet is running special discounts twice a month, close-up specials as well, as well as adding new styles of products. You're always going to find new pens, new stuff over at Pen Chalet, so it's always worth checking back in. So go right now to PenChalet.com, P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T.com, and click the podcast link at the top of the website, and enter the password Pen Addict for this week's special offers, and also to get the code that you need to save 10% on anything at any time at Pen Chalet. What's jumping out to you this time, Brad?

'''Brad:''' Big Bennu party over here at Pen Chalet. Oh, Big Bennu Energy over at Pen Chalet. Big Bennu Energy. So there's several models that I love here. My favorite Bennu model is the Euphoria, which I have reviewed on the blog. Wow. That one is going to be one that I will be inking up to use in the book. These pens, they really are very striking. They're not for everybody.

'''Myke:''' Yeah, but they don't look like anything else. If you want to have a pen, like, genuinely, if it's something you want is I want to have a pen that looks like a pen that nobody else has, you can go get a Bennu.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. I tell this story a lot, and I'll share it again. When I would work at pen shows for Van S, and we'd have tons of ink and tons of pens, if we had Bennu pens, I would sell more Bennu pens to people than all the other pens combined. It's just, it's a really cool pen that comes in all these wild materials and wild shapes. So, like, the Briolette is just, like, a crazy price right now. It's kind of the smaller torpedo-shaped one. And then that goes in huge contrast to the Grand Scepter, which may be one of the most popular Bennu sizes.

'''Myke:''' This is my favorite design of them, to be honest.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, this one passed through my hands, and I sent it on to Sarah, but when I got it, I was like, I could get into this. And then I kept the Euphoria for myself to review. It's actually the most traditionally shaped, but has all the Bennu wild features in there as well. And then they have the Bennu Supreme, which I've never tried, which is their more, the most normal-looking, and I mean that in the best way possible. These pens are wild. These are great prices. They are eminently enjoyable. I love my Bennu pen, and I think they're fantastic. One more thing. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention, Myke, the Stipula Netto Patented Filling System Pen Care Filling Ink Pot that you can get at just an amazingly low price.

'''Myke:''' So, if you want to check these out for yourself, go to P-E-N-C-H-A-L-E-T, penshalet.com. Click the podcast link at the top of the website and enter the password penaddict. So, thanks to Pen Chalet for the continued support of this show and RelayFM. So, how's knock shipping going?

'''Brad:''' It was going great up until this week happened. I had finally, I had gotten down to like 150 orders, which I'm pretty happy about. And then I just hit the wall, what, Tuesday, Monday, Monday maybe is when I, or whatever, one day early this week. I was like, I finished my day. I was like 150 left. I was like, yeah, I can probably get these done like in the next week, 10 days. And then I've just hit the wall since then. But I should have time this weekend to catch that up. And I have received the kind of final batch of goods from the factory. So, I'm going to have some big inventory updates for a couple of products, like a couple hundred more cases, like Lookouts and Pencil Cases, some things that sold out early.

'''Myke:''' So, this is stuff that you had to pay to get released. Is that right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

'''Brad:''' So, it was already built and they just hold it. Like, it's just, it's how that business works. So, yeah. No, they just hold it until I build the whole order. They go ahead and build everything, save it's 500 cases. And then I'll say, okay, ship me 150. And then in two weeks, they'll send me whatever I want. They'll just send me whatever after the big batch is made. So, yeah. So, I have those in. And so, what's going to happen is once I finish this round of shipping and get to just, you know, a handful of orders coming in a day left, I will re-inventory the whole shoot and match. And we'll kind of have one more big round of final send-off stuff. And then, you know, we'll see where we're at from there. That might be the time where, you know, the site, you know, everything is listed as sold out. And then we'll have, like, maybe a last hurrah in Atlanta next year or something like that. With anything else I can scrape up and, you know, all the things, all the one-offs and two-offs that it doesn't really benefit to put on the website at this point. So, it's – everything's been going really good as far as that goes. You know, it's just put me behind because there was so much love for all of our cases. And I appreciate everyone – appreciate everyone's kind words and hope everyone's enjoying their cases. Yes.

'''Myke:''' It says you're never going to get rid of it all. Every time you sell out, there's always going to be more. You're just going to be – you're going to be closing this company out for the rest of your life.

'''Brad:''' I know it's not going to happen until next year. So, it's going as good as I hoped other than just, you know, the shipping is taking a long time. And I appreciate – everyone's patience has been excellent.

'''Myke:''' It's slow. It's just a slow process when you've got one person shipping out hundreds of orders. Like, it's the time.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. And this isn't, like, a prepackaged good that I can just do in bulk. I still, like, literally inspect every case. Right? That's the time process. That's one of those proud things about Nock that we did is how we do our QC. And it's just time-consuming. Right? It just is. Like, I'm physically touching and inspecting every case still to this day. Wouldn't have it any other way.