Don't Call Me Darling

This week, it’s officially Karen’s Fault Week, although Karen doesn’t seem particularly bothered about accepting responsibility for anything! Her glasses are causing confusion, the Hare Krishnas (or should that be Harry Krishnas?) get a mention, and Niall has a rather worrying mystery on his hands. *Two whole hours of his life have completely disappeared!* Could he have been abducted by aliens during surgery, or is there a slightly more sensible explanation?

This week, the pair get their heads around the bizarre idea of a washable condom, wonder why ageing pop stars refuse to retire and take a hilarious look back at the filthy lyrics we all innocently sang as children without having a clue what they actually meant!

This week, Niall takes a trip down memory lane with his favourite old TV shows, including For the Love of Ada, Talking Pictures TV and The Footage Detectives. There’s also Arthur’s Mailbag, some wonderfully ridiculous names like Mr Pickles and Bunny Carr, and the mystery of why we say things like “Let’s be frank!”

It’s another week of marital madness, outrageous confessions and plenty of laughs as Niall and Karen return with a brand new episode of Don’t Call Me Darling, the podcast where absolutely nothing is off limits!

Karen’s taken a bang on the head, but thankfully it hasn’t stopped her talking, and this week Don’t Call Me Darling is all over the place in the best possible way. Niall has a LOT to say about Aer Lingus WiFi and why getting the password sometimes feels like trying to uncover the Third Secret of Fatima. They also discuss the lost art of putting pen to paper, leaving the house looking like a complete state, the fake sick voice employees put on when ringing the boss and that strange phenomenon where your illness suddenly becomes their illness.

Episode Eleven of Don’t Call Me Darling sees Niall and Karen getting stuck into politics, relationships, attraction, religion, friendship and, somehow, a woman who married a bus. Could Karen ever enter politics? She has a few things to say about the Social Democrats, while Niall looks back at Bertie Ahern and remembers his own days with Real Radio. Then things take a slightly stranger turn with mechanophilia, the sexual attraction to machines, including the story of a 35 year old woman who actually married her bus.

Should you ever reveal your “magic number,” or is your sexual history one figure best buried with the exes? Is sharing your location a sign of trust, or simply twenty four hour surveillance with a loving smile? They also discuss how much sex is “normal” in a marriage, and what happens when one partner wants far more intimacy than the other.

This week on Don’t Call Me Darling, Niall and Karen Boylan ask why women refuse to believe a man can genuinely be thinking about absolutely nothing, and why “You pick the restaurant” actually means “Read my mind and choose the one I have already picked.”

Niall and Karen are back with another gloriously unfiltered tour through marriage, holidays and the little things in life that drive us all mad. This week, Niall reveals the infamous “geebag” story, while Karen compares Cork and Dublin slang and discovers that the same words can have very different meanings depending on which side of the city you come from (Northsiders Vs Southsiders)