Straight after the end of Dubs-Rox game 6, Doc cracks a solo pod on the Rockets blowing up (and blowing up the Rockets), the Dubs being so light years ahead they time-travelled to 2015, awkward family reunions, Steph's game of two halves, KD's injury, Klay's bag, #NARRATIVE, Stay-Puft Cosplay Guy, Balkan bantz, big name Dame, all good with the Hood, 2-3 syncronicity, JoJo's guts, Ben and Jimmy, Ballmer and Kawhi, Masai's moves, Revenge Of The 60-Win Hawks, The Truth hurts, let them eat cake, Vegas knows best, Basic Brad's ceiling, #MORENARRATIVE, Rambises be Rambising, two-percenters win trophies, Kompany men, #TOOMUCHNARRATIVE, domestic international finals, the Super Champions League of Super Champions, EPL fantasy, Juventus are [redacted] and Leeds vs #ALLOFTHENARRATIVE. Hear more BALLS and After Dark via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to us via Twitter,Facebook and email.

This week on the After Dark, Dan aka Ace McWicked from At The Drive Thru joins the Doc to review new stuff from the Drums and Dandy Warhols, offer some pre-review reckons on the Chemical Brothers' new album and nominate his favourite albums of the last year and a bit. Also: Production power moves, waveform jealousy, NZ's next top podcast, AOTYTD, previously on After Dark With Ace, grimy sharehouses, the Beeso School of Picking Albums, drums solo, forgotten years, lost Britpop, BIO101, white men finally get a break, judging by covers, Ye nah, Wellington Beds, Westside for life, Doc hates television, 70s sitcom catchphrases, classic Tales, leaning into Cletusry, playing that one song from that one ad, live bands with terrible albums, everyone has their knockers, explaining TISM, two Melbournes, Press Club slander, everyone's a bogan, definitive opinions, this collaboration demeans us both, Peep Show tributes, Guardian angles, the right noises in the right order and counting blackbirds. Next week: Beeso returns to argue more about the new Chemical Brothers album, plus a new recording from Clowns. The Melbourne punk band, not us. Well OK us too. All our 2019 review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our 2018 AD Mixtape and full list of review albums are available elsewhere on the internet. You can get BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and hurl reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.

BAH GAWD THAT'S ADAMHFOTO'S MUSIC. With Beeso on World Cup duty, Adam joined the Doc to talk NBA playoffs, English football and 2006 Commonwealth Games synchronised swimming. But of course. Also: It's time to play the music, staying on-brand, Dame winners now and then, Merry Christmas, Russ never sleeps, Durant Hardens up, overtime > dinnertime, the Dubs exist therefore your argument is invalid, is The Andrew Bogut Experiment a jazz trio or a Sky News show, unguarded moments, The People's Elbow, rugby league sensibilities, hoping for Sixers-Bucks, travel advice, Giannis in the dunk contest, badly-timed Kawhi slander, new big men, the Raptors rebuild, LOL at LAL, Big Sam at Barça, blowing 3-1s, missing LeBron, Harden's player options, unapologetic dorks, hypercompetitive a-holes, internal monologues, unsolicited Bros karaoke, your tax dollars at work, do you see what I see, never not slandering the 60-win Hawks, searching for Love, win the toss and bat, Strayan NBA coverage, better-timed Kawhi praise, narrator: we found out alright, Rocket from the Clips, Joker face, WCF matchups, reserve grade EPL, peak Bielsa, City's last chance, the fifth best player in Europe, Ajax Liquid Football, Burnley are bad and make you play bad, Americans can't swear and giving 181.4% (and still missing out on the semis.) You can get BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and hurl reckons at us via Twitter,Facebook and email.

The BALLS MOTORSPORTNERDPOD returns for 2019, in which the Doc is joined by regular MSNP guest host Matt (BernieTB to selected corners of the internet) to discuss the absolute state of Azerbaijani trackworks, manhole-scaping and flatbed truck operation, the purpose of the Montague St Bridge, driving around Monaco with the handbrake on, all-drain-cover all-stars, things illegal in Canberra, this Latham's not for turning, Monteiths Country, liquid opinions, the point of wagons, badge engineering, death to Pintaras, the square root of not much, ugly but effective, Adrian Newey drivebys, hacking away, drinking problems, Doc's new mixtape, Japanese intransigence, DTM add Vantages, misallocating your character points, Return Of The Slotover, colour commentators, more Adrian Newey drivebys, getting into boats, interior decorating with Ron Dennis, dragging sandbagging, parks and recreation, Supercars end less summer, Adelaide Alive! (for two weeks a year at most), #WellDoneBaku, roadworks on a go-slow, an hour on Tuesdays, the Bubba Burger Sporty Car Grand Prix (whatever that is), trying to care about Formula E, Barber barbary and #Disco2Dubbo. Hear more BALLS and After Dark via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to us via Twitter,Facebook and email.

This week: new albums from Little Simz and Hot Lunch, our next OB location, going way back, cop killer (it's better you than me), trailing the zeitgeist, you're the voice, grime and venom, not coming back, therapy?, easter eggs, West Coast Offence, reading reviews that agree with you, shared lunch, '69 (nice), gorgeous gorge, stoner jazz, mixed fruit jam, off ya 'nana, Simz track-by-track, mics don't sound nice, breaking stuff, world cup soundtracks, Spongebob Squarewave, repelling venns, calmer and warmer, Throwing Upper, airpod discipline, NBA merch, staying me7o and reviews by dinosaur. On Beeso’s triumphant return, we're reviewing new Clowns and Chemical Brothers. These and previous 2019 review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our 2018 AD Mixtape and our full list of review albums (315 new albums and 144 classics, for the record… ahem) are available elsewhere on the internet. You can get BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and hurl reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.

This week, from a variety of undisclosed locations on the Australasian coastline: Bond hideouts, 200 episodes, #KawhiAintClutch, the best time to smack someone in the mouth, outlandish predictions, terrible Simmons takes, a big four-and-a-half, teach the children, Spurs limitations, the unbearable lightness of being KD, next year’s Dubs, this year’s Blazers, Layoff P, hope kills, more Derrick White chat, broken serve, broken brains, doing nothing in Utah, doing a lot in Memphis, lads it’s Phoenix, the Logo’s line of reporting, coaching crowbarring, distracted by shiny things, the Clippers’ star strategy, free agents for a reason, Griff’s new gig, Kawhi’s next gig, not missing LeBron, losing home court, Houston’s next last best shot, hypercompetitive psychopaths, Broke Griffin, deferring to nobody, finishing first, end-of-level bosses, Dame’s opening shot, paying for Favors, City inevitability, bootleg Contiki tours, world cup anticipation, delete this podcast and cops are tops.

You can hear 199 other BALLS podcast eps as well as the glory of the After Dark via Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to us via Twitter, Facebook and email.

This week Adamhfoto and the Doc review new albums by Priests and Fat Cops, while the Gurge got off their heads and decided to make a kids album so of course we had to have a listen. Also: things worse than Doc's singing, market research, hiding your swears from the kids, As A Busy Mum, the worst idea of all time, kids stuff for parents, the Kong Foo Sing (Is A Sometimes Food), bubble focus, pompous obnoxious vs fun obnoxious, I look like I live in a coma, the Pub Landlord's political career, more cowbell, more influences, Munted Santana, I suppose you think this is funny, unchristian rock, punishingly earnest, the joyless generation, discovery by mistake, asterisk house styles, problematic content, Magic Jordan, upcoming releases, everything is a throwback, showing your working, no movements, no genres, Buddy Wally, Tom Ballad, long way to the charts, more Zappa, less cowbell and cyclists on drugs. Next week: new albums from Hot Lunch and Little Simz. These and previous 2019 review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our 2018 AD Mixtape and our full list of review albums are available elsewhere on the internet You can get BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and hurl reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.

This week Adamhfoto joins the Doc to press the red button on farewelling the NBA regular season and previewing the playoffs, plus: needing no introduction, Dirk v Dwyane, this Bud's for 3, being too online, final game stat-hunting, berating the Blazers, the East is still trash, Spurs in spurts, home comforts, grown men who cannot dress themselves independently, Death Star exhaust ports, Mad Monday on a Thursday, ethnic dads, Magic's disappearing act, Suns of Anarchy, calling the BALLS Beer Bet NBA Draft Competition, disappointing groins, old men and idiots, false ceilings, bracketology, opinions and predictions for Dubs-Clips, Rox-Jazz, Blazers-Thunder, Nugs-Spurs, Bucks-Pistons, Celts-Pacers, Sixers-Nets, Raps-Magic and the finals, Israel loses diplomatic immunity, keeping it local, code violations, stadium opproprium, getting up for the cup, 2 Guys 1 Cup, Masters baiting, Tiger balm, GO BACK TO YOUR SHANTIES, flag analytics, monuments to slow TV and performance enhancing substances. Hear BALLS and After Dark via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to us via Twitter,Facebook and email.

This week: new stuff from Melbourne's Cast Down and LA's Ex Hex. Also: self-deconstruction, is it just me, the flail of the wild, bones of pop, the influence game, nostalgia for a time you never experienced, Beeso's Quality Used Cars, Tape 40 Australia, wind machine feels, Accidental Album Of The Week, three course meals, chasing white whales, bane of the algorithm, Bullish on UK grime, ChemBros on the J Files, Doc'sbusyweek and malt money, malt problems. Then a quick After After Dark on the problems with J Files, weekly discovery and recent classics. Beeso's back in two weeks to rate new albums from Hot Lunch and Little Simz; before that, next week sees Adamhfoto join the Doc to review new Priests and Fat Cops (and possibly offer a weary veteran-parental view on the Gurge's new kids album.) All these and previous 2019 review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our 2018 Mixtape is worth a listen; our full list of review albums is available here. You can get BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and hurl reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.

This week: Beeso gets his Geoffrey Robertson on (kids, ask your parents) with a bunch of NBA hypotheticals, we give away our 2018-19 NBA Anti-Awards (for the worst coach, GM and rookie of the year, plus 15th Man and LVP), and one hot minute in the Championship promotion race. Also: washed references, Ernie Grunfailed, I can see clearly now, live factchecking, Rocket flamouts, he like to party, Nipsey + Russell, peaking your spots, Dubs-Nugs mismatches, Malone again naturally, more washed references, the doughy centre cannot hold, Texas tech innovations, solved by maths, retire the hairdryer, popping out early, GMOTY, Doc & Woj, Zubac giveaways, room in the Boardroom, corporate ownership, bags of cold sick, balding accountants, the military-industrial NBA draft complex, complicated (inter)webs, hurlin' dem bricks, double for nothing, deferred payment plans, #yeshesstillintheleague, expensive mediocrity, screaming for vengeance, sliding groins, Leeds leave it late, playing dead for the playoffs, quadruple threat and the worst club in the history of football (and Millwall). You can hear more BALLS and After Dark via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to us via Twitter,Facebook and email.