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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' We'll find out soon enough. Today's episode is also brought to you by our friends at Squarespace. Use the offer code INK at checkout, and you'll get 10% off your first purchase. Make your next move with Squarespace. They let you easily create a website for your next idea with a unique domain name, award-winning templates, and more. You can build a blog. You can build a portfolio. You can build a site for your business, a site for your band. It doesn't matter what you want to build. Or you can build a store as well. And both Brad uses Squarespace for the Nock store, and we use it for the RelayFM store. And we're currently selling some pre-order items there. You should go check out for some stickers and a T-shirt, which our lovely friend Brad and Jeff will be mailing out to the world sometime in December. So thank you for that, guys, as always. You're amazing. But we use Squarespace for that because why on earth would we try and build our own? Why would we do that? When Squarespace has it all there, we feel this way for our blog and for our store. Squarespace is fantastic for all this stuff. They have 24-7 support. There's nothing to install. No patches. No upgrades you have to worry about. They've got all that stuff covered. It's an all-in-one platform. Why would we try and build it on our own? When Squarespace have all of the amazing tools that we want to take advantage of. Their plans start at just $12 a month. You can sign up for a trial with no credit card required. Just go to squarespace.com. Then use the offer code INK when you sign up for a plan and you'll get 10% of your first purchase to show your support as well for this show. We really appreciate it when you use those codes. Thanks to Squarespace for the continued support of the Pen Addict and RelayFM. Squarespace. Make your next move. Make your next website.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' We'll find out soon enough. Today's episode is also brought to you by our friends at Squarespace. Use the offer code INK at checkout, and you'll get 10% off your first purchase. Make your next move with Squarespace. They let you easily create a website for your next idea with a unique domain name, award-winning templates, and more. You can build a blog. You can build a portfolio. You can build a site for your business, a site for your band. It doesn't matter what you want to build. Or you can build a store as well. And both Brad uses Squarespace for the Nock store, and we use it for the RelayFM store. And we're currently selling some pre-order items there. You should go check out for some stickers and a T-shirt, which our lovely friend Brad and Jeff will be mailing out to the world sometime in December. So thank you for that, guys, as always. You're amazing. But we use Squarespace for that because why on earth would we try and build our own? Why would we do that? When Squarespace has it all there, we feel this way for our blog and for our store. Squarespace is fantastic for all this stuff. They have 24-7 support. There's nothing to install. No patches. No upgrades you have to worry about. They've got all that stuff covered. It's an all-in-one platform. Why would we try and build it on our own? When Squarespace have all of the amazing tools that we want to take advantage of. Their plans start at just $12 a month. You can sign up for a trial with no credit card required. Just go to squarespace.com. Then use the offer code INK when you sign up for a plan and you'll get 10% of your first purchase to show your support as well for this show. We really appreciate it when you use those codes. Thanks to Squarespace for the continued support of the Pen Addict and RelayFM. Squarespace. Make your next move. Make your next website.</div></td></tr>
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