Editing The Pen Addict 70/transcript (section)

== Pen Launch ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm excited too. Jeff and I are getting really excited. It's getting close cause we're almost there. We're like, we're almost like at the twiddling our thumbs phase where, you know, we don't have, we're not going full gangbusters like we have been for the past couple of weeks. Now we just kind of get to get the final touches, you know, the Kickstarter project page finalized and then some of the backend, the backend stuff, um, set, but you know, we're, we're ready. It's, it's, it's that close to where we're, we're ready. We're ready to go. We're ready for this to be a thing. So it's exciting and nerve wracking.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, I just thought of something that we haven't spoken about. Me and you were part of an amazing article.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh yeah. We didn't even put that in the notes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, um, we had a, we had a, I assume, yeah, Gabe listens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Gabe Bullard.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We had a listener, Gabe Bullard contact us, um, to say that he was going to be writing an article in the magazine, which is a, um, an iOS publication, um, currently run by Glenn Fleischman. And it was, um.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And it's an online publication too. It's web accessible. Web accessible.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's web accessible, but you have, I think you have to subscribe first. I don't know. I don't know if, if Glenn has changed that. I think, yeah, I think you have to subscribe first or anyway, whatever. It's not important. Um, it's a, a magazine that was established by Marco Arment and is now run by Glenn Fleischman. And he contacted us to say he'd pitched to write a story about, um, people that love pens, pen addicts. So he contacted us both separately. We both jumped on a call with Gabe and we gave an interview. Now, I don't know what you thought, but I didn't necessarily think that it was going to be a piece about us as such.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, not at, in that way. No, I thought it was going to be more general.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And with us, you know, chiming in on bits and pieces.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But what it turned out to be as kind of like a expose piece about the show and about me and you and our love for pens and how that's grown over time. And the fact, you know, the blog exists and he speaks to a couple of other people for some quotes as well. I think he speaks to the guys at JetPens.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Yeah. Uh, Shu. She, uh, she's the CEO of JetPens. She talks, he talks to her. Um, who else? I don't have it right in front of me. There was one or two others.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But it was, it's an incredibly humbling and awesome, um, article. And, and, uh, I, I urge everybody to just go and sign up. You, you have to like sign up for the, the, the magazine, but you can cancel it after you've read the article or whatever. And it'd only be like two bucks.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But there's a seven, there's a seven day free trial.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, there you go. Cancel within seven days. You don't even pay. And just go have a read of it. The magazine is really cool, but, um, you know, I, I think that every, all of the listeners would get a kick out of reading that because it, it knocked my socks off. And I, I said some things that seem very smart. And when they were, when I, when I read them back, I was like, I sound very smart. I was happy with it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Dave did such, such a good job out of, you know, what I felt the content was that I gave him to write this story. Like I just, when someone does something like that, I just, I just look at it and go, I could never do that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, he turned, he turned it into a very, very awesome piece. Like a really great article. Like it, it felt like it was, you know, mainstream magazine type stuff and absolutely humbled and thrilled. And, and so happy that, that we took part in it because it's a, it's one of those things that in 10 years time I will, I will think about and it'll make me happy. Like it's one, you know, one of those things where I was like that, that's one of those little things, which is like a check on the list. So very, very cool. Very cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was well done, Gabe. We really, we really appreciate it. And, uh, you pretty much knocked it out of the park.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Thank you. Thank you for including us.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, yes. Um, catching up on what seems to be a recurring theme that we haven't gotten finalized yet is I finally got my cult pins, the, my Kaweco cult pins, um, pin in, um, the design that, um, cult pins and Kaweco work together. It's a, it's a mini fountain pen, aluminum barrel. It's really, really sweet looking. Um, I've just got it in like late last week, like Friday. I haven't had a lot of time to play with it yet, but my goal. It is to have that taken care of between now and next episode. And I think we'll have a, a full, full big segment on reviewing that pin on the episode next week. Cause I know you've had yours for a bit now and, um, that'll give me some time to get some, uh, ideas with it. So I'm going to start using that tonight and I'll have a good feel for it next week. So we'll do a good full, full review on that.