Editing The Pen Addict 425/transcript (section)

== Age Discussion ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Brad is 49 years old now. Let that sink in. Listen to his voice, his attitude, look at the pictures of him. Somehow this man is 49 years old. Unbelievable, Brad Dowdy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep, yep, yep. So, I mean, that cat's been out the bag for a while now, for a few years. People don't know. People don't know. People still know.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is something I like to do. I like to, I don't know why, I don't know if Brad hates me for this, but there's like two things that I like to do with other people when in Brad's presence is to one, say, how old is this man? Because people give you 10 years easy every time, which is kind of incredible and deserve. And the other is what was Brad's previous profession or like a final way to phrase it to reference the fact that you were a golf pro one time in your life. Right. Right. Right. What a wild life you've led back in the 70s, Brad was a golf pro.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I've been around, Myke. Like I've had a lot of years to do a lot of things. So it's not that weird for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I've had a couple of lives here. What do you want from me?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's like the golf thing. Like when I say like I was like a golf pro, that was over 25 years ago. Like we have listeners that aren't even that old. So it's super weird when you talk about it that way. But as long as I don't act my age, Myke will be good. So just keep me on that track. And that's it. That's my tip to as you get older and you worry about being the old fart. And, you know, losing touch with the youths. Just never act your age and you'll be all right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This is a conversation I have with mostly Federico and Steven quite a lot because we're all in our 30s, fast approaching our mid 30s. Right. And whilst I don't consider that an old age, I'm aware of the fact that to many of my listeners now I'm old, you know? Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So like you've been in their head for a decade. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. And, you know, there are people that listen to my shows now that were like eight or nine when I started. Right. Like, you know, it's just nothing, you know, this is it. So I am very conscious of this idea of not allowing myself to quote unquote get old in my opinions.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. And so like, and that's definitely something that I have learned from you as well. So whilst I know I'm not old now, I'm going to get old and I'm going to get old faster than I'm young. If that makes sense. Right. Like that's coming for me. So I think it's important for me now if I want to continue doing what I'm doing to take the Brad Downey mentality of things.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, and like what I do for a living now and what I'm passionate about, it helps keep me that way. Yeah. I thoroughly enjoy what I do. I work hard at it, but I enjoy it. And it allows me to keep my attitude and my outlook on life in a certain place and have a certain perspective. And it's, it's, it's good. Like I'm, I'm very content right now just in life. You know, there's obviously huge problems out there that I get overwrought about, but just, you know, the general, the turning, you know, the, the, another calendar year turning and adding another year to my age. It doesn't really mean anything to me as long as I am, you know, acting, not like some, some old dude on the internet, which will never happen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Pen man shouts at pencils.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But you are something that probably is aging. You is. Oh my God. Shipping. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. We have a little bit of catching up to do like on the first part of this show on, on a lot of things. So before we get into the pen stuff, we just need to continue to have some front matter as a friend of mine would say. Yes. Front matter. We have some, some things up front. We need to handle first and foremost is the retro 51 celebration packing, uh, packaging. It's going well. It's just taking much longer than I, than I mathed for, right? This is not sticking a pen in an envelope and sealing it up. So I've packed in these tubes that I'm sending the poster and the pen and I've packed 300 of them. As of yesterday. And I did the math. It takes me almost exactly three hours per 100.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.