Editing The Pen Addict 217/transcript (section)

== Instagram Use ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, there's no reason for me. I'm in Instagram a bunch already, right? So, I'm never in periscope unless I get an alert.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And then, we mentioned this. This is kind of just tangentially related. You were stuck in like a disaster. Delta had a complete systems failure, right? So, what happened to you?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, I didn't realize. So, I woke up in the morning. This happened in the middle of the night. So, you don't know these things when you wake up. And luckily, my wife was the first one to tell me when she texted. She said, hey, my parents just called and you're on Delta, right? And I said, yeah, I'm on Delta. She's like, they're having a big systems outage. You should check and see if it affects you. And I was like, okay. And so, once I started digging in, it was a monstrous, monstrous outage that they had. Right when I was reading all this, they, this was like 730, 730, 830 in the morning, they released, they instituted the waiver policy, which allows you to get refunds on your flights, which unless you buy the insurance or whatever packages, you can't get a refund if your flight's canceled or you just use that money for something else. So, once they instituted the refund policy, I booked, I went and booked immediately on another flight and I was able to get on Southwest only a couple hours later than I was originally scheduled to fly out. So, I was super lucky.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That is not bad, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't think anyone, yeah, I was way lucky. So, I got home by eight o'clock that night, really only like two or three hours later than I was supposed to. So, I was super lucky, but just because I did it quickly that morning and I didn't really hear of anyone getting stuck in DC, but I did have friends that got stuck in other parts of the country.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' it's stunk and they're probably still, I wouldn't imagine, I would imagine they're still behind today. It was my flight. The problem, the biggest problem was you go look at your flight. Like, if I didn't look at the news, which I hardly did all weekend, but I look at my flight status, you go onto the Delta app and it shows your flight on time. That was one of the issues. That's so bad. Yeah. Yeah. They couldn't update, they couldn't update any of their software, so everything looked normal. And, you know, if my wife didn't tell me, I would have probably just waited for that flight and found out later that it was canceled, which it eventually did. My flight didn't go that day.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They had a problem with a new system they were putting in or something, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I don't even know. Last I heard, it was like a power. Oh, okay. Who knows?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I mean, I hope they're good. I'm flying with them next week, so they better have it all fixed. That's what I say.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Get that stuff together. So, we're going to talk about the actual pens that you may or may not have purchased at the show, but kind of to wrap up, you had a great time, it sounds like. You're really kind of making me feel like this is a no-brainer for me to do this next year. It really seems like it. Should we just say what I'm thinking about doing? Just might as well. Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Go ahead and throw it out there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Next year, we're thinking of the Kickstarter being for to get me to both shows. So, the money that we raise will be proceeds towards me being at both shows, so Atlanta and DC, and we will definitely be doing the Atlanta live show as always, and we are looking at the possibility of doing a live show with an audience for DC. We're going to have to see how that goes. We'll definitely be recording in person. There will most likely not be video of the DC show, but we will definitely be recording in person, but we may, we're unsure whether we'll have an audience yet, but so basically that would be for us to be together twice to do two live shows next year, one in DC, one in Atlanta. Atlanta will be bigger and better, right? And DC, it will be like the first Atlanta one where we're trying to work out how we do it. So right now, it's most likely going to be, well, definitely just audio, and we might be able to see if we can try and get a venue to have a small audience. That pots up in the air, but that's the plan. And, you know, I think it's possible we always have money left over for Atlanta that we do things with, but we could just use it this time to get me to both shows, which would be amazing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes, it would.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So you can look out for that, I don't know, maybe early next year, but that's the plan. So I figure there's no point being cagey about it. That's what we're looking to do, and I think everyone will be excited about that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah, definitely something we have to work on planning-wise, but that's the thought.