Editing The Pen Addict 235/transcript (section)

== Bolt Action Pen ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So. All right. I'm going to blow your mind on this next one. I just got an email from a reader said, did you see this? And I said, nope. And oh, my God, what is this thing? So this is I'm going to go with rock spelled R-O-H-K.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's a bolt action pen, but it's unlike any bolt action pen you have ever seen in your life. If anything, it reminds me of the Tombow Air Press. It's in kind of a general shape and plastic barrel. But they go all out in the marketing of this pen as like very EDC with like, you know, it's got the right grip dimensions, you know, for when you need to stab someone in the neck kind of thing. But it's a short pen. Right. But they're going super tactical on this. And what do you think about this pen? It's kind of wild. And again, Captain, full disclosure over here. I am getting one of these from I reached out to them and said, this pen is insane. Dude, I need one. And he emailed me right away. He said, yeah, absolutely. I'll send you one to check out. So I'll definitely have more on this pen when I get it because it's that weird. If this works, it's pretty cool. Now, this pen, it's not exactly cheap. Like this is like just looking at it and looking at the Kickstarter pen market as a whole. Like you and I can kind of say fair price, cheap, overpriced. A lot of engineering obviously went in this. It seems expensive to me.

'''Myke Dudek:''' Yeah. Like when I look at this thing, it reminds me of like, I don't know. It kind of seems like 80s, like the 80s, like Russian, Russian Soviet sort of missile. Exactly. Yeah. Like it's pretty intense. It's like it would be like something that would be in like some either Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal or like Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. It's yeah, they definitely like don't. They pulled out all the stops with regard to kind of the marketing side of it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And let me let me share some of those highlights real quick because they're pretty amazing. Rim edge on end cap for quick grab from pocket. Thumb dish for confident hammer fist grip. Three millimeter wall thickness for unbeatable crush strength. So yeah, this is and this it doesn't stop. Like it literally does not stop. There's like 20 bullet points. You throw this. This is pretty much inspired bolt action mechanism. It's it does not stop. It's awesome.

'''Myke Dudek:''' It's pretty much like an action movie, like a blow up action movie, like put into a pen. So if that's your jam, this would be as well your jam.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I'm totally getting this though. It's because I'm shocked that it's awesome to be quite honest with you. Yeah. For that price, I'm going to be like stunned that it's like legitimately good. Mostly from the bolt. The bolt seems like the most interesting part to me. Like, is this really going to work?

'''Myke Dudek:''' Well, like part of me thought is it like, is it I mean, it's obviously probably molded, but like part of me almost thought like, is this thing like 3D printed? Like, you know, it kind of has that sort of feel to it. Like maybe these initial prototypes could be like it even has a little bit like in some of the close ups, a little bit of texture. So I don't know, man. Like it's some of the seeming. Yeah. Like it's it's pretty crazy. Like from a from a price standpoint, like you're saying, like, is it is it like cheap?

'''Myke Dudek:''' It's I mean, it's it's an it's Aussie, right? Australian Australian project. And so some of the early early bird kind of ones are limited ones are like 30 bucks, you know, 30 to $35. And so that's not bad. That's not bad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I guess I was looking at the full regular price. I think it's like 60 or maybe I was looking at a comp. Maybe I was looking at a combo meal.

'''Myke Dudek:''' Yeah, like it was like by five.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, OK, so, yeah, you can get 31. OK, that's more reasonable. I was thinking like 50 or 60. OK, like 30 bucks. OK, I'm down with that. You know, especially, you know, when you have things like reinforce runners for maximum impact strength. I think I think 20 bullet points. I think I was selling it short. There might be closer to 30. Yeah, it's just nonstop. So this is interesting.

'''Myke Dudek:''' Yeah, it's pretty cool. Like I give them like I think it's pretty sweet that they're, you know, they like go out with like an idea like this. Like this seems like one of those ideas. It's like, should we, you know, but like they just they're like we're going all in on this. So, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is one I want to support because it is so out there. It's not what you see all the time. Yeah. And this is one that if it does get like any kind of press at all and gets successful, you'll end up seeing it like on all the tactical shops. It'll like that market will just eat this up if it's if it's good. So hopefully it is. So I can't wait to try this. It's I kind of I was like, am I really on Kickstarter? Is this like the onion of Kickstarter? Like when I first saw this, but it's a real pen and it's kind of amazing. Yeah, it's awesome. All right. So this next one, I have some things to say about, which means I need to let you talk first. So we just got this tweeted to us like a couple hours ago. And I was telling you before the show, I was like, I keep adding things to the list. This was one of them because I was not aware of it. This is called the Everlast Notebook. Did you get a chance to look at this or were you familiar with it already?

'''Myke Dudek:''' You know, I hadn't I hadn't actually seen it before. No. Also, like when you sent it over to me, that was like the first.

'''Myke Dudek:''' Yeah. First time I'd run run across it. So.