The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)
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tripping balls.270 Covid isn’t the only virus which makes you lose all taste
June 01, 2021 22:04 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBThis week: Neapolitan ice screamery from The Devils, Afro-Asiatic anime beats from Flying Lotus and bourbon-and-bank-robbery delta blues from the Black Keys. Also: drug cocktails, sick riffs, deliberately using the most mellow track from the album as a drop to make your cohost’s opinions look vaguely ridiculous, late night SBS B-movies, #DocReadsLabelBios, the Kevin Bacon of ‘90s-‘10s rock, narrator: he did not edit all that out, bank robbery enabling, the raw and the cooked, the Black Keys...
BALLS.288 Don't play with your food
May 30, 2021 10:34 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBThis week: The Heat is off, karmic rewards, Beeso’s bad weekend, it be your own people sometimes, annual service, learning to love to hate Trae Young, Grizz vs Grizz Premium, Northwest rockfights, Austintacious shooting, Mike Minogue, a list of people Kristaps should try to be that aren’t him, goat excrement, Ayton truthers, well-actually’ing the correct definition of a gentlemen’s sweep, getting PatBev’d, scar tissue, relegate Charlotte to League 2, shouts to us for posting this before Knic...
tripping balls.269 Haven’t felt this bad for a horse since Never Ending Story
May 26, 2021 08:06 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBThis week: new albums from Iceage, DJ Format and Genesis Owusu. Also: bad allies, are Scandinavians allowed to be boring, unlimited attempts, is playing in time and singing in key just stuff that only washed boomers care about, interesting looking horses, R Sage, late night lounge sets, losing your abs, the Avalanches School of Random Sampling, get your rocks off, spaces between, points for trying, 80s sports movies, lyrical themes, when the chips are down, Kingi-fisher, Mark Lanegan frequ...
BALLS.287 WIN OR GO HOME and host another game against someone else
May 22, 2021 07:20 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBThis week: previewing the playoffs (and reviewing the play-ins) at the pointy end of the NBA season. Also: basketball atheism, full replays, weird how you care now, Royal Neto, the TonyAllenification of Draymond Green, dirty 90s playoff basketball, WCF previews, Beeslieving in Klay, Bazeing less, fearing Grizzlies, selling the future, *very Barry the Baptist voice*, brickies labouring, irrational Glenn Maxwell defence, completely rational Paul Gallen shade, suspending disbelief, this pro-Pac...
tripping balls.267 Requiring the insertion of decent medication
May 19, 2021 08:23 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBThis week: Adamhfoto joins the Doc to review new-old stock from vowel-dodging sadboi The Weeknd and Pitchfork faves Greta van Fleet. Also: RWC final spoilers, Heineken hats, what if Google was one of us, alleged greatest hits, working blue, weird spam, differently dull, that one song Bruno Mars did, take what you’re given, 808s and lunchbreaks, pay to play, showing your working, are Canadians allowed to use the N word, picking the wrong Led Zep noises to rip off, #DocReadsPitchforkReviews, he...
tripping balls.268 Requiring the insertion of decent medication
May 19, 2021 08:23 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBThis week: Adamhfoto joins the Doc to review new-old stock from vowel-dodging sadboi The Weeknd and Pitchfork faves Greta van Fleet. Also: RWC final spoilers, Heineken hats, what if Google was one of us, alleged greatest hits, working blue, weird spam, differently dull, that one song Bruno Mars did, take what you’re given, 808s and lunchbreaks, pay to play, showing your working, are Canadians allowed to use the N word, picking the wrong Led Zep noises to rip off, #DocReadsPitchforkReviews, h...
BALLS.286 The Udonis Haslem Appreciation Society
May 15, 2021 03:12 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBThis week: the two-three seeds in the BALLS NBA wins pool Adamhfoto and the Doc on misplacing 40 wins, a melange of mediocrity, Drummond gulf between talent and output, smart-casual observers, terrible testicular metaphors, bubble wonderkids, BALLS Clasico blood feuds, regional infrastructure, undisclosure, previewing a Lakers-Dubs play-in that probably won’t happen because of Beeso’s Suns, tanking out of the two, has anyone watched Atlanta this year, Wizards?, the Joel-Ben nexus, Heat-like ...
tripping balls.267 The new music of the now kids
May 13, 2021 00:54 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBThis week: we review new albums from Royal Blood and Warish, and revisit Gorillaz’ debut 20 years on. Also: cartoon bad guys, that don’t upset me much, in a lot of ways kids are just small humans, never go full Moz, diluted Bleach, writing music for your dad’s workplace, don't try to beat Tony Hawk at pool, not what we came for, Muse cleanskins, setting appropriate expectations, a nink and a wod, on further review, Weezer do another Beverly Hills cover, blues-driven nastiness, Men Behaving Ba...
BALLS.285 More niche than Nascar
May 09, 2021 04:55 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBThis week: emo LeBron, falling to pieces, Beeso’s biggest fear, the two greatest words in the English language, everyone has Lakers beef, watching a lot of first halves, comprehensive NHL coverage, Bjork talk, big twos that can’t win one from two, fun first-rounders, Doc is loud wrong about Saturday’s Blazers-Lakers game, who wants who, definitions of madness, goodnight Tampa, betting big on Atlanta, Ricky Rubio cosplay, decoding Brooklyn, problematic thinking, European Super League areas, th...
tripping balls.266 Never trust a ‘Getting Off The Gear’ album
May 05, 2021 10:50 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week: new albums from Balthazar, Haunt and Andy Cooper + Marietta Smith. Also: dark necromancy, high-definition indie-pop, very long run-ups, if you say ‘it’s all fine’ with a rising inflection is it really all fine, chroming habits, 1982 states of mind, technical proficiency, type specimens, more or less, opposites attract, the Kool-Aid Man School of Rap, #DocReadsBandTweetThreads, technically we called if ‘Museification’ before At The Drive Thru but they posted first, playing chicken w...
BALLS.284 Getting drunk and slandering everybody
May 02, 2021 09:55 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBThis week: The realm of round things, conference travel, pro-rel NRL, banning shirts you don’t like, Superbowl origins, 15 minutes from amateurism, Wizards??, getting reps, historic beef, treading water, Grand Designs with the LA Clippers, player Denverlopment, the Knicks will finish above .500, #hestillintheleague, BeIN it to win it, the world’s biggest payday lender, Milanese football finances, O Fortuna Dusseldorf, avoiding a F1 superleague and whither the NBA TV first-round series. BALLS ...
tripping balls.265 Put this in your head holes
April 29, 2021 08:59 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBThis week: new albums from Tomahawk, CIVIC and GHLOW. Also: clowning Spurs, industrial brutality, art projects, chunky sections, unsound engineers, interesting bridges, still holding tickets, worth it for the #content, Canberra brewpubs, fearing for your life in a Honda Civic, 1978 lyrical content, milk stouts, doing someone else a favour, LISTEN, escaping on a technicality, failed pitches, Kasabian’s one (half of a) good song, AJ Tracey discovers basketball, digital interactions, the last go...
BALLS.283 At some point they thought this was going to go well
April 24, 2021 06:08 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBThis week: OG Super League wars, you know who else was illegal under European law, meritocracy vs idiocracy, Spurs bury the lede (and their coach), forget Paris, FIAT failsons, dishonourable conduct, feeding the cash monster, this party sucks let’s go home, blunt instruments, writing your own ticket, oh no Milan might fall out of the Champions League places, the Germans win again, Doc explains the 50+1 rule badly, Wading into SLC, Utah is for the people, blame the Seppos, getting paid to play...
tripping balls.264 Odes to scene munters
April 14, 2021 08:51 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week: reviewing new albums from Gentleman’s Dub Club and Grande Royale, and revisiting The Fratellis’ debut from 2006. Also this week: poorly rated openers, who’s got next, hammock selection trials, being screamed at by hairy Scandinavians, Chuck Berry > Buckcherry, narrator: it was actually seven minutes, character portraits, Scottish twitter, caustic monkeys, Patton recognition, ferocious bells, ‘indie’ isn’t intended to mean ‘independently wealthy’, blaming the algorithm, you can’t sp...
BALLS.282 Not yet fired by Disney
April 10, 2021 02:46 - 32 minutes - 30 MBThis week: 43 year old men with a poor grasp of the internet, avoiding Bristol, subcontracted smoke, inveterate disavowement, describing WNBA jerseys on an audio medium, ‘90s erotic thrillers, chocolate soldiers and licorice allsorts, tight in specific areas, the Joker’s nemesis, the best offence since the invention of fire, idea balls, the Dubs front office is… bad?, MPJ in stereo, get ohnnnn tha weeeeeedduh, NZ’s own RJ Hampton, can you be an extremely quiet 26-23, Doc makes his annual far ...
tripping balls.263 Longing for the heat death of the universe
April 08, 2021 09:38 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBThis week in new music: JJJ crooner Odette, obscure indie outfit Dog Ears and Soul Cough-shoot Ghost of Vroom. Also: Listening audients, stepping up, as predicted, hungover Sunday morning areas, vague Jesus complexes, more bacon, comparative joy, blaspheming against Beasties production, the two sweetest words in the English language, music critic schadenfraude, strawpeople, there’s a lot of it about, crimes of mediocrity, laying up short of the green, Scandiwegian deathpunk, football chants a...
BALLS.281 Real G’s move in silence
April 05, 2021 01:16 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBThis week: Welcome back to our sports podcast, ain’t no party like a Knife Party party, wha’ happened, Gordon’s In, podcast rights, public auctions, infinitesimally small sample sizes, Big Norm, crowds of idiots, Return Of The Kangz, overestimating the Mavs, clothes rental, how are the Hornets, contract Tampa-ing, #NeverGoogle maximises his SEO, getting baked in, Death Star construction delays, powdery mildew, group hallucinations, it turns out that many and several pink-ball tests have gone ...
tripping balls.262 The Benjibus is coming
March 24, 2021 07:57 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBThis week: new albums from SoCal’s Nopes, 1993’s Grouplove and Teutonic weirdness’s the Notwist. Also: Drum ’n’ Benj, not here for this, Slim Dusty dusty, dig your own hole, manic pixie dream pop, bringing the wrong stuff back, buying the Ikea kitset of a post-peak Breeders album, nominative determinism, Chamber music, the voice of reason, the miracle of bad taste, Wellington council politics, Hillsong house bands, cult bands’ cult bands, self-submitted bio of the week, the word Doc was looki...
BALLS.280 Add other people and stupidity, and mix
March 20, 2021 23:57 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBThis week: Old growth logging, I’m still standing, SVG RFHS, coastal elites, the Bundesligafication of the NBA, the UltraMegaMegaMax, voting for billionaires, Dort report, Net ratings, Kawhi attempts to do a leadership, there’s your Dad, snapped rubber bands, the worst month of the year for NBA discourse, the gross hypocrisy of NCAA basketball, PJ Buck-er (sorry. Sorry I’m trying to delete it), not THAT kind of Zionism, gathering morasses, avoiding the 2-3 semi, another gratuitous mention of ...
tripping balls.261 Pining for the fjords
March 17, 2021 21:10 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBThis week: new albums from the Melvins, Blu DeTiger and shame, committing to early decisions, comedy genius, the leftovers, unmatched high points, MA15+ ratings, beached as bro, margarine jingles, all about that bass, deep Norwegian, the boomers win again, no umlauts, who brings cameras to a bush doof, problematic search terms, waiting for April, Festy Hall souvenirs, explaining Fat Pizza, rock ghosts and everything is Ric’s. Next week's new albums are by Nopes, Grouplove and the Notwist. Rec...
BALLS.279 White Me Can’t Jump
March 13, 2021 07:46 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week: wasn’t the ASG like two weeks ago, Bron v Dray, it’s always Dame Time, Meyers remorse, All-Australianising the All Star, getting ludicrously rich, Warriors twitter needs an intervention, wasting Steph’s prime, speedbump up-ramps, the 2014 Spurs, top four fear, decorative guards, the curious case of Buddy Hield, strength of schedule, Brooklyn catches a break, Australasia’s leading Knicks-positive NBA podcast, not recognising Patrick Ewing, won’t somebody think of the beat reporters,...
tripping balls.260 These guys have all the fun*
March 10, 2021 07:48 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThis week: Swedes, mangos and peaches; new produce from Viagra Boys and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and a 2007 classic from Dub Pistols. Also: finding enjoyment, disowning the joker, interesting reactions, 182cm hicks, letting the weird go, calling an audible, Loaded areas, GTFO Rodney, other uses of the Apollo 11 countdown, electronic arts, dropped speccies, boomers gonna boom, QAnon Metallica, two dudes called Warren, vale Michael Gudinski, essential job requirements, just don’t be sad, socme...
BALLS.278 Avengers: All Star Game
March 07, 2021 02:55 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThis week: Dame Time, the Doc of drafting, disrespecting Utah, the Quin Snyder Cut, summer solstice, BALLS Playoff Clasicos, compressed in the west, Green Curry, doing it in Dallas, Rockets doing a SpaceX, KG rage-quits, the Viper tree, Lloyd Pierce off Jack, Doc cannot words, not the SAS guy, Beeso takes money out of Dray’s pocket, never be the Chuck, the least appropriate human alive to be saying ‘you’ve got to know what you’re talking about’, Shams vs Woj, the smartest team in the world, s...
tripping balls.259 Dazed and Confuciused
March 04, 2021 01:27 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThis week: new albums from Tash Sultana and Kid Kapichi, and a recent joker/classic contender from Four Fists via listener Wheatman. Also: pop filters, pillow talk, raisin' hell, immature BS, adult contemporary slow jams, Parklifeyacunce, Run The Jewels 5 Tottenham Hotspur 2, backloaded singles, helmets in helmets, Statler and Waldorf, suddenly parenting, reliable happiness, Wayne Gardna, reggaeton airhorns, sitting in the dark for 45 minutes and reflecting on your choices, Hank Pop, writing ...
BALLS.277 Giving it the full send
February 28, 2021 02:17 - 32 minutes - 30 MBThis week: Barely legal, how’s your fathers, the 1980s are over, title whiffs, weird nerds, pantomime audiences, ripping flares, catching a Kenworth, big ’n’ chunky, the Celtics are bad and should feel bad, the next Boogie Cousins, the last Boogie Cousins, the Superduper Max, Buzz City buzz, the ghost of Caris LeVert, Americans cannot language, Rodeo clowns, institutional competence, Jim Ratcliffe’s vanity project(s), fixing the America’s Cup, one-make Datto racing, test recaps longer than th...
tripping balls.258 Calling the harness racing without your pants on
February 24, 2021 08:32 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBThis week: new albums from You Me At Six and Mush, and a rudey nudey style 1991 classic from Prince. Also: not as advertised, Snyder cuts, six word reviews, the AU Falcon school of art, reviewing last year’s model, Beeso gets confused, push the little daisies and dance like a duck, poll dancing, Smash Hits 1989, For International Listeners, Mike Patton’s normie band, 6am sex albums, covering yourself, logistical support, Still Happy Gilmore, old people talking about the music that was importa...
BALLS.276 From the expanded Hairy Maclary universe
February 20, 2021 04:28 - 46 minutes - 43 MBThis week: Rugby stans and stands, South Beach on Struggle Street, Melo’s midlife crisis, winning 20 from 21 “is really hard to do in the NBA”, packing Porter’s bags, cut price Delly, vague familiarities with Australia, captain’s picks, pre-emptive soft tissue injuries, Tony Davis, covid luck, large washed gentlemen who might like to live in Denver, hot wings, .500-adjacent teams, uninspiring Celtics, big two-and-a-halfs, Nil-waukee, the only person on the internet hating on Ben Simmons’ 42 p...
tripping balls.257 Explosions and set pieces
February 16, 2021 22:29 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThis week: New albums from Foo Fighters, Madlib and The Dirty Nil. Also: let’s dance, manipulatively anthemic, Triple M baggage, pass marks, essential Daveness, marking time, HR issues, the drawer under the sink, convenience samples, interesting cul de sacs, genre fluidity, what’s my name again, the most hairmetally of all the punks, explaining 90s rave culture, Tooheys Red is never a good choice, 3D routines, the algorithms are converging, a Very Special #DocReadsBios, cut the Snyder, Andy’s...
BALLS.275 Weeknd at Brady’s
February 14, 2021 03:07 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBThis week: Neymar narratives, football hipstering on a budget, Steph Season season, West ASG guards, Washedington, Greek NBA references that don’t relate to Giannis, alternative universe Ben Simmonses, second only to MJ, a good All Star to miss, anthem culture wars, voting returns, the continuing bewildering popularity of Kyrie Irving, bald white guys, the Jalen Brunson Rule, Grindr for Jesus, briefly not terrible, Portland keep doing the thing, international call-ups, legends in the club, h...
tripping balls.256 I can’t help you with these problems
February 09, 2021 23:59 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBThis week: new albums from Sleaford Mods and Nancy, and one (or two) you may have missed last year from Sault. Also: British variance, points for concept, Patton does T-Rex, unregistered counselling, east Midlands geezer hiphop, Stockdale Award frontrunners, better on paper, production crossover, group projects, disco jams, middle aged white guys, back of the shed demos, fix it in post, analogue dirt, the outer limits of joker acceptability, Dave’s True Stories (now available in an actually r...
BALLS.274 Hate to say I told you so
February 07, 2021 00:37 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBThis week: Slim Dusty x Tommy Raudonikis, double booked, Boof’s bowling plans, saturation cheese toastie coverage, What Kind Of NBA Fan Are You, Rodney McGruder slander, Warriors twitter, beatswriter, something to We Believe in, Officially Worried, Narrator: he did not in fact hate to say he told us so, All Star voting, loser Luka, constitutional crises, the value of leftover Curry, paying for what you can measure, the Efficiency Landscape, Doc cannot read graphs, Balling out, tale of rooks, ...
tripping balls.255 Muse Paradox feat. The Disease Of Me
February 04, 2021 18:48 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBThis week: our first new albums of 2021 from Aaron Frazer and Here Lies Man, and a new/old/classic/best-of joker from the KLF. Also: short shortlists, A-A-Ron, getting your hour back, complete flutes, NOW YOU LISTEN TO ME, understanding where you come from, walls of sound, know your bangers, revoltingly stupid songs, scaring the kiddies, telling your own story, CV news tickers, too much attention, some old crap Doc wrote, Atari teenage nerdout, self-populating playlists, score draws, albums y...
BALLS.273 Morass than class
January 31, 2021 00:05 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBThis week: Unprecedented times, chasing in race 8, Jinglin’ Joe left open drains a trey, old fat men inserting themselves into the narrative, nobody circles the wagons like the… Utah Jazz?, In-N-Out Nuggets, cooked Heat, cooked sentences, Wiggy Wiggy in the wild west, The Process demands justice, the point of point guards, for whom the Beal toils, regime change in Washington, turning ignorance into content, filthy casuals, Ja bless, Brooklyn or bust, vestigial Balls, instant gravity, the midd...
tripping balls.254 It’ll make sense when you listen to it
January 27, 2021 10:29 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBThis week: can we agree on ten artists that had a run of three genuinely classic albums in a row? #NotOffSeasonFiller Also: notes app apologies, the zeitgeist, not in those shoes, not in this conversation, go speculator, justifying to the unwashed, ten years gone, going to war, LA residencies, not good podcasting content, breaking format, encroaching washedness, you are here, reheated leftovers, entry points, sitting in a closet shouting into a bin, farting into a polystyrene cup, technologic...
BALLS.272 Not ready for prime time
January 24, 2021 03:44 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week: Upbeat Jazz, Portland General Hospital, sheds vs skeds, having an existential crisis in the middle of a pandemic, coaching around stars, Andrew Wiggins: lockdown defender, Bud’s intransigence, constant fiddlers, coaching conservatism, garbage since Wally, shots at Nathan Brown, Beeso’s midlife crisis, sex without land, a wet sack of blancmange, Kanye Irving, that dude who shouldn’t be in charge of a friend group, get off my lawn energy, the state of the association, flatmates in Ph...
tripping balls.253 Good tunes bad times: our 2020 Album Of The Year special
January 20, 2021 08:39 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MB103 new albums, two top five lists and a generous excess of Knife Party IPA: yes folks it's time for the tripping balls 2020 Album Of The Year special, counting down our favourite albums from all the new music we've reviewed on the music pod this year. Also mentioned in dispatches: opening remarks, appreciating the good, earning all caps, darkness in the sunshine, joy as a tiebreaker, Paul’s Boutique for washed GenXers, having the time, algorithmic nonsense, fun in the time of coronavirus, bu...
BALLS.271 Harden Trade II: Trade Harder
January 15, 2021 23:46 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBIn the spirit of crappy sequels to ideas which played out and were played out 8-10 years ago, a blockbuster trade hit the NBA which sent one of the league’s true superstars across the country to a new team. Yes, Dante Exum is now a Houston Rocket. And in the spirit of absolutely original ideas in NBA podcasting, Doc and Beeso are here to argue over the winners and losers of The James Harden Trade (not that James Harden Trade, this one). Also: Chrome sucks, Brooklyn cliches, rough times in the...
BALLS.270 Shouting into a bin
January 10, 2021 09:54 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBIt’s our traditional Small Sample Size Masterpiece Theatre episode as we massively overreact to emergent trends from a handful of games of the new NBA season. Also: being bad at opening beers, who are these people, congratulations to the Western Conference Champion Phoenix Suns, forgot about Dray, grownup supervision, who worries you, lads it’s the Clippers, bad faith Steph legacy arguments, the Efficiency Landscape, everybody needs somebody, wins pool draft regrets, Nugs-Raps synergy, box sc...
tripping balls.252 Get in the shark
December 28, 2020 02:24 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBOur final new music review ep of 2020, featuring new albums from The Nude Party and Model Child, and a look back at the Black Sorrows’ Hold On To Me. Also: exile from Main Street, performative self-destruction, trapped in 1980s amber, cardboard kicks, alternative Christmas playlists, rays of sunshine, Doc’s long shortlist, three-album top fives, built for Reverse Patreon, other people’s AOTYs, other unwanted diseases from the Northern Beaches, unicorn faves, safety first, Venn overlaps and h...
BALLS.269 Defence is for losers: our 2020-21 NBA Wins Draft & Season Preview
December 21, 2020 03:29 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBThis week: the NBA is back (yes, already) and Adam, Beeso and the Doc (very possibly several pints deep from his work Xmas party) are previewing the upcoming season the only way they know how: by drafting teams into their regular season wins pool which the Doc always wins and is incredibly gracious about as you'd expect. Also: modern currency, the East doesn’t suck as much this year, ringing your mum for career advice, every game is an away game, bubble anxiety, Beeso has issues, Pakistan kic...
tripping balls.251 The Men’s Shed of music podcasting
December 16, 2020 01:50 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBThis week: new albums from Kruder & Dorfmeister, Cut Off Your Hands and Dick Move; reflections on 250, craft beer advent calendars, rejecting labels, more of the same, not in those shoes mate, time capsules, better trips home, two-drink buzzes, long shortlists, LSD, #NotAllAustrians, chopping and changing, received pronounciation, deliberately bad house bands, idiot stuntmen, homeopathic white boy funk, blank stares, three word reviews, and suddenly the stunt continues to go horribly wrong, 1...
BALLS.268 Making Big Kev look like Warren Buffett
December 12, 2020 04:23 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBThis week: In defence of boomer angst, harden up up and away, last man standing, please go bankrupt for my entertainment, Cubans and heels, difficult debuts, the least Heat Culture dude imaginable, 3.30am starts, the Lou Williams Experience, maybe you’re the problem, Christian Wood, beard lives matter, the business genius has logged on, seemed like a good idea at the time, the Breece Rude School of Medicine, Damien Hardman from half court, does Giannis ever leave, JJ’s gold watch, getting on ...
tripping balls.250 Under the influence: another Large Round Number Music Ep Special
December 09, 2020 01:09 - 1 hour - 73.1 MBIt’s our 250th (ish) Music Episode Spectacular, in which Beeso and the Doc review brand new albums from Dennis Cometti, The Money War and Magick Mountain, before we pick our personal top five Most Influential Albums of all time. Also this week: Right Said Fred are nutters, Spotify Wrapped is a joke, bogan self loathing, the entire point of punk rock, hating the CBD, snap crackle and thud, Greybeard stout reviews, boldly insipid, straight burglaries, taunting Sweden, podcast albums, excessive ...
BALLS.267 Trading into chaos
December 06, 2020 07:59 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBThis week: Safe working distances, enjoying what you have, asking questions you have no interest in the answers of, deceptively green roads, NZ-WI takes that have aged appallingly badly in the two days of play since, assumed Kayo logins, crosspromotional considerations, unpopular mates, Wall for Westbrook: the NBA’s grimmest supertrade, when burst players burst, the new Kings of the West, Silver’s biggest mistake, pointless trade exceptions, noone trusts Boston, moving back in with college ma...
tripping balls.249 Despite all my rage I just can’t keep this rat in its cage
December 03, 2020 07:03 - 46 minutes - 43 MBThis week: Adam joins the Doc for an Other Peoples’ Classics ep featuring Smashing Pumpkins and Transvision Vamp. Also: emergency guest hosts, Girlclumsy’s legit Spectre hate, noone listens to double albums, The Most Profound Lyricist Of Our Generation, teenage angst, Christian re-writes, who are you calling a can’t, night and day, director’s cuts, suspicions confirmed, not listening to our AC/DC takes, a bit too much information about Doc’s 80s pop crushes, sax crimes, missing the zeitgeist,...
BALLS.266 Sport is just weird
November 29, 2020 04:51 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBThis week: Doc and Adam on basketball in the time of coronavirus, Bam gets paid, it’s not socialism when it’s corporate welfare, getting used to luxury, the cuzzy from Gizzy, the Lakers are a year-to-year proposition, Klayless Dubs, Kendrick Perkins’ wifi issues, security theatre, Saraton theatre, blaming cover bands for Covid, Birthday Party punishers, WIBBLE, pointlessly blokey secondary channels, rejecting your trash reality and substituting my own, c’mon Fox Cricket c’mon, the biggest bun...
tripping balls.248 This album should not exist
November 26, 2020 01:33 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBThis week we're reviewing new albums from AC/DC, Matt Mays and White Denim. Also: showing some mongrel, kids album energy, give Jurassic Joe his flowers, Pokemon is a gateway drug to evolutionary palaeontology, factchecking the Fauves, killer-to-filler ratio, Stiff competition, thinking you were washed at 30, the album of a year, the Bond films of hard rock, doomsday riff repositories, prosthetic eardrums, the genius of simplicity, sledging Birmo, maple syrup and melted butter, rotating trope...
BALLS.265 Not getting Bogdan in the details
November 21, 2020 00:05 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBThis week in NBA-adjacent podcasting: famous Dicks, TLC were 29/30ths right, player Denvelopment, everybody wants a piece of the transaction, the Bucks stop being good at front officing, the Serbian John Johnson, out-stupidering the KANGZ, the decline of fleecable GMs, the better Curry brother, Daryl's burner phone, rest in power Klay’s Achilles and/or the Dubs’ title hopes as currently constituted, shouting at chairs, what’s a pinball machine grandad, sympathy for billionaires, expensive Hol...
tripping balls.247 A cactus down the pants
November 18, 2020 01:35 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week: new albums from The Pack a.d., Fuzz and Bee Bee Sea, craft beer corner, screaming against a hurricane, remember when the Dollop was funny, PNW aesthetics, it was indeed fun while it lasted, DJ Letterkenny, our new segment: Doc guesses about TV shows he doesn’t watch, violence against photocopiers, caught by the fuzz when I was still on the Fuzz, Italy’s leading Britpop act, skipping the prequels, the Ronsealiest, feeling it in your bones, 70s speakers were basically heavy carpentry...
BALLS.264 Offseasons are for cowards
November 15, 2020 01:40 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThis week: blaming netballers for your salary cap issues, instant karma, leaving for Xmas hols straight from work, Zamboni drivers playing centreback, G-League job interviews, inexplicable Spencer Dinwiddie shade, babysitting manchildren, Daryl’s gap week, Beeso’s jimmies are Russelled, making the idiotic DLo-KAT-Booker superteam someone else’s problem, you know you’ve done badly at your job when they name rules after you, straight clipart, City Has A Meth Problem, this year’s selection of tr...