Stall It with Darren and Joe

Why is the tale of Pinocchio terrifying? How dark really are fairy tales? This week the lads discuss all things Disney and Pixar. We find out what happened in 1963, while Joe tells us how Mercury is in Retrograde as they dive into the world of superstitions.

A listener has a proposal for Darren that could net him some much needed wedding funding, while also giving the listeners a chance to attend the biggest day of Darren's life. Producer Eoin is showing undue favouritism to listeners who include praise for him in their emails, while Darren is making plans for how to spend €100m - mostly frivolously.

This week the lads are joined by comedian Justine Stafford, and the conversation veers from the silly to the serious. We hear about attending Irish celebrity parties, return to the Stall It superhero universe (with a very strange insight from Justine into various smells) and take a deep dive into the strange world of the Irish oral examination system. Justine also gives us a powerful insight into her battle over many years with eating disorders, and the lads discuss their own experiences with mental health issues.

The lads are in a quandary over which form of extreme weather they would most like to spend the rest of their lives with, and a listener has a confession of a petty crime that is leaving him burdened with guilt, so he comes to Darren and Joe looking for advice on how to make things right.

Where do you draw the line on what food to put in a can? Why was there an explosion of machines with faces in the mid-80s? Just how do they put the faces on the Billy Roll? Why would you send a horse to space? These any many other conundrums tax our minds this week, while Joe tells us about the world’s most generous ATM and we hear about misadventures with fireworks and the rise of the robot hoovers.