Talking Bollox Podcast

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Two lads from the inner city of Dublin sitting around doing what they do best, talking bollox. Contact us by email: talkingbollox@goloudnow.com

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Tuesday · 23 min
Bonus: The Cubicle Connection
The lads are back with some classic listener would-you-rathers. There are debates on skipping coffee vs skipping haircuts, running a marathon in steel-toe boots vs sliders, and whether you’d rather dance everywhere or sing every sentence. Plus: blind rankings, eating penguin or hippo rashers, shark bite stories, a toothbrush-toothpaste relationship red flag, and an all-time missed connection in a sandwich shop toilet. Send anything and everything you'd like to hear on the pod to TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com This episode was sponsored by Kearns Sausages. Kearns are looking for your “Top Dog” – for the chance to win a year's worth of Kearns Sausages plus €1,000 cash. Visit https://kearnssausages.com/ for more info
August 27 · 51 min
Episode 284 w/ Hannah Ennis
Hannah Ennis spent years battling anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts before finding the tools that helped her rebuild her life, and eventually turning that experience into her work as a Self Image Coach. This week, Hannah joins the lads to speak openly about struggling with her mental health from a young age, how things deteriorated through her teens and early twenties, and the moment her family stepped in to get her the help she needed. Her journey took her to Thailand for treatment, where the shock of realising she needed more support than she wanted to admit became a major turning point. The gym became a place of solace for Hannah, and her work now focuses on self image rather than just fitness. Therapy, journaling, nervous system work and learning to sit with difficult feelings have all become part of how she looks after herself, and how she helps others do the same. This episode contains discussions about anxiety, depression, self harm, suicide, addiction and mental health. If you have been impacted by any of the topics discussed in this week’s episode, support is available: Samaritans: 116 123 Email: jo@samaritans.ie Pieta: 1800 247 247 Text HELP to 51444 HSE Drug and Alcohol Helpline: 1800 459 459 This episode was sponsored by Rightstyle Furniture. RIGHT PRICE, RIGHT STYLE, RIGHT NOW. Visit rightstyle.ie Get in touch on TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
August 25 · 29 min
Bonus: The Cereal World Cup
This week on Talking More Bollox, it’s time for pure chaos as the lads and Eoin run a full-on Cereal World Cup, complete with a tactics board. Frosties, Coco Pops, Cornflakes, Crunchy Nut… all put under the microscope, with plenty of arguments about sugar, seeding and “shrinkflation” The bracket is chaos, the football comparisons are flying, and the most controversial final you’ll hear all week. There can only be one winner. Send anything and everything you'd like to hear on the pod to TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com This episode was sponsored by Kearns Sausages. Kearns are looking for your “Top Dog” – for the chance to win a year's worth of Kearns Sausages plus €1,000 cash. Visit https://kearnssausages.com/ for more info
August 20 · 1 hr 21 min
Episode 283 w/ Paul Merriman
Financial advisor Paul Merriman, better known as Ask Paul, joined the lads this week, and if you have ever heard the word pension and immediately stopped listening, this might be the episode for you. Paul broke down money in a way that actually makes sense, from why winning or earning a fortune does not mean you will keep it, to the small weekly changes that could make a massive difference later in life. He also explained why getting on the property ladder matters so much, how overpaying your mortgage can save you serious money, and why putting something away for your kids could set them up in ways most people never hear about. The lads also got into Paul’s own story, from growing up in Tallaght to building and selling his business for millions, and the surprising truth about what that moment actually felt like. Spoiler, it was not quite the fireworks people might imagine. There is talk of pensions, investments and mortgages, yes, but don’t panic. Paul somehow makes it all feel less like homework and more like something you might actually want to sort out. This episode was sponsored by Rightstyle Furniture. RIGHT PRICE, RIGHT STYLE, RIGHT NOW. Visit rightstyle.ie Get in touch on TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
August 18 · 21 min
Bonus: Six Weetabix Deep
In this week’s episode the lads get stuck into a classic one of Terry’s irrational fears and he's passed it onto Calvin: the card decline. There’s nothing worse than it happening in public… especially when the person behind you might actually listen to the podcast. Things somehow spiral into the most important debate of our time: can Terry actually eat six weetabix and still go training after? There’s also talk of the “Talking Bollox effect” clearing supermarket shelves, plus a nostalgic detour into COVID panic buying, toilet roll madness, and why society would fall apart over the most replaceable things. Send anything and everything you'd like to hear on the pod to TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
August 13 · 1 hr 25 min
Episode 282 w/ Paddy The Dagger
West Belfast comedian Paddy “The Dagger” McDonnell joined the lads this week, and it didn’t take long to find out where the nickname came from. Let’s just say it involves a stag do, a tattoo convention, and a decision his wife definitely didn’t sign off on. Paddy told us about growing up in West Belfast, how getting part of his finger bitten off while working as a doorman somehow led him into comedy, and why that first unexpected seven minute set changed everything. He spoke about going from building sites and taxi driving to selling out arenas, touring the world, and still feeling like there is plenty more to do. And because it’s Paddy, there was no shortage of madness either. We got stories about accidental mushroom soup causing absolute chaos, Belfast names making no sense, taxi passengers asking questions no driver should have to answer and gout ruining Disneyland. Paddy also spoke about his culture and identity, what it was like growing up in a place where there were times he felt he could not fully be himself in certain parts of the north and how much that has changed for the better. This episode was sponsored by Rightstyle Furniture. RIGHT PRICE, RIGHT STYLE, RIGHT NOW. Visit rightstyle.ie Get in touch on TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
August 11 · 24 min
Bonus: Rolling in the Sheila
The Weetabix chat is still haunting the pod, and the emails are coming in hot – from people toasting them with butter and into an absolute horror story after one too many. Then it’s listeners’ questions: swapping lives for a week, warning labels for each other, and would you rather fight one gorilla a month or seven chickens a day. To top it off: getting chased down Christchurch Hill on the weirdest wheel transport possible, a blind ranking of tea-dunking biscuits that nearly starts a war, and talk of a cereal World Cup next week. Send anything and everything you'd like to hear on the pod to TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
August 6 · 56 min
Episode 281 w/ Andrew Hart
Usually he’s behind the cameras making the lads look good, or at least doing his best, but this week GoLoud’s Video Creative Andrew Hart sits down to tell his own story. The lads know Andrew from working with him every week, so they were shocked to hear what he has been carrying behind the scenes. Growing up in rural Offaly, Andrew had a very close bond with his parents, but after years of health struggles in the family, things took a heartbreaking turn when he lost his dad to cancer in 2020. Just a few years later, he also lost his mam after her struggles with grief, addiction and mental health ended in suicide. Andrew spoke with honesty and compassion about losing both parents so close together, and the impact it has had on him as a young man. He also told us how therapy helped him begin to process his grief, and why he wanted to share his family’s story in the hope it might help someone else keep going. This episode contains discussions about grief, addiction, suicide and mental health. If you have been impacted by any of the topics discussed in this week’s episode, support is available: Samaritans: 116 123 Email: jo@samaritans.ie Pieta: 1800 247 247 Text HELP to 51444 HSE Drug and Alcohol Helpline: 1800 459 459 This episode was sponsored by Rightstyle Furniture. RIGHT PRICE, RIGHT STYLE, RIGHT NOW. Visit rightstyle.ie Get in touch on TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
August 4 · 23 min
Bonus: Weetabix Wars
The lads are back with another chaotic one, starting off with moving to Japan tomorrow and how long you’d last in a place where everything actually works. It doesn't take long for a full-blown, studio-shaking argument about how many Weetabix [or is it Weetabick?] a grown man can really eat. Listener emails take over too: there's love all the way from Munich, birthday messages, confusion about who's responsible for the absolute state of public toilets in Dublin and there’s a classic would-you-rather that has the boys imagining an extra leg booting people on Grafton Street or an extra arm robbing everything in sight. Keep sending your questions to TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
July 30 · 1 hr 6 min
Episode 280 w/ Ryan Chaos Curtis
Ryan “Chaos” Curtis returns to the podcast this week, and the progress he has made since his last appearance is unbelievable. Ryan talked to the lads about the work he has been putting in every day since his spinal injury, why he refuses to accept limits, and how the boring, unsexy work is usually the thing that gets you where you want to go. He spoke about learning to move again, training twice a day, wanting to run with his dog again, and why he still has no bad feelings towards MMA despite everything that happened. There was plenty of laughs too, from hospital flashbacks with Terry, childhood performances in the pub, getting abuse online for his Dublin accent, and why nobody from Dublin should ever have to say the word “beige” in public. This episode was sponsored by Rightstyle Furniture. RIGHT PRICE, RIGHT STYLE, RIGHT NOW. Visit rightstyle.ie Get in touch on TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
July 28 · 26 min
Bonus: Caterpillar Boots
Willa and Eric stuck around for the bonus episode and it goes exactly where you’d expect. The lads get hit with would-you-rathers that turn into full debates, like always wearing gloves vs always being on roller skates (including rollerblading into the bedroom backwards), and the appropriate response to seeing someone wearing two different runners. There’s also peak second-hand embarrassment with cards declining, a bus driver singling you out, popping balloons walking into every room for a year, and the ongoing mystery of who ratted Terry out for collecting caterpillars in the flats. Keep sending your questions to TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
July 23 · 57 min
Episode 279 w/ Willa White & Eric Lalor
Good friends and now neighbours Eric Lalor and Willa White joined the lads this week, fresh from launching their new GoLoud podcast House Of Fun. With this amount of energy in one room the conversation quickly went from holy pilgrimages to spice bags, and Eric and Willa talked about getting back behind the mic together. Naturally, this led to chats about what age you are in heaven, kebabs worth travelling for, scam calls, and petal pyramid schemes. We also got some vintage Eric and Willa tales, including stolen runners and post-rave horror stories like falling asleep under a deli counter and playing football when you're definitely not in the state of mind to be on a pitch. This episode was sponsored by Rightstyle Furniture. RIGHT PRICE, RIGHT STYLE, RIGHT NOW. Visit rightstyle.ie Get in touch on TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
July 21 · 34 min
Bonus: Sink the Sink
Siobhán is back in the studio and the lads immediately kick off with the real hard-hitting debate: are you too old to be eating a petit filou at 29 years of age? From there it’s the hard hitting questions, would you rather have a squirrel rob an important item every week or a pigeon follow you around screaming every time you lie? The lads get into search histories vs last 20 photos, “Irish ma’s know everything”, and a full nostalgia spiral into emo bands from the secondary school days. To finish, Adam sends in the most specific would-you-rather ever: sink-to-sink teleporting vs airport-only flying.
July 16 · 55 min
Episode 278 w/ Megan O'Reilly
This week the lads sit down with Megan O’Reilly, who has been making people laugh online with her hilarious rants and stories about everyday life. Megan told us about herself and her four sisters being raised by her dad, who deserves a medal by the sounds of it, and the craic they had growing up in the estates in Blanch. Don’t be fooled though, the neighbours are being thrown under the bus when a zinger about the hosepipe ban is put to her. We found out why she’d be the worst contestant on The Chase, why she doesn’t see herself as a lesbian life coach, and how she’d be made no fool of if she was sucked out of an airplane window. Megan also shared how one work rant led to her making videos online, the confidence it’s given her, and why, thanks to one particular female Irish comedian, stand up comedy could be next, if she can survive the thought of her sisters watching from the crowd. This episode was sponsored by Rightstyle Furniture. RIGHT PRICE, RIGHT STYLE, RIGHT NOW. Visit rightstyle.ie Get in touch on TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
July 14 · 20 min
Bonus: The Bang Of Will Smith's Da Offa You!
Eoin is back in the producer's throne this week and things quickly descend into pistachio flavoured chaos. We finally get to hear what condiment the boys would choose to smell like and what item they NEVER run out of in the gaff. There's an absolutely wild story out of Argentina and Terry has to choose between having a 9 to 5 or prison. His choice will suprise nobody. Keep the questions coming by sending them to TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
July 9 · 55 min
Episode 277 w/Gary Rooney
This week ,for Episode 277, MMA fighter Gary Rooney joins Calvin and Terence for a chat about his upbringing, career and plans for the future. Gary takes it back to growing up on Watling Street flats in the Liberties, how the murder of his cousin shaped him, and how finding MMA and jiu-jitsu as a teenager gave him structure, confidence, and a place to belong. He also chats going pro, the mental switch to being a “professional athlete”, cornering Shauna Bannon in the UFC, becoming one of Ireland’s youngest black belts, and one of his most treasured achievements: Starting Flat Jiu-Jitsu as a real community project. This episode was sponsored by Rightstyle Furniture - RIGHT PRICE, RIGHT STYLE, RIGHT NOW. Visit rightstyle.ie Get in touch on TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
July 7 · 33 min
Bonus: Double Orifices
It’s a bonus episode and the chaos starts immediately: Lauren’s in studio after the infamous stage fall, and the lads waste no time debating what her RIP.ie announcement would’ve been. From there it’s peak Talking Bollox — college exam myths, why tests are a “memory yoke”, and the genuine discovery that you don’t even need a licence to drive a small boat in Ireland (so… TB on the water?). Listener questions bring the heat too: one song on repeat for a backyard ultra, lying in a bath of “anything” for €100k, ginger traits, and the worst possible soundtrack to a scrap.
July 2 · 1 hr 4 min
Episode 276 w/ Blathnaid Raleigh
In 2019 Bláthnaid Raleigh’s life was changed forever when she was raped and violently sexually assaulted by a man she had met on a night out in Galway. She joined us to tell her story, speaking about that night, the strangers who helped her get to the guards, and the long five-year journey through the justice system that followed. Bláthnaid also spoke about the impact it had on her life, finding the strength to keep going, and why she chose to waive her anonymity in the hope of helping others feel less alone. This episode contains discussions about rape, sexual assault, violence and trauma. If you have been impacted by any of the topics discussed in this week’s episode, you can contact the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, no matter where you are in the country: National 24hr Helpline: 1800 77 8888 Email: counselling@rcc.ie Instagram: @dublinrapecrisis Twitter/X: @DublinRCC
June 30 · 25 min
Bonus: Paternity Tests
There's an impromptu quiz that puts the lads geography knowledge to the test, and there are debates about not only the best film to live in, but what defines a film in the first place. Fair City is not a film but somehow The Office is? Ideas for Talking Bollox merch are dreamed up and there's a slip of the tongue that leaves Terence pink and everyone else speechless. Keep sending your questions to TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com
June 25 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 275 w/ Seamus Reynolds
Damien Dempsey made this episode happen - And we're so glad he did! Seamus is a breathwork coach who took us through a few breathing exercises that had us feeling so zen we forgot we were even in the studio before another faster paced one that had us floating. And it's something you can follow along from home too! Seamus is also known as the Mindful Rambler and we can see why, because this chat went everywhere. From discussing why some people struggle with meditation, to his sobriety journey nothing was off limits with Seamus. This episode was sponsored by Rightstyle Furniture - RIGHT PRICE, RIGHT STYLE, RIGHT NOW. Visit rightstyle.ie Get in touch on TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com

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