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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:''' Excuse me. So I cheated last week and was on another podcast called the Productivity in Tech Podcast. Listener, uh, Jay Miller, um, asked me on, we, he's, uh, he submitted some Ask TPA questions before and we've gotten to talking. And I heard him on the relay, um, show with Aline Sims and, and K Tempest Bradford originality. So I heard him and talking about bullet churning. I was like, oh, this guy's pretty interesting. You know, uh, so I started following him on Twitter. Then saw he had a podcast and I started listening to his podcast and I liked it. And he asked me if I wanted to come on. So we worked it out this week and it published on Monday this, uh, this week. And it was a good time talking to him. So I posted that and we'll have that link in the show notes. If you want to listen to me talk about, uh, talk, talked a lot about community in there and, uh, how awesome the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Penn </del>Addict community is and just the stationary community and hobby as a whole is. So it was a, it was a fun talk. So I appreciate Jay having me and fun fact. I did not know he was originally from where I currently live in Macon, Georgia. So he is out in California now, but he, uh, he knows, he knows my stomping grounds here. So that was fun to talk about as well.</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:''' Excuse me. So I cheated last week and was on another podcast called the Productivity in Tech Podcast. Listener, uh, Jay Miller, um, asked me on, we, he's, uh, he submitted some Ask TPA questions before and we've gotten to talking. And I heard him on the relay, um, show with Aline Sims and, and K Tempest Bradford originality. So I heard him and talking about bullet churning. I was like, oh, this guy's pretty interesting. You know, uh, so I started following him on Twitter. Then saw he had a podcast and I started listening to his podcast and I liked it. And he asked me if I wanted to come on. So we worked it out this week and it published on Monday this, uh, this week. And it was a good time talking to him. So I posted that and we'll have that link in the show notes. If you want to listen to me talk about, uh, talk, talked a lot about community in there and, uh, how awesome the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pen </ins>Addict community is and just the stationary community and hobby as a whole is. So it was a, it was a fun talk. So I appreciate Jay having me and fun fact. I did not know he was originally from where I currently live in Macon, Georgia. So he is out in California now, but he, uh, he knows, he knows my stomping grounds here. So that was fun to talk about as well.</div></td></tr>
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