tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: Surrendering on Thursdays, who else ya got, gang of youths, Killian them softly, Trevor Ariza slander, downward trajectory reps, Elon Musk’s internet, reality bites, the plural of anecdote is not data, internet notoriety, being right about Ye, CP3 ring-chasing, karmic paybacks, the Heat is off, the Pacers are real?, Bobcatting your season, duelling media darlings, long-bow World Cup metaphors, where’s Kawhally, Steve Ballmer’s cinematic debut, Europe doesn’t travel, do it for Charlie Yankos, Rawalpindi roadworks, Baz’s tee time, scared Australians, the Langer PR offensive, remembering Peter Roebuck and 1991 King Wally areas. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: Doc and Adam celebrate Australia still being in the world cup, dedication to the cause, snappy pregames, moral quandaries ruining entertainment, the NBA is weird, early concession speeches, our favourite terrible team, the New Orleans Olmates, Canadian tax, a third visit to the last chance saloon, trading bits of your future for more of your now, repping the KANGZ, World Expo 88 light shows, 10-9 vibes, was Rudy the problem, the Ben Simmons renaissance, chalk predictions, heating concerns, progress??, returning Delly for store credit, bench psychologists, waiving your preseason hero, podcast recs, therapeutic beatdowns, line-headbutting Root-punching flutes, definitely sober BBQ accidents, South African home games, carrying on the Warnie tradition, winning the arms race, average players make better commentators, England-USA bantz, #vicsdoitbetter, Sky News is falling, having a sook with a hard T, bonus album reviews, fluffy cat music takes, incoming Tunisia-France biscotto and Arnie’s coaching masterclass. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week in tunes: new Black Angels and Emancipator, and near-new Dub Garden. Also: bad website death watch, Elon’s newest customer, episode 12, copyright issues, surf roadie soundtracks, failing to secure the bag, day into night, off the plan, DUB101, got milk, background briefing, the Auerbach Cosign, Steve Vai sightings, drunk in Sheffield, everything is awesome, devo’d, large chunky guitars, past performance is not an indicator of future performance, closing down Vegas, the biggest band in New Zealand and containers of multitudes.

Next week: new albums from Marcus King, Polyphia and the Paranoyds. Our current and recent album review playlist is available on Spotify, along with our full 2022 review archive and our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, made tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: some basketball happens, fragile Balls, Dubs taking neither the high road nor the low road, pickup PTSD, young professionals, Weekly Wemby Watch, basketball astrology, spare musketeers, double agent Poku, it’s compressed in the West, parity vs mediocrity, the end of cheap wins, five more in a row, Turner and Hield, Wiseman and Kuminga, wasting old people’s time, the UD of Oz, verballing your teammates, Ben Simmons has a good day, Kyrie Irving Geopolitics Corner, skipping the soccer jamboree, anyone want the Olympics, it’s a marathon and a sprint, Johnny Baby discovers the Streisand Effect, expensive renovations, the Nuggets’ soft centre and onion ring power rankings. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week in music: new albums from DARTZ, Dazy and Loyle Carner. Also: phantom albums, a little bit eeeehhh a little bit meeeehhh, bogan cosplay, Deja Voodoo deja vu, the not-for-me bucket, extremely 1995 areas, being derelict in your duties, self-explanatory Graun reviews, #KNIFECRIME, wet simps, wild colonials, Angels 1 Witches 0, the Black Lees, shirt retirements, sleeping giants, #DocReadsBios and pre-purchase buyers’ remorse.

Next week: new Black Angels and Emancipator, and near-new Dub Garden. Our current and recent album review playlist is available on Spotify, along with our full 2022 review archive and our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, made tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: the Nets find a coach, interim greybeards, full cookers, concentric Venns, powder and cartilage, Kawhi’s hourly rate, Steve Guttenberg’s masterwork, Ant can’t jump, the 25 win tank ceiling, Shaedon-freude, return of the Kings, tank job inside men, the most .500 team imaginable, hovering weirdness, ignoring Utah and Portland, on the fly rebuilds, there is almost nothing left to lose, hot in the city editions tonight, too many Bucks jerseys, the Ken Done of Brooklyn, CLTcoin, phoned-in template jerseys, sublimated roses, you had a good go at it thanks for your input, design under construction, the 22-23 Lakers of Lakers jerseys, Google Maps shorts, stolen OKC jerseys, insufferably Portland, the saddest city edition concept imaginable, JPS Raptors, overdoing the Napisan Challenge, Beeso still hates T20, the Cummins cohort on comms and JL house rock. 

BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week in music: new albums from Wu-Lu, THE BOBBY LEES and Sonic Flower. Also: playing chicken, tiers for fears, selective dementia, drive-thru recommendations, spacetime invariance, participation prerequisites, 90s speakers, unpaid promotional considerations, pachyderm confusion, impossibly liff-raden, we’ve all got stuff going on, blog ideas, Mikayla Patton, hair metal diss tracks, finding fault, punisher albums, other audio brands are available, prequels before sequels, which witch is which, delta swamp evilness, prisoners of the Mandela effect and the real reason Beeso is upset about the death of trip-hop.

Next week: new Dazy, DARTZ and Loyle Carner. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: periodic competence, a week on Harden’s knee, the Liz Truss of the NBA, apologies aimed at avoiding two weeks of HR seminars, arguing with spiralling children, tired takes about KD’s shoe size, the Spiderman meme school of firefighting, redrafting the draft, Charles Sturt cops strays, unseen hands of redistributive economics, success ballast, Russ saves the Lakers, googling how to delete someone else’s tweets, the dark side of the Spurs, the Berlin 1936 of World Cups, the end of Twitter, distinctly unserious T20 nations, Beeso still hates batsmen and farewell Aunty Fun. 

BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week in tunes: new albums from Clutch, Big Scary and Eve 6. Also: Back of the Y areas, a lot of big and dumb, grifting the grifters, more songs about having crabs, pedal faster, failed sales jobs, the soundtrack of seasonal affective disorder, claiming it into existence, goodnight Springton there will be no encore, not caring enough to do the background reading, the spacetime constraints of trip-hop, ALL CAPS ENERGY, the Horizon has not been defeated, slash artists, planned obsolescence, Tay-Tay vs CRJ and bringing a knife to a house fight. 

Next time: new BOBBY LEES, Wu-Lu and Sonic Flower. Recent review albums can be found on our album review playlist on Spotify - our full 2022 review archive is also up there, along with our 2022 tripping balls mixtape, featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show (including our top 5s from previous years) is available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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In which we provide massive overreactions to half a week of basketball. 

Also: extended preseasons, confident opinions on games neither of us watched, Danny has work to do, unifying your team against you, game 7 scars, explaining away losses for teams you like, a freight train down the lane, Dyson Daniels gets more minutes on this pod than on the court, denying Adam his minute of gloating, putting diesel in a petrol car, you need more stuff, OKC continue to perfect the tank job, the new Ben Simmons, heartwarming underdog stories, Barça vibes, questionably professional rugby, nothing like a Dame, retirement projects, sickovision, last year’s model, front-loaded heavyweight matchups, mentioned in dispatches, the guard wall, orange is the new flag, burning a League Pass credit  on a 30 point demolition, teams not to play the five against, Captain Friendship’s ride share scheme, making peace with the fragility of existence, gating your stats, James Harden’s HoF plinth, another decade of Chuck, getting sucked into the first round, yo dawg I heard you liked world cups so we put some world cups in your world cup, Hobart Nights, and the curse of Drake remains undefeated.

BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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