Stall It with Darren and Joe

In the absence of 'Hollywood' Joe, this week Darren is joined by Ger who takes the throne only to be pummeled by questions and theories about lead poisoned serial killers, extreme ironing and getting de-pantsed by a border terrier.Poor Ger.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

Joe is infuriated by people taking offense on behalf of sharks, and he (really) flies a plane.Darren remembers the scourge of pocket money jealousy and his many fleeting careers, from work experience in Dunnes to holding signs for furniture shops.Joe exploits a bat encounter for online kudos and somehow that leads us to learn of an ant apocalypse, while Darren stands up for trees and tree stumps. We also learn a genuinely life altering fact about the animal kingdom, and dispel a myth we had all believed until now.Darren's colourful past in the world of music videos is revealed, and he continues his mission to fall out with everyone in the Irish music industry – while also continuing to try to track down Robert Sheehan.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

Joe is all vibrating atoms and he is delighted to be so,One listener attempts to turn AI against Joe and one of his big claims, but does Joe looks like he cares? Darren doesn't think so and giddiness soon takes over.We consider the legacy of our time on stall it and how our children and generations of the future will view us.And, in a surprise to nobody, it turns out Darren's brain is nothing but ads.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

The entire Irish music scene is a target for Darren, as he airs some grievances at 4am, and contacts Fontaines DC to ask (maybe begging?) for a favour.But that's not where the celeb name dropping ends, oh no. Darren has also been attracting new superstar followers, and is now considering bring a little glamour and star power to his newest ad (it's for wheelbarrows).Joe has word of a fledgling theatre career in his family, and he's got himself into a bit of a bind by accidentally ending up as a football pundit alongside a former Ireland manager – on live radio.Darren has been on the bus again, but his latest experience might scare him back to taxis – and Joe's head is full of numbers, too many numbers.We also have a rare and overdue mention of the City Imp bus.Send all of your comments and questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

Joe gets in a few tricky spots this week, and that's before he ends up in a chokehold in the pub.He was up to his old tricks and got spotted by an eagle eyed Stall It listener, who was good enough to pass that information on to us. Let this become the start of a trend.We have more surreal examples of people being caught watching porn in public, and it's changed the way Joe thinks about the oldest generation.There's a scathing criticism of something Joe has done recently, from one listener who is outraged and promising McGucken has given up his hopes of making it to heaven.We hear dreams of robot back scratchers and a listener uncovers a long lost piece of cinema horror we've been waiting for.Send all of your tip offs about Joe's activities to stallit@goloudnow.com

Is Mr Tayto in fact the alter ego of one of Ireland's most famous broadcasters?James Joyce's letters to his wife, which are not on TikTok and therefore brand new to Darren Conway.A content warning here, in case you needed one, but (thanks to James Joyce) there is some stuff in this episode that is absolutely not suitable for younger ears. Please, please don't play this around the kids.A listener sends us his own news report on the previously imagined assassination of Darren and paints for us a picture of a community in mourning – while also freaking out Mr. Conway.Glitches in the matrix that Joe should have spotted, from an unseasonable stew to a bizarre party bear in the middle of the flats.A fact checking of Eoin causes hysterical giddiness, and we have a deluge of criticism for Joe coming from listeners, which we're only too happy to encourage.Send us your comments, questions and love letters to stallit@goloudnow.com

Is it better to have a perfect memory, or the ability to forget any moment we choose? Somehow this ends up with a reminiscence of rotisserie chickens and half pounds of brawn.We get an offer of an archaeological escapade that seems too good to turn down – but will probably be turned down.There's word of a petition to bring classic ice creams back to the their former glory, and we have to be pulled back from falling down a deep hole of chat on crisps and ice creams.And ultimately we fall so far that Eoin wonders if this may be our worst episode ever, but Darren firmly believes it one of the best ever. Listen and decide for yourself.Send all of your comments and questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

Would it make the news if Darren was assassinated in the studio? How big would his funeral be? Would al of Finglas weep for their loss? Would influencers take over the ceremony?Would Joe climbing Mount Everest make the news? Is oxygen while climbing the world's tallest peak little more than modern day softness?The comments section on the podcast has taken off in popularity, and to reward that newfound engagement we're going to field some of them. Darren takes great offence to one that comes after his driving skill.We wander into a cul de sac of researching cannibalism through the ages, from humans to animals – and Joe is accusing all animals of being guilty of the worst of behaviour.That leads us to hearing about the youngest rulers of empires throughout history, some tyrannical, some hysterical and (somehow) we end up fact checking if there were sharks in the colosseum.Joe has been delving into the deepest waters of trash reality TV once again, and once again brings us his personal review of his latest obsession – this time it's on a boat, with ignorant millionaires berating a hard working crew.Darren announces his retirement from the vlogging circuit, to great public despair.And we wonder if it is illegal to watch porn in a pub, or just hugely frowned upon.Please send all of your comments, questions and deep dive suggestions to us at stallit@goloudnow.com

As usual, we get some questions that leave us exasperated and confused – thank you for them.Darren admits he'd love nothing more than lasers in his eyes and it emerges he has a strange fixation with punching walls – or having the ability to do it anyway.We field a question about a sunburned bullock and a flimsy excuse, and display a general ignorance of the farming life.Darren tries to use the podcast to finagle his way into a sponsorship deal with a very particular sponsor, and some that have us blackening the reputation of many animal species.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

Joe finds himself in yet another curious situation, as a local priest makes good on a seven-year promise to call over to play the PlayStation. And Joe, somehow, manages to make it utterly underwhelming for the visiting Father living out his lifelong dream.Darren's tale of eight frozen chickens in his ma's freezer leads us into the peculiar world of cryogenic freezing and bizarre mountain town festivals celebrating the (almost) dead.Joe admits his boxing career may be over before it really got going, as the fear of life in the ring dawns on him.Darren brings us back to Las Vegas as we hear of his wedding at the hands of an Elvis impersonator, and how he made an artform of the haggle to save every cent he could.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

After his controversy and shame of aligning himself with Margaret Thatcher last week, Darren has been riding the bus in an attempt to re-establish his credentials as a man of the people.We have questions about an Irish Stonecutters secret society, from the fringe benefits to a weekly song of worship to the leader.One listener strikes back at Joe's criticism, and proposes a new nickname for McGucken.And Darren is happy to debunk a myth about the number of hands he has.Send all of your questions and everything else to stallit@goloudnow.com

We start off with a reminiscence on Joe's favourite Peugeot hatchback and quickly find ourselves in a spiral of illuminati accusations against one another.Joe goes schmoozing at the very top of the celebrity pile, and in the process discovers Darren has a famous fan of his vlogs. But even with all of that schmoozing Joe can't track down his greatest target, as Barry eludes him suspiciously well in a very small town.Darren thinks he'd like to get back on the film festival circuit, so he's sketching a blueprint for a gangster epic to bring him awards glory, and we wonder who would be the dream celebrity companion for a few pints.We hear a tale of Darren laying down the law with some wedding crashers, and your suggestions come in for where Darren should go to continue his life as a travel vlogger – there's a surprisingly high percentage of requests to abandon him on a cold, wet rock in the north Atlantic.Send all of your questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

In a hugely unfortunate moment, Darren accidentally aligns himself with one of history's most unpopular leaders – and he's not happy about it, but also not backing down one bit.Meanwhile, Darren the Clown is working hen parties, while Joe is tugging boats across the port.Eoin is factchecked over his big, bold and wrong claims on geography, and in the same breath Joe dives head first into a glaringly inaccurate claim.And Joe takes a hardline stance on one listener's quite impressive treehouse.Send all of your questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

Darren is drunk and looking for a lift to the Oscars, we're canvassing comedians about height related air travel, and we're subjecting everyone to some very dodgy Russian accents.We attempt to design the perfect blend of danger and comfort for Darren's dream life as a travel vlogger, from death defying football tourism to potentially lethal hikes.Meanwhile Joe takes us on a strange trip through the hills of Donegal on the hunt for a quite interesting ceremony.Send all of your comments and questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

Your questions are as always challenging, illuminating and a bit confusing. While we begin to suspect some of you may be winding us up, we endeavour in good faith, and Darren crosses the line with the way he speaks to his producer.We find 100 ways to get out of minding an iguana, 100 ways to explain a head stuck in some railings, and 250 reasons to live in a tree house for a night. And Joe sticks out his chest and fully rejects one listener's praise. Send al of your questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

At long last we are all reunited in the studio, and there's a lot to get through.We hear about Darren's wedding and his honeymoon, from his bombastic wedding entrance to a speech so over the line it had to be cut short, and how Joe was causing controversy at dinner. Darren fills us in on his strange time in Las Vegas, from luxury dinners to meeting famous cardboard cutouts.There's also a strange chemist interaction and Joe is planning to get in to the boxing ring. And he's now considering becoming a pilot. Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

After a lengthy wedding induced absence, the boys are back in pod town and for their glorious return they get into some red hot takes about there they would choose to be from outside Dublin. Darren declares his lack of love for The Simpsons and does Joe finally settle the Gorilla vs 100? You'll wish he hadn't. Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

We have a yearning for a good pub quiz, while Darren is realigning himself with life back in his old chair in the studio. Joe wants to become a biker and Darren wants to become a wedding planner – but he's worried about getting his spelling right.Joe unveils a controversial t-shirt and there's a lot of talk about the passing of Pope Francis, with Darren fondly remembering the time the Pontiff me the Yup Bros, and there are some odd ideas for was to select the next leader of the Catholic Church.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

Joe makes his long awaited return to the studio, as his theatre odyssey comes to a close. He is greeted with unsettling ASMR routines form Darren, an update from one of our most devoted listeners, and the rare joy of a Stall It sing along.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

Terence power returns to once gain fill the gap left by Joe making his White House visit, and we are rapidly thrown into a confused delve into the theory of evolution, with big questions around the origins of Jack Russells and how evolution led humanity to walk upright, use tools and at long last to making podcasts.There's an issue raised with someone blowing up the moon to make a statement, and the claim humanity got carried away with the amount of languages on offer.All in all it leaves Eoin screaming for a bit of common sense and Darren falling back on his most surefire, quick fire joke.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

With Joe making a last minute visit to the White House we draft in friend of the podcast, Terence Power, from Talking Bollox.It's not long before Darren and Terence are plotting longer term plans and prison escapes.Terence breaks a cardinal rule of Stall It around birthdays, and gives us some information about birthday weeks that would enrage our absent co-host.Darren strikes back at some listener criticism and oversees a royal rumble in the comments.And we consider the best ways to spend a million quid on a wind up.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

And so here we are, 200 episodes in and after over 10,000 minutes of podcasting, are we stuck searching the GoLoud offices for a tin whistle? Yes we are.Beyond the hunt for a wind instrument that fits the occasion, we enjoy a retrospective of the past two ton of shows, with everyone from Stadium the Stadium to the Joe's mate Barry getting their mention.We hear a bleak update on the future of the Very Good Spice Bag, but Joe proudly stands over his record of undertaking ridiculous tasks inspired by podcast content, and Darren has a song or two (or more) for us to mark the moment.Send all of your questions, comments, favourite Stall It memories and song requests to stallit@goloudnow.com

We have the option of some noisy shoes and a lifetime option of tracksuits, and Darren has grown sick of bean juice even as conspiracy theories float around the great controversy.And there's a strongly worded reply to a question about the physics of sandwich consumption.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

We pit the global AI giants in a battle of which computing superpower has the greatest knowledge of Stall It, and find a clear and decisive winner – and a snarky loser.Joe is almost deported, or thinks he is, as he falls to victim to an exquisitely executed hoax.Joe longs to have a stalker and Darren plans for questioning by border authorities on his honeymoon.We hear about the disappointing realities of theatre life and Darren wonders if everything is a game changer.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

The bean juice and ketchup debate rages on and Joe is, unsurprisingly, not backing down.We completely lose our composure as we remember the Eurosaver menu.And we outrage ourselves over your questions about drinking tea from a glass and old wives tales.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

We almost have no Joe this week, and Darren isn't sure if him showing up late is better than never showing up at all.We take a trawl through Darren's looks throughout the ages and as we analyse his timeline we realise he has regressed, around the time he and Joe got into a relationship.We hear about Darren's big audition to land a potentially career altering role, which ends up in an excruciatingly awkward moment.Two of Darren's most beloved creations reenact a famous movie scene.Joe's American adventure has moved to the commercial world, and finds him meeting more dodgy characters and places, and bemoaning the massive chunk of Americans who have never, and never will, leave their country.And we ponder some plans for a big milestone we have coming up, and the tin whistle is on the cards.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

We consider fashion through the ages, and somehow end up with Darren imagining being jocked during the Free Love era.There's a bath of beans that leads on to a hearted debate about the specific differences, or not, between ketchup and the tomato juice in your tin of baked beans.One listener asks a question that finds an unwelcome response (sorry) and Joe continues to forget our most dedicated American listener.Send all of your questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

Darren reveals a new talent as he unveils his latest artistic creation, and all before he heads off to judge a school talent contest where he hopes ane expects to see a dog performing tricks.Joe's life in America reaches ever greater heights of glamour as he's started microwaving his veg, but he has finally made it to the stage as his play gets underway.Meanwhile at home his dinosaur has been attracting local attention.Send all of your questions and messages to stallit@goloudnow.com

This week your questions bring us the offer of living each other's lives, the dangers of having your life's private correspondence displayed on a telly around your neck in exchange for some big cash rewards, the chance to relive one day from the past, and we get us into a housing appliance Royal Rumble.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

In slightly less grotesque surrounding this week, Joe updates us on progress with his odyssey in the world of theatre. Things are not going great, and there is suspicion the whole story about his life as a co-star in the USA may just be an elaborate ruse to take a holiday.Among his tall tales are claims the rats are chasing him down the street on his scooter, and among his unfortunate admissions is that he now lives in some kind of glass box.Accepting Joe's challenge, Darren tries his hand at highbrow acting, taking a run at one of theatre's most challenging monologues, with ridiculous results.Joe wants a new bicycle detective division set up, and bemoans his lack of vigilante powers, while Darren is counting the cash from his foray into the world of personalised video messages.Send all of your questions and comments (and theories about what Joe is really up to) to stallit@goloudnow.com

Our man in Washington Joe joins us once again and whilst the eyes of the world are discussing goings on in The White House the lads tackle the real issues like what would you put in the press come Doomsday. The answers are revealing and repelling in equal measure.Speaking of high-brow culinary chat, things get heated when it comes to defining what pork scratchings ACTUALLY are.Pork or fat? The boys finally settle the age old debate!Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

We go live to Ahmehrica for a look inside Joe's life as a theatre co-star in Washington DC.We learn of Benny Bowls and Crank hats, hear about Joe's attempts to appear unfazed by life on the mean streets of DC, and get a rundown of Joe's very rundown lodgings.Joe gets a serious scare while recording and tells us he suspects the ghosts of Coolock have travelled across the ocean with him (but it might just be his coat scaring him), and Darren reveals an updated impersonation that he's been working on.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

We are joined this week by the new Stall It Washington D.C. correspondent, Joseph McGucken, who comes to us from a somewhat noisy and spooky basement in America's capital.We hear from one listener who exposes Darren's comedy theft, but Darren isn't accepting the criticism and instead comes out swinging at his accuser.Darren reveals the best way to give a child nightmares, off the back of a question about lies we believed as children.Joe dreams of life with a perfect memory and dodges an attempted fact check over his story that certain memories can be removed by shock therapy.We engage in a brief but very serious conversation about the history of The B Sharps.And before long Darren and Joe become fascinated with the chat box feature on our remote recording programme.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

We delve into the world of languages, from the fictional to the very real but very rare. Darren regrets not learning to speak Mandarin, and Joe wonders if a world with one language might be best for all.Darren dreams of a life where he's motivated, while Joe gives an incredibly strange take on Irish history and geography that ends up in a startling revision of the island's past.We cover gambler's remorse, how history's mad road has only led us back to the box room, suspected cannibals in the New World and the ruining of cinnamon.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

There's a lot of singing this week, from Nirvana to Shaggy. Continuing the music theme we consider a life as a boyband reject or a boyband interloper.We then continue the continuation of career talk with Joe offering Darren the chance to star in a remake of a cult comedy classic.And in attempt to give us a dramatic story of crime, Darren unveils an utterly uninspiring but unintentionally hilarious anecdote.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

It's finally happened, Joe has got his big break and he's off to join the theatre crowd as a part of a very high brow (and very, very serious) production. Somehow his explanation of this turn of events leads us to hear about a toupee with international consequences. Darren believes he has what it takes to become Ireland's number one celebrity impersonator, and Joe thinks Darren could become the national voice of the sliced pan. We hear about two interactions Darren had with Keith Duffy, and while the first interaction is a moment of great reflected celeb glory, the second is a brutal humiliation. We have a significant dinosaur update. The beast has found a home, too close to home, and Joe is wondering what long term impacts a dinosaur in Coolock might have on his life – from fighting with the neighbours about the beast in the front garden, to the children of the area being cursed with weekly visits to see the dinosaur, and even a potential backlash from the local youth. And Darren reveals a deep distress about discarded mattresses, from their smell to their potent threat to life. Send all of your comments and questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

A ball to the face or ants for friends? The Stall It listeners continue to ask the big, big questions and give us a lot to chew over.We get a question that offers all good options and the chance to double our time in life, or gorge ourselves on greasy foods with zero consequences.Darren takes time to come around to the concept of covert break ins around Joe's house, but we eventually explore the most devious yet subtle tactics for driving each other insane with midnight break ins. Everything from swapping chihuahuas to unlocked doors and running taps, and even some cement toothpaste.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

Darren and Joe offer their sincere apologies to anyone affected by the poor time management that meant the episode was late this week, and if Darren's DMs are anything to go by, there were lots of you impacted. Unsurprisingly, Joe gets a lot of blame.They consider some iconic male beauty trends like spiky hair and frosted tips and Joe reveals his TV makeup mishap.Darren turns down the chance at an Oscar over his fear of Joe's scooter and there's an argument about the definition of a couple.Send your questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

Darren has major boiler disasters and it's led him to the world of cold showers, which has opened up a route to becoming a wellness influencer.Joe treats us to some very dad accents and even worse reality TV, and speaking of reality TV, Joe can't seem to get off First Dates Ireland.In the latest update on Joe's dinosaur, we receive a potentially lucrative offer to take it off his hands. – and he recounts some more adventures at Dublin port as the piss-takers emerge to mock his dinosaur conundrum.There's a strange segue into the crossover world of bucket bongs, insanity workouts and baths.We hear about Darren getting a ferocious football in the face from Wes Brown, and we return to Darren's obsession with football player cards.Send all of your comments and questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

Darren decides he could hunt a rabbit but not a bear, but he has no problem with mixing sardines and chickatees.The great bus debate turns hot as Joe responds with vigour to the latest salvo from the bus drivers of Ireland.One listener places before us a strange encounter with an extraterrestrial in a pub, and he has something to offer us. Send all of your questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

Joe has received perhaps the strangest notification of his life - there's a giant dinosaur in a big wooden crate addressed to him waiting at Dublin Port. How did it get there? Why does he need to pay €350 to have it released? Would he get away with having in the front garden of his home in Coolock? We answer all of these questions.A listener sets a challenge, which Darren and Joe gladly accept - to take Stall It into the world of late night call in radio. There are some strange disturbing results.And Joe points out something to Darren that may very well ruin his wedding night.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

Joe came for the bus network, so the bus drivers have now come for Joe - and they have not shown up empty handed, as Joe finds himself on the end of a brutal fact checking. Of course, he refuses to back down.One listener suspects he is living inside the Stall It version of The Truman Show, while Joe has a theory about Truman Show style goings on in our own world.And we make the case for one of the greatly underrated dishes of our time.Send all of your questions to stallit@goloudnow.com