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.337 Bringing gegenpressing to the under 8’s
September 04, 2022 09:45 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBThis week: counterattacking rabbit holes, Beeso’s Coaching Corner, nothing stops football, por que no los dos, load up, the new SEXLAND, a brief detour into tripping balls areas, it’s Davey Dum Dum’s fault, really liking cricket, BBL draft why, breaking news, saving it for the group chat, inexplicably deciding to defend Danny effing Ainge, newsflash: man honours contract, the Nets having to invent new and bizarre ways to suck, doing not much well, 100% grain-fed beef, 2022’s Breece Rude, Eur...
tripping balls.319 Rogue bungling and justifiable dragging
August 24, 2022 07:01 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBThis week: new albums from Beyoncé, Black Midi and Nebula. Also: another brick in the wall, AI side projects, a man of many parts, voice of the Beyhive, Getty archive beats, putting the mid in midrange, Gizzard completists, Crow bars, our large round number soundtrack special (and its two sequels), yet another thing millennials killed, from beyond the grave, UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT-LEFT-RIGHT-B-A, Happyland erosion, sucking the air out of the room, getting written out of history, DIY joke...
BALLS.336 BAH GAWD, THAT’S THE BALLS PODCAST’S MUSIC
August 21, 2022 09:22 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBWe’re… back? This week in sport: books bought solely to be in Zoom backgrounds, playing boring cricket slowly, Beezball, Big Baller Bron, this guy can Scoot, Deadfall vs the house of Saud, the Q Cup of the NFL, Christmas Day showdowns, making yourself scarce, the Ringer attempts to talk sokkah, a good year, benchmarking the general level of Argentine national team coaching, have Essendon sacked their coach yet, keep Walkering, shooting All Blanks, walking fridge magnets, tissue culture tips,...
tripping balls.318 The Lemmy Kilminster School of Cello
August 17, 2022 09:07 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBThis week: new albums from grunge grrls Momma, Glaswegian kiss-and-tellers Baby Strange and Britpop afterthoughts Kula Shaker. Also: mindworms, Nigerian patois, massive generalised statements about this year’s music, the ceiling is the roof, as cool as Kim Deal, sell out with me tonight, you had a good go at it thanks for your input, shouts to Subaru wagons, concepts nobody asked for, the downside of the democratisation of music resourcing, songs about A-roads, roast lamb battles, indulgent ...
tripping balls.317 Grand unified theories of music
July 28, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBThis week: new albums from Canadian indie kids Metric, midwest thunderlords Telekinetic Yeti and Swedish weirdbirds Viagra Boys. Also: ASMR-souls, head cleaner, imperial measures, sub-prime La Roux, dominant backlines, cubic metres of noise, unseen outside captivity, not quite a tiny desk, variations on a theme, do your own research, old people music, stolen MIND THOUGHTS, dogs needing oil, strange babies, the least worst of late Britpop, bad places to consume all your stash, the only winner...
Tripping balls 316.Playing the Dunedin beer festival
July 22, 2022 06:25 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBThis week: new albums courtesy Little Boots, Oceanator and Black Seeds. also setting the tone, Super Hard No, have to enjoy the good stuff while you have it, long walks, yes, no, maybe, the bad batting of albums, into the foreground, Brisbane council minutae everyone loses, The U2, just give me the album, it’ll be on Spotify, or will it? Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our...
tripping balls.316 Playing the Dunedin beer festival
July 22, 2022 06:25 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBThis week: new albums courtesy Little Boots, Oceanator and Black Seeds. also setting the tone, Super Hard No, have to enjoy the good stuff while you have it, long walks, yes, no, maybe, the bad batting of albums, into the foreground, Brisbane council minutae everyone loses, The U2, just give me the album, it’ll be on Spotify, or will it? Current and recent weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with ou...
tripping balls.315 Failed by the algorithm
July 06, 2022 10:32 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBThis week: new albums courtesy Nova Twins, Kaelin Ellis and Adrian Quesada. Also: blame the Guardian, no metal is better than nü metal, party movies, sunglasses-on apologies, doing bits, finding yourself through Son House cosplay, making up backstories to keep yourself interested, niche-on-niche, Triple J whimperpop, doing your research, La asteRoux, the Indiana Pacers of BBQ reggae, Matariki explained, Frank Bennett remembered, an op-shop hop with Pop and getting SEO’d out of existence. N...
BALLS.335 I’ve been peaking
July 03, 2022 05:26 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBThis week: Action and drama and Club Tropicana as Kyrie opts in, KD opts out and Dray shakes it all about. Also: Doc finally learns mic technique, leave all this in, transfer requests, putting the K in Lakers, solving your problems at premium expense, Ringles > Woj, Gobert Island, getting into the conversation, Denver and the last dinosaur, very very large super-dunky mans, glorious packages, always use protection, Dray is already old media, Vegas knows, nice list Kevin - shame if anyone was...
tripping balls.314 Just get over your feelings and enjoy the bleeping album
June 29, 2022 08:20 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBThis week: new albums from Britpop veterans Reef, non-fakers-of-the-funk Orgöne and Te Whanganui-a-Tara metallurgists End Boss. Also: alarming regularity, not the conceit, disappointing successes, being misremembered for one thing, we hope you like our new direction, the last ten percent of throttle travel, warm hoodies, catastrophic bowel movements, melodic sludge, do better next time, week of the year, visitors from the past, Graun music recs, evil timeline Veronicas, another of those pro...
BALLS.334 The maximum amount of moo
June 27, 2022 08:13 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBThis week, cast adrift betwixt NBA draft and free agency: Kangzing intensifies, taint misbehaving, Dame time, flip them picks, imaginary assistant coaches, Schlossy’s shoe, NBA twitter’s next top model, matchmaking your two least stable friends, nobody knows anything, good Herb, markers of a failed state, The Lineup, stealing people’s money, America needs pro-rel, fixing the draft, the Dubs’ shadow development program, embarrassing slugs, everyone hates the new Jazz jerseys including the Jaz...
tripping balls.313 A bit of a dub tickle
June 22, 2022 19:42 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week: new albums from reggae legend Horace Andy, D4 alum Dion Lunadon and SoCal racketeers the Zibs. Also: don’t give up your day job, podcast maths, traditional storytelling, hybrid Corollas, reg-grey, the bug is the feature, Taylor’s version, gentlemanly conduct, blues-punk chameleons, Boa constrictions, Staffo’s TISM interview, being committed to the bit, the short-lived late-90s trend of big labels signing Oz indie bands, Polydor deep-dives, Good Things, the ultimate live music crit...
BALLS.333 That aged well
June 18, 2022 01:18 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBThis week: the Dubs win the chip, Steph is undeniable, Andrew Redmayne misses his calling and career advice from Jack Brabham. Also: interrupting Tims, $5 bandwagon investments, start as you mean to continue, the worst Warriors, moving goalposts, short kings, performative Mambaing, Drew Hanlen drivebys, not all turnovers are created equal, Tatum totem poles, the blackest (and Markest) Finals ever, giving Steph his flowers, shopping for trainers, travel sickness, spending money to make money,...
tripping balls.312 Bucks in six
June 16, 2022 05:27 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBThis week: new albums from Fontaines D.C., Obongjayar and BODEGA. Also: Danger Mouse collabs, it’s in the Google doc, other people’s top fives, not your picture postcard Irish, the_achievement_respecter has logged on, punishing ex-pat feels, snap and/or crackle, in need of a little Simz, incredibly descriptive detail, Brooklyn Alleys, hipster music head canon, after the D4, prime ministerial album swaps, shakedown AK79, narrator: he did not edit this so it made sense, rhythm is a driver, fai...
BALLS.332 A horse with a Cornetto stuck on its head
June 11, 2022 03:30 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week: the NBA finals continue, the Suns’ sick leave, shoehorned NHL coverage, Spurs DNA, the death of the death lineup and the fight for golf’s soul (lol). Also: can’t feel my feet when I’m with you, the dog and duck, Harvey Norman levels of interest, hiding the spicy cough, floating loaves, fake unicorns, the first of multiple Shoresy references, the Oilers go out as they came in, SNL sketch band names, Basketball Illuminati on CAA pulling strings in Utah, weird bus-driving uncles, Qui...
tripping balls.311 Yeah, Loganholme
June 08, 2022 10:08 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBThis week: new albums from Dorsal Fins, Post Animal and The Lazy Eyes. Also: tag lines, film reviews, The Athletic further diversifies, not the kind of cheese you were looking for, Celebrant Rifles, disregard this music bed, not the target audience, indie without pop, (listening to the) flower people, wombling about for a ferociously long period, squandering the joker, the only thing that can stop a bad man with a door is a good man with a door, second degree racism, disproving precisely no...
BALLS.331 A game of basketball where basketball happened
June 04, 2022 05:43 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBThis week: disproportionate overreactions to game 1 of the NBA finals, as is the custom of our people. Also: Isn’t it ironic, gruntingly cretinous, we’ve seen this story before, benching Draymond, is Bob Ryan right about threes ruining basketball, Smart tactics, a unified theory of ugly blowouts, next-level NBA thinkers, interesting whistles, it’s not easy being green, rendering the first three quarters irrelevant, incredibly flip-floppy, rookie wriggle room, not conducive to good content, N...
tripping balls.310 Mostly harmless
June 01, 2022 08:30 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBThis week: new albums from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Black Cab and Stöner. Also: Derek Smalls areas, breakfast radio production, starting in second gear, bleak Friday nights, ScoMo’s next bit, cratedigger sample playlists, this is a limitation, five beers deep, doing handstands, dumb fun, justice for drummers, going cheese, doing your own research (then forgetting all your notes), Greens candidates, role models and the algorithm knows all. Next week’s albums: Dorsal Fins, Post Animal...
BALLS.330 Both teams played hard my man
May 29, 2022 00:40 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBThis week: Raging against the dying of the conference semifinals, pub rock versus jazz, Tripe Williams, Troll Embiid, sympathy for the devil, trash-talk historians, shutting the window on yourself, bring back the biff, Heat culture means always being injured, winning (quarter) time, the OKC bounce, building around Luka, Nets narcissists, Dortlandia, does this count as a UCL final preview, too dumb for the Dubs, Chris Paul Chris Pauls, rebound relationships, getting paid to go away, golf for ...
tripping balls.309 Five fire emojis
May 25, 2022 08:33 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBThis week: new albums from Kendrick Lamar, the Black Keys and Röyksopp (not Roy Scott.) Also: Jonestown areas, minor points, six and a half minute arguments, undefeated champions, grading on a curve, crossover audience cut-through, funky Gibbons, fleet-spec ute speakers, whoa-oh we’re halfway there, score draws, filthy grooves, flautists, Woke Dad diaries, a real Manly vs Brisbane affair, post-merger naming conventions, right in the Stockdale Zone and misplacing New Italy. Next week: that...
BALLS.329 Habemus Dort
May 21, 2022 04:27 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week: Is this a hockey podcast now, narrator: Dallas did not win by 20, predicting the Suns’ weird collapse, revisionist Luka history, centres cannot hold, paying no attention to draft chat, the end of the OKC tank job, Dyson doesn’t suck, deserting your team because it’s owned by a reprehensible garbage person, Jokic bots, playing for sheep stations, the Denver brain drain, awards for attendance, Euroskeptic basketball fans, playtime’s over, divorcing the Celtics, going Mega Barkley, l...
tripping balls.308 This can't be what you were hoping for
May 18, 2022 09:41 - 25 minutes - 23 MBThis week: new Hermitude, Ocean Grove and Bob Vylan. Also: it’s a megablast, Maccas fries, the sun and the moon, falling asleep in the pool, back into ’92, milk’s off, spitting fire, hat tips to the legends, Australian young person music, fun cheese, cultural representation, the most Norwegian band we’ve ever listened to, dirty old electrified blues, keeping the lights on, and reluctantly giving into popular culture. Next week's new albums are from Röyskopp, the Black Keys and Kendrick Lama...
BALLS.328 Basketball karma’s gonna get you
May 14, 2022 01:39 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBThis week: CP3Y, deep Sixers theories, why it sucks to have your team in the playoffs, owner drama, get back in the car, hating each other and wanting to go home, the importance of being Paul Millsap, the regularity of Philly buses, Jokic’s weird helmet, distrusting democracy, crypto bros, celebrating morons, how the hell are the Grizz better without Ja, is this what Klay and KD are now, kids away from home, removing Staples, more crypto bros, the real winner of Marcus Smart’s DPOY, score dr...
tripping balls.307 Making noise and shouting a lot
May 11, 2022 07:39 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBThis week: new albums from Swedish House Mafia, Bakers Eddy and CZARFACE. Also: the man in the mask, super what?, big raps, Beeso does himself a mischief, sleeping wrong, late subs, different eras of generic, back in the naughty corner, dropsaw work, last loyalties, knockoff Wairunga, Milton stormwater drainage, LA rooftop music and Zoo Miami. Next week: new Hermitude, Ocean Grove and Bob Vylan. Those and previous weeks’ review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - ...
BALLS.327 The Equalizer
May 08, 2022 03:05 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBThis week in the NBA playoffs: Scripted bouncebacks, refs giving themselves nicknames, introductory statistics, impacting winning, extremely conscious bias, these aren’t your slightly older brother’s Dubs, happy three seeds, hunting BeLuka whales, James Harden is James Harden, MF DOOM tributes, the Delly towel-waving role, potatoes, armwrestling for Mark Jackson, Bobby Bonilla Day, a lot of beef, construction glue guys, what is it to you, Achilles vertebrae, what if nobody won the Harden-Sim...
tripping balls.306 Comments from the superclub
May 04, 2022 09:30 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week: new albums from the Crystal Method and Warmduscher, and a throwback classic from Brassy. Also: audience participation, round trips, multiverse prequels, Boiler Room areas, decolonise dance music, brand recognition, double dropping, getting lapped on your victory lap, powdered condiments, good samples, upsetting sleaze, formatted kills, out of category awards, chronic indecisiveness and understanding your commitments. Next week: new albums from Swedish House Mafia, Bakers Eddy and...
BALLS.326 Highway through the Blazer Zone
April 30, 2022 05:10 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThis week, as the first round of the NBA playoffs wraps up: having it in the bag only to have it fall out of the bag, agreeable dogs, objectionable mittens, out-o Otto, Titanic turning circles, happy to go home, pelican gravy, bonsai coaching trees, bludging in the centres, German snow tyres, I think you should leave, how can it be a brainstrust when they appear to have neither, shouting at the voices in your head, Zach Leavin’, the Blazer Zone, the only two guys paid appropriately in this l...
tripping balls.305 Fun. Or upsetting. Or both.
April 28, 2022 08:56 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week: new albums from Jack White and Wet Leg, the Janet English Retrospective Collection from Spiderbait, and what turns out to be a Zero 7 album from 13 years ago. Also: JK Rowling’s less objectionable traits, maximal shredding, New Crow, upholstery, inverted palettes, last relevant in 2009, elevated elevator music, Kevin07, After Happyland, tonight: alright, Thrash Frente, anticipating the launch, Dragon slander, relentless weirdness, it’s got guitars in it?, Adelaide strays, cancelle...
BALLS.325 Drop Station Ident - By Alistair MacClean
April 23, 2022 23:59 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBHolding serve, 7 solid minutes, the slow sequel to seven seconds or less, gravy (not the song), dudes called herb, first round scares, give me back my stapler, appreciating Gobert by passing to him, Greg Inglis gets traded to the NBA, advertising Jingles, superstar coaching falling, Game of Zones, Warriors Tombstone, Garry Payton the sequel, covid cooked, Durant needs a holiday in Wanaka, jazz club, 3D chess, printing money on maple leaves, Luka and the Pips, being slightly more than useful ...
Balls 325.Drop Station Ident - By Alistair MacClean
April 23, 2022 23:59 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBHolding serve, 7 solid minutes, the slow sequel to seven seconds or less, gravy (not the song), dudes called herb, first round scares, give me back my stapler, appreciating Gobert by passing to him, Greg Inglis gets traded to the NBA, advertising Jingles, superstar coaching falling, Game of Zones, Warriors Tombstone, Garry Payton the sequel, covid cooked, Durant needs a holiday in Wanaka, jazz club, 3D chess, printing money on maple leaves, Luka and the Pips, being slightly more than useful ,...
tripping balls.304 Autotuning the awfulness
April 17, 2022 22:29 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBThis week: Red Hot Chili Peppers have Unlimited Love, Kojey Radical has a Reason to Smile and PUPTHEBAND are UNRAVELING. Also: Chicken Tonight, another block of non-stop schlock, banger counts, old and weird, too washed for Double J, if you are what you eat then what does that make millennials, Ts & Cs, not a sausage, peanut butter and narcolepsy, not enough heroin in the world, Steve Albini’s plumbing quote, being sober in Boondall, the 2021-22 Lakers of 2021-22 music, Fidlar conversations...
BALLS.324 Vogel’s toast
April 12, 2022 00:33 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBThis week: closing out the NBA regular season and our pre-Easter double gameweek with Beeso and Doc talking the final night of games and previewing the play-ins and playoffs. Also: trying to constructively dismiss yourself, the flexibility of a brick, cool story bro, deconvoluting three-way ties, being bad in specific ways, worse than Kyrie, the limits of brotherly love, refusing to commit to an East play-in prediction, Spo strawmen, nationwide Home Depot, UD on Trae, Celtics vs Nets: one wi...
BALLS.323 When was he radicalised
April 09, 2022 03:57 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBThis week: part one of a pre-Easter double gameweek for TBP as Adam and Doc talk Americans ruining things, Greg! The stop sign!!, the New LA Knicks, this bus terminates at the next stop, opting out of the scoring title, Daryl’s burner account, FILM NOIR!, Josh Giddey takes out a restraining order, death by midrange, corflute Kawhi, betting irresponsibly, take five, 46 and ohhh, just win baby, are the Nets actually any good, Landmark slander, banned from Canada, the last laugh is on LeBron, h...
tripping balls.303 No, it’s the children who are wrong
April 06, 2022 19:53 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBThis week: new albums from Denzel Curry, Charger and Cypress Hill. Also: munted vowels, less unpleasant than ScoMo, what happened bro, disappearing into two places at once, test cases, everything is a comic book movie, six buckets in, defending corners, B-Real at Toastmasters, tenuous transitions, riffs and stupidity, critical success, buying more time, death metal typefaces, not that kind of relationship, on a scale of one to Sol Invictus, agreeing with the Fauves, beef history, failed fa...
BALLS.322 You massive coffee roaster
April 02, 2022 00:29 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBThis week: Health checks, wins pool blowouts, Canadian beer, being tall and French isn’t a unique skillset, trapped by the narrative, snowboarding and racism, principal Snyder, by law everyone has to do a F1 podcast now, it turns out Beeso was talking about Arizona not Arkansas, duelling looks-likes, rebooting Licence To Kill, BAH GAWD, you lost me at Rob Pelinka, cup checks, wanting Utah, Beaver Menzies?, talking to Pat, life sucks get a helmet, NFL seconds, when we were Kings, obscure Glas...
tripping balls.302 (Taylor's version)
March 30, 2022 07:51 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThis week: new Mysterines and Hoodoo Gurus, and near-new Durand Jones & The Indications with Aaron Frazer. Also: machine gun drive-bys, Kim K's kitchen nightmares, the worst possible reason to have to retire a bit, Dave’s 2IC, a week behind, parasitic preachers, biting the bullet, too loud for the golf club, unwise departures, electric chairs, contradictory opinions, something everybody can enjoy, ineligble for your consideration, Silk Sonic slander, Triple J heartland, the worst possible t...
BALLS.321 This wasn’t in the brochure
March 26, 2022 23:36 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBThis week: not that kind of podcast, unintended consequences, winning half a game, flailure is always an option, Clips off a cliff, soaring Pelicans, staying regular, Heat culture shock, old bones, tiers before bedtime, Net results, amateur childrens’ basketball, the Urban Meyer Leadership Experience, brand on the run, NBA twitter down season, Thibsiness by circumstance, Poole play, where is your god now, drop the hammer, Davey gets Gullivered, enjoying Australia again, the Lyon of Lahore, A...
tripping balls.301 Heroin has nothing on nostalgia
March 25, 2022 21:36 - 27 minutes - 25 MBThis week: new albums from Rot TV, St Paul & the Broken Bones and the Wiggles (and friends). Also: I get that reference, uninspiral carpets, recording live to potato, far-too-early long list chat, UB40xAB3, get (rid of) Carter, why does this exist, Mike Love’s Beach Boys, Wurzels erasure, maintaining one bit for 30 years, Don Spencer > Don Burke, straight outta Radar, gold watches and total recall. Next week: new Mysterines and Hoodoo Gurus, and near-new Durand Jones & The Indications with...
BALLS.320 More blue steel than BHP
March 20, 2022 09:32 - 28 minutes - 25.7 MBThis week: Russian server farms, too much racing, reasons to stop watching basketball, mail order metho, compressed in the West, having violence visited upon thee, this is not your 50-win Hawks, the least self-aware man in the universe, the AI Tiki Tour, we’re not going to look it up (narrator: they looked it up), Pop’s travel advice, move and countermove, wibbly wobbly Timelord stuff, forgetting Vince Carter, the political machinations behind the F1 intro credits, Netflix casuals, Sam Colli...
tripping balls.300 Desert Island Days Re-Revisited
March 16, 2022 03:45 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBSix years and 250 episodes later, it’s time for Desert Island Discs II: This Time It’s Marginally More Professional. Beeso and the Doc revisit the desert island discs concept - attempted shambolically in ep50 - to determine which five albums they’d be prepared to live with (plus a 'hall pass' bonus track) at the exclusion of all other music for the rest of their days, and whether having listened to several hundred new albums in the interim has warped their music worldview. Next week: new al...
BALLS.319 I can't think of anybody more likely to be sledged by their own son
March 13, 2022 02:54 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBThis week: The point of Beeso’s basketball fandom, Pop records, lack of Jingles, you can’t spell indictment without Detroit, the Channel 7 of the US eastern seaboard, bootleg Grizzlies, Cam Payne for my real friends, Ben Simmons: beloved teammate, physical education, manifesting a Nets-Sixers playoff series, Kyrie’s load management, how come Atlanta still sucks, pick your own, seasoned beef, the end of exploitoball, recycled takes, opening the text line, chippy off the old block, Uzzie goes ...
tripping balls.299 I’ve got nothing against the disco biscuits
March 10, 2022 09:52 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBThis week: new Midnight Oil, Methyl Ethel and a double-EP joker from Khruangbin + Leon Bridges. Also: tired and emotional, boomer drip twitter, TOFORSL, live on Goat Island, great legacy-act comeback albums, pod-night tweeting, who can we hold responsible for Sol Invictus, being loud wrong in real time, not for me Clive, misgendering your pets, 1991 Bristol areas, what’s a good billionaire, ideas that aren’t good enough for a full album, charcuterie, two and a half hours none of us can get b...
BALLS.318 I don’t think we’ve invented anything good here
March 05, 2022 02:41 - 53 minutes - 49 MBThis week: Warney and the nature of genius, the White Ferns channel the 1991-2007 All Blacks, long live the KANGZ, major sausages, Luxury Westbrook, Portland opts out, the Dubs racking Ls, wins pool hindsight, alternative stats, the Big Number, rebooting T20 for MLB fans, being too cooked for the Lakers, the new Rockets, history repeating, wibbly wobbly timey wimey Heat Culture stuff, narrative is overrated, selling out your principles for $25USD worth of bottom-shelf spirits, Joe Ingles: Bl...
tripping balls.298 Adult contemporary week
March 02, 2022 09:54 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBThis week: new tunes from Spoon, Mild Orange and Eddie Vedder. Also: Matters arising, the ‘It’s not that bad’ defence, Official Positions, perfect for what it is, crashing into a tree, Cornell-Vedder duets, prohibited ideas, Dunedin’s Own, Shin-mery, electronically reinforced, Sad Indie Girl Summer, stop making Karens, helmet chat, you can’t beat the system, misgendered chemistry, vale the Arena, a tradition like no other, Beeso gets trolled by the Hoods, never give ‘em a window and it’s wei...
BALLS.317 King of Kings
February 26, 2022 03:38 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBThis week: The big wet, tanking the wins pool, adult fantasy, researchers with agendas, holding up a barn door, are there votes in the Nets fanbase, Cleveland this is for you, the age of nepotism and failsons, California’s Toowoomba, second chance draws, the Baby Blazers were a thing (briefly), the Zion Precedent (not a Robert Ludlum plodder), Marathon Man, Jim Ratcliffe’s inadvisable slacks, the antithesis of everyone, rewarding bad decisions and appalling behaviour, South African travel ad...
tripping balls.297 They thought that was a good idea
February 23, 2022 10:03 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBThis week: Adam and Doc defend/celebrate/obfuscate their problematic faves in the form of bollox-disregarders the Sex Pistols and Californicators the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Also: Skinner dipping, people used to listen to the radio, homeopathic dilutions, Sports Tonight outro montages, pivoting to popularity, rock spiders, too much sun, separating optics from reality, the Backstreet Boys of ‘70s punk, doing the same thing slightly differently over and over again, excess and wombling about, do...
BALLS.316 Never give 'em a window
February 21, 2022 04:50 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBThis week: Prioritising chaos, life at 1.5x, the sham dunk contest, Bob The Builder 2’s, do it live, no stars, ups and downs, tanking for both Brons, last stop Washedington, one and done, questionable Facebook watch histories, midseason for most (not you Knicks), the pointlessness of predicting playoff pairings, serious title contenders don’t get dusted by 50 by Boston, John Farnham cosplay and other weird fetishes, bring back the Stackhat, unhelpful endorsements, option two please, Marnus g...
tripping balls.296 In essence all of life is doomed and pointless so you might as well enjoy what you’re doing
February 16, 2022 07:34 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBThis week: we unbox our first 2022 delivery of new albums from Blood Red Shoes, Yard Act and Eels. Also: large number inspo, being on twitter too much, Questlove agrees with us, albums of garbage, performative sadness, extremely northern, Cockerian belligerence, sportspod outro Easter eggs, feeling seen, wrong pronouns, the drugs do work, not realising how good we had it in the late ‘90s, RINGZZZ culture, “indie pop doesn’t necessarily have to be bad”, dominating every room and ancient oils....
BALLS.315 It’s Kyrie’s fault
February 13, 2022 01:18 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week: Finding more platforms for our unsolicited opinions, grading THAT Nets-Sixers trade, losers of the trade deadline, artisanal strip joints, enjoy the memes while you can big fella, peer support, Everybody Sucks Mode, Beeso’s contractually obliged crowbarred touch footy reference, the Ben-KD fit, the 17th best coach of all time, being Suns smart, hell NAW, KP predicts his future, When Healthy, the Pels have picks, good for parts only, let the kids compete, awkward Thanksgivings, Den...
tripping balls.295 Off Your Gourd Abroad
February 10, 2022 00:45 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBThis week: duelling early-00s jokers from Turbonegro (hat tip to Hank von Hell) and Peaches. Also: full jokerification, bands of bad takes, algorithmic recommendations, dream collabs, emergency psychiatric wards, XL-ence, Rammstein areas, horny Trent, feel the Berlin, troubling the builders, rating yourself, 2019 revisited, monkey business, Balearic munters, and their best album since their last good one. Next week: box-fresh 2022-model-year albums from Blood Red Shoes, Yard Act and Eels, a...