The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)
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BALLS.363 Straight to the Hague
April 15, 2023 09:01 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThis week: Beeso and Doc ask if the travesties committed against basketball in this week’s play-in games have changed how you think the NBA playoffs will turn out. Also: dodging skinfold tests the Beenleigh way, coming round to LeBron’s way of thinking, the only media voice brave enough to speak out against screaming 9 year olds at basketball games, taking advantage of Canadians, affronts against the eyeballs, passive-aggressive voice, Tampa trauma, Nurse vacancies, coaches mostly make no di...
tripping balls.342 Being shouted at by angry Welshmen
April 13, 2023 06:22 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBThis week: new albums from Black Honey and Grade 2, EPs from FIDLAR and Only Fools And Corpses, focused on excess, fifth through tenth seeds, bad with genres, being shouted at by angry Welshmen, Letterkenny algorithms, pop filters, grading on a scale, preformed gigs, diminishing returns, manic pixie sad indie dream girls, delayed deliveries, words Doc cannot say, bands Mrs Beeso cannot play, Garage Days Re-Re-Revisited and pensioner nap eras. Next week’s albums: Frenzal Rhomb | Sarah and th...
BALLS.362 Five firsts and a one-way ticket to CDG
April 11, 2023 00:10 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MBThis week: Beeso, Doc and Adam recap a batplop-crazy final day of the NBA regular season and preview the play-in and playoffs. Also: the BALLS pre-production meetings of NBA games, go back where you came from, Mavs karma, sorry Kangz, Denver chooses to meander, the Russ Experience, wargaming the West, one-game vs seven-game teams, Zion’s not walking through that door, Kyrie’s next deal, Cuban in a hot dog suit, never had so much fun, Spo has no chill, the Shannon Sharpe Clasico, beams gonna...
tripping balls.341 Not making the playoffs
April 05, 2023 08:20 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBThis week: new albums from Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Hello Mary and Laid Back Country Picker. Also: commercial radio is the same old song, first Blood, vale Uncle Doug, the Dallas Mavericks of 2023 albums, vibes > concepts, finding Beeso's OG-one Kinobe, the hint was in the bio, lowered expectations, wacky homicides, live in Denver, the Eve 6 of Adelaide, statues of limitation, Crow throwbacks, the kids are alright, landing the plane, six jokers, craft beer recipes, writing stuff down, probb...
BALLS.361 There’s no booze for second
April 01, 2023 02:56 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThis week: Rick Pitino ain’t walking through that door, did everyone lose the Luka-Trae trade, Beeso fixes the Mavs with the power of the internet, vibes > coaching, galaxy brain approaches to avoiding suspensions in the playoffs, SEGABABApocalyse now, tactical tank warfare, learning absolutely nothing from Bucks-Celtics, fantasy booking KANGZ-Lakers, distrusting the zombie Heat, re-upping mediocrity, winning from the play-in, it’s Austin Reaves’ team now, the LeBron of feet, PatBev’s niche ...
tripping balls.340½ Somebody thinks it’s good
March 29, 2023 07:01 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBHalf an After Dark from Adam and the Doc on dropping mics, washed legacy acts, covers music as a service, potty mouthed grey nomads, going off your cornflakes, Beyawnce, the Muppet Show doesn’t talk to kids, TISM on Hey Hey, learning new words, the Unit 25 tour, the Pleasantville effect, bad hiphop and yacht rock, and the most ironic complaint about professional broadcasting standards ever recorded. Next week’s albums: Hello Mary | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Laid Back Country Picker Spotify...
BALLS.360 Seven (hundred) Up
March 26, 2023 02:56 - 51 minutes - 47 MBThis week: Beeso goes on strike, calling the wins pool, the 1990s Queensland school system, getting what you wanted, doing anything to keep your head above water, parity vs mediocrity, wake up AD you’re missing all the fun now, the sweaty centre, comings and goings, Luka slander, contractually obligated Thunder chat, the Griz without Ja, getting sued by Working Dog, the Mavs be Mavving, the Haaland of techs, live updates, refusing to acknowledge you are from Redcliffe, distrusting the Sixers...
tripping balls.340 Heyyy Lower Tamborine Man
March 22, 2023 07:53 - 25 minutes - 23 MBThis week: new albums from Gaz Coombes, The Subways and Nia Archives. Also: tired Gen X dads, an impersonation of an impersonation, 1950s skiffle, corporate indie pop, this isn’t Steel Panther, the history of the Amen Break, shouts to ASIO, corny dad raps, weirdo side projects, swimming pools ’n’ movie stars, Kentucky fried pickin’, Nextmen mashups, one foot in the truckstop, banjo drivebys, death to ums, it’s all Beenleigh, million dollar Commodores and more copycat killers. Next week’s al...
BALLS.359 Big Baller binned
March 19, 2023 00:42 - 36 minutes - 33 MBThis week: the worst month of NBA twitter, Netflix plastics, random D-list American celebrities at domestic soccer matches, four nights in Denver, noone wants to leave home in the west, Dame vs ringzzzz, it’s all MJ’s fault, the Wally Lewis Effect, how LeBron can end the GOAT debate, nervous titters in the East, not the full butterfly effect, the Thunder are happening dot gif, the play-in’s victory lap, you can’t spell Nuggets without (a)ngst, possessions only, rehabilitation parades, what e...
tripping balls.339 Science is for cowards
March 14, 2023 22:43 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBThis week: new albums from Westing, Lucero and Steel Panther. Also: the nut behind the wheel, zero entendre, get a warrant, easily amused, the album of 1987, the Hot Fuzz theory of glam metal revivalists, graffiti appreciators, our 2016 Led Zep classic albums ep, same note too bro, D-Gen parodies, little ditties, getting fooled by the internet, Liberation 2 Tripping Balls 0, going full Norwegian, our late-90s one-hit wonder of the week, grating Greta, hot desking, hanging out in the subconti...
BALLS.358 A Becks and a good lie down
March 11, 2023 04:33 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week: The new Shaun Marsh, deliberately stupid batting stances, Knicks casuals, less talk more basketball, the dumbest smart NBA player, syphilis vs chlamydia areas, the Western conference sick bay, Steve Bowl-mer, confected race wars, unconsious bias vs conscious stupidity, a loaf of bread in a septic tank, don’t smoke peyote before Instagram Lives, Ja Morant is a knob, leader of the Pack, insufficient daddying, everybody lost the trade deadline, dream chat, what happened to the Celtic...
tripping balls.338 Running up the score
March 08, 2023 09:25 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBThis week: new albums from Gorillaz, Shame and Death Valley Girls. Also: you’ve lost that drinking feeling, grand unified theories, degrees of listenability, collaboration saturation, Flimsy Steve, the worm guy, other people’s drugs, sacrificial vocals, not looking for new friends, not looking to upset old friends, inexplicable Slowthai love, single entendres, Batman Forever wasn’t, flute solos, our soundtrack special actually began episode 150 and ran for a couple of weeks, Tommy Raudonikis...
BALLS.357 Defence, midrange, grit and gurning at people
March 05, 2023 02:44 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBThis week: unrecordable thoughts on likeable Knicks, indefensible Blazers, breaking-bad Morant, weak West, universally-adaptive Durant, undefeated Bucks, flatulent Hollinger, small-market Celtics, haunting Heat, circus-handle Randle, the secret to playoff success, NBATV-avoiding Cavs, ubiquitous wrestling references, onanistic blue-ticks, ayahuasca-dabbling Simmons, future-facing Nets, racist Kendrick bars, gegenpressing Russ, self-slicing Jokic, self-sabotaging US player development, handsy...
tripping balls.337 Belligerently talking about new music to the detriment of our own sanity
February 28, 2023 22:16 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBThis week: new albums from old-school house heads Orbital, Northern doomslayers Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and Auerbach throwbacks The Arcs. Also: specific conceits, the evolutionary tree of sludge, clubhouse leaders, what’s the frequency, plumber from another mother, Sleaford ubiquity, urban renewal ASMR, a man out of time, period dressups, very solid plays, two Skrillex albums too many, albums we should have an opinion on, one-line Wiki bios, nü-metal facial hair and the Bluesfesti...
BALLS.356 MCC… welcome to the revolution
February 25, 2023 03:41 - 33 minutes - 31 MBThis week: A call for calm, thoughts with the Cumminses, the Ian Healy Batting Masterclass, Dan Ledecky, Beeso gets ghosted, Atlanta’s coaching search, not doing it for the ‘gram, that photo was actually from the 2013-14 Hawks who went 38-44, Prunty Time, unenthused by All Star, Balkan reunions, shouts to Doogie Howser, no shouts to Shaedon Sharpe, massive overreactions to one night of basketball, who is Pat Simmons, Russ plus-minus, pray for Victor and declaring a national holiday for (most...
tripping balls.336 Never getting past the pre-drinks
February 21, 2023 07:22 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBThis week’s albums: Portland weirdos Quasi, Birdman rally monkeys CIVIC and Scandiwegian metal veterans In Flames. Also: bass drum of butthurt, unmodified thrash, Roxette covers, dumped at Pipe, keeping it 100, shouts to Anthony, there is no try, organ work, it’s always 1995 in Portland, stealth legacy side projects, reverse trilogies, winery tour club nights, seven little pigs, blue keys, all about that brass, parenting goals, shoehorning gratuitous mentions of Beeso’s charity masochism int...
BALLS.355 You do it to yourself, and that’s what really hurts
February 19, 2023 00:39 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThis week in sport: clock management, why is Skip Bayliss, is anyone that bothered about All Star, RIP the TNT Bulls, #DocMisreadsGraphs, scraping the bottom of the buyout bargain bin, looking for Love in all the wrong places, the absolute state of MVP absolutes, the rabbit holes are bigger in Utah, the Simmons discourse, Tasmanian fauna, the underestimation of Steven Adams, the Blazerfication of the Mavs, it’s a Tankathon not a sprint, Kawhi’s trade market, new Astro Boy 5s just dropped, yo...
tripping balls.335 Blame Fat Possum
February 15, 2023 08:49 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBThis week in tunes: new albums from old heads Iggy Pop, Belle and Sebastian and Moby. Also: 24 hour party people, long Covid, menu screen music, tuberculosis vectors, encouraging throwbacks, hurt in the garage, twee as a service, hop country, getting deplatformed by St Vincent, learning with Wikipedia, why is Slowthai, ratbag 70s throwback stuff, judging an album by its cover, some of Pitchfork’s finest work, Mogadon infinity, inauspicious starts, portents of the end days and Hank Shapiro. ...
BALLS.354 Five seconds or less
February 11, 2023 06:01 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBThis week: laying landmines for lefties, the enemy of Dan Gilbert is my friend, Maccas vs Rockpool, seconds out, KD’s market value, the Nets’ undo button, more wings than Buffalo, disagreeing with Zach Lowe, Simmons’ Pirlo role, the DLo-Rudy weird-off, who stops the Suns, Bonesless Nuggets, Memphis grizzles, two shooters in Dallas, plugs at the end, RIP the east being better than the west late 2022 - early 2023, Takeshi’s Castle Portland Edition, what are these people doing, ill-timed pensio...
BALLS.353 Kyriediculousness
February 05, 2023 09:08 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBThis week: living that RIC3 life, broken by the process, hiding behind Bob Marley GIFs, trading all your problems to LA, the Vivek-Boehly scale of desperation, deferring to chunky Balkans, ruining everyone’s year, sympathy for the Nets, getting banned from Orlando, earned disrespect, soggy middles, rebuilding the 2014 Blazers for a third time, getting shopped in fake trades, Bob Myers farewell gifts, Bones and Barnes, let's name young Kings, preseason cemetery darts, participation prerequisi...
tripping balls.334 A moron that needs to be fed to a shark
February 01, 2023 03:53 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBExit music for a year: this week we put a bow on 2022 via a tour through the year-end album lists of the likes of Pitchfork, the Guardian, NME, Rolling Stone, various J’s and others. Mentioned in dispatches: Wet Leg, Spacey Jane, King Stingray, Beyonce, Kendrick, Bob Vylan, Arctic Monkeys, Danger Mouse + Black Thought, the Bobby Lees, the Black Keys, Yard Act, the Weeknd, Wu-Lu, Nova Twins, Sudan Archives, Big Thief, Rosalia and the 1975. Shouts to Kerrang, you the real MVPs. 2023 starts now...
BALLS.352 Give it a rest
January 29, 2023 01:34 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBBack for 2023, Beeso and Dr Yobbo do their best to feign interest in the All Star starters, the pointlessness of coaching, players’ favourites, the unattractiveness of Trae and Atlanta, rolling Thunder, Delly vs Giddey, ridiculous Kings, ironic Reschs, weird mobs, frustrated chemists, blame management for load management, the case for 72 games, the MLS model, creating a new thing that is also important, bubble basketball, Dolan’s trivial grievances, valiant Pacers, knowing when to hold ‘em a...
tripping balls.333 Two bob watch: who gets our album of the year for 2022?
January 11, 2023 03:27 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBThe annual highlight of our new music review show: our end-of-year AOTY special, showcasing the best from what we listened to this year. Each year we listen to a hundred or more new albums, and each year since 2018 we haven't had a single top five album in common. Will this change in 2022? Would I have mentioned it if not? Or is this just an elaborate double bluff?? Also: that’s nice dear, the benefits of Jokerfication, Doc's bangers blog, Beeso’s Simz angst, prequels > sequels, the iron fis...
BALLS.351 Getting on the darts
January 07, 2023 01:40 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBThis week: Snyder cuts, going ham, nine dart finishes, filthy casuals, the Suns sink in the west, starting a fight in an empty room, all the voices, the Rob Lowe post, surviving major outs, unsung heroes, the Lakers bump, the East exists, Tankwatch, Tintin slander, Fidler on the roof, the fourth Musketeer, what happened to Boston’s defence, meanwhile in the wins pool, Cricket Australia gets back with its probbo ex, weird people cheering for less BBL, the BALLS Clasico and the Real Housewives...
tripping balls.332 The R’s fell out of it
December 31, 2022 04:58 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week: our final new albums of 2022 courtesy Hermanos Gutiérrez, Vero and Alien Nosejob. Also: Cocktail hour, the mighty ‘buch, phat Alberts, the winner of Beatles vs Stones, this died in the R’s, last pick remorse, differences of opinion, best vs most important, Maverick and Mimi, singlehandedly keeping the practical effects industry alive, the_blues_respecter logs on, presumptive tiering, 99 not out, could you be any more Guardian, Serious High-level Intensive Trial research, this isn’...
BALLS.350 I like watching dunks
December 26, 2022 00:08 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBThis week: Regressive professionalism, tales of Woj, allegedly unallegedly, perineum confusion, different levels of understanding, tiering the title contenders, the new king of New York, a trade away, Magic City, DNP (busted head), potential vs actual ooze, you are very unattractive basketball, taking the wrong message from 2019, a bad year to schedule bad Xmas Day games, selling the Suns, shut up and business, Messi areas, World Cup final <<< Carabao Cup round of 16 and drillcore disco dong...
tripping balls.331 Do it on your own time
December 21, 2022 20:23 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week in music: new Little Simz, Tropical Gothclub and dub-remixed Spoon. Also: rubbing Sault into the wound, beats and loops and twinkles and goops and burps and blurps, straying further from the light, stump mic bars, everyone’s getting a three piece together, high school musical, lightly breathed-on, third strips, unexpected crossovers, bits that fell out of other recording sessions, Duolingo Beeso, Swedish insurance, everyone else’s AOTYs, the time limit on rap album skits, RTJ revis...
BALLS.349 If this is your entry point, we’re sorry
December 18, 2022 01:48 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBThis week in sport: attracting new listeners, airbrushed roads, #HeadBall, spectacular failures, bowling captains, the only smart person in England, pool rehab 1982 style, Fat Cat has no friends, the wrong kind of mentorship, flat track bullies, ten Thunders, time and opportunity, beaten by the bench, efficiency landscapes, underestimating Jokic, running to space, statistical anomalies, I was saying Boo-ston, the new golden era Spurs, maths ain’t lying, Bull markets, the Lakers have interest...
tripping balls.330 It broke my brain
December 15, 2022 09:52 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBThis week: new releases from These New South Whales, Body Type and 3rd Secret. Also: no taste, no joke, grimcore, trying a bunch of stuff, top quartile albums, Led Zeppelin 3.1, picking albums yet to exist, punctuation correction, Doc’s annual RTJ3 AOTY rant, down for dub, pre-podcast albums, deep Third Man, confused convictions and unnecessarily lengthy yet arguably entertaining After Darks looking at our review year in review. Next week: new albums from Little Simz, Tropical Gothclub and...
BALLS.348 Concrete progress for Australian football
December 11, 2022 06:35 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBThis week: no minute highlights, hard core derbies, trophy giveaways, speedway shirts, our new Pelican overlords, where’s Dante, it’s nice when both your legs work, intermittent backness, the King of Broadway, pointless lifting, boomer-adjacent takes, comparative squishiness, Ayton Centre, avoiding obvious jokes, dribbling suck, retained for marketing purposes, beam-positive podcasting, South Beach flu, strength of schedule, Warner narratives, a real ambassador for rugby league, real crimes,...
tripping balls.329 Hey Google, ruin dad’s Spotify algorithm
December 07, 2022 07:59 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBThis week in tunes: new albums from blues youngblood Marcus King, chunky jumper prog exponents Polyphia and post-punk’s Paranoyds. Also: rubbing off, less than rapt with Spotify Wrapped, Doc’s 30 Albums Worth A Second Listen list, premature recommendation, review filibustering, not a vegan but well off-chops, every album is a genre piece, eating too much cake mix, abstract and illegible, 1992 amounts of slap bass, it’s been a long year, only three listening weeks till Christmas, TISM as a se...
BALLS.347 The children are our future
December 03, 2022 10:27 - 37 minutes - 34 MBThis week: Surrendering on Thursdays, who else ya got, gang of youths, Killian them softly, Trevor Ariza slander, downward trajectory reps, Elon Musk’s internet, reality bites, the plural of anecdote is not data, internet notoriety, being right about Ye, CP3 ring-chasing, karmic paybacks, the Heat is off, the Pacers are real?, Bobcatting your season, duelling media darlings, long-bow World Cup metaphors, where’s Kawhally, Steve Ballmer’s cinematic debut, Europe doesn’t travel, do it for Char...
BALLS.346 It’s been weird but it’s been good
November 27, 2022 02:05 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBThis week: Doc and Adam celebrate Australia still being in the world cup, dedication to the cause, snappy pregames, moral quandaries ruining entertainment, the NBA is weird, early concession speeches, our favourite terrible team, the New Orleans Olmates, Canadian tax, a third visit to the last chance saloon, trading bits of your future for more of your now, repping the KANGZ, World Expo 88 light shows, 10-9 vibes, was Rudy the problem, the Ben Simmons renaissance, chalk predictions, heating ...
tripping balls.328 Disagreeably milquetoast
November 23, 2022 07:17 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week in tunes: new Black Angels and Emancipator, and near-new Dub Garden. Also: bad website death watch, Elon’s newest customer, episode 12, copyright issues, surf roadie soundtracks, failing to secure the bag, day into night, off the plan, DUB101, got milk, background briefing, the Auerbach Cosign, Steve Vai sightings, drunk in Sheffield, everything is awesome, devo’d, large chunky guitars, past performance is not an indicator of future performance, closing down Vegas, the biggest band...
BALLS.345 Kings for a day, KANGZ for a lifetime
November 19, 2022 23:13 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBThis week: some basketball happens, fragile Balls, Dubs taking neither the high road nor the low road, pickup PTSD, young professionals, Weekly Wemby Watch, basketball astrology, spare musketeers, double agent Poku, it’s compressed in the West, parity vs mediocrity, the end of cheap wins, five more in a row, Turner and Hield, Wiseman and Kuminga, wasting old people’s time, the UD of Oz, verballing your teammates, Ben Simmons has a good day, Kyrie Irving Geopolitics Corner, skipping the socce...
tripping balls.327 A little less narcolepsy, a little more action please
November 16, 2022 08:22 - 20 minutes - 19 MBThis week in music: new albums from DARTZ, Dazy and Loyle Carner. Also: phantom albums, a little bit eeeehhh a little bit meeeehhh, bogan cosplay, Deja Voodoo deja vu, the not-for-me bucket, extremely 1995 areas, being derelict in your duties, self-explanatory Graun reviews, #KNIFECRIME, wet simps, wild colonials, Angels 1 Witches 0, the Black Lees, shirt retirements, sleeping giants, #DocReadsBios and pre-purchase buyers’ remorse. Next week: new Black Angels and Emancipator, and near-new D...
BALLS.344 There’s a fine line between stupid and clever
November 13, 2022 00:58 - 53 minutes - 49 MBThis week: the Nets find a coach, interim greybeards, full cookers, concentric Venns, powder and cartilage, Kawhi’s hourly rate, Steve Guttenberg’s masterwork, Ant can’t jump, the 25 win tank ceiling, Shaedon-freude, return of the Kings, tank job inside men, the most .500 team imaginable, hovering weirdness, ignoring Utah and Portland, on the fly rebuilds, there is almost nothing left to lose, hot in the city editions tonight, too many Bucks jerseys, the Ken Done of Brooklyn, CLTcoin, phoned...
tripping balls.326 My work here is done
November 08, 2022 22:24 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBThis week in music: new albums from Wu-Lu, THE BOBBY LEES and Sonic Flower. Also: playing chicken, tiers for fears, selective dementia, drive-thru recommendations, spacetime invariance, participation prerequisites, 90s speakers, unpaid promotional considerations, pachyderm confusion, impossibly liff-raden, we’ve all got stuff going on, blog ideas, Mikayla Patton, hair metal diss tracks, finding fault, punisher albums, other audio brands are available, prequels before sequels, which witch is ...
BALLS.343 I’m stupid so I persist (the BALLS Podcast story)
November 04, 2022 23:56 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBThis week: periodic competence, a week on Harden’s knee, the Liz Truss of the NBA, apologies aimed at avoiding two weeks of HR seminars, arguing with spiralling children, tired takes about KD’s shoe size, the Spiderman meme school of firefighting, redrafting the draft, Charles Sturt cops strays, unseen hands of redistributive economics, success ballast, Russ saves the Lakers, googling how to delete someone else’s tweets, the dark side of the Spurs, the Berlin 1936 of World Cups, the end of T...
tripping balls.325 We strive for excellence
October 26, 2022 07:49 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBThis week in tunes: new albums from Clutch, Big Scary and Eve 6. Also: Back of the Y areas, a lot of big and dumb, grifting the grifters, more songs about having crabs, pedal faster, failed sales jobs, the soundtrack of seasonal affective disorder, claiming it into existence, goodnight Springton there will be no encore, not caring enough to do the background reading, the spacetime constraints of trip-hop, ALL CAPS ENERGY, the Horizon has not been defeated, slash artists, planned obsolescence...
BALLS.342 Massive overreactions to half a week of basketball
October 22, 2022 06:05 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBIn which we provide massive overreactions to half a week of basketball. Also: extended preseasons, confident opinions on games neither of us watched, Danny has work to do, unifying your team against you, game 7 scars, explaining away losses for teams you like, a freight train down the lane, Dyson Daniels gets more minutes on this pod than on the court, denying Adam his minute of gloating, putting diesel in a petrol car, you need more stuff, OKC continue to perfect the tank job, the new Ben...
tripping balls.324 I support the movement but the content is punishing
October 19, 2022 07:41 - 29 minutes - 27 MBThis week in music: new albums from Troy Kingi, Pabst and Broken Bells. Also: flute solos, step back in time, in jokes you aren’t in on, sit Ubu sit, wishcasting collabs, can openers, the inherent value in decency, urology referrals, conventional weapons, shimmery pop, getting on the spirit vegetables, can 90s pop punk bands have a classic lineup, album reviews in the form of tweets, Wurzels earworms, terminating lantana with extreme prejudice, Butch Viggo, missing the subtext, cancelling cu...
BALLS.341 We’re all trying to find the guy that did this
October 16, 2022 08:26 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBHalf a week from the start of the new NBA season (and a week from our annual 'massive overreactions to half a week of the new NBA season' special) Doc and Beeso get into hanging a banner for the play-in, the wrong sort of rebuild, hating on all the teams you didn’t draft and talking up all the teams you did, Jared Dudley in being Jared Dudley shock, the house always wins, being unreasonably Knicks-positive, making a statement, a man in a hot dog suit, 97.9% might have been an underestimate, ...
tripping balls.323 Every superhero has an origin story
October 13, 2022 18:54 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week in music: new albums by the Beths, Psychlona and King Stingray. Also: slagging off ESPN podcast production values, two-tone season, setting appropriate expectations, doin’ it live, vocal mismatches, things bist lift to rot, c’mon Ozzy, the rather swollen elephant in the room, nominative determinism goes horribly wrong, music to operate heavy machinery to, too many NBA analogies, Gizzard drivebys, too broke for yacht rock, breaking through the fourth wall like the Kool-Aid man, lega...
BALLS.340 Somebody's got to lose and it may as well be you (NBA season preview 2022-23)
October 09, 2022 09:06 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBThis week: it’s that time of year again when Doc, Beeso and Adam preview the new season by drafting teams for their annual BALLS Podcast NBA Wins Pool. Listen and enjoy as Australasia's Most Knicks-Positive NBA-Adjacent Podcast™ fights over who ends up having to pick them in the draft. Again. Also: the benefits of rank homerism, shouts to Radelaide, Craig’s Mowing, secret sounds, repeating the mistakes of the past, friends don’t punch friends in the head, picking on Mabo, building bridges, ...
tripping balls.322 News for the near-dead
September 28, 2022 08:41 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThis week: OZZY! PUPPY! DOC! ADAM! NOT AS MUCH SHOUTING AS THESE CAPS WOULD SUGGEST! Also: the golden age of 30 second sketch comedy, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated, fishing for a point, more fluid than Jeff Beck, lying snowblind in the sun, featuring nobody, post Post Malone, get off my lawn areas, recurring Siamese dreams, Vulgar Displays of Pantera, songs with bad ideas, ten internet points to anyone who guessed the track Doc was thinking of was Cherub Rock, Taco Bell e...
BALLS.339 This is going to go very badly but I’m going to do it anyway
September 24, 2022 05:27 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThis week with Adam and the Doc: buying the Suns in order to fill it with players Beeso hates, ESPN’s annual NBArank troll job, putting in that work at work, avoiding admin the Zach Lowe way, Ben Simmons talks, Covid Age fatigue, the real reason for the Celtics’ midseason run, trade calls, juicing your own rebound stats, the poos-and-wees live up to their brand, scrotal fungicide, no pride in Brookie, Celtic pride, Baynes of the Bullets, John hits the Wall, CTE is coming for the NRL, Roger a...
tripping balls.321 Detroit rock city
September 21, 2022 07:19 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBThis week: box-fresh 2022 releases from Kenny Beats, the Schizophonics and Dub War. Also: one direction, Cymru Hill, period pieces, straight to Netflix, odd one out, pointless pastiches, the whitest imaginable genre, travelling through time, live admin, Beth Rammstein, a bit sharky, edit shed interludes and magic 8-balls. Next week: new Ozzy and Puppy with Adamhfoto; Beeso’s back in a couple of weeks with new Beths, Psychlona and King Stingray. Recent review albums can be found on our album...
BALLS.338 House of the Swamp Dragons
September 18, 2022 05:12 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBThis week: Good news for people who love bad news, historical accuracy, coaches mic’d up, the VR46 of women’s basketball, the owner of Beeso’s NBA team is a reprehensible scumbag, Franz Wagner’s time to shine, billionaires are bad, bad train analogies, RIP Tjarks, stoned shed convos, Late Night with Marco Tardelli, Todd Boehly disproves zero stereotypes, holidays from thinking, Royalist Ray, never go full AFL, a collection of failed openers, power ranKings and tweet of the night. BALLS and ...
tripping balls.320 Straight Outta Coolum
September 15, 2022 08:14 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBThis week: new albums from the Chats, Danger Mouse + Black Thought and Kasabian. Also: second verse same as the first, country Straya is fash, not for me Clive, the most unlikely Chats fangirls in all of music, born like this, surf cops, bedcasting, rank long hops, traditional marriage, impending doom, who produces the producers, eight seconds or less, answers to questions nobody asked, URL fails and 90s TMNTer or Red Bull athlete? Next week: Kenny Beats, the Schizophonics and Dub War. Rece...