The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)
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BALLS.314 What do you mean I have to reapply for this podcast
February 05, 2022 23:13 - 36 minutes - 33 MBThis week: Unconventional motivation approaches, Ashes salt, 24/7 curling, fighting your boss in the carpark, not having to work for an absolute flute, JL’s next gig, pork scratchings, box score Beeso, Kawhi ka-when, keep on Grizzing, I'll kill you with a Trae, ensuring you never have to go back to work, Troel Embiid, institutional wisdom, and Morey wept for there were no muppets left to fleece, shelf half-life, getting paid to go away, love and basketball, terrible Nick Nurse cameos, damp s...
tripping balls.294 There’s a lot of music out there: our top five albums of 2021
February 02, 2022 08:03 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBThis week: It’s our Album Of The Year top five countdown for 2021. At last. Also: H100 feels, Bond adventures, an album late, Kool-Aid Man entrances, Abs collabs, everything is flawed, drops > drips, more than a genre piece, distilled weirdness, it’s not his go, top 20 is not damning with faint praise, photocopier etiquette, failed crossovers, doing what it says on the label, playing spades, also receiving votes, Japanese concept albums, other peoples’ opinions, five percent more TISM, son ...
BALLS.313 Cleveland, this is for you
January 29, 2022 22:33 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBThis week: Hey now Wiggins is an all star, K-pop hostage videos, Kyle Korver strays, commiting to the bit and regretting it immediately, Russ saves the Lakers (narrator: they still lost), the Heat is/are on, manifesting a Nets-Raptors series, the East is compressed but your boy never is, Mobley mobility, everyone Loves a vet, Hawkwinned, Beal for Simmons?, wasting Embiid’s window, worst timeline BBL clashes, tiers before bedtime, a difficult week to remain Knicks-positive on Australasia’s mo...
tripping balls.293½ The So and Bo Show
January 23, 2022 00:44 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBLive from the fringes of the Hottest 100 top ten, an old-school After Dark micro-ep on dissing the Alley, craft beer v Triple J H100s, mediocrity was the winner on the day, yay for Ye, nostalgia is a sometimes food and these are definitely some times, Beeso’s last Hottest 100 voting slip, not doing your homework, 2016 vs 2017, the top ten always sucks and predicting the #1. Next week: our Album Of The Year top five countdown for 2021. Everything we listened to last year is in our 2021 revi...
BALLS.312 Ellyse honesty
January 23, 2022 00:14 - 47 minutes - 44 MBThis week: not seeking feedback, K.F. Rambis, extremely hot seats, having friends in high places, Ponzi schemes, post-Nuggets AI levels of washed, the Magic exist and are a basketball team (allegedly), the Phoenix-OKC continuum, Facu I won’t do what you tell me, at sixes and sevens, mediocrity sandwiches, the Miami cavalry, the good cruciate ligament injury, live production meetings, pitching USA vs World All Star, whither the sketchy Euro guard, the Seville derby, preparing for a post-Perry...
tripping balls.293 Everything must go
January 20, 2022 03:20 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBThis week: our end-of-year 2021 album clearance special featuring Urthboy, Turnstile, Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Bat Fangs, the Drippers, Pist Idiots and JASSS. Also: beach v pool, inner-urban troubadours, a very Australian Christmas, Eric Bana with a polystyrene hat, green onions, hardcore history, other people’s lists, an album too late, lack of consensus, coastal elites, Motörhead filth, flat spots, PLU12, crowdsourced bios, foreshadowing the AOTY episode, decomposing composers, the end ...
BALLS.311 The Lance Stephenson All-Stars
January 16, 2022 01:16 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBHappy 2022! This week: recognisable basketball, England expectorates all over themselves and taking absolutely no joy at all from India losing to South Africa. Also: Beeso the pool boy, Bananaman, Hoosiers, making the leap, cold as ice, new jerseys, designed for bingo wings, leading the league in spite, the Knicks win something, the difference between Trae and Luka, asterisk teams, multilingual answers, peer support Patty, Daryl Moron, Ja crashes Klay Day, experimental Jazz, UD40 but make it...
tripping balls.292 I didn’t choose the Paaklife, the Paaklife chose me
December 27, 2021 21:21 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBThis week in new music: 1977 funk-soul from Silk Sonic, ancient Delta blues from Buffalo Nichols and we're-still-not-quite-sure-what-this-is from Bicurious. Also: Not bad not bad not good, in defence of Andy Paak, more plastic than a Netflix F1 fan, I like your old stuff better than your new stuff, tiny desks, continuation specials, lacking the dirt, Canned Heat ≠ Canned Heat, oh the BLUES blues, shoes optional, dentition also optional, it’s it (what is it), sliding off your brain, narrator:...
BALLS.310 Save us Suns-Warriors you’re our only hope
December 24, 2021 02:48 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBThis week: the Christmas Day G-League Showcase, the return of Iso Joe, endangering the bag, getting paid out, one game below mediocrity, this year’s best offense in history, betting on the green team, mayonnaise enthusiasts, 100 life-changing minutes, Stauskas??, running at washed Webcke, Scooter McBraun, stay in school kids, reanimating Kyrie, reanimating Kyrie-for-Dame, the Cavs are still here, the Blazers are still bad, previewing the Xmas Day Schedule-Subject-To-Change, prime Baileys han...
tripping balls.291 Measure twice, cut once
December 15, 2021 08:50 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBThis week: Birdz, gloo and the Darkness (plus bonus Wolfmother, if you’re into that sort of thing). Also: fake work getting in the way of actual work, domestic model Subarus, polished to a dull sheen, amateur carpentry, bars over beats, 80s Oils areas, garage to bedroom flow, jokes over everything, serious legitimate musical theatre, Japanese synthwave, concepts on concepts, Ronseal Stockdale, the successful negotiation of very low bars, horse partitioning, half hour delivery guarantees, mak...
BALLS.309 Lights out and away we go
December 12, 2021 09:08 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBThis week: the triumphant return of the BALLS Motorsportnerdpod with Dr Yobbo and Bert Handsome, because where else would you get your cutting-edge racing insights ref. last weekend’s Bat Thrust 1000 and this weekend’s F1 final-round crashtacular, but from a talking plastic dinosaur and cartoon dog respectively. Featuring live (to tape) coverage of Oscar Piastri’s F2 title win, Ashes first test reaction, Rossi's future, a LOT of Christian Horner slander, the plot of 9 Songs, and Dylan Groene...
tripping balls.290 (and/or BALLS.308) How do you like your cheese
December 09, 2021 00:09 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week: Adamhfoto jumps on for an evening of slow jams with Silk Sonic and a half hour of heroically unironic riffage with new Wolfmother, plus bonus Ashes day 1 immediate reax and absolute-state-of-the-NBA-wins-pool chat. Also: out-of-sequence strategies, thoughts of darkness, production notes, listed as component parts, decorative boots, NYC catcalling, Paaklife, ponderous conserves, expensive photocopies, holding your own, anti-Wu Tang, there’s still pop radio out there?, gourmet popco...
BALLS.307 Announcing your retirement from international football
December 04, 2021 02:17 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBThis week with the Wellington Phoenix ALW squad of podcasting: Suns-Warriors past and future, the efficiency landscape, the Timberwolves??, meh-venty Sixers, how many Daryl Moreys does it take to change a lightbulb, Jokic and them boys, a blip year, a 5-5 that feels like a 3-7, Beadle’s about, not Nick Nurse areas, recycled kitty litter, Colangelo cargo cults, Kemba Limper, embedded institutional suck, Gideon Shai, he who must not be named, middle school bullying, the ground state of second ...
tripping balls.289 We’re all trying to find the guy who did this
December 01, 2021 08:54 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBThis week: new albums from Even, Lisi and Warbly Jets. Also: you make me sick I make music, dramatic beats vs actual beats, Hennessy on a XXXX Gold budget, u wot m8, straight outta Goodna, a product of its times, 2017 wasn’t such a crap year after all, the last interesting U2 album, melancholywobbles, deep in his bag, suspension of disbelief, Fisher-Price My First Beats, Frogstomp to Neon Ballroom, this is not a tribute, abrasive high-energy output, all cheese all the time, shouts to la niña...
BALLS.306 In my defence, I have a hat
November 27, 2021 03:28 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week: Plastic Clasićos, #stillintheleague, Mick Hancock energy, 15-and-3 boring, WELCOME TO!, I’m New Yorkin’ here, reversing into victory, being hated by stats, tractor sponsors, RUOK, subtweeting Porzingis via pod, max contract tiers, are Sacramento always 11th in the West, immovable Walls, being sick on your shoes, CA breaks the habit of a lifetime, that escalated quickly, hogs out of work, power-ranking algorithms, brown ale and pies, peak Mullins, 1994 Canberra in Kangaroos jerseys...
tripping balls.288 Sewing machine of love
November 24, 2021 08:52 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBThis week: new albums from Hollie Smith and ’68, and Electric Six unlock their inner RSL covers band. Also: two kinds of (other people’s) music, more brass than class, the Guardian’s lost-and-found section, Squires on the A-League, tears before bedtime, the Boss can’t count, un-Googleable bands, coherence of purpose, things we can do without, Doc’s favourite album of 2017, Ladyhorse, I’ve been to Goodna but I’ve never been to me, A Very Paul Kelly Christmas, Staffo’s Patreon yarn with Ash Na...
BALLS.305 Don't be putting Westbrook on me
November 21, 2021 02:42 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBThis week: The Mitch Marsh Apology Hour, doing your homework, Kiwi bunnies, cold opens, oh the humanity, get some -> go again, masterclass theatre, refusing to learn from any of your previous experiences, reps with Steph, fun in Denver, that escalated quickly, good things coming, Grayson Allen narratives, scaring .500, residual Westbrook regret, badly-aged #NBA75 picks, ineffectual thrashing, punching tomato cans, unmemorabull, huffing paint, showing your working, main vein blame games, weir...
BALLS.304 You gotta work it hard to be a solo man
November 18, 2021 03:34 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBThis week: Adam and the Doc on solo yolo fomo, playing to stereotypes, the absolute statelessness of BBL, Morris Minor recalls, Nets game attendees in ‘bandwagon fans’ shock, Christmas Klay, An Warriors, bullish on Chicago, doing the intro, guerilla radio, Olympic bumps, insert ‘allegedly’ gif here, Covid is undefeated, we have vaccine at home, Morey isn’t Klutch, ludicrous MVP chants, the decline and fall of the Sexland empire, the worst of the west, the aesthetic appeal of lower scoring, f...
tripping balls.287 Nothing happens so much
November 10, 2021 05:19 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBThis week: new RÜFÜS DO SOL, Parquet Courts and the Sore Losers. Also: gin-related news, low ceilings, chunky bits, avoiding festivals, Metallica have a lot to answer for, singer-songwritery, it seems like we’ve been doing this for a very long time, well well, failing to capture the zeitgeist, grid walk shenanigans, tour to survive, yes somebody made a documentary about the Fauves, is it 1998 again, desk jockeys, and my music taste has been slandered (my groceries just gone). Next week: new ...
BALLS.303 His brain got eaten by the internet
November 06, 2021 04:53 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBThis week: retired PMs shut up and go away challenge, not being able to pronounce your new best friend’s surnames, dig your own grave, sticker shock, common enemies, early rookie takes, failed assists, DORT, hiring coaches which resemble your mascots, diagnosing Dallas, throwing guards at the problem, never trust anyone with two surnames and no first name, blaming Stan, panic-building, coaching matters, New York absolute state of mind, players-only meetings, ransom notes, sustainable trends,...
tripping balls.286 You can’t spell SLANDER without LARS
November 02, 2021 19:23 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBThis week: we’re off to Neville Neville Land as tripping balls’ Official Metallica Correspondent Adamhfoto joins the Doc to look back at the the Black album on its 30th birthday, the accompanying Metallica Blacklist all-star covers collection, and new stuff from Polish Club. Also: Christian sucks rock, OK boomer, apostrophe apologies, H100 strays, problematic parties, the end of the podcast, FOAD here’s Wonderwall, grenading your own legacy, pariahs in period, the Brown Hornet, doing it live...
BALLS.302 Still Australasia’s most Knicks-positive NBA-adjacent podcast
October 30, 2021 04:19 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBThis week: Adamhfoto and the Doc on week 1.5 of the NBA, the T20 World Cup and taking absolutely no joy from the absolute state of Manchester United. Also: Beeso on background, Russ wins (then loses), ruining Looney Tunes, tractor receipts, Brooklyn’s big 1.25, old Wizards, Lawler’s law, the running-hot of the Bulls, Joel’s hard minutes, the seven-win Bobcats, nice days to go to the pub, giddy over Giddey, Chef Delly, separating compost, podcast recommendations, the Patty Mills Experience, G...
tripping balls.285 ¿Por qué no los dos?
October 26, 2021 20:45 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThis week: new albums from Alabama 3, Twelve Foot Ninja and Dazy. Also: grime hat-tips, cletuses on acid, clearing out for iso, 90s TV one-hit wonders, BSB updates, Patton recognition, alternative timeline greatest hits, magazine freebies, sharing a brain, narcolepsy, Xzibit memes, long-list entry requirements and gin-neric drinking practices. Next week: no man is an island but Beeso's off on one for the weekend so Parquet Courts, RÜFÜS DO SOL and the Sore Losers will have to wait for his r...
BALLS.301 Every action has an equal and opposite overreaction
October 24, 2021 01:47 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThis week: It’s smallest-possible-sample-size-theatre as we continue a tradition like no other (apart from the tradition of previewing the season in the first place) by massively overreacting to each NBA team playing one game of basketball. Possibly two, if you’re lucky. Also: the worst view in the sled dog pack, describing memes, the unexpected psychological impact of having the entire world think you’re trash, disgusting chefs, the point of Russ, loud idiots of Dubs Twitter, disrespect my ...
tripping balls.284 Raging against the dying of the light
October 20, 2021 08:09 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBThis week: new albums from Yizzy, Shihad and the Bronx. Also: the Godfather of Grime, lived experience, bringing the troopz like AFTV, apologetic beef, problematic accents, self-aggregating, highlights specials, trying to avoid starring in Adele, 35, getting barred from West Auckland, The Pacifier Experience, no pretenses, Sunset Strip hair farmers, how music normally works, why would you want to do that, death metal font, Rolling Stone’s 500 worst albums, Dave Graney’s suit recommendations ...
BALLS.300 Don't drink ethanol from a sprintcar: our NBA season preview
October 17, 2021 10:40 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBHappy 300th birthday, BALLS Podcast. We got you our annual NBA season preview slash wins pool draft, in which Doc, Beeso and Adamhfoto draft every team in the NBA and make iron-clad predictions as to their fate this season, on the basis of facts, stats, next-gen analytics, feels, vibes, jokes, moral objections and long-held grudges. Whoever's teams win the most games across the 2021-22 regular season gets the glory, bragging rights, internet klout, and most importantly of all, free booze. Sh...
tripping balls.283 The best dressed chicken in town
October 14, 2021 05:38 - 26 minutes - 24 MBThis week: new stuff from Amyl and The Sniffers, CHVRCHES and Calva Louise. Also: our plan to save modern EDM, getting maggoted, Marmite areas, start as you mean to finish, fine lines, sniff tests, obscure WA politics references, bilingual bangers, DIY Rage, more Doubt, Spanish swearing, learn to play the Bogut way, the great Avril replacement, MECHA-STREISAND, closing loops, do godfathers outrank princes, deluxe EPs, Dave Graney's hiding place, getting pepperoni grease out of linen suits, a...
BALLS.299 Sound of the funky drummer
October 09, 2021 23:10 - 29 minutes - 27 MBWe’re here, we’re back. This week: The Cavs-era Shaq of podcasting, giving Diana Taurasi her flowers, Sarver gonna Sarver, four years late on doing your due diligence, workers compo scams, JR Dangerfield, can sports and politics journos jobswap, Kyrie’s season predictions, Leeds trails, state-sponsored piracy, Baudi Barabia, no time for joyless Bonds, Beeso digs chicks, Australia gets caught, Dan Lebecky, Ben for Boban who says no, Spurs on hold, chasing the entire Northwest, Bones on the sk...
tripping balls.282 Viva la evolución
October 02, 2021 03:43 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBThis week: new albums from Rudimental and Chubby and the Gang, and a classic from A Tribe Called Quest. Also: more M1 chat, spokey-dokeys, last week tonight, the same stuff, Your Mate, double concept albums, bad bad not good, chubby checker, this is hardcore, room-borne elephants, evolution not revolution, feel the beat drop, jazz and hip hop, consensually gross, a shot in the dark, a bit too nyeaahh, Vlad Chiriches, matter of fact I got it now, post-ironic cheese, UK tuna imports, new MCU s...
tripping balls.281 Dad raps, parked buses and pre-emptive bullying
September 26, 2021 02:25 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBThis week: new albums from Alien Weaponry, Jungle and Andy Cooper. Also: parking the bus, reverse jinxes, being pro-creep, The Matrix 2.1, light and shade, emo faffage, macron confusion, self-parodying monarchs, disco strutting, controlling your energy, getting upset at randomness, cannot and/or will not stop, primary producers, government names, all downhill, a busy day at the record store, Kool-Aid entrances, not talking to your friends, improving Coolangatta, te reo for kids, earning the...
tripping balls.280 Beeso Analyses Latest Little Simz
September 18, 2021 23:46 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBThis week: new albums from Little Simz, Drapht and Meatbodies. Also: novel anxiety, gathering no moss, things of that nature, Therapy?, too much salt, degrees of difficult, Paul Simon areas, never being to me, self-help apps, new-age Bond themes, no swag, a little bit terrible, reading the room, dearly depahhhted, outside help, stacks and bricks, edited highlights, seemed like a good idea at the time, prog flog, Craig vs Moore, heavily polished, alley days re-revisited, Spotify in confusing ...
tripping balls.279 Promotional considerations furnished by the Southern Hawkes Bay Tourism Board
September 12, 2021 04:05 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Cam Cole and L’Orange x Namir Blade. Also: Disappearing acts, concert context, old bangers, bridging sets, unjustified mu-mus, contractually-obligated playlist additions, royal punishment, humblebragging about getting to have holidays, lorazepam, stacks and straps, cratedigger origin stories, beats without bars, the world is still chaos, it’s the vibe, Layne Staley on a crackly conference call, getting mutual, dropping furniture, acronym in-jokes...
tripping balls.278 Teach your children poorly
August 28, 2021 02:20 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBThis week: new Nas, new Ty Segall, and (near) new Faithless. Also: times of chaos, firehose creativity, the 33rd best band of the 90s, Gen X are worse than boomers, parental fails, non-Noonans, cultural touchstones, Jack Johnson tribute acts, insomnia cures, ivermectin doesn’t work on earworms, floral arrangements, rotting tennis centres, Nike knockoffs, made in the sunshine, collaboration cancellations, Ford Fiesta racing, live to tape, Glasgaw chverchves, one-man bands, becoming overinves...
tripping balls.277 Beer drinkers and/or hell raisers
August 11, 2021 00:37 - 26 minutes - 24 MBThis week: new albums from U.N.K.L.E. and Ayron Jones, and ZZ Top’s 1983 classic Eliminator (vale Dusty Hill). Also: for who for what, you done messed up A-A-Ron, Mr Big areas, Doc probably meant forgettable, Bruckheimer soundtracks, country conventionality, 85 minute car chases, Uncle Arthur, Stevie Wonder’s organ, wallpaper*, old blues bands, southern remits, bottle cages, goin’ 50, nods from the old heads, alternative jokers, non-deluxe versions, unnecessary covers, coming attractions, kn...
BALLS.298 The natural enemy of Kemba Walker’s knees
August 07, 2021 09:08 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBThis week: getting sucked into the Olympics, NBA free agency, Messi leaves town and Vale just leaves. Also: middle distance tactics, Col de Lantanaland, pointless iso’ing, free agent shenanigans, creative blocks, it was always going to end like this, pulling the receipts, the next generation of Boomers, a big week for old people, betting markets, the Lakers’ free agency, Beeso’s Westbrook hate continues unabated, Beeso’s Knicks hate continues unabated, Betty Davis eyes > Derrick Rose knees, ...
tripping balls.276 Eggbound and down
August 03, 2021 19:57 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBThis week: new albums from Red Fang, Greentea Peng and SAULT. Also: shouts to Sludge II, feeling like 1992, this is fine, whisky misters, unobjectionable content, violent cuisine, day-after triphop, mushroom records, on a heater, chemistry experiments, post-credits sequences, punishing Seppos, Rachel gets racial, not you Mike Skinner, if you can’t be good, inventing time travel, Ronin 1 Liverpool 0, dudes who think they’re Prince, ROFLcopter, presidential erasure, how to identify different ...
BALLS.297 Thrusting in the direction of the problem
August 01, 2021 05:50 - 40 minutes - 37 MBThis week: the NBA draft, Russ to the Lakers, Simmons to... somewhere?, thrusting coaches, waltzing Matildas and inoffensive Boomers. Also: Pushing dominoes, Simmons trade destinations, centres and running backs, draft what now, Perksploitation, picking for resale value, do OKC ever plan to build a winning team ever again, getting away with it (all messed up), overvaluing top three picks, can the Knicks be trusted with cap space, full of fourth options, walking into Memphis, various biases, ...
tripping balls.275 The conceit (drink) of the aesthetic (drink)
July 28, 2021 04:14 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBThis week: new albums from Tigercub, Troy Kingi and an Asian fusion experience from TEKE::TEKE. Also: putting the production meeting in the podcast, soft centres, disproportionately large riffs, cheer up, be still, flat spots, wall-to-wall Mumford, yes Beeso is listening in reverse track order again, death (death), banger afterthoughts, decolonising our history, if you don’t like this wait six months, this is not Guitar Wolf, shining lights on the hill, ‘well that’s a thing’ isn’t an arts re...
BALLS.296 Fratelli d’Italia, l’Italia s’è desta
July 25, 2021 03:47 - 46 minutes - 43 MBThis week: EURO 2020, the NBA Finals, the Olympics and the relentless stupidity of rugby league. Also: we didn’t have that, the new #WengerOut, Scott Foster is inevitable, second nation army, being cool for a few years, mutual sentiment, full nihilism, mismatched timelines, not your dad’s England, burning the room, the CP3 finishing school, tedious box-score watching analysis, Giddey goat, undeniable flaws, just generally avoid Sacramento, football becomes basketball which becomes football, ...
tripping balls.274 Generally odd and justifiably obscure
July 22, 2021 09:22 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBThis week: new MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC from Czarface x MF Doom and Stöner, and an all-star Gang Of Four tribute album. Also: basket cases, getting your wife to stop talking to you, comic books and wrestling promos, backward music opinions, impending doom, coastal elites, influences’ influences, not great man, a look you haven’t heard, ‘umlaut’ doesn’t actually have an umlaut, doing it live, lowered expectations, nancy boys, go folk yourself, mixed reviews, avoiding social media, anyway here’s the ...
BALLS.295 Spiderman memes of European football
July 12, 2021 12:26 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBThis week in sport: burying the lede and USA Basketball, Cole world, why possession isn't nine tenths of winning football games, tricky tiki-taka tactics, immobile strikers, misguided clamouring, But It's England, chancers and frauds, a very long runup to Beeso's Suns victory lap, insane in the midrange, compulsive switch-flickers, crowbarred F1 coverage, draft chat is BS, you can't win anything with Kidd's, one Crowder's ours, ceiling setting coaches, controversial handicapping approaches, ...
tripping balls.273 Dropping a washing machine full of bolts down the stairs
July 07, 2021 04:15 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBThis week: Adam joins Doc to talk albums from Jacob Collier and the Blue Stones. Also: remixing Beeso, being paid to go away, spending too much time in your bedroom, ya big jessie, containing multitudes, gifted child syndrome, Protracker nerd evolution, leave it alone son, playing for your own pleasure, all night long, what’s a CD grandad, Ed Hardy shirts, double the complexity, print is dead, too white for this, alphabetised covers, doing what it says on the tin, absolutely skithouse, Maroo...
BALLS.294 You can’t go to Toukley
July 03, 2021 06:52 - 48 minutes - 44 MBThis week with Doc and Adam: lacking sizzle, sad Batmans, Eurocops, getting disowned by your grandparents, I saw the sign, taking the last day off, desperately pandering to weird people, better sources of NZ politics coverage than us, Beeso takes winning well, young adult fiction plotlines, piles of guys, Wrongdanovic, pre-work Euros, several different versions of Burnley, thirty years of hurt plus inflation, getting cooked by a guy named after a Star Wars B-character, the world coding champ...
tripping balls.272 Enjoy that one, Gen Z
July 01, 2021 10:42 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBThis week: new albums from Wolf Alice, Skegss and Sleater-Kinney. Also: where are my teeth, would you like to borrow some words, tooling around for a bit, unearned lupinity, shouts to Frenté, Doc doesn’t get out much, they rock more than you do, the Dunedin Sound, world famous in New Zealand, Beeso victimises the elderly, unintentional segues, imagine 1994, rambling beat poetry, albums that precede comeback albums, back in my day, outta phase, the Tennants Perpetual Trophy, true history of t...
BALLS.293 Do not speak this into the world
June 26, 2021 05:34 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBThis week: The World Championship of commemorative servo tat, unintentional rest days, bringing the Crimea War look back to NBA, a little teste, are any of these teams actually good, everything has an asterisk, Ham Sandwichstroh, calling Nick Wright a serious basketball analyst is probably a stretch, high speed games of chess, only coaches like coaching talk, the Kidd’s not alright, relationship management, being less famous than your assistant, a bad week for Bens, Kardashian exclusion zone...
BALLS.292 Be more constructive with your feedback
June 19, 2021 04:36 - 46 minutes - 43 MBThis week with Doc and Adam: invasion of the bodysnatchers, Australasia’s leading Suns-positive podcast, jab chat, is this good or is this content, the Mavs implode, a gambler who didn’t know when to hold, fold, walk away or run, records that sound like a movie phone number, getting fired by Beeso, Super League Super Friends, peat and iodine, the Sixers are bad, leftover Curry, what’s up with Doc, bootleg Jokic, bad things happening in threes, LeBron was right (just ask him), everyone misses...
tripping balls.271 This might be a clown show
June 16, 2021 09:50 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBThis week: new albums from Kings, the Datsuns and You Am I. Also: the absolute temerity, trap beats and coke raps, No-tearoa, tropes under licence, terrible segues, full Nashville Cletus, good Lenny Kravitz vibes?, sense of propulsion, Before The Muse Paradox, melted goths, performative past tense, Devils slander, get mad and get even, the Men’s Shed of 90s indie, songs ruined by popular culture, White Stripes gateway drugs, Wolf Something, not quite Aardman and getting St Vincented. Next ti...
BALLS.291 None of this is making the podcast
June 13, 2021 01:53 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThis week in NBA-adjacent podcasting: Restarting the room, unexpected chalk, ratings concern trolls, the whitest imaginable crowd chants, deep in the weeds, charity stripe avoidance, lollypop lint, joyless accrual, quality control, tax fraud vs workers compo, tedious bad-faith arguments deleted for comic effect, nine fullbacks, Beeso fails his performance review, getting lost in the niggle, unrepresentative swill, Oprah as an Origin selector, as the karmic wheel turns, double agent Steve Nas...
BALLS.290 Stotts! Or My Mom Will Shoot
June 07, 2021 00:20 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBBecause we can't let Beeso enjoy *anything*, let alone his Suns finally slaying the Lakers boogeyman and ending decades of Big Shot Bob Horry living rent-free in his head, Doc calls in from his holiday/Adam's shed to contribute a swathe of largely uninformed and completely unsolicited takes on the end of the first round and the conference semi-final matchups. Also this week: welcome to Tasmania, the absolute state of Origin, and Adam's sources tell him EXCLUSIVELY Danny Weidler style that go...
BALLS.289 Must Be Nice
June 04, 2021 08:53 - 9 minutes - 8.61 MBBeeso goes solo to get the Suns actually winning a finals series against the Lakers off his chest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.