The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)
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BALLS.414 They’ll be dancing in the streets of Nottingham tonight
July 06, 2024 00:21 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBThis week: England’s dreaming, cultural assimilation, Queensland maths, mid-season variance, on the bus from Innisfail, excessive Kendrick, the end of the Dubs dynasty, the new Cash Considerations, which one is the Spare Wiggins, cheap Nuggets, free agenzzzzy, eastbound and down under, Luka Doncooked, chemistry kits, this week’s instalment of OKC Future Chat, Kerr helps the aged, GOAT solidarity, Austria’s thing falls off, Netherlands netherworlds, styles make fights, continuing to get Desch...
tripping balls.391 Dirt bikes and space explosions
July 03, 2024 09:53 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBThis week in music: new albums from Joywave, Fu Manchu and The Tibbs. Also: hockey music, in defence of Coldplay??, fulfilling your contractual obligations, hair grunge, shifting air, Kingi of the desert, swing revival survivors, TOCB, too much work, the fine line between enjoyable and annoying, deluxe edition origin stories, bluegrass Turbonegro and Cletus hiphop. Next week: Aaron Frazer | Pond | Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All ...
BALLS.413 Trying to win 0-0 on 0.0 xG
June 30, 2024 00:07 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBThis week in sport: Saudi vs Everton, dictionary definitions, aspirational targets, Kvaradona’s horrible annus, Ronaldo’s best position, this Italy chat aged well, bring back Nike tournament ads, lost in Paris, the Swiss spine, continuing until morale improves, Beeso surprisingly brings it back to his own coaching, get out of the way, Covid struggleball, who isn’t here that should be, Rip Hamiltonbappe, dark horses aren’t orange, good for parts only, friendship is rare, New Zealander Of The ...
tripping balls.390 The vibe is the vibe
June 26, 2024 08:28 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThis week in music: new albums from Alfie Templeman, Earth Tongue and Hockey Dad. Also: fame chasers, defining indie, pro-vaccine takes, oooo spoooky, taxation multiplication, rat sweat, colour charts, we’ve just run out of indie cliches, nothing ventured or gained, ice ice ice, Swingers vs Singles, ripping off the ripoff, dot dot dot, the Ugly Duckling school of song titling, out of context music cues and yet more hockey content. Next week: Fu Manchu | The Tibbs | Joywave Spotify playlist...
BALLS.412 Own goals, speccies and flounce assists
June 23, 2024 10:40 - 39 minutes - 36 MBThis week: whatareya, Spain bombing from three, playing yourself into or out of favouritism, crossing the streams, international footballers are good at international football (not you England), Cristiano Ronaldo: ultimate team player, Hollywood saves, being blogged at, convoluted second-round maths, conditional Belgian bandwagons, An Ukraine, adopting a team, underdogs vs underperformers, EPL tax, TAA gets grounded, the Crimea War Look, Spain-Germany is probably too good to be a quarter fin...
tripping balls.389 Let me thank you for just being you
June 19, 2024 08:39 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week: New albums from Emma Donovan, Whores and Bad Nerves. Also: Paul Blart Touch Coach, dream collabs, lots of bits, all stand, making Gore happy, credits roll, obscure NBA jokes, early 90s without context, teaching your children well, Sunset Strip hair farmers, Gen X authenticity wars, zero nutritional value, keep off the Supergrass, two Beetles, parental pride, bona fide polymaths and giving the people what they paid for. Next week: Alfie Templeman | Earth Tongue | Hockey Dad Spot...
BALLS.411 Jungs, es ist Schottland
June 15, 2024 10:34 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MBThis week in sport: crushing tape, salute to Tintin, 2016 redux, Dutts doing deals, offending and pleasing in equal measure, ready for prime time, one red one white, what you heard, home before the postcards, maps to the stars, a deeper dive on Austrian football philosophy and tactics than anyone would have reasonably expected, two guys and a bunch of dudes, Name That City Midfielder, welcoming our new Seppo cricketing overlords, thanks for the #content, pitch imperfect, Nepalling outcomes, ...
tripping balls.388 A single sarcastic passive-aggressive thumbs-up emoji
June 06, 2024 18:54 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBThis week: New albums from Cage The Elephant, Big Special and Arab Strap. Also: call and response training, evolutionary musicology, a missed opportunity for a Glenn McGrath joke, ranting about misery, misery about ranting, soft acts to follow, Beeso falls for the old deluxe edition banana in the tailpipe, make fun noises, no relation and no leg to stand on. Next week: Bad Nerves | Emma Donovan | Whores Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists The database: Revi...
BALLS.410 Wolves (won’t be) Back
June 03, 2024 06:47 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBThis week: Luka’s hard earned thirst needs a big cold beer, unexpected broomery, everyone’s favourite game show: Tired Or Stupid?, 14 feet of disappointment, Minnesota headwinds, topical satire, contractually obligated Thunder Future Chat, la génération dorée, get fit with Boris, why Joe Mazzulla is bad at merging, space-filling narratives, keeping your dumb thoughts to yourself is a sign of personal growth, dunking on Perk, the grip of death, #NeverLost, Beeso discovers in real time that pe...
tripping balls.387 Living in midsized rooms and lounges
May 28, 2024 08:24 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBThis week: Beeso’s live report from Jungle, plus new albums from Nia Archives, The Zutons and Slash. Also: not bhed good soize, architect visions, setlist analytics, rusted-on karaoke, big beat is back, keep it moving, rockstar cosplay, it’s twenty louder, conditioned by poor choices, Kool-Aid entries, finding religion, more Seventies than the Seventies, the Nile dries up, when all the takes have been taken, nunsploitation films, Killing Floor ripoffs, running duo, Apple's cloudshouters vs c...
BALLS.409 The secret to a much happier life
May 24, 2024 22:47 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week: the game we’d been waiting the entire NBA playoffs for, mid-00s A-League, sentient cotton buds, putting your body in positions it shouldn’t be, meaningless levers, choosing to not go all-in, props to the Mavs front office, unplayable lies, fearing the worst title team in recent history, stop listening to internet effwits, doing Draymond out of a job, outside the NBA, media rights and wrongs, a weird and sad and stupid piece of rubbish, comfort food for old people, Don Henley doing...
tripping balls.386 It’s not even Bandcamp Friday
May 21, 2024 08:57 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBThis week: new albums from English Teacher, Wine Lips and Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol. Also: tailoring banking to your needs, the laundry-related talk-singing UK band Doc couldn’t think of is Dry Cleaning, punishing theatre kids, indie Thursdays, joke metal alloys, pro Canada, rocking horse rarities, after-dinner gelato, getting headless, Chic freaks, treble-hat-Gibson triple threats, Led Zep starter kits, Jungle gym and Team Beeso's mission to prove the Zoo owners wrong. Next week: Ni...
BALLS.408 A message to you, Rudy
May 18, 2024 21:55 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week, nearing the 3am-ugly-lights stage of the NBA playoffs second round: fast forwarding to the inevitable, being criminally French, views from the podcastariat, Doc complaining about someone else’s takes lacking nuance, Denver’s counterpunch worked until it didn’t, silence your notifications, Dortmund uber alles, good stories don’t make good contests, we can’t count, benching Giddey, Trae Young’s fit, draft dodging, losing on purpose gets an appropriate karma response, strategically a...
tripping balls.385 I can’t believe it’s not Butter Beats
May 15, 2024 07:27 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBThis week: new albums from Brittany Howard, Master Peace and Mdou Moctar. Also: government handouts, closed Zoos, Rev limiters, ranked Arenas, broken records, Music Hall passes, live performance headwinds, tiny desks, managing to both misspell and mislocate Seattle’s KEXP, the Black Keys playing your high school hall, not in those shoes mate, an inverse Bonnie Tyler, security risks, Sunday night blues, Jungle at the BRIT Awards, African cooking, a lack of imajighenation, sub-Saharan geograph...
BALLS.407 Uh-oh, Happy learned how to putt
May 12, 2024 03:02 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBThis week: an early-second-round vibe check from the NBA playoffs. Also: I’ll have what she’s having, one-seeds dropping one, Boston did the thing, the Dirkification of Jokic, Ant and the Antettes, 70s throwbacks, m isplaced faith in the ancients, engaged in the discourse, the Boogie Zone, your mileage may vary, Bread Corner, Thibs’ high-wire act, culturally appropriate NY teams, everyone built the PatBev monster, Cricket Gold rabbit holes, complicated legacies, Australia being mostly bad f...
tripping balls.384 Compulsively subverting the bit
May 08, 2024 09:43 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThis week: new albums from Justice, Marcus King and Regurgitator. Also: listener endorsements, Kiwi mild butter chicken, walking in Memphis, archived angst, Rick Rubin is still in the league, confusing a severe weather event with a LA glam metal band, off chops, perfect bops, Gurge side projects, where does Quan do his big shop, barely recalled reviews, Shakes Gilgeous Alabama, doubling down, if ‘dog’s breakfast’ is your drinking phrase congratulations on your unconsciousness, countries tha...
BALLS.406 People forget Kapil Dev was a problem
May 05, 2024 03:48 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBThis week: the Leastern Conference, sim to end, the 1991/92 World Series Cup, turning blind, close ≠ good, camping with the Knicks, bits we lost control of, the quietest of quitting, not liking our allies, the decline and fall of a one-time BALLS Podcast Spirit Vegetable, trading rosters, architectural flaws, the one guaranteed way to lose in the new NBA, cap smoothing, trading for 2019 Kawhi, Thibs’ ultramarathon training regime, underdog coaching, Freddy Kluger, home chalk, imperial crowdf...
tripping balls.383 There’s so much about the world I don’t understand
May 01, 2024 09:28 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBThis week: new albums from Khruangbin, BODEGA and West Thebarton. Also: Barry Football, travelogue incidentals, new-old stock, first-year arts discourse, Talking Heads, low-energy genres, no dunks, violent dreams, melancholy Cletus, 2018 was a Different time, reciprocal memberships, Adelaide connections, grunge-informed noise, stupid Zac Efron movies, what Tim and Guy did next, always up to something, New Words With Doc, pull your pants up, going too early, anything could happen/nobody know...
BALLS.405 When even John Farnham is telling you to wind it up
April 26, 2024 22:41 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBThis week: screaming over the peak, game state simulations, DLo Schröder, considering your options, this guy sucks, stopping Zion, 7/8 decision time, bad impersonations of the 2016 Cavs, the Alonso-Slater plan, get back East, Balkan beareotypes, Sisyphus’ job satisfaction, so much for that Patreon pledge, has KD ever run a play, New Words With Beeso, latitude-dependent shooting, the worst kind of loss, the worst coach left in the playoffs, JJ’s audition tape, selling the show, as a franchise...
tripping balls.382 Oh that’s why this guy is a thing
April 24, 2024 09:02 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBThis week: new albums from Tyla, the Libertines and the Dandy Warhols. Also: dangerous sand-atoll-adjacency, Adam Nation rise up, chillin’ with the vylan, in protest of protest music, an off-brand off-chops Pete Davidson, eight years late, how to get a number one, glum half-paced rubbish, terrace anthems, blaming Metacritic, Casiotone demo modes, urban jungle, whither backannouncers, the habit of 25 years, having a crack, having a Slash, thick girls, my god it’s full of B-sides, a National d...
BALLS.404 Nobody knows anything
April 21, 2024 10:26 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBThis week, massive overreactions to one game of yada yada you know the bit by now: NBA playoffs edition! Also: the least essential substance in the universe, the inevitable wins pool recap, green drink, growth mindsets, bet irresponsibly, Zion’s Shakespearean arc, Trae Young’s playoff relevance, missing 100% of the shots you take or don’t take, choosing your own adventure, forgetting EPCOT, get up Joel, beating up on noone, you thought the East was bad before, Despnikolable Me, the sad end o...
tripping balls.381 The record company’s gonna give me lots of money and everything’s gonna be alright
April 17, 2024 09:29 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week: new albums from Bob Vylan and The Black Keys, and last year’s next big thing Nothing But Thieves. Also: Muse for beginners, is this good, sprinkle-free, deluxe additions, having a guy, wallowing in nostalgia as a business plan, two piece endpoints, some of the same words, the raw and the cooked, Arc’ing up, kitchen vibes vs humming metrics, arrested chavelopment, getting robbed, Rage funk covers, peculiar samples, two weeks of picks, (Bodega’s Version), Shirty the Slightly Aggress...
BALLS.403 Chaos is a ladder
April 13, 2024 11:01 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThis week: final day permutations, three-way tiebreakers, nowhere to run, the Pacers’ turning point, handshake agreements, Houston might yet finish .500, bench punch, the future is in the future, Grayson Allen has an NBA skill, two old teams enter one old team ends, exporting your computer to America, Knicks positivity corner, Bucks negativity basement, Cavs continuity cul-de-sac, here’s the sex pestols, score-last point guards, senior pros, no chill Gil, all-NBA all the time, obvious tank j...
tripping balls.380 Dumb fun and dead festivals
April 10, 2024 09:19 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBThis week: new albums from The Jesus and Mary Chain, Drunk Mums and Gesaffelstein. Also: valiant pushes, random edit points, canefield circlework, the end of Splendour, does Kylie talk to kids, the Graun on festivals, the minimal viable product model of setlists, mind the gap, still chasin’ status, why FOMO can FO, reaction dependency, mic-clipping levels of disgust, both types of music, the irony of complaining about production on a podcast with bad production, I’m aware of tripping balls,...
BALLS.402 Spamming the Wemby button
April 06, 2024 09:02 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week: ice bath deep dives, turning a knob down*, sleepwalking to the playoffs, how do I explain that I have no external monologue, the Wayne Carey of baseball, all Wemby all the time, Western scrums, historic faithlessness, inadvisable tanking, has Bob Myers blocked Mike Dunleavy’s number yet, teams that will be better at playoff basketball than regular basketball, teams that will be the opposite of that, incredibly violent and not very talented, when the NHL puts it on their YouTube ch...
tripping balls.379 Never go full Kiedis
April 03, 2024 08:28 - 33 minutes - 31 MBThis week: new albums from Judas Priest, the Black Crowes and Talk Show. Also: never knowingly oversold, 1980s metal panic, greatest bits, doing yourself proud, the Powderfinger of the NWOBHM, unserious thrash, easing the seat back, have we learned nothing, pencil case recommendations, you give legacy acts a bad name, Babylon tings, new country for old men, box-set stans, every album is a journey, don’t bore us get to the chorus, sinister funk, major international releases, finding your audi...
BALLS.401 Boomers in Paris
April 01, 2024 07:30 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBThis week: the Rockets’ red glare, goodnight San Francisco, regicide, unnecessary runups, unwritten rules, the hot hand fallacy fallacy, someone has to be on NBA TV, recycled Heat storylines, I totally meant to do that: the Joe Mazzulla story, showing your working, Naz Reid Appreciation Night, is ‘charlataneous’ a word, the West Big 3, the Raps’ tactical tank, the worst month of NBA discourse, RIP G-League Ignite you were not quite good enough for this world, booing Delly, Boomers in Paris, ...
tripping balls.378 That boy needs therapy
March 23, 2024 02:15 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBThis week: old dogs, old tricks from Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Pulp fan fiction from Yard Act and SoCal fuzz from Meatbodies. Also: a message from our sponsored, unifying principles of Britpop, slipping into adult contemporary, more fluid than Jeff Beck, Wolfmother 4 Liverpool 3, live from the EPS, who needs lyrics, necessary psychedelia, lists of indeterminate length or purpose, the OWOBHM, the green zone, drinking for content and the ol’ check 1-2. Next week: The Black Crowes | Judas...
BALLS.400 What have been the most significant sporting moments across your lifetime?
March 17, 2024 08:47 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBThis week: in a Very Special Big Round Number Episode of the BALLS Podcast, Doc, Beeso and Adam draft the most significant sporting moments of our lifetimes. If you want to help create more memories like this, donate to help Beeso’s Phillippines mixed open kids make it to the World Cup in Manchester this year. Also: frontrunners versus lovable losers, overvalued offspring, order for chaos, DIY stadium renovations, being there, bad investments, regrettable calls, replacing your divots, a ...
tripping balls.377 The ecstatic colloquialism of populist songwriting
March 13, 2024 08:19 - 25 minutes - 23 MBThis week: new albums from DARTZ, Sheer Mag and Mannequin Pussy. Also: Insert Amen Break Here, subverting the bogan paradigm, inappropriate kiddie choirs, troubling Venn intersects, two years behind being two years behind, high pitched whining, labouring to carve out discernably singular positions, evangelical lyricism, enjoying the noises, release date randomness, early year optimism, metallurgy experience, no accounting for takes, teenage rebellion, holy communion and ending on a positive...
BALLS.399 Christian single in your area
March 09, 2024 23:54 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBThis week: pretending to have watched classic movies, one short, whose line is it anyway, regrets in Milwaukee, nightmares in Boston, redrawn axes, end-of-clock grenades, Naz has bars, having That Guy, ironing fruit, lacking respect for your authoritah, the best ability, the Red Bull civil war, a full tradies breakfast, last in first out, chasing Grant funds, young dumb and full of bad takes, stay in school kids, Patty in Miami, predicting who will get to knock out Boston in the early rounds...
tripping balls.376 Slow jams about the NHS
March 06, 2024 08:04 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBThis week: new albums from grime merchant Ghetts, Glaswegian minstrels the Snuts and Neapolitan riff fiends the Devils. Also: Crüe 1982, mixed bags, apologies to Scotland, underwater tunes, a hard earned joker, full Rufus spec, improving the White Stripes, nunsploitation vibes, you belong in the Zoo, Wellington Chats, tripping balls OnlyFans, the inside of Jack White’s brain, vinyl Criterion Collections, umming and aahing, science podcasting, bad kicks and playing your way back down the divi...
BALLS.398 One-sided beef week
March 02, 2024 23:25 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBThis week: follow-on cowardice, sucking isn’t a tactic, Victorians doing it better, signs of great captaincy, fake World Cups, no means no, Beeso has Brisbane Olympics Fever™, ESPN shouty-show talking points, SOS signals, Man Citying your way to the #1, having one of those players, there's no (plan) B in Oston, bored in Milwaukee, Jokic vs everybody, Embiid vs reality, Chemby and Wet, further complications in the Spurs’ timeline, Agent Zero Google alerts, the Patty Mills buyout market and a ...
tripping balls.375 Sixpence none the wiser
February 28, 2024 07:10 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBThis week: new albums from Middle Kids and Black Grape, and EPs from Little Simz, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Matt Cameron. Also: traditional apologies, mostly harmless, that one theme from that one show, a clarification, old mate Dave, the Taylor-P!nk demarkation line, another triumph of Big Data, talking about pop music, having opinions about the Beatles, on the buckets, ice cream on hash browns, universal reactions, techno sucks and other very 1995 worldviews, different inspiration an...
BALLS.397 I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul
February 24, 2024 02:27 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBThis week: We fix the ‘we fix the NBA All Star Game’ podcasts, the Doc Rivers Pre-Apology Tour, Big NRL silences Beeso and our Massive Overreactions To One Game: Mid-Season Edition. Also: NBA quiet quitting, AFL All-Australian, 5001 Jokes for Kids, monologuing off, no-stakes injuries, Starry nights, entering the ‘finding out’ phase, Costco content, Steph and Sabrina save the day, a Dray bar, juicy factoids, the Thunder’s last big test, still mentally in Cabo, same Kings different year, first...
tripping balls.374 Even Rocky had a montage
February 21, 2024 06:58 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week: new albums from Sigma, Courting and Wolves of Glendale. Also: the 2023-24 NBA trade deadline of new album weeks, obvious rips of boomer riffs, having a go and/or getting a go, Stock standard, Disco v2.000, blood feuds with autotune, Darkest Timeline Weird Al, trolling tin-chuckers at 4.30am, Tripod and Tenacious D, one sentence reviews, Pippen and Jordan, the least plausible Bob Marley comp in the history of west coast hip-hop, starting at Be Here Now, smorgasboards, Inflo outflo...
BALLS.396 A bit too much America
February 18, 2024 01:32 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBThis week in sport: Cold transitions, Western melees, altitude problems, underwhelming fortnights, something to believe in, Mavs adds, MJ’s mates, mispronouncing Artūras Karnišovas, betting on the inevitable Boston bedwetting, a week off from Doc, a long rumination on whether today’s Spurs are capable of building a contender around Wemby, the Covid draft, title timelines, Murray for value, prepared monologues, overtime takes, racist chops, Tay takes, special teams and continental drift. Fi...
tripping balls.373 I wanna be mildly sedated
February 07, 2024 08:53 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBThis week: brand new 2024 albums from SPRINTS, The Smile and Ty Segall. Also: new music evangelism, new occasional segment klaxon, investing in 2032 futures, season ten, takeaway food demarkation disputes, having a menty B, a few stars short of a supergroup, psychotic breakbeats, arrest Alex Turner, a land beyond songs, we all need unconditional support, condensed reviews, alleged classics, Australian hiphop is truly in great hands, Jay Masochist and white-knuckling the early year grimness. ...
BALLS.395 I’m not that kind of doctor
February 03, 2024 00:17 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBThis week: Rotorua to Houston, Joel Embkneed, voodoo science, did the players really sign up to this, forty million American dollars, too cheap to be allowed to own a NBA team, dance monkey, having Haberstroh on retainer, getting shirty, root down, weird Jazz, don’t make Australasia’s most Knicks-positive NBA-adjacent podcast tap the sign, Minnesota persists, Harden hits the Portland Melo stage, falling off the NFL coaching carousel, comebacks by instalment, keep getting them cheques, Grant ...
tripping balls.372 Deep in our bag like the fries are at the bottom
January 31, 2024 21:54 - 1 hour - 92.7 MBThis week: we draft our favourite albums of 1994, which is thirty years ago, allegedly. No we don't just pick Triple J's Hottest 100 Volume 2 ten times. Also mentioned in dispatches: admin, prequels, charts, soundtracks, JJJ going national, second-hand CDs, the Sanity at Toowong Village, busted Telstars, Fat Pizza, pretending you had a better taste in music than you did, BOGOF deals, chunky guitars, disavowed classics, fantasy booking the Alley, desperately attempting to appear interesting...
BALLS.394 The NBA has gone 0 days since being unnecessarily dramatic
January 27, 2024 01:41 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBThis week: the NBA All-Star starters, the Bucks call for the Doc, Rivals Week, failed opening gambits, the Windies are back (?) and our accidental NFL conference finals preview. Also: Zero-day exploits, fan service, Cavs conundrums, #PRUNTYSZN, vibes-based regimes, if it’s not broke don’t break it, pallbearer dance routines, welcome to Indiana, the Terry Rozier Experience, the Exum exile, showing your bits, our Australian Open coverage, the new Timberwolves, opportunistic diatribes, compul...
tripping balls.371 The Hammock Time Multiplier Effect: top five albums of 2023
January 24, 2024 10:47 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBThis week: we count down our top five albums of the year for 2023. Also: WAOTY, the importance of having clear number ones, #HammockSZN, necking cleanskin red and listening to 70s prog, crossover potential, voodoo science, aiming for competence, immaculate vibe-matches, the genre expects, they can’t keep getting away with this, the Scandiwegian-Strayan axis of riffs, peanut empire punk, a long way from 2015, getting absolutely upholstered with Jack White, the Mabo of it all, you pays your m...
BALLS.393 Distressed Canadian assets
January 22, 2024 09:44 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MB…And we’re back. This week: the Accidental Beeso Summer Tour, previously on The NBA, the Raptors rebuild, shop window games, play-in-pilled teams, the two seed with the vibes of a .500 team, the SLOB Wizard dodges the rozzers, the T-Wolves’ death run, the best in the West, contrarian ROY takes, this is the future Florentino Perez wants, the Dubs trading while insolvent, pre-agency is the new point of cap space, vale Dejan Milojevic, peace out Ricky Rubio, the only time Andrew Bogut and Glenn...
tripping balls.370 Listening to hold music in a tent
December 23, 2023 02:24 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBThis week: Militarie Gun, NO CIGAR and Dallas Tamaira aka Joe Dukie of Fat Freddy’s. Also: bomb tracks, soft hardcore, genre skeletons, grading on a curve, getting your Troy Kingi on, wandering remixes, Spotify-era success stories, milquetoastsimpwave, measures of distance, beige smorgasbords, pen-throwing levels of crossness, chasin’ Statham, Wytchfest ’23, here be Dragons, El Mariachi cosplay, sounding the Andy Cooper klaxon and our official podcast position on INXS playing the Glen Hotel...
BALLS.392 The truth about Beef Week
December 16, 2023 03:37 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThis week: Indefinite articles, Stern consequences, banner societies, cup runs, Denver’s soft landing, this is the end, next big Kerr-eer moves, AD’s statline that wasn’t, Dante’s inferno, feelings > stats, sorting-out games, stealing the ball, unexpected blood feuds, mid-season MJ mythology, sleepwalking into oblivion, all this Cavs gloom and we didn’t even know Mobley and Garland were out for weeks, moving the Raiders to Queanbeyan, paying $11 for the OKC Thunder, vote no on Prop 37, going...
tripping balls.369 You’re a naughty one, Saucy Jack
December 13, 2023 08:45 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBThis week: new albums from Spiritual Cramp, PinkPantheress and Busty and the Bass. Also: vanity musicals, wilted Lily, time dilation, pasty white continuums, KOMA FM, BPSI, what’s my motivation, [citation needed], homeopathy, an addendum, not sure how we missed this Pulled Apart By Horses joint last year, Joaquin-spec Jokers, friends of the show, pre-empting safe legacy picks and getting let down by the algorithm. Next week: Militarie Gun | NO CIGAR | Dallas Tamaira Spotify playlists: Curr...
BALLS.391 Saying dumb stuff really loudly
December 09, 2023 07:18 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBThis week: getting punished in Port, the Tyrese Haliburton Show, 2.7 seconds or less, anti-Zionism, Reggie is mid, big stupid curvy arrows, Rusty spoilers, goose-strangling, running up the score, bad excuses for the Dubs’ downfall, Will Hardy reviews our podcast, the Celtics ain’t all that, Atlanta is unserious, when will Wemby win, Doc’s limited fake Big Ange and known knowns. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny Studio RSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | Everything Cont...
tripping balls.368 There’s too much of this and none of it is necessary
December 06, 2023 06:46 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBThis week: new albums from Tkay Maidza, Madness and Bully. Also: vaudeville sideshows, play the hits, the Sanity two-track test, Beeso vs modern Australian hiphop, call centre scripts, yeah well that’s just like your opinion man, have we ever sounded older than this? answers on a postcard, #WhitePeopleProblems, Albini Approved, assuaging your Spotify guilt, going full send, Adam attempts to start a blood feud with the most powerful woman in the world, shouts to O-Rod, everything is a remix: ...
BALLS.390 Heartbreaking: the worst person you know etc etc etc
December 04, 2023 07:07 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBThis week: Getting punished in Port, bringing back the clink, niche internet concerns, Magical thinking, excessive Pace, Spiderman meme teams separated by narrative, undercooked Nuggets, far-too-early MVP shouts, getting to Vegas, amateur cardiology, LeBron vs Jordan round 2, a November to remember in Detroit, winning < dunking on Walker Kessler, the Pels’ good week, being sick all over yourself on a Tuesday, Celtics-Sixers Yet Again, even more far-too-early Eastern conference semi predictio...
tripping balls.367 He won’t stop singing Champagne Supernova
November 29, 2023 09:41 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBThis week: new albums from Black Pumas, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and The Scratch. Also: do the bit, trad sliders, the universality of the Khe Sahn punisher, angst and misery, saying the quiet part loud, the real Bolivian, Bocelli vs Kram, basing your entire review around one cheesy pun, backloaded goodness, emergency Georgie Parkers, EDM word association, Fans Also Like, jokers are for jokers, and yes this is all going in the podcast. Next week: Tkay Maidza | Bully | Madness Spotify playl...