Talking Bollox Podcast

This week the lads are joined by poet and writer Daragh Fleming, and despite being from Cork, he surprisingly didn’t lead with that!
Daragh has been all over Instagram since his ‘If I Ever Have Boys’ poem went viral, gaining him some unexpected celebrity followers along the way. Growing up, he was more interested in reading than football, to the point that his parents had to sit him down about the cost of his ‘reading habit’.
Behind the poems is a deeply personal story of losing his best friend to suicide at 17, living with depression he didn’t recognise, and finding a way to put words to what was going on in his head. Poetry became a way to connect with himself and others, while questioning the unwritten rules about how boys should grow into men.
It’s not all serious, though, as Daragh proves with his ‘silly goose’ tattoo. He’s also well up for Terry’s challenge of writing a diss poem about Ryan Hennessy.
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Terence ruined Eoin’s Halloween without even being there, and a voice note has him regretting opening his mouth during movie night at home.
Calvin’s giving out about frozen chips and is actually considering a pet shrimp. The middle-class allegations are practically writing themselves. Meanwhile, the world is still asking what simple life experiences Terry has missed out on, and somehow we learn a lot about the bin services around the D1 flats.
The lads try to decide if they’d rather be mistaken for a Dub or a culchie on holidays, and Eoin is asked whether he’d literally have to shoot the messenger if Terry befriended a crow and sent it to his gaff.
There’s also a big debate about the worst sport, with a dismissal of the 'thing with the spinning little fellas' and the lads wondering whether horses would be better off without the jockeys.
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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.
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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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