500 episodes listed below
Top-five comedy with the brakes off.
Hardcore Listing with Chris & Stu is a list-comedy show built around rankings that rarely stay tidy for long. Childhood status symbols, bad holiday rituals, film music moments, and everyday irritations become fast, teasing conversations full of side roads.
PRESS PLAY
Hardcore Listing with Chris & Stu is a rapid, messy comedy show built around top-five lists. The list is the engine, but not the whole vehicle. Each episode begins with a theme, then turns that theme into stories, arguments, teasing, and abrupt little detours. Recent subjects include bad places to get stuck, holiday frustrations, childhood signs that a friend was rich, things that felt illegal growing up, things not to do after 30, film needle drops, and music videos. That range is the point. A topic can be broad, nostalgic, petty, or strangely specific, as long as it gives the room something to push against. The show is funniest when small observations get treated like major evidence. A traffic jam becomes a bodily emergency. A hotel porter becomes a tipping crisis. A branded jacket or satellite dish becomes a whole childhood class system. Aging shows up through bad mirrors, outdated references, and sudden awareness of how time has moved on. Music and film references cut through the comedy too. The delivery has the feel of people who know each other well enough to interrupt without derailing the mood. It is loose, quick, and comfortable with conversational mess. Guests sometimes enter the mix, but the show keeps returning to the shared ritual of ranking and disagreeing. The humor is blunt and adult, often built on exaggeration, embarrassment, and mock hostility. Underneath that, the episodes have a recognisable warmth: the jokes land because the speakers sound relaxed with each other. Listeners looking for clean structure may find it unruly. Listeners who enjoy memory-lane arguments and lists that keep collapsing into stories will understand the appeal quickly.
Made for: For listeners who like fast, adult banter, nostalgic arguments, and comedy built from everyday irritation. It especially fits fans of list shows that feel more like a lively table conversation than a formal countdown.
What sets it apart: The show treats rankings as a flexible excuse for stories rather than a strict format. Its edge comes from the speed of the back-and-forth, the specificity of the memories, and the way tiny complaints turn into whole comic scenes.
Off the back of their success on Scroobius Pips Drunkast, Pips sidekicks Chris & Stu launched the now formidable podcast Hardcore Listing. A podcast based around Top 5 lists. Hardcore Listing sees Chris and Stu discuss with each other as well as a host of special guests a list of top 5 stuffs! This maybe, records, gigs, TV shows, films, drunk stories, buffet food and lord knows what else. Generally recorded in Stu’s home bar The Whiff Inn, you should expect laughs, beers and the occasional drunken heart-felt chat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Top-five prompts give Chris and Stu a dependable frame for teasing, personal stories and sharply observed everyday absurdity.
Hardcore Listing with Chris & Stu turns each top-five prompt into a conversational obstacle course, with the ranking repeatedly diverted by memories, teasing and sudden arguments over minor details.
A satellite dish once meant your mate was rich; Chris and Stu know you remember.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A filthy list of awkward situations that keeps finding fresh, very specific ways to be miserable.
Hardcore Listing stays with a grimly comic catalogue of awkward situations, from being stuck on a motorway bridge needing a piss to being cornered by someone who talks with their eyes shut.
Chris and Stu turn tipping anxiety, airport spending, and buffet behaviour into a messy holiday ranking.
Chris and Stu rank holiday misery by turning airport spending, hotel transfers, and all-inclusive behaviour into a loose, lively argument about British tourists abroad.
A sharp, nostalgic ranking of the clothes, dishes and holidays that made childhood wealth look huge.
Hardcore Listing turns childhood envy into a funny little dig through branded clothes, satellite dishes and foreign holidays. Chris and Stu circle back to the things that once made another family seem impossibly well off: a blue Kappa ski jacket with white stripes down the arm,…
Bins, beard neglect and Fireball turn a live show into a joke about getting old.
Hardcore Listing turns a live show into a joke about getting old, with bins, beard neglect, out-of-date hair and a mirror that starts to feel hostile.
A Wicker Man music debate finds its spark in strong opinions, old memories, and relaxed teasing.
A film-music discussion becomes a warm, argumentative pass at the musical DNA of The Wicker Man. Chris, Stu, and Dave move through the film's roughly 11 songs, swerve into jokes about the Nicolas Cage version, then settle around the Christopher Lee original and the odd pleasure…
A Wikipedia idea opens into ancestry, identity, and one very disappointing Viking fantasy.
Hardcore Listing turns Sarah Roberts' top-five Wikipedia idea into a loose, rain-soaked conversation about the stories people inherit, repeat, and sometimes have to give up.
Grace Campbell turns party nerves, guest ideas, and social cover into the episode's comic engine.
Hardcore Listing uses Grace Campbell's visit as a loose, funny sift through parties, public confidence, and the odd pressure of naming people worth interviewing.
Records worth hearing, reasons worth arguing over.
Annual Songlines Music Awards ceremonies spotlighting global artists, from Afrobeat to sevda.
A high schooler's music diary — Grammys press pass stories to family concert interviews.
Rap verdicts, fight-night takes and wandering movie arguments.
Comedian Grace Campbell joins hosts Chris and Stu on Hardcore Listing to discuss her top five swear words and favorite cities.
Stu and Chris introduce a live show with banter about beer and a UBC ad about wildfires.
Chris and Steve count down the top five made up Olympic events in a comedic podcast episode.
Comedian Sarah Roberts joins hosts Chris and Stu on Hardcore Listing to share her top five Wikipedia deep dives.
Chris and Stu start in familiar bicker mode.
["Hardcore Listing with Chris and Stu uses 'Top 5 Worst Things about Holiday' to hit airport beers, speedy boarding, customs panic, and resort behaviour.", "Chris complains about \u00a328 pints, WHSmith-style prices, and people who sprint onto the plane despite allocated seats.", "Stu talks about passports, boot trays, hidden-drug paranoia, and a customs door that trapped about 20 people before opening again.", "The list moves through John and Jan, Brits abroad, rain-soaked snowboarding trips, and ends on the line 'Getting AIDS off a local prostitute.'"]
Chris and Stu turn Hardcore Listing into a catalogue of childhood wealth signals, starting with Greg's graphite one-piece badminton racket and James Marshall's Marks & Spencer's crisps and chicken breast lunchbox.
Chris and Stu discuss top 5 things that felt illegal growing up in a humorous podcast episode.
Chris Glasson introduces a top five list podcast with crude humor and controversial opinions.
Chris and Stu kick off a live Hardcore Listing night with a chat that ricochets from the Winter Olympics to penis injections before the list properly gets moving.
Chris, Stu, and Dave argue their way through memorable film music and the songs that refuse to leave your head.
Chris and Stu host a casual, drunken podcast where they introduce a top 5 music videos list with guest Robyn Faulks, but the transcript only covers the chaotic intro and sponsor shoutout.
The hosts of Hardcore Listing podcast discuss childhood toys they would still play with, but the transcript is mostly an ad for UBC and patron promotion.
Chris and Stu banter about swearing and introduce their top 5 list of people to have during a zombie apocalypse.