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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Brad Dowdy:&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Those kind of prices.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Brad Dowdy:&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Those kind of prices.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Myke Hurley:&#039;&#039;&#039; Right. Yeah, the Retro 51 market&#039;s pretty crazy. I still don&#039;t know what&#039;s going on with them for the rest of the year or in the future. Like, no clue. So who knows? All right. I guess that&#039;s a good lead into our business topic with Retro 51. We don&#039;t know what they&#039;re doing. And this is going to be a very kind of businessy, stationary businessy heavy episode because there were a couple of emails that I received and some notes that I received from other people. You know, did you see this? You can talk about this. You know, what&#039;s going on? And there&#039;s kind of like three or four separate topics I want to hit just on the business of stationary. And we can talk about how, you know, what we do and how it relates because I find all this stuff interesting. So the first one, I think it&#039;s the biggest one. It&#039;s from CW Pencil. So Caroline Weaver put out a huge blog post and an email. The title is Big Changes Ahead. The short version, it&#039;s a very long and detailed email, which we&#039;re going to get into some of it. But I want to read one specific little section, if you will allow me, and then use that as the jumping off points. Just bear with me for a second here. So this is, again, from Caroline Weaver. This is her writing. Six years ago, when I first put our website online, I had the goal of opening a shop that specializes only in pencils. Emphasis Hearst. The products on the website were extremely edited and carefully selected through the lens of a person who wanted to convince New York City that pencils are indeed an object that deserves more appreciation. Since then, we&#039;ve moved to a bigger shop, multiplied the number of products we offer, and navigated our way through a global pandemic so far. The thing is, I don&#039;t feel like I need to convince anyone of anything anymore. And as I spent months working alone in my shop this spring, just trying to figure out how to save my business, I realized that since this website went live in November 2014, the thing that had become most important to me in my business over the past six years is not the concept itself, but the community built around it. So there&#039;s a lot to unpack. And that is like 100 words in an 800-word blog post, right? But that, I think, gives you the gist of what&#039;s going on here. So, you know, Caroline, what CWP started as was like a pencil-specific shop. Like, that was our go-to pencil shop, right? That&#039;s what they carried. They carried pencils. They did it very well. Caroline and her staff curated it perfectly. And it was beloved, right? Or it is beloved. I shouldn&#039;t. There&#039;s no was. It is beloved. You know, we have obviously met Caroline. We&#039;ve been to the shop. You know, my thoughts on how she does her work and how, you know, she presents the store and everything. Like, I think she does great. And, you know, reading this, a couple of things. One, this last year has been a bear. You know, that&#039;s me reading between the lines. And that goes for all of us, especially us in the stationery industry and especially us in the niche stationery industry. You know, I&#039;ve had, we&#039;ve struggled with &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;NOC&lt;/del&gt;, you know, over the past year or two, just trying to get things right. You know, this is hard to do correctly, right? And especially Caroline with a physical storefront in a city like New York. You can just imagine. And then having to rely on a lot of tourism to sustain the physical storefront. So I find it all interesting, you know, about that and the challenges. But what she gets to here at the end where she mentions the most important part is the community built around the shop. That&#039;s the most important thing to me when dealing as a business myself. You know, whether it&#039;s Pen Addict, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;NOC&lt;/del&gt;, SpokePen, whether it&#039;s working with other companies, you know, and choosing who I work with is that they are mainly community focused. But that&#039;s not something you necessarily see, like visually. Like we don&#039;t say we&#039;re community focused. It&#039;s how we act and how we present ourselves and how we approach our customer service and how we do our marketing. And the respect towards the customer is paramount. So that&#039;s going to allow Caroline to fully reboot what CW Pencil Enterprise is into a more local office supply shop first and foremost. And you can read all of this in her explanations in this wonderful blog post that we&#039;ll link in the show notes to build a place for the needs of the neighborhood around her and the city. Right. To build an office supply destination for the people locally that need her. So it&#039;s number one, not so heavily, heavily reliant on tourists and number two, not so heavily reliant on what&#039;s really, I don&#039;t want to say a small margin product, but a low sales product and a single pencil. Right. If you go in there and buy even a handful of single pencils, what are you, you&#039;re getting out there, you know, for 12 or $15, which is great. Like you feel awesome about your purchase and like, you know, they&#039;ve made, you can&#039;t sustain on lots of, you know, $5 profits throughout the day. In New York City. Right. So there&#039;s a bigger opportunity to broaden the office supply space and destination for office supplies for local businesses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Myke Hurley:&#039;&#039;&#039; Right. Yeah, the Retro 51 market&#039;s pretty crazy. I still don&#039;t know what&#039;s going on with them for the rest of the year or in the future. Like, no clue. So who knows? All right. I guess that&#039;s a good lead into our business topic with Retro 51. We don&#039;t know what they&#039;re doing. And this is going to be a very kind of businessy, stationary businessy heavy episode because there were a couple of emails that I received and some notes that I received from other people. You know, did you see this? You can talk about this. You know, what&#039;s going on? And there&#039;s kind of like three or four separate topics I want to hit just on the business of stationary. And we can talk about how, you know, what we do and how it relates because I find all this stuff interesting. So the first one, I think it&#039;s the biggest one. It&#039;s from CW Pencil. So Caroline Weaver put out a huge blog post and an email. The title is Big Changes Ahead. The short version, it&#039;s a very long and detailed email, which we&#039;re going to get into some of it. But I want to read one specific little section, if you will allow me, and then use that as the jumping off points. Just bear with me for a second here. So this is, again, from Caroline Weaver. This is her writing. Six years ago, when I first put our website online, I had the goal of opening a shop that specializes only in pencils. Emphasis Hearst. The products on the website were extremely edited and carefully selected through the lens of a person who wanted to convince New York City that pencils are indeed an object that deserves more appreciation. Since then, we&#039;ve moved to a bigger shop, multiplied the number of products we offer, and navigated our way through a global pandemic so far. The thing is, I don&#039;t feel like I need to convince anyone of anything anymore. And as I spent months working alone in my shop this spring, just trying to figure out how to save my business, I realized that since this website went live in November 2014, the thing that had become most important to me in my business over the past six years is not the concept itself, but the community built around it. So there&#039;s a lot to unpack. And that is like 100 words in an 800-word blog post, right? But that, I think, gives you the gist of what&#039;s going on here. So, you know, Caroline, what CWP started as was like a pencil-specific shop. Like, that was our go-to pencil shop, right? That&#039;s what they carried. They carried pencils. They did it very well. Caroline and her staff curated it perfectly. And it was beloved, right? Or it is beloved. I shouldn&#039;t. There&#039;s no was. It is beloved. You know, we have obviously met Caroline. We&#039;ve been to the shop. You know, my thoughts on how she does her work and how, you know, she presents the store and everything. Like, I think she does great. And, you know, reading this, a couple of things. One, this last year has been a bear. You know, that&#039;s me reading between the lines. And that goes for all of us, especially us in the stationery industry and especially us in the niche stationery industry. You know, I&#039;ve had, we&#039;ve struggled with &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Nock&lt;/ins&gt;, you know, over the past year or two, just trying to get things right. You know, this is hard to do correctly, right? And especially Caroline with a physical storefront in a city like New York. You can just imagine. And then having to rely on a lot of tourism to sustain the physical storefront. So I find it all interesting, you know, about that and the challenges. But what she gets to here at the end where she mentions the most important part is the community built around the shop. That&#039;s the most important thing to me when dealing as a business myself. You know, whether it&#039;s Pen Addict, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Nock&lt;/ins&gt;, SpokePen, whether it&#039;s working with other companies, you know, and choosing who I work with is that they are mainly community focused. But that&#039;s not something you necessarily see, like visually. Like we don&#039;t say we&#039;re community focused. It&#039;s how we act and how we present ourselves and how we approach our customer service and how we do our marketing. And the respect towards the customer is paramount. So that&#039;s going to allow Caroline to fully reboot what CW Pencil Enterprise is into a more local office supply shop first and foremost. And you can read all of this in her explanations in this wonderful blog post that we&#039;ll link in the show notes to build a place for the needs of the neighborhood around her and the city. Right. To build an office supply destination for the people locally that need her. So it&#039;s number one, not so heavily, heavily reliant on tourists and number two, not so heavily reliant on what&#039;s really, I don&#039;t want to say a small margin product, but a low sales product and a single pencil. Right. If you go in there and buy even a handful of single pencils, what are you, you&#039;re getting out there, you know, for 12 or $15, which is great. Like you feel awesome about your purchase and like, you know, they&#039;ve made, you can&#039;t sustain on lots of, you know, $5 profits throughout the day. In New York City. Right. So there&#039;s a bigger opportunity to broaden the office supply space and destination for office supplies for local businesses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Brad Dowdy:&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; At a time when, especially in a city like New York, people need to get their own office supplies more than they ever did before now. Right. Because our homes have become our offices for many people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Brad Dowdy:&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; At a time when, especially in a city like New York, people need to get their own office supplies more than they ever did before now. Right. Because our homes have become our offices for many people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Brad Dowdy:&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Because it&amp;#039;s a hard sale, isn&amp;#039;t it? Right. On your perspective.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Brad Dowdy:&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Because it&amp;#039;s a hard sale, isn&amp;#039;t it? Right. On your perspective.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Myke Hurley:&#039;&#039;&#039; But I would be available for four hours on Saturday afternoon. And I don&#039;t know if that&#039;s what they&#039;re asking. Like, I don&#039;t know that level of detail. Right. But if my availability has to be Friday, Saturday, Sunday, open to close. It wouldn&#039;t be worth it. But if I could say, okay, &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;NOC &lt;/del&gt;is available from 12 to 4 for questions, you know, maybe that and maybe that&#039;s how they&#039;re doing it. I don&#039;t know totally. So then I would say, hey, that&#039;s a great time block for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Myke Hurley:&#039;&#039;&#039; But I would be available for four hours on Saturday afternoon. And I don&#039;t know if that&#039;s what they&#039;re asking. Like, I don&#039;t know that level of detail. Right. But if my availability has to be Friday, Saturday, Sunday, open to close. It wouldn&#039;t be worth it. But if I could say, okay, &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Nock &lt;/ins&gt;is available from 12 to 4 for questions, you know, maybe that and maybe that&#039;s how they&#039;re doing it. I don&#039;t know totally. So then I would say, hey, that&#039;s a great time block for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Brad Dowdy:&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Yep. So if I was doing a pen show right now, I would steal a little bit of what Detroit is doing and what you just mentioned. I think that that is an interesting idea of like products are available. But if you have questions on a product, these people will be available from this time to this time. But bear in mind that the product may have sold out by then, you know, like whatever. Right. My way of doing it is basically just a glorified online store, but it enables these people to sell the product that they otherwise would have made just for the pen show. So basically, I would work with a lot of vendors. So, you know, it&amp;#039;s what I would want to do. And you have to achieve one of two things. Prices you cannot get elsewhere or limited edition product. They are the two things at the virtual pen show. And so as a consumer, that&amp;#039;s what you know you&amp;#039;re going to get. Because a lot of the time, that is what you get at a pen show. So, you know, it would be one destination and we would have brands of different kinds, including a lot of small makers. And it&amp;#039;s a case of like you know that you&amp;#039;re either going to get limited edition products from makers like woodshed, makers like Carolina pen, right? Like this is what you expect to get at a pen show. So, or larger companies that have larger stock options or like even like a Frank and Kristoff as well, right? So you get limited. Or companies that come, you know, like say like a Drumgools or Vaness or Andersons and say like you have to offer a discount, which you don&amp;#039;t have to say up front. But there is a meaning that if you come and buy the stuff, then people are going to get a price discount. And that&amp;#039;s why they&amp;#039;re doing it. So that&amp;#039;s kind of like the bones of what I think an event like this should be. But you&amp;#039;ve got to get a lot of buy-in and that&amp;#039;s really tricky. And there would be an element of wanting people to be around. But I think that you could combat, I don&amp;#039;t know exactly how you would combat it, but there is something to be said for these makers to be able to be able to answer questions for people. And maybe, like for all I know, maybe this idea of slot booking is the way to do it because you only have to be around at the times you&amp;#039;ve gotten booked. But that could get a bit out of control. I don&amp;#039;t know. I&amp;#039;m happy to see someone trying something because up to this point, nobody&amp;#039;s done anything compelling, understandably. And then hopefully as we move into the end of this year and into next year, there&amp;#039;ll be some more options. Because basically, I don&amp;#039;t think that we&amp;#039;re going to be having any pen shows for...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Brad Dowdy:&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Yep. So if I was doing a pen show right now, I would steal a little bit of what Detroit is doing and what you just mentioned. I think that that is an interesting idea of like products are available. But if you have questions on a product, these people will be available from this time to this time. But bear in mind that the product may have sold out by then, you know, like whatever. Right. My way of doing it is basically just a glorified online store, but it enables these people to sell the product that they otherwise would have made just for the pen show. So basically, I would work with a lot of vendors. So, you know, it&amp;#039;s what I would want to do. And you have to achieve one of two things. Prices you cannot get elsewhere or limited edition product. They are the two things at the virtual pen show. And so as a consumer, that&amp;#039;s what you know you&amp;#039;re going to get. Because a lot of the time, that is what you get at a pen show. So, you know, it would be one destination and we would have brands of different kinds, including a lot of small makers. And it&amp;#039;s a case of like you know that you&amp;#039;re either going to get limited edition products from makers like woodshed, makers like Carolina pen, right? Like this is what you expect to get at a pen show. So, or larger companies that have larger stock options or like even like a Frank and Kristoff as well, right? So you get limited. Or companies that come, you know, like say like a Drumgools or Vaness or Andersons and say like you have to offer a discount, which you don&amp;#039;t have to say up front. But there is a meaning that if you come and buy the stuff, then people are going to get a price discount. And that&amp;#039;s why they&amp;#039;re doing it. So that&amp;#039;s kind of like the bones of what I think an event like this should be. But you&amp;#039;ve got to get a lot of buy-in and that&amp;#039;s really tricky. And there would be an element of wanting people to be around. But I think that you could combat, I don&amp;#039;t know exactly how you would combat it, but there is something to be said for these makers to be able to be able to answer questions for people. And maybe, like for all I know, maybe this idea of slot booking is the way to do it because you only have to be around at the times you&amp;#039;ve gotten booked. But that could get a bit out of control. I don&amp;#039;t know. I&amp;#039;m happy to see someone trying something because up to this point, nobody&amp;#039;s done anything compelling, understandably. And then hopefully as we move into the end of this year and into next year, there&amp;#039;ll be some more options. Because basically, I don&amp;#039;t think that we&amp;#039;re going to be having any pen shows for...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;−&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Brad Dowdy:&#039;&#039;&#039; Okay. All right. If you would like to find links and information about this episode, you can go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 433. If you want to find Brad online, you go to penaddict.com. He is also at penaddict on Instagram and at dowdyism on Twitter, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. I am at iMike, I-M-Y-K-E. Both Brad and myself are Twitch streamers as well as podcasters these days. Brad has an official schedule. It&#039;s Tuesday, Thursday, 10 a.m. And Eastern, twitch.tv slash penaddict. I&#039;m a little bit more higgledy-piggledy right now as my streaming setup is in beta, but I stream maybe once or twice a week at mike.live, and it&#039;s mostly keyboard-related content. And that&#039;s probably the plan. But I&#039;m working on stuff. I just got affiliate, Brad. Nice. Got affiliate last week. And I&#039;m working on visual design and emotes and all that kind of stuff now. That&#039;s my next big project. Cool. You can go and check those out if you like, too. Thank you so much to Harry&#039;s and &lt;del style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Penn &lt;/del&gt;Chalet for their support of this episode, and we&#039;ll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;diff-marker&quot; data-marker=&quot;+&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;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;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039;Brad Dowdy:&#039;&#039;&#039; Okay. All right. If you would like to find links and information about this episode, you can go to relay.fm slash penaddict slash 433. If you want to find Brad online, you go to penaddict.com. He is also at penaddict on Instagram and at dowdyism on Twitter, D-O-W-D-Y-I-S-M. I am at iMike, I-M-Y-K-E. Both Brad and myself are Twitch streamers as well as podcasters these days. Brad has an official schedule. It&#039;s Tuesday, Thursday, 10 a.m. And Eastern, twitch.tv slash penaddict. I&#039;m a little bit more higgledy-piggledy right now as my streaming setup is in beta, but I stream maybe once or twice a week at mike.live, and it&#039;s mostly keyboard-related content. And that&#039;s probably the plan. But I&#039;m working on stuff. I just got affiliate, Brad. Nice. Got affiliate last week. And I&#039;m working on visual design and emotes and all that kind of stuff now. That&#039;s my next big project. Cool. You can go and check those out if you like, too. Thank you so much to Harry&#039;s and &lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Pen &lt;/ins&gt;Chalet for their support of this episode, and we&#039;ll be back next time. Until then, say goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad. Goodbye, Brad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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