Andy's out this week for the best possible reason — he got married! (Congratulations, Andy and Erica! 🎉) So Johnny and Tim keep it short and sweet with a catch-up and some fresh points: Tim falls down a Blaze Foley rabbit hole and digs into a new book on heartland rock, Johnny can't stop playing No Man's Sky, and both Henries pick up guitars. Plus: Field Notes' new Explore America memo books, Musgrave's America 250 collection, a pencil-powered fire-starting experiment, and a look at this year's (sadly slim) crop of Pride stationery. We'll be back next time, Andy in tow, with Pencil Primer, Part 2.

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Show Notes & Links

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Blaze Foley — Live at the Austin Outhouse

Blaze (2018), Ethan Hawke's film about Blaze Foley

Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America by Erin Osmon

Andor

King of the Hill

No Man's Sky

A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 by Bill Bryson

A Perfect Circle — "Starless" (new single)

Arab Strap — "You You You" (new single + video)

Field Notes Explore America memo books

Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery

Pencil graphite lighter video

Musgrave America 250 collection

Fisher Space Pen — America 250 AG7 Astronaut Pen

Nahvalur Horizon Pride 2026 fountain pen

The Trevor Project

War by Sebastian Junger

Your Hosts

Johnny  GamberPencil Revolution
@pencilution

Andy WelfleWoodclinched
@awelfle

Tim Wasem@TimWasem