Editing The Pen Addict 139/transcript (section)

== Campaign Impact ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, so this completely changed our entire episode, by the way. I mean, like I said, I had planned out. I have a whole episode planned of like real penaddict stuff. But this kind of got hijacked today just because it's gone a little out of hand, which is good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, my sort of feeling was we would mention it today, talk a little bit about why we're doing it, and then do the rest of the show. And I think this was similar to what happened with the Knock Kickstarter as well. And then I ended up interviewing you for a while.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah, we were talking about people's reactions. So one of the really-

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, non-penaddict fan reactions.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So one of the really interesting ones is, so with RelayFM, we have like an internal chat room in an app called Slack. And we all chat all day, all the hosts are there. We talk and kind of just gas. And we were saying that we were doing this today because most of the people that are part of network didn't know we were doing it because I just neglected to tell them, didn't really consider that they, you know, like I didn't think to say.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There was no need to tell them.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No. So everyone was kind of excited for us. And then as the day is ticking on and they're seeing the number go up, they're like, what is happening? Like, and it was quite funny because like Casey, Casey Liz, who hosts Analog with me, he'd never listened to the pen addict. And he didn't even know you were, well, he didn't, he thought you were British. Yeah. Which was quite funny. So people didn't know that we'd- People don't know I exist. Yeah. Or that we'd never met or anything like that. Like we were talking, oh, Brad, we're $90 away. Uh, we were talking about it on Upgrade a little bit today. Uh, cause it's funny cause Jason hates, hates pens and hates writing. And we, we had a really good discussion about, um, iPad styluses and why I think like an iPad stylus, like, cause there's a rumor that Apple is going to bring out a stylus with the iPad. Um, why I wouldn't want to do that. Cause like, just because I love pens doesn't mean I would love that. Cause it's kind of got nothing, got nothing to do with it. Those two things are totally separate from each other. Mm. Oh, we're so close now.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I can't stop repressing the page cause it's going to happen and I want to see it when it happens.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm glad, I'm glad I slept all day today so I didn't have to put up with you.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I've, do you know, I've been pretty good about it. I haven't been, I haven't been too, too frustrating. Uh, and, um, so that was quite funny, like just to see people's reactions, but we were talking about it on the show and I was like, well, this show, like it's, it's been the only show that I've like taken with me wherever I've gone in the world of podcasting. You know, this was on 70 decibels and then it went to five by five and now it's here at Relay FM. Like, so it's kind of just the pen addict has followed me around forever, which I'm happy about. But it's, the interesting thing about this show, and we've spoken about this so many times, is that people underestimate it. Mm. Um, because it's a niche and it's a real niche and it's a niche that kind of has no home in audio. Right. Like there is no, there is no logic as to why a show about, an audio show about pens should be something that anybody listens to, let alone has a, as a large audience. And an audience, which will do something like this. And it's to see the, it's, it's not so much that you guys could club together to raise seven and a half thousand dollars for us, because in the terms of Kickstarter, that's not a lot of money, but it's about the, the, the speed.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, and because it's happened incredibly fast. So that's been really interesting. The other thing that's been really interesting for me today is my family trying to, oh, we did it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Are we there?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We're there. Woohoo.