Pop World Cup Podcast – FreakyTrigger

Episodes

1. 24

   Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – WRAP

   Well you all know what happened. Now Roger Bozack and Peter Baran set up camp in the eerily empty Media Center in Johannesburg, abandoned coffee cups littering the floor, and try to make some sense of it all. Ultimately that means playing a bunch of […]

   Jun 17, 2010
2. 23

   Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – THE FINAL

   Tom Ewing joins Peter Baran and Roger Bozack in the broadcast booth for the simulcast of the championship match between Germany and Nigeria and gets raked over the coals about this year’s voting irregularities. Well, not so much raked as polite[…]

   Jun 10, 2010
3. 22

   Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – SEMIFINALS

   Roger Bozack returns from his mysterious illness and joins Peter Baran in the broadcast booth as the crucible of this Pop World Cup gets amplified to the breaking point – tossed on the horns of a swelling tide and cast into a literal pressure c[…]

   Jun 4, 2010
4. 21

   Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – Quarterfinal Results

   With Roger Bozack pulling a sickie, it falls to Eli Sessions to join Peter Baran in the booth for all the quarterfinal results. In the sporting tradition for which the Weekend Update has become justly celebrated, we focus on the sides who lost last w[…]

   May 29, 2010
5. 20

   Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – The Quarterfinals

   Roger Bozack gets Peter Baran down the line from Capetown to take in all the action from the Pop World Cup 2010 Quarterfinals. In an all-African tie Nigeria battles Ghana for the host continent crown, though the Cameroonians appear to be staking a cl[…]

   May 21, 2010
6. 19

   Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – Round of 16 Roundup

   Sixteen nations – but only eight can advance. It’s a cruel game. No matter the quality of play, in the Pop World Cup there must be winners and there must be losers. Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack via ISDN linkup to take a look at the team[…]

   May 15, 2010
7. 18

   Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – Round of 16 – 2

   Two Pop World Cup managers in the studio this week, but hope is alive for only one of them. Honduras manager Steve Hewitt sits in with Roger Bozack and a bereft Peter Baran as Hewitt’s Honduran squad faces Portugal, Paraguay meet the Netherland[…]

   May 8, 2010
8. 17

   Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – Round of 16

   We’re back to live action this week as senior pop analyst and USA manager Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack for the kickoff of the Round of 16. With every match a decider, the managers are pulling out all the stops, breaking out the big guns, i.e.[…]

   Apr 29, 2010
9. 16

   Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – Goodbye to Groups

   With the winning teams resting and limbering up for the trials ahead, Roger Bozack takes time out from the putting green to share some of his favourite efforts from those nations who found themselves left out in the cold when all the votes were count[…]

   Apr 23, 2010
10. 15

    Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – E F G and H

    Sixteen songs in thirty minutes! It’s like lunch in a pill. Roger Bozack and Peter Baran race through this week’s jam-packed schedule to bring you foreshortened highlights of some matches and extended musing on others. This week the Feder[…]

    Apr 16, 2010
11. 14

    Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – A B C and D

    Martin Skidmore, manager of the Algerian team, joins Peter Baran and Roger Bozack for the most action-packed week yet. The final round of the group stage is bearing down on us – who will go through and who will go home? We hear France vs South […]

    Apr 10, 2010
12. 13

    Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – G and H

    A brace of forward play and rasping cross-field action awaits as Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack via satellite for Brazil vs Cote D’Ivoire, Portugal vs Korea DPR, Honduras vs Spain, and Chile vs Switzerland, as well as a guest appearance from 1986 P[…]

    Apr 2, 2010
13. 12

    Pop World Cup – Group Stage Round 2 – E and F

    Finally! The Pop World Cup on Resonance 104.4 FM in London catches up with the action on Freaky Trigger – ALL the matches on the show (at time of posting) are live and votable. Peter Baran and Roger Bozack bring you extended highlights of the N[…]

    Mar 27, 2010
14. 11

    Pop World Cup – Group Stage Round 2 – C and D

    A huge, ever-growing, pulsating radio show that’s now broadcast on Saturdays at 4pm on Resonance FM 104.4 in London, the Pop World Cup returns in podcast form this week with a two-fer (we’re catching up with the present). This time Peter […]

    Mar 27, 2010
15. 10

    Pop World Cup – Find Us On Resonance FM 104.4

    Fans of the Radio Roundup, do not despair – we haven’t gone away entirely, we’re just moving to Resonance FM 104.4 on Saturdays at 4pm, where we’ll be covering the matches currently in progress instead of giving you results on[…]

    Mar 17, 2010
16. 9

    Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 8

    Special DPRK adjutant liaison Mark Sinker again joins Peter Baran and Roger Bozack in PWC2010’s luxurious control suite, this time for some surprising results from the Group H matches between Switzerland and Spain and Chile and Honduras. Junipe[…]

    Mar 12, 2010
17. 8

    Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 7

    First-round Group G results here as Roger Bozack returns to the booth with Peter Baran and special deputy ambassador Mark Sinker to discuss all the high and lowlights. Despite a temporary hostage situation order is restored at halftime of DPRK vs Bra[…]

    Mar 11, 2010
18. 7

    Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 6

    Our Group F round-up sees Roger Bozack still Missing In Action (or Mr Inaction as his wife calls him) so iPete Baran and Steve Mannion continue their coverage in South Africa. The metal hell of Italy vs Paraguay, the sweetness of New Zealand vs Slova[…]

    Mar 5, 2010
19. 6

    Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 5

    Our Group E round-up sees Roger Bozack off to cover the Pop Winter olympics so it falls to analyst Pete Baran to helm the coverage in South Africa. The first all Europe tie, Denmark vs Netherlands, followed by the very intriguing Camaroon vs Japan. P[…]

    Mar 2, 2010
20. 5

    Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 4

    Group D sees our first taste of scandal as Peter Baran questions the ancestral authenticity of the German entry, Heinz, whose fuzzy guitar rock paces Australia’s Sneaky Sound System step for step. And drugs – they aren’t unknown on […]

    Feb 26, 2010
21. 4

    Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 3

    The Group of Death! Or is it? After an inconclusive start to the Group B battle, Peter Baran (doing double duty as manager of Team USA) and Roger Bozack are joined in the booth by the manager of the Slovenian side, Kat Stevens, as we take in all the […]

    Feb 24, 2010
22. 3

    Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 2

    Peter Baran and Roger Bozack re-ensconce themselves in the booth with all the action and results from Group B’s first round of matches – Argentina v Nigeria and Greece v South Korea. We hear from Giorgios Mais, 4Minute, Entre Rios, and D&[…]

    Feb 20, 2010
23. 2

    Pop World Cup – Radio Roundup 1

    Oh Lordy! It’s Peter Baran and Roger Bozack in the studio with a complete half-hour recap – including songs – of the tournament results so far. Which at this point means Group A. Los Shakers, Pitch Black Afro, Café Tacuba, and […]

    Feb 17, 2010