Taking It Down

Taking It Down starts with Adam convincing Donovan to start summer as a Grateful Dead devotee (0:46) before the entire group talks about the news of the upcoming Beatles documentary from Peter Jackson (2:40) and everyone gives their favorite new music, all included in a playlist found by clicking the link to Spotify here (6:08)! Then Natalie joins the crew to discuss the second episode of Loki (27:19). 

In this week's episode of Taking It Down, it's mayhem as Donovan and Blaine disagree on the film The Personal History of David Copperfield, which is now streaming on HBO Max (1:27). Then, wow! They bring in Natalie to help discuss the first episode of the Disney+ series Loki (15:46) as well as the new Netflix show Sweet Tooth (23:41). If you love horrible Owen Wilson impressions as well as disparagements about kids who act too much like adults, you're in a lot of luck this week!

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Everyone is back this week for Taking It Down as we first start out with some ethereal thoughts on Dylan and the Dead (0:49) before transitioning into the Netflix movie Army of the Dead, which begins with a debate on Dave Bautista and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (3:23).

After the break, the crew discusses what they're looking forward to in the theaters this summer (30:14). Finally, they wrap up all of their thoughts on the Mare of Easttown finale from HBO (40:22).

Taking It Down releases every Tuesday morning. Subscribe in your podcast app so that you don't miss an episode. Feel free to email or contact Taking It Down on social media!

It's an odd week as Blaine trudges it alone. He discusses the end of the COVID-19 segment (1:24) before he gives his takes on the new Hulu movie Plan B, which is directed by Natalie Morales and stars newcomers Kuhoo Verma and Victoria Moroles (1:57).

After the break, Blaine talks about mental health (6:29).

Taking It Down releases every Tuesday morning. Subscribe in your podcast app so that you don't miss an episode. Feel free to email or contact Taking It Down on social media!

As Taking It Down begins this week, the guys give the final COVID-19 segment -- hopefully -- with some first-hand accounting of playing live music after a year off (1:46). How did it go? Does it feel safe?

Then it's a discussion of the Amazon Prime show The Underground Railroad and how the important, but hard, series displays the incredible work of the master Barry Jenkins (11:38). After the break, it's a brief set of predictions on The Challenge: All Stars before talk on the shocking fifth episode of the HBO show Mare of Easttown, which was titled "Illusions" (38:04).

Taking It Down releases every Tuesday morning. Subscribe in your podcast app so that you don't miss an episode. Feel free to email or contact Taking It Down on social media!

Taking It Down comes at you just in time for the CDC's announcement that vaccinated people can gather. What does that mean for us? Well, one of the crew hits the road, which opens the door for frequent guest host Natalie Morrow to sit in an empty chair (1:03)? Where is Adam? Natalie, Blaine, and Donovan talk some like music and, of all things, the Poke Salat Festival (1:27).

Then it's a lot of praise and analysis on the fourth episode of the HBO phenom, Mare of Easttown, titled "Poor Sisyphus" (5:16).

The final segment for the week is about the Netflix movie The Woman in the Window, which went up on the streaming service Friday, May 14 -- the questions to answer, though, is it any good and why or why not? (21:39).

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Taking It Down is back this week with only Adam and Blaine manning the ship. They first talk about putting their vaccines to the test (1:00), with Adam giving concerts for elementary schools (1:51)! That's an experience recounted that no one wants to miss! Then the guys catch up a little on The Challenge: All Stars, specifically two stars of the show that Blaine questions (8:27).

Before the break, the guys give the listeners a head's up on the Peacock streaming show Girls5eva, which is another brain child of Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Meredith Sardino, but is it any good (24:29)?

And lastly as is their custom of late, Taking It Down cannot help but dissect the leads of the Mare of Easttown show, and in this case, it's all about the third episode with a plethora of guesses on who did what (35:30).

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Plenty of questions to think through in this week's episode of Taking It Down: Is soccer's super league a huge gift to the world (1:04)? That question transitions into if Blaine should switch NFL teams now (1:47). Now that we're fully vaxxed, what's new (3:22)? One thing that's new: Adam played a stellar show, and he recounts getting back to live music (4:25). Donovan and Blaine then discuss at depth the brilliant middle-aged crisis of the Oscar-winning movie Another Round, which is now streaming on Hulu (9:15). Lastly, all of the guys are caught up on Mare of Easttown from HBO, but does the second episode hold up to the first (25:26)?

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In this week's episode of Taking It Down, the gang begins with the question: what the hell happened in soccer last week? Adam helps break down why the Premier League explosion was a good one (1:17). Since someone asked, we make sure that co-host Donovan is doing well after he got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine (6:39). Then Donovan helps listeners determine if Amazon Prime's new horror anthology series is right for them (8:17) and if it's not, he has another suggestion instead (12:42). Then it's a breakdown of why the new HBO limited series Mare of Easttown is so good (15:52).

After the break, the guys bemoan the absence of co-host Natalie Morrow, but at least she left some notes, which help guide them all for the finale of the Disney+ show Falcon and the Winter Soldier (32:48).

All this, plus a special announcement for Friday, April 30th!

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It's the best time: the season almost closes and only a few teams seem as though they're able to conquer TJ's final. Lucky for you, Taking It Down is back this week to break down the season that almost is. On deck, we have head writer for The Alabama Take and Challenge extraordinaire, TD Wood. Also as a very special guest is writer, photographer, and podcaster for AL.com, Mr. Ben Flanagan. As always, the show has Blaine Duncan and Adam Morrow to think through the seas that are Icelandic cold to analyze what we've seen and what's to come on the end of The Challenge: Double Agents!

In this episode, we talk the season as a whole, the best of the rookies, some of the eliminations (and their repetitions), some predictions, lots of Fessy hate, and even the candy that is The Challenge: All Stars -- different vibe, but still as sweet. Lastly, we make the call to give us the true champions season, MTV!