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Take Note

Adam Webb

Take Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.

Episodes

20 of 106 episodes

Episode 251: A Cruel, Cruel Game

Adam shares his “grand” European experiences. Ted shares his pencil conundra which spurs invigorating stationery conversation.

00:27:52Oct 8, 2026

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...

01:03:29Sep 21, 2026

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 mornin...

00:26:37Aug 19, 2026

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...

00:41:00Jul 14, 2026

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 spac...

00:31:00Jun 6, 2026

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 w...

00:32:22May 25, 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...

00:00:00Apr 19, 2026

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...

00:34:39Mar 22, 2026

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...

00:30:26Mar 12, 2026

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

00:29:00Feb 23, 2026

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....

00:31:04Feb 8, 2026

Episode 240: Up For Grabs

Save It For Next Year TWSBI Obsidian Balograf Swedish Pen Stalogy Low-Viscosity Pen Clairefontaine My Essentials Clairefontaine Triomphe Not...

00:37:00Jan 25, 2026

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

00:32:00Dec 26, 2025

Episode 238: Perhaps Without All the Beatings

Shot By Cheney Field Notes Fall Flowers Hatch Show Print Store The Lowdown

00:24:42Dec 23, 2025

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.” Tra...

00:41:10Nov 8, 2025

Episode 236: Risible

Several Short Sentences on Writing Verlyn Klinkenborg Octpus Lauren Collins Uniqlo Adventure Time “Thank You” Clear the Field Podcast Bob Dy...

00:33:02Oct 18, 2025

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. The...

00:31:46Sep 21, 2025

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. The...

00:33:53Sep 1, 2025

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...

00:37:06Aug 25, 2025

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!). Alongsid...

00:48:53Aug 6, 2025