BALLS.431 Questioning every life decision you’ve ever made

This week in sport: actually having NBA thoughts, collecting trophies like Pokemon, the MVP straw poll, the Thunder’s rough week, a minor Traensformation, multi-layer revenge games, can Dennis Schroeeuueeuder stop the Dubs putting up duds, Jimmy Butler’s Mythbusters vibe, Shut Up And Front Office, …

tripping balls.409 Mostly cliches and dumb stuff

This week: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Ramkot and Stress Eater (CZARFACE x Kool Keith). Also: new Ice Cube x Brandy collab, double not negatives, representative examples of the marque, blank canvases, beach roadtrips, #DocMisReadsBios, desert rock Pokemon, if in doubt play it louder through …

BALLS.430 Don’t worry, it’s going somewhere

This week in sport: Jimmy is rustling Miami’s jimmies, the end of superstar mobility, quadrupling down, players aren’t bad but contracts can be, NBA Cup quarterfinals, peak Knuckles Connolly hours, Happy learned how to putt, don’t use Tottenham’s training staff, leaps v blips, LeBron is all of us, …

tripping balls.408 You can’t do that on television

This week: new albums from Kendrick Lamar, Pa Salieu and Ocean Grove.  Also: west coast tourism, you and me problems, space-filling models, 1980s muscle car history, foreign exchange, fake freestyles, statements endorsed by 50% of the podcast, the worst thing about 2001, Mariah Carey waterboarding,…

BALLS.429 Tolerated within the firmament

This week in sport: multiple Australia-India walkovers, Worldwide Pant, getting a sendoff from a Grease 2 villain, pick your favourite Jokic on-off stat, MVP conversation small talk, Ja performatively gives up dunking, the Great Barrier Thief, mini-slumps, freelancing against coaching advice, knowi…

tripping balls.407 This week in industrial abrasives

This week: new albums from Michael Kiwanuka, Thunderpussy and Vypers. Also: knocking your audience loose, music to topple castles by, outgunned but not outnumbered, Mark Ronseal, orbital sander albums, not a producer’s extruder, polish club, incomplete assignments, unreleased comeback albums, unspo…

BALLS.428 Never go full Eberflus

This week in sport: the worst 11-1 team in NFL history, the multiEberflusverse, the three kinds of Cavs losses, the Ant Edwards School of Motivational Speaking, teachable moments, Beeso refuses to be Knicks-positive, America cannot geography, the Rockets’ next move, Boxing Day at the Smoothie King,…

tripping balls.406 Come and get it

This week: new albums from A. Swayze & the Ghosts, Warmduscherand Faderdaze. Also: safe assumptions, Covid bumps, beat poetry, misleading introductions, nutritional information, introduce yourself (right on!), Gladstone starter kits, random music recs, this podcast was inevitable, soft furnishings,…

BALLS.427 The Venn diagram of hubris, karma and schadenfreude

This week in sport: some poorly aged thoughts on Indian batting competence, Captain Grumpy on the rack, having twice the success, Celts-Cavs fallout, shot deserts, blame it on woke, thinking free to air television is going to save you like it’s 1984, is bad basketball less watchable than bad other-…

tripping balls.405 Largely funk-driven filth and nonsense

This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub (again), Yoo Doo Right and Greenleaf. Also: almost professional, recency bias, what’s the difference, parkourlife, This Isn’t Cinema, missing narratives, the central tenets of this podcast, the Kyuss School, Swedish deserts, top five fixations, being lied t…