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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: 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 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 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.
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: 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: 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 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 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: 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 in sport: traditional markers of the NBA off-season, roasting each and every one of the City Edition jerseys in alphabetical order, NBA media silly season, it's the final Wojbomb (doo-doo-doo-doo), newsbreaking is for the young, nobody knows anything: NFL edition, Beeso attempts FPL, Tottenham attempts to score, Doc's imperfect generational talent metric, padding Beeso's CV, again with the jerseys, Captain Piastri, what happened to Red Bull, Newey goes for a Stroll, Doc misrepresents St Bonaventure's NCAA Division 1 status and Deadpool vs the Kingdom of Saud. 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 in sport (?): the two reasons to buy a professional sports franchise, Jeffrey Bezos, Steph gets bored on Insta, no need for a blue tick, losing dead weight, what the hell are Chelsea doing, accidental Brexit, Beeso is basically Ballmer, blue windscreens of death, actual consumer motoring advice, life is a highway and experiential GPS. 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 in music: new albums from Jack White, Grinspoon and Empire of the Sun. Also: quitting Spotify, minor leagues, bashin' riffs, nitpicking, Dead Weather origins, concepts of various descriptions, Patton's Disease, local legends, unlikely elder statesmen, tradie vibes, corporate gigs, Powderballads, dead cats, this is where I take my leave, 40 years too late or three months too early, GenX H100 fury, answers on a postcard, taking the temperature of the space, exit pursued by a Beetle, editing jobs, this hasn't aged well, 960 photos of Beeso's backside, you can't Bake without a Spoon and getting Mr and Mrs N. Z. Taxpaper to fund your holiday. Next week: Soft Play | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Painted ShieldSpotify 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: Beeso's back from the touch world cup and has TAKES on the Olympics, the NBA and the paucity of single malts in mid-priced Midlands travel hotels. Also: sabotaging your own tape, fit people, the big two killed my tourney, local competition, are we having fun yet, you can't win anything with kids, European vacations, Australia sucks, players-only meetings, three-time Olympian podcasters, escaping the Cletus channel, filthy casuals, puncturing in the Louvre, USA Basketball's last stand, Goorjian's last gasp, we report you decide, NBA Xmas Day snubs, fried Nuggets, Podziemski erasure, unsatisfactory endings, attempting to manifest a Celtics implosion and capture the Flagg. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of the Kankakee Podcast, Jake sits down with music enthusiasts Brian Prairie and Drew Raisor for a lively preview of the Merchant Street Music Fest in Downtown Kankakee. They dive into the festival's rich history, its eclectic lineup, and the vibrant community atmosphere that makes it an annual highlight.Together they share their excitement about standout performances, including Chicago-based band Brookwood Drive Band, who are set to bring their blues rock vibes to the platform stage on Friday night. They discuss the allure of traditional blues, complete with stirring piano solos and heartfelt vocals, as well as Ivy Ford's emotional and powerful performances that follow closely after.The conversation flows smoothly as they highlight Leah Evan and the Lowdown's unique blend of classic rock and blues, lauded for Leah's soulful voice in "Understanding Love," and give a nod to local talent like Matt Yeager and Southside Social Club, who maintain a more grassroots presence despite not being on Spotify.Listeners will enjoy insights into newer bands like Soul True, who blend hip hop and soul for a modern twist in songs like "Neighborhood," and acclaimed local acts like "Beeso and Friends," whose versatile jam rock funk is a community favorite.The episode also covers the diverse music lineup, from funk-driven bands like The Heavy Sounds to rock powerhouses Local H, and cap it off with a discussion about Vertical Horizon, scheduled to close out the festival on Saturday night.Jake, Brian, and Drew emphasize the festival's inclusive spirit and community vibe, including mouth-watering food vendors and the good weather forecast. The Kankakee Public Library earns a special shoutout for organizing this beloved event, ensuring there's something for everyone.So, what can attendees expect this year? A lot of good music, delicious food, and memories to last a lifetime. Tune in to hear all the buzz and plan your Merchant Street Music Fest adventure!Send us a Text Message. Support the Show.
This week: England's dreaming, cultural assimilation, Queensland maths, mid-season variance, on the bus from Innisfail, excessive Kendrick, the end of the Dubs dynasty, the new Cash Considerations, which one is the Spare Wiggins, cheap Nuggets, free agenzzzzy, eastbound and down under, Luka Doncooked, chemistry kits, this week's instalment of OKC Future Chat, Kerr helps the aged, GOAT solidarity, Austria's thing falls off, Netherlands netherworlds, styles make fights, continuing to get Deschamped, CR7's unmatched Main Character Energy, lazy national stereotyping as a means of previewing football games, worst timeline Galacticos, are we the baddies?, whither the Dauphine, Cav infuriates the Belgians, boring interviews and Beeso says thanks and goodbye. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | Email *Before heading off to the touch world cup, not for good. Unless things either go really well or really badly there.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week in sport: Saudi vs Everton, dictionary definitions, aspirational targets, Kvaradona's horrible annus, Ronaldo's best position, this Italy chat aged well, bring back Nike tournament ads, lost in Paris, the Swiss spine, continuing until morale improves, Beeso surprisingly brings it back to his own coaching, get out of the way, Covid struggleball, who isn't here that should be, Rip Hamiltonbappe, dark horses aren't orange, good for parts only, friendship is rare, New Zealander Of The Year, ‘not everybody knows what we're going on about', it's not KD's fault he's old, 2031 is a 2031 problem, on-brand draft moves, banana shortages, not ready for a rebuild, Heat checks, avid reader Ant, Chris Paul George, shouts to nepotism, owning the owners, the Zach Edey Draft Discourse and not your grandad's South Africa. 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 Cage The Elephant, Big Special and Arab Strap. Also: call and response training, evolutionary musicology, a missed opportunity for a Glenn McGrath joke, ranting about misery, misery about ranting, soft acts to follow, Beeso falls for the old deluxe edition banana in the tailpipe, make fun noises, no relation and no leg to stand on. Next week: Bad Nerves | Emma Donovan | WhoresSpotify 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 | Email See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week: Luka's hard earned thirst needs a big cold beer, unexpected broomery, everyone's favourite game show: Tired Or Stupid?, 14 feet of disappointment, Minnesota headwinds, topical satire, contractually obligated Thunder Future Chat, la génération dorée, get fit with Boris, why Joe Mazzulla is bad at merging, space-filling narratives, keeping your dumb thoughts to yourself is a sign of personal growth, dunking on Perk, the grip of death, #NeverLost, Beeso discovers in real time that people race sidecars at the Isle of Man, Dortmund get Real Madrided (and vice versa), and we might have accidentally invented a new slur. 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: Beeso's live report from Jungle, plus new albums from Nia Archives, The Zutons and Slash. Also: not bhed good soize, architect visions, setlist analytics, rusted-on karaoke, big beat is back, keep it moving, rockstar cosplay, it's twenty louder, conditioned by poor choices, Kool-Aid entries, finding religion, more Seventies than the Seventies, the Nile dries up, when all the takes have been taken, nunsploitation films, Killing Floor ripoffs, running duo, Apple's cloudshouters vs cloutchasers countdown, a nostalgia for collective experience, MVP narratives, being let down by your friends, to do: lists, how do you pronounce hegemony anyway, better than the alternative and Guess The Next Kingi Genre. Next week: Nia Archives | The Zutons | SlashSpotify 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: the game we'd been waiting the entire NBA playoffs for, mid-00s A-League, sentient cotton buds, putting your body in positions it shouldn't be, meaningless levers, choosing to not go all-in, props to the Mavs front office, unplayable lies, fearing the worst title team in recent history, stop listening to internet effwits, doing Draymond out of a job, outside the NBA, media rights and wrongs, a weird and sad and stupid piece of rubbish, comfort food for old people, Don Henley doing play-by-play, horns into sloppy, native tributes, there are multiple places like home, choices have ramifications, the moment the Nuggets lost the series, the last dynasty, the Wolves' one run, ‘all-NBA snub' snubs, optimistic futurism, EPL workload complaints, our first Leeds update in a long while, Beeso's coaching idols, hors catégorie content, making it to the end with your bits still functioning and the Brick with Eyes. 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 Brittany Howard, Master Peace and Mdou Moctar. Also: government handouts, closed Zoos, Rev limiters, ranked Arenas, broken records, Music Hall passes, live performance headwinds, tiny desks, managing to both misspell and mislocate Seattle's KEXP, the Black Keys playing your high school hall, not in those shoes mate, an inverse Bonnie Tyler, security risks, Sunday night blues, Jungle at the BRIT Awards, African cooking, a lack of imajighenation, sub-Saharan geography, Beeso hates joy, Beeso hates the 2023/24 Suns, Prince cosplay, lead white dudes, Pop music, unpicked options, teach your children well, the Demon Knight soundtrack, pocket-dialling the internet and underage outrage. Next week: English Teacher | Wine Lips | Rickshaw Billie's Burger PatrolSpotify 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 a Very Special Big Round Number Episode of the BALLS Podcast, Doc, Beeso and Adam draft the most significant sporting moments of our lifetimes. If you want to help create more memories like this, donate to help Beeso's Phillippines mixed open kids make it to the World Cup in Manchester this year. Also: frontrunners versus lovable losers, overvalued offspring, order for chaos, DIY stadium renovations, being there, bad investments, regrettable calls, replacing your divots, a man who could make a Nissan Patrol look like a Barina, Fat Cat and friends, grave injustices, actually I'll think you'll find Obelix was the big one, staying true to yourself, substandard bearers, blind faith, the house always wins, Shubman ‘Peter' Gill, forever jail, the juice isn't worth the squeeze, methadone and EPO, four game nights, weird flaps, the greatest performance under pressure in the history of the universe, comments from the supercoach, defining national characteristics, pre-emptive karma, maybe eat a salad, Super League with bone saws, old John Clarke bits, Nige learns on the job, competing for second, packing it, losing it, Top Gear casualties, getting maroonpilled, diesel-powered cricketers and topless lawn bowlers. 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: follow-on cowardice, sucking isn't a tactic, Victorians doing it better, signs of great captaincy, fake World Cups, no means no, Beeso has Brisbane Olympics Fever™, ESPN shouty-show talking points, SOS signals, Man Citying your way to the #1, having one of those players, there's no (plan) B in Oston, bored in Milwaukee, Jokic vs everybody, Embiid vs reality, Chemby and Wet, further complications in the Spurs' timeline, Agent Zero Google alerts, the Patty Mills buyout market and a couple of unsolicited character assessments. 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: We fix the ‘we fix the NBA All Star Game' podcasts, the Doc Rivers Pre-Apology Tour, Big NRL silences Beeso and our Massive Overreactions To One Game: Mid-Season Edition.Also: NBA quiet quitting, AFL All-Australian, 5001 Jokes for Kids, monologuing off, no-stakes injuries, Starry nights, entering the ‘finding out' phase, Costco content, Steph and Sabrina save the day, a Dray bar, juicy factoids, the Thunder's last big test, still mentally in Cabo, same Kings different year, first round series that should be finals, Knicks-positive NBA-adjacency, guy calling himself Doc in ‘can't shut up' shock, can Dame walk, Beeso's Coaching Corner™, Massive Overreactions To One Game Mid-Season Edition, Fraudwatch, the OG Pod, 7pm in Brooklyn, Detlef Schrempf catching strays, haunted by the Iceman, drafting white Seppos, the Joe Ingles of OKC, the Joe Ingles of Orlando, dreamcasting the East first round, the BALLS 400 and big holes in the Nets. 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: Rotorua to Houston, Joel Embkneed, voodoo science, did the players really sign up to this, forty million American dollars, too cheap to be allowed to own a NBA team, dance monkey, having Haberstroh on retainer, getting shirty, root down, weird Jazz, don't make Australasia's most Knicks-positive NBA-adjacent podcast tap the sign, Minnesota persists, Harden hits the Portland Melo stage, falling off the NFL coaching carousel, comebacks by instalment, keep getting them cheques, Grant Hill drinks Sprite, the Windies get short-changed, shouts to Pez, career choices, whither netball, bash and smash, the two greatest words in NZ sport: per capita, your Marsh Cup Moment™, Beeso's next gig, La Liga post Messi-Ronaldo and the Barry Ryan of podcasting. 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: we draft our favourite albums of 1994, which is thirty years ago, allegedly. No we don't just pick Triple J's Hottest 100 Volume 2 ten times. Also mentioned in dispatches: admin, prequels, charts, soundtracks, JJJ going national, second-hand CDs, the Sanity at Toowong Village, busted Telstars, Fat Pizza, pretending you had a better taste in music than you did, BOGOF deals, chunky guitars, disavowed classics, fantasy booking the Alley, desperately attempting to appear interesting to women, milquetoast track sevens, supernatural John Wick, preemo, do albums have a ringpiece, Doc's ‘Possibly Getting Beeso'd' Big Board, opening your mind to darkness, the 4CCC no-play list, music that happened to other people, highly specific Spotify subscriptions, jukebox favourites, androgyny, analogue algorithms, bandname dyslexia, the Kiwi Silverchair, emotion sickness, wombling over your own legacy, unsuccessful snipers, securing the bag, Beeso's stage debut, off the bingo card, gateway drugs, albums you are sure you owned at one point, realising you are kind of a big deal, one-man revival tours, having your Gen X card pulled, the Soderbergh cut, grunting in the direction of the problem, day 1 in the Britpop wars, strategic gold reserves, Protracker guitar samples, and a cast of thousands too numerous to mention at this particular juncture. Next week: we kick off 2024 with Ty Segall | SPRINTS | The SmileSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape | Tracks from this episode (spoilers obvs)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 | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week: Indefinite articles, Stern consequences, banner societies, cup runs, Denver's soft landing, this is the end, next big Kerr-eer moves, AD's statline that wasn't, Dante's inferno, feelings > stats, sorting-out games, stealing the ball, unexpected blood feuds, mid-season MJ mythology, sleepwalking into oblivion, all this Cavs gloom and we didn't even know Mobley and Garland were out for weeks, moving the Raiders to Queanbeyan, paying $11 for the OKC Thunder, vote no on Prop 37, going full Euro, doing too much, shouts to our one Serbian listener, crowbarred touch references, the one thing the AFL can teach international sport, Beeso fixes test cricket again, tractor bonafides, we're a sports podcast, the Davey Dum Dum farewell tour, WAFLing on and elaborate excuses for absence. 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 Tkay Maidza, Madness and Bully.Also: vaudeville sideshows, play the hits, the Sanity two-track test, Beeso vs modern Australian hiphop, call centre scripts, yeah well that's just like your opinion man, have we ever sounded older than this? answers on a postcard, #WhitePeopleProblems, Albini Approved, assuaging your Spotify guilt, going full send, Adam attempts to start a blood feud with the most powerful woman in the world, shouts to O-Rod, everything is a remix: the remix, we are turning into boomers, running out of classic albums, running out of songs, better feelings, and we will see you next week next week. Next week: Spiritual Cramp | PinkPantheress | Busty and the BassSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtapeThe archive: 2015-2022 review albums 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: Nirvana's In Utero 30 years on, plus new albums from electronic veteran DJ Shadow and Montreal party-punks NOBRO. Also: in with the old, difficult second second albums, let's get Bob Rocked, sometimes the label gronks are right, takes Beeso wasn't brave enough to admit to, PNW cookers, Taylor becomes a horse girl, the international sample shortage, imported dance condiments, built for Shoresy, I don't want to be on the internet, understanding the assignment, paid in full, Puma Kings, legendary status, flute artists, the TISM school of song titling, Celtic weaponry and artificial argumentativeness. Next week: Black Pumas | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | The ScratchSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtapeThe archive: 2015-2022 review albums 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: stop look and listen, schedule weirdness, Satan's goatse, low budget drop shadows, bathwater gargling, cistern overload, the Bucks (can't get a) stop here, Dillon Brooks: Culture Guy, check your local guides, home cooking, inefficiency dividends, like a virgin, defence is for cowards, trading depth for stars < trading stars for depth, America versus everyone, Jingles' true calling, so much for the southeast, mid-East vibe checks, inadvertent throwbacks, trust issues, taking a month to decide that the CWC semi-finalists should be the four teams we all thought should be the CWC semi-finalists a month ago, mistaking messages from the universe for messages from your bladder, Bannermax, this is not a clinical diagnosis, this is not coaching advice, live currency conversion, emergency podcasts, there's nothing funny about mispronouncing Wankhede, how much is enough, Meg Leaving, Adam's right of reply, problematic player comps and bonus basketball analysis/Beeso dunkage. 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 Ash, The Wytches and Frankie and the Witch Fingers. Also: relevance through autotune, playing the hits of the 80s 80s and 80s, panther pride, dead air, perfect competence, keeping the lights on, surf sludge, all possible spellings, proof of concept, Jungle fever, Beeso tries to be helpful, who listens to the radio, allyship week and drifting off. Next week: Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers | Olivia Rodrigo | Kylie MinogueSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtapeThe archive: 2015-2022 review albums 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 annual NBA season preview slash wins pool draft slash elaborate mechanism to force Beeso to say nice things about the New York Knicks, hashtag #AustralasiasMostKnicksPositiveNBAAdjacentPodcast. Also: burning material, the real winner of last year's wins pool, sowing division, learning the wrong things, JVG might be walking through that door, tiers before podtime, tick tock, load management deniers, full Windy hands, somebody has to win these games, vibes picks, impervious to coaching, there's no cryoing in basketball, emo is not a dirty word, upsetting ASMR, reverting to type, random Thursday nights, curbed enthusiasm and having at least some of a dig. 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 Strawpeople, Durand Jones and Bilk. Also: Logan parenting, duelling Fionas, D.O.C. triphop, dirty gear, first track syndrome, caning it, solo album divergency, more evidence this podcast has ruined Beeso's music taste, ancient and cynical, young monkeys, self-selecting album picks, not doing what it says on the tin, bedroom recreations, live market research, compression vs elevation and reputational damage. New next week: The Hives | Jungle | 3rd SecretSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtapeThe archive: 2015-2022 review albums 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: new albums from PJ Harvey, Skating Polly and Tigercub. Also: free plugs, dead celebrities, painful parental music, ruining your kids' social standing, creating creative tension, missing the dirt, music for boring tories, cancelled export orders, do or not do, Metric-adjacency, opening premises, know who you are, handstand accompaniment, that's iron clad that's a real guarantee, sick airs, confounding bios, competing ethoses, this podcast is old enough to have reviewed the last Blur album in period, Noel Gallagher's High Sided Vehicles, froot plattehs, the last big reunion act, the next Spinal Tap, the best bits of the Late Show and a bonus After Dark/mini sports ep on the NYT sportsdesk, professional gamblers, magic sauce, high-variance Segunda weirdness, being motivated by sausage, GOATs in Florida swamps, the Apple-MLS business model and Beeso buying a bus. Next week: Blur | Black Rainbows | Paris TexasSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtapeThe archive: 2015-2022 review albums 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: Men play cricket too, won't somebody think of the bookmakers, going full Office Space, Kerrve balls, caught in the sludge, vibes jibes, the Pasha Bulker of international cricket, dig your own hole, waiting for 0-27, Jimmy and Stuart are old, honorary Stefanovics, the end of the West Indies, insufferable WWC fanbases, third options and sixth men, Beeso looks things up on the internet, no Scrubbs, the most Canadian looking Canadian, buying the WFT in search of wins, intrinsic roster properties, the unKnicksian Knicks, pivoting back to bigs and self-flagellation. 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 final takes on finals, of both NBA and World Test Championship varieties. (Or at least our final ones before Beeso flies to Denver to drive the BALLS Bandwagon in the championship parade.) Also: backyard ultramarathon victory laps, adjustments to adjustments, increasingly obscure podium games, facing death to feel alive, Pearce off Jack, size matters, miscast superstars, Jimmy v James, weird flex not OK, wind-sniffing, couldn't cut it as a Wiseman, comfortable ignorance, solid dudes, whiffy techbros, busted Windows, the end of Cam Green's IPL career, the most ostentatious (and successful) reverse jinx ever attempted on this podcast, #NeserMustPlay, London geography, West Ham wins a thing, NBA industry super funds, having unreasonable confidence in the Australian mens cricket team, live Le Mans updates, competing against distant cousins and Beeso's victory tour. 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: the Nuggets bandwagon needs more wagons, the Celtics ruin everyone's jokes and LeBron has an existential crisis. Also: the patriarchy of Double Dragon, Beeso's hip to be square, live podcast maths, ratings self-flagellation, old takes exposed, the decline of SI, parades of gasbags, Duncan Robinson, the Wile E. Coyote model of gravitation, Malone vs the hot-take military-industrial complex, Denver's fourth assistant coach, bludging on the blindside, spicy Nuggets Heat, vacation disruption, repping vs ripping the Ringer, unintended CBA consequences, American wine, teenage drinking in your thirties, LeBron generates content, Wollongong the brave, Nick Wright's bit and Jokic's flowers. 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: the beginning of the Conference Finals, the end of the Process, the indefinite pause of Ja Morant's career, Beeso's big weekend at the U20 touch world cup and seriously what kind of absolute psychopath watches ‘The Town' four times a week. Also: put on that red light, coaching challenges, Boston cosplay, performative therapy, impermissable benefits, parking fines, winning quarters, BAH GAWD THAT'S SCOTT FOSTER'S MUSIC, teams who are about to make a series of really stupid decisions, rookie moves, is this as close as the Lakers get, doing it for the islands, FIT but you know it, the patron saint of Filipino coaching, Bradman-era administrators, empires of failure, draft karma, built to be a Spur, post-draft moves, #FreeDame, getting motion sickness on the coaching carousel, ESPN mourns the Lakers and Beeso chases sponsors. 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 The Heavy, Laurel Canyon and Ghost Woman. Also: whisky of the month, entirely to spec, Stuart the highway, banned from the pod, first track syndrome, random C90s your uncle dubbed, many dudes with MPCs, Doc insults the neurotypicals, getting all your new music recs from Beeso, going too hard too early, forgetting all Adam's ancestral titles, collectors' item snipings, why so much heat, Scandinavian loudness, sounding like 1982 and a bonus tight five from Beeso's Coaching Corner. Next week: Metallica | Fake Names | The NationalSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtapeThe archive: 2015-2022 review albums 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: new albums from Bass Drum Of Death, The Black Delta Movement and El Michels Affair & Black Thought. Also: speaking clocks, the Westfield school of album production, learning nothing, Beeso reads bios, having a Barrie, fixing NFL Sunday, back of a length, Jazzamatazz, Danger Mouse grudges, Commitments house bands, Asheton-worshipping hazes, absolute flutes, two-name two-pieces, putting the mid in midweek, reruns, sleep debt, Australian philosophers, one-armed timpanists, and that one guy in college who played too much Dave Matthews Band. Next week: The Heavy | Laurel Canyon | Ghost Woman Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtapeThe archive: 2015-2022 review albums 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: what a day in the NBA, as the first round thunders to a close like an out-of-control freight train ploughing into the buffers. Also: cosa significa ‘farken'?, bogan vs cletus weddings, the Bucks stop here, performatively terrified professional Bostonians, not good enough to have your own merch, Bud v Spo, Jimmy the Greek, fragile parity, Traeme Time, a bit too much Dillon Brooks, completely bereft of takes, bottle episodes, World Cup shop windows, you had a good go of it Kings thanks for your input, no way with Kawhi, failure is not an option, we don't deserve Giannis, surprise Knicks-Heat, first fives to win sixteen, unconvincing sweeps, limited fake Bill Simmons and Beeso recaps his 24 hour charity masochism adventure (with thanks to all who donated). 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 Mudhoney, Frenzal Rhomb and Sarah and the Safe Word. Also: justice for Milli Vanilli, Beeso fails to do crimes properly, 1986 Tipper Gore energy, Ronseal gifs, shouts to David Foster, old mates on Facebook, never had so much fun, now and then, Judg(e)ment Night, Sir Mix-A-Lot stays on message, life is a cabaret, rock eisteddfod vibes, bah gawd that's TikTok's music, seamless recovery, the Al Michaels Affair and no seriously did no other adults under the age of 55 have input into this. Next week: The Black Delta Movement | Bass Drum Of Death | El Michels Affair x Black ThoughtSpotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 mixtapeThe archive: 2015-2022 review albums and year-end top 5 listsFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailLast week to donate for Beeso's charity masochism: 24 Hours of Heroes AustraliaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week: Beeso and Doc ask if the travesties committed against basketball in this week's play-in games have changed how you think the NBA playoffs will turn out. Also: dodging skinfold tests the Beenleigh way, coming round to LeBron's way of thinking, the only media voice brave enough to speak out against screaming 9 year olds at basketball games, taking advantage of Canadians, affronts against the eyeballs, passive-aggressive voice, Tampa trauma, Nurse vacancies, coaches mostly make no difference at all, the fourth Musketeer (Mark Daigneault to his mum), Brett/Bruce Brown/Bowen, activate the DORT, OKC's decade-long two-year teardown, Giddey for MVP, shouts to Al Jaffee, JR level stupidity, horse-swamp interface series, no switching, is the entire first round going to suck, Twitter beef mid-offs, kaiju LeBron, #TouchYarns, dumb awards narrative seasons, Doncic for Jokic, unintended CBA consequences, hanging around outside high schools, STAYYY OHHFFF THAA WEEEEDUH, supply-side economics and unfalsifiable hypotheses. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny StudioRSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | EverythingContact: Twitter | Facebook | EmailLast week to donate for Beeso's charity masochism: 24 Hours of Heroes AustraliaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What's in your bag? This week we're back and talking about everyday carry items that we can't leave home without, regardless of what we're doing. We've linked everything below.Tech:Nintendo Switch LightNintendo Switch OLEDPokemon Legends: ArceusTomtoc Switch OLED CaseAnalogue PocketDJI OSMO Mobile 4Sonos RoamKindle Paperwhite Signature EditionCamera Gear:Canon EOS R5Canon RF 70-200Canon RF 50mm 1.2 ProGrade Dual-Slot Memory Card ReaderAnker USB-C PowerExpand+ 2-in-1 Memory Card ReaderStationary:Leuchttrum 1917 NotebookRhoda Head Stapled Note Pad A4Studio Neat TotebookBellroy Work Folio A4Pilot Vanishing Fountain PenRotring 800 0.5 Mechanical PencilKokuyo Mark+ Dual Tone HighlightersBellroy Pencil CaseKnives:CRKT Provoke Kinematic KnifeBenchmade Mini BugoutMisc:Base Camp Reusable Cloth Face MaskLululemon MaskBurt's BeesO'Keeffe's Working Hands LotionBags:KillSpencer Utility DaypackLouis Vuitton Weekend Tote PMLouis Vuitton Avenue Sling BagLouis Vuitton New Flap MessengerTumi Warren Leather BackpackWebsite: TwentyOnePod | Facebook: @TwentyOnePodTwitter: @TwentyOnePod | IG: @TwentyOnePod