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== First Look Products ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. I got a few first look products I wanted to drop in here real quick. These are probably like pre-review thoughts. All of them have literally been in my hands. Some of them about less than 24 hours. Some a little bit longer than that. The first one is one we mentioned. The Uniball.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is it called And Not? Are we going to do this right now? It's And Not. Yeah. I don't know what else you'd call it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like I don't think you would call it like Ampersand Not.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, I'm not thinking of that. I'm thinking of how you connect the words Uniball and Not. Yeah. Or is it Uniball and And Not? No.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a product.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is it Uniball X and Not?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Don't do that to me. Because it's not, right? Like it's just, you don't call it. It's And Not. Yeah, but you don't have any problems saying Jetstream. You know, like what is this? Is it Uniball plus Jetstream? Oh, I can't get my head around it. You know, it's just And Not. It's just a sub-brand.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So did Uniball and And Not do a collaboration?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, And Not is a Uniball line, isn't it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. And Not's a brand. Like Blue Bottle Coffee.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, well then I misunderstood from what you did.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, no, no.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, then I understand the confusion.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Now Brad's a problem.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, no, I get it now. Because it's two companies. I thought that this was just a brand like Jetstream.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, oh, no. Oh, okay, I see. No, no, no, no. No, this is a literal, this is an outside the building collaboration. Which they do pretty infrequently. Yeah. I'm just saying, listen, And Not is the problem. It's their fault for making a name like that. Like I get the name, but then when you start mixing, like this is what this podcast is about. We care more about the nomenclature than the product. So let's talk about the product. Okay. This is, the reason why this came up on my radar is because Uniball doesn't do this a lot. They've done a couple, they did one a couple years ago with a furniture maker where they made a wood grip, Jetstream multi-pin barrel grips. They're fantastic. I forget the name of the brand, Sergeant McKay. But anyway, they don't do this a lot.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I just wanted to say for the, because I went and checked, right? So Jacob says, quoting, the first release from Uniball's new lifestyle-focused sub-brand, And Not. Really? So I think you've got this wrong, Brad. I'm sorry to say, because also if you Google Ant Not, nothing comes up except for Uniball.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Really? Okay. I'm very wrong then. Yeah. Shout out Jacob. I guess I just overlooked it. Shout out me. Well, I mean, you're- Shout out me in this scenario. No, let's say Brad apologizes. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was wrong. But also, no, shout out Myke for doing the work beforehand, right? Yeah, I'm trying to avoid- I would have just let you go if I wouldn't have done all my research, you know? I'm clearly, I'm clearly working around- Brad, I'm doing my own research now. This is a problem. Uh-oh, uh-oh. I'm doing-

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, good.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Brad, I'm just asking the questions, all right? Yeah. I'm doing my own research.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, gosh. This is going to be interesting then, okay? This- Then I'm actually going to go harder at this pen than I was before.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh-oh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' If this is an in-house sub-brand, is that what we want to call it then?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Whatever you would call Jetstream.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Huh. Interesting. Okay.