Editing The Pen Addict 73/transcript (section)

== Subscription Pack ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, my subscription pack came with. I got the pencil and the ballpoint pen and the band of rubber. Which has got a permanent place on eBay, apparently, for $2.99. If you're ever interested.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, wow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That annoys me so bad. Sorry.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But I did get the six-pack holder. Which is really cool. It's like if you've ever had the old subscription editions. Where they've done like the insert for like sharpening the carpenter's pencil. Or, you know, the little calendar inserts. It's that same heavy cardboard. And they have the instructions on building the little six-pack holder. Which I thought was a great idea to do it. So, each three-pack. So, I have a three-pack of loggers. And a three-pack of ales. And each of those comes with its own coaster, too. We didn't mention that. So, like the loggers three-pack. On the back of it. This is inside. This isn't loose in the packaging. This is shrink-wrapped inside the belly band of the three-pack. Oh, awesome. The loggers has its loggers-specific coaster. And then the ales has the ales-specific coaster. So, the loggers is a little bit lighter yellow with a little bit different glass on it. And then the ales is a little bit orange. It kind of has orange writing in the ales glass on it. So, let me open up. What are we going to open here? I'll open up the loggers edition here real quick. Because what they did this time, they did a little different finish on the cover. Are they saying it's a plastic? It's not a plastic cover. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, what we've got is feature heavyweight new page sterling premium 120 covers with a soft touch varnish, giving them a soft, almost rubbery feel. And the logo is varnished with a contrasting gloss. And each book is colored to represent a different brew. So, have a brief history of each style of beer on the back cover. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, the cover's thick. Thicker than, you know, just the basic covers, the basic memo book covers. But most of the colors editions have had some kind of thicker cover than just the regular craft paper. The finish feels great. It's that satiny finish. Like, I did a review today of the Rodia R Premium notebooks. And it's got the same satiny finish cover. I did make a comment on that, how it's prone to getting fingerprints on it. And this is the same kind of finish, although, you know, it's not getting fingerprints on it as I'm messing around with it. But I like the thickness and I like the feel of it. I want to like the durability aspect of it, honestly. I think it's going to be real good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The graph line, the grid line is awesome. This makes a huge difference for me. I mean, I ordered some extras as well. And this could be, like, my go-to edition for, you know, regular use. Like, I've always said, one of the reasons the grass-stained green has always been my number one favorite is because it uses the green line for the grid. And this yellow-orange grid is killer. They did a really good job with this. All the inside covers are, let's see, is it all of them? Yeah, all the inside covers are black, which is kind of cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It really sets it off well. So the inside is black with white text.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, it's got all the great practical applications and things like that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Let's see. The practical applications. Dive-iest dives. I like that. Breweries visited. Barrel count.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I'm sure it's all beer-related, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is. It is. Designated driver rotations.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And then the back, this is cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' On the back, it has the Drink Local Lagers logo on there, which is the same that's on the coaster. And then it says, like on the Pilsner book, it goes through the Pilsner description. And then on the Bach book, it goes through the Bach description. And the Pale Lager, the same thing. It lists some of the specs and some of the origination of that type of beer. They kind of boggle my mind with everything that they do for each of these editions and are still charging us the same price. Should I say that out loud?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, I agree with you. It's insane, right? How they manage to do this stuff all the time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, so for the same price that we've always paid, we get all these extras, all this additional. I know this costs more money to do all this stuff and to add in the coasters and to add in the six-pack holder. Then when you add in all that stuff, the shipping costs more because now the package is bigger to hold all this stuff. And we're paying the same old price.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So to go through our usual, they did a 30,000 print run of each. So 30,000 ales and 30,000 lagers bring it to 60,000 total books on the print run.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So that's large.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is that right? Yeah, I'm looking at it now. That is large. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, 30, 30. And it's actually 120,000 when you count retail, right? People get that mixed up.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, really?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So you take the print run. There's a colors edition print run. I didn't know that. Which is what's listed here. Yeah, we've talked about this before. Oh. Because if you get it from retail, the back of them say retail edition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like this one says limited edition of 60,000. Now if you buy it from like Jetpens or Goulet or local store, it'll say retail edition of 60,000.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Comprende?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Comprende.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I was about to say something on that. I can't remember now. But yeah. Oh, I know what I was going to say. America is the beautiful edition still not sold out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, really? Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Because I was looking with this to go verify the numbers, the print run. Yeah. It's still available on the limited edition run still available. Which that was a 45,000 run, I believe.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But yeah, this is going to do well. I imagine this one will sell out. Heck, I might just buy them all because I really love this edition. And this one, I mean, I know it's the newness of it and that makes me say something like this. But I might like this better than Night Sky for me personally.