Editing The Pen Addict 377/transcript (section)

== Ask TPA Questions ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Good, we're finally going to get rid of those, well not rid of, that sounds mean. We're finally going to get to and answer Ask TPA questions today. We've been teasing it for like weeks, we keep pointing them off. Today is an Ask TPA episode.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, and you can tell that I already love y'all more than Myke does, because Myke was trying to get rid of y'all while I was trying to save y'all and answer all the questions thoroughly and as accurately as possible.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, well then that's your job today, to answer every single question, both thoroughly and accurately, otherwise you've let down the listeners.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that's actually not my MO. Thoroughly, maybe, accurately, definitely not.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm back in Memphis again, Brad. Good grief, man. What is up? When are you moving? Just make it permanent or get like a permanent residence or what is going on? What has pushed our recording time back an hour today?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm in Memphis, Tennessee, because on Friday, September 20th, is the RelayFM Podcast-a-thon for St. Jude, starting at 4pm Eastern. For six hours, we're going to be broadcasting live on Twitch from the St. Jude campus. So I'm going to put a link in the show notes to a Twitch event, so you'll be able to see exactly what time we'll be broadcasting in your time zone, no matter where you are in the world. But then you'll be able to catch us on twitch.tv slash RelayFM. So you can hit like, you can subscribe and like follow us and you'll understand when we're going to be streaming out because it will get a notification and stuff. But you know what you need to do. You're going to have to be there or be square. It's going to be an incredible day. Brad is going to be, my understanding, as Stephen told me, I didn't know this, Brad is going to be in the chat moderating for the entire time.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is that right? That's the plan right now. So I booked myself to help mod. Stephen asked me to help mod and I said, well, I'm pretty much, I'll do my part and I can try to be there the whole time. It's only the very, very beginning, you know, depending on when I get back from school and if I've gotten all my work finished getting back from picking up the kids from school. I plan on modding the entire event along with others. So there'll be others.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And why are we doing this? Why are we doing this? Because it's September. And in September, you can join supporters, including RelayFM, around the world during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month to help raise money for the kids of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. And we do this because St. Jude makes sure that families never receive a bill for anything. You pay for nothing if you are a St. Jude family. They pay for food for you. They put you in housing and then pay for all of the care for your child as they're going through something which is absolutely horrific. They want to take all that stress away from you. And that's what they do. And that is why they are such an incredible organization that we want to support. Every single year, between 180,000 and 240,000 children are diagnosed with cancer worldwide. And St. Jude will not stop until no child dies from cancer. You can donate today at stjude.org slash penaddict to join the fight to end childhood cancer. That is stjude.org slash penaddict. St. Jude's Research Institute I'm absolutely blown away. I just got chills when I opened our fundraising page. It's crazy. So our original goal was $75,000. That was what we wanted to raise. We are currently at $142,935. By the end of today, we may pass the double.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's crazy. That's so awesome. I've explained just how excited I am about this whole thing. And to see all the Relay fans and supporters come out in droves for this event, I could not be more proud of a singular community.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It is unbelievable. We want to raise $175,000 now because why not? So help us get there. Because we've done such incredible things.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Why not keep it going? Complete sidebar, somewhat related as I'm walking in to go record the podcast today.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' My wife told me to make sure I picked up the stickers for my son for his baseball team this weekend. I said, what stickers do you mean? And she said, well, they're all wearing the yellow ribbon for Childhood Awareness Month on their helmets for the tournament this weekend. So I'll try to get a picture for y'all.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I would love to see that. Yeah, that's right. So yellow, the gold card, if you're wondering why the RelayFM logo on the pen addict artwork has changed to gold, just because that's the color for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer has pink. Everybody knows that. And so this is one that we should all start to learn as well. In September, everything goes gold.