Stall It with Darren and Joe

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

We conjure up a vision of a revamped extreme version Winning Streak with death defying leaps and potentially lethal box opening blended with sponsored car chases and overall a lot of risk of death.Continuing the theme of competition, there's a multi-disciplinary contest between podcast hots, ranging from crazy golf to bowling, with the risk of death (at the hands of a celebrity singer and an international banker) again looming large.We also get an update Darren's wedding menu and his fears over shedding tears at the altar.And in a Stall it first, Joe makes the case for why Darren should eat some dog food, and he gives it a very hard sell.Send all of your questions and comments (and gameshow suggestions) to stallit@goloudnow.com

Your questions have us considering Darren's thoughts on bringing back smoking in shopping centres, Joe making public transport free, living life with three legs (or arms), and the mystery of airport suitcase shops.Send all of your messages and questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

We return to the chaotic world of Charlestown Athletic football club, as Darren Conway makes his return to the dugout for the long awaited sequel to the silliest story in world football.Fleeing loan sharks and fame, our maverick manager has found a new lease of life delivering kebabs in four minutes, until one day a call comes in. Charlestown Athletic is in trouble and there's only one man who can save them.As Darren accepts the challenge to lead his club back to glory, and win the East Finglas Men's Shed League, he sets about building a new team and reluctantly welcomes back to the fold an old partner from the glory years.If you haven't heard it, the first part of our odyssey in the world of Charlestown Athletic is Ep 85: The Impossible Job.Send your comments and questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

Chocolate sauce or ketchup on every meal for life, the chance and danger of bringing your dreams to life, a future of unfortunate nicknames for someone close to the pod.There's a challenge to eat as much ham as possible in 60 seconds, and the offer of an extra hour in the day to better yourself finds surprisingly little enthusiasm.Send your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

We hear future predictions from the past, Joe is seduced by the potential to get in the ground floor of seaweed. We wonder how far away humanity is from living life under the sea, and there's a few ideas thrown around in the hunt for a new online trend to rival Dublin's cherry tomatoes bridge.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

Darren has been spotted out in public and he's been making a great impression on the general public.We're asked if we would be happy to eat baked goods delivered by a well-meaning neighbours, and recall the weirdness of sitting in a friends house while he eats chicken nuggets but offers none.We accidentally go down a rabbit hole on the 90s phenomenon of Ernest filmsThere's a chance to craft our very own (fictional) conspiracy theory, and we choose what one song we would choose to have written.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

Is the magic of TV being intentionally dispatched with to accommodate our addiction to our phones? Could Darren and Joe resurrect Irish TV with some very unorthodox ideas?We educate Darren on Nollaig na mBan, and hear about Ireland's windiest night.Darren bemoans the ingratitude of dogs getting gifts, but gives us an insight into the world of doggie Christmas.Joe brings us news of jellyfish aliens and he also has some ideas on how to make darts a more competitive spectacle, including allowing blocking your opponent's attempt to throw a dart.And in a major turn in the new year, Eoin takes Joe's word for something.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

A listener contacts us in need of advice about a strange, potentially dangerous situation involving an enraged pensioner and ice cubes.Darren sings the praises of cute rats in a glass case and we contemplate an eternity without the sun or the stars.Send your questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

We bring you another guest appearance from Terence Power – recorded during his recent stint standing in for Darren.Joe's rogue eyebrow hair gives him an idea to forge a brave new path for men's grooming.One listener's dedication and geographic location leave us stunned, and we hear a peculiar quandary of utmost awkwardnessThere's some discussion on cult uniforms, with Terence going for an outfit loyal to his roots, while Joe argues we'd all be warmer and more comfortable without any clothes.

We decide there has been enough about Christmas and we get back to the grind with a classic would you rather – involving a very public tribute to one of the superstars of 1990s wrestling.And then the offer arises of a sandwich date with JFK, Charles Manson or the Pope – a trickier decision than we'd have imagined, and a slightly more predictable imagining of how it might go if Joe went for a ham and cheese sambo with Manson.

We learn about the real Saint Stephen and his pretty grim end.Darren is amazed to learn there is mass on Christmas day and Joe tells us about how he once considered a life in the priesthood.One listener wants to know how much of Joe's time is lost to complaining.We find ourselves exploring the history of capes, assessing our own cape tolerance, and discovering Darren wants to wear a cape.Send your questions to stallit@goloudnow.com

Joe finds unmitigated joe in the segue of a lifetime, before he reverts to form as Christmas cheer gets on his nerve.Darren resolves to double down on nicotine and Joe is inspired to join him, and there's a moment of appreciation for the magic of sliced ham.One listener hopes Joe finds no cheer in Christmas, but presume he doesn't want it anyway and Joe, of course, goes on about the many miseries of the festive season, from the anxiety of the overflowing green bin to the stress of dressing.stallit@goloudnow.com

We're joined once again by Terence Power of The Talking Bollox Podcast, as Darren continues his recuperation.It doesn't take long for Terry to get into the Stall It mindset, as we discuss a fear of interstellar jinxes, time capsules designed to cruelly fool humans of the 23rd century, unlucky numbers around the world, the science of that feeling someone is watching you, and the desire to discover another plane of existence - if only just for something to do on a dull evening. Send us your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

It appears there is nothing sacred with Joe McGucken, as he adds the nation's favourite annual dinner tradition to his heap of hate.We're joined this week by Terence Power of the Talking Bollox Podcast, who stands in for an under the weather Darren.Terry gets to hear the first draft of Joe's new musical depiction of Irish crime as we return to Gangland The Musical.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

Joe is planning to turn his talents to the stage and bring us a musical tour de force set in Dublin's gangland, but he has to fend of accusations form his podcast colleagues that this is a simple rip off of some of theatre's best know stories.This week we have the annual tradition of a Christmas misery from Joe, while Darren has some headaches coming his way on the wedding planning scene – and is rejecting the overtures to have it become a Stall It live show.Joe getting into the breakfast market, also out of spite over the absolutely most minor perceived sleight. However, Darren wants to revolutionise the breakfast scene with a highly controversial move to eradicate a staple of the traditional fry.You can contact us at stallit@goloudnow.com

Hats of historical significance catch our imagination this week, as we trawl the past for the ideal headwear.Joe learns he may not hate the Beatles at all, and Darren feels Spotify is lying to him (or about him).There's a stark admission of just how little money there is to be had from making unloved Christmas songs, and one listener suggests a forfeit as punishment for a recent glaring oversight from Darren and Joe.Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com

You might need a strong stomach for this one as the lads go around the world to learn about some 'unusual' local delicacies including Rocky Mountain Oysters.Darren reveals what celebrity he spilled a pint of Guinness over and Joe admits to a particularly cruel/hilarious prank he and his mates pulled on his local barman.Darren lords it up in M&S and they pay their respects to the good ol' 'yellow pack' from Quinnsworth.Joe gets his freshly cut Christmas tree but nature boy is NOT fan of foxes and what if you were convinced everything in the world was A.I?Send all of your questions and comments to stallit@goloudnow.com