Potholes & Penguins: Recent Episodes
Barry Murphy & Andrew Trimble
It's 6 Nations week and we take this serious. Join us as we discuss Delilah, Gatland, Tattoos and the empty space on Jonny's wall.
We’re joined by Ultimate Hell Weeks Marc O’Neil to talk about stripping around the world to being exploited on Big Brother to becoming a scientist and Winning Hell Week.
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On the full episode we are also joined by the latest addition to our Penguin gang, Mr Dennis Fogarty. Fogs will bring some well needed bulk to our gang as well as funny voices, more pubes and an actual insight into the current goings on in Rugby.
On today’s show we’re joined by Peter Stringer who tells us all about Hell Week. Strings lifts the veil on how he conquered the course, how he gets bodies through airport security, why he turned down Human Growth Hormones as a child and the emotional differences between Cardiff 2006 and Spike Island 2021. We also try to count his abs but run out of fingers.
Barry & Trimby tell us all about their final battle in Hell & Laura Nolan joins us to give an insight into what it took for her to blow through her own physical and mental expectations.
Barry, Trimby and Dermie are joined by Hell Week's most orderly of Sergeants Deric “The Weatherman” Hartigan. The lads discuss leadership, punches in the balls, the art of hugging and menstruation. Deric has been a star of Hell Week & it was a pleasure to talk through all his highlights on the show 🚀
We dive into Hell Week again with more Helicopters, Dead Drops, Bangers, Ice Wells, Burning Buildings and Blood sweat and tears. We’re joined by Rory O’Connor aka Rorys Stories who gives a wonderful insight into his experience on Hell Week so far and how it felt to bare his emotions to the nation over the last 2 Episodes. Full Show on Patreon
On today’s show we dive head first back into Hell with the one and only Anna Caplice. Fresh off celebrating winning the Interpros with Munster & on her Birthday week Anna takes us through her experience in Hell. Trimby survives and counts his blessings as well as the puke in his pockets while Barry gets in a karate fight with the Holy Spirit.
Hell Week Ep 1 & as expected Barry takes it way too seriously, Trimby gets distracted by a fart & Strings has his top off for most of the show. Donegals All Ireland winning Footballer Eamon McGee tells us how much of a pussy his wife thinks he is for not jumping out of a Helicopter & how devastated he was to let Darren O’Sullivan beat him. We look forward to next weeks show where Sally Rooney is drafted in as exec producer to make the whole thing a bit sexier
Hello Penguins we hope you’re all well and the summer has been good to ye. So as you all probably know Barry and Trimby have taken part in this years Ultimate Hell Week on RTE one which starts this Wednesday at 9.30pm. The show runs for the next 6 weeks and each week we will have a guest on from the show to dissect our experience with them in Hell. We will release these interviews free to air but the full episodes will still remain on our Patreon page. Thanks to all Patrons for your continued support it means so much to us and allows us have a Dermy and continue doing what we love to do. Here’s our introduction to Hell Week from this weeks show where we go through one by one all the heroes who we went to Hell with and what you can expect from the show. Sound 🚀
On today’s episode we regret to announce after a short 3 test illness the death has occurred of Rugby Union (ní professional mens only). Survived by loving partner World Rugby, Children namely Women’s Rugby, Under 20’s, Schools and mini’s, friends and colleagues alike. May he rest in eternal peace. Removal from Thomand park on Thursday at 6 and mass on the internet on Friday. Family flowers only
We are live from Belfast, touching, caressing and sniffing each other and it is glorious. We are in a Lions frenzy as we prepare to board a flight to Edinburgh for the first game of the Lions series against Japan. We talk misleading media headlines, Irish 7’s success, Lions squad permutations and what it would be like if Pat Lam smashed your face off a Jukebox. Off we go 🕳🐧🚀
Congrats to the Irish 7’s team on qualifying for the Olympics well you heard it here first! We had the main man Harry McNulty on the show last week and it’s pretty clear how much this meant to him and that special group of players. Full episode over on our Patreon page
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Season finale! We wrap up our first season by looking forward to a year of Blockbuster films, a Lions Series and the death of fragile masculinity. Who makes our Lions 15? That’s right we don’t really care for that but we’ll play along.
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On today’s show we go through the top 5 Ronan O’Gara moments that don’t end up in getting his head kicked in or pissing off the Queen. We dive into Leinster and Ulster’s European shortcomings, finalise our Lions squads and Mike Prendergast joins us from Paris to be anointed as a Hero for the Energia AIL 🕳🐧🚀
Join us this week as Barry brings us on a weird and wonderful pilgrimage around the River Shannon. He recounts the many encounters of the journey including the baptism of Paulie by Pat the Baptist. Why Graham Rowntree is the latest to get a trucker hat & absolutely 'love it'. Trimby's Silly Little Bit welcomes the less thrilling rivalry emerging from last weekend. 🕳🐧🚀
On this weeks show we tiptoe around Ireland getting hammered by France like you would if you saw someone fall over but knew they were ok and you were in a rush so you kept going. As its Oscar's week we give our two cents on some of the nominees & are joined by 9 time AIL winner Andrew Thompson. 🕳🐧🚀
On today’s show Trimby gets ratty about being slagged and takes it out on Munster and Prince Phillip. Meanwhile Barry designs a water park on Robben island while Dermy imagines what it would be like to go out with the sister of the top points scorer in AIL history.
On today’s show we imagine what life would be like if we convinced ROG to return to Ireland. Failing that maybe we could bottle him and spray him on our clothes to inspire us all and make us more successful. We dive into our highlights from the weekends European rugby and welcome a new hero of the AIL from Trinity college Dublin.
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We hold a vigil for Munster rugby and imagine a world where instead of being massacred by Leinster they flame-throw their way to victory. Trimbys expert analysis suggests cloning Leinster is the only option and we introduce our first hero of the All Ireland league.
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To celebrate Ireland’s win over England we celebrate the obvious class things Ireland did the not so obvious things. Trimby tells us of a not so welcome return of a family member and Barry dreams of Johnny Wilkinson being his local cannabis supplier. We also pick our starting Lions 23 after a cracking finish to the Guinness 6 nations. 🕳🐧🚀
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Like Prince Akeem of Zamunda in Coming to America, Ireland needed to go to Murrayfield today and find themselves. And like Eddie Murphy in that film, if Tadhg Furlong could have played every position himself today we’d have hammered them. We shallow end flop into the weekend of 6 nations, discuss slagging etiquette and put our hands up for specialist coaching of the Irish team.
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On this week's show Trimby compares being an ulster fan to that of Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York. It starts with creative genius, continues with inspirational hope and ultimately finishes with shooting yourself in the face. Barry joins us in the middle of his 4x4x48 challenge run where he hopes to grow a moustache as powerful as Donal Lenihan's and have similar width of hip.
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Today’s show is all about instinct. How instinctive is a tweet or French refs bias or Italy being shite and loads more. We bring our analysis to another level with an actual stat and give our ratings on the Irish players after round 3 of the 6 nations. Shannon RFC’s Davey Quinlan joins us to tell us all about Craig Casey’s Dads rise to Twitter fame.
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On today’s show Alan Queeny tries to get us cancelled but instead we renounce the Monarch & will only take things seriously if it involves getting into nightclubs for free. Trimby looks at Craig Casey like a plastic bag in the wind and we commit to running 50 miles in as many hours for some unknown reason. 🕳🐧🚀
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Wales are Red, France are Blue, Ireland or Italy for the wooden spoon. We dissect Ireland’s narrow loss to France and where we go from here. Its a heartbreaking Valentine’s Day for Irish rugby but sure we can at least take comfort in knowing crucifixions are completely out of fashion
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In the year of our lord 2021 Penguins of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, waddled the fields of Twickenham. They fought like Barry on yokes, they fought like Scotsman and won their freedom forever. Or until next week when they get beaten by Wales. In other news Paul O’Connell has Billy Burns Hung drawn and quartered while Peter O’Mahony now lives in a tower like Robert the Bruce’s ould lad who had leprosy.
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On today’s show God visits Barry and offers him a €4 pint in the Galwegians Club house if he keeps his shit together for 2 more months. Trimby may have beat the All Blacks but can he build a Patio? The answer is no. We have Darragh Fanning on to tell us why Mary’s are sound and Dermie sorts through all the latest correspondence.
On today’s show we discuss the difference between snow day in Munster & snow day in Leinster, the striking similarities between the lives of Britney Spears & Johnny Sexton & how a visit to A&E makes Barry very unhorny
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On today’s show we predict roaring 20’s levels of craic when all this ends. Barry and Trimby take on Richard Harris and Peter O’Toole as mentors while Dermy takes to expressive painting in a field with a bodhrán and the sounds of frolicking foxes. We have Garryowen stalwart Paul Nevil on to talk AIL Rugby and how he made an Oscar winning actor cry.
On today’s show Dermy the shamanic bodhrań boy helps us visualise the Lions 3rd test in Croke park thanks to the new President of Ireland Paul O’Connell single handedly vaccinating the entire island. Trimby tackles Trump, Twitter and hair bands while Barry bores us to death with his latest hot tips on how to last lockdown
On today’s show Barry gives us his 5 top tips on getting through lock down 3 while Trimby rolls out a new vaccine called the 'Sportsground Vaccine' . We focus our attention on Cork Constitution RFC and are joined by current forwards coach and former Munster Hooker Denis Fogarty who tells us why they’re the most hated club in Ireland and reminds Trimby what it sounds like to be dropped by Declan Kidney.
Welcome to our Bumper Christmas cracker end of year episode.
This weeks full episode is available only on PATREON. We give our rugby awards of the year and then discuss how wearing a suit will finally get your family to take you seriously, a briefcase full of pubes, Trimby finds moments of peace, mass, 20x20 vision, Irish players playing club rugby abroad being picked for Ireland, the big Christmas Lego build, the baby jawsus, Will Addison, Marcel Coetzee drama and how excited we are for the rainbow cup.
As lockdown flies toward us like a tin of paint Kevin Macalister has lobbed off the 2nd floor landing, come join us for a song, a laugh, a look back at the champions cup games and a preview of the up coming inter pros. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.
Today’s show is a roller coaster folks. We find out what makes us laugh, cry, scares the bejaysus out of us and made Shane McGowan sober up for the first time in 40 years. We look back at a bumper weekend of Champions cup rugby and Trimby discovers that ginger the cat may have had an accomplice.
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On this weeks show Trimby predicts what life will be like for Potholes and Penguins in 2030. We try to decide who is Irelands greatest ever winger and what 5 players we would choose for a penalty shoot out. We also look ahead to the Champions cup fixtures and how a green alien with boobs, a Willy and a sword holds the key to watching all those games on-line.
Do we need Andy to be a bit more Ferrel with his game plan? Has Mike Catt become too domesticated and forgotten how to attack like a wild animal? Shane Horgan gives us a passionate and stirring view on where the Irish team stands. We also look at the correlation between being coached by Joe Schmidt and Mr Miyagi.
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On today’s show we do our best not to mention the G word. No not Gowl, Georgia. So instead we talk about exploding wasps, Johnny May as a rejected Olympic skeletonian, birthdays in 2020 and how sick family members would be such a ball ache if Aliens landed.
Trimby gets all excited as Daddy Humphs joins us to talk about his current role with Georgia ahead of their game against Ireland on Sunday. We ask him how he developed such a vast variety of skills as a player and reminisce on how Jonah Lomu rained on his parade in Lansdowne road in 2001. There’s also a big reveal as Humphs and Trimby disclose which Ulster player caused a management investigation after a “David Humphreys” parody account was created on Twitter.
On today’s show we discuss how just like D-day at Normandy, Ireland’s attacking operation was blasted into smithereens while Maro Itoje danced on the corpses of our fallen foreigners. We also compare the loss to Prince Charles’ relationship with the duke of Edinburgh while Captain James Ryan serenades his team mates with Boys to Men’s hit song 'End of The Road'.
Feddy talks to us about the importance of Argentina’s win over the All Blacks, how time travellers placed Einstein, Galileo & Pablo Matera on Earth to influence mankind. We tackle sensitive topics like kicking Bret Cobain up the arse and becoming the Che Guevara of cutting off clamps in The University of Limerick. He’s a mad bastard
On today’s show we discuss what Kevin Bacon might do if he was in charge of the All Blacks, how Conor Murray could be the most obvious heir to the Irish number 10 throne and how Gillian Anderson might make us fantasise about shifting Maggie Thatcher.
On today’s show we Pothole Pauly on his love of Golf, his thoughts on what makes Schmidt, Rassie and Gatland such good coaches and the positive life lessons learned from playing rugby abroad. Mick Galway makes a welcomed appearance for a well-oiled team talk at half time in Perpignan and we hear how a lad in a pair of Connacht Bermuda shorts crashed his wedding in the south of France.
On this weeks show: America’s new dawn lowers the chances of alternate endings to Jaws, Indiana Jones & Batman. How a fur coat & a pair of sexy Knickers could be the answer to Ireland’s full back issues. We also discuss the brilliant new South African World Cup winning documentary “Chasing the sun” & why we’ve decided they’re better off leaving the Southern hemisphere.
We were pure delighted to chat to Ireland & Munster Rugby Player & Tackle Your Feelings ambassador, CJ Stander on this weeks 'Weekly Pothole'.
Topics discussed include; farming prowess, the joys of socialising over a fire, pressing the reset button in South Africa, being told he wasn't big enough for SA rugby, that time he became a 2nd hand car salesman, his experience of life in Ireland, the level of slagging required to survive in Munster, how Barry O'Mahony taught him how to use the immersion,
Boerewors sausages and where to get them, looking ahead to future Munster squads and how he tackles his feelings.
This week’s show, recorded on Sunday evening following Irelands loss to France in the Six Nations. Topics include; how to avoid Electric fences on midnight ramblings, Christmas movies worth missing training for, shooting potato guns into your neighbours garden, Christmas cards, Stockdale -V- keyboard warriors, we go full tit Les Miserables, DuPont as a human Ken Doll, the importance of schedules for navigating long days of sport, Trimby marrying Joe Schmidt and future possible Irish team line ups.
The weekly pothole of the Irish Rugby team with Kodaline’s Vinny May Junior. A last minute brain storm on how we can bate the French and score 4 tries. The lost art of smiling to over power your nemesis, Keith Earls fav place to eat in Paris, Vinny gives Trimby some drumming tips and tells us about playing frisbee with Macklemore, recording the latest Kodaline album and how he’s loving fatherhood.
This week’s show, recorded late on Sunday takes the tone of a late night radio DJ playing Savage Garden, Prince and Elton John between providing love life advice to strangers. We discuss, through the medium of song, what Garry Ringrose will and wont do. Additionally, we consider the types of dogs Ireland’s new caps resemble, and how Barry, dressed as a chicken, pathed the way for Tom Court to become a Lion.
This week we have the potholing of the Irish team announcement with special guest Mr. Andy Dunne. We discuss; The difference between Farrell & Schmidt. How Hugo Keenan can run for days and days without food or water. Jacob Stockdale being the Game Changer Player operating under a coach that understands the psychology of a player that needs to express himself. How you wouldn't buy a car that has a had 162 successful breakdowns. We also dip our toes in the nostalgic essence of 90s schoolboy rugby.
On today’s show, we launch our new members club ‘Penguin Status’ on Patreon. We reminisce about the time Jonah Lomu won the All-Ireland with Clare in 95. We also consider that with Finn Russell, you gotta take the whole package! We discuss selection for the 6 Nations this week and chat with the Kerry man who ordered half a dozen NFL balls on Amazon, got accepted into a punting academy in Melbourne and now has a football scholarship in Georgia!! Also, Barry Miyagi provides a hot pubic take on creativity.
We were pure happy to talk to Munster’s exciting young scrum half Craig Casey on the eve of his first ever call up to the Irish squad. We covered loads of interesting topics, including;
his relationship with the weird and wonderful Ben Healy,
his father being the oldest ball boy in world rugby,
his ambitions to play for Ireland,
the rich history of Rugby talent pumping through his veins - especially his uncle St. Maurice of the Lawler’s and his abilities to perform rugby miracles.
On this weeks show we discuss one of the all time great Bledisloe cup games, how marketing is the work of the devil, how Andy Farrell will deal with the spanners being thrown at him and how holding hands could have solved the McGregor and Mayweather fall out.
This week Trimby sits down with Gareth Steenson to discuss
how he's trying to avoid COVID whilst trying to win the double.
How Cottage Cheese helped him play well into his 30s.
Exeter’s values of the type of person over the type of player.
Owning ‘The Stand Off’ bar in Exeter. Trying to get Ferris to drink Guinness.
They also discuss Tommy Bowes accession from space cadet to prolific tv presenter & winning a golden boot at a World Cup.
On this weeks show we discuss cross dressing as an old Chinese lady. Ben Healy returns from his gap year in Greece to stab Munster straight in the heart with pure adrenaline. We look towards Andy Farrell’s starting 15 and how best to best get rid of bastardin’ crows out of your chimney.
On this weeks show our special guest is Ireland and Harlequin's Anna Caplice who graces us with a self penned song on the ukulele. We also ask the difficult questions in life like what would Teddy Iribaren do if someone broke into his house to use his dishwasher and what would you do if you saw a ghost of a loved one who’d been killed by 'Nanas Purple Dildo?'
This week Barry & Dermie pothole Tipperary's finest/Parisian adopted son - Mr Donnacha Ryan. We join Donnacha as he relaxes at home with the backdrop of the Paris evening sun burning in his window. We regail old tales of fitness sessions with bags full of shpuds, learning how to drive a scooter around Paris and earning your stripes in life under the watchful eye of some of the games greats.
Trimby starts with a quick update on Ginger the non Irish qualified cat. Barry and Trimby go on to discuss blind, coughing and incompetent refs; alcoholic mermaids and holographic rugby pundits. From a rugby perspective, both hosts contract Stockholm syndrome and feel sorry for our captors and dementors, Leinster. Today’s episode has it all.
This week on the weekly pothole Trimby potholes the ever charismatic and charming Trevor Brennan. We join Trev as he’s sitting in the corner of his beautiful bar in the heart of Toulouse. The lads chat about fatherhood, friendship and frolicking around Limerick with Peter Clohessey - on the back of a quad while looking for heifers. We also get a guest appearance from Justin Harrison as himself and Trev compare stories as to who bate the head off who in that infamous game in Toulouse in 2007.
On this weeks show we dissect the character of a rugby player based on 80’s pop culture while Cozzie drops in from London Wasps to give us the lowdown on how Leinster can beat Sarries and how Ulster could overcome Toulouse. It’s a musical show from start to finish with jingles galore as Barry tells a tale of the origin of Maniac 2000 while Trimby and Dermy start a drum circle. Speaking of Maniacs, we have our first edition of Ranty Penguin featuring a very disgruntled Irish man on a rooftop in New York City who has a particular issue with Josh Van Der Fliers Red Scrum Cap.
On this weeks boner episode Barry sits down with Munster, Ireland and Lions legend David Wallace to talk Romantic Munster, having a fast mammy, getting their palms read in New York and getting kicked out of Electric Picnic.....kind of.
On this weeks show, we’re joined by Rory Best. Barry is visited by Kiwi aliens questioning global warming AND box kicks. We discuss the absolute kahunas of Ulster and Ian Madigan’s mad world.
Bonus Episode // The Weekly Pothole.
Each week we'll be sitting down with a player or a person and getting down and dirty into all the juicy goss and all the news from the Rugby world. This week it's Stuart McCloskey. Himself and Trimby talk about confidence, seeing into the future, Stephen Ferris and many more things.
On this weeks show Barry & Trimby discuss the upcoming Semi’s, Munster's scholarly approach to this season, non debatable red cards and Ferris Bueller not taking a day off. We also get Eoin Reddan on for his debut feature on 'The Red Red Whine' & Barry makes a discovery about the origin of the expression 'Pothole'.
Lock down part II - “Lock Down With a Vengeance”. We take a stroll through Middle Earth with our fellowship of rugby players aiming to defeat the evil Irish government. Who will be Frodo? Who will be Gollum? Hmmm. Also, we discuss the return of the Pro 14 interpros and the new world order with duty free at junction 14.
Penguins assemble - Barry & Trimby have burrowed their way out of the main stream media and are starting a revolution. On episode 1 of Potholes & Penguins they discuss the return of Irish rugby, the beauty that is Rugby Aotearoa, the 3 camps of Covid and how Kurt Russell could have ended up playing AIL.