Episode notes
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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Take Note
Ted Walker & Adam Webb · Arts & Books · English
Take Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.
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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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