Editing The Pen Addict 729/transcript (section)

== Pen Transport ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' And it came from the idea of how do you transport a bunch of pens, right? Yeah. And they're not all touching. No touching. That was very important. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No touching. Right. Right. So, like, it's made very, like, considerate of those things. But it kind of messes with your head because it doesn't look like it should work. Or it doesn't look like it could hold 10 pens or something like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It is a God-tier case. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were, I remember how popular they were at the pen shows. Like, everything was popular from Knock, but people would go mad for these. It was the most unique. Yeah. I once remember someone saying to me, you remember when we had the blue and pink ones? The unicorn one? Mm-hmm. And I remember selling- I know exactly what you're going to say. A bunch to a lady who was like, I'm going to put my color in here. I'm like, whatever you want, lady. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I think she bought, like, five of the unicorn snot and was going to put, like, her silver, like, silverware sets in there. Whatever you want. I was like, yes, ma'am. That's totally fine. Can you give me your credit card? And she was like, yep. She was like, she just went for it. She just sent it. And I was like, yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know what I think? I don't know how you feel about this, but I think it might be, like, an interesting feeling for you. Like, you know, Rickshaw is such a incredible brand. And they make, you know, they make so many products and they do such a great job and their quality is so high. But they value your designs to this level. I just think that's really nice and must feel very good. Like, I know that obviously, like, in the end, NOC did not go the way that you wanted to for a bunch of reasons that were not yours or Jeff's fault. Just, like, business struggle became too difficult because of the choices that you wanted to make. Right? Like, but you couldn't scale to a Rickshaw size, which is what's needed. Right? If you're going to do this kind of thing. But the design...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Short version is they have in-house sewing. Right? Yeah. Which is not an easy...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Which you tried to do and it was just too hard. Right? Like, they've just... They've been able to make it work out for them. Because if you do try to have them made anywhere else, it just becomes too expensive, which I know was the problem that you were having. You have to produce this kind of stuff yourself. But the problem was never the designs, obviously. The designs are amazing. And I just think it's so cool that this company, who can produce whatever they want, are, like, weaning to make Brad stuff because it's that good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. I do appreciate that because, like, you know what? Like, companies can just kind of make whatever they want, right? Yeah. They don't exist anymore. But it's good to have those tie-ins and it's good. You know, I appreciate, like, Rickshaw and now Galen doing the leather version saying, hey, like, we'll do this. Can we do this and, like, you know, use the name and make these designs? Because they were popular and we want to keep them going. And I do appreciate that. So, yeah. It's cool. So, I'm looking forward to getting some Brasstowns back in people's hands who know what they are and then new people seeing the Brasstown because it hasn't been for sale for, what, five, six years at least? Yeah. So, in a new model. So, yeah. When are they coming? San Francisco pin show in two weeks. Okay. So, launch at the show, then online after that. Nice. And then I'm going to do a color for the shop. Not a fancy pattern, but I'm going to do a color. So, Mark is making some, like, the original launch colors as close as he can when we first launched the Brasstown. That's adorable. And then a bunch of other just solids, right? Solid exterior, solid interiors. And then I'm going to do a solid exterior, solid interior for the shop, but I don't want to tease that yet. It'll be a color he doesn't do. It'll be for me. So, yeah. It's good looking. I've already seen. I have that prototype coming. So, again, maybe we can talk about that next week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do we want to talk about kind of a remake of another product? Absolutely. Are you sure?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I do. I want to talk about that. I mean, look, I want to talk about it. I have some things to say. I don't know if they're good.