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'''Myke Hurley:''' That's what I was thinking of, like, just, like, a fun thing to have. Like, maybe you're taking notes and you want to do some, like, highlighting, you know? Like, underlining things and stuff like that. Exactly. And you have all these different colors for it. To me, this looks like a great journaling product.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' About 100%.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' 100%. And one listener did reach out to me, said that they bought this when I started talking about it. And it's their knitting marking tool for, like, you know, there's all kinds of different ways to, when you're, you know, sewing or, you know, doing any type of knitting, to have, like, different marks and things. And they just keep it with their knitting kit. And it's all kinds of things. So, it's a very useful product. It's not cheap and it's not the best colored leads. But overall, as a product, it's kind of great. It's kind of spectacular, which I'm here for. I had my doubts. So, I'm happy to be wrong about that one. I probably should have put this up higher, maybe when we're talking about the Midoris. We had a sneaky Galen leather drop mic that caught everyone off guard. Yeah. Not me. Not me. Not me. Because this has probably been in conversation for as long as that Midori product. Probably for probably going on two years. Eunice at Galen Leather always said, he's like, hey, can I make, you know, do one of those knot collabs like you do the Sinclair with Rickshaw? Can we do something like that? But in leather, I'm like, yeah, absolutely. Like, let's get some samples. Make something up. Let's see what that looks like. And then, you know, if it's good, I'll sign off on it and we can go to town. And he sent me some samples and I approved them. I don't know. It seems like a year ago. And then all of a sudden, bam. Galen Leather Sinclair, Galen Leather Lookout. And he sent me the final versions of them. Oh, my God. They're so good. I can't believe how good these came out. And the feedback so far has been great. They launched them at the Dutch Pen Show last weekend. Feedback's been good. My samples are here. So you have a Leather Sinclair, which is the zip case, three pen slots on one side, notebook slot on the other. And then the Lookout, which ends up being, when you do it in leather, it's like an ultra thin case, which turns out people really like about that case.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And also, that is going to patina so good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'll have to bring this to you. Are they sold out or are they to come? The first round is sold out. Will there be more? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're going to be a stock product. This is a stock product for Galen, and I'm sure now that they've seen the results. So they went to, so Galen launched them and they went to retail, and they're pretty much like they went quickly. Okay. It's, I'm stunned at how good this is. So I really, really like it. I'll bring it again. Another thing I need to bring to New York when we see each other, just so you can see them. Yeah. They're pretty great.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They're pretty great. How do things like this make you feel? Like, does it make you feel happy or sad?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's a good question. Happy, for sure. I'm not sad at all. Okay. And I, but I do wish I could do more. Yeah. Right? I wish I was making cases still, but I, at the same time, I know that's a bad idea. Right? Right? So I'm, how about torn? I'm not happy or sad. Yeah. Well, I'm happy. I'm not sad, but I do have thoughts of, I wish I could continue to design products like this. But there's, but I know there's just literally no way we can make that, make a, make that go. It's just too much, too much work. Yeah. So I'm happy that these companies like Rickshaw and Galen reached out and wanted to continue this on from like a design perspective. And like, I do, it's basically like licensing, right? Like I get a small percentage of sales just so we're clear on how this works or for people listening.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And yeah, I think I'm, I'm very happy that this gets to live, live on. I do have like an itch to scratch from a design perspective that I miss when I see something like this. But overall, like I don't want any part of making these myself anymore. Like I know how busy I am right now just with Spoke and just with like launching this one notebook product. It's like, yeah, there's no way. Like, I don't know that I would just have to like turn off everything and just go be a bag designer. And that's all you'd get for me. And I don't want that for myself. I would not do well like that. So, so yeah. But yeah, these came out great. And I'm glad everyone's liking them so far. I've got, again, a lot of good feedback on that, which I appreciate. Very nice. All right. You want to hit this topic pretty quickly? And I, I have some thoughts on this and I got this email and from Nick and Nick says, you should talk about this on the show. And usually when I see that, I was like, yeah, I'm not going to talk about this on the show. I usually don't. I was like, you know what, Nick, this is, you know what I mean?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I know what you mean. But usually when people send me topics, I'm like, no way. This time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, no. Only if they ask me to cover it on the show. Yeah. You just don't ask. Anyway, I'm just messing with you, Nick. This is a great question. Nick's premise is you only need three fountain pens. So let me read what Nick wrote and then we can talk about this. So Nick says, when it comes to fountain pens, you actually only need three. And I use need loosely. Your workhorse ride and die. What you use when a ballpoint or gel is not needed. So that's number one. Number two, a second pen. Your favorite nib that you land on after massive experimentation, a specialty nib. This makes your writing special. And then number three, the backup nib that makes you second guess your second pen. And then to wrap it up, it says, everything else causes overwhelm and frustration. Okay. So that's Nick's premise here that you only need three fountain pens. Yeah. Do you want to give this a go? What do you think?