Editing The Pen Addict 64/transcript (section)

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' I am an absolute professional. All right. Well, I'll let you do that. I'll stop monkeying around because I know the next topic is what we want to get to and spend the meat of the show talking about today. So you're the man. Go for it.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want listeners to send in to me links to their Squarespace sites. So if you are a listener and you have created a site on Squarespace, send them in to me. Say that you are a listener of The Pen Addict. You have created a site with Squarespace. Please say that you listen to The Pen Addict. And what would be even better if you've used it to create a site where you show off your pens and that sort of stuff. Or like me and Brad have our field notes collection. So maybe you've done that. I will collect some in and in some future episodes, we'll feature some of the websites that our listeners have created.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Man, that's a fantastic idea. How do you want them to send them to you?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Any way they please. Twitter or email. So Twitter, imike, I-M-Y-K-E. Or go to mikehurley.net slash contact and you can send me an email there.

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a great idea. I really like that. I like it too.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's why I think it's fun.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I want to discover more sites and like to see how other people use Squarespace to give me some ideas on how to use it better myself. So that's always a good thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So what are we going to talk about today?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know. I think we both know very well. And I think all of our Twitter followers know very well. And I've been getting a million questions about this just in the past week, maybe. It's kind of ramped up. But we are going to talk about the Visionaire, which is a pin that is being kickstarted right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So this started out from hearing you on app.net, didn't it? Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. That was probably a week ago. I got the first question. And I don't have it pulled up. I don't have that piece pulled up in front of me. But yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I found the tweet or the post on app.net. It was from Chase McCoy. This is how I first found out about it. This is three days ago. And he sent us a link to this Kickstarter project for the Visionaire. I went on, watched the video and immediately backed it. Told him I backed it. And then things started to unfold. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I think he didn't say specifically. I guess he was still in the thinking about it stage.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And then he hadn't. He hadn't backed. He said that this was going to be his first pen project. If he did, I backed before even he did.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. That's right. He said this is going to be his first one. And then what? Six or seven hours later, I woke up and started checking my feeds. Was that about the timing of it?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was something like that anyway. I like that. So I woke up. I started poking through it. And I had seen it before. I was fully aware of it. But I didn't really pay it any mind. I didn't give it a second thought. And then I started really looking at it more. Reading all the descriptions. Watching the videos. And checking out all the comments and other things on it. And I had some real concerns about this pen. And I just said generally as much as it basically looked just like a Chinese manufactured pen. That's a dime a dozen type of pen. Did bring anything new to the table. Didn't look new, unique. Didn't look visionary.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And so that was my comment. And I left it at that. And Chase was like, okay, thanks for your input. But, you know, he said I'll probably pass. And you said you backed it. And we just kind of went from there. We kind of left it at that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And then I started getting more questions about it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Some questions came up on Twitter asking me about it. So then I really started looking at it. And I have some legitimate concerns about it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' God, what's the best way to jump off on this, Myke?