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

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)

Harvest (Field Notes)

United States of Letter Press (Field Notes)

Polar Seltzer Ginger Lime Mule

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

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- 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

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

Sturgill Simpson

Pete Doherty on Tommy Tiernan’s show

The Clock at MoMA

Field Notes movie night

AS Hamrah

John McPhee

Nat Geo '94 on Walt Whitman

Sara Levine's Substack

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 Gentleman in Moscow

Belcanto

My Brilliant Friend

Lonesome Dove

The Adult

All the Light We Cannot See

Angie McMahon

Sprints

Field Notes "The Chicago Look" Edition

Colt Bowden Sign Painting Books

Penchetta Pen and Knife Store

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? 

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Uni Jetstream Edge

Pentel sign pen

Project 3.18’s Spring Training Story

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…