Editing The Pen Addict 269/transcript (section)

== Show Attendance ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Would you do it again?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't see how I can not do it again. And I don't know that's not a glowing rah-rah answer. But I think it's, it was great in every which way. But the thought in my, in the back of my head is that I would continue support the catastrophic administration if we continued to go. Like, is that something I want to continue to support? I mean, it would be nice to, you know, if you could, like, throw down the pitchforks and, you know, just dig in and say, I'm not coming back and dealing with that. But in the end, it's kind of the place to be. Right? And it was very good personally. It was very good professionally.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' How, how can I not come back? Right? I mean, it's, it's all the people I need to see, all the people I want to see. Got to meet a lot of new people.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It was really good from a business perspective. So, I mean, yeah, I want to do it again. I just want it to be better. And I don't know that it will, but I don't know that that's going to stop me either. Right? So, I, yeah, it's not, like, a perfect answer because we want a perfect world. But, you know, there is a choice to be made. Do you continue support to support the show promoter who does not grasp the concept of running the show? One of the biggest in the world, if not the biggest, like we always say.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But then you, it's almost like you're poking yourself in your eye, you know, on purpose. Like, well, let's just get past that and enjoy all the other reasons why we're there. You know, because so many people come to this show and I get to see people that I only get to see once a year at this show. And, you know, why wouldn't I come? So, it's a, I know I'm running around in circles on this answer being definitive. Because it's complicated. Yeah, it is.