Sorry This Took So Long, My Bowels Caught On Fire

This was supposed to happen a long time ago (the Substack not the bowel fire)

Oh look! It’s the first article (sorta) from that Substack newsletter I keep promoting on the internet comedy podcasts!

I’m Adam Tod Brown, by the way.

And this is the last known photo of me.

I assume you knew that? If not, hello! I used to work full-time as a writer/editor at both Cracked and Playboy (at the same time for a while) back when those sites were good. I’ve also been published on Uproxx and made a lot of people very angry on Vice once. I helped write a couple books. I took my hat off for an episode of History’s Greatest Mysteries. I’ve been around! If you’re new here, rest assured, you are in good hands.

This endeavor has been a long time in the making. If you nose around on the page enough, I’m sure somewhere you’ll see that it was initially set up in October 2020. That’s when I came up with the name of the newsletter and paid someone to create a logo, arguably the two most important steps in any written word project.

With that heavy lifting out of the way, I spent another entire year mostly just daydreaming about how cool it would be to have enough free time to actually earn money writing things here.

I host a lot of podcasts, you see. I also do most of the booking, research, and editing for those podcasts. Figuring out how to work another project into that schedule wasn’t easy. I’m still not 100 percent sure if I did ever figure it out.

But by October 2021, I was ready to see! I started plugging the newsletter on the podcasts and everything!

And then it happened. What happened? I’m still not entirely sure. I mean, a doctor eventually diagnosed it as colitis. That’s the slang term for what science calls “colon on swole.”

But here’s the thing…I didn’t need a doctor to tell me my colon was inflamed. It was clearly not working as usual and it didn’t seem like the change was that it became sleeker and more efficient. What I wanted to know was WHY I went from “person with normally functioning digestive system” to “person with 90 days of diarrhea and abdominal pain” seemingly overnight. I still have no idea. I just know I lost almost 40 pounds in the span of three months and I was a-okay with that part once I realized I wasn’t dying.

Anyway, whatever it was obviously made work a little more difficult for me. I was able to do the bare minimum necessary to keep the podcast network going and not much else.

So, that explains the delay in getting this new venture off the ground. Eventually, around mid-January, a colonoscopy flushed every single thing I’ve ever eaten out of my body and my stomach went back to normal shortly thereafter.

Photos coming soon!

And now here we are! Just eight short months later!

That’s right! Everything you read up to this point was written almost three quarters of a year ago. Honestly, adding that “eight months later” thing back then was a remarkable bit of foresight on my part, because it turns out I wasn’t able to get this off the ground in that time anyway.

I did find the time to change the name of the newsletter, though! Having “firearms” in the title felt a little gross. So now the name is “In Broad Daylight” just like my solo podcast used to be called when that was a thing. It’s not anymore. Now it’s this.

Now there are only firearms in the logo!

One of the other complicating factors in getting this started was figuring out what to write about for the first post. I reckon I’m checking that box right now. As for what comes after this, your guess is as good as mine. I haven’t written regularly for almost five years now. I don’t even know what I’m interested in writing about anymore. I guess we’re about to find out!

The plan is to update this thing at least twice a week, but hopefully more like 3-4 times a week. There will probably be one free article each week and the rest will be behind that sweet, sweet paywall. Beyond that, there are no concrete plans for how things will progress.

Thank you for reading so far! I appreciate your support and straight up love you, even if you don’t decide to mash that “subscribe” button (which you absolutely should).