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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, that's exactly what you've got, my friend. Next episode, our next episode, we'll start the Anna Ryan at Double Bill that everybody looks forward to so much. So we're going to have Anna on the show next week to talk about whatever topics we have next week, but also to pregame the Atlanta <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Show. And then the week after that, the episode will be coming out kind of over the weekend of that week, because that will be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Show week. So we'll be pushing the episode out to later in the week because we'll be recording our live show in Atlanta.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, that's exactly what you've got, my friend. Next episode, our next episode, we'll start the Anna Ryan at Double Bill that everybody looks forward to so much. So we're going to have Anna on the show next week to talk about whatever topics we have next week, but also to pregame the Atlanta <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Show. And then the week after that, the episode will be coming out kind of over the weekend of that week, because that will be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Show week. So we'll be pushing the episode out to later in the week because we'll be recording our live show in Atlanta.</div></td></tr>
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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>'''Brad Dowdy:''' So episode 352. I always try to buy you time till at least Sunday, and then you usually have it done before we go to dinner on Saturday. I'm not going to like totally schedule you for that, but you always surprise me how fast. It will be up Saturday night.</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>'''Brad Dowdy:''' So episode 352. I always try to buy you time till at least Sunday, and then you usually have it done before we go to dinner on Saturday. I'm not going to like totally schedule you for that, but you always surprise me how fast. It will be up Saturday night.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' The next product, Myke, I'm not sure if it has correct pricing because it actually seems maybe a little bit on the low end. So, Yoseka – and I don't know if I – I apologize if I'm saying that wrong – Yoseka Notebook. So, there's a store in Queens called Yoseka Stationery, which I had not heard of. Yeah. Yeah, in New York, outside the city. So, their notebook was shown to me at the Baltimore <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Show by a friend. And he walked up to me and he said, I want to show you this from a stationery store that I frequent because I think you would like it. And it is, like, a full-size A5 notebook. And it's really just called the Yoseka Notebook. And how many pages enter in it? I don't know what you would think it was a typical – 224 pages. 224 blank pages. And it's very simple aesthetic. Like, it's super minimal. It's a completely sharp-edged notebook. Like, the cover is just your basic, like, super thick, hardcore – I don't even know what you would call this – cardboard, like, thick, thick stock. But it's trimmed, so that's the edge of the paper as well. So, it's, like, completely smooth all the way around. There's no cover overhang or no inset paper. And then the binding on the top is – on the side is right on the edge too. And it's kind of, like – it's very raw looking, but at the same time, it's a completely clean and finished product. So, the style impressed me. Just, like, looking at it, the look and feel of how it was built impressed me. So, I said, yeah, get me their information. Let me get in touch with them. And he happened to reach out to them and got them to get in touch with me and said, hey, let us send you a notebook. So, they did. And something about this paper is really awesome for fountain pens. So, the paper, they call it KBU. It's by a company called Conifer out of Taiwan. And they've gone through a couple of iterations of paper. And the paper that they're using right now is extremely fountain pen friendly insofar as it shows off shading and sheen without having, you know, feathering or bleeding. You know, I think there's, like, one spot where I put down a lot of ink that kind of maybe a little bit went through the back of the page but not onto the next page but barely at all. And I'll take some more pictures of this as I review these. But I thought this was worth mentioning, like, before I've even done the review, like, the North of Rosemont. Like, this is a surprise. Like, this is a new product. I love talking about new products. And it's really good. Like, there's so many good notebooks out there these days. This one, the only pen that did not work well with it was the Schmidt P8126 rollerball. That one actually had a tiny bit of feathering. Everything else was kind of perfect. But for fountain pens, this is, like, a faster drying Tomoe River. Like, you can see sheen. You can see shading. I was very impressed with how it handled fountain pens. So, and even for, like, the most fountain pen friendly paper, they're not normally good with pencils. This was exceptional with pencils. Like, you can feel, like, the texture of the page, which those two things usually don't go hand in hand. So, this is a $20 notebook. And that's kind of in the no-brainer territory if you like this style. Like, this style is different, right? It's, I would call it raw. Like, it just seems like they've glued together some pages in between cardboard. But it's actually really refined and really clean and really high quality, really well made. I'm extraordinarily impressed with this notebook so far. So, I'm going to keep using it, keep testing with it. I did get some wider nibs and wider inks. I didn't have everything. I just cleaned all my fountain pens. So, I only had some, like, extra fine stuff inked up. And I always want to see how, you know, these papers work with wide, wet nibs. And, man, it held up really well. So, I just like the style. This is right up my alley of the type of product that I like. And Yoseka is like a brick-and-mortar store. You can go there, you know, if you're in New York City. It's another place to add to the stationary tour, Myke, whenever we go back there again, right?</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Brad Dowdy:''' The next product, Myke, I'm not sure if it has correct pricing because it actually seems maybe a little bit on the low end. So, Yoseka – and I don't know if I – I apologize if I'm saying that wrong – Yoseka Notebook. So, there's a store in Queens called Yoseka Stationery, which I had not heard of. Yeah. Yeah, in New York, outside the city. So, their notebook was shown to me at the Baltimore <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Show by a friend. And he walked up to me and he said, I want to show you this from a stationery store that I frequent because I think you would like it. And it is, like, a full-size A5 notebook. And it's really just called the Yoseka Notebook. And how many pages enter in it? I don't know what you would think it was a typical – 224 pages. 224 blank pages. And it's very simple aesthetic. Like, it's super minimal. It's a completely sharp-edged notebook. Like, the cover is just your basic, like, super thick, hardcore – I don't even know what you would call this – cardboard, like, thick, thick stock. But it's trimmed, so that's the edge of the paper as well. So, it's, like, completely smooth all the way around. There's no cover overhang or no inset paper. And then the binding on the top is – on the side is right on the edge too. And it's kind of, like – it's very raw looking, but at the same time, it's a completely clean and finished product. So, the style impressed me. Just, like, looking at it, the look and feel of how it was built impressed me. So, I said, yeah, get me their information. Let me get in touch with them. And he happened to reach out to them and got them to get in touch with me and said, hey, let us send you a notebook. So, they did. And something about this paper is really awesome for fountain pens. So, the paper, they call it KBU. It's by a company called Conifer out of Taiwan. And they've gone through a couple of iterations of paper. And the paper that they're using right now is extremely fountain pen friendly insofar as it shows off shading and sheen without having, you know, feathering or bleeding. You know, I think there's, like, one spot where I put down a lot of ink that kind of maybe a little bit went through the back of the page but not onto the next page but barely at all. And I'll take some more pictures of this as I review these. But I thought this was worth mentioning, like, before I've even done the review, like, the North of Rosemont. Like, this is a surprise. Like, this is a new product. I love talking about new products. And it's really good. Like, there's so many good notebooks out there these days. This one, the only pen that did not work well with it was the Schmidt P8126 rollerball. That one actually had a tiny bit of feathering. Everything else was kind of perfect. But for fountain pens, this is, like, a faster drying Tomoe River. Like, you can see sheen. You can see shading. I was very impressed with how it handled fountain pens. So, and even for, like, the most fountain pen friendly paper, they're not normally good with pencils. This was exceptional with pencils. Like, you can feel, like, the texture of the page, which those two things usually don't go hand in hand. So, this is a $20 notebook. And that's kind of in the no-brainer territory if you like this style. Like, this style is different, right? It's, I would call it raw. Like, it just seems like they've glued together some pages in between cardboard. But it's actually really refined and really clean and really high quality, really well made. I'm extraordinarily impressed with this notebook so far. So, I'm going to keep using it, keep testing with it. I did get some wider nibs and wider inks. I didn't have everything. I just cleaned all my fountain pens. So, I only had some, like, extra fine stuff inked up. And I always want to see how, you know, these papers work with wide, wet nibs. And, man, it held up really well. So, I just like the style. This is right up my alley of the type of product that I like. And Yoseka is like a brick-and-mortar store. You can go there, you know, if you're in New York City. It's another place to add to the stationary tour, Myke, whenever we go back there again, right?</div></td></tr>
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