Editing The Pen Addict 418/transcript (section)

== Updates ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' No one's tuning out. I know, I know. We'll get to that. I have comments, as I always do. But first, let's update our Kickstarter progress. I have some movement in the Retro 51 world. The pens have been shipped back to Retro 51 as of yesterday because they reported to me that the number rings were en route to them. So now the rings need to meet the pens and be parts swapped out and stickered up on the boxes. So, you know, that's probably the biggest delay. That's, you know, 888 pens where they're going to have to manually intervene on every single pen. And so I don't expect them back any time. I expect them back in August, basically, at this point. And then we'll be able to start shipping from then. But the posters are all but done. I don't have them in hand yet. But Anna and Bob have been sending me pictures. They look fantastic. And so we'll get everything rolling for shipping, hopefully starting in August. But we'll just, we don't, I don't know. I can't confirm that date at all yet. But that's kind of at least what my mental math is telling me when I'll have things ready to go. So we'll just see. So maybe the bigger news, although I think the pen for everyone is really what they want. But we had a big rash of pen shows cancel this week. Finally made some updates on the pending San Francisco show in the end of August. The Chicago pen show in the middle of September. And the Dallas pen show at the end of September. All kind of got together, put out a joint update on FP Geek's website. Maybe in other places as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I saw her on Instagram.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, they were canceling this year. Just like straight up canceling. Like San Francisco was holding out to see what everything looked like since they were one of the later shows, you know, at the end of August. Chicago was in May, but it moved twice trying to work around, you know, all the COVID-19 challenges we're having. And then Dallas was at the end of September, which we were planning on going to, which we're obviously not now. So, um...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We weren't anyway. I mean, we'd already mentioned it on the show, but like... Yes. Even if Dallas would have gone ahead, we would not have been in attendance unless something miraculous had happened. Yeah. And, you know...

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, we're running anti-Maracus right now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' With so much of my heart and all my friends are there, but you're not getting me to America anytime soon. Yeah, and I don't blame you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nor would I ask... I wouldn't ask people to come. That's the thing is like we... When we were talking about Atlanta way back in the... In the... In the almost before times, but not quite the beginning times. In the Ides of March. Yeah, in the Ides of March, we're talking about Atlanta. It's like we cannot put people in a situation where they have to decide whether they're going to come hang out with us. That's like just improper and not the right thing to do. So, that was that decision back then. We knew this was going to be the decision for us in Dallas. And now it's actually just official official instead of just regular official. So, we'll see. There's still pin shows right now that I guess are waiting and seeing. Really? This year... We've said it a million times. I think this year's just kind of done, right? So, we have... You've got to write it off.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Like, just... Yeah. It's, you know...

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, we have Colorado, Detroit, and Columbus in the U.S. We have Toronto. We have Japan later in the fall, beginning of winter. Beginning of winter, Japan could go.