Editing The Pen Addict 531/transcript (section)

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'''Brad:''' I was reading the entirety. I was reading the whole range and then got thrown off. There were too many numbers. Oh, you're going to get your, you're going to get, you're going to have your moment here in a minute. So, so don't worry. Don't worry.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. So midnight Monday, the 26th Eastern time is the last time you have to get in your donations for the, this particular part of our fundraising for St. Jude. And I just can't thank everyone enough. We'll have a link in the show notes for you to go check out all of the wonderful raffle prizes prizes that have been donated to help us raise money for the kids. And it's just beautiful to see the community come together every year for this and the active participation that we get from everyone in sharing and donating and all, all of the stuff. So it's been fantastic to see. And we'll have a final recap for everyone on next Wednesday's show.

'''Myke:''' I want to just remind people, so what you have to do is you can make a donation. You can donate to St. Jude.org slash relay. You can donate to any of the sub campaigns that are a part of the overall relay FM effort this year, which you may have come across as you may not. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry about it. Go to St. Jude.org slash relay. For every $10 that you donate, you will receive one entry into the raffle, provided that you forward a copy of your donation receipt to stjudeatpenaddict.com with 2022 raffle in the subject line. These are all on the page, which will be in the show notes. You must do this before noon Eastern on September 26th to be entered. For every $10 that you donate, it's one entry. So if you donate at $100, you get 10 entries. Et cetera. I would also like to point our listeners to another relay FM podcast related raffle that's going on right now that they may be of interest in, which is for a gold Mark one. These are wild. This is unbelievable.

'''Brad:''' Myke sent me these pictures and I was like, whoa.

'''Myke:''' This is a steel like the Apollo. It's the second steel model that they've done. It is gold PVD coated. Bead blast finish on the body. Polished knock. If you make a donation of at least $20, that gets you one raffle ticket for this. And you have to put thoroughly considered in the comments field of the donation and then forward a copy to helloatstudioneet.com before October 1st. There will be five winners selected at random. Plus the top donor of the campaign will also get one. So if you want to make sure you get one, I think at the moment you have to donate $31,000. But you know, maybe you want the pen that much. I have joked with them if like potentially one of these people will take over the studio and factory, right? It's like the golden ticket kind of deal they got going on over there. So I put a link to that in the show notes too. If you also want to enter for that, I recommend people enter for both of them because you know what this does? You may win something, but it also goes to St. Jude Church Research Hospital. Exactly.

'''Brad:''' And that's why we're doing it. So we appreciate all of y'all's participation. Yeah.

'''Myke:''' And I know you've done this and you've said this and I'm sure you've had the communication to people, but I also want to extend a public thank you to everybody who submits something into the Panadic raffle prize pot. I really appreciate people that do that. I know that there's real money in these products. Right. So I want to thank all of the vendors. And all of the companies that submit something for that.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. It's a real big deal. And, you know, we really, really appreciate their participation. It's just, it's fantastic. Fantastic to see.

'''Myke:''' All right. Should we take a break and then talk about the king?

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'''Brad:''' Michael.

'''Myke:''' Bradley.

'''Brad:''' I feel like you're a little bit off the hook given that we've had a week to decompress from all of the Royal Pen content that we got. But first off, let's say, you know, the Queen passed. Like, that's no joking matter, right? But, you know.

'''Myke:''' Yeah, this is, I haven't actually spoken about it on any show. Mm-hmm.

'''Myke:''' Affected me greatly. I'm very sad. And it felt very weird for me to immediately be leaving the UK and to not be here during this time has actually been quite emotionally affecting for me. Mm-hmm. People have varying beliefs and feelings about the Royal Family, but I am a supporter and lover of the Royal Family. I think it's one of the things that makes our country great. You can disagree with me and that's fine. It's up to you. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So, I was, it really hurt when the Queen passed away. It was a big shock at that moment. Like, we knew it was coming. Like, we've known it's been coming for a long time. It feels like it's been kind of speeding up at an ever-increasing pace. But to go from literally one day, there is pictures of her swearing in on your Prime Minister, to passing away the next day. Yep. It was a big shock. And, yeah, I really kind of, like, had this weird feeling of not doing my duty as a British person by not being here. So, like, I didn't even get to see the funeral live. Like, we had to watch some of it afterwards. It was weird. It was definitely weird. Yeah. But we have a king now, which is also very strange. Like, you know, people say, like, yeah, the money changes, right? Because we've got the money will change. The stamps will change. Brad, our national anthem has changed. Yeah.

'''Brad:''' Ah, yeah. Like, this is all you've known for your entire life. And you're young. Yeah. I mean, compared to her reign. Yeah, seven years. You're very young.