Editing The Pen Addict 280/transcript (section)

== Myke's Sports Corner ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Where he makes a reference and gets it horrifically wrong. Can we just either A, start over or B, just get going?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Let's get going because I don't want to start over because that was too good. So where should we start? Should we start by talking about last week? Yes, we should definitely talk about last week because it already seems like any event that we do seems like it's already months have passed. It was only like a week ago.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, this one's slightly different, right? Because it wasn't a week ago for us. Like in Brad and Myke time, it was a week and a half ago, as you said, right? So it's been a long time since we recorded the Field Notes episode, which went, I mean, you know, we had, I think, safe to say we had high expectations because we thought it was going to be a great episode. But it exceeded my expectations. It was just a wonderful episode. I realized in the edit, or at least Stephen did, because Stephen edited the show. Thank you, Stephen. Stephen also edited the video, the fastest video turnaround we've ever had. And Stephen said to me, when you don't have tens of hours of B-roll footage, it's pretty easy to put these things together. Yeah, this was a one camera event. Well, there was also a GoPro, right? Which was the emergency camera. But it was easy for him to do it and he put it out. So if you are a Kickstarter backer, you should have gotten an email with a link to go and watch the video, right? Everybody should have gotten that if you were a Kickstarter backer. But yeah, it was just a really, really fantastic event. But Stephen noted to me that you barely spoke in the episode, which I didn't realize at the time. So I apologize for that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, no. I noticed it at the end. I was like, I don't think I talk very much. But then when I re-listened to it, I re-listened to it a couple of times because I really enjoy hearing Jim and Brian talk. That's what you do. You don't need to. You need to let the guests talk. And you drove the conversation. I actually got an email saying, boy, Myke did a good job on that show. You didn't talk very much, but that's okay because it came out awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I got to say, I slipped into my old interviewing mode. And oh, man, I loved it. I just loved it. I haven't done an interview like that in a while. You know, with like all the questions and like it flows. And you're moving stuff around, cutting things out, like pressing people on questions. I had such a blast with it. Like I haven't done that in feels like years. So it was really great.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, you, it was a natural. You were in your natural habitat, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think I was really. Like that's what I started doing, right? Like that's kind of my, if you were to call it such, my roots, right? Like in podcasting came from interviewing people. Um, so it was fun to really, really pull that, pull that back again.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Did you notice the amount of feedback we got on this show? Like we haven't talked specifically about since. Like we, we knew it was good. We listened to it. We loved it. We're of course going to love it ourselves. But you know, you, you never know until you get it out in the hands of the listeners. I got so much feedback on this episode saying it's the best episode. Great job. Like I've never, I don't think we've ever done an episode where I've gotten more. Comments like that. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. It's because there is a reason that we wanted to do this. There's a reason why, you know, both me and you have called this a highlight of the show's history because it fits so perfectly for us. You know, like to do an episode with the Field Notes guys, which you've done before, but to do it there, you know, like it adds a whole thing to it. You know, it's their 10th anniversary. You know, we both worked really hard on putting the questions together. Like I am, I am not surprised that so many people love this episode. And as Tony said, you know, you didn't talk equals positive feedback, which is kind of funny. Right. Tony, Tony's doing his best in the chat room to, he's moved on to trolling you now, which is, which is an interesting thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, yeah, I'm just lucky we didn't actually end the show. Right. I mean, we should have not shown up today and really trolled the people. But yeah, I'm, I'm glad to not talk if that's what the feedback is going to be.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, dear. But yeah, we got great, great feedback. Like people were really, really nice and we really, really appreciate it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And just listening when you go back and listen or watch the video, just listening to Jim and Brian talk. I want Jim to tell me bedtime stories. Yes. Like the guy can spin a story and his voice and his demeanor. Yeah. I want Jim to, to read me, to tuck me in and read me a bedtime story. So thank you, Jim.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wow. Wow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, it was awesome. It was a great event. They did announce something on the show where they're adding. Um, it was cause they don't do that very often and it was really neat to, to have them do it. And it was totally on Jim and Jim sprung that on us right before the show that they're going to launch. He didn't tell us before he announced it live, but they're going to add in a, I don't know what you would call this, this, an additional two pack 10 year anniversary pack, but it's going to hark back to the beginning of the company. We haven't seen any pictures, but you know, just, we haven't, we don't know anything other than what they said on the show, but they're pretty excited about it. So we're pretty excited about it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. I, I've been trying to rack my brain like, and I can't, I can't work out what it is. You know what I mean? Like, well, what are they doing? What are they up to? Like, I haven't been able to work it out yet. You know, like I have my ideas and I'm wondering if it's going to be different formats, but like the design is going to be really great. I'm very, very excited about it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, again, we've said it a bunch and it can't be said enough. Thank you to all of our Kickstarter backers who helped make this possible. Um, your support means a lot to us and it allows us to do fun things like this and share them with you. And we're glad you're along for the ride.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Like, thank you for doing it. Like for, for helping us do this. Like it, I cannot put into words, like how much fun it has been this year to do these three events, um, Atlanta, DC, and then Chicago. And I only could have been able to be a part of all this stuff because of the support that our audience and gives us. Um, and you all just knocked out of the park this year. Like I was looking, I was looking through the Kickstarter thing and just to see how much money we raised. Like, I can't even believe it. Like I'd forgotten the exact number, like close to $30,000. Like it was just a, just wonderful. Like just so wonderful. And you, you've helped us produce some stuff that we're really proud of. And we really, really hope that the rewards are worth it for you. Um, when I guess now like focusing on next year, um, we have, me and Brad have ideas. We have big plans, but that won't be next year. Um, we're getting married next year. And because of that, I have minimal time for travel, um, too much going on. I have, I have too much going on. So we have big plans. Um, and I'm hoping that in 2019, we'll be able to put at least one of those into effect. Um, but for 2018, like we know Atlanta, um, and I'm hoping we can do at least one more show somewhere. Um, but we're going to talk about that as the rest of the year goes on, but like definitely, definitely Atlanta will do, we'll do it up right as we always do. Um, at our Atlanta show. And we'll try and, we'll try and do more than just the one show, right? Because I feel like that, that, that is probably the thing to do now. Now that we've done three, we should probably at least try and do two next year. Um, but we're, we have big plans for some stuff that we want to do in the future. Um, but that's going to have to wait a little bit longer because I mean, this show's never ending anyway. So, uh, we're all good.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, but no, you're totally right. And I've started to have people ask me for Atlanta dates. I will know them. I'm meeting with the Doliffs in November sometime and I'll, I'll get the dates then for the show. So we'll have news on that. Cause I know a lot of y'all like to book your travel early for that. And, uh, we like to mark it off our calendar because that's the one thing that's a stone cold lock on, on our calendars. So Atlanta's happening. Um, what else the Kickstarter will entail? We are not sure. No, we don't know yet. Yeah. Well, we, we have a lot less time to plan it this year than last year.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Well, I mean, let's be honest. We, we always plan it last minute. Yeah. Yeah.