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Welcome to the Drinkable Podcast, our new show about watersheds. After 10 years of pencils, we've decided to. Hello, and welcome to episode 208 of the erasable Podcast. I'm Andy Welfle coming to you from the west coast. And joining me this Wednesday morning are Tim Wasem and Johnny Gamber from the other side of the Continental Divide, the mighty Mississippi, and. Oh, gosh, I guess I don't know what, like, watershed y' all are in, but if I did, that would be
a. I'm the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Okay, Chesapeake. How about you, Tim?
That was a thing. I'm watershed.
Which from somewhere landlocked state do I live in?
Okay, you guys talk. I'm going to figure this out.
Okay, that's good. Well, we are coming to you with just a short episode. The next episode should be a little bit longer and a little bit more special just because. Because it will be just recorded for our decade anniversary, which is pretty amazing to say, so. Yeah. So. Okay, Tim, what. What watershed are you.
I'm not there yet. Oh, gosh. Shockingly, this. This.gov website is a little outdated.
Can you believe it?
They haven't given this one the attention that some others have gotten.
They really don't, you know, have. Need to have up to date content on, like, watersheds.gov.
yeah. For real.
All right, here we go. Still nothing. I'll get back to you guys today.
There's a website@tn.gov that has all the watersheds in the state. I'm just not sure what county we're in.
Welcome to the Drinkable Podcast, our new show about watersheds. After 10 years of pencils, we've decided
to air quality issues and invasive species. We have a problem here with snake fish.
Okay, Tennessee watershed management, it looks like you are in the Washington. The Nola Chucky watershed, maybe.
That sounds familiar. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
That's the thing I hear about around here.
So she has some delicious nollichucky water.
Nola Chucky water. Yeah. That sounds gross, but yeah, her water's pretty good. Yeah.
All right.
Nola Chucky coming at you from the Nola Chucky.
We. I don't know if it's the same. We get. I think we have a reservoir called the Hetch Hetchy in San Francisco, which is a. Just like a. I don't know, a funny name. It's like Nola Chucky, but there's like, there's no fresh water in California. I mean, there's going to apparently be a giant dump of snow in the Sierras. Like tomorrow. So there will be.
But yeah, water's gonna taste better in a few days.
Yeah, we'll save that for our, our watershed after show.
Yes.
Yeah, I'm stoked, man.
Can't wait.
Shops like making little funnels to get all the freshest water to make the $9 cup of coffee or something delicious.
That's why it's so expensive.
Well, quick announcement before we start, one of the. So for our 10th anniversary we're going to just. And also because like often in the spring we try to do a little, A little piece of swag. We have something really cool coming up that we'll. We'll talk about in the next few weeks. But if you are a 10 month or I guess, I guess we have annual plans now. So if you are a Nubbin Stage supporter for erasable, please update your shipping address and I'll make an announcement over on Patreon as well for you. Just, you know, we'll need to have that once we like get this thing made and sent out. And also if you are thinking about becoming a Patreon supporter or if you support us under the Nubbin Stage, if you sign up now for an annual plan in the next week or so, I can still include you in this, in this, this giveaway. So I appreciate that if you could get that in pretty soon if you've been thinking about it. And then also I think that we should have a few extras of the thing that we're doing which we will sell on the website and announce that through the usual channels, which includes here on the podcast and in our social channels. And I think somewhere I have a, an email list as well. So. Yeah, we'll get that, we'll get that done. Just something, something cool coming up. I'm really excited about it. Don't want to give it away, but yeah, it's something we've been working on for a little bit. So anything to add to that?
It's something Andy has been working on.
Well, I mean we've been talking about it a little bit.
Anything.
Brush Creek watershed.
Brush Creek. That's everything I have to add is that it's actually called the Brush Creek Watershed that I'm in. So.
Okay.
But these are going to be awesome. And thank you, Andy for.
You're welcome.
Happening on this opportunity.
So I'm gonna have to.
Oh, did I just blur that out? Because you have to bleep me out. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
We can type Ryder Bell things that are not, you know, then there'll just be one.
What Was that typewriter bell? Yeah.
Yeah.
What curse word could possibly have fit in there?
Okay, we've got custom F s coming.
Really confused. There's two typewriter belts.
There's the episode title right there. Custom F's coming. All right, let's. So let's. Let's jump into our tools of the trade. We're recording in the morning where you think things would be a little bit more reserved, but no, apparently we're just a little bit more unhinged the earlier it is. So, Tim, what are you. What are your. What are your tools of the trade?
So I've been watching Brooklyn Nine Nine again, which has been a lot of fun. And the reason it kind of came back is because Henry somehow found that amazing scene. Have you guys watched Brooklyn Nine Nine?
No.
Oh, dang. Okay, well, there's just this awesome scene that he found where Andy Samberg has these, like, four guys lined up in a. Like a witness line or whatever you call it. Not a witness line. What do they call that? The police station where they're like, they're in a lineup and. And the person. Says the person. I didn't see their face, but I heard him singing. And they were singing. Won it that way by the Backstreet Boys. And so he has them all sing it, like, together in the lineup. And then at the end, she's like, okay, that's the one. He's the one who killed my brother. He's like, oh, I forgot about that. Just, like, excellent Andy Zamberg comedy. But it, like, got me back into the show, and Henry wanted to watch it, and so I was like, I need to watch it first and see if this is going to fly. But it holds up extremely well. It's so funny. I just watched that new movie A Million Miles Away, which is about the. I forget his name. Mexican immigrant who comes and he becomes an astronaut. It's based on a true story, and it was very good. I really enjoyed that. It's on Prime. A lot of rewatching and rereading. I'm rereading Steal like an Artist and like, that whole series from Austin Kleon. So, I mean, rereading as in, I started two days ago, and I'm on book two because they're so. They're such a quick read. But I was getting back into keeping, like, my commonplace book that I had been doing for a while, and I just had gotten away from it. I was like, I feel like there's a lot of stuff in there that I've forgotten about. And so that was kind of to start it out because he quotes a million people in those books.
So yeah, he's really quotable.
Yeah. So I reread Steal like an Artist and got to like copy a few excellent quotes out of there from him and from like other writers and artists that he referenced. And I started reading Warlight, which Johnny gave me when I was in Baltimore. Just started that a few days ago, so I'm only like 10 pages in or something like that. But I love how it starts. It's good. I like how it starts.
Oh yeah, you already messed, right?
What do you.
What, it's from the guy who wrote the English Patient.
Uh huh.
Yeah. I mean it's almost like a sequel that's also about World War II. And I was telling Tim if the English Patient didn't exist, I'd be like, this is the best World War II book ever.
I remember first seeing him, it was on Obama's best books of the year list or something like that whenever it came out. And I love how it kind of starts by sort of saying what's going to happen? Like that's a pretty ballsy writer move where he's just like, so this is what's going to happen and then goes back. I'm sure it's going to twist in a totally different direction. But that's how it feels right now is he kind of sets you up to feel like, you know, you kind of have some of the, some of the ending in mind already at the beginning of the book, which is cool.
He's like, he's a master of timing too with like when he reveals things
and for, for listening. I honestly haven't like nothing new. I've still been stuck on the album I talked about a while ago from Daniel Tashen. That Night After Night album. I've just been listening to it like on a loop pretty much for like a month. Like I just love that album a lot. So been listening to that and I also saw that Casey Musgraves has a new album coming out and he was one of the co producers and co writers on her album that won album of the year a few years back. And he is the head producer on the new album, so that's exciting. He's a cool guy. And then as far as writing, I've mostly been writing with my Japanese pencils that Andy gave us and we talked about in the last one. I think my favorite, these Craftsman pencils are amazing and I'm really like smitten with them in every way. I love the slightly. You know, how the. The paint job matches the. The core.
Yeah, they. I need to. I need to go check out the daisos here and see if they. See if they sell them in the U.S. i don't think I noticed the last time they were here, but I. I definitely feel like I should have bought more because they had six or eight different grades. So. Yeah, I just picked up, like a couple boxes. They're. They're really nice.
I love the texture.
Yeah.
Like the. Or just the feel of them.
I just love, you know, Kitaboshi made them and they. I don't know how they just like, really get the quality for the, for the price. Like, each of those I bought a box of. I think there were six in each box and it was a dollar fifty. So I don't know how they. How they get that quality at the price.
That's incredible. Yeah, the. The finish or whatever has. I don't know what you call that, but it's like. It's almost like a rubbery feel a little bit, and I just. I love it. I had one, like, quick cursory Google search to see if I could find. Find them and didn't immediately find them, and so I moved on. But I'm sure there. There's a way to order them online, I would guess, but. But yeah, I love that. So I've been using those and I. We've talked about this in. On for different pencils over the years, but you know how, you know, like, pencils that you didn't like, that you wanted to, like, a long time ago, and then you try them again and now you're like, oh, yeah, I love it because whatever crazy reason, but I picked up the. The Viking School pencil yellow, the 20O 029, which I really didn't like. I used to really dislike it. I don't know, like, of course I'm super picky, but. But it was just. I don't know, it's just something that, like, has changed and it doesn't feel as, like scratchy and needle like as it used to. And I'm really enjoying it. And also I. I guess I'm sharpening it with my. My X acto that Johnny talked me into. And maybe. Maybe just the different sharpening job made a difference.
All right. Rip your fingers, huh?
Yeah.
Wait, you mean a knife knife or the. That exacto electric.
Oh, no, no, no. Like the exacto electric one. This one.
Okay. Say, I apologize to your fingers. That guy.
I don't know if you could hear that. I don't know if my sound filter blocked it out, but I just sharpened it a little more. Yeah. So really digging that. And another oldie but goodie that I pulled out the other day and I've been writing with is a Laddie, which is like one of the first ones that I would never shut up about when we started this podcast. So it feels like a good, like full circle pencil to be using as we get close to or as we're around this like 10 year mark. So using a, using a cedar.
Cedar Laddie, that'd be a really good episode idea. Coming up, Just like listen to our first like two or three episodes and then go back and use some of those tools. Like, I feel like I was using a lot more like triangular pencils back then and just kind of see how much our tastes have changed. It's interesting.
That'd be fun.
Yeah.
And so those are the pencils I've been using. And notebook wise, I've talked about those Maruman notebooks before, how that's become kind of my songwriting notebook. I use the big A5 size, but I found the little one that they sent us which is like identical, but it's like a pocket sized spiral notebook. And so I've been carrying that around, which has been really fun. I like that. It reminds me of like the, the famous Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks spiral notebook that he wrote all those lyrics in. And the other notebook I have to mention is that I am completely obsessed and haven't like given an assignment yet. I haven't started using it, but Johnny sent me home with a notebook that I am just like smitten with this marbled notebook, Johnny, that you, you gave me.
Oh, yeah.
Line page. It's really like a little. It's like a, it's a hardback notebook, but it's, it's slimmer. I mean, you can say more about it, but like, it's slimmer than. I don't know what you would call this size, but it's, it's narrower, almost like a traveler size.
Yeah.
I call it medium on my website, but they're like seven and a quarter by four and a quarter, I think.
Yeah.
And if you live in Baltimore, they're at the Made in Baltimore shop right now. Yay.
Yeah. That's awesome. I've tipped off a few Baltimore friends to go hunt down your wares at that shop.
Oh, awesome.
Johnny, when are you going to start exporting all of your labor to, you know, like, overseas?
Well, this summer my oldest child will be 14 and can legally work.
Oh, nice.
Perfect.
Just put into work.
Yeah.
He says he wants a summer job. I'm like, well, I'll pay you better. And you don't have to get dressed because there's a lot of stuff. I really hate doing that. I think he could do like photo editing and stuff.
There you go. Intern.
Probably better at it than I am.
Intern time.
Yeah, you have to do a six month internship first to prove that you can do it.
Yeah.
But, yeah, that's it for me. How about you, Johnny?
Awesome. So I haven't been consuming a lot of stuff. We just watched Miss Scarlet and the Duke, the latest season, which was really, really good. I don't know. Are you guys fans of that show on pbs?
I haven't seen it.
The lead is. It's set. I forgot when it's set. Sometime in the late 19th century, there's a lady named Miss Scarlet who is a private detective in London and she's very good. Longtime friends with the Duke, who's the chief investigator at Scotland Yard. So they sort of like clash and there's a lot of interesting stuff with gender issues.
And.
Yeah, they just had season four recently and the lead is played by the lady who played Arthur's wife in Peaky Blinders. And it's like way different character, so it's super interesting. And I don't. I've been watching a lot of movies lately, but my children were visiting my parents, so I watched the Creator in this weekend, one of those afternoons. It's streaming on Hulu right now, I think, so. Good. And you know, AI is such a hot topic. But yeah, I don't want to give any spoilers, just watch the trailer. But most of the stuff in the trailer happens in the first 10 minutes.
Their CG is just really good. Like the, the. The graphics of kind of like, like, like the. Well, I can't remember what they're called. Basically the. The like AI fake humans. Like they remove like a section of the back of their head to show that they're robots and they just. I don't know, it just looks really good. I saw it on a plane and
surprisingly Ken Watanabe was in it, which is awesome. I love him. I hope I'm pronouncing his name right. Yeah, there's that. And I mentioned in the fall that I had joined a new band and we were working on a cover of Pearl Jams. I got id. So I've just been listening to a lot of Pearl Jam lately, especially older stuff from Ten and the Unplugged. Show, which is on Spotify.
Oh, man. If Jess Let Command is listening, she'll be a big fan of that.
Yeah, they're coming to Baltimore or Pearl Jam, not our friends. Yeah, Summer, I think. But tickets are like mad expensive. I don't know, you know, I'm getting old and Pearl Jam's getting old, so, you know, that's a factor. But the Unplug show was amazing. I think it was recorded in like 92, 93. So, you know, it's old, but super good. And moving on from that for our meat and potatoes. I've actually been using pencils more than usual lately because I don't know why. I've just been using them more when I've been working on books. I have this Swisswood from cwpe that's the pine version. Do you guys ever have this one? It's sort of like blonde wood.
Mm.
Yeah.
It smells very sappy when you sharpen it.
It doesn't smell as bad as the darker Swiss would.
No, no. It doesn't smell like bullion cubes.
Yeah.
Soy sauce and pretzels.
Yeah, it just smells like wood. But I don't know if they, you know, exist outside of cwpe. I should check. Cause I really like it. But you know, it's a little fatter and the lead is extra durable, so tracing on materials that are not smooth, it's a very good bet. And I found a Generals Kimberly HB that's pretty short in a pocket of a desk. Pulled that out and forgot what a delicious pencil the General's Kimberly is.
If.
If you've never seen one. They're green and they have a gold colored metal cap on the end. And they're just so pretty and come in like a million grades. And last one I've been using a lot for that is a white Faber Castell grip that Ed Kemp sent me a couple years ago because it doesn't roll off my desk, which is a plus. And it's nice hard lead, but not scratchy. Behind my desk, my desk is against the wall. There's always like a dozen pencils back there that have rolled. So it's nice that this one's staying put. And I write in my books a lot. So I've been using this big mechanical pencil from Retro51. It's the Einstein version, I think. Right around the beginning of the podcast, Retro51 offered us each mechanical pencil of our choice. So that's where this came from. But it's, you know, it's got a lovely weight. It's got A really nice texture. I'm sort of like, why don't I own 12 of these? Because apparently when you get retro 50 ones, you collect them like crazy.
Oh, man. So many. There's just, like, so many out there.
Yeah.
I have a. Wasn't there good.
Wasn't there a point in time when they, like, almost went out of business or something?
Yeah, people started, like, really hoarding them,
and then they came back with a vengeance.
Yeah.
Yeah. Like, everybody's got a special Retro51. There are a whole bunch of them from the pencil service. But I never used their fountain pens. Have you guys tried those before?
No, I never have.
They look. I don't know. They don't look like a retro 51 pen. I'm wondering how balanced they are. But, you know, eventually I'm sure I'll buy, like, four of them, because that's what you do. And for general pencil writing, I found a Palomino HB that's blue with an eraser. I don't know who it belongs to, who lived here, but I found it, so now it's mine. And I've been using that to take notes a lot because it's just freaking delightful.
Yeah.
And I have very tiny Mitsubishi 9000 HB I've been using a lot. And of course, the Musgrave Single Barrel, named after when Mr. Hulum was on yonder podcast in 2018. I don't know.
I'll always remember the episode title because it was episode. Or the episode number is 106 because it's the single barrel. 106. That's so cool. So cool. Such a cool reference.
Yeah. I don't know if they're still carrying those. I hope so. They're at least. They were $10 a piece, but they're so nice.
Yeah.
And, you know, it's nice that they're historical. The wood is sold, so they were
going to eventually run out, right?
Yeah. Apparently, they found burlap bags full of slats in a warehouse, and that's where the wood came from. I don't know how many burlap bags they were, but. Yeah, I. Sorry, I'm taking a lot of time.
It's okay.
For paper, I've largely been using my Green 23 Official Bullet Journal 2.0, which is like. It's a perfect spruce. It's really good for winter. Although winter is ending, which I'm fine with. Did you guys. Are you guys on the. The mailing list for Bullet Journal?
I don't think so.
So those pens that Leuchttar makes. They have an official pen and they have an official pencil that are for bullet journaling or you know, they have the logo on em and stuff. They're cool looking. But they have a new set that is that pen as totally blacked out. And the notebook is blacked out. It's black gild it on the edges. It's called the stealth set. But you have to buy the set. It's like 80 bucks. So I'm trying to finish this book so I can justify buying one. But yeah, all of I'm, you know, I'm using a tiny notebook that I made that I found somewhere. Cause I needed a little notebook. But my current obsession is this delightful Japanese paper I found that's it's 64 GSM, so it's light. But the most popular Tomoe river. It's thicker than that. You can write on the back and your ink dries so it's almost like regular paper, but it's smooth and displays all of the interesting characteristics of special inks. And unlike Tomoe river paper, it's very nice for pencil. So I've been minorly stockpiling it in case I can't get it anymore because that happens these days. But I'll send you guys some. It's. Oh, that's wonderful. And finally, for inks and pens and inks I've been using, you know, I always have a leverager True writer inked
up currently or six or 10.
I try to just do one. They stay full, but I have a one. It's one of the more recent ones now. It's like this pink and white swirl. It's really pretty. I filled it around Valentine's Day with Diamine Wild Strawberry, which is a nice ink. I'm working through a Parker51 special that was retrofitted, I think with a gold nib. But it's like an accounting nib or something. It's so fine that it barely writes.
Did you feel like it's kind of scratching with a wrecker needle or something?
Yeah, I kind of hate it a lot. I might have to part ways with this pen and I'm trying to empty out my current Narwhal Nautilus that's got diamine bilberry in it. But that pen holds a hell of a lot of ink. I don't know if you guys are on their mailing list, but they came out with another special edition called the Red Koi, I think so. Our friend Joe Crace got some of them at a Gentleman Stationer. So I bought one from him, but they made 223. And I didn't realize on the cap there's a piece of metal really small. It tells you what number you are of 220. So they really only made that many, which is cool.
Cool little detail.
I like that they. Yeah. And that, you know, some smaller retailers got some. So that, that makes me happy. Now at long last, I am finished. So how about you, Andy?
Oh, man. What have I been doing lately? I've been. Have you guys ever seen this old British like science TV show called Connections with James Burke? It is, it was made in the late 70s and I think they also made some in their like early 90s too. But it is this just like science history show where James Burke, who's just like a. I don't know you know who James Burke is besides like hosting the show. But it's, it's one of those very British kind of very like late 70s style shows where it just. I don't know, it's just very British. And so kind of the. Trying to think of how, how this is framed. But he basically shows how various like scientific discoveries and like achievements and stuff just kind of like build from each other. So it's like. Oh, well, in, in the Middle Ages they started using straw for this and straw produces this natural gas that was then later captured to power this sort of thing. And then this thing and basically builds up to usually something to do with like space flight or something. And it's just like an hour of, of just sort of like this building just from one to the next. And it's, it's talking about like the, you know, the connections between these things. And it's really interesting and they have a lot of just very dry humor. There's a lot of like interesting historical reenactments. Like they have like a whole dozens and dozens of people dressed up like peasants. They're just like shoveling hay or whatever. Pretty amazing. And they just. It, it. It's really good. And James Burke is just this guy with big old 1970s glasses and he wears like giant lapel safari jackets. And if anybody's seen that, that show that. What is it called? It has, it's a, it's a parody. It's Filamena Kunk. It's like Kunk on food. And it's, it's just a parody like interview show. It's I think largely inspired by this. So it's, it's on YouTube. You can watch Connections on YouTube. It's just a very good, just like you're having dinner and just kind of chilling out and just want to watch some like old timey British science education show. It's pretty good. I've been watching that and there's not that. There's maybe like nine episodes or something. There's not that many. I've been reading, I just finished, I think I mentioned that I had started in the last episode Carol Beggy's new book. Listener of the show and friend. Friend of the show. Carol Beggy, she wrote a book called Pencil, which is one in a series of books about objects or about things that's put together by Bloomberg Press. It's really short. It's a small book. It's, it's, it's pretty good. It is, it's great because there's a lot of familiar things. If you're in the community and you just, you know, you, you see a lot of what happens on the show and in the community. She's pretty dialed into that. So she interviews a lot of very familiar names. Didn't interview us. But that's fine. I think we should have Carol on sometime soon. But yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a good book. Yeah, it's, it's, it's funny.
It is.
I mean there is a lot about the history of pencils, but a lot of it is about sort of like her, her childhood and her experience in the workforce. And just it's a lot about Carol, which I think is really cool and just kind of like told through the lens of this object, this pencil, which. Yeah, I think that's really, that's really neat. So I've been reading that. I have,
I read a.
Well, it's a comic series, but I read sort of the trade paperback of the first few issues of a comic called World Tree, which I guess I'm not a huge fan of because it's like pretty violent. Wasn't expecting that. It's about like, sort of like this cyberpunk hacker kind of a thing where these people discover sort of like this under layer of the Internet that influences people to do acts of violence. And I, we haven't quite got to the point where we have unraveled this mystery and why it does that, but I was expecting just sort of like a fun kind of like cyber hacker, you know, kind of a thing, but cyberpunk kind of hackerish thing. But it's, it's, it's very violent and I'm not a huge fan of that. So I don't know if I'll continue It. After this, after this series of issues. But it's, it's world tree spelled kind of like in leet speak. So it's like W3L for I can't remember. Yeah, I'll link, I'll link to it in the comments. Yeah, I don't know if there's anything I've really been listening to specifically. I've. I've been doing a lot of work around my apartment. Cause I'm going to be moving pretty soon. And so I've just. I usually put on music and, and I, when I, when I do that, when I'm just sort of passively listening, I usually just go on Spotify and just like look for one of the daily mixes or for the recommended things and I play that. So I don't know if there's anything really. I've been, I guess when I have been seeking out music, I've. I don't know, I've been listening to some Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young lately,
you know.
All right, lots of, lots of good new music. Yeah, yeah, I saw, I, I think it's because I was on. Just cruising around YouTube and I watched a. Oh, man, I can't even remember where it's from. But it was basically Graham Nash performing A case of you on some tribute concert to Joni Mitchell and I. Yeah, great song. I guess I didn't realize kind of their history like Graham Nash and Joni Mitchell used to date.
I didn't know that until I heard him interviewed on the. What's the Malcolm Gladwell Rick Rubin music podcast. Yeah, but I heard him interview there and it's like big, long interview and I had no idea of that history either.
Yeah, so it was a, it was a really, just like good kind of emotion filled performance because like he's clearly known the song for, you know, decades and there's some sort of like history there. So just kind of watching him sing it basically to Joni Mitchell because she was in the audience and at the end he kind of like. They kind of like give each other a smile that somebody captured on camera and it was just really, really cool to see because he's pretty old, but he's still got it. He's still going.
That's very cool.
Yeah, I was never a big David Crosby fan because he seems like he was kind of an a hole.
But yeah, I like Gramsby. He did have that kind of vibe to him. Do you guys ever listen to SiriusXM? So did I talk about this last time? I don't think I did so when we switched phone servers or services to. We're on T Mobile now, and it came with six months of free SiriusXM just like, subscription to the app, you know. So I just like, listen on the app on my phone. And I had loved it when we got our new car because it came with it for, like, I don't know, two months or whatever. And I was obsessed. There's a Tom Petty channel. There's all this stuff. And that has been like, my favorite way to listen to music ever since I got this trial back again. I might just end up keeping it because it is so refreshing to have. To not have to pick music out sometimes and to have channels that are sort of like, carefully put together. And one that has been really surprising is that John Mayer has a channel now, and it's called Life with John Mayer or something like that. But it's so.
It's.
But the. The sort of quirk about the channel is that he and whoever's helping him curate this, like, they're picking all the songs themselves. So it's not like an algorithm picking them. And they coordinate all the songs by time of day. So it's like songs in the morning have a certain vibe. Songs in the afternoon, evening, late at night is like super chill. And like, oh, it's very cool. So like, you can just kind of turn it on at any point throughout the day. And I. We have it hooked up to our Echo, so I can just be like, Echo, play Life with John Mirror. And then sometimes I turn off. So I'm like, eh, nah, no thanks. But it's really good. It's been really fun. I listen to that one a lot. That was really cool. Yeah. So it's a lot of songs.
Yeah. They're just curating this for just like. Yeah, just like all day.
All day. Yeah, 24 hours a day. And then of course, you know, that's some of them repeat, you know, know, Days Apart or whatever. Like, you're not like. But I haven't heard a repeat yet. But I'm not like, I don't have it playing all day long.
Yeah. Kind of reminds me of that channel that just shows just like Star Trek episodes on continuous loop, low tv, I guess they're not coordinated for time of day. So, you know. But, you know, all Star Trek is appropriate for all times of day.
That's right.
Yeah.
It's impossible to make distinctions like that. Yeah.
Cool.
So, yeah, so I've been just kind of doing that. Nothing specific or new. That's really like, hit my Hit my consciousness. I have been. What have I been writing with? And on. So yeah, as I mentioned earlier, I am getting ready to move. And so I have been. I've been reckoning with my pencil collection, which is hard to do. I have so many. I went to, I think since we last recorded, I went to the Container Store and bought this really nice kind of like stackable bins with pull out drawers. And I have been, I've been just kind of like trying to condense everything into like a stack of that. And one thing that I found is I. I can fill up one of their large drawers in this system with only black wings. So I have like almost completely filled it up. So like basically when the next Blackwing release comes, I'm gonna have to start a new drawer or put this in somewhere else. So many black wings. I'm getting there with Musgrave too. I have so many boxes of Musgraves. But yeah, I've been slowly reckoning with that. I. I did however, I was really excited about this. Do you guys remember probably early on in our recording Blackwing or Cal Cedar used to sell those triangular golden bears with. Yeah, it's.
It's just you had sent me, I think.
Yeah, I. So I had ordered a. A gross of them back like 13 years ago because I just loved them so much and I was pretty sure I gave them all away and used them all, but I found a good like dozen more. So I was very excited about that. So yeah, gonna, gonna pull that out and just kind of like hoard the rest away. But been been playing with that, been using that just because like it's been. It's been a minute since I've seen those pencils and they were, they were among my favorite for a long time. I've been making a lot of lists and doing a lot of things using my DDC Tactile turn collaboration. Just like this big kind of beefy orange pen and I've been using the 1 millimeter pilot refill inside of it, which is nice. I mean that is, that is a big chunky, you know.
Yeah.
And.
Oh, is that the one from G2's
I think so, yeah.
Oh yeah. This thing's awesome.
Yeah, big old, big old thick lines worthy of a draplin pen. So I've been making a lot of lists with that and just kind of like checking things off. It's very satisfying. Been using, been using a Sharpie a lot lately just because I've been writing on boxes and man, I love a Sharpie. I I mean, speaking of Austin Kleon, like, he's such a big Sharpie user. Yeah. It's just so satisfying to write with a Sharpie. And then I've also been. Also been using my standard supply Craftsman pencil from Japan just because that's, that's. Yeah, you're right. It's just really nice and it looks cool. So I'm determined to figure out how to get those in the US but also been using a pencil that I just kind of forgot that I owned and I, I pulled out. It's a. It's the Mitsubishi Uni Star for Itoya Kids branded. Do you guys have one of these?
I don't think so.
It's like a kind of a dark blue pencil with a cap that is bright yellow and there's like a gold stripe on it.
It is.
It's a graded B. I can't remember where it came from or where I got it. I didn't get it in Japan. Even though this is extremely Japanese, it is very nice. It's smooth and dark and it's. It's a kid's pencil. So I think it's a little bit extra kind of like soft for kid hands. But yeah, it's a really nice pencil. And then beyond that. Yeah. Been. Been writing my lists in an Ampad gold fiber notebook, which is. Used to be one of my very favorite notebooks and had a bunch of them. And it's one of the top spiral brown notebooks. I love this paper. It's really toothy. It's kind of yellowish. So there's a really good kind of like contrast with like a dark pencil in a very sort of like Steinbeck fashion. And I just love this sort of like chipboard style cover that's on it. It just. Yeah, just a nice, very, very retro looking notebook. And it's good for lists and podcasts, show notes, ed, like editing notes and I'm finishing up my birch field notes notebook. And it's funny, it has sort of turned blue because I think I mentioned in the last episode that I made. Did I mention this that I made. I got a pair of jeans in Japan. Yeah.
Oh, that's why it's turning blue. Okay.
Because I've been keeping in my back pocket and that just still a lot of like extra dye in that denim. So, you know, just from the kind of like friction of it being in my pocket, I pull it out and it's, it's just sort of like blue around the edges. So it actually, I really like that effect.
Yeah.
Kind of like is a neat. A neat patina.
So Neat Patina.
Yeah. So that is what would be a good band name.
Neat Patina.
Neat Patina.
Yeah. So that is. That is it for me. I have currently looking at a giant pile of pencils because I have a lot to sort through and give away. I think I'm gonna bring a lot of these with me and I think I might see if I can try to put together like a little mystery box for. To sell for people where, you know, I'll get like, everybody's guaranteed 30 pencils and three of them are, you know, classic or vintage or something. I don't know.
But 27.
But you could.
Amazon is.
You could. Sorry.
Oh, I said. And 27 of them are Amazon Basics.
Exactly. Yeah.
I'm sorry, say again, Johnny, Take some
of your old pencils that are like beat up and put them in a box and sell them like Blackwing did.
That's true. Yeah. Be like, these are factory seconds.
Yeah.
You really want our factory seconds.
Factory third and fourths.
Yeah.
I had been paying a lot of attention, but it seemed like folks were not satisfied with those.
Yeah, I think, surprisingly I saw a couple posts in the group of people who found just a couple interesting, like rare ones. But it seems like mostly it was. Was not. So. Yeah. Anything else to add before we wrap it up?
I think so. I guess we're. We're on the. On deck for spring releases.
Yeah, those should be coming up pretty soon.
Code Notes has already started hinting a little bit.
Yeah.
Cool.
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