Episodes
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Episode 251: A Cruel, Cruel Game
Adam shares his “grand” European experiences. Ted shares his pencil conundra which spurs invigorating stationery conversation. Metric Coffee, Chicago Last One Laughing Season 2 with Richard Ayoade https://www.instagram.com/takenote_pod/
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Episode 250: End-of-Summer Neck Pillow
Slow Horses Book Series Big Boy No. 4014 "Big Boy" by David Sedaris Minney New Yorker 2026 Fiction Issue "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Episode 249: The Last Tie Salesman in America
Yoseka Stationery, Brooklyn Ohto Fude pen Hitotoki ring notebook Maruman Spiral Note notebook
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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
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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…
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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
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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…
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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
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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!)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Episode 238: Perhaps Without All the Beatings
Shot By Cheney Field Notes Fall Flowers Hatch Show Print Store The Lowdown
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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
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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)...
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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!)
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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
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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...
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Episode 227: Lady Vikings
John McPhee Nat Geo '94 on Walt Whitman Sara Levine's Substack
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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...
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Episode 225: Signs
Field Notes "The Chicago Look" Edition Colt Bowden Sign Painting Books Penchetta Pen and Knife Store Profolio Oasis Notebook
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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...
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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…
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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. Adam also...
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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: [email protected]…
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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
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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: [email protected] homepage: takenote.space
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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
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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
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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...
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Episode 206: Buttons
Endo Announces Extension Of U.S. Rights For Voltaren Gel New Yorker Summer 2024 Fiction Issue
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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
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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
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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…
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