Down Once More Pod

Send us Fan Mail For our May musical review we're discussing Heathers: The Musical! We cover the history of the musical adaption of the 1988 Winona Ryder and Christian Slater cult classic and our thoughts on the musical itself! Make sure to grab your Slushee and join us as we go Down Once More! Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Comment! Time Codes: 00:00 - Intro 01:38 - Heather...

Send us Fan Mail This week Matt teases a few new things coming for the pod, discusses Bad Cinderella ending it's Broadway run, some follow-up on the Disney Songs Draft, and gives some streaming recommendations! Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Comment! Time Codes: 00:00 - Intro 02:17 - Coming Soon 04:00 - Bad Cinderella: Closing! 05:42 - Disney Songs Draft Confession 06:33 - T...

Send us Fan Mail It's time for the first joint episode of the month and we're back on our BS. With Vocal Warmups you get a PSA, marketing pitches, and Raley reveals a guilty pleasure. Next you can get your new musical fix in with Matt's mini-review of the Jagged Little Pill national tour. Finally we wrap this week's episode up with a Disney Songs Draft for our Setlist of the we...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's mini-episode Raley sits down for another Travel Tale. Just remember, the key word is "random". Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Comment! Follow us on Instagram for updates: https://www.instagram.com/downoncemorepod Links to audio versions, YouTube, & all social accounts: https://linktr.ee/downoncemorepod

Send us Fan Mail This week we tackle Tim Burton's 2007 adaption of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Before we dive into the movie we discuss some news/controversy around Disney's newest round of live action adaptions of their classic animated films, new Mean Girls meme potential, and some current musical series. Be warned, this is a little bit of an unhinged episode. It wa...

Send us Fan Mail Time for another grab bag episode with a little bit of everything for ya! We've got confessions, musical updates and TV show talk, a mini review of the Hulu series Up Here, and more! Time Codes 00:00 - Intro 00:48 - Confession Time 02:43 - The Last of Us Part 2 Update 04:31 - Twitter & Southwest Airlines Suck 05:17 - Jon M. Chu Musical Updates 09:21 - Musical TV Talk 16:0...

Send us Fan Mail This week we might have one of our most random episodes yet! Matt & Raley are both here and we cover social media, exorcisms, rebrand the Pick Three segment, guilty pleasures, and more! Time Codes: 00:00 - Intro 03:45 - Vocal Warmups 23:36 - Pick Three Rebrand Pitch 27:20 - Guilty Pleasures 1:08:48 - Curtain Call Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Comment! Follow...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's mini-episode Matt gives you his grab bag of a little bit of everything. Looking for broadway news? We've got it. Some movie and TV thoughts/reviews? We've got it. Broadway tour power rankings? We've got it. Movies that should be musicals? Yeah, we've got that too.  Time Codes: 00:00 - Intro 01:53 - Smash Is Coming to Broadway 05:41 - Sweeney...

Send us Fan Mail Matt gives some streaming recaps, thoughts on the Book of Mormon, talks about joining a cult, and gives his picks for the top 5 Bowling for Soup songs. Time Codes: 00:00 - Intro 01:04 - We Need Your Help! 04:09 - Streaming Recaps & Thoughts 10:18 - Mormons & Banana Hammocks 14:48 - I Joined a Cult 22:48 - Top 5 Bowling for Soup Songs 31:29 - Wrap-Up & Sign-Off Don&apos...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode we're kickin' it old school and giving you vocal warmups, our pick three on places to visit, and a review of the animated movie Vivo (streaming on Netflix)! Time Codes: 00:00 - Intro 04:46 - Vocal Warmups 17:55 - Pick Three: Places to Visit 33:11 - Vivo Review 1:02:49 - Wrap-Up & Sign-Off Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Co...

Send us Fan Mail Matt gives some mini-reviews on recommendations on musical TV series that are streaming now, as well as giving a preview of upcoming episodes and some streaming updates! Time Codes: 00:00 - Intro 01:13 - Bad Cinderella/Cinderella Correction 03:47 - Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (YouTube) 12:21 - Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (Peacock) 23:52 - Other Musical Series Recomm...

Send us Fan Mail "And now for something completely different..." This week Raley & Matt are both here and decide to put their musical thoughts on full display with a musical song draft. Ten songs each. No duplicates. Max of two songs from the same musical. At least one Disney song. Those are the rules, and aside from that, all bets are off. There may or may not be a giveaway/contest...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's mini-episode Matt talks about a couple new trailers that have released and new musical news, gives a few mini movie reviews, and gives you some of his recommendations for the most underrated shows and movies available now on streaming! Time Codes: 00:00 - Intro 01:07 - Trailers & Musical News 10:26 - Mini Movie Reviews (M3gan, Knock at the Cabin, and Babylo...

Send us Fan Mail *Warning, on this week's episode we're discussing the Dear Evan Hansen movie, which deals with depression, anxiety, and su*c*de. This episode may be triggering for some so we wanted to lead off with a warning and a reminder that you're never alone and if you need help in the US you can dial 988 for the crisis hotline* Crisis Hotline: https://988lifeline.org/ The tim...

Send us Fan Mail We're back for another mini-episode and this week it's The Raley Show.  Matt talks about the new musical from the geniuses behind Twisted (our most viewed/listened to review episode) and Raley tells the story of the time she almost didn't make it out of a small town in Illinois. Time Codes: 0:00 - Intro 0:53 - Nerdy Prudes Must Die (Team StarKid) Promo 2:10 - That T...

Send us Fan Mail Matt & Raley are both back this week for our Vocal Warmup quick-hitters and our Pick Three (please help us rename this) segment! For this week's Pick Three segment we decided that after a year of going down together we'd picture a perfect world where we could have our dream guests, living or dead, join us on the pod! We also reveal our February movie review, so be wa...

Send us Fan Mail It has been officially one year since we launched Down Once More Pod! For this week's mini-episode we've put together our favorite moments from each episode from the last year! Let us know in the comments what your favorite episodes and moments were from the last year of going down with us! Time Codes: 0:00 - Intro 1:54 - The Phantom: Creator of the First S*x Doll?! 3:57...

Send us Fan Mail Raley & Matt discuss all the important questions from Andrew Lloyd Webber's 2010 sequel to The Phantom of the Opera! Time Codes: 00:00 - Episode Intro 02:58 - Love Never Dies Intro 12:31 - OG Phantom vs. Love Never Dies 18:14 - Female Characters in the Phantomverse 27:43 - Christine + Phantom - Moon = ?? 36:13 - Phantom vs. Raul 39:14 - Ending Breakdown 49:00 - Casting Di...

Send us Fan Mail This week Matt breaks down what he's been watching lately, gives a recap and review of The Last of Us Episode 1 as someone who's played the game, and gets into some of the differences from the Moulin Rouge Broadway show vs. the movie and which one he thinks you should be listening to! Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Comment! Follow us on Instagram for up...

Send us Fan Mail The whole gang is here for the second episode of 2023! In the first joint episode with the new format we cover literally the weather, airlines and flying, TikTok trends, subscription services, give all the male listeners an important PSA, and we pick three necessities for when you're stranded on an island.  Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Comment! Follow us o...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Year 2 of Down Once More! To kick off 2023 we're giving you a rundown of the big changes coming to the pod, as well as breaking down some of the casting announcements and filming updates on Jon M. Chu's Wicked Movies and the Paramount+ Mean Girls the Musical movie! Check out the time codes below if you're looking for specific updates! Don't forget to...

Send us Fan Mail In this super-sized episode to get you through the Holidays, we discuss the new Ryan Reynolds & Will Ferrell Christmas musical, Spirited! Before we get into Spirited we discuss Blonde in one of our regular bunny trails, have our usual Vocal Warmups segment, and we each Pick Three Christmas/Holiday things we love or hate.  Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Commen...

Send us Fan Mail This month we're mixing it up and doing our first Disney animated movie as we tackle the 1997 classic, Hercules! Pick 3 is back and Vocal Warmups brings a confession from both Matt & Raley! Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Comment! Follow us on Instagram for updates: https://www.instagram.com/downoncemorepod Links to audio versions & all social account...

Send us Fan Mail The episode that was almost lost forever is here! We reveal a behind the scenes story from our Twisted episode, have our vocal warmups, and more, leading to our most combative episode yet! Witness the death of a friendship as we discuss the Baz Luhrmann classic, Moulin Rouge! Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Comment! Follow us on Instagram for updates: https://www....

Send us Fan Mail This week we're discussing the 1978 hit, Grease! We start out with our Vocal Warmups, try out a new segment (Pick 3), and then get into the John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John (RIP) musical! Join in as we discuss some ties to The Three Stooges, behind the scenes stories from You're the One That I Want, and more! Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, Share, and Comment!...