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Talking Bollox Podcast

Bonus: Red Strings and Red Marbles

02 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What lesson does Terence learn about taking risks?

31.402 - 39.261 Calvin

Yeah, I was in Thalley yesterday. Oh, my God. I can't go over how far away that is. How do people live in Thalley? Yeah, it's far away.

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39.461 - 44.854 Unknown

But imagine back in the day when there was no Lewis or nothing. Oh, my God. It's so, so far away.

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44.969 - 61.613 Calvin

Are we in? Yeah. Oh God. Leave that in. Leave it in. People in Tally. We salute you. Yeah. How do people in Tally associate with people from town? Because it's just so far away. Like, I don't associate with people from Tipperary because I've had no connection to them because they're so far. Same with Tally.

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61.633 - 66.399 Terrence

What did the lads in Clonmel do to you? Why are you bringing up Tipperary, bro?

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66.419 - 74.571 Calvin

Because it's far, bro. They're cousins down there, bro. It's far. What? And when was the last time you heard from them? A long time ago, I must say. I pushed her to go off a wall for a moment.

76.238 - 86.453 Unknown

It's so far. It's really, really, really far. Yeah. There's a fort. Where's Llewkin? Fort Erringen. Yeah. Do you know how I knew it was far? Yeah.

86.713 - 104.199 Calvin

Do you know how I knew it was far? We were driving through Talley and there was a sign saying Llewkin this way. Dublin that way. Yeah. So how are you in Dublin? And there's a sign saying Dublin is that way. Yeah. So fuck Llewkin anyways. But yeah. How are you Siobhan? What do you mean no neighbour? Nah, there's no neighbour.

104.219 - 104.92 Siobhan

Luke is lovely.

105.381 - 105.761 Calvin

Is he? Yeah.

Chapter 2: How does Calvin connect coincidences to the red string theory?

169.016 - 169.737 Calvin

How did that come about?

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170.018 - 171.079 Siobhan

My friend lives in Lucan.

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171.5 - 171.7 Calvin

Right.

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172.06 - 174.023 Siobhan

So she does it. Right.

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174.744 - 178.909 Calvin

So she said to you, do you want to do the park run? How did you know you had the time? You have to ask.

179.125 - 179.606 Siobhan

You never know.

179.886 - 181.148 Calvin

And we're so busy, aren't we?

181.348 - 182.31 Siobhan

You have kids and all.

182.59 - 185.574 Calvin

Yeah, but you make time to do stuff.

Chapter 3: What scary experiences does Calvin share about his attic?

356.821 - 359.465 Terrence

Yeah, like, how is this real? Yes. But go on, yeah.

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359.485 - 367.254 Calvin

A lot of times, but, do you know what I mean? I think the Red String Theory contradicts that and says there's no such thing as a coincidence, everything happens for a reason. Something like that. Yeah. I'm hoping for the correction.

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367.595 - 384.137 Calvin

But in this one, it was a couple and they were getting married and they're looking for pictures from when they were kids for their wedding day and it's her and her brother at Disneyland with, like, one of the characters. And they're flicking through and the man goes, that looks like me dad. Some fella in the background pushing a pram, right? And that was Grant.

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384.457 - 398.198 Calvin

And he flicks through and the man goes, no, go back. That's the image of me dad. And he's pushing the pram and he goes, that actually looks like me as a baby. He rang his ma and it was in like 1980. And he rang his ma and he goes, when did we go to Disneyland? And she goes, oh, 1980. And he goes, have you got any pictures? And she's like, yeah.

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398.218 - 414.349 Calvin

And he goes, will you go through and tell me what me dad's wearing? And he's like, oh, he's wearing this or blah, blah, blah. It was him in the background of his wife's picture from Wendy Watkins. Isn't that mad? Right? I've one of them, but not as glamorous as that one. I'm in the background of Amy's pictures in Oxygen 2013.

416.135 - 417.316 Siobhan

So much less romantic.

417.616 - 419.598 Calvin

We were camped beside each other in Oxygen 2013.

419.718 - 429.988 Terrence

Yeah, now that's making it a bit more because like, I'd imagine we've all been in the same kind of facinities as our partners and just didn't know they were there.

Chapter 4: What injury does Terence sustain during the podcast?

430.008 - 440.557 Terrence

Because like, if there's a festival in Ireland, Ireland's fucking small. And if you're on your board, like fucking live music isn't going to the festival. So you've most likely been there, but if your seniors were beside each other, then that's weird.

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441.278 - 464.228 Calvin

We came up with this years ago, but I remember saying, When we were camping down there, there was a big gang of us. There was well over 20 of us camping together. And I remember beside us there was a flag with Roy Cain on it. So we used to tell everyone, we're at the Roy Cain flag. And we were having this conversation and Amy was like, we were at that Roy Cain flag. And I was like, what?

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464.829 - 482.663 Calvin

So they were literally to the right of us. And, like, in all her pictures, her and all her mates, and, like, you can see us in the background. That's mad. That is mad, yeah. They heard us. Do you know what I mean? That's how close we were. They heard us. Yeah, that's mad. That is mad. Like, you could have camped anywhere. And I remember that year, the campsites were fucking huge.

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482.703 - 493.434 Calvin

Like, we were watching people fighting miles away. And when the security were running, we were like, by the time the security gets up there, that fight's going to be stopped. You know what I mean? That's how big it was. So they could have camped anywhere, and they camped right beside us.

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493.674 - 504.488 Terrence

Yeah, that's mad, yeah. I'll give you that. It is a little bit more dramatic than I thought. Yeah, what do you think? No, I thought it was about just an auction. I was like, yep, well done. Red string, dirty, yep.

504.708 - 510.457 Calvin

Yeah. That definitely works. Terrence was like, do you know me and my board have one of them as well. We're both from Dublin.

511.118 - 511.438

Yeah.

511.599 - 516.346 Calvin

Always in Dublin at the same time as your board, not mad.

518.008 - 538.279 Terrence

Yeah. Anyways, yeah, I do think some coincidences I'm at. Damo's one last week was crazy. We are one singing the song. That's one of them where you're like, that's like, the hell was that like? And Damo's not a lawyer, you know? You know Damo doesn't lie like, you know what I mean? Yeah, like how did she sing that song at that time? Very strange.

Chapter 5: What hypothetical scenario involving marbles do they discuss?

766.455 - 778.237 Calvin

Don't point that at me, look. You had less things going for you. Ha! And I'm nearly sure he was going to take 30 something of the gambles.

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778.778 - 782.203 Terrence

And if it's a million, I'll be like, you'll take 20 marbles.

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782.623 - 793.438 Calvin

20? 20? What if you took out one, would you not be happy? No. Your brown bread, your humble ground up without a da, Jordan without the bits in the gaff and not a cent out of it.

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793.458 - 803.134 Terrence

But listen, listen. There's 99 million in the bag. Why only 120? I don't think you understand how probability works. No, but do you know what I'm saying?

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803.715 - 821.76 Calvin

I know what you're saying, but I don't think you understand. If I take 20 marbles, one in five chance of death. I don't think it works like that. So one in 100 chance of dying. Yes. You take one marble out and you get it right. Yeah. There's now 99 marbles. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think it keeps going proportionally like that though.

821.78 - 826.748 Terrence

But roughly speaking, I won't be too far off. it'll be one in five.

826.768 - 834.438 Calvin

For example, if I flip a coin, what's the odds I get heads? See, I'd say 50-50 and you'd say, I watched the film where the fella said this.

834.458 - 837.883 Terrence

50-50, yeah. You announced I was speaking in metrics and all.

837.903 - 853.73 Calvin

Yeah, because that's true. Yeah, but I don't believe it. If I flip a coin, yeah, and it's heads. Yeah. So, I flip a coin the second time, what's the odds on it's going to be heads again? Don't know. I'd say 50-50. Right. And then the third time I do it. 50-50. Right.

Chapter 6: How do the hosts perceive risk in their marble scenario?

973.66 - 976.624 Unknown

I'm at the drop from 20 to 13. You said 13.

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976.845 - 982.252 Terrence

Yeah, it was 20 to start with. Bro, you were 93 to start with. I got excited.

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982.272 - 989.442 Calvin

I got excited with 93. But you know what, Earl? Sorry. If you did get to 93, you can't stop. You might as well just keep going.

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989.783 - 1000.178 Terrence

Oh, I don't know about that. I don't know about that. Like, if you said to me there's seven marbles in a bag and one of them is red, I'll take three. I'll take three marbles.

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1000.198 - 1002.141 Calvin

Can you imagine turning some deal on no deal?

1002.481 - 1002.822

Yeah.

1003.183 - 1005.086 Siobhan

I never understood how no deal worked.

1005.146 - 1023.195 Calvin

I didn't know it was every time. I didn't either, right? And then when, like I kind of copped on when I was old enough. It's like you're literally just opening boxes, yeah? I think what's the best one? It's like 250 grand. You have your own box. So you have to open all the low ones, like 1p, 10p, 1 pound, yeah? Which means then... they're all out of play.

1023.215 - 1041.537 Calvin

So the odds on you having a box with a high number and it increases. So they're saying, look, we'll give you five grand. And you'd be like, no, I have higher than that in my box. And then you have to open all the boxes then. People open a box that's 10 grand, everyone's like, oh, and it's like, it's okay, it's okay. What are you talking about? This is the worst game show ever.

Chapter 7: What coincidences do the hosts reflect on from their past?

1151.471 - 1157.361 Calvin

O.B.P. Holding it down. Trying to hold it together. I'm just putting filler content in here.

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1157.381 - 1158.603 Terrence

I'm actually not the better at that.

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1158.623 - 1167.498 Calvin

I'm not that nice. I could have cut it out. No, leave it in. Leave it in. Someone will probably hear that and be like, yeah, that's a good video. I'm going to watch it now. I can't believe it.

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1167.518 - 1169.1 Terrence

It was more painful than you think as well.

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1169.301 - 1169.962 Calvin

I think you should take 15.

1170.222 - 1175.302 Terrence

It's a fright you get. It was more of a fright that I got.

1175.823 - 1186.42 Siobhan

Right, Arianna has a question. She wants to know what game show you think you'd be most successful at and enjoy the most. She said she'd love to see Terrence on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here doing the Eaton trials.

1186.721 - 1187.762 Terrence

With the everything there handy.

1188.103 - 1191.048 Siobhan

Yeah, she says it could end with you eating a natural caterpillar in real life.

Chapter 8: What humorous questions do listeners send in for the hosts?

1387.371 - 1389.395 Calvin

Unless you got a helicopter and someone dropped you down.

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1389.716 - 1391.819 Terrence

You can't grow up there. I'd pick somewhere in Antarctica, bro.

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1392.14 - 1392.34 Calvin

Yeah?

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1392.841 - 1398.691 Terrence

Just can't imagine that the footprint, like, if you had a heat map of footprints, surely it's not flooded.

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1398.711 - 1409.649 Calvin

I'm only thinking there'll be parts of the attic that you can't stand on because you go through the ceiling. Yeah. Yeah, Tyrone's in my attic, yeah, and he threatened me. Did I? Yeah, remember I knocked the light off?

1410.17 - 1416.741 Terrence

Don't mess like that, either. Because there is a Jesus statue up there as well. So? So? You got a free.

1417.278 - 1444.146 Calvin

I just put you in an attic Turn the lights off And you're beside Jesus there And you're telling me You're just going to sit there Well you're not beside Jesus Before the lights were off Like I don't think The Jesus thing gets scarier With the lights on or off I don't I definitely don't Not like it just appeared It does Not like it just appeared Everything gets 10 times scarier With the lights off Everything in the world I haven't done that in a while It felt right It was good I didn't know

1444.902 - 1448.768 Calvin

Yeah, man, it's a bit scary. I was up showing him the attic, yeah? And then I was getting down.

1448.908 - 1451.813 Siobhan

Why? What was happening? Why were you getting shown the attic?

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