(Photo by Jacob Marzolf)

The offer was on the metaphorical table for years. Pledge a couple thousand dollars to the local NPR affiliate and NBC4 reporter Tom Sherwood would get inked with a D.C. flag tattoo. But it appears that someone is getting a bargain: three local bigwigs for the price of one. On air today, WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi and Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh said that they would join Sherwood in tattoodom. And then, all of a sudden, the long-sought donation finally came through.

In a blog post titled “Dreams Do Come True,” producer Michael Martinez gave the backstory. Martinez had “arm-twisted” Sherwood years ago into promising he’d have the D.C. flag permanently etched on his body in exchange for a donation of $5,000 to WAMU. No one took them up on it.

“At some point in the past year or so, I started to lose faith. But Tom’s insistence on reviving his promise each new campaign convinced me that he actually wanted a donor to follow through-that he secretly wanted to get that ink this entire time,” Martinez writes. “He even agreed in a recent campaign to lower the threshold of the required gift to $3,000.”

And today was the day.

It’s official: @wamu885 got a $3,000 donation from a DC resident to get Kojo, @tomsherwood and @marycheh tatted up. https://t.co/cIbnTktxX3

— The Kojo Nnamdi Show (@kojoshow) October 23, 2015

“As of this moment, we don’t know when they’ll be getting their ink done or where they’ll be doing it,” Martinez writes. But “in the meantime, we can celebrate. This is a victory for public radio. For D.C. And for anyone who’s ever dared to dream big.”

Looks like there will be at-least three newcomers to D.C. flag tattoo show-off day Flag Day celebrations next year.