Editing The Pen Addict 155/transcript (section)

== Branding Choices ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, exactly. Yeah, because as well, like the Stripe should be for everyone. Right. So yeah, there you go. That's a nice bunch of bullcrap to start this week's episode.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Speaking of bullcrap, Tom Cruise is full of bullcrap. He is one bullcrap dude. But we got a picture of the pin we talked about last week with Kevin Pollack's video, which everyone who saw that thought it was just hilarious. It was really funny. And it turns out it's from this book that Kevin Pollack did. And in the book, people sent us, several people sent us the link to the book. And the pin is actually pictured in the book. So we'll put that in the show notes. I don't know what this pin is. It's kind of big and funky. How do you see it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't see the pin.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, I see it. I put this big link in the chat room, if anyone can pull it up. You scroll down. You know, the link I have in the page goes right to the conversation about the pin. And then you scroll down a little bit. It's on page 100 of the book.

'''Myke Hurley:''' See, this is taking me to .co.uk. Okay. So maybe I can't.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, you're hosed.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Can't see it for whatever reason.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So anyway, it's this big, fat, round, black. It's a black and white picture. But I'm assuming looking at the color of it, it looks like a black pin. And it's very large. And it comes in this wooden box. But there's no features that tell me it's any type of brand of pin. So I have no clue what this is. So we'll throw that out there in the show notes if anyone recognizes this pin. It's got a little crown on the cap that makes you for about a split second. Think it might be a Mont Blanc. But this is too ugly to be a Mont Blanc. It's not a real good-looking pin. And I think, what is he saying? This is like a $500 pin at the time in the early 90s. Yeah. So I have no clue what this pin is. But we'll see. And he got it from Barney's. And, you know, that's a department store. And they might have had something just made for them by some, you know, white-labeled.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah, there's that. If anyone knows what this pin is, let us know. And we'll take a screen cap of the picture. And we'll link that to the show notes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm taking a look now. Okay. So Doug Beal, as awesome as he has sent me it. There's some engraving on the side there, isn't there? You know, that would indicate what this is. That is an interesting-looking pin.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Interesting as in ugly, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It's not a very good-looking pin.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Huh.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So we'll see. We'll send the research crew out on that to see if we can figure out what it is. I'd just like to know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Just for sanity reasons. But it's not that big a deal. Because I don't think it's anything that any of us have ever heard of. I'm not holding up to be some pin that was released, you know, 25 years ago. And by some, you know, large manufacturer like Pelican or something like that. It's just random.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We're going to next week get like a Tom Cruise brand guideline document. The big pin is to show that Tom, I don't know, is actually bigger than he is. I don't know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Then we're going to have people, Scientologists knocking on our door. So let's not do that.