Editing The Pen Addict 300/transcript (section)

== Seed A52 Case ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, gosh. But let's move into the single most important product release of the year, the Seed A52. Case by NotCo is now available. Oh, hallelujah. Right. So have we got, like, four of them to sell? Like, what's going on?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We had about 150 of them, and they're almost gone. But we're going to have more. I mean, they're constantly coming in now. I just happened to get enough. I felt like 150 was about the right number to put them up for sale with the amount of people that have been looking for them and requesting them. I may have been a little short, but I wanted to go ahead and get these out because it's been too long. It's been too long coming, but they're awesome. I've been told by very reliable sources this is the best product we've ever made. And by very reliable, I mean unreliable, as Tony is. So, yeah, I love this product. I know a bunch of people have been wanting it. I'm glad we're finally able to get it out there. So these will continue to come in. And then the lilac, oh, I always call it lilac, iris and electric blue will be coming up soon, too. So, yeah. If you don't happen to get one, you know, today or tomorrow or whatever, and they sell out, they'll only be out for a minute. We'll be restocking, you know, probably every week or every other week for the next few months. And I really, really appreciate everyone's support in this case. It's something that took longer than expected, which is essentially our tagline now. So I think we'll make a case in the future where we'll just put it on the back of the tag, took longer than expected.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That could just be the name of a product. I'm excited to get one of these. I'm going to wait to get one in Atlanta, I think. I'm assuming you'll probably have some to sell there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I assume that too, but you never know, right? Yeah, I get to have one of my famous yelling phone calls when we get off this call today.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, gosh. Well, I'm sure we all appreciate you yelling at people because you've got a great case. That's what I do. So you can go get that at notco.com. You can find links there for the Seed A5. And of course, they'll be in our show notes as well. So you can go and go and check it out and buy one for yourself. Should we take our last sponsor break? We've still got a bunch of stuff to get through today. Last break and a few more fun things. All right. Today's show is also brought to you by Harry's. Harry's is all about a great shave at a fair price, which is why over 3 million people switch to Harry's and you should join them. Harry's founders Jeff and Andy decided to create Harry's because they were fed up with overpriced razors and they wanted to fix it. They knew that a great shave comes down to great blades made of sharp, durable steel that lasts. And they also cut out all the unnecessary costs, allowing to deliver to you one perfect razor at an amazing price. Harry's offer high quality blades at half the price. You pay just $2 per blade. They bought a factory that's been making some of the highest quality blades in the world for over 95 years. So they know that they're good and they offer a 100% quality guarantee. If you don't love your shave, let Harry's know within 30 days and they'll give you a full refund. Brad, I know that you're a big fan of Harry's. Would you like to tell me anything about Harry's?

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right, I bring up this next Kickstarter link out of necessity.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Just so people will stop sending it to us, because it will continue for the next 21 days at least.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, and I start, I mean, I did it. It's partially my fault because I made a scribble joke, and people are noticing a new Kickstarter project. I'm going to go with Picolor. Picolor. Even though it could be Piecolor. I'll go Picolor. Picolor. Like Picolor. Picolor. Piccolo. Picolor. Um, it's a, basically a, a paint mixing setup where, you know, you can build your own paint colors out of, you know, find a sample, mix a color, but it actually spits it out into like real little paint files, not into necessarily a pen mechanism, although they do have some kind of syringy brush pens, which it's really not for that at all. I mean, it's not related to a scribble at all. This is essentially a paint mixer that you can dump into a pen and use it as a pen. I mean, it doesn't seem very scribbly to me. It just seems if you wanted a digital paint mixer. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So this is the thing, right? Like it seems kind of scribble penny because it's an app and it can be any color and it goes into a pen. This may or may not work, but it does feel like this is a more potentially viable product than the scribble pen because it's this box. It is a box that you probably put in a bunch of inks into and then it mixes them, which is that is a technology that already exists, right? You can do that. And this is like a home way of doing this like a 3D printer. The reason the scribble pen seemed like nonsense and was nonsense is there's no way you could do all of that work in something so small in one pen that you could hold. Like an external box that mixes ink, mixes paint into colors is more potentially viable than something that just doing it all within a pen. And like they are going for the paint angle, the drawing angle, right? They have some brush pens and stuff that you have like some. Color matching. Yeah. And there's color matching and all that stuff. So there are some, there are definitely some crossovers.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Scribble overtones. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And honestly, we don't know if this is a real product or will work, but it feels more potentially likely than the scribble pen ever did.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's a paint mixer. I mean, so I'm not even spending the time to like go through the whole project. I see like, I see the idea where it could be scribbly, but it just seems like a straight up paint mixer. And then you do whatever you want with the paint that comes out of it kind of thing. So, you know, it's definitely not, well, I'm not going to say definitely not anything about sketchy Kickstarter projects, but not related to the scribble as far as I can tell. And, you know, different technology, different, different output, things like that. So just thought we'd bring that up to kind of put the kibosh on, on that one. So we'll just be ignoring that one from here on out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So this next thing was also sent in to us, and you can't do it because otherwise we're just going to go around in circles forever. It is a page from Grammar Girl, quickanddirtytips.com. And it's about, does pin and pen sound alike to you? Because we have had this problem during the Kickstarter campaign where Brad kept telling everyone that we were going to be making enamel pens for everyone, which is a thing that was coming across. But it's because it is a, it is a Southern thing where pin and pen somehow sound exactly the same.