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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Sep 16, 2024 · 32 min
Episode 209: Tending Our Email Garden
Ted and Adam dig into the mailbag, the email bag: reading a week of emails from 2014 to see what we can learn from ourselves. Old brands, office pools, and errant invitations. Al Pacino’s essay in the New Yorker Main Street Books, Davidson, NC
Sep 11, 2024 · 36 min
Episode 208: Catastrophic
Adam and Ted bring their notebooks to middle school and concert hall and to middle age. Help The Aged 2024 XOXO Field Notes Demetrius Oliver's "Aerial" Field Notes Glitch Edition Field Notes Index Edition The Third Man Colson Whitehead's Weird Little List How To Write A Mystery
Sep 2, 2024 · 30 min
Episode 207: The Last Day of Fishing Camp
Our notebooks are sandy and water-stained, beat up and full of notes from the summer as we look to the next season. Three Potato Four Notebook Field Notes beer Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach Lauren Collins of the New Yorker An Editor’s Burial, a companion to the French Dispatch Paul Schrader on imdb email us: takenotecentral@gmail.com homepage: takenote.space
Aug 19, 2024 · 51 min
Episode 206: Buttons
Endo Announces Extension Of U.S. Rights For Voltaren Gel New Yorker Summer 2024 Fiction Issue
Jul 25, 2024 · 25 min
Episode 205: They're All True
Adam’s got some game-changing comfort ideas; Field Notes has a beer out; titles of Tolkien; mystery book chit-chat; some podcast recommendations. Goshi wash cloth Field Notes beer Reckon True Stories NYT 100 best of this century Shell Game
Jul 11, 2024 · 25 min
Episode 204: Da Farre. Fatte.
New Yorker Summer Fiction Issue 2024 Fratelli Bonvini Milan Check out the Scarabook Edizioni Precarie Beppe Giacobbe Riccardo Luci Florence Irish moss for paper marbling
Jun 3, 2024 · 28 min
Episode 203: Miles to Go
We talk writing and music this week alongside our typical super-charged banter. And the notebook of the week! Fire Mike Miles Louise Gluck The Work of Art by Adam Moss Tabula Rasa: Volume Four by John McPhee in the New Yorker Story Club with George Saunders Waxahatchee Good Morning Charley Crockett DEHD NYT Magazine: How Khruangbin’s Sound Became the New Mood Music
May 29, 2024 · 23 min
Episode 202: Pun Mum
Field Note Arceo edition Doane Grid + Lines Notebook The Last Kind Word Saloon Norcom Spiral Notebook Paul Auster Obit Alice Munro Obit
May 9, 2024 · 29 min
Episode 201: New York Apples
Adam finds a tonic for spider bite, makes Uber conversation, Ted reads the Hobbit, Adam witnesses a short story, Ted passes a collision center. We also talk about the fun and potential of drawing little comics in our notebooks as more of a daily practice. Original Sin Black Widow Cider Vox review of Making Comics by Lynda Barry Papier Tigre From 2019: Sidenote: Chasing Paper in Paris Work of Art by Adam Moss
Apr 21, 2024 · 39 min
Episode 200: Eclipse (Not That One)
Doane Paper Gridlines Idea Book Denik Notebooks The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins Jeff Tweedy How To Write One Song
Apr 5, 2024 · 42 min
Episode 199: Paul Jackson of baseball storytelling Project 3.18
Baseball writer and storyteller Paul Jackson of Project 3.18 joins us to discuss his project, wherein he serves up truly fabulous true stories from baseball’s past. The kind of stories you’ll tell and re-tell at fantasy baseball drafts. Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende Project 3.18 by Paul Jackson. Baseball stories! an ill-fated night of Cleveland baseball flour-bombing at Chavez Ravine Jim McManus A’s to play in Sacramento Legatoria Polleria, Venice
Apr 1, 2024 · 33 min
Episode 198: Only the Present Moment
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald Field Notes Flora Edition Emmy Star Brown Jenna Blazevich Pentel Sign Pen via Austin Kleon Uni Style Fit Motion
Mar 16, 2024 · 31 min
Episode 197: Voluptuous Staples
Trips to the museum, business dinners, digging into Ted’s pen haul from Jet Pens. Picasso at the Art Institute Werner Herzog’s book George Saunders substack Pilot ILMILY Sakura Ballsign Ohto FUDE Tick and Pick
Feb 27, 2024 · 33 min
Episode 196: Mountaintop
Field Notes Foiled Again EnerGel Euro Needle-Point UniStyle Fit Slim Gel Pen TomBow Air Press Ballpoint Sakura Ballsign Gel Pen TomBow Mono Graph Lite Ballpoint Kinokuniya Bookstore Lauren Laverne on House Music Fiona Apple Fetch the Bolt Cutters Josh Ritter Sermon on the Rocks Kehinde Wiley Notebook Believer Issue 40
Feb 5, 2024 · 35 min
Episode 195: The end of the moment before the internet
We dig into our book club read Vertigo by WG Sebald, share our notebook of the week, and more. The Vaster Wilds by the master Lauren Groff Denim jacket stuff on our newsletter ABOUT: BLANKS, our notebook of the week Boston General Store The Locavore by Caroline Weaver Peter Mendelsund Vertigo edition with Mendulsund cover Take Note episode about Slacker Sebald obituary, NYtimes Support the podcast via Patreon
Jan 30, 2024 · 28 min
Episode 194: My Time in the Ballet
Papermate Flair Making Comics by Lynda Barry Three Potato Four Notebook Across the Moominverse Weird Science
Jan 23, 2024 · 26 min
Episode 193: Slow Typing
The Vertigo by WG Sebald reading project continues, Adam pushes Mitt, and Ted has a denim jacket project. Vertigo by WG Sebald, book club! Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley Foundation by Isaac Asimov the only Bob Dylan patch
Jan 12, 2024 · 31 min
Episode 192: Stegosauri
Gabbert Quote and Olives Pic Deep Vellum D For Dapper The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert Exteriors by Annie Ernaux World Within A Song by Jeff Tweedy Vertigo by WG Sebald
Dec 11, 2023 · 38 min
Episode 191: When the Glass Ends
Adam adjusts to getting glasses for distance and gives small business the business. Write notebooks Field Notes Patreon: jump in to receive the annual commonplace zine
Dec 1, 2023 · 43 min
Episode 190: Lucky Tuxedo
The Official Netflix Cookbook Amazon Has Hollywood's Worst Shows but it's Best Business Model Field Notes Birch Bark Field Notes Heartland Dan McCarthy