The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)
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tripping balls.246 Find a new slant
November 04, 2020 18:50 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBThis week: Westside Gunn, Goldminds, the Bill & Ted 3 soundtrack, World Series Half-Cut Taped-Up-Tennis-Ball Cricket, beats as advertised, too much disrespect for even us, blocked and reported, riches and bitches, on commission, Muse does Highlander, Gen X nostalgia cash-ins, the Stones vs Beatles of 90s high school dropout movies, Stockdale Writes Bios, parts ≠ sum, old Datsuns, Melbourne returns, struggle filters, good is great, long shortlists, playoff locations, Gizzardian output levels, ...
BALLS.263 Mo’ Morey Mo’ Problems
October 30, 2020 01:16 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBThis week: Remember The Rio Grande Mud Vipers, having airport shuttle on speed dial, the Sixers double down on their double act, soft acts to follow, hedge fund hires, we’ve got big balls, trust issues, OG Mormons, cashing out under Covid, it’s football not sockdrawer, the father-son rule jumps codes, Nurse assistants, shopping indy bargain bin, inventing modern basketball, guess we’re stuck with JVG calling NBA games, 2x speed Sarver, trading with yourself, the crazy cat lady of the NBA, all...
tripping balls.245 Throwing yourself onto the mercy of the court, and missing
October 21, 2020 01:47 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBThis week: Elderbrook, Didirri, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, stout for breakfast, lactose tolerance, good head, ENG101-spec homebrew, king parrot sightings, falsettohoods, making excuses, low on IBUs, Which Witch is Which II: Witch Harder, callback and response, instrumental bridges, cooking your algorithm, apologies for last week, context clues, them raps, silver spoons, improv troupe promo shots, explaining ancient Late Show bits to people who should have been watching in period, Rodney D...
BALLS.262 The Oasis Zone
October 17, 2020 02:32 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBThis week: Beeso unplugged, slow news weeks, trying to get yourself fired and failing, the Thibs World Tour, playing an ignoramus on television, Ty & Kawhi, Dolan West, stripping the Rockets for parts, stanning Stan, shopping Daryl around the league, new home Chicago, executive stalker of the year, MDA’s Rox vs MDA’s Suns, luck is a skill, blowing 3-1 leads, butterfly effects, expensive tweets, not you Cleveland, AD after LBJ, letting people help you, public vs private metrics, cross-sport an...
tripping balls.244 A schooner full of Lemsip
October 14, 2020 21:11 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBThis week on TBP's new music show: Andy Cooper from Ugly Duckling has no egrets, Osees, Oh Sees and/or Thee Oh Sees are caught by the fuzz and James Williamson and Denis Tek are offering Two To One on their album sounding like Stooges-meets-Birdman 40 years on (get on at that price). Also: old grooves, inexplicably big in Europe, personal commissions, even more still hungry, coffee shop sugar theft, grime guests, fixating on the seventh-best Beatles album at the expense of listening to anythi...
BALLS.261 Got milk?
October 11, 2020 00:50 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBThis week: Agreeing with that assessment, big stage chokers, what’s a Concacaf, his Darko materials, #stillintheleague, Bird rights, getting renditioned to Oklahoma, for whom the Dell tolls, getting famous for a week about three years ago, futures trading, feeling the moment, too much swag for Wisconsin, a very obvious attempt to jinx LA by predicting Lakers in five, AD ≠ KD, overvaluing top picks, trying to wait out America’s various omnishambles, wash your hands, clashing cultures, buck-eac...
tripping balls.243 Socially engineered anarchy induced chaos
October 07, 2020 07:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBUNCLE JAM'S ARMY IS HERE. This week: new albums from Public Enemy, Deftones and A. Swayze & the Ghosts. Also: blaming it on the boogie, ageism, 80s mixtape energy, hope skips a generation, old man shouts at cloud, retconned pranks, things you don’t want on your CV in 2020, the parenthetical shoving of it, smashing helmets, don’t call it a comeback, 4am gym excitedness, is agit-punk a thing, Very South Melbourne, production choices, sounds from another time, has music been clocked, optional gl...
BALLS.260 Lakers Exceptionalism 2 Heat Culture 0
October 04, 2020 23:08 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThe NBA Finals and associated developments: anticlimactic conditions, two things, exceptionalism narratives vs culture narratives, overheated Curry, squeaky bum time, hierarchy of stupidity, one day Doc will stop calling Kawhi 'Kyrie' and vice versa (this is not that day), on-Brand moves, beasting the East, which Warriors will we get, cut price rocketry, management decisions, not having any friends, making it entirely about yourself, El Loco Beeso, relegation cutoffs, our EPL convos continue ...
tripping balls.242 Whoa-ooo-ohh, don't listen to the music
October 01, 2020 02:46 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThis week: new albums from Troy Kingi, The Atomic Bitchwax and Vika & Linda. Also: camping with kids, pop culture references from 1990, monster footprints, sorry the office was shut, treadmill tracks, just keep doing more riffing, boomer music mag takes, other people’s classics, Trolling Stone, Radio National, lockdown Christmas albums, John Legend’s to-do list, dark back stories, imagined recreations, genre be goode, James Brown apologists, lost media, lost Brisbane indie band Bandcamp, maki...
BALLS.259 Working from home
September 27, 2020 07:40 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBBringing down Bezos, vale Deano, bigger in the ‘80s, trebuchet energy, man out of time, happy BONCOS Spoon Day, asking the internet to troll you, MSG coming attractions, feeling the Heat, Jimmy Facilitates Other People’s Buckets, Herro worship, teenage fanclub, a better class of lottery team, sunk costs, MDA: Mike’s Decision Agony, Billy Done-a-deal, the next Brett Brown, Beeso wants the OKC job, Lakers-Celtics isn’t what it was, never name your kids after yourself, zone is for cowards, this ...
tripping balls.241 No I said CULT of Personality
September 23, 2020 09:27 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThis week: Adamhfoto joins Doc to spin a couple of Other People’s Classic Albums (as-yet unheard by your correspondents) from Living Colour and Amy Winehouse. Also, terrible intros, getting high, episode 250 pitches, burning jacarandas, deliberately forgetting the ending, new-old beats, Adele’s Berlin heroin period, washed millennials, monetised pain, family rehab, songs not to perform on X Factor, rail safety, the 27 Club exists for a reason, the Bob Rock of grunge, 1991 had a lot going on, ...
BALLS.258 Heat Island of Misfit Toys
September 20, 2020 19:44 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBDoc and Adamhfoto return with some bonus basketball bants laughing at the Clips’ Aldi-brand Warriors routine, deathriding the Bucks, PLAN A HARDER, Miami’s Keyser Soze moment, college bench to NBA conference finals, avoiding your workmates, can we fast forward to Heat-Lakers please, the deadliest shooting backcourt in NBA Twitter, we don’t have to tell you what the ending is, take the under, corn dogs, the world’s closest sweep, the Bam block, piling on the Boston misery, Colombian climbers, ...
BALLS.257 Jandals McLaughlin: Florida Man
September 19, 2020 01:07 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBWhen life gives you Le Mans, make a MOTORSPORTNERDPOD. With Beeso missing up the coast presumed paralytic on shed whisky in the tray of someone’s Hilux, for the first time in a long time* we welcome Matt H back to the show to talk the might and majesty of brum brums. Also: topiary, pink pigs, not being on the internet, a good year for a bad year, old mate Colin, superseasons and hypercars, not wanting to go to Florida, the Puff Daddy of international motorsport, minty fresh Alpines, workplace...
tripping balls.240 Which witch is which
September 17, 2020 00:06 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBThis week: new albums from All Them Witches, LA Witch and Tricky. Also: when the premise is better than the product, hunka hunka gurnin’ love, Romulus and Remus, sandwiches, Postcards from Morgs, adverse reactions, beekeeping, featured bugs, iron deficiencies, engaging with abusive drunks, ethereal BS, home brand Fiji, barbeque reggae adjacent slop, pounding decibels, isn’t purview a weird word, occasional furniture, keen on Jesus, the new Liberal MP for Beenleigh Heights, edit shed interlude...
BALLS.256 That would be the title of the podcast if we could get it past the censors
September 13, 2020 09:18 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBThis week: the Aldi brand Warriors, Billy Donovan’s dramatic theme music, OKC leaning into the teardown, giving James Harden too much thinking time, good times to get fired, never outshine your owner, the smartest guys in the room, beers in the exit meeting, bankrupting the Knicks, Heat culture, Zoom trophy presentations, tenuous lab metaphors, previewing ECSF game 7, questioning the entire premise of death, Marc Gassed-old, saying the right things in a contract year, believing in your plan u...
tripping balls.239 Use your delusion
September 10, 2020 22:50 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBThis week: we welcome official cheesy 80s hair metal correspondent of the pod Adamhfoto to discuss in what possible universe is Poison’s Open Up And Say… Ahh! a classic (hint: the year 1988) as well as new albums from Cable Ties and the Casanovas. Also: yet another band playing Chuck Berry, going for a Slash, classically trained pianists, not well ‘ard, every rose, audience participation, watching your mates’ cover bands, the most relatable of all the axe gods, Phil Rudd drum solos, de-probbo...
BALLS.255 Day Of The Dawn Of The Revenge Of The Sixty Win Hawks
September 06, 2020 03:19 - 40 minutes - 37 MBThis week in NBA playoffs and adjacent sports-related content: Sound as ever, Your Mate, low door frames, sick stalefish 720 combo dude, ego whispering, the Wally Effect, multiple Jacqueses, are there only five good coaches in the NBA, mindmelding with Kyrie, revisiting JKidd in Brooklyn, revisiting nothing from Bud’s previous playoff failures, Just Plan A Harder, stitching the bits together, whiny superfans, learning in garbage time, 0.5s is an age in the NBA, taking the Boston out of Boston...
tripping balls.238 ‘Do you still enjoy doing the podcast?’ and other failed interventions
September 03, 2020 02:48 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBThis week: new albums from The Luka State, Drab City and Naked Giants. Also: white boy rap, one word reviews, RIP AOR, where in the world, frosted tips, kissin’ Cousens, American cheese, saving syllables, triphop aesthetics, trying to fall in love, recreational sadness, bleep off, $2 shop Black Mirror tropes, contractually obligated mentions 2020 style, talk about... pop music, failed interventions, targeted niches, other feeds are available, naked but’s, unwanted Cure, blame the second guita...
BALLS.254 Welcome back to our sports podcast
August 29, 2020 05:22 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBShut up and dribble? That's a big no on both. The basketball is off and Beeso is off on one - Kenosha, Christchurch, Sky News fash, militarised police, Bucks stopping, justice for Breonna Taylor, enemy combatants, Queensland cops, Aldridge and Amick, white supremacy, just a game, and just saying what everyone is thinking. The absolute state of everything eh. Tacked on the back because Doc insisted on doing a sports podcast: Messi divorces, Citeh squad goals, Nate McMillions, expensive autogra...
tripping balls.237 This is why I love this podcast
August 27, 2020 02:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBThis week: new LPs from Melbourne-LA indie type Jess Cornelius, old-school Scandi metallurgists Lucifer and shouty upstate NY garage monkeys THE BOBBY LEES (their caps). Also: Teflon music, full brains, two year old timestamps, a lot of this, ridiculousness, Poison’s information service, McDonalds cheeseburgers,SORRY FOR SHOUTING, the reason this podcast exists, Zack White, suboptimal flatmates, mowing over extension cords, deaf magnetic, 100 years of LOUD, troll AOTY picks, new contractual o...
BALLS.253 The only sports podcast in the world not presented by Manscape
August 23, 2020 04:35 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBWeek one of the playoffs: 4-5 smackdowns, distrusting the waveform, Empires striking back, waving to the fans, keeping score, getting a split on the road, Euroskeptic NBA twitter, idiot green blogs, ripping flares, Darko shadows, Boston West, Messi to Everywhere, the Broncos of La Liga, getting these jokes off, return on investment, Barca’s accidental genius, trading for Simmons, rewriting LaMelo’s back story, marriages of convenience, Anti Laker Blazer Club, Mal Meningaing, worse than doing...
tripping balls.236 USE THE ALGORITHM
August 20, 2020 22:46 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBThis week: new albums from In Hearts Wake, Hockey Dad and !!!, cheesy offshoots, worst of both worlds, cackhanded symbolism, reliable crowds, staying off the everything, toddler tantrums, dedication to the bit, intimate sympathy, This Is Actually Hardcore, sugary snacks, mostly harmless, rotation fillers, asterisk takers, I see what you did there, algorithm is a dancer, #makuthink, passengers on heroin, bad Batman good soundtrack, miss me with the interpersonal dramas of superheroes, Clone Hi...
BALLS.252 Confected narratives from imaginary people on the internet
August 16, 2020 06:25 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBThe NBA playoffs begin here: day drinking, previewing Lakers-Blazers before there is a Lakers-Blazers, can’t stop won’t stop, Clips playing 4D chess, sweet home Arizona, going home happy, fake news, LaMarcus Oldridge, Wingstop, Simmons for Beal or for bits, living with the Point God, Jazz Nuggets is Scandinavian noir, bringing back jacksie, the green website has bad podcasts, Al Horford: legend at the bank, Raptors-Bucks, trying stuff that makes you look stupid, Atalanta’s run, Bielsa’s Leeds...
tripping balls.235 The Guardian of Britpop
August 14, 2020 01:45 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBThis week: short sharp shocks from the Buoys and Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, is Pulp’s This Is Hardcore a classic, gender identification, paying by the minute, good bones, range rovers, late for the zeitgeist, hashtag sick of winning, not getting the joke, cocaine fever dreams, rejected premises, performance reviews, hot thoughts, meetings that should have been emails, clunky segues, Pitchfork's very Pitchforky top Britpop albums list, alternative universe Be Here Nows, charity bin escapees, cla...
BALLS.251 Warren TJ will regulate
August 09, 2020 08:49 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBThis week: Kneel before Zod, pricks in the bubble, so you’re telling me there’s a chance, the short-lived prospect of the BALLS Podcast Clasico play-in game, tap-on tap-off bandwagonning, mistakes were made, winning is fun, from geezer to Keyser, having something to play for, the Lakers are doomed, a year away from being a year away, Harden 1.0, house money, the ceiling is the floor, Warren-ted hype, cash considerations, is Brett Brown brown bread, going on a run, Groundhog Day again again, o...
tripping balls.234 We bought a kazoo
August 05, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBThis week: new albums from Lime Cordiale and BOIDS, '90s alternative tribute album Fuse Box, apparently RATM were political, citation needed, history repeating, loving yourself some yourself, this is an audio medium, Fans Also Like, money talks, definitive seven-word reviews, sweaty cuddles, top hits, the most Triple J Triple J bands of 1995, urgey gurgey, gritty reboots, fake drama, Kazoo TV, [SPOILERS], great opening lines, Greek theatre, conscientious objection, anyway where’s Wonderwall, ...
BALLS.250 RESTART MY HEAAAAARRRRT
August 02, 2020 08:52 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBThe NBA is BACK, and as promised so is BALLS with Beeso and the Doc to overreact to a grand total of two games of basketball, including big headed fans, Pelican’t care less, you can’t have tonk without chonk, Bob Williamson, traffic jams in the west, Jazz experimentation, the chances of a Lakers-Blazers rd 1, preseasons via Zoom, the Scott Foster Experience, forgetting how to play hard, killing series early, Simmons powering forward, doing it for the ‘gram, Steven Adams: diplomatic attache, ...
tripping balls.233 Insufficiently washed for adult contemporary
July 26, 2020 03:38 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBThis week: new stuff from the Beths, Lianne La Havas and the Meanies, putting some respect on the OG’s name, corporate sucks rock, getting locked out of NZ, accidentally Angie Hart, show your working, ensemble solo acts, shortlists aren’t what they used to be, 1970s Dennis Lillee runups, Sunday afternoon chill, explaining Mental as Anything to Gen Z, inevitable disappointments, upsetting Radioheadheads, inspiring a generation of snotty punk kids, bricks by the ton, entente cordiale, Montreal ...
tripping balls.232 Obey your thirst
July 23, 2020 23:14 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBThis week: new albums from Dream Wife and Pabst, and a recent classic from Tax The Heat. Also: chopping wood off your chops, border patrol demarkation disputes, proto-allies, Cyndi Lauper with sad clown makeup, thirst vs feniminisnms, the joker shortlist jinx, arts and crafts, ich bin ein Berliner Musikband, unconventional decisions, ripoff artists, drunk in a national park, hitting vowels with a hammer, owning your cheese, taxing the Miami Heat, dragging Beeso’s year, informed by Motown, har...
tripping balls.231 The blurst of times
July 17, 2020 03:01 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBThis week: we review shiny new 2020-flavoured musical albums from Khruangbin, Beans and GUM. Also: Jazz Club (nice), kitchen salmonella, fake profoundity, Americans have bad taste in music, homer picks, 80s lifts, kicking into the wind, Life on Mars, never get enthusiastic about anything, Beck on deck, emotional instability, playlist bombing, making out, Doc Badly Remembers Bios, Doc Badly Reads Press Releases, Doc Badly Does Maths, ironic PBRs, forgotten* NIN classic album eps, revising Meat...
tripping balls.230 Making Michael Bublé sound like Michael Franti
July 01, 2020 04:11 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBThis week: new albums from John Legend and Sports Team, classic Jesus and Mary Chain from 1985, The BALLS Podcast Story, Presets presets, corny wedding songs, putting your back into it, diabetic alarms, the Russell Wilson of R&B, lesser spotted Britpop, dunking on West Wing tragics, Dude And The Band Names, walls of white noise, punk on valium, industrial droning, popular after the fact, social distancing compliant gigs, sonic blackface, the best band in the world, Geetroit Rock City, Bill Od...
tripping balls.229 A clown show on both sides of the transaction
June 24, 2020 22:11 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBThis week: new albums from Spacey Jane and Lucern Raze, and a recent classic-adjacent from Feral Ohms. Also: arguing with yourself, l33t h4x0rz, wearing your shirts inside out, more information than anyone needs, West Coast Cooler in the sun, Kmart catalogue models, garbage-in-garbage-out, nooks and crannies, rapping like an emo teen, 2 Dogs (no relation to Ken Sutcliffe), Billy Thorpe with his bits in a vice, Monkey business, white noise revisited, US college radio, embiggening up, saying no...
tripping balls.228 Rage of the age
June 17, 2020 10:20 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBThis week: RTJ4, Benny Walker, school drop-off etiquette, power rankings, percussive maintenance, seal eggs and Christmas miracles, keeping Zack in work, 1 v 4, boom-boom-boom raps, nobody wants to be the woke white sidekick, cat people, old hermits, blunt instruments, band on the run, reference spotting, excessive sax, the LCQ League, of course Beeso didn’t send the link to that Semenuk thing and Doc couldn't find it, we finally built the mixtape, clapping back at 2016, Skype-delayed flow, B...
tripping balls.227 May you live in interesting tunes
June 10, 2020 06:42 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBThis week: new music from Patrón and Aitch and old music from Ween. Also: project restart, Fisher-Price My First Grime Album, job applications, financial advice, stacks of slacks, diversify yo bonds, needing a shower, Nick Cave sex music, Marmite, trying too much, coherent messaging, fantasy football for music fans, breach of contractual obligation, shaking it, AOTY for Xmas, old man rage, solving *gestures at the state of everything* through the gift of song, vox Pops, the death of dynasties...
tripping balls.226 Two Strokes on lawnmower fuel
June 03, 2020 09:56 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBThis week: Old Strokes, New Strokes and Yves (might be a) Tumor, The 12th Man Again Again, Doc's Zencaster handle of the week, I don’t even own a TV, average sex, was this it, giving up 2002, Central tunnel acoustics, bad decisions, millennial music mags, pulped Bond themes, pushing buttons, in defence of cheese, childlike wonder, you come at the Prince you best not miss, definite sex haver albums, only nineteen, Reverse Patreon, live music substitutes, the year of crotchy album covers, the S...
tripping balls.225 Play it until sparks come off it
May 29, 2020 04:32 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBThis week: New music from Jaguar Jonze and LOSER, Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut: singular statement or saccharine demo tape?, we might have been drinking, unworthy of 250, Triple M aversion therapy, caping for the Beatles, music rag confectionery, the soft-loud, the deliberate… pause, anyway here’s my laptop, the shouty banger album, the sensation you are feeling is the U2ification, Danny Bonaduce house band deep cuts, down with this sort of stuff, everything is the blues, spare guitarist v...
tripping balls.224 A conspicuous lack of a continuous narrative
May 21, 2020 09:05 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBThis week: a new EP from Little Simz, Kiwi emo-metal via City of Souls, Little Simz' new EP, ‘60s jangle-twang from Dead Ghosts and would you look at that it’s a new EP from Little Simz. Also: Mike Patton does what Mike Patton does, it’s not Mabo, preconceived notions, the Toyota Hilux of podcasting, THRRRUUUSSST, two minute warnings, a return to mediocrity, self-cancelling headphones, Dead bits, oblique edges, stealing for your kids, early morning snipers, Tū Pac, Dr Yobbo reads Spotify bios...
tripping balls.223 The title is the review
May 14, 2020 04:53 - 49 minutes - 45 MBThis week: new albums from Maddy Jane, Wyldlife and Best Coast, would you like to play a game, procrastinating from home, pick-sniping, needing to see other people, internet-famous for the wrong reasons, Missy Barnett, performatively regional, cheese-producing Bass Strait island power-rankings, scrotal fungi, that’s a lot, recurring themes, intensely disposable, love songs and dedications, Marvel bangers, banks of knobs, the mediocrity of large groups, the awesomeness of old Datsuns, the musi...
tripping balls.222 No double album needs to be a double album
May 07, 2020 03:30 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBThis week: new albums from Violent Soho and Tom Misch with Yussef Dayes, Brothers Stoney’s Stone Broke. slacker grunge grab bags, the Billy Corgan Appreciation Society, The Freshmaker, shouts to the 4122, the best Pearl Jam song ever released, ‘phoning it in, incidental instrumentals, carpet sample books, this is lazy, mates from Adelaide, hiphop landmarks, finders fees, super professional if a little bit stoned, who’s the boss, DIY aesthetics, DIY wetsuit warmers, radio resets, live Gizzard,...
BALLS.249 To the five provinces
May 04, 2020 04:08 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBThe Thibs of touch, the white noise of podcasting, orange you glad for RUGBY LEAGUE, revenue sharing, wanting the best for rugby union, exporting imports, you down with NPC (yeah you know me), cultural differences, Bill Simmons talking about himself, ‘the Rodmans of the world’ (??), opting out of the discourse, chasing greatness is a partial life mission, pardon the interregnum, This Is Serious Mum, #NBATwitter #TalkingAboutItself, spoilers: the Germans are not coming back in two weeks, good ...
tripping balls.221 We’ve just run out of Melbourne clichés
April 30, 2020 09:37 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBThis week: new albums from the Smith Street Band, Naked Six and [Public] Enemy [Radio], RUGBY LEAGUE, mating calls, definitely albums, Weddings Parties Anything covers bands, Fitzroy turf wars, Things Of Stone And Wood That Aren’t Beer, don’t talk just go, sax offending, loud is enough, insufficient stickiness, stop eating the microphone, Chuck & friends, old man flow, the Facebook uncle of hiphop, 10 albums in 10 days, not for broadcast, incredibly local, kings and cutthroats, lost in the 90...
BALLS.248 Rugby league ain’t noise pollution
April 26, 2020 08:12 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBThis week: going Full Roy & HG, drink-driving apologists, the Germans are the good guys, mainlining Dettol to own the libs, the Final Word on CA’s cash crunch, colourful racing identities, saving rugby league from rugby league people, complete and utter Kents, LeBatard March Sadness, Crazy Fabe goes Stadium Super Trucks, Beeso as ideas man: that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow, reluctant Betoota shoutouts, Supercar Space Oddity, Michael Effrey Jordan, why Australia A won’t wo...
BALLS.247 The Contractually Obligated Michael Jeffrey Jordan Appreciation Hour
April 22, 2020 23:43 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBThis week: Michael Jordan’s responsible for everything that goes wrong, flying coach, 1998 vs 2018, the ’21 Dubs, Climb Rich Man, the end of the Spurs, sweat equity, claiming all the Strava KOMs in Luscombe, not THAT Erebus disaster and Max joins the eSausage series. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed...
tripping balls.220 Have we listened to too much music
April 22, 2020 08:49 - 42 minutes - 39 MBThis week: new albums from Laura Marling and Rookie, while the Stones’ satanic majesties request that you Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out! thanks luv. #okboomer #totesinapprops Also: Classic Rock Week, frothing on campfire folk, clocking Spotify, evolutionary developmental musicology, Marling and me, first year drama projects, ending up where you should have been all along, false advertising, Ahhyynnnnjaaayyyyeee, party’s over, the rise and fall of the album, another band playing Chuck Berry, the Wreck-...
BALLS.246 Major major e-sausage
April 14, 2020 04:55 - 28 minutes - 26 MBHappening things, e-racing ridiculousness, Rob Moody for pope, old gold origin stories, NBA 2K vs HORSE, pandemic insurance, the NRL vs Channel 9 contractual deathmatch, seeing the other side, dead people are uneconomic, breaking: a billion Euro is a lot of money, BCCI on BCCI violence, Effed 1, 24 hour lemons, cricket nuffies be salty, the public health politics of restarting US leagues, Marko makes an absolute Helmut of himself, the AFR goes Logan’s Run, what price Alexander Downer’s holida...
tripping balls.219 It’s grim up north
April 14, 2020 04:46 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBThis week: new albums from Brisvegas-UK hiphop collab Hash Butta Synergy, Geordie doom-metal bludgeoners Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and the pride of St Theresa's Catholic College Noosaville The Chats. Also this week: day drinking with Dr Mrs Beeso, first wave Oz MCs, fitball hiphop, yet-imaginary mixtapes, stop picking your own albums, core meltdowns, Staffo sez do yourself a favour, Beeso’s 10kg spud bag era, received wisdom, fact-checking punk songs, aging tools, outsourcing your mi...
tripping balls.218 My culture is not a costume
April 09, 2020 00:52 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week: Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts V andVI, The Heavy Eyes, Jay Electronica, bulk atmospherics, gen X angst, cancelled export orders, All Blacks, album of the year of the week, starting slow, Gardening tips, new-old stock, psychologically baffled, Hillsong Hoods, coaching your kids, detox Donnas, having a story to tell, sad indie endies, seven little pigs and carnie cosplay. Next week: UK doom-metallurgists Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Brisneyland hiphop collab Hash Butta Synergy and p...
BALLS.245 Wollongong The Brave
April 06, 2020 00:17 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBA mini-BALLSpod on the Balls NBL franchise, local heroes, future stars, pre-draft prospecting, getting sent to Toowoomba, breaking: someone thinks about rugby, NRL Island, NBA plague ships, NFL in hazmat suits and left-wing viruses. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email. ...
tripping balls.217 A beacon of hope to many
April 01, 2020 22:24 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week: revisiting Beyonce’s Lemonade, new albums by Kingswood and Sky Valley Mistress, early morning takes, theoretical mixtapes, the New Wave Of Australian Yacht Rock, Previously… on tripping balls, ridiculous on purpose, breakdown service, no reservations, paying for the full hour, profitable draggings, the currency of pop, music in lockdown, I’m so rona-ry, inventing content, legacy cutoffs, Stig helmets, washed recognise washed, the greatest #DocReadsSpotifyBios in history, bold strat...
BALLS.244 Old Basketball Club Episode 1: 1987 NBA Finals Game 4
March 30, 2020 03:42 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBIt's not just music history Beeso has no idea about, so he asked basketball writer and twitter celebrity Steve Smith (no not that one, the other one) to come on and rewatch (or watch in Beeso's case) a classic Lakers vs Celtics matchup. So don't clean your screen, that's just standard definition 80s TV - and join us for Old Basketball Club. Watch along: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xZDUCiobFMw BALLS and tripping balls (a music podcast) are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being...