Talking Bollox Podcast

Science Week 2026 is nearly here (Nov 8th–15th) and this year’s theme is Water: from molecule to ocean — so we flipped the lens inwards to what’s going on inside your own body.
Terence and Calvin are joined by Professor Brendan Egan (DCU) to get stuck into hydration, what sweat and urine can actually tell you, and why “drink to thirst” might be the most boring (and best) advice going.
There’s chat about MMA weight cutting (hot baths, saunas, Epsom salts), electrolytes hype, carb cuts and “water weight”, ice baths vs hot soaks, sea swimming shock, cramp myths, and using sweat as a future performance bio-sensor.
A massive shoutout again to our sponsor, Science Week 2026, running nationwide from November 8th to 15th.
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Tom Grennan joined the lads this week and he may have an English accent, but he's Irish at heart.
Becoming a dad and getting sober have changed everything for Tom, including how he feels about music. Behind his new single Wrapped in Gold is a man finding his way back to himself, picking up the guitar again and making sure the moments that matter don’t pass him by.
From chasing a football career to finding his voice on a karaoke machine, Tom’s journey took him from pub gigs to a festival stage with one of his musical heroes. There’s also the lasting impact of an attack at 18, the pressure to be the biggest character in the room, and the moment with his daughter that made him realise something had to change.
And yes, the lads checked whether singing about razors really did pay off his parents’ mortgage.
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This week’s episode takes us on a journey from Tom Grennan fandom to what we think the soundest animals are, and that’s not even as weird as it gets.
Terence and Calvin are in awe after meeting Tom Grennan, but Calvin has to bring in the big guns to prove some of the mad comments Terence made afterwards. McGinty gives us a good one with a question about your life as a movie, and picking their soundtracks sends Calvin off on another human Shazam spiral.
A question about tarantulas and scorpions has the lads down a rabbit hole of which animals are the soundest, and Terry doesn’t help his caterpillar reputation in the process.
That’s not the only old wound reopened, as Terry is accused of pulling tricks in a skate park in Blanch. Calvin also has an update on the culprit in the €10 Revolut theft that brings up yet another bit of Terry’s wild carry-on.
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The 2 Johnnies made the trip up from Tipperary this week for a long overdue bit of craic with the lads. They didn’t arrive in brown boots, so we were off to a promising start.
There’s no shortage of mad stories, from recording a podcast in their jocks in a roasting car to a guitar smash that left one Johnny finishing the show and the other heading to hospital with part of his finger hanging off. We also found out why their local grave digger is harder to book than Garth Brooks, and why an egg throwing champion is a dangerous man to stand in front of.
Amongst all the carry on, there’s also a very personal story about Johnny Smacks’ son, the hospital staff who looked after him, and how the pair turned their gratitude into something special.
Four lads, two podcasts, and somehow Roddy Collins still manages to get a word in.
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The energy in studio is very chaotic this week and there’s two million quid on offer for eating 700 bananas. Sounds handy enough, until everyone starts doing the maths.
A listener manages to wind Terry all the way up from the other side of the world by saying he bottled a straightener when they were young fellas. We eventually make it to his question about spiders and Calvin wreckons they're all on creatine this year.
The wind ups keep coming when someone mentions taking the plate out of the microwave and neither Terry or Calvin can cope.
There's also talk of Sunday dinners at the "services", drinking milk in public, and kitchen island competitions at Calvin’s daughter’s sleepover.
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