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Taking It Down

Streaming is scattered. What's worth watching? Taking It Down is intelligent Southern accents covering scattered TV, catered to thinkers in the working class. Recommendations first, insights and spoilers later. Watch TV from a different angle.

Every Tuesday morning, editor-in-chief of The Alabama Take Blaine Duncan is joined by Adam Morrow, Donovan Reinwald, and others to recommend and analyze what's on TV and streaming. You've earned your time; know where to spend it.

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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
50 minutes
Episodes
256
Years Active
2019 - 2025
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Shang Chi, The Challenge: All Stars, and Spencer

Shang Chi, The Challenge: All Stars, and Spencer

It's a great week on Taking It Down -- that is always the case when special co-host Natalie Morrow joins the podcast! This week, we discuss things that are on the pop culture horizon in television a…

01:01:51  |   Tue 16 Nov 2021
Bonus Episode -- More From the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs List

Bonus Episode -- More From the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs List

In a rare bonus episode of Taking It Down, the guys continue their recent discussion on the 500 Greatest Songs List from Rolling Stone magazine. They have some thoughts on what seems right and what …

00:20:29  |   Fri 12 Nov 2021
Netflix's Maid and Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs

Netflix's Maid and Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs

It's the weekly pop culture discussion podcast from The Alabama Take, and this week it all begins with COVID booster shots (1:15). Hear some first-hand accounts of what the booster shots were like. …

00:56:21  |   Tue 09 Nov 2021
Squid Game, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The War on Drugs' New Album, and The Velvet Underground Documentary

Squid Game, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The War on Drugs' New Album, and The Velvet Underground Documentary

Come on in and give a listen to this week's episode of Taking It Down. We start with the lambasting of Jim Harbaugh and Michigan as well as other buffoons (1:10) before we talk about some of the spe…

00:55:51  |   Tue 02 Nov 2021
Dune, Halloween Suggestions, and Midnight Mass

Dune, Halloween Suggestions, and Midnight Mass

Taking It Down this week begins with some customary college football talk, especially with all those overtimes (1:53), before moving into even more discussion on the fourth episode from the excellent…

01:08:10  |   Tue 26 Oct 2021
Midnight Mass and The Many Saints of Newark

Midnight Mass and The Many Saints of Newark

For this week's episode, Taking It Down just has to discuss the college football chaos (0:59). Then the group decides to retire the COVID segment, but for how long (1:49)? The gang determines what t…

00:44:41  |   Tue 19 Oct 2021
Bob Dylan's Newest Bootleg, Ted Lasso Finale, Squid Game, and Scenes From a Marriage

Bob Dylan's Newest Bootleg, Ted Lasso Finale, Squid Game, and Scenes From a Marriage

Taking It Down comes back from an unscheduled pause to first begin where the gang usually does: COVID-19. Just where are we with the virus now (1:10)? After that, it's the weekend antics, which aren…

00:49:38  |   Tue 12 Oct 2021
Impeachment: American Crime Story and Scenes From a Marriage

Impeachment: American Crime Story and Scenes From a Marriage

After a two-week break, the guys from Taking It Down are ready to get back into the saddle of the horse that is television, movies, and music! This week, we start with some of our college football c…

01:01:57  |   Tue 28 Sep 2021
Ted Lasso, Pen15, and What We Do In The Shadows

Ted Lasso, Pen15, and What We Do In The Shadows

We at Taking It Down won't let Covid talk (1:15) or football gab (2:01) stop us from opining on a movie we've never seen, Shang-Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings (9:28). From there, we talk about The…

00:52:11  |   Tue 07 Sep 2021
Football Preview Show and Disinterest in Marvel

Football Preview Show and Disinterest in Marvel

It's all here and a little more in this week's Taking It Down! We'll certainly return to all movies, television, and music next week, but we couldn't help but talk about the upcoming football seasons…

01:04:10  |   Tue 31 Aug 2021
James McMurtry's New Album and Hulu's Reservation Dogs

James McMurtry's New Album and Hulu's Reservation Dogs

The gang tries to decipher if Rhode Island is a tennis state to begin (1:07) before discussing the usual COVID-19 segment (2:43). After that, it's a discussion on the latest album from James McMurtr…

00:28:11  |   Tue 24 Aug 2021
Mr. Corman, Ted Lasso, CODA, Marvel's What If...?, and The Suicide Squad

Mr. Corman, Ted Lasso, CODA, Marvel's What If...?, and The Suicide Squad

After a week away, there are lots of television shows and movies to cover, and we somehow manage to squeeze in more than a few. We first talk about Obama's birthday party (0:58) before discussing CO…

00:48:49  |   Mon 16 Aug 2021
Covid Anger, The Green Knight, Lollapolooza, and Ted Lasso

Covid Anger, The Green Knight, Lollapolooza, and Ted Lasso

Anger about low vaccination rates begins this week's episode of Taking It Down (1:44). Eventually, it's a brief discussion of Billie Eilish and her new release of which we know little (12:17). Then i…

00:57:17  |   Tue 03 Aug 2021
Olympics, Woodstock '99, 100 Foot Wave, and Ted Lasso

Olympics, Woodstock '99, 100 Foot Wave, and Ted Lasso

On this week's episode of Taking It Down, the group discusses the real and infuriating possibility of having to bring back the COVID-19 segment (3:23) before Blaine makes the argument that the Olymp…

00:56:39  |   Tue 27 Jul 2021
Loki Finale, Black Widow, The White Lotus, and McCartney 3, 2, 1

Loki Finale, Black Widow, The White Lotus, and McCartney 3, 2, 1

There are plenty of things to talk about this week, but we at Taking It Down managed to narrow it down somewhat. First, we each give some brief thoughts on the upcoming season of The Challenge and h…

00:50:35  |   Tue 20 Jul 2021
Tennis, Metrograph, I Think You Should Leave, No Sudden Move, and Loki

Tennis, Metrograph, I Think You Should Leave, No Sudden Move, and Loki

It's a full slate this week! Taking It Down begins with some loose talk about tennis, namely the hours of Wimbledon watched this week (1:27) before sliding into a new streaming service called Metrog…

00:41:49  |   Tue 13 Jul 2021
Summer of Soul, Netflix's Somos, and Loki's Fourth Episode

Summer of Soul, Netflix's Somos, and Loki's Fourth Episode

If there's a documentary to see this summer, it's Summer of Soul (...Or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) from Questlove. The good news is that it's streaming on Hulu. The people at Taking …

00:51:58  |   Tue 06 Jul 2021
Finally We Watch Tenet and the Third Episode of Loki

Finally We Watch Tenet and the Third Episode of Loki

This week on Taking It Down: Donovan reports back from his quest to listen to the Grateful Dead truly for the first time (0:48). Then the group is all over the place on the Christopher Nolan film Te…

00:42:09  |   Tue 29 Jun 2021
New Music and Loki's Second Episode

New Music and Loki's Second Episode

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 Jackso…

00:38:26  |   Tue 22 Jun 2021
Loki, Sweet Tooth, and The Personal History of David Copperfield

Loki, Sweet Tooth, and The Personal History of David Copperfield

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 …

00:33:54  |   Tue 15 Jun 2021
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