Editing The Pen Addict 179/transcript (section)

== Camo and Red ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' So what about the camo and the red then?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Still no? What do you mean? Are you going to be selling those?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are stock. Those will be new stock. Camo and red are going to be new stock colors in all the cases, including the Sinclair.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Camo is a real nice option because as well, like, so I took a look at this. Like, so there aren't pictures of these that I've seen. I watched your Periscope replay, which I put in the show notes using some service I'd never heard of to keep it as like a permanent replay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about you want to talk about that now real quick.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So there's a there's a service that Brian Goulet turned me on to. It's called Catch K-A-T-C-H. So Periscope, your videos, when they're done, they are up for 24 hours. And so this catch thing just all I had to do was like link my Twitter account to it. And when I Periscope, it keeps a permanent link to that video. So now I can share it. You know, if you missed it in the first 24 hours, you can go back and watch it. So I don't know much about it besides that, but it allows us to like link to what we're getting ready to talk about in the show notes. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I actually did just find a picture on the NotCo account, which has all of the colors in there, but it was way easier to find to see on the on the video, I think, really. Yeah. So you've got camo. And what's the inside color on the camo? Black. Yeah. The camo you've chosen looks real good. Like it doesn't look tacky.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That's a real fine line. You can go there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Agree completely. Jeff and I are totally on the same page as you with the camo. And this is a super, super traditional large pattern camo. Right. It has a specific name. I don't know if this one's called woodland, but it's actually a very common pattern you see. But people have kind of bastardized camo these days. So you get a lot of weird patterns. So this is a super traditional classic camo pattern. And that's what we wanted to build this case around.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It looks really great.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And then you got the red. The red is like this really deep red. Like it's not like bright, pure red ink red. It's got a little bit more depth to it, but it's not like a brick red. It's definitely red. I didn't think about it till this weekend. And Jeff kept saying it to people. He said, yeah, it's like the Atlanta Braves case with the red is really bright. The navy is deep. And then the gray threading. That's like my favorite thing about this. I like the little small details. On the navy interiors, you can see we use gray thread. So there's like a pop of thread color in there that I think came out fantastic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm looking forward to seeing those on the actual site when Jeff takes some real like light box photos of them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So we're still working on that, but we did put up like red brass towns went up today. Um, you know, we introduced this weekend. We also introduced the chimney top XL, which is a longer length chimney top. So you can fit like unsharpened pencils in there. People, a lot of our pencil carrying fans needed something to carry full length pencils in. So we extended the chimney top and narrowed it a little bit. So it's a longer, skinnier chimney top. And I've actually been carrying one of those for months in my backpack and it works out great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Did you have these at Atlanta?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no, no, no. Okay. No, that's actually, we just had these right now. I mean, we just put them on the site today. Um, you know, and, and our pencil fans who, who've been wanting that they're, they're now available. Right. And, uh, we're also with, with that size, just to show that they carry pencils, we're giving you a free pencil to the Palomino HB pencil, which is this cool orange with the black dip end. We work with pencils.com to allow us to be able to, since we're not selling the pencils, um, they allowed us to break them up individually because they're normally only sold in dozens. Right. Um, so we said, well, we're just going to give them away. So like, oh yeah, that's cool. Yeah. So we can, we were allowed, they worked with us. We were happy for, uh, to let us, uh, to let us do that. Why are you doing that?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Because it's cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, cool. I mean, that wasn't a trick question, but like, I don't think you've given away anything free in a case before.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no. I just, we just thought it was a cool thing. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. All right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I thought it's a, it's a, such a cool pencil. Um, and it really fits in with what we're trying to accomplish with that case. And you can just kind of link those two together, like mentally. Right. So, you know, you look at this case, you know, I can fit my pencils in it, you know, and I don't know. We just like to do cool things for cool people that are cool to order our cases. So why not? Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. Uh, no, we have no, uh, no ulterior motives other than to do something nice. Can I do something nice for you, Michael? You can. Once. You can. What is it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, I, it sounded like I was accusing you of something, but it wasn't that. I just was interested to know why, like what your thought process was. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You know, we legitimately thought, oh, this would be cool. That was our thought process. And we can afford, you know, a single pencil, you know, like we can afford to do, you know, and it's something, it's something small, but hopefully meaningful and people will enjoy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I find that with my business, sometimes some of the best stuff is the stuff that you do just because you like it.