Critical Banter

Lots going on this week with the lads. Firstly Kushagra is nowhere to be found and is presumed to have joined the writer’s strike in the US. Meanwhile Ro and Migs have been busy this week doing side quests as they have been featured in a prestigious Australian publication (not Zoo magazine). According to the Australian Financial Review, Ro is now the unofficial godfather of Pickleball in Australi...

WELCOME TO SEASON 3 OF CRITICAL BANTER! Much like The Simpsons, Season 3 is set to be our biggest and best season yet as we debut our brand spanking new studio. The lads have treated themselves to the finest podcasting microphones on the market, 2 beautiful new couches, a robust shelf and of course a lovely rug to tie it all together. To celebrate this new space of ours, we bring back some loved s...

 Back to full strength this week as Ro is back from exile and Kush has overcome the plague. Straight off the bat Kush is furious with Migs and Sen for using the new technology despite being strictly told not to do so - in their defence they’re baboons. Sen tells a yarn from his Friday night where a lonely Ro with nothing else better to do joins his work drinks event and attempts to pretend to be...

As the famous saying goes: all roads lead to another Miguel and Sen duo spectacular. Ro is off in NZ and Kush doesn’t have covid for the third time, leaving the lads with autonomy for yet another week. After deciding against doing part 2 of Pokemon Smash or Pass and doing even more football content, this week the boys start light with some exchanging of lunch ideas in Sydney’s CBD. Then they get i...

After a month of galavanting around Europe, Sen is back and is brimming with yarns. As is tradition, when one comes in, another pops out with Kush making way. To kick us off this week, however, is Rohit who brings two cautionary tales and some valuable life lessons with them. He begins with a review of his use of the website Temu and their too good to be true offers before he reveals he is in the...

Another week, another low attendance day at the Critical Banter podcast. Here for roll call are Miguel & Kush whilst the other 2 boys have gone everywhere but the podcast studio. Nevertheless, the show must go on with the cult favourite duo which kicks off with Kush's introduction to tarot card readings where he drops all preconceived slights he had against it in light of the favourable readin...

With Sen's still in Europe doing [redacted], the Big 3 are once again back in the studio. This week's episode starts off with wedding fever, with every man and their dog getting engaged and/or married at this time of year. The boys dissect a few engagement posts they've seen on social media, and rank them as if they've got any right or qualification to judge other people's happy relationships. Roh...

Running out of ideas, Rohit and Kush were minutes away from calling Dimitri Anatoli back from the gulag for this week's episode. However, they have been saved by the freezing & heavily jet-lagged Miguel who has returned from his semi-frequent galivants to Europe. We start this week's episode with Miguel dobbing in Rohit for being guilty of a very behaviour he lambasted last week. We then hear...

The running theme continues as Miguel and Sen are absent. Perhaps this is an experiment from ChatGPT itself to see how far the boys can go without each other. Regardless, the show must go on with Rohit and Kush. And to join the boys this week is (not you Dimitri) but Triple Cheese. The man, the myth, the legend. He arrives in scintillating fashion, brimming with yarns and tales, ones that are fier...

It’s happened again, Miguel in Europe, Kush on annual leave - Ro and Sen left to their own devices. That means this week is choc full of yarns. To kick us off Sen immediately dobs in Ro for his atrocious behaviour at Costco and IKEA. Then we get a recap of the lads trip up to Brisbane as well some other smaller stories. Our only segment this week is a new one, “Red Handed” which is where we recoun...

Kush has put in a marvellous shift the past few weeks and has earned a well deserved break as Rohit finally comes back. He begins with some clarifications from last week’s tale of his unfounded act of violence (all still completely true). Staying on the theme of violence, Ro also brings 2 other yarns - one of police brutality outside a Maccas and another of animal roadkill. Another Tik Tok game th...

The legendary duo of Miguel and Kush are once again joined by Sen (Ro still MIA). Kush kicks us off by revealing the Thomas Shelby alter-ego he has developed by wearing hats, before mentioning some other rare units at his office. There’s also some chat about the Snapchat AI before finally Sen launches into an epic war story featuring none other than our very own Ro. After 2 long years, we bring ba...

One week on from the momentous 200th Episode, Ro and Sen have immediately gone walkabout leaving Migs and Kush to pick up the pieces and begin the next 200 episodes. After briefly pondering their whereabouts, Kush launches into a tale of almost confronting a group of eshay’s in a movie theatre. Migs then tells a story of hoodwink and deceit as Ro tried to gaslight a group of very confused Koreans....

We have finally made it - the big 200. The TCB boys raise the bat once again to celebrate this momentous milestone, the highly coveted double hundred. Strap in as the boys self indulge to the highest degree in our longest episode yet. To begin proceedings, Ro recounts his calamitous experience at an opera which can only be described as a series of unfortunate events (not related to Lemony Snicket)...

The greatest duo of all time is now upgraded to the greatest trio of all time as Sen returns from his Melbourne trip, Rohit is still missing due to being photographed kissing the Dalai Lama. Sen launches straight into yarns from his trip including a tale of a rollercoaster weekend for repeat podcast character Triple Cheese. Sen also then reveals the existence of a work group chat with the sole pur...

Momentous occasion for the podcast this week as we cross the final frontier - a duo episode featuring Miguel and Kushagra. The self proclaimed Fortnite GOAT duo step into the podcast studio for the first time together, being the last duo combination left. Who knows what nonsense these boys get up, but rest assured they won’t be playing Pokemon smash or pass. Miguel begins with a tale of greed and...

Huge week for TCB - not only are all the boys back but they are back with a little special something. To kick us off this week, the boys review 5 flavours of Prime Hydration, now available in Australian supermarkets (not sponsored). They taste each of the flavours and score them from 1 - 10 and then rank them in order from best to worst. We also dive into the nutritional value and science behind t...

We start this week with a bombshell, with Kush currently MIA after being implicated in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Then Ro confesses to a heinous act at his work on International Women’s Day, where he went from ally to sex pest in the matter of minutes as he desperately tried to gaslight his workmates. Sen also has some work yarns including a kitchen cold war and an alternative education...

It’s that time of the month for all the Critical Banter boys to be present for an episode. Kush kicks us off, and in what’s quickly becoming a recurring gag, the man proceeds to immediately plug both his Instagram accounts. We reflect on his new niche of reviewing his experiences with people, revealing he will be reviewing one of the lads next. Ro then reveals something equally as startling as he...

Massive week for the lads and here to recap it is Migs, Ro and Sen - Kush is out presumably with bird flu. We kick off with a recap of the TCB Chess Tournament which concluded over the weekend (spoiler: the winner was the only person who regularly plays chess). Massive thanks to everyone who participated and a special congrats to Jack who made the final and then proceeded to get embarrassed. Sen t...

The revolving door at TCB continues this week as Sen taps out and Ro and Kush sub back in. This week Kush is full of yarns and brings forth an interesting conundrum - asking the lads if they would accept a sports-like contract over their normal work contracts, even going to the extreme of hypothesising a 10 year contract at Maccas for $2.5m. Then we are back to regular programming as Kush gets in...

It’s happened again, Kush and Ro are MIA so Migs and Sen must soldier on with another football heavy episode. We kick off this week (pun intended) with Miguel recounting his Valentine’s Day plans which includes an infinite food glitch - use at your own peril. Sen then discusses getting blue balled by Julian Assange, doing a Rohit and then complains about yet another overrated Sydney institution. A...

After last week’s opening segment was canned due to various violations of the Geneva Convention, Kush is back in person to oversee the other 3 monkey’s and ensure no other inhumane acts are performed on this podcast. To mark his return, Kush begins with a hypothetical review of his movie rating system, including potentially using his head as a scoring system. We then finally reveal an ongoing saga...

The wheels have well and truly fallen off here at Critical Banter, as this week the boys record an opening segment so heinous and so horrific that Kush had to cut out 95% of what was said to save the careers of Migs, Ro and Sen. Not sure what got into the lads this week to trigger such a violent outburst, but nevertheless one day when we are famous enough, we’ll release the full uncensored version...

We kick off this week straight off the bat with a controversial topic as Miguel (conscientious objector) reveals he worked on Australia Day, refusing to take leave. Even worse, he unintentionally had the gall to take the moral high ground over his coworkers who did in fact take the day off. We then discuss whether celebrating was allowed and if you were allowed to post an instagram story. Sen brin...