Editing The Pen Addict 257/transcript (section)

== Housekeeping ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Should we end the show on some housekeeping?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. So, I have Nock updates, Kickstarter updates. We are most of the way through shipping black linears for the Lanier Kickstarter project. The olive lanier started to ship out very slowly yesterday with bigger batches going today and tomorrow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, we're gaining on it. I appreciate everyone's patience. You know, it's one of those things where we do our own fulfillment. Every bag passes through our hands. We inspect them all. It's just kind of like that's what we do, right? So, it takes us time. We're not the fastest at shipping out a huge project just because of the way we do things. And, the feedback has been wonderful. I love seeing the Lanier's and the A5 notebooks out in the wild. Feedback's been hugely positive and I really, really appreciate all of the support and the kind words that everyone has. So, we'll keep pumping those olive ones out. We'll finish up the black ones here soon as well. Not much longer. I'd say if we got done in the next week and a half, that might be cutting in a little close, but hopefully by the end of the month. So, we'll see. It'll be really, really close to being at a completion state by the end of the month. So, two weeks from now or so, we should be, we have to be 90, 95% done by then, I would imagine. So, with what we're going to get out this week and next week. So, yeah, we're good. That's awesome. Yep. Then we have, so what we said at the beginning of the show, the Pen Addict Kickstarter video is going to go out today. So, look for those in your inboxes. The Sapelo pen envelope looks like probably an August time frame. It's still a little bit of variance in that. I don't think it should be much later than that though based on the timelines I'm getting. But, just like the Lanier, one week turns into two, two turns into three. Then every week, I'm saying next week and I say that for four weeks in a row. So, you just never know how it's going to go. That's the time frame I'm shooting for.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And, we'll see how that goes. We do have the DC show from August 4th through the 6th. Myke and I will be there. We're going to be doing our live recording there but not in front of a studio audience. I don't know, maybe we'll have to have a whiskey and scotch tasting in the room while we're recording. What do you think about that, Myke? Myke. Great idea. You're thrilled with that one, right? Oh, yeah. Just what Myke needs. A bunch of rowdy, rowdy people in the room while we're trying to record.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' we'll see. Oh, I just thought you meant me and you. Oh, no, no. Oh, yeah. No. I don't want to just drink with you. Oh. I need to drink with the crowd. Okay. And then we have the Field Notes show coming up in October. Yep. Which we'll still, we got to talk to Jim and Brian to finalize the details but so we'll have more on that soon. So we got a lot going on. So I'm going to be in Raleigh the first weekend of June which is coming up. Gosh, that's only like two weeks away and it'll be my first time in Raleigh. I'm bringing one of the young pen addicts with me which I haven't mentioned yet. My daughter, Elizabeth. She's going to come help run the knock table with me. She is pumped about that so y'all come say hey to me and Elizabeth. I'll have some of our new prototypes there to check out. We're doing the A5 case, the A5 Slim case or the A6 case for the fall. I'm going to try to bring some of those with me so you can check them out. You can tell me what you like, what you don't like about them. We're not quite done with them yet. They're not in production or anything yet but the colors are picked out. You won't get to see those yet but they're going to be awesome. I'm pretty excited about that. So, there's a lot going on. A lot of kickstarting, a lot of updates, a lot of shipping, a lot of pen shows, Myke. Lots of pen shows this year but it's fun. This will be the second knock show outside of Atlanta so figuring all these out is very cool and that way we can see what we want to do next year, what works, what doesn't work. So we got a lot of good, Chicago was a perfect learning experience to know how much do we take? You know, what are the quantities we need of these things? How heavy can we make Brad's bag when we overpay for shipping for baggage at Delta? So, it's a good thing to learn all these things. We'll get to drive to Raleigh though so that'll be good. And that's it. There's always something going on. I feel like as much as we talked about today, there's 8,000 things we didn't talk about so I'm sure our listeners will let us know, right? I have no doubt about it. I have more things.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So next time, I've got more stuff. I've got more stuff I want to talk about. But you can find our show notes for this week over at relay.fm slash penaddict slash 257. Don't forget that there is a penaddict subreddit which is slash r slash penaddict on Reddit so you can go and you can go check that out if you want to. It's a little community growing there which is fun to watch. I see these things go by every now and then so you should go check it out if it interests you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and that little community is growing. It's gone from just like a couple hundred people. I'm looking at it now there's 767 people in there so that's cool. It's gone well and I know there's show links in there to talk about the show to talk about the podcast what it's done. I'm missing the last couple of episodes but that's cool. It's a really really cool thing and some good comments in there so yeah, it's fun.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You should set up a little action to have it auto-post. I should. You can do that IFTTT or something will do that for you. Take care of it. Take care of it. You can find Brad online over at penaddict.com knock.co and he is dowdyism on Twitter d-o-w-d-y-i-s-m and penaddict on Instagram. I am imike i-m-y-k-e thanks so much to Casper and Harry's for sponsoring the show but most of all as always thank you for listening. We'll be back next time. Until then say goodbye Brad.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Goodbye Brad. Thank you.

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