Editing The Pen Addict 531/transcript (section)

== Travel and Sleep Adjustments ==


'''Myke:''' And it arrived at like 7 a.m. And so I didn't really have a choice. And also, I know if I went to sleep in the daytime, like I didn't know I took a nap for a few hours and it sorted her out big time. But I know for me, that's not good for me. I'm not going to feel good in that situation. So I just powered all the way through and I made it work. Kate thinks I was awake for basically 34 hours with a one hour gap. And that sounds about right.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. With the travel gap. Yeah, probably so. I'm definitely on the Adina plan where I could take that nap and be okay. Where Mary Beth, my wife, would be on your plan. She would just have to power through because it would wreck her more to take like a two or three hour nap.

'''Myke:''' I get so confused. I don't know where I am. I don't know what day it is. I hate napping. I really hate napping.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. Yeah. Well, you sound good. Like you sound like you're up and at them. I think maybe you're still maybe on the high from the whole event. Can you give us a quick recap, all of us pen addicts who caught the ongoings last week?

'''Myke:''' So I was in Memphis for the podcast-a-thon for St. Jude because we are raising money for St. Jude all the way through September this year and like we do every year. But we're putting the focus on the entire month of September this year because September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. So for the fourth consecutive year, the RelayFM community is coming together to support the life-saving mission of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, finding cures and saving children. Because cancer kills more children under the age of 14 than any other disease. And that is a horrifying thing to think about. But because of generous supporters like you, St. Jude creates more clinical trials for pediatric cancer than any other children's hospital in the US. And because it's a research hospital, it takes what it learns and shares it with everybody else. Like for example, in 2021, so very recently, one of the trials that St. Jude undertook reported a more than 20 point improvement in survival rates for high-risk neuroblastoma, which is the second most common solid tumor in children. And they did it using an antibody produced at the St. Jude campus. What I love about being in Memphis, being at St. Jude, is getting to experience the warmth, the care, the enthusiasm from these people. You know, we are very lucky to be able to spend a lot of time with people at St. Jude who have either, you know, they raise money professionally or they're on the fundraising kind of teams. We meet doctors, we meet patients, we meet many survivors. We had a wonderful segment during the show from two cancer survivors who came together and they met when they were kids. They both work for St. Jude and they got married. And it's just like, just Joel and Lindsay, wonderful people. Basically, I want you to go and check out the podcast. Not only if you haven't, it's on our YouTube channel now. So you can go there and you can like skip around. Some very helpful people have put some timestamps in. So if you want to jump around to different segments, because really it's become like a like a variety show now. I kind of, there's a way I think about it. Right. And it's getting, you know, it was really great this year because we were back in person again. It was wonderful fun for eight hours and we raised more money during this podcast-a-thon than we have during any other. So that was just an incredible thing that we're so thankful for. Everybody tuned in and donated. But it's not just about the podcast-a-thon. We're raising money, as I said, for the whole month because we're doing the work here to try and fight and end, destroy, remove childhood cancer from becoming a thing. So if you go to stjude.org slash relay, you can donate. You can sign up to become a fundraiser yourself too. So you can spread it out across your local community, your friend group, your office place. If you donate, we have gifts available. You can find out more about those when you go to the page. If you sign up to fundraise, we have incentives of exclusive relay for merchandise, which is available there too. So go to stjude.org slash relay and you can find out more. And Brad, do you want to tell our listeners why they especially want to donate or maybe donate again if they haven't already?

'''Brad:''' No, I'm busy watching you eat some gummy somethings on here.

'''Brad:''' It's really great. So one of the things that I have done for the past few years is get with a bunch of friends in the community who donate different items to a raffle that I run at the Pen Addict. It's the Pen Addict Raffle for St. Jude. We run it for most of the month of September. We'll talk about the dates here in just a second because it's ending soon. But Myke, the support and commitment to all of our friends that we work with a lot, that we get to see at Pen shows, that we talk to online, that are often sponsors of our show, have really come out in full force. So we've talked about all of the products that we launched with and what tends to happen. And as I've shown over the years, it tends to gain real momentum as the weeks go on, because which is the reason why we run this for several weeks for a lot of people to get in on the action and see all the cool stuff. So coming back from Orlando, I brought home with me a River City Pens Bonaire eyedropper. I think you would actually like this pen, Myke, even though it's small. It's a really cool material in there. And this is in addition to everything we've talked about the two weeks ago when Myke was on. We have a Retro 51 30th Anniversary Tornado Rollerball. Did you ever get this pen? This looks like a Myke pen.

'''Myke:''' No, it was always one of those ones where I was like, oh, I should get that and just didn't. You know what I mean?

'''Brad:''' Right, right. We have a beautiful kit of stationery from Amarillo Stationery. This little ink sample box holder is just amazing. I opened it up on stream yesterday to get a good look at that because I was really impressed with it. Out of left field, Myke, came the Bungu Box 10th Anniversary Pilot 823 Fujiyama Blue. So I want to thank Bruce and Kairu for donating that.

'''Myke:''' That's a pen we haven't gotten to speak about yet.

'''Brad:''' Yeah, that's a whole segment. Let's save that till next week because it might have shipped by then.

'''Myke:''' Yeah.

'''Brad:''' So we'll talk about that. And spoiler alert, if I'm saying it might have shipped, I did get one. But it was a whole process. And I think that's worth spending some time. So noted for next week, we'll do a full Fujiyama Blue segment. But thank you to Bungu Box for donating this to Raffle to help raise money. And then we have our friend Dave at Blank Slate Paper Co. Where you can go build your own notepads, your perfect notepads. We have some gift cards for three packs of their pads. We have not one, Myke, but two beautiful Canalea pens, the Labelani and the Manta. Both of those are pictured here in the post. Again, this is just knockout fantastic stuff from our friends over at Canalea. And we have the Plotter. Plotter, you know, I'm a big, big Plotter fan. You know, these days I've been using my Plotter the most. And I've been talking with Plotter a bunch. And they offered up one of their brand new fifth anniversary sets. So they made some special edition, you know, a special edition setup for the Plotter in the Bible size. With this new green cover that is the fifth anniversary edition of the cover. And it's got a lot of additional accessories and colors and accoutrements. And it's just, this is not it. Like, I have at least two more things to add today. And you have, listeners of this show, you have until September 26th at midnight Eastern time. That's Monday.

'''Myke:''' What date were you going to say?

'''Brad:''' Yeah, I don't, I'm really not sure.

'''Myke:''' September 726.