Take Note

Ted Walker & Adam Webb

Take Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.

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100 episodes
Updated July 14

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July 14 · 41 min
Episode 248: Shirzees
Best of the Best Show The Atlantic: The Unfinished Revolution The New Yorker: Who is Your Favorite American The Battles of Saratoga Field Notes Foiled Again Penco Glider Pen Sharpie S-Gel Anvil Card En Queso Emergecy Cafe Writer Nanami Kokuyo Campus Notebook Alan Rickman's diaries
June 6 · 31 min
Episode 247: The Dennis Style
T-shirts, tats, and bumpers stickers are the currency of the realm; Adam observes a fellow named Dennis making the most of his notebook space; and we talk the new Field Notes Explore American series. leuchterm bullet journal pocket notebook john dickerson: the most important job in the world field notes: explore america printmaker dave bull
May 25 · 32 min
Episode 246: Cryptic
Pilot Fine Liner Pentel Brush Sign Pen Pilot Razor Point II Pentel Mattehop Field Notes Hatch Print Edition Joshua Beckman A Book Relevant to Our Interests
April 19
Episode 245: One Thing After Another
It’s the busy season. Some whaddya gots lead naturally into a discussion of free writing and half-conscious writing, and we discuss There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. In Our Time podcast Music Box Theatre Chicago Clairefontaine My Essential notebook There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm They Do Not Always Remember by William Burroughs
March 22 · 34 min
Episode 244: WWMMD
DoodleBob Greenlights Journal Last Tango in Brooklyn Don DeLillo Secret Hockey Novel What We Can Learn from Writing in Journals Trader Joe's Blueberry Lemonade Sparkling Water Nanami Seven Seas Journal Train Dreams in The Paris Review, Summer 2002 "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan
March 12 · 30 min
Episode 243: The Smell Society
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Steinbeck stage The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place Opinel knives Leonard Cohen on Austin City Limits The War Room There is No Antimimetics Division [Book Club!] Support us on Patreon (Thank you!)
February 23 · 29 min
Episode 242: Metal Jaw
CW&T Mechanical Pencil Field Notes Expedition Edition BBC Start the Week - Fun and Games Brick James Acaster Piranesi - Don't read the blurb
February 8 · 31 min
Episode 241: The Best of the No-Good Louseys
Winter fashion influencer chat moves to beanie logo placement before travel to the armory, the library, and the horizontal pocket notebook. A Truce That is Not Peace by Miriam Toews The Hitch by Sara Levine Field Notes 1943
January 25 · 37 min
Episode 240: Up For Grabs
Save It For Next Year TWSBI Obsidian Balograf Swedish Pen Stalogy Low-Viscosity Pen Clairefontaine My Essentials Clairefontaine Triomphe Notepad Blackwing Independent Bookstore Kaweco Sport Field Notes National Park
Dec 26, 2025 · 32 min
Episode 239: Idea of the Year
A Fairytale of Take Note. Kakou Collective Start the Week Oliver Sacks in the New Yorker Odd Lots: pizza place
Dec 23, 2025 · 24 min
Episode 238: Perhaps Without All the Beatings
Shot By Cheney Field Notes Fall Flowers Hatch Show Print Store The Lowdown
Nov 8, 2025 · 41 min
Episode 237: Talkin’ Twilight Override with Tim Wasem
Tim Wasem of the venerable Erasable Podcast to discussion, among other things, Jeff Tweedy’s new solo triple album, “Twilight Override.” Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle Field Notes Vintage Anvil Cards, Houston, TX Paper & Pencil Chicago https://www.erasable.us/episode/230 Twilight Overdrive by Jeff Tweedy
Oct 18, 2025 · 33 min
Episode 236: Risible
Several Short Sentences on Writing Verlyn Klinkenborg Octpus Lauren Collins Uniqlo Adventure Time “Thank You” Clear the Field Podcast Bob Dylan East Troy Wisconsin September 2025 Jeff Tweedy Twilight Override “Pecan Pie” Golden Smog “Posterity is Vulgar” NYRB The Unfinished Harold Hughes by Richard Ayoade
Sep 21, 2025 · 31 min
Episode 235: Country Wizard
Do men like beef jerky? No more letters in Denmark. Watching people buy a weird amount of Monster/Red Bull from the Costco returns line. There’s nothing more punk than a public library. We explore how to be a curious conversationalist and engage in an expanded discussion of using a daily worksheet to help in focusing on what’s important at work. No more letters in Denmark Tom Sachs Austin Kleon
Sep 1, 2025 · 33 min
Episode 234: The Protein Era
Do men like beef jerky? No more letters in Denmark. Watching people buy a weird amount of Monster/Red Bull from the Costco returns line. There’s nothing more punk than a public library. We explore how to be a curious conversationalist and engage in an expanded discussion of using a daily worksheet to help in focusing on what’s important at work. No more letters in Denmark Tom Sachs Austin Kleon
Aug 25, 2025 · 37 min
Episode 233: Manual Whistling
Merlin Bird ID Deja Blue is not new. Founded 1996. Alpine Cowboys Baseball Rangra Theatre, Alpine, TX Bohuslav Martinů's Symphony No. 5 Good Postage North Carolina Midori Traveler's Notebook Passport Cavallini & Co. Inprint Houston Paris Express How to Make Money in New York City Selling Pizza
Aug 6, 2025 · 48 min
Episode 232: The New Yorker Fiction Issue
Ryan joins us before the next decasode as we delve into three stories from the New Yorker’s Fiction issue (our 6th time doing it!). Alongside your regularly scheduled whaddya gots and summer beverages. A bit of saucy language… New Yorker Fiction issue (July 7-14, 2025) Happi THC seltzer
Jul 14, 2025 · 35 min
Episode 231: Field Notes Film Festival
An article on The Phoenecian Scheme and Wes Anderson's "late style" Christiana Amanpour and Wes Anderson The Big Picture with Wes Anderson Keith Botsford The Music Box Theatre Field Notes Film Festival Coastal (Field Notes) Heavy Duty (Field Notes) Birds and Trees of North America (Field Notes) Harvest (Field Notes) United States of Letter Press (Field Notes) Polar Seltzer Ginger Lime Mule
Jun 27, 2025
Episode 230: Enid, Frances, Georgia, Harriett
A bunny-based gambling game to spice up your marriage, scenes from Las Vegas, balloon stories, a discussion of justice, and how we notebook, or want to notebook, while we travel. Plus the latest Summer Beverage Series. Bryan Cox McDonald’s Kunisawa Support Take Note on Patreon (thank you!)
Jun 10, 2025 · 28 min
Episode 229: Gotcha
- Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell - Bill Murray NYT Interview - Scion xB 2004 - Any Person Is the Only Self by Elisa Gabbert - Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert