I Don't Know Her

Beep beep toot toot we have an announcement!! In an unexpected and yet highly anticipated turn, we have reached the end of season 1 of I Don't Know Her. 79 episodes in, that's about a whole season we think? Right??!! We've decided it's time to take a little hiatus and enter our show on hit 2004 reality tv show The Swan. She's going for a full-body makeover, and when she comes back for season 2 she'll be the same old show but with better boobies. Until then, please enjoy our first series and we'll see you very soon! 

This week Aoife wants to know a switch, Bláithín doesn't want to know salt and Karen likes maths. 

Forget Hollywood, we like BOLLYWOOD which is not like novel or kooky or anything like literally b/millions of people like Bollywood and it makes b/millions per year (we have done no research we just know Bollywood is cool). THIS WEEK, hang out with spiritual alien PK in Dehli, pop duo sensation Chloe x Halle at the wrong part of the VMAs and Karen is another bird would you believe. Not as brave but definitely faithful to his bird wife.

Things are heating up on I Don't Know Her. Is it because Aoife has 6 hot water bottles strapped to her body at any given time? 100% yes. No biggie but Bláithín has joined the army, just call her General Anxiety. Plus, Karen is a brave bird we think?

CRIME! SUSPENSE! PODCASTING! OTHER SHIT THAT DOESN’T NEED TO BE PUT IN CAPITAL LETTERS! In this week’s instalment of I Don’t Know Her @beingbla waves her murderhino (made up that spelling and tbh it’s a look) flag, @aoifebella has complicated feelings about dead animals and everyone is talking about dead stuff tbh.  Karen is chill, so chill, chillest of anthologies chill.

This week on I Don’t Know Her @aoifebella is taking a well-deserved and earned minute to herself in the Irish countryside and I (@beingbla) have not gone far to replace her with our producer and dad @BeGrandAndy because IT IS OUR PODCAST AND WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT. Tune in to hear old old elderly friends talk about sharing our space, quarantine films and how if you are aroused by a woman’s music video she is clearly a witch and going to hell. Also, Andy frightens the cute pants off Bláithín and we try to solve an old unsolveable mystery basically we are the worst scooby doo team ever. At the end there's a quick fire creative writing round - there’s no Karen because IT IS OUR PODCAST AND WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT.

We feel obliged to warn you - there are a lot of fart noises in this episode of I Don’t Know Her, and no it’s not because we’ve been taken over by white male live radio DJs from the 80s it’s because we are TAKING IT BACK. Ok good that’s out of the way. This week on the podcast we are talking bossy cakes, cakey bosses, and a third thing that sounds like Cake Boss but isn’t. Furthermore we are absolutely sick of the people we find on dating apps being fully inept at communicating YES THIS IS ABOUT YOU UGH (no not you, him).  Karen is Tom Jones.

On this week's pod Aoife-xander Hamilton & Bláithín Burr are two young scrappy and hungry women who are not throwing away their shot to talk about what you should and shouldn't be watching! We're on a Hamilton buzz, but not a Sugar Rush (don't watch sugar rush it's terrible, cool thanks). Karen is like a bridge but better.

Aoife didn’t kill the raaaadio star, Bláithín didn’t kill the raaaaadio star - in our minds, and in our farts, the lack of appreciation for radio as the best medium (and actually lots of other things like racism, misogyny, that feeling when you wake up from a dream where everything was perfect only to realise you’re still stuck here in your shitty mess of a life, to name a few) has gone too far! Also, PROPERTY. Rent, mortgages, black mold, they’re all absolutely out if control! And absolutely fuck the fact we’ll never be able to afford them tbh.  Karen is a tough one to figure out this week because even she can’t decide what she is. Maybe she should.... flip a coin... BYE *out OF control 

IT'S FRIDAY, FRIDAY, GETTIN DOWN ON Sally Rooney, for absolutely no reason and we're very sorry we actually love and respect you Sally. This week on episode 70 (WOW) of the podcast we are talking the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills again I think we're a RHOBH stan show now? Deal with it it's fab. ALSO, Aoife can't sleep, Bláithín can't sleep, and when we do we just can't stop, and also we need nutrients. So that's a thing and it's decidedly not fab.  Karen is wonderful and terrible and you want to be their friend but they won't stop smoking.

It's the O'CONNOR TAKEOEVER EPISODE BABY! Our special guest co-host this week is none other than Aoife's tall baby brother Anthony. We call him a baby but he is a big man actually. Gross. This episode can only be described as...something you've never truly experienced ever before. Is that a bad thing? You decide xo

In this week’s episode, we wanted to have THE CONVERSATION. Some terrible things have been going on in the Irish comedy community (and spoiler alert: the PLANET) and we are angry, disappointed, confused and devastated. Men?? are being awful??? AGAIN??!!! We’re joined from Dubai by our brilliant pal Sahar Ali to talk about what’s been unfolding on the Irish scene (take thee to Twitter to inform yourself), the changes that need to happen in order for us to be able to exist safely & happily in comedy (is that so much to ask?!) and frankly... to have a well-deserved vent.

Come one come all, heed our podcast call! Just kidding the lockdown has only partly lifted we’re still at home and this is OUR podcast. Today we’re talking missing death by a feather (lol in more ways than one oh TRUST US); Aoife is going Gaga (more than usual ok); and the evolution of live entertainment is getting Bláithín down.  Karen is a horse that tbh has to leave before her time to make way for some hair plugs.

This week on I Don't Know Her Bláithín and Aoife ignore the constraints of their podcast formula and just invite producer Andy on for a remote pint to celebrate his birthday and have a long over due catch up.  So join your two favorites (and Andy) as they chat about crying over Normal People, grinding in all it's forms , scary movies and of course adjusting to phase 2 of lockdown. Plus Andy finally gets to be Karen and does an awful Phil Mitchell impression. 

Bit of a late one this week because we wanted to consider our place in all of this and how we can help. We've decided that that's by briefly saying our piece and then amplifying the voices of those whose pieces have been said again and again in the hopes that the world will listen if we shout with them. PLEASE: Listen and educate yourself to what is going on around us, donate where you can, support protests and POC voices any way you can. Follow POC artists, influencers and organisations and LISTEN to what they say, spread that word and remember to self-crit and check in with yourself on how your perspective could be more helpful, and how your privilege can be utilised. We've made a list of a few resources that have been helpful to us. It's in no particular order and it's non-exhaustive. There is a link in our bio to an extremely helpful platform to learn more from too. Ní neart go chur le chéile. Black Lives Matter. No justice, no peace. Thanks all. On Instagram, follow these brilliant people: @sahar_casm @jaydeblakes @geasty @standforhumanity @theconsciouskid @sa.liine @khaledbeydoun @rachel.cargle @violadavis @privtoprog @nowhitesaviors Donate: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ab_mn Blacklivesmatter.com https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co (https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/) Minnesotafreedomfund.org Gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd    IRISH PEOPLE ESPECIALLY PLEASE educate yourself on racism in Ireland, direct provision and work to make a difference here on the ground as  well as the world over. Make your voice heard: http://www.masi.ie/2020/05/18/petition-move-asylum-seekers-out-of-direct-provision-centres/

This week we are Animal Crossing all borders of popular thinking because honestly honestly HONESTLY? We don't get it. The ladies are off on tangents from the off as usual to talk Lauren Lapkuss, Adam Sandlot (hey! We are not responsible for the autocorrect iphones), and superfluous packaging used to build forts for Sir Sandlot and maybe even this week's Knightly Karen...

Roses are red, violets are blue, the acting talents of Linda Cardellini are underappreciated, watch Dead To Me season 2. Yes bitch, we're rhyming now. Join us for this week's episode, where we cycle (we're talking bikes baby) through some of our faves and least faves of the week. Karen is just happy to be here, pits and all!

Hey all you cool cats and OH MY GOD CAN WE STOP WITH THESE REFERENCES?! Thank you. Sorry for the outburst. Lol jk not sorry, this week we're annoyed about Reasonable Logical Feminist People being absolute thicks about Tiger King. We're annoyed about other things too! - including lockdown inactivity, hair, and yes ghosts again as always ghosts. Although! Hot take, sometimes ghosts are good because let's face it we need the distraction. Karen is a site and is a castle and is not creative when it comes to accents.

There is still very little order in the world and while you go to bake your billionth cake we still refuse to go for even one slight jog-with-a-soft-J (yoga). Which is great for you because here’s more chaos! This week the ladies chat remotely and emotely (yep) about giving good vibes where they’re due (but sometimes bad vibes where they’re Jew...: we didn’t like Unorthodox ok deal with it), and the exhaustingly tedious job it is just, trying to maybe, simply, if it’s not too much trouble haha  not hate ourselves . If that’s ok!!!!!  Karen has too many children in law tbh I don’t think that’s science?

(Sandra) Oh my goodness, it's time for another episode already?! We're talking sex toys, liverpuddlian assassins and TV obsessions this week (with a sprinkle of quarantine madness on top). YES we've embraced the non-narrativeness of quarantine! NO we won't stop talking over each other! And watch out for this week's Karen, they're on the attack!

WE'VE BEEN INSIDE FOR 3 WEEKS HOW ARE YOU?! On our first quarantine edition of the pod, ya girls have some catching up to do. They're talking about vital topics like TANK TOPS, the QUARANTINE HORN and other important things in CAPITAL LETTERS. Plus, Quarantine-Karen is a Brit so there's that.

It's bring your Dad to work day! Well, kind of. Our podcast dad/our loyal producer Andy Gaffney joins Aoife as co-host this week! they cover everything from Twilight to The Eurovision to Emperor Palpatine ridin'. Y'know...normal daddy daughter stuff!

Happy birthday, you're a Pisces & your housekeeper has TB! This week is an accidental birthday episode, but who cares- the Wii exists & that's far more exciting. Join in our Mii parade while we try & figure out if we're dying or not! Karen is NOT A TRICERATOPS.

Hey hey hey back up we're just Ordinary People doing Ordinary things on this week's installment of I Don't Know Her. Bláithín and Aoife have been trawling the internet obsessively for your entertainment (well that sounds better than 'carelessly wasting the little time they have on this earth procrastinating online laughing at virtual nothingness') to find you some of the best memes and the worst reviews on offer, THANK THEM WON'T YOU?  Karen this week is a country but not a country? We think?

You've gotta be Debra Messing with us...we're broke and feminists and don't care WHAT Will & Grace have to say about it. This week, we're talking MONEY  POWER  AND HOW MUCH WE'LL SELL YOU OUR BRAS FOR

his week on I Don't Know Her, it's our most SOUPer episode yet! Don't hate us, we're just two ladies who love most soups, hedgehogs and hats, ok? Karen is a loud and proud, possibly non-existent something or other!

Not to sound old, but why are teenagers so rude and inconsiderate in the cinema? No regard; No matter - because that's nothing to do with anything, as Aoife talks cute clever chefs in test kitchens, Bláithín talks itchy invasive conditions of the skin, and Karen? Oh, well, you would love her, she's a nice Jewish chaaaaarity (it is hard to portray accents in text)....

Yes that's right, this week we go so mad on info we have to BLEEP OURSELVES, ahhhhh it's good not to be sued. This week on your favourite nonsense podcast Bláithín talks American dick drawers and Aoife talks Irish dickheads; American Vandal meets Irish scandal; another such comparison of two completely unrelated things. Karen is a basketball player that was mistakenly from the Netherlands

We don't want to alarm you but we're somehow talking about food again at the start of this week's chaotic neutral installation of I Don't Know Her. Aoife is loving watching people be disappointed by our fair city while Bláithín is not sure whether her nail might kill her but insists that if it doesn't she'll learn nothing from it. We're bad people.  Ya know who's not a bad person (presumably, giving benefit of the doubt and lack of actual knowledge, plz don't @ us)? This week's Karen who is obsessed with pirates?! Cool.

We're baaack! It's 2020 y'all: the year of hot keys, hot takes, hot goss & two HAWT hosts. We're ready to dive into a magnificent bag of salt & vinegar crisps and talk about the one movie that's on everyone's mind this awards season...CATS. We don't like that the cats have boobies, deal with it. So join us on our Jellicle journey into a whole new year of I Don't Know Her. Karen has low self-esteem, but she's not afraid to tell Tom Hooper what she thinks.

An extremely quick Happy New Year message from Bláithín and Aoife to say goodbye to old things, hello to new things and a few thanks you's too..

We wish you a merry Christmas (Karen)! Our Christmas gift to you is a yule-themed Karen speed round! This episode is to be listened to in a wine-drunk haze post-christmas dinner xo

Jingle bells Christmas smells leave us all alone... look it’s no surprise that it’s almost Christmas and it’s even less surprise that we goddamn hate Christmas. And that’s what this episode is all about!! It’s not as if we’re not always merry and full of cheer (well ok maybe a bit) and of course we’ll still be grateful for what we have and have had, but it’s our podcast and we’ll give out if we want to! We are the Grinch, but we also appreciate what we have, and at the end of the day we will insist: Jesus Exist.   Karen this week isn’t eating! Also!!! Check in next week on Christmas Day for our special A CHRISTMAS KAREN episode, great festive fun was had by all!

Happy podcast everybody! This week haven't we only gone and switched up the format! That's right, Bláithín's a Protestant now and Aoife's a glittery vampire baby just like Jesus . This episode we're all about sticking to your guns, whether you're a racism watch-dog or a fabulous small Irish business. Plus, this week's Karen is rocky af.

IT’S A LIVE!! IT’S A LIIIIIIIIVE!! Episode. It’s a live episode. This week the wonderful sound people at B-Side Comedy allowed us some time and space on their stage in front of their lovely audience to talk Love, Hate, Love/Hate, the Love Hate Toy Show.. *implodes* lol obviously OBVIOUSLY we mean the classic holiday show loved by families and capitalists the country over - the Late Late Toy Show. Lols were had! In fact, lols were had, live! Listen for that alone

Here we have it! The episode of CONFUSION! Do we like shopping, do we not like shopping?; is it Christmas, should it never be Christmas? Are sandwiches property, is that a more important question than WHY ARENT WE VEGAN YET?! This is a broad way to cover the content of this broad episode where we talk TK Maxx, the Vegan Sandwich Co, markets and marketing.  Karen this week gives one of us troubled waters.

Yep yep yep you guessed right - we have a guest, right?! Have you guest the guessed the guess...ds;fcisodhcfs;djikaiw etc etc. WOOOOOOOOO Hannah Mamalis graced us with our presence this week and it SHOWS BBYYYY. We are breaking down all the weird and wonderful subject matter you can imagine with such a weird and wonderful guest, that is: board games, asbestos, the moon, camping, apologising, dirty minds and just plain oul existing on a micro and macro level - ya know, just girly tingz.  Karen this week is the grandaddy of Russian rock, we really dunno what else to tell ya.

*Cue Jumangi drums*...this week on I Don't Know Her we've accidentally played a board game and ended up in the jungle. Follow us and Robin Williams on an adventure through things we like & dislike! Our bladders are small and we're not bears and we HATE that. Good thing this week's Karen is here to strum our pain with their fingers!

There are many things you can do yourself, like DIY, and many you absolutely should not DIY, like piercings, and it’s all getting chatted out in this instalment of I Don’t Know Her. Aoife and Bláithín have some belly laughs this week, but aren’t too fond of RDS roadshows or being let down by cult classics (we trusted you Frank n’ Furter and weekend don’t know why). Also Karen is a victim of shame and a huge fan of West Side Story. 

Boo! hahahhahahhaaaaa got you. You were scared. You jumped we got you.... sorry.  This w-EEK on the show is Halloween, and the ladies are FRIGHTENED, which is nothing new because well, what’s more scary than living on this planet? BOO! Scary stuff. BUT we have tv and movie recommendations to soothe your soul, as well as advice on what to avoid, including men that aren’t Gomez Addams. Seriously he’s the only good one, and he kills people.  Karen this week is genuinely terrified despite being genuinely terrifying

This week on I Don't Know Her we're gunning for a tight 45 minute episode GO GO GO. It's a party & we're celebrating birthdays, equality & terrible lifetime tv movies! Libra season may be out of whack, but who cares when our sisters in Northern Ireland has new rights coming out the wazoo! This week's Karen is so excited about it they could jump out of their skin!

Our gals are big ol thespians today as Bláithín enjoys her Céilí injection and Aoife enjoys what frankly sounds like a nightmare experience but who are you to judge? BACK OFF! Ah no come back. On the chopping block this week is BEAVERS. Well, pubic hair, as our pair discuss the discussions around it. Are you werkin that merkin? Sorry. Also sorry that you’re SAD this season, but look that’s natural, they’ve even got a name for it! We don’t like that name.  Karen this week is flapping away like her dad owns the place.

If you thought you'd had enough nun puns this week well you've got anunder thing coming (sorry not sorry, Aoife is here to teach you that old habits die hard WINK WINK okay that's enough). Bláithín proclaims frankly too much love for adult-themed cartoon Big Mouth which at this stage is more educational than real life. Irish culture is under the hammer both literally and linguistically with our pair coming to de-stipple your homes and... the Irish education system by asking you to sign a petition to make Irish better taught in schools. That's genuinely wholesome so we won't joke about it.   Karen this week is one salty dog, or something we still don't actually quite know...

This week on I Don't Know Her disaster has struck your favorite duo as faith has ripped them apart! Aoife's body has succumbed to the pressures of being a constant badass and has left her bedridden but worry not as Bláithín is joined by producer Andy to chat dating The Rock, why fast and furious is a masterpiece and people need to step off talking crap about the legend that is Greta Thunberg. Plus with Karen also in her sick bed Andy takes a page out of his own podcast Be Grand and throws some exam exams at Bláithín. We shall overcome. 

Music and musicians! Sleep and sleep monsters! Cardi B, natch.  On nthis instalment of your favourite podcast that doesn't know 'Her' - Aoife is breaking down songs and Bláithín is JUST trying to SLEEP goddamnit jesus why won't you let her sleep. She wouldn't be the only one that's lazy with a certain singer on the line for not singing her... lines. And she's not the only celebrity getting a mention! This week's Karen seems like they deserved it tbh...

We are alllllll about IRISH ART AND CULTURE this week with Bláithín giving us the post-show scoop on her Fringe show, even if there were some drawbacks in that she is a HUMAN (she is still upset about not being superhuman); Aoife celebrates Irish film and both lament the death of Dublin city's once-vibrant landscape since it's being eaten up by greedy vultures - who smells? Hotels! Yeah we know it's a stretch. Karen this week is a place you can see your favourite 90s Japanese cartoons AND Mount Fuji, what could wheelie go wrong?

All aboard the skelecopter! Strap yourselves in for an episode of I Don't Know Her that's as delirious as ever. Aoife & Bláithín reveal that they've been moonlighting as taxi drivers turned magical Victorian nannies. We say no thanks to rebrands and hello to a Karen who's having a bit of an identity crisis *moo*

Crack open a box of shite euro store sweets and let's get to business! We're pulling a switcheroo on the podcast this week and giving ourselves new names because WE'RE IN CHARGE. So join your new hosts Kate Middleton (Aoife) & Fart Diarrhea (Bláithín) and their white noise machine for chats about couches, glittery teenage TV, podcasts and more! Finally, Karen this week definitely ISN'T a vampire.

We're back babies! After a week off, Blá & Aoife are on a serious festival comedown, but we're party people and this is our party podcast! Bláithín talks the highs and lows of her Edinburgh Fringe experience and Aoife gets a serious dose of Self Esteem. We're scared because the world is on fire BUT at least we can listen to some soulful pop along the way! Our improv segment this week is structurally sound (we'll cross Karen's bridge when we get to it).

Say it with us: we're 30, flirty & THRIVING! That's right, we're 30 episodes in and things are more bananas than ever. Our producer, the original Werthers Original, Andy Gaffney joins us for this landmark episode & Aoife celebrates by getting stuck in the microphone.  We talk inspiring sentences, booby statues, the Irish language and bad men being bad again. This mega episode takes you on a journey into the deep dark depths of our minds, only to reveal that in the end, Bláithín's a  *snack*.

Here on the I Don't Know Her Podcast we are big fans of Love, and that is a Sensation (eh? eh?) that a festival coming to Dublin soon will encourage, with the help of our very own Aoife! Bláithín is joining her local library because if you tell her something - anything - is "the last true bastion of Communism", she will do it no questions asked. Please don't take that as an invitation to say creepy things like some kinda gross online dater because that is on the chopping block this week, as well as bad sexers and men who don't carry condoms. Learn how to LOVE, learn how to READ, learn SOME RESPECT, learn how to RIDE FOR GOD'S SAKE this is getting ridiculous.  Karen isn't even trying to hide her identity at this stage but she's just as weird as always. Oink.