The Barry Bullock Hour
by Elwood Social Club Productions
Big brews and big issues! The ultimate in pub chat, as four chaps discuss the issues of the moment over a few beers. From social etiquette, to politics and sport, no topic is safe as they sweep their eye over the world while drinking delicious craft beer.
Episodes
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Episode 066 - The Commodification of Artistic Practice
After eighteen months without a recording, The Barry Bullock Hour attacks when you least expect it! BANG! Five days before Christmas. After a full year without fresh content, the boys are back with a Christmas miracle of their own. Not content to rest on their laurel (wreaths), episode sixty-six…
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Episode 065 - Injury Time
RECORDED JULY 2023 Well it's only taken nine months, but part two of July 2023's classic boozy double header is finally here! All unborn children mentioned in this episode have arrived into this world happy and healthy! The drinks flow, as does the conversation. As all drunken conversations do,...
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Episode 064 - French Chefs on German Mopeds
After a classical Barry Bullock Hour hiatus episode sixty-four is here with a bang! The decision to abscond to the Kensington Palace lounge for a bit of #LoungeEnergy is immediately regretted when Eric and Cal launch into back-to-back segments that require the use of the kitchen. A golden spatula...
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Episode 063 - Mankad The World A Better Place
Episode 63 is here, and the second part of truly memorable and very boozy double-header! If you haven't listened to episode 62 - aka part one yet, you are strongly advised to do so. As there are SPOILERS WITHIN. This episode focuses on making the world a better place, and where better place to...
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Episode 062 - Poppers In The Crotch
Sixty-two episodes of The Barry Bullock Hour and this just might be THE. BIGGEST. YET! This podcast contains NEWS, and in the interest of spoilers, we'll say no more. You'll just have to listen and find out. But trust me, it's worth it! Part one of a classic #BarryBullockHour boozy double header!...
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Episode 061 - Christmas Confessional at Braeside Brewing
'Tis the season! The season for Christmas-themed podcasts! The Barry Bullock Hour Christmas Party episode is here, and contains next to no Christmas content! Other than wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy holidays, which is compulsory for the form. Instead the conversation opens with a...
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Episode 060 - ”Beer Is A Health Food”
It's another gruesome twosome as the C-Mac and the Bullock return to the Kensington Palace, and return to the last cans of the GABS Festival beer box. After a brief chat about the weather - classic podcast fodder - things ramp up as the sore topic of the T20 World Cup is immediately brought up.…
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Episode 059 - Live from the Yarra Park Magpie Swooping Championships
It's #BarryBullockHour episode fifty-nine, coming to you from Yarra Park in Melbourne! Where the beers are cold, the spring sun is warm, and the magpies are swooping! Eric's partner Ikue joins us for a little bit of #ParkEnergy, as Melbourne's flirtation with warmer weather drives us to crack out...
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Episode 058 - ”Don’t Mind Me, I’ve Had a Couple of Rieslings”
It's #BarryBullockHour episode 58, and it's a glorious late-night affair, fuelled by Blackman Brewing's finest, and also... wine?? Another classic Bullock-and-CMac mess-around, Kieran kicks things off with a newish segment, and reminds us all that the Commonwealth Games are still a thing, but…
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Episode 057 - Jagerbombs, Truth Bombs, and Vanessa Amorosi
It's another #GABS redux as we tackle the mighty behemoth that is the Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular Mixed Beer Box, and it is full of big boozy boys! Which is what would be if we tried to drink the whole box. A return to the Kensington Palace sees Cal crack out the guitar and the Barry...
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Episode 056 - ”Self-Driving Cars and Rockets to Mars”
Coming to you live from the Bridge Road cardboard pop-up bar in Brunswick it's #BarryBullockHour 56! To paraphrase the immortal words of the New Girl, it's a classic C-Mac and Bullock mess-around, as the raging plague continues to play havoc with our recording schedule, and in this case…
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Episode 055 - ”Benito Ottolenghi - No Relation”
Well it wouldn't be a new year without a fresh round of pandemic pandemonium, and when the clouds finally parted mid-January we went straight to Bodriggy Brewing for a few brews, and some serious ATMOSPHERE! We talk the looming Superbowl, and Kieran's strange and very tenuous connection to one of...
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Episode 054 - Finishing the Year at Cox Au Bière
A calimitous batting collapse from England sees the Ashes urn stay in Australia, forcing Callum and Kieran to abscond to Cox Towers for the luncheon interval. Suddenly, a podcast breaks out! Unsurprisingly the lack of value for money is an early point of discussion. Kieran then picks a bone with...
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Episode 053 - ”Don‘t Denigrate The Nog” - A Boozy Barry Bullock Hour Quizmas!
It's the #BarryBullockHour Christmas Party, and you're invited! Bursting at the seams with Christmas content, but not in a way that makes you pine for the new year. With Elvis and riots on the docket, this content is as fresh as the beers we're drinking. We break into the Carwyn Cellars Canvent...
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Episode 052 - Dr Eric‘s Mad Scientist Halloween Havoc
After several long months we're back at the Kensington Palace and ready to rumble! No more Zoom, but plenty of pace! We kick things off with a couple of spicy challenges, and finally inaugurate the #BarryBullockHour Wheel of Forfeit. And then a couple of classic topics of discontent, Microsoft…
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Episode 051 - ”Too Much Liquid, Not Enough Party”
The #BarryBullockHour goes NUCLEAR! Or at least Big Dog does, as a swathe of technical issues plague the start of recording down in the Mornington Peninsula Dog Pound. But has it sparked an idea that might end the mobile phone charger for good?? Eventually it all kicks off with a round of...
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Episode 050 - ”Everything Sucks Just A Little Bit”
It's the FIFTIETH EPISODE of the #BarryBullockHour and we return to the digital realm, dressed to the nines and just as many beers deep. It's a celebration! A milestone! And we're not going to let a little pandemic stop us from having an absolute ripper! Kieran kicks things off with a 50th-themed...
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Episode 049 - Hashtag Bowls Chat, Hashtag Beer Chat
It's episode forty-nine of #TheBarryBullockHour coming to you LIVE from the Princes Park Carlton Bowls Club! Yes, that's right, after years of threatening do it we finally get the microphone down to the bowls club for a spot of bowls chat. The only catch? Plenty of chat, but no bowls. Callum…
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Episode 048 - Indiana Bullock and the Japanese Dungeon of Doom
It's #BarryBullockHour 48, which finds us out in the wild, and back on the beers! The fearsome foursome assemble at 2 Brothers Brewing in Moorabbin, a month late, but worth the wait! A brief discussion on Cal's low-fi navigation methodology leads to Kieran getting badly lost in the north of…
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Episode 047 -Yoko Didn't Break Up the Beatles, Zoom Quizzes Did
A delightful planned trip south of the river to sample the delicious nectar of 2 Brothers Brewing in Moorabbin becomes a mere fantasy, as Melbourne relapses once again in its dangerous battle with lockdown addiction. We take once again to Zoom to podcast from the comfort of our own homes. After...
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Episode 046 - Dr Eric PHD's "Science Lab" Volume One
Episode 46 of the #BarryBullockHour is here and it's a beaut! Fueled by a delicious array of beers from Ferntree Gully's Little Brew, Cal kicks off proceedings with a controversial Melbourne train station quiz. Kieran has a bone to pick with April 1st. And Eric rounds out the episode by trying to...
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Episode 045 - John Travolta's School of Podcasting presents: Tales From The High Yarra
The renaissance of the #BarryBullockHour continues! In person and on the hoon, episode 45 is ripe with #LoungeEnergy, political satire, and swashbuckling tales of adventure! Cal sets the scene with a time-bending philosophical question, but things go quickly awry when John Travolta (as a...
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Episode 044 - BARRY BULLOCK HOUR FIGHT NIGHT! A Boozy Reunion - Part Two
We're back with the second half of our boozy reunion - a three-hour recording session where we got stuck into the GABS mixed 24-pack and has ourselves quite the time! Part two kicks off with controversy, a beer with a show-stopping smell brings proceedings quite literally to a halt. Surely a new...
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Episode 043 - LIVE FROM COX TOWERS! A Boozy Reunion - Part One
It took the best part of nine months but the #BarryBullockHour is finally back in one room and #BackOnTheBeers! And what better way to celebrate than with a mighty beer box - the mixed 24-pack from the GABS Hottest 100. Twenty-four delicious craft beers and three men? Now that's a recipe for…
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Episode 042 - Life, the Universe, and Everything Except Cucumbers
All pretences that 2021 is going to be different to 2020 are dashed immediately, as a touch of the sniffles send the Minnesota Thunder and the Bullock once again to arena of Zoom to drink some big brews and talk about the big issues. A broad recount of December's social activities are up first,...
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Episode 041 - As Befitting 2020, the Christmas Party Episode Goes Horribly Wrong
After several years of joyous Christmas episodes sitting around the table with a bunch of good mates and drinking fine brews, we throw the most 2020 #BarryBullockHour Christmas party imaginable - one where everything goes wrong! With Eric absconding to a last-minute bachelor party (who knew such…
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Episode 040 - Melon Banished And The Infinite Seltzer
It's a #GruesomeTwosome on Halloween as Big K and Elrico Kalimotxo go head to head on the big issues of the week, and with Kieran recently returned to the thriving metropolis of Melbourne conversation soon turns to plotting chaos in the warmer months. Is the #BarryBullockHour a pro-melon podcast?…
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Episode 039 - It's Kalimotxo O'Clock Somewhere
#BarryBullockHour 39 is up and racing, just in time for summer! The conversation starts with early twists and turns, delving into McDonalds mascots and the species thereof. And what type of bird is Sesame Street's biggest bird? And the jaunt down memory lane continues with a rediscovery of…
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Episode 038 - A Shot of Vodka and a Tractor Ride to the Sauna Will Cure What Ails You
Episode 38 is here and it is a fearsome kaleidoscope of bold ideas and silliness! Big brews and big issues, the #BarryBullockHour way! And while it's hard to hear about anything else than covid, the Big Dog unearths a little nugget you may have missed - a cure, no less! And one you are going to...
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Episode 037 - "I'm Not Swearing At You, Mate, I'm Swearing At The World!"
It's another Trans-Tasman Zoom-fuelled hour of chat at the #BarryBullockHour. With a tantalising beer menu of Garage Project and Trillium, Stomping Ground, Pabst, and whatever it is that Big Dog has in his mug we get on with talking about the bigger issues. And the biggest of dogs breaks the…
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Episode 036 - An Audio Culinary Tour of New Zealand, Australia, and the USA
Foodies unite! Episode 36 is the one you've been waiting for, an episode almost entirely taken up by discussions over some of the finer things in life: food and drink. It's a duet, a two-hander, with the Bullock and the Cox taking hot seats on both sides of the Tasman Sea, with a VB and Lakeman...
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Episode 035 - "You Can Lead A Horse To Water But You Can't Teach It To Waterski"
It's a special #BarryBullockHour, as we're all recording FROM HOME. That's right, from our three home studios we take this podcast ONLINE. Well, it's always been online. You get the picture... Despite being remote, it's a cracking episode. We cover the return of sports, and the subject quickly...
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Episode 034 - #LockdownListening part II, #SpicyBedChat, DVDs, and the Super Rugby away strip debacle
Recorded on March 22, 2020 as part of a big boozy double-header, Episode 34 starts with many brews already under the belt as the gang look ahead to the impending covid-19 crisis. Callum predicts the end of the internet as we know it, and a return to more old-fashioned forms of media. Kieran jumps...
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Episode 033 - "What Happens in Self-Isolation Stays in Self-Isolation"
It's part one of a big #BarryBullockHour double-header as we gather around the microphone for one last blast before the world goes into lockdown. Recorded on March 22nd, 2020. We kick it off with Eric "Big Time Foreigner" Cox chowing down on some delicious (?) lamington chips, and Cal comes to…
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Episode 032 - "Any Bin's a Win" in the #TwinkieChallenge, Munters on Electric Skateboards
Episode 32 is an absolute cracker, a Friday-night fanfare fuelled by jagerbombs, strawberry Fanta, the Burnley Brewing Pale Ale and the Beatnik XPA. Callum returns fire after his failed Fruit Salad Challenge and sets Kieran another food-based challenge. We get an update on the David Mitchell...
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Episode 031 - Eric Cox the Big Time Foreigner presents "Tennis player or Serial Killer?"
Big Dog kicks off episode #31 of the #BarryBullockHour with a #BigDogBone about Jetstar - surely not the first criticism levelled at the Australian budget airline, but by far the most entertaining! Kieran defends the consumption of traditional winter liquids stout and soup in the summer months.…
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Episode 030 - CHRISTMAS PARTY CABINET
It's #ChristmasTime, mistletoe and BEER! Episode 30 sees the newly-minted serious financial podcast return to its roots with the purchase of the Purvis Beer Advent Calendar box. The beers are unveiled, drafted, and then drunk as the usual chaotic chat follows. Kieran has a bone to pick with fast...
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Episode 029 - Triple Day of The Dead, #FruitSaladChallenge, Mouthfeel with Eric Cox
Episode #29 kicks off in Kensington, and it's a big one! First, Resch's Challenge punishments are meted out, and new challenge are laid down. Can Callum successful determine the mystery ingredient in the fruit salad? Or is there a room-temperature April 2017 vintage Reschs Pilsner coming his way?...
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Episode 028 - "Are There Wild Chickens in Melbourne?"
#BarryBullockHour #28 is a lazy Sunday affair coming to you LIVE (recorded LIVE) from Moon Dog's brand-spanking-new beer theme park Moon Dog World in Preston! After beating off hordes of plant-and-beer-loving people for a table Cal, Eric The Cox and Kieran sit down to enjoy some bloody tasty…
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Episode 027 - The Resurgence of Reschs, the #AFLGF, and the #BigBigSound
Episode 27 is a BIG ONE, full of BIG CHAT and the #BIGBIGSOUND from the west of the town! On Grand Final eve the lads ponder the potential result of the big game, with Callum throwing in a tipping contest of epic proportions into the mix. Now recording from the Kensington Palace Kieran sees fit…
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Episode 026 - Brunswick Burritos and Beer on a Sugary Sunday
Not one short month since the last #BarryBullockHour episode, #26 arrives in alarming proximity. Has the new four-pronged pace attack of Cal, Kieran, Big Dog, and the Minnesota Thunder Eric Cox finally fixed the Barry Bullock Hour frequency issues? Sure seems like it! Join Cal, Kieran and Eric as...
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Episode 025 - "What Happens on the Melbourne Star stays on the Melbourne Star"
After yet another lengthy hiatus the #BarryBullockHour boys are back again! And with more big brews and big NEWS? Big Dog had a baby. C-Mac got engaged. Life bloody well happened. So to alleviate the matter of life constantly interfering with podcast frequency Kieran resorted to adding a NEW…
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Episode 024 - Aftermath of the Boozy Birthday Brunch, Bold Visions for the future, and half-marathon toilet stategies
After an almost year-long (!!) and entirely unintentional hiatus, the #BarryBullockHour is back with a boozy, ramshackle hour of pure un-edited nonsense! The team descend on Richmond's Moondog craft brewery after loading up at a boozy birthday brunch. The result is the Barry Bullock Hour at its...
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Episode 023 - Sunday session at Three Ravens in Thornbury, Callum gets his noodle out, and NICKELBACK
#23 is here, to usher in the change of season! Spring is upon us, and so too another #BarryBullockHour hoon. This time coming to you from the lovely brewery bar at Three Ravens in Thornbury. Callum introduces us to the musical intricacies of the "noodle". Kieran inspires heated debate with…
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Episode 022 - The Thrilling Finale of #AustraliasWorstBeer, and Kieran challenges Rafael Nadal to a tennis match
#22 is a monster episode, coming to you from the Temuka St Studio, aka Callum's house. We're joined by Clem and Kitty and expand the judging panel for the massive finals of #AustraliasWorstBeer. By episode's end, the Golden Turpentine has been awarded, and one the finalists disqualified due to...
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Episode 021 - Mario Karting in Tokyo, more #BowlsChat, Gender Politics in Traffic Management
Episode 21 is a long time in the making, but it's here! Summer has been and gone if you look at the calendar, but as the boys settle in on a thirty-degree day in the Kensington Palace it's agreed and Melbourne shifts its season on a whim. Big Dog turns the conversation briefly to motorsport, much...
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Episode 020 - The Barry Bullock Hour Christmas party, featuring James Bond controversies, American cricket, #BowlsChat!!!, and complicated co-op board games
Episode 20 is a raucous affair, taking place on a glorious Sunday after a round of Extremely Casual Cricket. In keeping with the Christmas party vibe, Bridge Road's Magical Christmas Unicorn vanilla ice cream ale is cracked out, and is proven to be delicious. Conversation soon turns to cricket in...
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Episode 019 - An #AustraliasWorstBeer boilover, Big Dog's wedding crasher, Elvis and the CIA, and we try not to talk about Donald Trump and talk about Air Force One instead
On a majestic Sunday afternoon in Kensington the boys sit around and are joined, surprisingly, by some guests who arrived unfathomably early for a casual cricket match in the park. Joined by guest beer pourer Clementine West, the quarter finals of #AustraliasWorstBeer commence, and there's a...
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Episode 018 - Round Two of #AustraliasWorstBeer, buying shares in Parrotdog, the new five dollar note, and AFL Finals
The noble hunt for #AustraliasWorstBeer continues on the Barry Bullock Hour, with the second batch of disgraceful brews being shoved down the discerning mouths of the panel. Carlton United Breweries then get roasted for reasons other than their shithouse brews, Kieran lauds the efforts of a young...
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Episode 017 - The hunt for #AustraliasWorstBeer begins, the election day sausage sizzle debacle, and Tom Jones
Episode 17 sees the beginning of a noble crusade - to blind taste-test sixteen of Australia's worst mass-produced beers and determine which of them is truly the worst. The blindfolded are donned, the bottles and can wrapped up to obscure their labels, and the tastings begin. We drink them, so you...
About this show
Big brews and big issues! The ultimate in pub chat, as four chaps discuss the issues of the moment over a few beers. From social etiquette, to politics and sport, no topic is safe as they sweep their eye over the world while drinking delicious craft beer.
Hosted by
Elwood Social Club Productions