The stars have aligned as all the boys are back for this week’s stacked episode. We begin this week with Sen proudly recounting a story of purchasing children’s tickets for the cricket only to be kicked out for another reason. Ro then spooks the boys with a tale of the most sophisticated scam we’ve heard of, which would honestly trick even the most technologically savvy person. We also discuss the Powerball $200m lottery and what we’d do if we won.

Due to popular demand and a broken housing market “The Price is Right” is back this week. This time we compare Sydney’s ridiculous housing market with similar houses from Melbourne and Brisbane.

The boys bring back the always popular “Bracket Challenge,” with this week the lads deciding what the ultimate corporate holiday is. From the ice capped mountains of the Himalayas to the beautiful rolling hills of Tuscany, we discuss the most stereotypical holidays and what we’re sick of hearing about.

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Rohit is back this week and is immediately on the defensive after last week’s lampooning in his absence. He tries his best to explain his actions but ultimately he takes the L. We also get some yarns from the boys trip to the Australian Open last week including multiple run ins with Australian tennis royalty as well as an unethical life hack to watching some free tennis.

The game this week is “Guess the Person.” No reinventing the wheel here as the boys go head to head rattling off quick fire questions to each other in an effort to guess the individual the other is thinking.

Final segment this week is “Sicko Mode.” We’ve all chucked a sickie before, sometimes for real, sometimes for other nefarious reasons. We discuss the best ways to call in sick, the tactics and some of the worst excuses we’ve heard.

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Same lineup as last week as Kush, Migs and Sen hold down the fort with Ro still MIA. To pay for his sins we torch Ro to high heaven behind his back, revealing his extremely rare and foolish behaviour. We doxx his strange Youtube search history, his attempted fraud on the podcast bank account and his incoherent replies through the podcast Instagram page.

After an eternity lost in the wilderness, “What is the Question?” makes a triumphant return. Once a staple segment of this podcast but recently has been tossed away. Bit of rust in this week’s answers as we once again prove we have one collective brain cell between us.

You already know what time of the month it is, that’s right “Compare and Contrast,” aka the Tier List segment, is back. After running out of Sydney institutions to rank and slander, this week we rank Australian/iconic chocolates, with poor old Cherry Ripe copping a shellacking.

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My lord are we excited for this episode. Strap yourself in folks because we have an absolute doozy for you this week. Rohit is off in Melbourne trying to gain a wildcard entry for this year's Australian Open. In his stead we have a very special return guest (first time in person), friend of the show, comedian Neel Kolhatkar. We catch up with how Neel’s been over the past few years as we delve into his Australian tour, his beef with Hobart, filming a special and we end with a discussion on Jo Koy’s performance at the Golden Globes.

As per usual, the game of choice for our guest is “Bullslut” as Neel goes head to head with Miguel and Kush. You’d think after years of playing this game we’d be semi decent at it? Think again.

We end with “Pet Peeves” where we asked our listeners to write in with their biggest pet peeves and gripes with Sydney and wowee you guys had plenty. We go through some of the best responses as well as our own leading to tangents about driving in India, eshays in Hornsby, hooligans on buses and the Kings Cross rebrand.

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FOLLOW THE BOYS:

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📸 KUSH: http://www.instagr.am/kushyyk

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Second episode of the year and we’re already down on troops, forcing us to bring in an emergency sub. We searched far and wide for our guest today as he makes his triumphant return to the pod, 237 episodes later. Our high school friend Rohan is back after 4.5 years and he brings with him a yarn about a very left wing cricket team he’s recently joined. We then ask for his expert legal opinion on a recent story we heard about our high school before we inevitably descend into swapping yarns from our time in school.

Our game this week is the “Inflation Game.” Quite a straightforward game, Rohit gives Miguel and Rohan a common item and they have to guess what the price of that item was back in 2010.

Final segment this week is “City Battles.” With Rohan recently moving to Melbourne from Sydney, what better time to pit Australia’s largest 2 cities head to head to finally decide which city reigns supreme (we all know the answer is Sydney).

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📸 KUSH: http://www.instagr.am/kushyyk

GUEST:

📸 ROHAN: http://www.instagr.am/rohanbalani

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New Years is a time for many to sit down, set goals and make some positive changes for the year ahead. Here at Critical Banter, it is time for us to change our intro (which is still TBC). For the first episode of the year, we have lost Sen to his pending court trial, however Kush kicks us off with his ongoing battle with Dell and whether one man can take on an entire multibillion dollar multinational company. 

Rohit details the trials and tribulations Sen faced in a recent Bad Santa, whilst all the boys are trying to save face after scathing (and probably true) words have been published regarding their lack of sportsmanship and spirit in Ultimate Frisbee.

New Year, Same Critical Banter sacking off the segment introduced in the Logue. We have ‘Guess the Language’ as the first game of the year, where Rohit has translated a phrase into multiple languages and Miguel & Kush have to quite simply have to guess the language.

To actually kick off the year, the boys run through some New Years Resolutions - their own and some listener submitted ones on “New Year, New Me”. We have a run through some ambitious ones, such as watching a movie a week, and some very vague and immeasurable ones, such as becoming a better hugger, and call out whether we thinking it is a New Years Resolution that will actually be stuck to.

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📸 KUSH: http://www.instagr.am/kushyyk

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It’s time this week for the annual TCB Christmas episode (2 days after Christmas). To get us in the festive mood, Kush begins by recounting his ongoing legal battle with Dell after his desktop bit the dust. We then hear about the lads' respective work Christmas parties, including Ro infiltrating the Atlassian party. We end with some sport chat where Ro politely enquired about another blokes weight.

As we usually do at this time of year, we play the “TCB Top 10,” where the boys are asked to guess some of the world’s (and Australia’s) top Google searches for 2023. As per, the boys do as horrendously as you imagine they would.

In yet another bait and switch that is fast becoming common for this podcast, we decide not to blind rank anything, instead we bring back the always faithful “Mind Your Manners.” For newer listeners this is the segment where we analyse some everyday scenarios and the etiquette surrounding them - this week with a very Christmas theme.

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📸 KUSH: http://www.instagr.am/kushyyk

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After resolving our technical hiccup from last week (not yet resolved), we are back with a brand spanking new episode (recorded 2 weeks ago). We begin with a Sen yarn about love and war, featuring an engagement ring, a surprise engagement and pesky birds. We then brainstorm ideas of how to pull off the best surprise engagement that didn’t include using a flashmob at a uni. We discuss yet another pasting at frisbee before we look at EY’s office snacks.

Our game this week is a new one - “Incohearent.” Yep, we are literally playing a card game this week (also a tik tok filter) where we have to read seemingly nonsense words which turn out to be a well known phrase.

“Higher or Lower '' is back again this week for part 2. Listeners continued to send in details of their work Christmas parties, so we again have put them head to head against each other in a “winner stays on” tournament.

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📸 KUSH: http://www.instagr.am/kushyyk

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We’re up to the final 4 episodes for 2023 and we start this week with a series of unfortunate events featuring Rohit and a certain ride sharing app. Migs and Sen then spin some yarns from their time at Post Malone’s concert in the mud. We finally get some mic’d up frisbee audio which should honestly be NSFW given what occurred. We also rant ad nauseam about the silly sport that is frisbee before we look at EY’s office snacks.

Our game this week is a new one - “Game of Lies.” Nifty little game that is all about mind games and deceit under the guise of a trivia game.

And of course we end with “Compare and Contrast,” aka the Tier List segment. We hope you’re not sick to death of these, cause we’re not even close to being done. After ranking bars, dinner spots and clubs, this week we rank Sydney food chains, including the all important battle of the charcoal chicken chains.

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FULL PODCAST EPISODES

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📸 KUSH: http://www.instagr.am/kushyyk

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We’re at the pointy end of the year where things begin to slow down, but not here at TCB, where our yarns only seem to get longer. Sen begins with a Marta (aka the neighbour from hell) update as we begin to devise a plan so dastardly, the only thing stopping us would be the law. Ro then provides the council with another edition of our famous bathroom rare units, this time Ro finds himself in the middle of a literal pissing contest. We also hear about the Ninan family’s loan sharking, we talk about the absurdity of Ultimate Frisbee and we finish with WooliesX office snacks.

Our game this week is a new one - “UK vs Aussie Slang.” Quite a literal game, Miguel gives the other 2 some UK slang terms and they must translate it back to Australian English. Over the next month we’ll be playing a new challenge where the loser of the challenge will have to buy a lucky listener a Christmas gift (gift will not arrive in time for Christmas).

“Higher or Lower” is back after an extended period out in the TCB segment wilderness. We asked the listeners to send in details of their work Christmas parties just for us to put them head to head against each other in a “winner stays on” tournament.

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FULL PODCAST EPISODES

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FOLLOW THE BOYS:

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📸 KUSH: http://www.instagr.am/kushyyk

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