8 Oct 2026 · 28 min
Episode 251: A Cruel, Cruel Game
Adam shares his “grand” European experiences. Ted shares his pencil conundra which spurs invigorating stationery conversation.
Podcast · Arts & Books
Take Note
by Ted Walker & Adam Webb · English · Arts & Books
Take Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.
- New episodes
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 33 min
- Latest
- 8 Oct 2026
- Language
- English
Latest episode
Earlier episodes 29 most recent
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E250 · 21 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
Episode 250: End-of-Summer Neck Pillow
Adam and Ted catch up with occasional co-host Ryan Slie. They discuss big boys, little dogs, real-life turned click bait, and The New Yorker Fiction issue.
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E249 · 19 Aug 2026 · 27 min
Episode 249: The Last Tie Salesman in America
Adam searches Mamdanistan for a t-shirt then visits Yoseka Stationery in Brooklyn, while Ted watches a construction site in the early morning.
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E248 · 14 Jul 2026 · 41 min
Episode 248: Shirzees
Notebooks on planes, at baseball games, and at the National Print Museum. We discuss what pens and paper we've been using this summer. Plus writing in bullet points or just keeping it brief.
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E247 · 6 Jun 2026 · 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.
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E246 · 25 May 2026 · 32 min
Episode 246: Cryptic
We talk baseball hats, inscrutability, EV charger hunting, pens from Houston Art Supply, how to write poem fragments from diaries, and Ted writes a baseball song.
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E245 · 19 Apr 2026
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.
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E244 · 22 Mar 2026 · 35 min
Episode 244: WWMMD
Ted finds a celebrity-guided journal at the thriftshop and the guys try their best to be open-minded about it. Plus: Writing in your notebook every day and timely Oscars discussion.
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E243 · 12 Mar 2026 · 30 min
Episode 243: The Smell Society
Ted tries uses his Field Notes book in portrait mode with many pros and one con. Plus books and pencils and knives, inspecting 90s nostalgia, and Adam commits to the bit. 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!)
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E242 · 23 Feb 2026 · 29 min
Episode 242: Metal Jaw
This week we bring our notebook to bar trivia, the endodontist, and the fifth grade concert. Also, Adam talks about the unexpected benefit of bricking his phone.
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E241 · 8 Feb 2026 · 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.
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E240 · 25 Jan 2026 · 37 min
Episode 240: Up For Grabs
We welcome Ryan Slie back to the show for the decasode. We catch up on Whadayagots and discuss the stationery items we picked up around the holidays.
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E238 · 23 Dec 2025 · 25 min
Episode 238: Perhaps Without All the Beatings
Ted shares a heartwarming story about brotherhood and Adam hates a billboard.
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E237 · 8 Nov 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.”
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E236 · 18 Oct 2025 · 33 min
Episode 236: Risible
Ted discusses his new podcast, Clear the Field, and gets suckered into the world of Richard Ayoade. Adam sees Dylan and Willie.
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E235 · 21 Sep 2025 · 32 min
Episode 235: Country Wizard
Adam ducks potential alien abduction to join Ted in bringing this latest exploration of notebooks, paper, pens, notes-y type stuff.
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E234 · 1 Sep 2025 · 34 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.
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E233 · 25 Aug 2025 · 37 min
Episode 233: Manual Whistling
Adam and Ted talk about birds, Cowboys, Midori Traveler's Notebook, Cavallini and Company, and being social.
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E232 · 6 Aug 2025 · 49 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…
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E231 · 14 Jul 2025 · 36 min
Episode 231: Field Notes Film Festival
Ted and Adam observe parade behavior, the filmography of Kate Winslet, The Phoenecian Scheme, and the Field Notes Film Festival
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E230 · 27 Jun 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.
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E229 · 10 Jun 2025 · 28 min
Episode 229: Gotcha
Ted and Adam talk about the Middle School Name that Book contest, Elisa Gabbert's essays on books and journals, and whether diaries are burdened with the negative. Ted makes a brilliant offhand point about Kafka.
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E228 · 28 May 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.
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E227 · 15 May 2025 · 27 min
Episode 227: Lady Vikings
Adam shares a small sliver of all the world's knowledge and Ted offers a leave-out theory of family life. We discuss National Geographic and how to think on paper.
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E226 · 13 Apr 2025 · 33 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.
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E225 · 3 Apr 2025 · 33 min
Episode 225: Signs
Adam and Ted discuss Waymos, the Field Notes "The Chicago Look" edition, and the Profolio Oasis notebook
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E224 · 23 Mar 2025 · 36 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?
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E233 · 19 Mar 2025 · 32 min
Episode 223: Tip
This episode, Ted once again says "Rode hard put away wet types" and we discuss old people names, when weird works, and whether we should be taking notes while we read.
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13 Mar 2025 · 6 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.
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Take Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.
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