Stall It with Darren and Joe

Darren has been to the ultimate celebrity party and stolen the show to save the day when Jedward couldn't be found - and Joe is disgusted he left early. Joe tells us about his wife living with the phenomenon of aphantasia, which makes it impossible to mentally visualise images (like Joe's face). Darren has "had a fall", Joe tells us about the near perfect crime of a neighbour stealing his school u...

This week your questions have the lads pondering if they have ever spotted a tear in the fabric of the Matrix, weighing up what a month on a donkey is really worth, and trawl their memories for the most notable nicknames they've ever come across.

We begin in the Soviet Union at the dawn of computer game history and end up in Finglas, with Darren attempting to pet every dog in the known universe. Along the way the lads are deeply unimpressed by the record for the highest selling album of all time, feeling aggrieved Crash Bandicoot wasn't in more homes, shocked by just how lucrative the straight-to-video animation market was in the 90s, and...

Doing the crab backwards up an escalator might initially sound easy, but as Darren's survey of multiple celebrities reveals, it can be a bit more complicated. Joe is sticking to his guns on life in Amsterdam, even in the face of a reasoned argument from a listener, and the lads debate how to sum up their life stories for the silver screen.

We're joined by Martin Eastwood, a business man of many talents with a few adventures to tell us about - from bringing the Finglas curry shop scene to the X Factor, to partying with John C. Reilly, and catching a young Joe McGucken out with some clever marketing ploys. He also fields the lads Dragon's Den pitches, and does his best to turn them into marketing masters. Besides that, Joe has had ano...

Joe weighs up which Olympic sport he would be better at, while Darren scrambles to find a way out of a prison sentence in Siberia. We weigh up which online trend is most irritating and disgusting, and an eagle eyed listener has uncovered something a little curious in the many layers of Darren's online persona.

We look at a history of hoaxes, leading us down a very strange road exploring the tale of a much coveted (and seemingly, much faked) relic that has crossed the globe for centuries. We also hear about a hugely elaborate nineteenth century prank that seems to have inspired The Simpsons, some very patriotic (and very fake) animals, and the story behind the hoax of Hitler's diaries. Joe explains his f...

Listeners come to Darren and Joe for life advice, and might regret it. Joe pushes back on the dullness of fact checking and insists life and parties are better with a reckless regard for accuracy in storytelling, Darren celebrates a free haircut and laments never getting a free car, and then there is some significant praise for the evolution of the character of Joe McGucken.

Joe is no longer impressed by the skills of airline pilots, while simultaneously admitting he failed to land a role playing a dead body in a film. Darren shares his own stories of failure on the audition circuit, while Joe consoles himself with a consolation IMDB credit as "Chicken man". Joe is off on a holiday packed with intriguing activities, and dreaming of globetrotting adventures, but Darren...

Joe is accused of stealing form the church collection plate, while Darren faces allegations of public nose picking. Besides that listeners want to know if Joe would choose a life of daily curry, if eternity spent being tickled or mildly shocked is worse, and a listener predicts Joe is destined for a life sniping at society from the wilderness.

We take a deep dive into the story of the Unabomber, and how his mysterious bombing campaign baffled police for almost 20 years, before he unleashed his bizarre and controversial manifesto on the world. Besides all of that, Joe insists there's more skill in casual ironing than competitive fishing, Darren has been outraged by garden cushions finding their way into the bedroom, and Joe finds himself...

Despite pleas for calm, chaos has broken out among listeners and Joe has become the target of a now unstoppable wave of listener abuse. He's handling it all with grace, and has channeled his frustration in a full blooded argument that chicken soup is not real. It's a stance that sparks off one the most passionate debates in Stall It history.

Predictions for the future, life after death and discount portions of chips – we have it all for you this week. We delve into the realm of time travel, and hear predictions of uploading our personalities to the cloud where we can live forever – but would we want that? Joe brings us through the long and varied history of predictions for the future, from the eerily accurate, to the ridiculously wron...

The lads pitch plans for concept pubs, weigh up a strange choice between Aidan Gillen and Westlife, and Darren considers if he'd prefer life as Joe or Christy the Crinkler.

Joe has been on a holiday, which inevitably means he returns to the studio with complaints, regrets and grievances to air. Darren has some theories about kangaroos he'd like to share, while also reminiscing about the day he came close to drawing a crowd of 10,000 people to The Spire in Dublin, and Joe is refusing to let the "beds in stadiums" dream die - in fact, he thinks he might have turned the...

Joe faces a spontaneous outpouring of scorn from listeners this week, and decides to fight fire with fire when his approach to the rounds system in pubs is taken to task. There's also several people throwing the same criticism at the lads over their remarks in a previous episode, with a helicopter and a Wolfe Tones song at its heart. And there is a bizarre choice to be made between a trip up Bray...

Could the lads make a new life for themselves as fugitives? This week they put it to the test as they embark on a new life, on the run, following their escape from Mountjoy. It turns out the fugitives' life is a varied one, taking in Unique Menswear, numerous shopping centres, ready salted crisps and life as a castaway surrounded by strange marsupials.

The lads run war game scenarios on a podcasters Royal Rumble, consider what personality trait they'd consign to humanity's dustbin, Darren's strange alarm habits are exposed again, and one listener wants to raise some serious issues with an idea Joe proposed in a recent episode.

A chance encounter in a pub leads Joe to wonder about life behind bars, which bring us through the history of prison breaks in Ireland and around the world - from helicopters to laundry carts and tunnels. With all of this new found knowledge the lads wonder if they could break out of the big house, and pretty quickly a complex and convoluted plot emerges... Darren also addresses the rumours of his...

Your listener questions come from around the globe this week, and we're thrown into discussing Darren's secret home recipes, some grisly wordplay, serial killer calling cards, and Sky Sports News themed birthday parties.

The lads are back from LA and on reflection it seems they had trips of wildly different fortunes, with Joe left feeling rejected (but not at all bitter) by the Hollywood elite, while Darren returned with tales of robot butlers and a suitcase bulging with the spoils of the soft drink wars. There's also a deep dive into the world of chewing gum and competitive chewing, and Joe is amazed by the cultu...

Darren and Joe struggle to decide how far into the future they would like to see and debate the likelihood of winning a dance off against Rihanna. Then, left up to their own devices, they hit the streets of LA and attempt to get the public's opinions.

Darren and Joe ventured outside of Dublin to see what LA has to offer. While there Darren’s childhood dream of re-enacting Little Nicky goes awry because of a chicken shortage and the true extent of Joe’s friendship with Barry Keoghan is revealed. They also get momentarily distracted by the arrival of an ice-cream van.

We wrestle with questions of great philosophical depth, and unmatched nonsensical reasoning, as the morality of injuring grass come to the fore, the pros and cons of life as a cruise ship are considered, and a Dacia Duster poses a potentially lethal question.

We pass through tales of kissing machines (and Joe’s dreams of them), Darren’s run ins with suburban witches, the mystery of friends with secret homes, much misunderstanding of evolution, and Darren’s memories of a childhood career on the milk rounds.