Editing The Pen Addict 525/transcript (section)

== WNYC Radio Appearance ==


'''Brad:''' Well, it wasn't. It was WNYC.

'''Myke:''' Way cooler to say WNYC, right? So this is the NPR station out of New York City. Very apparently popular station because I got a lot of feedback from being on there. This was cool. I've never, can I tell you about this, the experience of doing radio? Have you done, like, terrestrial radio type of stuff before?

'''Brad:''' I have done a pre-recorded segment that was played on radio. Okay.

'''Myke:''' So this was live and it was part interview with myself and host Allison Stewart and part call-in. So let me just explain my feelings about this process. Number one, Allison kept me in the loop via email. She was so detailed in prep that she made everything easy. She's like, I'm going to talk about this. Here's the links. This is my favorite pin. These are the pins.

'''Brad:''' She is an A-star host. I was blown away by how good she handled the entire segment. I just couldn't. I was like, this person is all over all of this. She's so good, man.

'''Myke:''' Yeah.

'''Brad:''' She's got to be on the radio, you know?

'''Myke:''' Right. So if y'all don't know who Allison Stewart is, she, I go way back with my love for Allison into like the early nineties MTV. She was basically after Kurt Loder for all you olds like me. She was basically MTV news back when they were big and like rock the vote and doing all these things like in the early mid nineties. And then she's parlayed that into just, I mean, she's just exceptionally talented, obviously by her, her career path that she's gone on. And so you can imagine that, okay, in the prep and the scheduling, you know, she was on it, right? She's like, this is what we're going to talk about. And she's like, I'll just drive the whole conversation. You're not going to have to worry about a thing. So don't even worry about it. I'm like, cool. Like she made me feel at home and like, she doesn't know me from Adam, right? She's doing like a sec. She like literally does this every day and she's taking all this care to make sure that I'm comfortable coming on and joining them. So day of call is Monday and my schedule time is one Oh six PM, right? It's down to the minute in radio land. So I get the email from the producers. So there's three producers. I'm on an email chain with three, three producers and engineers, Brad at 1255, you log into this zoom channel. I'm like, okay. So I log in and they're like, Hey Brad. Okay. You sound good. Yeah. Um, we're wrapping up this segment and then we're going to do the ad and then we're top of the hour. Then we do like the meditation minute and then you'll be on with Alison. Sound good. I'm like, yeah, I'm like literally in the, I dialing in, they verify me, you know, just the, the, the connection and that I'm ready and Alison will be with you in a minute. And then it's where you're just on the air. Yeah. Like that's it. It's the scariest thing.

'''Myke:''' It's just like, and Alison does this intro and then we just go. And then like, I tell people who, you know, on a, um, um, you know, when we do like friends of the show or podcast, people have never done podcasts before. I tell them, you know, don't worry about it. I'll drive the conversation and I'm just going to ask you stuff that it's going to be easy, like right in your wheelhouse to answer. And, you know, one minute into this, you'll forget that you're being live and being recorded. And then all of a sudden 30 minutes will pass. Well, that's the same thing that happened to me in this. Um, I could not believe that it went 34 minutes, the segment we had some, we had other things in the notes she wanted to get to, but we were having so much fun with the callers that I think she just wanted to bring them in.

'''Brad:''' And I was like, I could hear in the way that it was being set up where I was nervous of like, she has to be ready for if nobody calls. Yeah. Right. Like, right. There is a possibility that no one's going to call in. Right. Like, and that could just happen. It's nothing about you. Like that. Yeah. You've got to have the right people listening at that right moment. Right. Yeah. And you did. I mean, obviously there were tons. It was constant. Yeah.

'''Myke:''' It turns out they had a full phone bank. So we stopped doing our question, the questions that she had prepared to talk to me about. We didn't even approach any of them except like her favorite pen. We didn't even get into fountain pens hardly. She kind of wedged that in at the end just because she wanted to.

'''Brad:''' By the way, there's a link in the show notes. You can go listen to this. Like I listened to it online. They have no website. Like I listened to the whole segment today before we recorded. So you can go get it if you want to, which I recommend people should go listen to it.

'''Myke:''' So the call in questions like being put on the spot, even though I like I didn't technically have to answer any of them. I felt like it was my job to like comment on some of the stuff and talk about some of it. Like not knowing what's coming. Like that's pretty scary. And I was like, oh, okay. I did that pretty good.

'''Brad:''' What was very funny to me is like I could like, I know you, right? Like I know, you know, you know what you're talking about, right? Like you've got an answer for all this stuff because you are the expert, right? And the problem for you is you're used to what we're doing right now. Right. And a lot of the time she just like takes the call and is ready to move on. And you're like, no, I have something to say. Yeah. And I want to tell you. It was so good.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. Even one time, one time I went, uh, and she was trying to move on. She's like, oh, do you want to say something? I'm like, yeah, I do.

'''Brad:''' That really made me laugh. It's like, oh, Allison, he's always got something to say.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. I wanted to get, I wanted to get, I wanted to make sure I got a shot in at the pilot G2. So that's why I wanted to make sure I had that covered.

'''Brad:''' It was very funny to me. It was like, no, you have an opinion. Cause it's like, you, you knew all of these things, right? Like, yeah.

'''Myke:''' Yeah.

'''Brad:''' Like I enjoyed when like, there was like one guy's like, oh, I bet your guest doesn't even know this. Yeah. All right. Nice try, buddy.

'''Myke:''' I got some comments on that one. And then the people, people who know me were just laughing. It was like, oh, that was hilarious. It was, it was so much fun. So apparently it went well enough. I'm already going to be booked to be back on, you know, come around holiday season. Amazing. We're going to do a, we're going to do a.

'''Brad:''' Brad, this is how we take over the world. Yeah. We're going to do a gift guide. Because this happened to Jeremy Birch, right? So, you know, our friend Jeremy, he ran Emojipedia. Yep. Jeremy was on the news all the time. Like anytime there was something emoji related. Because once you're in. All the new releases. Yeah. Like once you're in to the systems of these, like, of, of like radio and TV and stuff, if they ever want to talk about a certain thing, well, now they've got their person. They've got their expert. Right. I do. In listening to it, I couldn't make it. I was, I had another show to record. It was too complicated to make it around. And like. Myke was invited. Yeah. I was invited. But really this, you know, I felt like I wouldn't, I felt like I'm not going to be able to add much here. In listening to it. Definitely. I would not have been able to, honestly, I think, add much to that conversation. Like other than just like, hey, we do this thing together.

'''Myke:''' Yeah. Unless we were doing like a straight interview.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. Like if, if it was just like, oh, let's talk about the pen addict. Right. Like I could do that forever. But like answering these specific, like, I don't, I just don't think that that, that was my, really my skill set. And so I was happy that I couldn't make it because I would have felt really out of my depth, I think. But I'm so pleased that you did it, both for you and for us. It was fun.

'''Myke:''' I, I'm pleased that it went as well as it did. You just never know. Right. You never know. But it was, it was, it was just cool. So the question.

'''Brad:''' You never know with what we do here, you never know what you're walking into. Yeah. Because there is always the possibility that, that we're about to be treated like weirdos. True. Right. And so like you never truly know what you're getting into with these kinds of things. Mm-hmm. And this is the same for me with all of the shows that I do. Right.