Editing The Pen Addict 100/transcript (section)

== Colt Pens Giveaway ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Giveaway package number five is the Colt Pens. Giveaway package number five is the Colt Pens Diamine ink, one cup of Notco dot dash note cards, and one Notco sticker pack. That is a lot of stuff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This competition is open worldwide. We don't want to, I'm right in saying that Brad, right? Yeah, absolutely. Great. We don't want to restrict anyone, we have a worldwide audience. Gosh, yeah. And we're giving you, this is how you're going to enter. So, first go to 5x5.tv slash penaddict slash 100. You're going to find a few things there. You're going to find a breakdown of all of the giveaway packages, so you're going to see what's in each package. And you're also going to find, now there's two different links to this in the page, just to make sure that you cannot miss it. So, you are looking for the giveaway competition form. Let's say it's listed twice on the page. This will take you to a Google form. So, it's mentioned in, yeah, so you've got the giveaway competition form. It's mentioned in two places on the page, to make sure that it's easy for you to see. It's going to take you to a Google form. Now, on that Google form, we have a bunch of information that we're going to need for you to give to us. So, the first thing is a bunch of questions. Brad, can you just talk people through the questions?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we – I think I'm more concerned than Myke. I really want these prizes to go to genuine listeners of the podcast. So, what we've come up with is a set of questions about the podcast, things you've learned from previous episodes. And this is not a graded quiz, as in we have six questions we're going to ask that you have to fill out an answer for. Whether you win or not is not based on how many of these answers you get correct. But we are going to vet the answers to ensure that the people entering this contest have some semblance of knowledge of this contest – of this podcast, I should say. We want to make sure these go to true, genuine listeners of the podcast and not just random people who are picking up on a giveaway and just entering because, hey, it's a giveaway and we just want to enter. So, again, you're not entered into the contest by getting all the questions right. But you're entered into the contest by – we'll be – by these questions, and we're going to go through them here real quick. By answering these questions, we'll be able to tell that, okay, this person has actually listened to at least some of the episodes of the podcast. You don't have to listen to all of them. You don't – I mean, not everyone. Some people have only picked up this show in the last five episodes. You're going to be able to get some of these answers, and we're going to be able to tell by that. So everyone who we vet as actually being a listener of this show by how they answer these questions is going to go into a random drawing. We're going to pick five people, and also – let me back up. On this giveaway page, you're going to be able to choose what your favorite giveaway package is out of all the packages we just listed, your first and second choice you'll be able to pick. And we'll do our best to give you the one that you prefer.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And obviously, it's worth saying you can only win one package.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, you can only win one package. So just enter once. There's nothing preventing you from winning a million times, but just enter once. We have your email address. We ask for your Twitter name so we can contact you when you're done. I mean, when we're ready to give this away.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes, and we ask for both just because Brad has had a lot of problems in the past with people either, A, not responding to emails, or B, not responding to tweets. So we're going to do – actually, we're also going to do – we're going to do a few things. We're going to – because we would also really like to be able to – do we want to announce publicly the winners? I guess so, right? Yeah, definitely. So we will also be – so this is – bear in mind that – also to save us in case we can't find you. We will be announcing if you are a winner on the episode.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, and that's going to be in episode 102. So we're running this for two weeks from today. Okay, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' And then we'll give people – yes, we'll give people an amount of time that we haven't yet decided, depending on how everyone replies, as to how long the offer will be maybe held out for you. Maybe we – if we haven't heard from you, we give you another chance in the next episode, I guess?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't know. We should be – with the email and the Twitter name, I found the Twitter name has been a godsend in being able to hunt people down and give them the free stuff that I want to give them. So, yeah, I'm not worried about that. Great. So everyone's going to have – you'll go to the show notes. You're going to fill out this giveaway questionnaire, and we have six questions for you. And Myke and I brainstormed a list of questions. We came down with these six that are a good sampling of some of the topics we've talked about on the show. So let's tell – I think we should go over these questions. Myke, what do you think?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think it's a great idea.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Question number one. What are the pens that shall not be named?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Question number two. What pen would you sign a birth certificate with?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Question number three. What is Brad's all-time favorite Field Notes colors release?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Question number four. You will not be greater than your spelling. What is the brand name of Myke's iPad and notebook case? Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. Spelling does not count. Question number five. Myke has missed two episodes of the show. Name one person who filled in for him.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And finally, what pen brand tops Brad's wish list for 2014?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Easy stuff, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think so.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Even if you've listened to only, like, the last five or ten episodes, you're probably going to have a couple of these, like, immediately.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Or there's a couple where you know where to look.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Or you can find them easily. You know, I would love it if everyone attempted to get them all right. But like I said, it's not an accuracy quiz. We just want to ensure, like I said, that, you know, this is – we put a lot into getting these prize packages. And, you know, I really respect everyone who – all these companies that donated everything to this. And I want to make sure to do right by them, too. So, you know, hopefully, you know, all the listeners are going to, you know, find this fun to do. And I think it's great. And, you know, I'm excited to be able to do this, Myke. And I'm excited to – I'm excited to finally launch this and get everyone – we've been building this up for a week or two. And now we're – it's actually here. And we're going to release it to the world.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, it's very simple. 5x5.tv slash penaddict slash 100. Everything that you need is going to be there. You've got two links to the competition entry form. And we have all of the giveaway items and the packages that they're broken down into. So, it's very simple for you to see what's what.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Episode 102 is when the competition will close. And we should be announcing the winners in that episode. The competition may close slightly before to give us time to do the random drawing. But it will be around the – around two weeks it will be open for. If we are going to close it early at any point, then me and Brad will announce this on Twitter.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Actually, yeah. We'll go ahead and say it's going to end the Monday before episode 102. So, yeah. That's a confusing point.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Monday the 14th of April will be the closing day of the competition.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, that gives us a chance to announce everyone on the Tuesday for episode 102.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, we can count all of the entries and make sure that we're happy. It's going to be like the two of us are going to make the decisions.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. And we'll put that on the show notes page. Just a closing date of the 14th. So, perfect.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm adding that as we speak. Competition closes on April 14th, 2014. Again, I even wrote it out so we couldn't get our transatlantic listener base confused.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, I mean, I know that's been a lot. I hope that that's been interesting to listen to. You know, we're really excited by it and I hope that you will be too. And look, if you listen to this show, enter. Just do it. You're going to know a couple. We really want you to enter if you listen to this show.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we're not trying to make this hard or difficult at all. We just want to give our listeners the best shot at getting some of these awesome prizes.