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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May 28, 2025 · 38 min
Episode 228: 18 Couches
Ted and Adam each traveled, on their own, to New York. They talk filmgoing in the city, note-taking in the city, clock-watching in the city, etc. Program note: I couldn’t get the Uniball One Gel P pen refill to work and said as much. Soon after recording, I got it to work. It’s awesome. Wilco Sturgill Simpson Pete Doherty on Tommy Tiernan’s show The Clock at MoMA Field Notes movie night AS Hamrah
May 15, 2025 · 27 min
Episode 227: Lady Vikings
John McPhee Nat Geo '94 on Walt Whitman Sara Levine's Substack
Apr 13, 2025 · 32 min
Episode 226: Thumping Nonetheless
Adam beams in from a room near the lobby of a Grand Cayman hotel room to discuss what we’ve been jotting in our notebooks, app boredom, school dropoff chaos, and book recommendations. And in a new feature, Radio Take Note, we offer up two songs that are worth sharing. Book recommendations A Gentleman in Moscow Belcanto My Brilliant Friend Lonesome Dove The Adult All the Light We Cannot See Angie McMahon Sprints
Apr 3, 2025 · 32 min
Episode 225: Signs
Field Notes "The Chicago Look" Edition Colt Bowden Sign Painting Books Penchetta Pen and Knife Store Profolio Oasis Notebook
Mar 23, 2025 · 35 min
Episode 224: Donny Profitt
Ted steps in it when comparing a local celebration to Mardi Gras, plus some impromptu haiku, real rodeo cowboy names, and notes from the baseball tournament. And a leading question: what pen is most like a pencil? Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Uni Jetstream Edge Pentel sign pen Project 3.18’s Spring Training Story
Mar 19, 2025 · 31 min
Episode 223: Tip
Adam's Notebooks Just Tell Me Who It Was by John Cheever Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Jamelle Bouie favorite film genres Annhiliation by Jeff VanderMeer The Acid House by Irvine Welsh Pablo Delcan The Imperfectionist (Oliver Burkeman) The Secret Pentagon War Game…
Mar 13, 2025 · 5 min
Sidenote: Finding Oh
It’s baseball season! To commemorate this happy time of year, Ted made an audio recording of an essay that he wrote in 2014 for a collection called “The Who, the What, and the When” put together by Julia Rothman, Jenny Volvovski, and Matt LaMothe on the theme of historical sidekicks. Adam also contributed, as did Dan Kugler (underground legend for his work co-hosing the Slackers episode) and lots of other cool folks. In Ted’s essay, he shares a vignette about Hiroshi Arakawa, the hitting coach of Japanese baseball legend Sadaharu Oh. Every short essay is accompanied by a staggeringly beautiful illustration. The mind-blowing illustration accompanying his essay is by the awesome Paul Windle.
Mar 6, 2025 · 25 min
Episode 222: Alternative Takes
Notes from between 1606 and 1607, the beauty of alternate takes, using notebooks to refine ideas, and why the pencil is a Zen object. Caravaggio essay, NYRB Wilco, A Ghost is Born box set Kafka’s Diaries zen
Feb 27, 2025 · 33 min
Episode 221: Nubbin
DDC x FN Turquoise Tribute At the Existensialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles Inferno Jokermen Turkey and the Wolf Casamento's Midori Grain Memo Pad The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
Feb 3, 2025 · 34 min
Episode 220: Big Game
Ryan joins us as we prep for the big game with our talk of oyster restaurants, middle school recitals, and Adam’s approach to a “logbook” to track movies watched, stories read, etc. Oysters in the New York Times Bakewell’s book on existentialism MJ Lenderman You Must Remember This podcast Patreon page (thanks for your support!)
Feb 2, 2025 · 34 min
Episode 219: The Knight of New Jersey
In this episode we share notes from a Texas snowstorm, journals from the olden days spark creative, a dream journaling update, a new segment, and discuss the new work from John McPhee in the New Yorker. We also announce the new book we’ll read together and discuss. Please enjoy! Stationerdy notebook from Dapper Notes Ohto sharp pencil Tabula Rasa Volume Five by John McPhee Take Note book club, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
Jan 22, 2025 · 31 min
Episode 218: Mudlark
The Theme Northwestern University Media Library Today's Number Is… Peggy Guggenheim Museum Shop Easy Everything Internet Cafe Rushmore A Complete Unknown Joan Baez Tax Debt
Jan 14, 2025 · 28 min
Episode 217: The Dictaphone Closet
It’s 2025, we look at some year-starting notebooks, discuss how one might use the Notes app with paper notebooks, and share our slate of waddya gots. Ted’s audio changes a few minutes in, sorry about that! On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle Octavia Books, New Orleans Flights by olga tokarczuk Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Rose Matafeo Lamy Hardcover notebook with Lamy ruling Doane paper Standard Memorandum 2025 by Word. and designed by Jon Contino Take Note Patreon
Dec 30, 2024 · 28 min
Episode 216: The Howard Stern of It All
In the last episode of 2024, we haphazardly bring the heat, rambling from one topic to the next. We range across used bookstores, endurance in art, a notebook of the week, and a exegesis on Sirius radio. Becker’s Books John K King Books, Detroit Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty BookedUP AC, originally Booked Up, Larry McMurtry’s bookstore in Archer City, Texas White Lines notebooks The Work of Art by Adam Moss Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour Take Note Patreon
Dec 26, 2024 · 24 min
Episode 215: Puzzley
Enter the Wizard B&N Villain NYT 2022 B&N Back NYT 2023 B&N Back NYT Also 2023 Mainstreet Books Davidson Vectors by James Richardson Glorious Exploits Field Notes Vintage Edition Boston General Store Take Note Patreon
Dec 6, 2024 · 30 min
Episode 214: Woodchipper Talk
We spend some time discussing writer Oliver Burkeman’s thoughts on time and tasks, but not before covering wood chipping wisdom, baked waiters, salsa spiciness, and fast food divorce. Oliver Burkeman
Nov 19, 2024 · 21 min
Episode 213: Connotate
Solemn Oath Field Notes Papier Tigre The Unfinished Notebook podcast Staedtler Lumograph Pencils Beer recommendations Pentel Calme General’s Color-Tex Pencil Tombow ABT Pens Tombow Unions Hat
Oct 30, 2024 · 28 min
Episode 212: Two-Body System
Complicated Halloween party scenarios, track meets, notebook use cases, doing a little better every day: it’s all here this week. The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk Clairefontaine John Cheever stories Daily Stoic patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/takenote email us: takenotecentral@gmail.com homepage: takenote.space
Oct 17, 2024 · 28 min
Episode 211: Birds
Jeremy Strong on Fresh Air Jeremy Strong on WTF Victory Brewing Company Keep Honking I Also Am A Goose Bumper Sticker The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk The Birds and Trees of North America Field Notes Claire Fontaine Classic Spiral Rhodia Sewn Spine Rhodiarama Notebooks Spiral Decomposition Notebook
Oct 7, 2024 · 33 min
Episode 210: All My Ancestors
Ryan Slie joins us as co-host this week for a rousing round of waddya gots and a discussion of NEW TEETH by Simon Rich. takenote_pod We’re on Instagram New Teeth by Simon Rich Hold Your Breath on Hulu email us: takenotecentral@gmail.com homepage: takenote.space