Editing The Pen Addict 251/transcript (section)

== Podcast Logo ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's how the best stuff happens. And the logo's been amazing. But I do want to tell the story of the original podcast logo.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think you should.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Our good friend and former 70 Decibels stablemate, Aaron Mankey, was, at one time, had a graphic design business on the side. Yep. And so, he was in charge. He was our Frank back then, right? Yeah. He did all the logos for all the shows for 70 Decibels.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Including the 70 Decibels logo itself. I'm currently, I'm actually wearing my 70 Decibels t-shirt today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Nice. That's one of my all-time favorite logos. The 70 Decibels one.

'''Myke Hurley:''' For anybody that doesn't know, 70 Decibels was the name of my very first podcast network.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And so, Aaron Mankey has gone on to become a podcast superstar. One of the most popular podcasts in the world, like, flat out. He is. He, so, if you're not familiar with the name, you may have listened to his podcast. It's called Lore, which I absolutely adore. I think it's fantastic. And Aaron deserves, like, every ounce of fame that is coming with us. He's turned, this is, like, a top 10 all-time podcast, like, in Apple's rankings. Yep. Like, millions of listeners a week. This has been parlayed into a TV show that drops this fall. A book deal. On Amazon. A book deal. He does tours. He does a speaking tour. Yeah. Or a show tour, I guess you should say. Yep. So, this is a guy we know very, very well. And we're super proud of him. It's him when he's done. And it's just him. It's amazing. Yep. It really is incredible. It's amazing. And I talk to him about it from time to time. You know, he was at our first knock party. Yep. And we found some pictures of him the other day. Him and our other good friend, Bradley Chambers. Because me and Aaron would get together every spring before the pen show. Because he was coming down to visit his in-laws. So, we'd go to breakfast. Or we went to his house to record a podcast one time. So, yeah. The original, I don't know what you call it. The bubbly, polka-dottie thing. It was a real cool logo. But the new logo, I think, is what James was asking about.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think the original was like, it was meant to look like a letterpress.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Gotcha. And it came out good. Beautiful. That was a good logo. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Now, the current one is Frank's work.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And Frank is awesome. Like, you just give words to Frank and then they come back with magic.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. Everything you see, everything you can see of RelayFM is him. Yep. If you can see it, he made it. Yep. T-shirts, everything. The whole shebang, he does everything.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He does great work. Great work. So, yeah. So, the story behind the logo is there's no story. It just came out of Frank's head and we loved it. And then I abducted it for everything pen addict because it's so good. All right. Next one. We've kind of talked about this a little bit. Why don't you read this out for me and then I'll collect my thoughts because it's a good question.