Ted discusses his new podcast, Clear the Field, and gets suckered into the world of Richard Ayoade. Adam sees Dylan and Willie.

Adam ducks potential alien abduction to join Ted in bringing this latest exploration of notebooks, paper, pens, notes-y type stuff.

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.

Adam and Ted talk about birds, Cowboys, Midori Traveler's Notebook, Cavallini and Company, and being social.

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…

Ted and Adam observe parade behavior, the filmography of Kate Winslet, The Phoenecian Scheme, and the Field Notes Film Festival

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Adam and Ted discuss Waymos, the Field Notes "The Chicago Look" edition, and the Profolio Oasis notebook

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?

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.

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.

Notes from between 1606 and 1607, the beauty of alternate takes, using notebooks to refine ideas, and why the pencil is a Zen object.

This week we discuss the Midori Grain Memo Pad, the book about notebooks (The Notebook), the New Orleans food-to-line ratio. Plus! A gross story about a philosopher and we wonder extemporaneously about science fiction parties.

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.

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!

This episode we find an old notebook that you can't find anywhere. We learn what powers marathons and we discuss A Complete Unknown, David Lynch, and Rushmore.