BALLS with Dr Yobbo and Beeso

This week's new albums: Little Simz | Private Function | Devin ShamelAlso: not quite day ones, heist movie set pieces, that one album of Lily Allen's, no room for grey area, internal monologues, none more black, brain backdoors, Frenzal Rhomb are not a very good band (say it in Japanese), podcast sponsorship, hitting a cardboard box with a hammer, trying to be chaos agents, call me maybe, sasscore and whitebelt, parked in the joker space, celebrating the game, niches of niches of niches, cable comebacks, DAZN's big dip, Game 4, good night to Celtics lite, Carlisle in the middle, vibes-based coaching, hope outside the big three, bonsai wicketkeepers and palindrome dudes, Beeso loves Bezos and Stephen A.I. Next week: Saya Gray | Gardna | Frankie and the Witch FingersSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Erika de Casier | CIVIC | Dead PioneersAlso: the minimum requirements for a triphop album, retrograde inspirations, making people uncomfortable, shut up and listen, production choices, alphanumeric insults, too profitable to be discontinued, is Ange just Thibs plus vibes, the Knicks' next ex-coach, Beeso's bad take of the week, the two kinds of game 2, the creation of cool, the secret tournament and Hali picks his moment.Next week: Little Simz | Private Function | Devin ShamelSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week's new albums: Wu-Tang Clan | Viagra Boys | Zzzahara Also: Deepest commisserations, early retirement, Project mushroom coverage, single track thinking, it's transphobia all the way down, old mates, pharma bros, bogs vs swamps, nothing is off limits and everything is off colour, full tilt Iggy, feeling your feelings, long national nightmares, unconvincing picks and recycled Garbage.Then in the After Dark [28.16]: Knicks-Pacers endgame, Jokic and the Jokicettes, 1997 movie spoilers, we thought this last time, Indiantagonists, not in Kansas anymore, PSG won a thing, Kvaradona's big year, welcome to Wrexham: Championship edition, building a wall at 17th, being seen in Wales, Yates' seeds finally flower and Pogi's Reverse Patreon (help him buy a watch).Next week: CIVIC | Erika de Casier | Dead PioneersSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week: new albums from Black Country, New Road, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and HotWax. Also: requiem for a basketball podcast, musical theatre kids, Butch Vig and the art of getting out of the way, Dave Grohl's unfinished book, diversifying your bonds, trip hop, yurt glampers, stalking Dave Graney, Balkan fight songs, wins pool perpetual trophies and a life less online. Then, in the triumphant return of the After Dark [35.05]: Beeso watches Barça, gritted-teeth praise for Inter, defending SGA, blaming the Knicks for your bad internet hygiene, Max Daddy (make you jump jump), the F1 movie, does it matter that it doesn't matter and Spurs manager exit interviews.Next week's new albums: Wu-Tang Clan | Viagra Boys | ZzzaharaSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe archive: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week in sport: Prizegiving ceremonies, pub orientations, draining the pool, fluffy selfies, who knew this guy would turn out a wrong’un, local celebrities, inexplicable firings, great understatements, western congestion, taking crazy pills, the Suns set in the west, fair and balanced tanking, live reactions, King Solomon parenting, eff them picks, Arsenal’s new guy, kneeds must, STONKS, infectious stupidity, modern HR, this guy isn’t that into you, Weagle erasure, it’s not Blake’s fault, impression nesting dolls*, OKC’s road heroics**, disrespected one-seeds, young Bulls, international fixtures, touring the precinct, Florentino’s Galacticos and Ranger danger. *yes obvs Heath Franklin’s Chopper is just Eric Bana’s with more Sharpie **that 37 win number is either the total away wins record, or some stuff Doc made up in his head Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: The Devils | Bilk | Fake Dad Also: That sort of language, smells like teen spirit but tastes like Oasis, breaking the cycle, long Wire bows, uncategorisable content, leave ‘em wanting more, unwanted reminders of your ‘90s relationships, inappropriate wedding songs, bootleg merch, misplaced disappointment, selection criteria, the other deep south, Neapolitan polymaths, Daryl Somers erasure, let the world burn down, pig iron, we’ve done all of Brighton, demented gig guides, Kasabiani unpleasantness, you made it through and this Swan’s made for you. Next week: HotWax | Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs | Black Country, New RoadSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: RIP Beeso, the Rockets’ red glare at their remaining schedule, them Euro forrens, *fingerguns*, noone is scared of anyone, Beef Stew beef, tanking at fixing tanking, Utah’s one shot, Ringer house style (aka shouty white homers crowbarring tired pop culture references into sports coverage), whither SexLand, happy in Salt Lake, fantasy Bookering, overpaying for brand names, country style, all wins pool business will be settled today, grape skins and sump oil, FA Cupdate, Villa are real, the next Ange and long goodbyes retracted. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: Freckle | Bartees Strange | The Rollin’ Deep.Also: laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Triphopper, technically a car podcast, a literal airbus, walking around looking at things, Paris: it’s basically Melbourne, starter kits for other people’s stuff, bowel-shaking earthquakes, anyway here’s Wonderwall, sausage royalty, they’ll be better next week, on my way to steal your girl, done done onto the next one, percentage plays, English superheroes and catastrophic outros. Next week: The Devils | Fake Dad | BilkSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: 2018 was another country, YouTube slop supercuts, Giddey up, stupidity by the Gallen, Distracted King, old man on campus, OKC’s next scapegoat, we had no idea at this moment that the Grizzlies were hours away from sacking their head coach and two of his assistants, America hello.jpgs itself, Quebec separatism, junior football, space constraints, Beeso invents gegenpressing, reheated Mourinho, subsets, the very occasional good game of union, subterranean Irish pubs, Red Bull clips your wings, not that Aussie kid the other one, the last time Williams were serious, football tactics 101, the best times for batting (on a historical scale) and President SAS. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from The Velveteers and Rum Jungle, and an Other People’s Classic from Neutral Milk Hotel.Also: Streisanding yourself, geographical confusion, doing too much, Legoland developments, made-up names, bottomless mixes, ‘70s speakers, the control for Beeso’s parenting experiments, poor lifestyle advice, uncut Js, Alabama Shakes in an elevator, your dads are morons, building out your music universe, mysterious and uneven, The Boys playlist, choice internet munters, minimising your time loss, banned by the chief censor and bailing on your Vincent Price Thriller bit. Next week: Freckle | Bartees Strange | The Rollin’ DeepZSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: Much madness, Substack Nazis, dog days, the Boston Sell-ticks, geological time, Saudi money, addicted to darts, the diplomatic nightmare of World Cup 2026, LIV Basketball, long-distance away trips, crackpot theories, shenanigans afoot, billionaire socialism, there is no off position on the Process Karma switch, horse race coverage, before Grantland, differing views, trying to get people fired and there’s always next week (until there isn’t). Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: The Murder Capital | WOOZE | Akil the MC (Jurassic 5)Also: Practical engineering, remanifesting 1992, there is power in a union, sandwich beats, nostalgia self-bait, the next fun Irish album, massive psychotic perverts, British comedic sensibilities, twenty-something-th anniversaries, stupid but brilliant, putting the cyst in romanticist, closer to the coast, #DocReadsAlbumReleasePressReleases, it’s all Gosford, conversations we never had, curating your kids’ music tastes (now with a blog on the subject thereof), drunk on a desert island, come back to the light my son, if it’s flooded floor it and still feeling woozy. Next week: Rum Jungle | The Velveteers | an Other People’s Classic from Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: Styles make fights, office space, degree of difficulty, fortune-telling tracksuits, owner power rankings, the Little Yin, well actually, repetitive strain injuries, Ömer Aşık slander, a dearth of Knicks positivity, The MVP Conversation™, there will be a point to this, two guys out, Oklahoma geography, Beeso solves America, bread and circuses, heartbreaking: the worst person you know etc, pitching Brisbane Olympic sports, Shoresy merch, sprintcar shirts go hard, whoever dies with the most free swag wins, teach your children well, maximum Canadian, Villa do Europe, kicking someone when you shouldn’t have kicked someone, a moron and a cheapskate and FM radio Doc. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: Pastel | Charm School | Asian GlowAlso: the front fell off, Britpop Brexiting, please help me budget this, rules for friendship, uncanny valleys, play some bangers man, the only other reason for mentioning Clone High on this podcast, dictionary definitions, other rappers are available, self-destructing darlings, #DocReadsBios does requests, feel the grimness, getting bored with your own ideas, Steph heaters, second choice to a dinosaur, out of memory, Doc's Insta algorithm tells on him and remembering some sketches. Next week: The Murder Capital | WOOZE | Akil the MC (Jurassic 5)Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: Work-adjacent podcasting, Beeso’s big swim, we’re bloggin’ again, don’t pin this on me, disinterested side characters, how can the Luka trade have become worse since it happened, playoff sufferball, antigravity Steph, the seesaw of bad decisions, the Clips look better than they are, built on a burial ground, laying the groundwork, forgetting Indiana, learning nothing, hard chargers, Cleveland attempting to beat the allegations, Tobias Harris over everyone, Mustang Cupdates, losing your shape, give the people what they want, not drowning waving, being kicked in the head, and having all the gear and no idea. (Production note: Doc's audio improved dramatically around 3.40 once he remembered he needed to record it.) Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: Bad Bunny | The Wombats | Death By Unga BungaAlso: weapons grade awful, BioGPT, cuddly and playful facades, 1990 Magna tapedeck hiss, getting your Frenzal and Grinspoon riffs confused, tumble in the rough, the Latin Taylor Swift, 808s and horn breaks, remaining cynical, BODO/GLIMT and soft-launching a soft music theory (which Doc expands on in his reanimated blog here.) Next week: Charm School | Pastel | Asian GlowSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: misguided enthusiasm in the group chat, the big two-v-three, who is Rick Rickleton, prioritising that money, prioritising not getting blowed up, win the stink win the match, all star game narratives, the clot thickens, no future is promised, figuring it out, around the grounds, Jacques Kallis strays, Kyrie talking nonsense, Australian archetypes, white mascots, Trez in residence, flipping off Amazon, timing your three months of good health, BANE, big-offs, Steph + Jimmy, two suns, some badly aged preview chat for the Dubs’ stomping of the KANGZ, pair of V’s, not mnemonic worthy, losing live, DPOY odds and Courtney-Love crashouts. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: a half-episode with half the BALLS MotorSportNerdPod, where Doc previews the upcoming F1, Indycar, Supercars, Nascar, sportscar and MotoGP seasons with one key question: should you bother watching? Updated albums for next week’s music ep: The Wombats | Bad Bunny | Death By Unga Bunga Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new albums: Teddy Swims | Magic City Hippies | The HellacoptersAlso: Post Karcher, live from Montjuic, Doc outsources reviews to bios, pool deck vibes, time and place and frame of mind, Christmas glassware, delete option Autotune, ‘90s intro faff, consumer motoring advice, cheap tricks, carpal tunnel syndrome, vinyl freaks, stealth Christian rock, racist makeup, a lack of proper note-taking and pairs of shoes. Next week: Charm School | Pastel | Asian GlowSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: The Mavs traded Luka. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week’s new releases: The Weather Station | Delivery | Melter | Ghoulies Also: Nextmen up, golden era DMCA, you can’t filter flat, egg punk vs dolewave, how Beeso got banned from the gym, noiuww means noiuww, vegan longbows, increased susceptibility to ads for seniors insurance and cruise holidays, drink like it’s Livid 2002, get the lemon pepper wings, albums people have heard of, lowered expectations and word of the day. Next week: Teddy Swims | The Hellacopters | Magic City Hippies Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: Test cricket, or whatever else is going on. Also: the 2x follow-on rule, a casual 60 over spell, you’re unfit and you’re not trying hard enough, making better decisions, Alex Hartley appreciation corner, it’s funny to watch England give up, Kuhnemann: come together with your plan, production meetings, getting weird before All Star, Jimmy and the Heat are each other, where does the Fox go, Blazers tradebait, full parachute, Spurs playing better D off the court than on, Zuck around and find out, abandoning the NFL one game early, making the honours board engraver work a second day and the Mustang Cup. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Lambrini Girls, Brown Spirits and Every Possible Way - A Compilation.Also: running in please parse, see you next Tuesday, stacks on, buying dummies, Zach Braff strays, trading while in solvent, Jazz Odyssey, unexpected snipings, 0.01 of a joker, nanobands, algorithm and blues, audio Draino, Doc’s terrible Venn diagrams, Gen X’s boomer Hottest 100 takes, the most Channel 7 thing imaginable, Tiktok pop, #DemocracySausages, Chappell moans and training the house down. Next week: The Weather Station | Delivery | Melter | GhouliesSpotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: having one foot on the plane while being thrown under the bus, Meth Booney, four more years girls, Pez erasure, our extensive match report from Phoenix 0 Mariners 0 (crowd 14,034), a literal MVP conversation, the world’s least likely Russ superfan, the last truly stupid owner in the NBA and getting upset at popularity contests. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s our one contractually obligated nostalgiafest ep of the year, as Beeso, Adam and Doc draft our favourite albums of 1995. Also: Guess Who, Kmart Gladstone, never try to be clever, how to get played on Triple J in 1995, veritable snipes, parenting tips, quoting Dostoyevsky, avoid at all costs, rigid niches, challenge accepted, more bangers less knobs, Betamax Amigas, horseshoe theory, hot corners, deliberately obtuse, geographically correct, sneaky desk-drumming albums, #GenXAreWorseThanBoomers, one for the content, Muse Factor prequels, too heavy or too weird, chopper PTSD, collective CD collections, confected narrative, it were all trees round here, perfect Venn intersects, the lost art of original soundtracks, lounge lizards, lightning rounds, unfocused fury, acid jazz, Chandlers Lismore, Techno Sucks, Dave’s demos, you’re only as good as your fans, remembering some guys, worst purchased albums, worst imaginable gigs, shortest imaginable long-lists, being reggaetonedeaf and handbrake turns. Next week: welcome to 2025 with new albums from Brown Spirits, Lambrini Girls and Every Possible Way - A Compilation… of ‘90s indie covers. You can never escape nostalgia, you can only hope to contain it. Spotify playlists: 2025 review albums | Playlist archive including our 2024 albums, 2024 mixtape and the playlist of this episode (spoilers)The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: what it says on the tin. We're counting down our top five albums of 2024.Also: colonial appendage swinging, bad grime and Dua Lipa, second chance draws, we heard what you said about us, process over results, midfield divebombs, gratuitous namedrops, Bobby Bragg, representative examples of the marque, finding your fastball, Double J inflight magazines, not understanding what EDM is, falling off a cliff, less is more, more is less, backyard bands, different approaches to melancholy, not safe for all ages, period-correct solos, popping off, pure legacy, no bonus credits, everyone else’s AOTYs, Brat nuclear winter, misguided longing for shared experience, don’t get music recs from NBA writers, boomers in disguise and old school recordings. Next week: our second annual incursion into Gen X nostalgia bait with our fantasy draft of the best albums of 1995, which is now thirty (30) years ago, allegedly.Spotify playlists: All 2024 albums | 2024 mixtape | Playlist archiveThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: ratings beratings, how are the Cavs, fake winning streaks, knowing your ceiling, the East finally achieves respectability, KANGZ landing, rough trades, DNP-conflagration, the big three and the rest, getting got by half price League Pass, marginally-less-exploitoball and two-tier Tests. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: our annual Last Chance Qualifier for AOTY 2024, featuring Mashd N Kutcher, High Fade, Kim Deal, the Spyrals, White Denim and Lyrics Born. Also: Endorphin rushes, Clarke & Dawe 2024, the early 90s funk revival, bonus stages of grief, profiting off Gen X nostalgia, Red Hot Chatsy Peppers, no more from you, leaving with a vibe, hoping for a different album than this one, a shed in an industrial estate, simping R&B, badly-aged BBL timestamps, welcoming opinions on 1995, wombat facts, Doc’s top 40 probably-worth-listening-to albums of the year, other people’s AOTY opinions, listening to Americans talk about music, and the miseducation of Doc & Beeso. Next week: we’re off, while we selflessly throw ourselves into Hammock Time aka listening back to the albums of the year in order to figure out what the hell our top five albums of 2024 were, probably while drinking beer in the sun. We do this for you people, obvs. Back around 8 Jan with our 2024 AOTY special. Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: actually having NBA thoughts, collecting trophies like Pokemon, the MVP straw poll, the Thunder’s rough week, a minor Traensformation, multi-layer revenge games, can Dennis Schroeeuueeuder stop the Dubs putting up duds, Jimmy Butler’s Mythbusters vibe, Shut Up And Front Office, NBA Cup improvements, NBA All Star unimprovements, the most unlikely mistaken identity in world sport, franchise fraudulence, NBA Europe, the value of live sports, flat track bullies, MVPs on bad teams, previewing the Xmas Day slate, justice for McSwindle, Santner baby and fast bowling night terrors. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Ramkot and Stress Eater (CZARFACE x Kool Keith). Also: new Ice Cube x Brandy collab, double not negatives, representative examples of the marque, blank canvases, beach roadtrips, #DocMisReadsBios, desert rock Pokemon, if in doubt play it louder through better speakers, the Minister for Czarface, the poet laureate of the podcast, more Kendrick slander, live from 1992, twelve-track one-trick ponies, holiday plans, ocean pools and get back on the bus Wishart. Next week: our annual Bring Out Your Dead last-chance-qualifier featuring Kim Deal, Mashd N Kutcher, High Fade, White Denim, the Spyrals and Lyrics Born.Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: Jimmy is rustling Miami’s jimmies, the end of superstar mobility, quadrupling down, players aren’t bad but contracts can be, NBA Cup quarterfinals, peak Knuckles Connolly hours, Happy learned how to putt, don’t use Tottenham’s training staff, leaps v blips, LeBron is all of us, things Bill Belichick could be doing rather than coaching a mediocre college team, doing it for the kids, I’m on a boat, how the English lost an empire, nice night to go to the pub and the link between Angeball, Franklins nightfill and rugby league coaching. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Kendrick Lamar, Pa Salieu and Ocean Grove. Also: west coast tourism, you and me problems, space-filling models, 1980s muscle car history, foreign exchange, fake freestyles, statements endorsed by 50% of the podcast, the worst thing about 2001, Mariah Carey waterboarding, call and response, Old Soul Christmas, justice for Last Christmas, Brazilian Funkmas, a time of Faith, performative baggage, regional accents, newsreader bloopers, kids these days etc etc and avoiding ads. Next week: Fat Freddy’s Drop | Stress Eater (CZARFACE x Kool Keith) | RamkotSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: multiple Australia-India walkovers, Worldwide Pant, getting a sendoff from a Grease 2 villain, pick your favourite Jokic on-off stat, MVP conversation small talk, Ja performatively gives up dunking, the Great Barrier Thief, mini-slumps, freelancing against coaching advice, knowing the rules in order to break them, would Brett Kimmorley have made a good Shanahan system QB, sunk costs, timestamps, not caring enough to look up who picked Danny Dimes up on waivers, most of QB success is situation and the reason the NBA cup was invented. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Michael Kiwanuka, Thunderpussy and Vypers.Also: knocking your audience loose, music to topple castles by, outgunned but not outnumbered, Mark Ronseal, orbital sander albums, not a producer's extruder, polish club, incomplete assignments, unreleased comeback albums, unspoiled by success, don't put in the paper that I got mad, stealing Killer Mike's car and Famalam's Drill-O-Gram. Next week: Kendrick Lamar | Pa Salieu | Ocean Grove (and not the new album by [REDACTED] although Beeso reckons it's decent)Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: the worst 11-1 team in NFL history, the multiEberflusverse, the three kinds of Cavs losses, the Ant Edwards School of Motivational Speaking, teachable moments, Beeso refuses to be Knicks-positive, America cannot geography, the Rockets' next move, Boxing Day at the Smoothie King, the last club sandwich, Detective Chief Inspector Joel Embiid, ban this podcast, merchandise even more unnecessary than our own, the oldest we have ever sounded, the goggles do nothing, unrecognisable cities, unironic passion for graphic design, the romance of the Cup, and WIBBLE. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from A. Swayze & the Ghosts, Warmduscher and Faderdaze. Also: safe assumptions, Covid bumps, beat poetry, misleading introductions, nutritional information, introduce yourself (right on!), Gladstone starter kits, random music recs, this podcast was inevitable, soft furnishings, sad indie manic pixie dream girls, sabotaging engagement farming, one-shot live versions, too much sault, grand opening/grand closing, outrageous fortune, describing posts and getting way too excited about paying Netflix to watch bad NFL games at Christmas. Next week: Michael Kiwanuka | Thunderpussy | VypersSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: some poorly aged thoughts on Indian batting competence, Captain Grumpy on the rack, having twice the success, Celts-Cavs fallout, shot deserts, blame it on woke, thinking free to air television is going to save you like it's 1984, is bad basketball less watchable than bad other-sports, styles make fights, create-a-player Grizzlies, Sixers Process Karma is undefeated, Beeso is basically Nick Nurse, blame it on the Boogie, don't look directly into the East, Wagner goes Valkryies on the Lakers, places to plant your Flagg, cricket and admin, the Australia A'ification of NBA All Star, moral choices in EPL fandom, seeing the Wood for the Forest, sporting polygamy and police harassment. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub (again), Yoo Doo Right and Greenleaf. Also: almost professional, recency bias, what's the difference, parkourlife, This Isn't Cinema, missing narratives, the central tenets of this podcast, the Kyuss School, Swedish deserts, top five fixations, being lied to by the internet, Morningside for life, words matter, unproductive foraging, more bold evolutions and the art of the play-out in-joke. Next week: Faderdaze | A. Swayze & The Ghosts | WarmduscherSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: live sausagemaking, started at the bottom now we here, Thursday scaries, unintended consequences, duelling stats, Traede Young, the Cavs already have the 1 seed, Wemby ruins narratives, Rudy reinforces them, Dub mixes, washed references, strength of schedule, escaping to BlueSky, arguing with yourself, non-starter starter packs, Le Sulk, Mbappe having a mbad time and the difficulty of the three-man weave. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod emailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Maverick Sabre, Mr. Gnome and Jon Spencer. Also: reanimating your dead time, I can't believe they've taken Warren's wealth, Instagram filters for music, bold and inventive evolutions as an artist, hitting zones, three bangers, you make me sick I make music, swamp origins, prog stoner nonsense, decoding the Dub project, getting the concept backwards, turkeys for Christmas, the MC-nil, other albums are available and the late night wars. Next week: Yoo Doo Right | Greenleaf | Salmonella Dub againSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: we're a cricket podcast. Don't let anyone tell you different. #MeaninglessBilaterals #Wibble Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Amyl and the Sniffers, Confidence Man and The Offspring. Also: Weird Al parodies, gluing the floor scrapings back on, what's ‘shameless fan service' in Portuguese, upsetting the ghost of Beeso, straying from the light, Protracker punk riffs, a very long run-up for a very obvious joke, the estate of Chrissy Amphlett is preparing legal papers, FIGJAM, where's the drop, where's the Vengabus, solid bops, burner accounts and pensioner naps. Next week: Maverick Sabre | Mr. Gnome | Jon SpencerSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: trying to make sense of a week of NBA games that told us not a lot more than a day did. Also: school holiday childcare, three-heavy basketball sucks, an entire team going 50-40-90, statue or stat someone else?, big outliers, big worries, a Dyson that doesn't suck, capture the Flagg, the Tobias Harris revenge tour, the Josh Giddey Experience, Wilkinson Beard, new coach bumps, running out of plays, who are these people who sign the releases to appear on RBT, Tim Horton hears a who, India hits their 80s-90s England phase, NSW exceptionalism, do you want weird at the top, deposed regimes hanging around to ruin the vibes, serial killer coaches, and wishcasting Wemby into averaging a 5x5. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub and Magic Machine, and a Hanni El Khatib collection from 2017. Also: unhoused marine mammals, the polymath-to-flog pipeline, organ donors, rushed homework, George Lucasing your masterpieces, ocean metaphors, deploy the Troy Kingi, Sabre rattling, getting Kneecapped, dear Jons, rejected Bob Vylan covers and Fidler on the hoof. Next week: Amyl and the Sniffers | Confidence Man | The OffspringSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: our traditional massive overreactions to one game of NBA basketball episode, in which we… yeah you can probably figure it out eh. Also: insulting Scotland, serial killers, non-showering teenagers, unserious organisations, false advertising, altitude sickness, Kawhi are you not playing, Bermuda triangles of suck, robust characters, high voltage rock and roll, Ace Frehley, the frozen envelope of NBA commissioner outfits, keeping your third eye open, reconsidering your life choices, Liberty reclaimed, all hail our new BLACKCAP overlords, and the house wins (the house always wins). Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from TISM, RÜFÜS DU SOL and Nice Biscuit. Also: rolling in dog dirt, pure uncut fan service, forced interstitials, ultramarathon training, exactly what was expected, unsafe working at height, the best of what's left of, biscuit meditations, structural thought, the Dan Auerbach Cinematic Universe, this won't help, this won't make the mix and Doc Fails To Read Bios.    Next week: Salmonella Dub | Magic Machine | Hanni El KhatibSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in sport: Adam, Beeso and Doc are in for our annual snake draft of the NBA teams we think will win the most games this year, as a way of previewing the upcoming NBA season (and to land one of us some free booze some time next year).  Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: our 400th episode GOAT Albums Top 50 Spectacular, the pointy end. Background reading: Doc and Beeso's original top 50 favourite albums lists from 14 years ago. How has the pod changed our music tastes? Who wins the ultimate deathmatch of nostalgia and recency bias? Listen and find out. Next week: new albums from TISM, RÜFÜS DU SOL and Nice Biscuit.Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: our 400th episode GOAT Albums Top 50 Spectacular, over two instalments. Background reading: Doc and Beeso's original top 50 favourite albums lists from 14 years ago. How has the pod changed our music tastes? Who wins the ultimate deathmatch of nostalgia and recency bias? Listen and find out. Later this week: tb400 part two. No sports this week, NBA wins pool draft next week.Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week in music: new albums from FIDLAR, Hello Mary and Carver Commodore. Also: talking yourselves into doing a top fifty GOAT albums list for your 400th, prematurely declaring the death of the album, renting vs buying, Substack squats, there's never money in this banana stand, a thousand handstands, Almost Free (of a unifying genre), a bad week at the well, disavowing Past Songwriter You, unsafe music, reformation resolutions, stadium shows, U2 nuffies, unproven biographical claims, accidental shuffle, reading the comments, and looking forward to wallowing in the Gen X of it all.  Next week: our 400th episode of this music podcast. They said we'd never make it, which was clearly an attempt to manifest an outcome into existence. Here's Doc and Beeso's top 50 albums of all time duelling blog posts from 2010, when blog posts were a thing (ask your parents). Also, here's Beeso from this week with a brand new post on yet another soon-to-be-abandoned blog platform talking about the premise of our music show and how our pre-pod top 50s came about. Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlistsThe database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: KAT to NYK, business decisions, introducing violence to the wins pool, who benefits from swallowed whistles, Butler gives up the bit, the white Ben Simmons, the oldest man in Oklahoma City, Big Ballers back, inventing new ways to lose, that notoriously stodgy KD Warriors team, Crossfit Corner, rogues gallery, being made to play nice, is anyone one Brandon Ingram away from contention, the Wizards' generational stench, blackmail opportunities in expansion drafts, redrawing American geography and of gods and Muppets. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.