The Barry Bullock Hour

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 a thing existed), Callum requiring a pre-show nap after a massive week in the classroom, and Big Dog fi...

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? A second round of #NewBrewNewsYouCanUse sees a resounding consensus on the subject of the large rou...

#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 nursery rhymes. Are they are wholesome as we remember?   Eric drives the ship home with #NewBrewNewsYouCan...

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 want to try (at least, some elements of it)... Eric (while wandering within his 5km bubble) stumbles upo...

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 Barry Bullock Hour promise of not talking about covid-19 to unleash one of the more bizarre #BigDogBones in...

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 Brewing Hopadelic IPA in hand.  The hot topic of the day is pies. And with no Australian voices on the...

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 turns to how to fix the most contentious day on the sporting calendar: the Melbourne Cup. And boy, do we...

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 in in agreement, albeit with a curious twist set years into the future.   Clem turns up the spice-o-me...

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 the party with the perfect beer pairing - the Quiet Deeds Lamington Brown Ale. Things then get absurdly p...

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 standings. Kieran has a bone to pick with people on electric scooters. And Eric rounds out the episode with...

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. Why should deliciousness be seasonal? Cal unleashes a ferocious rant at the latest frankenfood to grace...

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 food loyalty schemes. HOW MANY Subway sandwiches does he have to buy to get a freebie? Cal unveils the...

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? And speaking of aged beers, Kieran unveils an absolute treat: two vintages of Garage Project's Triple...

#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 brews, bloody decent views, and talk about the ISSUES. Sports results are mulled over, some talked about -...

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 to unleash the first #ReschsChallenge, only to reveal that on a certain news website the filthy brew dei...

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 they get stuck into beers and burritos at Foreigner Brewing in Brunswick, as suggested by Cal in episo...

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 MEMBER to the #BarryBullockHour team! And no, we don't mean Big Dog's young child, despite his early sugges...

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 loud, unfiltered, controversial best! Big Dog delves into his medical journals to chronicle the mysterie...

#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 perhaps the most controversial #GoldenSpatula yet - are Nickelback really THAT bad? And Big Dog faces the mu...

#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 being discontinued!  Kieran somehow finds himself challenging Rafael Nadal to a tennis match. Big Dog goe...

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 to Callum's chagrin. Kieran suggests there might be ONE motorsport that might interest him. Big Dog's...

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 the USA, care of our recently-converted friend Eric Cox. Round ball sports continue to be the theme of...

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 surprise in the offing as one of the hot favourites fails to make the top 4.  The recent US election gets a...

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 man who successfully petitioned the government at the ripe old age of fifteen, Donald Trump's a twit,...

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 don't have to. Eight beers start the podcast, but only four make it through to the fifty-minute mark. ...