Silver Bullet

Everyone deserves to have a whine. Join good friends/bad people Ben Ilobuchi, Izzy Wight and Tad Harawa on their ABC 'comedy' 'podcast' The Grill, as they air out their petty grievances and deal with your listener-submitted gripes. 

Watch The Grill on the triple j talks YouTube channel or listen wherever you get your podcasts. 

Face, poison, needles. It just makes sense. Plus, nothing else has worked on this season of Silver Bullet. But are your brave hosts about to give up? Or are they about to pay a registered nurse to palm slam a few CCs of botulinum toxin into their facial muscles? The second one. It’s the second one.

Someone whispering sweet nothings into your ear at bedtime? That’s what ASMR offers, and whole relationships are built on less. This episode, comedian Jordan Barr entices Hobba & Hing into being very, very quietly talked at in the name of wellness and a good night’s sleep. Will it fix them once and for all?

You might assume that running is a no-brainer for improved mental health. Fresh air, exercise, endorphins? That’s tick, tick, tick. But prepare to have your assumptions challenged. This episode, Lego Masters co-host and pro builder Ryan “Brickman” McNaught challenges Hobba & Hing to try long distance running - that’s right, the thing that makes the guy lonely in 1962’s The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. But will the solitude be just what they needed?

Sleep: it’s one of the only things you do every day that regularly has the word "beauty" attached to the front of it. Probably worth getting better at it, then. This week’s guest, musician Alex Lahey, enters the saloon with a silver bullet that's affordable, attainable and will supposedly make oyu more beautiful: memory foam pillows. Will it find its mark in Hobba & Hing?

The key to wellness is diet, exercise and rest... or so the lamestream media will try to tell you. But sometimes you need a wise friend like Matt Okine to keep it 100 and tell you that what you really need to do is catch public transport to a waterside pub that you've never been to before and write a rap verse while looking out at the water. That’s what happens in this episode.

Slurping on the calcium and collagen from dead animal bones: it works for wolves! And also, apparently, for AFL superstar and Collingwood captain Darcy Moore, who has been fortifying his body with regular cups of bone broth. But will it be a silver bullet for two men who straight up do not exercise?

They call it “the beautiful game”, which is, we assume, because it makes you gorgeous. Exhibit A is Hobba & Hing’s guest this week: songwriter, pop star & football enthusiast Ruel, who ordered them down to the field for a one-on-one penalty shoot-out with a mate. Will football fever grant them immunity against other ills, like cowpox... or just leave them hot and bothered?

What does nearly every beautiful famous person have in common? CORRECT: supernaturally even, blemish-free skin. Podcaster, comedian and famed antagonist of Hobba & Hing Jess Perkins arrives this week with a Silver Bullet they should have already tried, getting a fake tan. But will the tanning process leave them looking like golden gods... or rotisserie chickens?

The time has come for Silver Bullet to enter the New Age. Writer and broadcaster Veronica Milsom demands that Hobba & Hing get a reading from a psychic medium - and unlike the esteemed seers they visit, you may not be able to predict where this episode goes. Unless your prediction involves a handsome man named Deniz....