Editing The Pen Addict 375/transcript (section)

== Break and Reflection ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, let's. This has been... This has been an interesting conversation so far. I love where this is going.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I like surprising you sometimes. Yeah. When I do things that you don't expect. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And I like surprising you with an answer that I answered nine years ago. So that's always cool.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have no memory of that pen. You know what? It is very possible that we discussed it on an episode of the show.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We did because... I remember that one because I really love that pen and I wanted it to be better. That's all.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, wow. So when I say... It's funny because I say like, oh, I've never heard of this before. But we may have... It may have come up. It may have come up. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure. All right. Today's episode is brought to you by ExpressVPN. You might think that nobody wants your online data or to snoop on you and try and do something nasty. But when you browse the web without anything to protect your privacy, you are risking ad companies and more collecting your data and information. And it happens to people like us. It happens to all of us, which is why I recommend and use ExpressVPN when I'm using Wi-Fi that I'm not familiar with. ExpressVPN runs in the background of your computer or phone, encrypting your data, hiding your public IP address. All you need to do is just download the app. It's just available on all platforms. Click to connect and you are protected. They are rated the number one VPN service by TechRadar. ExpressVPN uses new cutting-edge technology called Trusted Server to make sure there are no logs of what you're doing online. And it costs less than $7 a month and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. The most time that I use ExpressVPN is when I travel because I'm always connecting to Wi-Fi networks that either have no password or, you know, it's a network that I'm unfamiliar with. And there are lots and lots of people connected to it. And it just gives me the peace of mind to be able to just surf. And I never notice it either. I usually will come home and it will still be on for a bit. I'll be like, oh, I didn't notice that because the speed's really good. So I like that a lot. You can protect your online activity today and find out how you can get three months free at expressvpn.com slash penaddict. That's expressvpn.com slash penaddict for three months free of a one-year package. Take back your online privacy by going to that web address. Once more, it is expressvpn.com slash penaddict. Our thanks to ExpressVPN for their support of this show and all of RelayFM. So I want to talk about something important to me right now, which is St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Did you know that between 180,000 and 240,000 children are diagnosed every single year of cancer? And treatments invented at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will help push the overall child cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since they opened more than 50 years ago. And St. Jude will not stop until no child dies from cancer. You can support St. Jude's life-saving mission of finding cures and saving children during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, which is September, by going to stjude.org slash penaddict. Once again, that is stjude.org slash penaddict to donate now. You will have heard us talking about this a couple of weeks ago on the live show. RelayFM is St. Jude's first official podcasting partner. We are trying to raise at least, in my mind, at least $75,000. That's our goal. I am honored and humbled and so thrilled to say that as of the 4th of September, we have raised $32,560. We're nearly halfway there. So if you have donated to this campaign, thank you so much. Hey, why don't you do it again? If you haven't, please give us some money. This is something that's so important to all of us. And ultimately, what we're trying to do is raise money for children that have cancer. And what more good stuff do you need?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. I told Myke in person when I first learned of this news how excited I was because part of my goal in doing the things that I do is to give back. And anyone who's subscribed to my Panhandic membership newsletter knows that there's a charity part of my work. And St. Jude has always been one of the biggest platforms that I like to support in the scheme of all the charities. Like every year I donate to St. Jude at least once, if not twice. And I'm just grateful to be able to do that. And I want to continue to do that. And then to find out that the network was essentially, the Relay FM network was essentially selected by St. Jude to be their first podcast partner in the charity realm. It's a big deal. Like I can't relay that enough in words, no pun intended.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That how big of a deal that is because I follow a lot of like St. Jude's charity work and they work with like some really big corporations. And just to see Relay be involved with that and me be involved with Relay makes me so proud to be part of this team and family really is what it is. And I just think it's really cool. And I'm going to work on, I have some things cooking for giveaways and ways we can, you know, do like raffles and things like that for, to raise money more for the, for Pen Addict and Relay FM and St. Jude and this whole entire month. So stay tuned for more on that. But I am just, I'm, I'm flipping thrilled. I don't know what to say more than that other than I'm so happy that we're part of this, like officially part of this, regardless of everything we've done before.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And one little thing that I think is cool to know as well, like you may have noticed Relay FM turning gold this month. So there's the, the artwork has a little gold cut out now instead of the regular one, which is blue for us. The network's logo is gold. That is the color of September, right? So childhood cancer awareness month, like other, like, so like breast cancer has pink, for example, right? And gold is the color for, for, for, for September. And I just, they want to mention that, right? Like this is something that's important to the fundraising company, like the fundraising arm of St. Jude, because that's, that's kind of one of the things that helps people raise awareness, right? That when you see that color during the month of September, you know what it's about. So that's why we're doing that too. Awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, I am just, I'm thrilled and I'm, I'm ready to get cranking up even more than you already have. Like it's already off to a huge, huge start. So yeah, very cool. All right. We had some interesting news.