The whole gang is back together to catch up. Andy recaps his Field Notes–filled wedding, starts a new job, and falls down a serious wristwatch rabbit hole — from Bluetooth-modded Casio F-91Ws to a Draplin x Timex Scout. Johnny's loving a $30 Asvine piston-filler, a possibly haunted Cedar Pointe, and a Rhodia Goalbook in Peacock, while Tim is deep in World Cup fever and cheap-but-good Pen+Gear black pencils. Plus: Blackwing's 250 drop, Nahvalur's Fireworks Nautilus, and a locked-in promise that next episode is a Pencil Primer all about wood.

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Show Notes & Links

Murchie's Tea (Victoria, BC) — Scottish breakfast blend

ForestChoice #2 pencil — still $5 a pack at Pencils.com

Field Notes Explore America: Northern California — Golden Gate National Recreation Area edition (with Big Sur and Muir Woods)

Range Leather notebook cover

Bound to Be Beautiful by Bari Zaki — from Bari Zaki Studio in Chicago

No Man's Sky

Asvine P90 piston-fill fountain pen (~$30)

Organics Studio Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass ink

General's Cedar Pointe #1

Baron Fig x Caroline Weaver Archer pencil

Rhodia Goalbook in Peacock

James Corden's live after-match World Cup show on Tubi

The Art of Simple Living by Shunmyo Masuno

Replica J. Thoreau & Son pencil from The Shop at Walden Pond

Moleskine Cahier XL notebook — $9.99 at Walmart

Casio F-91W and the Ollee Watch Bluetooth mod (~$60)

Casio Vintage series — calculator, world-time, and the Alien wrist-communicator lookalike

Timex Weekender, Timex Expedition, and a Draplin Design Co. x Timex Scout

Fitbit Air ($99) — strap-only tracker people pair with analog watches

Paper & Pencil (Chicago) custom Stationery Day Field Notes — including a stamp-collecting edition

Delfonics Rollbahn Micro — the impossibly tiny new size, found at Maido

The Blackwing 250 Collection — red, white, and blue pencils, plus the 250-box with a gold one (only 50 sets)

Musgrave America250 Cedar Box Set — 2 dozen red, white, and blue Ceres pencils

Field Notes: The Founding Documents

Nahvalur Nautilus Fireworks limited edition

Pen+Gear round black #2 pencils — back-to-school find at Walmart

Panini World Cup sticker album — $2 packs, 450+ stickers