Takes All Over The Place

Emma and Nick saw Barbie and Nick has gone full Ken with a deep v-neck shirt and a beach attitude. Julie’s on a dark and twistier path - not Oppenheimer but The OC in honor of its 20th anniversary and catchy theme song. We also finish out this season of Drag Race All Stars and listen to NIck’s breakdown of the latest in the Kpop world.  Show Notes: @1:00 - Hot takes | Barbie, X, Kpop Breakdown: Ju...

Dearest Gemstones! We're tending to some other tasks this week but we've got a bonus we'd love to share. We recently revisited Searching for Bobby Fischer - a collective favorite and a watch, or re-watch, we'd highly recommend joining us in. Have a great weekend!

Nick is feeling himself while living a low-fodmap lifestyle and Julie topped the parade as astronaut Barbie. Television has been slightly less triumphant, but The Bear is putting on a good show, tennis stars continue to shine at Wimbledon and we’ll see what these queens can pull out in the fame game extravaganza.  Show Notes: @1:00 - Hot takes | Fodmaps, parade princess, Wimbledon, The Bear, Drag...

The lavender haze is just starting to fade as we recover from the Swifties sweeping through town and causing adorable mayhem. This season of Drag Race All Stars is winding down, Claim to Fame is not a recommendation but Julie’s impressions will stay with you, and it looks like summer programming is in full affect - pure chaos.  Show Notes: @1:00 - Hot takes | Swifties, Claim to Fame, Twitter, Netw...

This month of pride might be wrapping up, but the festivities were this past weekend and Nick and Julie are still reveling in them. And to decompress from social joys, the internet contains delightful characters (like tiktoker Canadian Kels) and entertaining nonsense. And it was a fashionable week in tv with Project Runway’s unconventional materials challenge and a ball on RuPaul’s Drag Race.  Sho...

It’s a busy summer and a bit of a tv drought, and the Drag Race producers are really trying it with us, but Julie’s life and watching is full of hilarious chaos and the internet continues to provide gems of tweet joy. Oh, and you may have heard, Julie has avenged herself!! Let’s dive in!  Show Notes: @1:00 - Hot takes | Crochet for pride, Shmelma, Tour de France, Stars on Mars @17:30 - RuPaul’s Dr...

Ep 160: New Jewels |  Never Have I Ever, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, Scandoval This week, Nick decided to look stunning for recording and to celebrate a cameo from Carolyn (of Survivor fame). Julie, the amazing cameo-giver, gets us hyped for what’s coming up on our streaming feeds and downloads the latest (last?) of the Scandoval season.  Show Notes: @1:00 - Hot takes | Carolyn’s cameo, human li...

In this, the month of pride? Happy Pride Gemstones! The homophobia is running rampant, in this, the month of pride! Leave it to Nick and Julie to call it out again and again and again and again. Between calling out injustice we discuss really important things like Shiny, Happy People, the finale of Ted Lasso and owls. Hope you had a great week and thanks for listening! Show notes:  Intro @1:00-Cul...

Spoilers abound as we learn shocking secrets about Nick’s love life and say farewell to Season 2 of Yellowjackets and Season 44 of Survivor. We also enjoyed goodies for the soul and spirit in the form of XO, Kitty on Netflix and Hillsong Documentaries everywhere (Hulu and Max) and treated ourselves to some laughter with great tweets and a riveting game of Buzzword. Have a great weekend gemstones!!...

Julie’s trying to fight phone addiction with greyscale and Nick’s living a colorful, post-juul life but the real test of health will be the Evian pure age test. Speaking of Jorah Mormont, Julie wants us to join him in the Silo where a mechanic is making her way up the post-apocolyptic ranks. Survivor 44 is coming to an exciting close and Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars is just heating up....

Hi Gemstones! Hope you've had a great week and you're wearing your wetsuit, cause we are DEEP diving in to K-Pop and the first episode of Rupaul's Drag Race All Stars season 8! While Nick learned the history of (G)i dle, Julie communed with the gods of Apple TV to watch the best it had to offer. We've got rapid fire tweets and a quick game of linkee, can you make the connection? Thanks so much for...

Hi Gemstones! Are you ready to rock your body, riight? The gangs all here with Asa in the basement ready to talk all about The New Pornographers, Olafur Arnalds, K-pop....are we a music podcast now? Just for the first few minutes then we catch up on the latest episodes of Yellowjackets, Survivor and Rabbit Hole, don't dream, it's over. Bonnie falls in love on a flight and Nick gets sexual...

Hi Gemstones! We were snorting it up in the basement this week; doing wall lunges, fuming over the absence of Yellowjackets and declaring love for all the hybrid animals. Thanks so much for listening! Hope you had a great week!  Show notes:  @1:07-Jo Jo Siwa is a lot, Julie's torture on stage, Nick update....wall lunges?  @16:00-What we watching? Survivor, Sweet Tooth, Rabbit Hole, The Diploma...

Hi Gemstones! Hope you're having the best week ever, unlike Tucker and Don. We briefly discuss their fates and then get to really important issues; does Nick really have TMJ? Does he know what pain is? Do you wanna know what love is? Why does his shirt keep opening? These and other mysteries will be solved on this episode of Takes!  Show notes:  @1:00-What's new with Nick? Is he smoking? W...

Hi Gemstones! Hope you are recovering from the Love is Blind reunion! The injustice of it all! We tried to watch all this week: Survivor, Yellowjackets, Beef, it was a pretty dark week. Thankfully we have a few laugh fits during the tweets, and hope you do as well. Thanks so much for spending time with us!  Show notes Intro 1:00-Nick's bout with insomnia, how's the week? 11:00-The great injustice...

Hi Gemstones! Hope you had a wonderful week! This week we're updating Nick's health and wellness, discussing why and if the Jonas brothers are attractive and listening to the social emotional awareness music provided by this season of Love is Blind. MadGab is back after a two year break, hope you can figure out the phrases, we couldn't! Thanks for listening!  Show Notes: @1:00-What's happening? Ar...

Takes All Over the Place: Episode 150 D**cks out for Harambe! Hi Gemstones! What a week! Have you finished the internet yet? We are certainly trying. Nick's new found health journey has taken a sweet turn, Julie's inability to stay on two feet has ignited an insomnia marathon which has allowed her to watch people eating people on different networks. We laughed, we snorted, and they went to...

Hi Gemstones! We are really living up to our name this week with takes about so many things! Nick mansplains to us about the Blue Chexodus, then we talk about all things television while nic free Nick uses his Vick's stick constantly (can you feel Julie's eyes rolling back?). Hope your nasal passages are clear and you're ready to laugh! Thanks for listening! Show notes: @1:00-Blue Chexodus @7:00-W...

Hi Gemstones! We are coming to you live from the basement on this very first early afternoon addition of Takes All Over the Place! Will the sunlight bring extra giggles? Has Nick continued to stay off the juul? Is Emma the angriest she's ever been after an episode of the challenge? Stay tuned! Show Notes: @1:00-Hot Takes: Why did the balloons attack? Has Nick's lung regenerated? @19:47-What ya wat...

Takes All Over The Place: 147: Ah, Beans! Hi Gemstones! We're back in the basement to talk about Nick's nicotine journey, the tv shows that are keeping Julie sane-ish and the tweets that are giving the Cotter sibs the giggles: Show notes: @1:00-Who sang it better? @4:00-Boys 999 @8:12-Day 12 @11:00-Hot Takes I Which Furry are you? I Nick checks in I Next in Fashion I The Last of Us Finale I Surviv...

Nick is going on FIVE DAYS nicotine free! Thank goodness there's an app to track his feelings every minute of the day! And there's TV to keep us all busy during these trying times: The Last of Us, Survivor, Next in Fashion. Let's dive in! Show notes: @1:00-Hot Takes: Nic free Nick, Emma update, Julie the sore loser @16:57- The Last of Us, Survivor, Planet 999, Next in Fashion @36:00-RuPaul's Dragr...

Hi Gemstones! Hope you had a great week! It's been a heckuva week on this floating rock! Everyone's going through it IRL and on tv. Nick's BP is elevated and not just because he's constantly losing at scattergories, Emma is adjusting to life on the inside and Julie is over it! Thankfully Physical 100, Perfect Match, The Nanny and the tweets are here to brighten the week! Thanks for listening! Show...

Hi Gemstones! Hope you had a great week! We took some deep, deep dives this week into the world of Pedro Pascal obsession, The Last of Us, Physical 100 and RuPaul's Drag Race! Nick has a few medical moments and Emma and baby Asa are here! Pull up a drink with a biodegradable straw and enjoy this extra long ep! Show notes: @1:00-Tell us about your week Nick, Hot Takes and deep dives-Pedro Pascal lo...

It's a beautiful day in the Takes neighborhood! Guess who's back? Its our wonderful Emma! Today we get an Emma update, she murder stories, talk about our favorite drag queen moments and play some heads up. So glad she's back! Hope you're having a great week! Show notes:  @1:00-Hot Takes: Emma Update, What ya watchin? Stolen Youth, The Last of Us, Rhianna's halftime performance, Cauterizing Co...

On this day late episode, Nick and Julie are on their own again this week, but are joined by a sweet, but barky dog! Nick reveals his journey with Covid, this time, his wellness journey and some new developments with his gums! We discuss The Last of Us, Poker Face and Suits before diving into the tweets of the week and a round or two of scattegories. Hope you have a great week! Show notes: @1:00-H...