Editing The Pen Addict 514/transcript (section)

== Lego Build Challenges ==


'''Myke:''' So we built the architecture sets for years, right? I've been thinking about this, Brad, like why was this so hard? The architecture sets, there aren't complicated pieces. You're mostly just building like squares in different ways. You know what I mean?

'''Brad:''' Like our historical toughest piece was the washing machine and how it orients.

'''Myke:''' But it was more like the way the pieces went together. So like in this build, so we, for RelayFM members, you can sign up at relay.fm slash membership. You get tons of fantastic benefits, access to the Discord, tons of bonus content going back multiple years now. I think five years of bonus content you get, as well as like monthly stuff that we do bonus for our members. We have like back, it's called Backstage is one of our shows where we kind of talk about what's going on at RelayFM. You can hear me and Steven talk about what it's like to run this company. We have Fusion, where there's a crossover show between multiple hosts of different shows. Steven hosts every month as well. Tons of great stuff, including the annual special episodes. Ours, again, this year, we built a Lego set together and we chose a model of a Formula One car. Now, here's what I was thinking about, Brad. The form and shape of the build, I think, was the problem. Because there were things that we were building that were just like visually complex and fiddly. And that was the issue. Basically, the main problem, it was complicated the whole way through. The main problem is a piece got added somewhere where it shouldn't have. It is unclear, as we stand at this time, whose fault that was. Whether Brad gave me a poor direction or whether I just picked it up and just randomly put it down. I would say at this point, 50-50 on that. Yeah. Could have been either of us. No one could tell. Definitely. Someone could tell, but nobody has told so far. We have at least one build completed. You know, actually, points to the person who can work out the answer to this for us. Yeah. There will be points awarded to you.

'''Brad:''' Because we've already had one completion of the set through the podcast. And they sent us a picture of the piece that we lost during our build or misplaced as a, here you go. But they didn't have any statement on how this came to be. Like, well, Brad missed this piece. He put it in the wrong place. Or it just might magically attach it to something else that it shouldn't have attached to. We don't know. Because we are definitely not going back to listen to this. Because we almost killed each other on this episode.

'''Myke:''' As you can tell, the fact that we are here making this show, mine and Brad's relationship is as good as it has ever been. Yeah. This was the biggest test of our friendship. There was a little bit of name calling on both sides. We were both agitated.

'''Brad:''' And we are two people that don't get agitated very easily. And we were agitated at each other.

'''Myke:''' And I was on the clock. I thought this would be easy. And I booked in a dinner. Which I didn't know. Because I didn't think we were going to take three hours to do this. Right? So I didn't even feel like it was necessary.

'''Brad:''' So Myke sent me a picture afterwards. Like, here's my dinner. And it's like, thanks, jerk. That you made me late for, Brad. No, you didn't make me late.

'''Myke:''' I was just late. We made me late. At the moment, it's 50-50. Because we lost about 20 minutes trying to find this piece. Easily. And so I would have made it just one time.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. I was wondering just how much you edited out of that part. Because it was bad. It was bad.

'''Brad:''' There were regrets, Myke. Oh, gosh. So, yeah. This is us talking about the tensions of this. And we had fun. We made up and made it through. And got it taken care of. But, yeah. Gosh. We failed in our own task of trying to make it easy on ourselves. So who knows what this will hold next year.

'''Myke:''' But I don't know if we're going to do another Lego. As I sit here right now, I'm not sure if we can do it. We might do something new. It might be time for something new anyway.

'''Brad:''' Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. It's just that we thought we were setting ourselves up for something that just is not possible anymore. It's a complicated thing. And it's fun. And it might be time to move on. So we're taking applications for future Pen Addict membership topics. So. All right, Myke. Let's. That was fun. We're going to talk about a lot of fun things the rest of this episode. But I want to talk about one. After this next thing. After this. I want to talk about one non-fun thing that you would be just as happy if we didn't have to discuss. I feel that I don't want to discuss it, but I feel we need to discuss it a little bit. And that is, of course, the new.

'''Myke:''' Let me just say, because I know what you're saying, but I don't want to get my. I get confusion. Just to my. I wish that we didn't have to talk about these things. Yes. Because they were things that didn't happen. Not that, like, I wish that we just wouldn't talk about this thing that has happened. Does that make sense? These are.

'''Brad:''' These are important things to discuss.

'''Myke:''' Absolutely ridiculous things that still seem to occur. But yet we find ourselves back in these situations again while we're talking about them.