We are pleased to welcome Eric Nusbaum to the podcast. The author of Stealing Home discusses researching a book-length work, the joyous little stories that emerge from research, and how he wove together the narrative strands of family, politics, and baseball. Eric also describes some fantastic stationery he uncovered in his research.

We bring our notebooks to southern Louisiana and the Kruger National Park of South Africa without leaving our homes. How do we moderate our media diet? What music are we unwinding to? These are not just rhetorical questions, they are the content of the show.

It’s a decasode so that means we are joined by occasional co-host Ryan Slie and we share some whaddya gots, talk quarantine stationery purchases, and how we’re getting by and hoping you are too,

Ted plays archivist with his journals. Adam plays quizmaster with notebook slang. Plus notes on John Prine and a mysterious suitcase for a MacGuffin.

Adam tangles the threads of reality and fiction in the latest episode of our podcast about notebooks and pens and pencils, while our co-hosts struggle to come up with pithy and amusing anecdotes, instead settling for an invigorating conversation between friends about routines new and old and using note-taking to get by. Adam also gives you some tools to support indie bookstores. Plus: we will be reading and discussing Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum, so read ahead!

Intro music: The Strapping Fieldhands “In the Pineys”

We reflect on what it was like to have coworkers, our new O. Henry lifestyles, favorite Instagram entertainers, all the tools we've been using, and Margaret Wise Brown

We take a look backward and share waddya gots from notebooks of yesteryear. Adam’s all seem to come from the same flight while Ted’s are kid-oriented. Then we talk archiving notebooks and Adam searches for three friends to listen to the Flaming Lips.

Adam and Ted have a slice of pie, discuss the Field Notes Vignette edition, open the new box of pencils from CW, and read Jenny Odell's How To Do Nothing.

Adam and Ted take their notebooks to the escape room, the bar at 2PM, and the dome.