Editing The Pen Addict 199/transcript (section)

== Podcast History ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we clearly have a problem.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I have to say, right at the very end, and he said he was going to listen to the show. My brain exploded a little bit. Nah. Dude, I've got to say, I said before, a guy's a hero of mine, which makes all of this more embarrassing in case he is listening now. Which is going to make my next part even worse because this is something that I've been keeping in my back pocket for the last few weeks. I have a secret.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, how about it? So you guys who aren't privy to our show document, it's a great document. We have great notes and organizations to plan out this show. Then Myke has a little section here that says, Brad, don't click this. And I haven't clicked it yet. I stay true to my word. We do that to each other. Don't look at this before the show or something like that. So, yeah, I'm anxious to see what this is all about.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So I'm putting a link in the show notes to an episode of Dignation on the 29th of June, 2006. Wow. Every week on the show, they used to do a listener write-in type thing for their t-shirts. So it was a really smart way to sell t-shirts. People would buy t-shirts, take pictures of themselves with a Dignation t-shirt on. And send in an email. And at the end of every episode, they would say, oh, who is our t-shirt person? Or they'd say winner, which is always like a joke of the show because you weren't winning anything. And if you click on that link, go to the video of 38 minutes. There's two subsequent links in the show notes. There's one which shows my email to them. And the second one, which I think you've clicked now before I was going to tell you to, is the picture of me. What? Nearly 10 years ago. Oh, my God. My Dignation shirt, which is shown in the video. And it's quite funny to go back and listen because you get to hear Kevin and Alex laugh about my name and such with the mic with the Y.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're going to have to end the show here because it's not going to get any better. Plus, I keep dying and I'm coughing. And it's amazing. This is great. This is awesome. This is the kind of stuff that you should remember. It's really great. I mean, it's embarrassing as I'll get out now, but it's still awesome at the same time, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I have been looking for this for weeks because I knew... You knew it was out there. I knew it was out there. And I knew... I remembered what the setup of the episode looked like. You know, because it was a video show, right? And I remembered it was Kevin and Alex sitting in a blue room. So I've had to check a bunch of episodes and I found it this morning. And I was so happy that I found it because I've been looking for this. Because this kind of means something to me now. Dignation was the first podcast I ever watched. And now I do this for a living. And I'm really happy that I did this because now I am in that episode, right? Like, it kind of... I don't know. Like, it ties it all up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And when you say Kevin's one of your heroes, I mean, this isn't hyperbole. I mean, this is like, you knew at a younger age... I mean, you're still a young guy. But, you know, you knew when you started podcasting that there was a guy you looked up to. And that was doing things that you enjoyed. And you respected and liked what he did. And, you know, he has obviously blown up into huge, great things. And now look at you blowing up into huge, great things, too. So, you know, it's pretty cool to see all this kind of tie together. I like it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So, it's real funny to me that it exists. And it shows that I have very little shame in these things that I'm willing to put it out into the world.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. You're sending people in the chat room to their inhalers because they're coughing so hard. So, this is pretty amazing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, that will be in the show notes for people to go and check out. I encourage you to go and watch, actually watch it and listen to what they had to say because it was quite funny. So, yeah, you'll get to see...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do you want me to send Kevin links to those pictures?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Maybe he is listening now and has found it. You can feel free to send them to him if you wish.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That would be funny.

'''Myke Hurley:''' To your buddy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Cool. Well, maybe we'll see if he listens. We'll see how that goes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I can just live my horror.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nah, it's good. I mean... No, I'm... I'm very happy. We all have this stuff in our history, that's for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' At the end of the day, if I didn't want people to see this, I just wouldn't have put it in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, this is one of those things no one would have known unless you brought it out there. So, it's cool that you did and you can laugh about it now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nobody has ever mentioned this to me. No one's ever found it on their own. You know, this show is old now, right? Like, it's 10 years old at this point. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So, you know, nobody... I don't think there were a lot of people going back and watching the whole run that also know who I am. But now it's there and I've... It's out in public now so people can go and find it if they want to.