Boyzone's Keith Duffy and Westlife's Brian McFadden joined us this week and took us back to their beginnings and their meteoric rise to fame in the 90's as boybands took over the radios and music charts. Brian told us all about his decision to leave Westlife at the height of their success, and why there's no chance of a reunion. And Keith took us back to a sad time for Boyzone after the passing of Stephen Gately, and how the lads came together to grieve. The two ex-boyband members have now joine...
Sep 12, 2024•49 min
We’re pitting Dublin’s areas against each other in the ultimate game of Top Trumps. Terence has made an overdue apology, and found himself (in an unrelated incident) surrounded by cowboy boots. There’s yet more censorship, as crisps join animals on the banned list, even as the banned list is breached. We hear speculation about strange superstitions, Calvin throws a tantrum, and Terry imagines being thrown from an upstairs window while stuck to a sofa....
Sep 10, 2024•25 min
This episode is as chaotic as you can imagine! Joining us this week are hosts of You Must be Jokin', Eric Lalor and Willa White. From Oasis, to impressions, and of course some of Willa's classic stories - This episode has it all. Willa and Eric take us back to the beginning of their friendship and recall some of their funniest times together in the past 18 years working in comedy. Eric is doing his biggest solo show to date, on the 19th of September in Liberty Hall. Head over to Ticketmaster and...
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 7 min
It’s a week of friction and foolishness, as everything from the content of the bonus episodes, to the ranking of our top questioners, causes heated debate. A heartfelt query about the chance to measure moments of love in life ends up with a foolhardy attempt to gauge how many stairs it would take to reach the moon. A question about suspicious owls in Ireland almost sparks a war. Terence returns from yet another holiday and he’s got a mixed review of Tenerife for us, ranging from mixing with gian...
Sep 03, 2024•27 min
All Ireland winner and Gambling Awareness Trust spokesperson Oisín McConville joined us this week. Growing up in Crossmaglen during The Troubles meant Oisín was used to bombs and army presence – His only escape was football and he threw himself into the sport with great success at both county and club level. When he was just 14 Oisín placed his first bet for 50p. By 17, he was being warned by his local bookie that he would develop a problem if he didn’t stop betting. Oisín didn’t take the advice...
Aug 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Could smelling like spoiled milk verge on a war crime? It’s a surprisingly complicated question. The lads consider who would be their final boss if their lives were a computer game. The extended Power family get in touch to distance themselves from Terence’s never ending devotion to one particularly divisive film. There are stories of odd characters with shady pasts, and a triggered house alarm causing paranoia. Terry escapes the 27 club and wonders who could replace him in the event of his unti...
Aug 27, 2024•26 min
Damien Hernon is the director of Oberstown Children's Detention Campus. He joined us to discuss what a day in Oberstown looks like for the children and for the staff. From education to victim empathy, Damien describes the programmes available, their hands on approach and the challenges of working in the centre. We discuss the progressive mindset the staff take, the negative portrayal of Oberstown in the media as well as some of the success stories of the past occupants....
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr
We fend off a borderline juice fit as Terry rages against accusations he's been doping his height, and a question about picking a Hollywood celebrity sidekick almost costs us a studio (and a lawsuit). Terry is fuming to learn that nuking the moon was once considered, and left reeling by the high stakes strategies of the nuclear powers. A listener question sends us down the road of learning about some very clever tricks to fool some very bad spies, and we have a very disappointing trawl through C...
Aug 20, 2024•28 min
Irish Mauy Thai fighter Craig Coakley joined us this week to explain how being a 'soft child' led him to become the world class scrapper he is today. Craig could have gone down the wrong road like so many from the flats, but once he had his daughter he knew he had to take fighting more seriously and give it all his focus. He told us why he thinks Mauy Thai will be the next big combat sport and why it's so important to be able to release aggression in a healthy way. One of Craig influence's growi...
Aug 15, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Your zingers present us some head scratchers, including a very selective crystal ball, giving you a very specific view into the future; and the choice of rollerblading through life or becoming Kerry’s premier space man. Terence explains his habit of inadvertent intermittent fasting. We find ourselves exploring the world of militarised animals, including robot zombie pigeons, spying cows and bugged cats. There’s the return of the church sex noise anecdote. And Terry’s haphazard film club returns,...
Aug 13, 2024•25 min
While walking to our first ever live show in Liberty hall in March 2022, we bumped into a young lad who was on the way to our gig. That was Ben Williams. We didn’t really know him then, but now everybody knows Ben. In just a couple of years he’s built an audience of over 1 million followers on social media and has branched out to everything from music, boxing, fashion and vodka. Ben told us why he thinks professional boxers are salty over YouTube boxing fights, feeling the pressure going into a ...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Undercover pigeons, AI birds and unfathomably large sea creatures are all boggling Terence’s mind this week. Calvin has a problem with GAA jerseys on holidays, but none with people eating baked beans and marshmallows together. There’s the search for the greatest unmade Irish sporting film, and there’s a formal declaration that Terence has no problems with Bray or Leitrim.
Aug 06, 2024•25 min
Deborah went into care at 11 as she didn’t feel safe at home with her mother. She then went into homeless accommodation at 13 and she told us about the problems and struggles she faced in these environments as a young girl. Deborah got pregnant at 14 years old, when she had her baby she wanted to be able to provide for him and give him a stable upbringing. She done her junior cert, leaving cert and went on to get a college degree in accountancy. She went on to be names one of the Forbes 30 under...
Aug 01, 2024•1 hr 1 min
After a weekend in a time warp at UFC 304 in Manchester, the lads are feeling a little delicate, but satisfied, and they return home to a big shout out coming their way from the Olympics. Another listener has come for Terry and his dog, and it’s thrown Terence completely off course. We hear about a world record setting restaurant in Dublin, and weigh up the chances of getting through life causing minimal negative thoughts in others. And Terence is deeply uncomfortable with the plot of one partic...
Jul 30, 2024•28 min
From cage warriors to the UFC, Ian Machado Garry has dominated in MMA since his first professional fight in 2019. He speaks to us about choosing to drop out of college to devote everything to training and how he feels about comparisons to Conor McGregor. Ian is 8-0 in the UFC at the moment, but he’s still not happy and he explained why he’s lost sleep over his last fight even though it was a win. He also told us why he wants to take on Shavkat Rakhmonov next and how he wants to prove his talents...
Jul 25, 2024•56 min
What's the worst lie you've ever been caught out in? Terence has made a number of outlandish claims on this very podcast and yet his answer is new to us all. Both Calvin and Terence are curious about the implications of traveling through time and whether a potential time machine would allow them the privilege of attending their own live shows. And they wonder how long it would take to climb down one of Dublin's most well known landmarks - Although the fear of heights they possess might delay the...
Jul 23, 2024•29 min
Ryan is the lead singer of the hugely successful Picture This. He spoke to us about how he first realised he had a musical talent when he was 18 and forced to sing for his music class in school. When his song 'Take My Hand' went viral and the band shot to fame almost overnight Ryan's life changed, and although he sometimes struggles with self confidence, he believes he is where he's meant to be. Ryan's hometown of Athy and the council estate he grew up in might have a bad name, but he told us ab...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Terence and Calvin are left dazzled by the miracle of competitive walking, as they realise just how fast its possible to go with one foot on the ground. Calvin considers trying for Olympic gold in the bunking event, and Terry ponders if he could accept that a very public backflip into the Liffey might be the lesser of two evils. One listener gives us a range of choices for different types of glory, and John Cena’s musical achievements come in for harsh scrutiny. And we are left with no choice bu...
Jul 16, 2024•26 min
Comedian John Colleary, perhaps best known for playing a guard in Hardy Bucks, joined us this week for an episode full of laughs - Including one of the best stories about interacting with a Garda that we've ever heard on the podcast. He told us all about getting started in comedy and why so many comedians are actually quite shy and socially awkward until they step on stage. John worked with David McSavageon on The Savage Eye and he reminisced on making the show and he told us why you wouldn’t ge...
Jul 11, 2024•57 min
There’s a significant, and long awaited, moment on the bonus episode this week, as Terence arrives in the studio with some major news. Warning: There is a film mentioned here and after that point it's full of spoilers. (And Calvin has no sympathy for anyone caught off guard by this one.) Calvin is understandably very impressed with moonwalking horses, and the lads consider their easiest route to an Olympic gold medal - with Terence wondering if a bit of training could have him challenge for the ...
Jul 09, 2024•21 min
Danny joins us to discuss his meteoric rise in music from writing songs for TLC to pay his electricity bills to selling out 5 consecutive nights in the 3arena - All in spite of the fact that he failed music in school. He opens up about his struggles and hardships of losing his band mate and best friend Mark Sheehan and how he can still feel his presence on stage. We discuss the new direction the band is now taking without Mark and how they are trying to honour his legacy by creating new music. T...
Jul 04, 2024•1 hr 9 min
The consequences of half a haircut or a life with just one shoe are weighed up, while Terence has been doing some very refined snacking in local coffee shops. A listener’s question sends us on a journey through the disturbing world of people living in your attic (a recently unlocked fear for Calvin), and the now long-standing tradition of listeners threating Terence has spread to even the most professional arenas. Terence threatens to take a juice fit as Calvin doubts his tales of clean living a...
Jul 02, 2024•25 min
Dr. Austin O'Carroll is a GP in the inner city where he has spent his career caring for the homeless and providing services for addiction, along with all the daily tasks of a busy clinic. He spoke to us about how poverty and trauma affect your health and can decrease your life expectancy by 20 years. Growing up with a disability due to Thalidomide, a medication available to pregnant women in the 60's which caused birth defects, Austin was told he wouldn't be able for the physical demands of the ...
Jun 27, 2024•1 hr
Terence Power is ready to shock the world with a pair of runners, and he wants to be tried in the court of public opinion. We have some summer themed queries, with a lifetime of sandy feet up for debate. We get some questionable but entertaining facts from one listener, Terence puts some thought into what he would permanently mark Calvin with, and the saga of Terence’s debated height continues.
Jun 25, 2024•28 min
Ibrahim Alagha and his young family were on a trip from Ireland visiting family in Gaza when war broke out on October 7th 2023. As the bombs dropped around them, he made the risky decision to move his family further south to Khan Yunis where he thought they would be safer. They sheltered in his father’s home for 50 days while waiting to get home to Ireland. That house in Khan Yunis has since been destroyed and the 90 people who took refuge there have now been displaced once again. Ibrahim told u...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Calvin arrives into the studio looking for trouble and Terence is planning a big birthday bash for his dog. We hear another shocking descent into middle classism from Terry, while it seems Calvin may beyond help on that score. Calvin has been hanging around with international comedy big hitters, and entertaining them on Seán McDermott Street. There’s faint memories of fried bread and a flurry of questions around toast. And a listener has a tale of an excruciating public humiliation that drags up...
Jun 18, 2024•28 min
Now that Terry's taken up the gym, we thought it would be the ideal time to get performance nutritionist Tony O'Neill on to talk us through some fitness and wellbeing dos and don'ts . He told us why fasting doesn't work for him but could work for others and explained why sustainability is the most important thing in a fat loss journey. He doesn't believe in hacks but offers lots of great advice and motivation to get you to the gym, for your head if not for your body. Tony grew up in Belfast duri...
Jun 13, 2024•1 hr 23 min
After asking for dilemmas from the listeners, Terence is unhappy to find himself offering relationship advice and defining infidelity in this week's bonus. Thankfully, there were some more traditional zingers in the mix too, including the most controversial of all: Is it window-sill or window-still? Calvin's cleaning habits are exposed and the lads wonder if it's better to be able to change the past or predict the future? Send your questions (or dilemmas!) to TalkingBollox@GoLoudNow.com...
Jun 11, 2024•28 min
It's just the two lads this week as Terence relives his Forbidden Fruit experience and explains why he had a "trauma response" that meant he blocked out one of Nelly Furtado's best songs. Calvin also missed out on his event this weekend after sleeping through almost an entire wedding. A previously unknown phobia of salt and vinegar crisps gets revealed and a realisation that we are all living in the future is made after the discovery of wifi connected coffee machines. And as the Leaving Cert (an...
Jun 06, 2024•54 min
Why does Calvin have Front Seat Im Taxi PTSD? Calvin struggles hard with this week's nickname suggestion and makes his feelings VERY clear about it. Eoin has a toast related question for the lads that almost causes a meltdown and they get into it about the eight films that Michael Owen has ever watched. It's not a bad list in fairness. Also ever hear of Joe Quinn Phoenix? Well you're about to.
Jun 04, 2024•28 min
