The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)
485 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago -Rambling arguments about sport and music between two people that know little about either.
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BALLS.389 I would like to win something
November 25, 2023 06:04 - 48 minutes - 44 MBThis week: what the hell do we do with this Josh Giddey story, yes we know it’s not an AI deepfake don’t @ us, vet shortages, old mate Kilometres, pinning your personal happiness on nineteen year old idiots, what sort of person has deep knowledge of the age of consent in each US state, unsubstantiated Lowe slander, the 73-9 Dubs of world cricket vs the early 2000s Liverpool of world cricket, watching a fascist kicking themselves in the balls, too woke to maintain a fourth stump line back of ...
tripping balls.366 Dedication to drugs and stupidity
November 21, 2023 21:09 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBThis week: Nirvana’s In Utero 30 years on, plus new albums from electronic veteran DJ Shadow and Montreal party-punks NOBRO. Also: in with the old, difficult second second albums, let’s get Bob Rocked, sometimes the label gronks are right, takes Beeso wasn’t brave enough to admit to, PNW cookers, Taylor becomes a horse girl, the international sample shortage, imported dance condiments, built for Shoresy, I don’t want to be on the internet, understanding the assignment, paid in full, Puma Ki...
BALLS.388 I understand how algorithms work
November 19, 2023 00:11 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBThis week: Defaulting to local, Monty’s Christmas card list, geology news, AirBnB inspo sociopaths, rooks on the books, Clone High Abe Lincoln, terrible OKC blogger takes, create-a-player Euro point guard templates, the Lively Mavs, that slightly fraught Wolves-Dubs game about which nobody is talking, this year’s Grizz, our one one-game overreaction that actually came off, no D in Indy, Roy Hibbert’s Verticality Space™, Washington victory laps, the annual redistribution of talent, IST wildca...
BALLS.387 I’m a system, player
November 13, 2023 09:34 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBThis week: stop look and listen, schedule weirdness, Satan’s goatse, low budget drop shadows, bathwater gargling, cistern overload, the Bucks (can’t get a) stop here, Dillon Brooks: Culture Guy, check your local guides, home cooking, inefficiency dividends, like a virgin, defence is for cowards, trading depth for stars < trading stars for depth, America versus everyone, Jingles’ true calling, so much for the southeast, mid-East vibe checks, inadvertent throwbacks, trust issues, taking a mont...
tripping balls.365 Past performance is not an indicator of future returns
November 08, 2023 21:16 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBThis week: new albums from The Kills, Stepmother and Clowns. Also: was I supposed to listen to this, family reunions gone wrong, bleeps and blurps, vibe matches, irrational likes, investment disclaimers, e-motion, this is the end, extremely loud and very silly, growing musical kids, bring back flute solos, a waste of technological resources, raiding Ace’s stash, Doc was loud right??, a lack of gravel, chasin’ Statham, Conan and friends, relatable Gen X content, the crime of party playlist s...
BALLS.386 A clear and present danger
November 05, 2023 02:18 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBThis week: tomorrow problems, anyone can get it, being loud wrong early, Wemby contrarianism, Balkan grandmas, we talkin' bout practice, Halloween horrors, no karma only Kuzma, Billy Donovan is the Grandpa Simpson meme, overreactionary takes from unaccredited bloggers, reasons to dislike Nick Nurse, you can’t beat the system, your da’s taking the divorce well, the best value player on the most expensive roster, stealth Pelicans, novelty flooring, fans with Photoshop, old man yells at Nike, t...
tripping balls.364 Started at the bottom now we here
November 01, 2023 08:46 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBThis week: new albums from Beastwars, Electric Six and the Rolling Stones. Also: daily doses, obeying the riff, Adam's questionable mic technique, anger > despair, America’s fault, the sensations, just here for the beer, we didn’t end the Fire, ludicrous men, curse of the title track, Beatles heresy, reanimated Mutts, channelling Lemmy, sweary boomers, Ronseal, beats from the beyond, the Martin Tyler of classic rock, hand solos, doing 45 over the limit, somebody once told me and the bane of ...
BALLS.385 MASSIVE OVERREACTION SZN comes round faster every year
October 27, 2023 09:01 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThis week: our traditional massive overreactions to 1/82nds of the NBA season, plus bits of both World Cups. Also: how does it happen, making it fake close, original flavour unicorn, no plan survives first contact with the enemy, gotta hear both sides, my MVPdom for a horse, snakes off a plane, Max effort, Who’s That Blazer, a Lively rookie of the year showdown, very Pop areas, Mo Cheeks mo’ problems, Des desire, the South Least division, the greatest offense in NBA history, mediocrity-offs,...
tripping balls.363 I used to be fun
October 25, 2023 08:58 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBThis week: new albums from Olivia Rodrigo, Kylie Minogue and Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers. Also: gurlz rock!, acknowledging greatness, too young to be this washed, resolutely Canberra, into the algorithm, forever caping for Seether, corporate covers bands, enjoying bits a lot versus enjoying lots of bits, puff pastry, relatable content, stop trying to make O-Rod happen, Kim Petras ≠ Kim Mulkey, Rosalia drivebys, album Venn diagrams, attempt sixteen, return invitations, Scooter McGavin, Fi...
BALLS.384 Right in the #NBAfeels
October 23, 2023 04:07 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBThis week: unanalytical reckons a week out from NBA season tipoff, plus the various World Cups that persist about the place. Also: Easter eggs, The Bucks’ Stotts here? Not so much, drafter’s remorse, wild wacky inflatable guys, we still talkin’ bout practice, bah gawd that’s Delly’s music, overreaction double features, the Harden redemption arc, original flavour Melo, five and a half wins, not being any good tends to limit your chances of victory, a grim summer of cricket, a man kicking a do...
tripping balls.362 Henry Mancini was goated
October 19, 2023 08:01 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBThis week: new albums from Ash, The Wytches and Frankie and the Witch Fingers. Also: relevance through autotune, playing the hits of the 80s 80s and 80s, panther pride, dead air, perfect competence, keeping the lights on, surf sludge, all possible spellings, proof of concept, Jungle fever, Beeso tries to be helpful, who listens to the radio, allyship week and drifting off. Next week: Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers | Olivia Rodrigo | Kylie Minogue Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 m...
BALLS.383 I WANT TO BENLIEVE: our 2023-24 NBA wins pool draft
October 16, 2023 23:28 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBThis week: our annual NBA season preview slash wins pool draft slash elaborate mechanism to force Beeso to say nice things about the New York Knicks, hashtag #AustralasiasMostKnicksPositiveNBAAdjacentPodcast. Also: burning material, the real winner of last year’s wins pool, sowing division, learning the wrong things, JVG might be walking through that door, tiers before podtime, tick tock, load management deniers, full Windy hands, somebody has to win these games, vibes picks, impervious to c...
tripping balls.361 The Super Jesus and Mary Lizard Wizard
October 12, 2023 09:05 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBThis week: new albums from Royal Blood, The Record Company and C.O.F.F.I.N. Also: comic timing, WWOS incidental music, not attending in order to fornicate with arachnids, the oil that protects all kinds of diesel engines, firing up them You Tubes, crookest timeline Kram, atomic playboys, transcendant bogandom, giveaway hats, building blocks, Nashville-adjacency, AAA league, diminishing returns, seizing the means of production, the new Bristol, shouts to disco, the Muse Hole, witch week redux...
BALLS.382 There are too many World Cups nowadays. Please eliminate three. P.S. I am not a crackpot.
October 07, 2023 03:18 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBThis week: the face of modern Aotearoa, the post-colonial World Cup, Basque-it cases, Queensland loses grand final weekend, coaches’ brain, NFL Xs and Os, son of a cardboard man, coaching like a five year old, getting Mike McDaniel and Mike Macdonald confused, resources for the NFL curious, media day dressups, interviewing for your next job, shorting the Bucks, the reality of getting traded, player depowerment, favourites in the East, deathriding Team USA in Paris, Serbian twitter, getting p...
tripping balls.360 Dubbo state of mind
September 28, 2023 09:18 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBThis week: new albums from Tash Sultana, Osees and The Chemical Brothers. Also: cold opens, no geography, parallel imports, Californian lizards, interesting messes, short stories, Annie and/or Fanny, Brexit through the gift shop, numerical order, ratbag Australiana, Scandinavian deserts, coaching commitments, schedule notes, Stockholm syndrome, mystery supergroups and a little NBA After Dark. Next week: Royal Blood | The Record Company | C.O.F.F.I.N. Spotify playlists: Current albums | 20...
BALLS.381 Relying on the ankles of a Latvian
September 25, 2023 08:34 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThis week: resting on back-to-backs, the Kawhi Rule, PE in very limited effect, anomalous (doot-dooo-doodoodoo), four day work weeks, space-filling models, Hield yields, is the Charlotte sunset year ever worth it, no new friends, Barklay, unresolved issues, offseason content factories, retired supermodels, Toronto’s Dame pitch, caveat emptor, the pointlessness of expecting moral guidance from twenty-something millionaire idiots, unrealised troll-dream grand finals, calling the Wah-mbulance, ...
tripping balls.359 The acrid aftertaste of autotune
September 13, 2023 08:23 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBThis week: new albums from Jon Batiste and Killer Kin, and the new Dan Auerbach-helmed blues compilation Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound). Also: nine coronas, brain delays, radio interstitials, the MSG of modern music, dipping into the weekend, reprehensible violence, Doc’s kryptonite, conversation pieces, record label samplers, referencing your source material, buzzless surprises, uninformative bios, uncommitted bits, entry level loopy stuff and currant af...
BALLS.380 Weird Balkan energy
September 10, 2023 00:24 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBThis week: I guess there’s rugby league, RIP southern hemisphere rugby union, more Titans-Bulldogs coverage than seems necessary, cold opens, OKC building off FIBA gains, tale of the tape, upsettingly tall white people, our LOUD WRONG semi finals preview, European vacations, are we still making Earls, save us Jojo/Simmo you’re our only hope, karma is visited upon the architects of suck, the end of NBA twitter, learning the wrong things from Angeball, viva la revolucion, NFL in London, Netfli...
tripping balls.358 An album of track ones
September 05, 2023 10:46 - 20 minutes - 19 MBThis week, live from Lantanaland: new albums from Jungle, the Hives and 3rd Secret. Also: 2pm whisky is for winners, Jackson 5 vocal filters, bedroom albums, doing what you’re good at, the best rock frontman of the last three decades, sweaty box venues, in the conversation, Led Zeppelin III III, rooster tales, showing your podcast partner an album on your phone doesn’t translate on audio, bios by Mum, reviews by Curtis, The Cat Empire (The Cat Empire’s Version), ratbag noise and violence, se...
BALLS.379 Yeaaaah, here come the rooster
September 05, 2023 10:45 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBThis week*, LIVE** from Lantanaland on the day when all outstanding podcast business was settled: interrupting cocks, neighbourhood bitumening, badly-outdated Boomers reckons, the place of Olympic football, the literal place of the next Womens World Cup, sadly not-at-all-outdated Rubiales reckons, new Peter Principle x Dunning Kruger collab just dropped, England lost, Watch the Dub, FIFA maths, the problem with Canada, the Next Thriller In Manila, legally-obligated Wahs-Upping, the summer of...
tripping balls.357 People are dumb where I come from
August 16, 2023 07:36 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBThis week: new albums from Strawpeople, Durand Jones and Bilk. Also: Logan parenting, duelling Fionas, D.O.C. triphop, dirty gear, first track syndrome, caning it, solo album divergency, more evidence this podcast has ruined Beeso’s music taste, ancient and cynical, young monkeys, self-selecting album picks, not doing what it says on the tin, bedroom recreations, live market research, compression vs elevation and reputational damage. New next week: The Hives | Jungle | 3rd Secret Spotify ...
BALLS.378 Up the Tillies
August 12, 2023 05:17 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThis week: the BALLS Podcast Hall Of Fame, stop STOP TONY, the Wrong Seppos, indicate before manoeuvring, Be(ggi)n Simmons, the Coloniser Olympics, pointless possession, Arjen Robben’s one move, hold my Beerensteyn, broadcasting malpractice, the decline and fall of the USWNT empire, a stamp on the tournament, a squishy Suncorp, the one great advantage of womens’ sport, Pepe Le Pew, that boy needs therapy, hey true blue, niche sports, culture war L’s, Ellis on an island, I’m just here so I do...
tripping balls.356 Off beat, off base and off chops
August 09, 2023 07:59 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBThis week: new albums from Britpop legends Blur, indie hiphop outkasts Paris Texas and Roman stoners Black Rainbows. Also: 21 today, on a scale from boring to infuriatingly boring, critics’ darlings, cool uncles, words we can’t say on this podcast, joker variance, lounge act jealousy, wonky dischordancy, the same members but not the same people, Italians cosplaying as Scandinavians cosplaying as Californians, road trip anthems, The Nebulous Zone, deep V’s, the NZ Tracey Thorn, pod business, ...
BALLS.377 Not that kind of wicked stepmother
August 06, 2023 02:17 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBThis week: WWC, NBA, crossfit, Crankworx and cricket. Also: Beeso’s grand unified theory of the week, the worst teams imaginable to support, Americans discovering other countries, MJ gap years, pay to play, from a destination to a waypoint, leaving Ohio, The Ocho, barriers to entry, the best of Messi, baseball becomes watchable, ESPN’s NBA coverage becomes listenable, the England bandwagon, Stop Tony 2023, career advice, old men stop interfering with womens’ sport challenge, developing natio...
BALLS.376 Every take is sacred
July 30, 2023 10:20 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MBThis week: Moral victories, Filo facts, increasingly level playing fields, there was some unpleasantness, nine year rebuilds, that’s entertainment, the B-word, a young man from Nantucket, ludicrously optimistic predictions ref. Australia’s second innings potential, arriving at a beige destination in the most colourful way, Mowing Ali, triple Cowans, essence of ASD, insufferable narrative avoidance, partial boycotts, fraternal strays, a different kind of annoying, Kegs McMillan walked so Nei...
tripping balls.355 The BALLS Podcast Permanent Assurance
July 26, 2023 07:50 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBThis week: new albums from PJ Harvey, Skating Polly and Tigercub. Also: free plugs, dead celebrities, painful parental music, ruining your kids’ social standing, creating creative tension, missing the dirt, music for boring tories, cancelled export orders, do or not do, Metric-adjacency, opening premises, know who you are, handstand accompaniment, that’s iron clad that’s a real guarantee, sick airs, confounding bios, competing ethoses, this podcast is old enough to have reviewed the last Blu...
BALLS.375 Grand unedifying theories
July 23, 2023 05:06 - 39 minutes - 36 MBThis week: Men play cricket too, won’t somebody think of the bookmakers, going full Office Space, Kerrve balls, caught in the sludge, vibes jibes, the Pasha Bulker of international cricket, dig your own hole, waiting for 0-27, Jimmy and Stuart are old, honorary Stefanovics, the end of the West Indies, insufferable WWC fanbases, third options and sixth men, Beeso looks things up on the internet, no Scrubbs, the most Canadian looking Canadian, buying the WFT in search of wins, intrinsic roster...
tripping balls.354 If this was different in every way it might be better
July 18, 2023 09:09 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBThis week: new albums from Killer Mike, DZ Deathrays and Royal Thunder. Also: Beeso’s bin on holidays, caping for dumb stuff, herky-jerky flow, not suitable for mixed company, dial-up beats, Americans talking about Nas, anti-ageing remedies, Auntie Sarah and Uncle Tim go on the telly, a conspicuous lack of heavy construction noises, royal decrees, teenage dirtbags, own-brand versions, the Hottest 100 of pub covers bands, the origins of Like A Version, getting carded, Polly amorous, a bit too...
BALLS.374 How big was the trebuchet
July 16, 2023 01:02 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBThis week: Archer S8-10 vibes, Captain Cringe, losing your hat, doing handstands, Messi’s trolley grab, the Ishbia Apron, stop being the KANGZ, bipolar Rockets takes, Dante does Dallas, bad but fun, countering the counters, shorting Porzingis futures, fake Dame trades, successful failsons, our long national nightmare is over, accidental scabbing, Patty’s offseason tour, Chet’s redshirt year, Summer League overreactions, the Blazers move on, grand Pop, Are You More Australian Than Kyrie Irvin...
tripping balls.353 The reverse Def Leppard
July 05, 2023 09:27 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBThis week: new albums from Queens Of The Stone Age, Louise Post and Rival Sons. Also: imperial phases, interesting slabs, disavowing responsibility, superfluous salt, marital strife, Hollywood endings, misunderstanding Everlong, country hats, old man shouts at music, generic Americana, Battlesnake reigns supreme, retweeting praise and capitalism wins again. Next week: DZ Deathrays | Royal Thunder | Killer Mike Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtape The archive: 2015-2022 review a...
BALLS.373 Teach your children well
July 02, 2023 10:42 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBThis week: Dame wants a trade, Harden also wants a trade, Rocket business, FIBA Patty, Dillon can’t ski, running it back, fixing Ayton, too much ball handling, Miami’s next big 3, Sacramento North, Orlando Joe, teach your children well, the next unicorn, Herschelle Gibbs karma, This Is Bazball, feeding KP to a shark, the Dan Vettori revenge tour, preemptive defences, three number 11’s, we found the one guy who cares about WTC points in an Ashes series, replacement level opening, boomer’s a m...
tripping balls.352 Gurning through a troubling movement
June 28, 2023 07:41 - 40 minutes - 37 MBThis week: new albums from Ben Folds, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and The Barnestormers. Also: running to the hills and/or for your life, stop singing, punisher don’t preach, being victimised by your influences, exhaust fumes, playing grown-ups, who does number 2 work for, reptile deplatforming, thrash cosplay, nonagon finito, Captain Planet level subtext, Pinball Dreams guitar, fit but you know it, apocalypse factchecking, genre tourism, screaming about truck drivers, patriarchal speec...
BALLS.372 Half-eaten ham sandwiches and bits of Brad Beal
June 25, 2023 05:26 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBThis week: the NBA draft, the Gradey Dick Experience and England win the Ashes on vibes. Also: Jokic has the trots, post-draft narrative fiction, getting your mates drafted, get a haircut and get a real job, figure skating villains, ESPN won’t get fooled by bad quesadillas again, worst-case slippage, MJ sells up, we were loud wrong, getting ten weeks off, feeding the meter, Dray’s pay day, Expendables vibes, basketball EQ, return of the zombie big men, interviewing Wemby, institutional backb...
tripping balls.351 Hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge
June 20, 2023 09:42 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBThis week: new albums from Swedish desert pummellers Dozer, preposterous Sydney metallurgists Battlesnake and a non stop block of classic rock from the Foo Fighters (BYO icy cold cans of Coke). Also: entirely made of bits, rotating through thrash, short term revivals, lots of riffs jammed into the same space, pace vs heft, astonishing Tay-Tay admissions, creepily accurate predictions, monetised grief, marks out of ten, therapy dumps, unsatisfactory hugs, enough rope, just the drummer in the ...
BALLS.371 Let’s not get into the hydraulics
June 17, 2023 09:37 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBThis week: the end of the NBA and the start of the Ashes, with Doc and Adam. Including: No Mitch policies, reverse Clarrie Grimmetts, the remnants of failed white supremacy, being shouted in and out of ad breaks, too pretty to be captain, variant predictions on the pace and outcome of the first test, compelling the insecurity out of England cricketers, rooted predictions, golden Nuggets, long runups, live wickets, The Bishop, everybody hates their job, the enemy of narrative, western questio...
tripping balls.350 Old mate Barry Tinsnips
June 14, 2023 08:41 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBThis week: new albums from Body Type, scissor sister Jake Shears and the Whatitdo Archive Group. Also: leather preconceptions, Be Here Now Theory, Alley tiny desk sessions, geographical confusion, calling your shot, riding through Studio 54 on a horse, the gold standard for disco whimsy, reading challenges, budget brand spy movies, failed soundtrack pitches, untenable villainy, multiple doomed attempts to ‘bring it back to music’, don’t give Adam ideas, the sciencey bits, Red Rocks Ronseal a...
BALLS.370 Red state search terms
June 12, 2023 02:44 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBThis week: our final takes on finals, of both NBA and World Test Championship varieties. (Or at least our final ones before Beeso flies to Denver to drive the BALLS Bandwagon in the championship parade.) Also: backyard ultramarathon victory laps, adjustments to adjustments, increasingly obscure podium games, facing death to feel alive, Pearce off Jack, size matters, miscast superstars, Jimmy v James, weird flex not OK, wind-sniffing, couldn’t cut it as a Wiseman, comfortable ignorance, sol...
tripping balls.349 The smooth mediocrity of middle age
June 07, 2023 07:45 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week: new albums from Dave Matthews Band, Demob Happy and Kid Koala. Also: Murray Walker music takes, straight shots, no purpose on purpose, Diamond Dave’s Plumbing, three-thirty-itis, lo-fi irritants, confusion and self-indulgence, not Britain’s greatest five years, the Little Simz Effect, amateur rewiring jobs, Melbourne feminist collectives, nominative determinism in 00’s disco, whisky-fuelled research, Foo fears, Primavera primadonnas and the man who clocked the tripping balls album...
BALLS.369 Powerball don’t lie
June 03, 2023 06:09 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBThis week: massive overreactions to one game of the NBA finals. Including: the Nuggets are not the Celtics, Adam Gordon, Min Strus, big bois, 6-9 theory: not so nice, burnt-out Heat, the worst kind of Joker box score, Point Godzilla, slow Italian string-pullers, Malone time, last man standing, Wemby’s people, allegedly not allegedly, salary floors, game seven tickets, Mitsubishi Challenge, VR experiences, small town solicitors, vibrating only on present and future frequencies, desperate in D...
tripping balls.348 The warm cuddle of nostalgia
May 31, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBThis week: all-Aussie adventures in new albuming c/- Private Function, Alex Lahey and BAD//DREEMS. Also: beautiful podcasting, Coldplay tax, throwing change-ups, being confused for an astronaut, a woman out of time, the warm cuddle of nostalgia, ugly but memorable, Mendo on meth, heel turns, failing your children, you’re only as good as your stans, used car dealers, board game soundtracks, lovely bottom ends, terrible sponsor reads, 1998 Triple J Week and an old-school After After Dark on th...
BALLS.348 Embracing your inner dirtbag
May 27, 2023 06:09 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week: the Nuggets bandwagon needs more wagons, the Celtics ruin everyone's jokes and LeBron has an existential crisis. Also: the patriarchy of Double Dragon, Beeso’s hip to be square, live podcast maths, ratings self-flagellation, old takes exposed, the decline of SI, parades of gasbags, Duncan Robinson, the Wile E. Coyote model of gravitation, Malone vs the hot-take military-industrial complex, Denver’s fourth assistant coach, bludging on the blindside, spicy Nuggets Heat, vacation dis...
tripping balls.347 We got ourselves a horse race
May 23, 2023 08:37 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBThis week: new albums from Olivia Jean, Danava and Fred Again with Brian Eno. Also: orchestra hits, Goldilocks week, aggressive spacing, energy vampires, coke and Moogs, Balkan Eurovision, making metal great again, the Auld Beeso Checklist, dark timeline B52s, thirty-five year grudges against Clannad alumni, bangers defined, earworm resistance, havin’ a geez, down on Australia, Tim Rogers cosplay, taking bullets, house party of my youth areas and constructive performance reviews. Next week...
BALLS.367 The Jimmy Butler All Stars
May 20, 2023 05:44 - 52 minutes - 48 MBThis week: the beginning of the Conference Finals, the end of the Process, the indefinite pause of Ja Morant’s career, Beeso’s big weekend at the U20 touch world cup and seriously what kind of absolute psychopath watches ‘The Town’ four times a week. Also: put on that red light, coaching challenges, Boston cosplay, performative therapy, impermissable benefits, parking fines, winning quarters, BAH GAWD THAT’S SCOTT FOSTER’S MUSIC, teams who are about to make a series of really stupid decisi...
tripping balls.346 Why can I smell burnt toast
May 16, 2023 10:38 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBThis week: new albums from The National, Fake Names and Metallica. Also: ABBA commercials, party political statements, compromising photos, why people take drugs, OK boomer, Suzuki Mighty Boys, unexplored literary references, Spoon men, the high floor of pop punk, my mourning song, no need for term two, self-help for teens, getting value from your CD-R, power dirges, snare sounds solved, no-repeat weekends, compensating for incompetence, a looming presence from the bottom end, worse versions...
BALLS.366 Getting suplexed by a Bond villain
May 14, 2023 08:25 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBThis week: the Suns set in the West, over-prescriptive All-NBA targets, doing it for the culture, staying humble, are we still making Lonnies, Knicks vs heat, Schroedinger’s squads, guys and dudes, the East were frauds all along, parity parties, Dubs post-mortems, the Two Bronnies, basketball karma, not in Utah any more, the Matthew Dellavedova appreciation hour, haunted by a robot, unbiased opinions on David Warner’s test spot, professionally bored Englishwomen, Roy Symonds: science communi...
tripping balls.345 Stealing Kurt Cobain’s Lego set
May 09, 2023 09:13 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBThis week: new albums from The Heavy, Laurel Canyon and Ghost Woman. Also: whisky of the month, entirely to spec, Stuart the highway, banned from the pod, first track syndrome, random C90s your uncle dubbed, many dudes with MPCs, Doc insults the neurotypicals, getting all your new music recs from Beeso, going too hard too early, forgetting all Adam’s ancestral titles, collectors’ item snipings, why so much heat, Scandinavian loudness, sounding like 1982 and a bonus tight five from Beeso’s C...
BALLS.365 Cue the Jaws music
May 06, 2023 05:34 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBThis week in the NBA playoffs: styles make fights, all guards all the time, running isn’t everything, Xs and Os, running your own stuff, the Big Sam World Tour, rewarded for learning nothing, the Spo Iron Chef Challenge, not under any circumstances, rings for departed friends, Most Valuable Pants, participation medals, the New Official Team of the BALLS Podcast, not the Suns’ year, reaching the youth, not being friends with Dan Gilbert, Knicks-Heat, suiting-up the Zamboni driver, we need to ...
tripping balls.344 Concept over execution
May 02, 2023 10:08 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBThis week: new albums from Bass Drum Of Death, The Black Delta Movement and El Michels Affair & Black Thought. Also: speaking clocks, the Westfield school of album production, learning nothing, Beeso reads bios, having a Barrie, fixing NFL Sunday, back of a length, Jazzamatazz, Danger Mouse grudges, Commitments house bands, Asheton-worshipping hazes, absolute flutes, two-name two-pieces, putting the mid in midweek, reruns, sleep debt, Australian philosophers, one-armed timpanists, and that ...
BALLS.364 Eurostepping into memeland
April 28, 2023 22:58 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThis week: what a day in the NBA, as the first round thunders to a close like an out-of-control freight train ploughing into the buffers. Also: cosa significa ‘farken’?, bogan vs cletus weddings, the Bucks stop here, performatively terrified professional Bostonians, not good enough to have your own merch, Bud v Spo, Jimmy the Greek, fragile parity, Traeme Time, a bit too much Dillon Brooks, completely bereft of takes, bottle episodes, World Cup shop windows, you had a good go of it Kings tha...
tripping balls.343 Tom Waits for no man
April 18, 2023 20:36 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBThis week: new albums from Mudhoney, Frenzal Rhomb and Sarah and the Safe Word. Also: justice for Milli Vanilli, Beeso fails to do crimes properly, 1986 Tipper Gore energy, Ronseal gifs, shouts to David Foster, old mates on Facebook, never had so much fun, now and then, Judg(e)ment Night, Sir Mix-A-Lot stays on message, life is a cabaret, rock eisteddfod vibes, bah gawd that’s TikTok’s music, seamless recovery, the Al Michaels Affair and no seriously did no other adults under the age of 55 h...