The Critical Banter Podcast

The boys are back on the airwaves this week after a minor blip last week. Kush has safely moved over to the US as we got a glimpse into his life and his living conditions - most importantly, however, his computer (and PS5) are now set up and raring to go. We also tie up some loose ends from our previous few episodes and we have our very first ever “Stay Dangerous.”

Our game is “Top 5’s” this week, as quiz master Ro challenges Migs and Sen to name various different top 5’s in categories such as Australian brands, safest airlines, highest paid Australian athletes and more.

We finish with “Agree or Disagree,” a segment where we each have contentious opinions and see if the boys agree with us or not. This week we talk about the hierarchy of carbohydrates, office perks, k-pop stans and much more.

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Well here we are, as we have foreshadowed for many weeks now. We bid farewell (but not goodbye) to the one and only Kushagra, but fear not he shall still remain integral to this podcast and we may even get some guest appearances from him live from San Francisco. We talk some footy first with Ro spinning a yarn of antagonising a big Arab man, we discuss Kush’s farewell drinks at one of Sydney’s finest establishments (including a security guard mug off) before Ro reveals a big decision he’s made.

We got a brand spanking new game this week with “Guess the Ethnicity.” As the name suggests we asked our listeners to send voice recordings of themselves speaking their mother tongue as well as some quality selfies - using these the boys must guess where these people are from.

Finally this week we end with “Ask Kush.” To send Kush off into the sunset on his big US journey, we asked listeners to write in with questions they had for the great man and he does his absolute best to not answer a single one of them.

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No Ro this week so in his absence we talk about one of his favourite topics - pokies. Kush wistfully retells his experience at a local pokie den playing the classics such as “Where’s The Gold?” “Lucky Dragon” and of course “Bull Rush.” We then talk about Swing City, Employees Only, Sen issues an apology for defending Mr Beast last week before finally moving onto more topical and current news - Raygun. Full disclosure this episode was recorded back when Raygun was still relevant and we really wanted to share our 2 cents on it.

For our game this week “Price is Right” is back. Instead of guessing house prices or even rental prices, Kush and Sen try guessing the prices of popular fast food items.

We end this week with another return segment “Hypotheticals.” A segment where we can waffle on about scenarios which would never happen meaning we can make outlandish claims with no backlash.

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We have a full house this week and wowee do we have an episode for you. We’re off to a scintillating start with Rohit questioning the definition of a burger as he took on a local pub and what they categorise a steak sandwich as. While pondering that, he also had a near death experience as he needed the heimlich to be performed on him. Then we get some yarns of Sen’s night out which included mugging off a mate, getting kicked out and facing a hater in real life - rattling stuff.

We’re back with the famous Tik Tok game - “Impostor". Quite a simple game, each round the boys are given a famous name except for one person who is the Impostor. They then use one word to describe the person and the Impostor must guess the person before the other 2 guess who the Impostor is - except there is a twist this time.

To finish us off we have a segment from left of field - “PIP.” We’ve taken it upon ourselves to put some poor performing individuals on a performance plan in order to turn their fortunes around. In our sights this week are Joe Biden (this episode was recorded before he stepped down), Tiger Woods, Mr Beast and a Spartan general that we all definitely know.

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Back to regular programming this episode except we got a no show with Sen too embarrassed to show his face after a horrible week in fantasy Premier League. In any case, Kush is counting down the days until he departs this great nation to head off to San Francisco. To prepare he discusses the plight of the homeless over there including purchasing a taser for self defence. We also talk about selling your betting accounts and trying out the local driving range featuring a drive by from a child.

For our game this week we bring back the always popular real estate themed “Price is Right.” Instead of guessing house prices, the boys are shown some rental properties and must guess the rent per week for these places.

“Overrated and Underrated” is also back this week with the boys discussing some listener submissions as well as their own such as crispy coke, fingerprint scanners, marvel films and a secret new app that lets you get 50% meals at restaurants.

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Massive episode this week not only by the sheer length of the episode but also because we are graced by the presence of one of Australia’s premier food bloggers and friend of the show - Sydney Food Boy. We told Ro to hit the bricks to make way for big Kev and we start this week’s episode by getting to know him, learning about how he got into the industry, the tricks of the trade, the sudden boom in the number of food bloggers as well as his alter ego of being an optometrist.

This week the Food Boy takes the hot seat as he plays Migs and Kush in the classic “Bullslut.” The boys have been doing well recently against the guests but with Kush playing who knows what will happen.

We haven’t done one of these in a while so here we are, back with the ever popular segment “Compare and Contrast.” We’ve gone back to our roots this week as we rank some of the most popular Asian snacks, ranging from pocky to seaweed and everything in between.

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Lots to talk about this week and very little time to spare. Kush is not here this week as he was off finding his trusty MAGA hat and missed this recording. Ro starts us off with an update about the new gaming app Sen’s physio was flogging a few weeks back. We then talk about match fixing in our Sunday league football, angering 1.4 billion Indians and we reminisce about Timstar for some reason.

Our game this week is a twist on an old classic TCB segment - “Musical Bullslut.” Instead of naming things within a category in 30 seconds, Migs and Sen go back and forth on the least amount of seconds needed to guess a song. Pretty fun game until we get done for copyright infringement.

We end this week with one of our more popular segments “What Your _ Says About You.” This is just a segment where we profile people based on some broad categories and assumptions - this week we’re talking about jobs, phones, clothes and bubble tea orders.

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We have got a massive episode this week featuring a very special guest - Justin Truong, co-founder of Pushas joins us live in the studio. Really fun and interesting chat with Justin as we hear about the origins of Pushas, starting a business with his partner, his thoughts on some shoe trends and even the story of him teaching Ro at UNSW.

This week Justin takes the hot seat as he plays Migs and Ro in the classic “Bullslut.” You can tell Sen has been spending too much time watching the Olympics this week with one too many Olympic categories.

We end with “Cop or Not,” we usually do this segment as a way to rate corporate merch but instead this week we use Justin’s area of expertise to rate some famous/well-known shoe collaborations or customs.

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Record number of consecutive weeks with all 4 members of TCB showing up, but alas don’t get used to it. We kick off this week with yet another yarn from Sen and his physio. At this point we’d be better off swapping Sen out with his physio. This time his story is his physio shilling him a new pseudo-gambling app - smells like trouble. Ro then tells a story which he alluded to in our live show with him being stitched up with a car with no petrol.

Our game this week is “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader.” Much like the tv show this game is based on, Miguel tests the boys' knowledge with this very basic general knowledge quiz. The results are quite concerning and a better question to ask would be if the boys are even smarter than third graders.

We end this week with a rather topical edition of “Hypotheticals.” All the hypotheticals discussed are Olympic themed as we discussed animals competing, average joe’s competing, who we would want competing for our lives, which sport we would watch for the rest of our lives and much more.

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We’re merely weeks away before Kush departs these shores so we must get the most out of him before then. To start us off this week Kush immediately begins with bringing up the hawk tuah girl again as we discuss how to make the most of your 15 mins of fame. We then debate whether we should fear AI or not before we put the tin foil hats on to chat about the Trump assassination attempt.

Our game this week is “Avoid What We Say,” a slight spin on the popular tik tok game. Sen has prepared 20 questions and answers of his own which he then asks to the boys - a point is awarded if they give a unique answer.

"Starting 5's" is back again this week. This is the segment where we each come up with our own Starting 5's (essentially a basketball team) from any category that would go undefeated in an NBA season - this time we’ve kept it to strictly human categories only.

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FOLLOW THE BOYS:

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📸 KUSH: http://www.instagr.am/kushyyk

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