Podcast 6738: A Love Affair
It all started December 1st 2009. I sent an email to Podcast 6738 (hey look, free advertising!), telling them I was interested in taking an ad out on their show.
I never heard back from them, and I didn’t know why. Last night I was playing catch up and listening to some older episodes of the podcast I had missed. Specifically one episode called Party Crashers that was released on 12/3/09. Starting at 17:53, they start talking about in detail what I now call “The Incident”. Here’s the segment edited down to 2:16 - To listen to it click HERE.
That should give you a pretty good idea of the story from their side. Now is the chance to hear mine.
This part of the story might seem irrelevant, but it’ll make sense later. Without getting into too much detail, my blood brother (I’m adopted) found me on MySpace a couple years ago. He then found me and started following me on Twitter. Back in August his girlfriend said something really nasty about me and I decided to block all communication with them for a while. I changed my Twitter name from @JoshSieg to @Joshonthenet, and blocked both him and his girlfriend.
Now, I’ve never met Josh or Matt, but we do have about 10 or so mutual friends and I sincerely enjoy their podcast. As you can see above in the screen capture from the e-mail I sent Podcast 6738, I never updated my signature to reflect my new Twitter handle. Oops! My mistake.
One day I got an email saying that @JoshSieg was now following me on Twitter. Immediately I thought of my brother. I thought that maybe he reactivated my old account as a means to get a hold of me. I also thought that if it wasn’t him, someone found out my password. I have one password for practically everything I use. So after I changed my password on every website I could think of, I got on my computer and blocked @JoshSieg from following me right away. One of the first things I noticed was, whoever copied my Twitter page didn’t save the background, they took a screenshot of it and saved it as “SiegBG.jpg” if I remember correctly.
I then went to Twitter’s help section and filed a claim for impersonation. I had to fax Twitter a photocopy of my driver’s license to prove that I am who I am. They removed the profile from circulation on December 19th.
Josh and Matt, you really did it. My website is all about comedy skits, bits, stunts gags and pranks (sometimes spelled PRANX for thriving purposes) and you deserve to be on it. You really did a number on me. I’d like to officially meet you both and shake your hands. After that we can legitimately negotiate advertisement. I officially forgive you for what you’ve done.
