https://stationery.wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=The_Pen_Addict_223%2FtranscriptThe Pen Addict 223/transcript - Revision history2026-11-01T03:48:37ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.8https://stationery.wiki/index.php?title=The_Pen_Addict_223/transcript&diff=13742&oldid=prevPencilBot: fixed spelling2026-06-23T15:44:40Z<p>fixed spelling</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, but, like, just sell them on the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NOC </del>website, right? Like, those lookouts that are in the same colors of the bag. Right. So, people could just buy their, like, little lookout and pop it straight in there. Yep. But I actually think that's a good decision, right? To make it a little bit more, make the bag what you make it, rather than this is the pen addict's bag. Right. Because the pen addict's bag would just be, like, 16 brass towns, right? With some straps on the back. And, you know, it's like a fishing vest that straps around the front. You know? That's what the pen addict's bag would be. But luckily, if not made that. Yep.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, but, like, just sell them on the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nock </ins>website, right? Like, those lookouts that are in the same colors of the bag. Right. So, people could just buy their, like, little lookout and pop it straight in there. Yep. But I actually think that's a good decision, right? To make it a little bit more, make the bag what you make it, rather than this is the pen addict's bag. Right. Because the pen addict's bag would just be, like, 16 brass towns, right? With some straps on the back. And, you know, it's like a fishing vest that straps around the front. You know? That's what the pen addict's bag would be. But luckily, if not made that. Yep.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. This is different for us. So, we found in the, to continue <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NOC </del>as a business, we had to have outside manufacturing help. We've tried hiring people to ramp up quantities to build inventory and have not been successful at that. There's a large gap in what we would need to hire and what we'd be comfortable doing. Like, we would have to, we, there's basically two choices for us to continue this business. It's become a manufacturing facility or contract manufacturing facility. Jeff and I don't want to run a 20 person manufacturing shop. That's the difference it would take for us to get to where we need to be. That's a massive investment to have the facility, the machinery, the people to accomplish that type of thing. That's not to say we would never do that. Like, Tom Ben does that. You know, I talk about them all the time. Rickshaw does that. They make their, they have large factories, lots of employees, lots of equipment, and lots of investment in building that. That's money we don't have. So the other option, if we're going to grow this company, is to contract with someone who already has that. They have the facilities, they have the capabilities. And we've talked several times over the years how we've never been able to find that person. We've either had to fail them on price or we've had to fail them on quality. And keeping it in the U.S. is the only option for us. So finding a U.S. manufacturer to tick all these boxes has been a challenge for us. We finally found someone.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes. This is different for us. So, we found in the, to continue <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nock </ins>as a business, we had to have outside manufacturing help. We've tried hiring people to ramp up quantities to build inventory and have not been successful at that. There's a large gap in what we would need to hire and what we'd be comfortable doing. Like, we would have to, we, there's basically two choices for us to continue this business. It's become a manufacturing facility or contract manufacturing facility. Jeff and I don't want to run a 20 person manufacturing shop. That's the difference it would take for us to get to where we need to be. That's a massive investment to have the facility, the machinery, the people to accomplish that type of thing. That's not to say we would never do that. Like, Tom Ben does that. You know, I talk about them all the time. Rickshaw does that. They make their, they have large factories, lots of employees, lots of equipment, and lots of investment in building that. That's money we don't have. So the other option, if we're going to grow this company, is to contract with someone who already has that. They have the facilities, they have the capabilities. And we've talked several times over the years how we've never been able to find that person. We've either had to fail them on price or we've had to fail them on quality. And keeping it in the U.S. is the only option for us. So finding a U.S. manufacturer to tick all these boxes has been a challenge for us. We finally found someone.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' And the first thing that they're doing for us is getting our retail going. So we're going to be in retail hopefully by October.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' And the first thing that they're doing for us is getting our retail going. So we're going to be in retail hopefully by October.</div></td></tr>
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