What's Your Problem With Nick Abbot and Carol McGiffin
By Global
Nick and Carol are back! Nick and Carol care about your problems. No, seriously. In this podcast they try to solve your issues. If they fail, that is not Nick and Carol's fault - it's probably down to the EU, or something. Send your problems to nickandcarol@global.com and prepare to be happy. (Happiness not guaranteed, terms and conditions apply, always read the label).
This week, Carol recounts her triumphant quiz show appearance, Nick has a problem with his new air fryer, a lady in France has an issue with garlic bread, there's snoring neighbours and how not to kill your houseplants.
This week, Nick and Carol pack the podcast full of festive assistance. There's family squabbles sorted, the decorations untangled, the dinner fixed and presents chosen. Plus, Carol has a confession!
This week, Carol goes on a sunny holiday with disastrous results, Nick sits at home freezing his bottom off, they root around
some department stores and give good advice on where to live.
This week, Nick and Carol order breakfast, give an IT man a one star review, fail to make friends at work, think about joining a
commune and choose between their bottom and their face.
In this week's globe-trotting issue, we take a trip round Carol's French garden, Nick gets disappointed in a bakery in Soho, there's a family problem about a trip to New York, an issue with a neighbour in Lanzarote and advice on how to avoid Piers Morgan on holiday.
This week, Carol has a fight with a washing machine, Nick
gets picked up in Los Angeles, there's an issue with a bad boss and an
incident with a reclining seat
This week, Carol is a pain in the neck, Nick imagines people naked, there's some unpleasantness on a Zoom meeting and they get
the feeling they're being watched.
This week, Nick and Carol talk about competitive emoting, Carol loses her numbers, there's an encounter with Taylor Swift and something unpleasant about wind.
This week, Nick and Carol get to the bottom of it, Nick has an incident on a boat, Carol appears on the news, they identify a problem with sports fans and launch an attack on estate agents.
This week, Nick and Carol pick a fight with computers, Carol shares too much about her decor, there's a unique way of eating
Jaffa Cakes, Nick still hasn't had his dinner, there's a problem with Kent and panic on a plane
This week's is the one that should have gone out last week, that we thought had been lost but was found thanks to the nice people at
Zencastr. Carol gets in a fight with a washing machine, Nick amuses two nuns and there's pudding.
This week, Nick and Carol actually give some pretty good advice about renting or buying a place to live, Nick goes on a controversial night out and Carol recovers from a bender.
This week, Nick and Carol get up on the good foot, Carol promises not to behead her waiter, Nick decides where not to go on holiday and they help out with rude people.
This week, Nick and Carol take in the view, Carol makes a legally enforceable promise, they help with the ringing in your ears and avoid watching snuff videos.
This week, Carol makes a smell, Nick tries the juice of the jungle, they help someone who doesn’t know whether to speed up or slow down and have an incident with the law.
This week, Carol tries to please her fans, Nick gets patted on the head, there’s problems with birds, cats and rats, they have too much choice and go searching for trees and rhinos but not in the same place.
This week, Nick and Carol explain when it is acceptable to have a small personal accident in front of your partner, Carol gets stuck in a festival, Nick tries to stop electricity leaking out and they both help with an eating problem.
This week, Nick and Carol decide whether not play tennis or golf, Carol gets assaulted at the airport, Nick sleeps in late and they both get some paella in.
This week, Nick and Carol watch something stupid, there’s advice about chewing gum and keeping your hands smooth and Carol’s hubby gets an indecent proposal.
This week, Nick and Carol help a dissatisfied radio listener, battle a big fly, accept cookies and go (separately) to have a drink in the Houses of Parliament. Guess which one got thrown out?
This week, Nick ad Carol protest that they ain’t done nuffink, Carol buys something huge by mistake, Nick admires the view from the edge and they both overdose on cookies.
This week, Carol is back from her holidays, Nick gets an offer he might refuse, they help find a person’s mojo and there’s party fun with the contents of the fridge.
This week, Nick and Carol get updated, Carol defends her wardrobe, Nick is attacked while driving and they have excellent advice for friends of new mothers.
This week, Nick and Carol help someone who takes their life in their hands driving through Croydon, deal with rodent issue, remember the last time they cried and upset a Garry.
This week, Nick and Carol help a person with a LOT of problems, get shown to a bad restaurant table, discuss forcing people to watch Carol on the telly and Nick makes a mistake in a cab.
This week, Nick and Carol go shopping, help an unread writer, discover something weird about Nick and about Carol’s pen pal. Plus, their favourite clips from the past 100 episodes, including the all-time most requested moment.
On the 99th episode, Nick and Carol make someone laugh at a vaccinator, help a worker whose colleagues are too cheery and another whose flatmates are too messy and Carol recalls what happened in a previous life.
This week, Nick remembers not to turn left and Carol goes under the influence, they help with a mother's texting, hiding the presents and chopping down trees.
This week, Nick and Carol go to the doctors, bleep out the rude bits, suck water out of the air, advise an old thrill seeker, choose a table in a restaurant they can't have and tell someone how to avoid a friend's boring husband.
This week, Nick and Carol think you should keep some things to yourself, decide not to go to the theatre, plan an escape from jail
and Nick gets cold while Carol gets sexy.
This week, Nick and Carol help someone who needs a time machine, over-share, crash into things, spot a James Bond lookalike, try not to pick fights with airline stewards and spot some mimers.
This week: Carol overindulges, Nick gets done for going backwards, they take a trip round a festive tat sale, help someone addicted to calling the radio and give bad career advice to a lawyer.
This week, Nick and Carol send their pizzas back, help with some winter blues, get asked to go on Strictly Come Dancing, find the best place for your toothbrush, and pick the safest place on a sled.
This week, a dive into Carol's CD collection, getting the other half to rake the leaves, being weird while shopping, paying a ransom for your doodle and something awful in a burger joint.
This week, Nick and Carol talk about being inappropriate with the management, getting wound up, Punch and Judy shows, old James Bond films, insulting your wife and being serious
nick and Carol are back and just as helpful as they ever were. This week, getting off Fortnite, boozy lunches, telling your boss what you shouldn't and being slowed down.
This week there is no new episode, instead this is the tape from June 2019 of the first time we got together after decades apart to try out what became the podcast you know.
This week Nick and Carol get invited to dinner but no food for them, worrying news about Thailand, the pregnancy minefield and being intolerant of intolerance.
This week, Carol is getting ready for her tour but has forgotten something important, Robert Redford tells a joke, there's tips on buying a house and Bryan Ferry touches someone's knee.
In this bumper summer edition, Nick and Carol talk drinking on a plane, falling asleep with a stranger, ghosts, fizzy pop, getting your bus pass and the Rolling Stones.
This week, Nick and Carol give advice on telling the truth on dating sites, cutting your sandwich in half, selecting a password and arguing with friends.
This week, Nick and Carol's hair goes flat, they root about in the picture box, contemplate a breakfast sausage, refuse flip-flops and Carol gets discovered in the last place you'd look.
This week, Carol is back in France and still complaining, we tackle Sunday builders, fail to water the plants, sing along to the kettle, are forced to accept party invitations and go bowling.
This week, Nick and Carol suffer a wardrobe malfunction (actually, just Carol), an anonymous helper steps into the light, they help a wallflower mingle, are placed on hold a lot and take on an airline executive.
This week Nick and Carol turn their phones very off, talk cruising, almost hang out with Beckham and Clooney and have a mild disagreement about...everything.
This week Nick and Carol finally unravel The Great Red Ball Mystery from last week, find an unflattering thing to say about new cars, try to remember what normal looks like and go in search of their mojos.
This week, Nick and Carol fix Saturday Night TV, select some casual wear from the Grattan Catalogue and investigate the hidden device that you didn't know you had.
This week, Nick and Carol congratulate us all for being good little conservers, Carol refuses to take a call, Nick gets drowned in paper, they eat in the bath and attacked by a Pole.
This week, Nick and Carol get cosy with a super-spy, spot a listening device in their homes, plan to avoid a pub garden and get bored of their friends.
This week, Nick and Carol help with expressing sighs of contentment, playing spot the witch, try edible maggots and definitely don't repeat themselves.
This week, Nick and Carol have helpful advice on finding out passwords with an axe and a power tool, marvel at the date and find out how to get maximum value for money from your taxes.
This week Nick and Carol bring people together but also pull people apart, find something to do under lockdown and help bring a little grumpiness into the world.
This week, Nick and Carol forget what they are supposed to be doing and fail at their jobs, try on some very old clothes, look themselves up on the internet and there's swearing in a Scottish accent.
This week, Nick gets stuck on the ice, Carol finds out where she works, why the TV news always sends weather reporters outside in storms and who is worth nine million dollars?
This week Nick and Carol wonder how the world would ever get on without us humans, advise someone who tries too hard to please and say something insensitive (no surprise there).
In this extra long festive edition, Nick and Carol talk baubles, help a man who sees his girlfriend as a fish and stop two brothers fighting in the back seat.
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This week, Nick and Carol have their homework marked and are told they must do better, find out what goes on in Norfolk and have a major dispute about what to do with jam.
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This week, Nick and Carol join the Flying Squad, send a message on a machine from another age, talk Saturday Night TV and help a desperate man in a pub.
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This week, Nick and Carol suffer through a blast from the past, help people that don't really need helping and go riding in their cars.
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This week, Nick and Carol start the day the old fashioned way, discuss the desperation of Britain's most famous couple, get a thumbs up from outside their target demographic and get buried in stuff.
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This week Nick and Carol actually do help someone who has a problem with his car being unattractive to the opposite sex, Carol has technical issues, Nick gets spam, and we learn how to avoid getting your hand chopped off.
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This week, someone's numbers come up, a chocoholic needs a fridge door lock and drinking rocket fuel.
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This week, Nick and Carol are at the end of their tethers, Carol picks a peck of peppercorns, Nick has a fight with a leaf blower and they both end up s**t creek.
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This week, Nick throws a fit in Greenwich, Carol defends herself against criminal charges and they both pick a fight with estate agents. Also, some people's problems are (sort of) solved (a bit).
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This week Nick and Carol tell those next door to keep it down a bit, try to prevent a domestic incident and don't give up anything for Stoptober.
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This week, Nick fails to help Carol with a travel issue, Carol goes into plumbing, they both hunt for Nick on the internet and choose the best place to see the world explode.
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This week, Nick is asked a fundamental question, Carol receives WAY too much information about airports and they tackle the booze cupboard.
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This week, Nick and Carol have a refreshing cigarette break in the surf, help the world with philanthropy and end up back in the toilet again.
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This week, Nick and Carol agree on a couple of safe words, help a man in a boring occupation become a superhero, finish doing thedishes and answer the biggest question of all time.
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This week, Nick and Carol go caravaning on water, help a man in Barnsley who has a problem with China and deal with a pain in the neck.
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This week, Nick and carol are stuck in the toilet being the paper police, Carol goes cruelty-free and they are asked the most profound question of this or any other time.
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This week Nick and Carol try to help a person that won't say what the problem is, they get locked out but it wasn't their fault and its off to the caravan and mother's coming too, whether you like it or not.
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This week, Nick and Carol bait their hooks, Carol catches a goose and Nick ends up in hospital, there's a dash to the airport and there's a little light trolling.
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This week, Nick and Carol inspect a bathroom, say where they thought they'd be in the future when they were younger and less beautiful and they attack selective hearing.
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This week Nick and Carol help someone who is irritated by absolutely everyone after being locked in for so long, tackle the tricky love life of the new normal and make a plan for the rest of your life. They really do help this week!
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This week, Nick and Carol get an uncontrollable urge, recieve some whining at about Millenials and Carol finds she has a doppelganger, someone exactly like her aaprt from one important thing.
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This week, Nick and Carol refuse to work harder, dance like no-one's watching, pop into a pub and find a use for the cardboard tube in a toilet roll.
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This week, after a peek behind the scenes, Nick is subject to a personal attack and Carol answers a woman complainin' about dropped g's, while droppin' her g's and they both finally agree on something!
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This week, Nick and Carol get an indecent proposal, suffer the heat in Hong Kong, plan a surprise birthday party and help out a Hi-Fi hoarder.
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This week, Nick and Carol come to the assistance of a person who knows a Carole with an "e", that is not as funny as our Carol without an "e", they smooth over a relationship going sour because one person will not close the drawers after him and help out with an arrogant cat.
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This week Nick and Carol help a man who has got too used to his lockdown life, fail to assist a person with a neighbour problem by going on about the effects of champagne on planes and wonder why evolution hasn't kept up with the human race.
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This week, Nick and Carol help a man who thinks his girlfriend has an underarm landscaping problem, we attack backpack wearers on trains, advise on smoking cigars and try to help a person who doesn't need our help.
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This week, Nick and Carol try finding out which accent is funniest without offending anyone, help someone whose partner keeps moving things around and are foxed by a question from a 12 year old.
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This week, Nick and Carol shout down from upstairs, drive a forklift over men in black hard hats and tackle boring parents.
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This week, Nick and Carol help a person who is having their peace disturbed by a Wendy House, ponder about whether bad people know they are bad and the big thing that Zoom users don't think about.
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This week, Nick and Carol assist a person who wants to be a good neighbor, disagree about food in interesting shapes and aid a man who wants to choose between his wife and his video games.
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This week Nick and Carol tackle music blasting through open windows, where not to travel to and which accents are the most trustworthy.
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This week Nick and Carol help a man who has moron problems, there's naked cartoon characters and how to stop your nails growing.
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Nick and Carol "help" a person with boundary issues, discuss experts and assist a desperate man with chat-up lines.
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This week Nick and Carol assist a woman with a bingo problem, we investigate suing a whole country and help out with a wierdo-magnet.
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This week Nick and Carol help out with a Death Metal problem, assist a person with a very short issue and Carol is accused of historical abuse (!)
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This week, Nick and Carol go into the bathroom together, experience an unexpected guest or two and take their feet off the seats.
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This week Nick and Carol look into a puppy's eyes, there's some finger-wagging and some high anxiety. To be helped, send your problems to nickandcarol@global.com.
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This week, Nick and Carol help someone with a coffee problem, there's a mystifying email about gardens and lemons, and a Generation Z'er complains.
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How do you make new friends? How much control do you have on an aeroplane? Do you like noise-cancelling headphones?
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Do we need the Royal family? Is £83 million too much? Should cannabis be illegal? Do you like Jane McDonald
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How many cows do we need? Did Shakespeare write his plays? Will the human race die out? Why is theatre so fake?
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What's the best noise ever? How do you earn £600,000 a year for smiling? Whom do influencers influence?
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Who's Schrödinger? What does a sheep dog really know? When a fly dies, does its body evaporate and leave the wings?
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What's a soffit? Will squirrels attack us? Would you leave your house if seagulls were waiting outside? Can you do a South-African accent?
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What's the format of widescreen? Does 8K make you feel seasick? Wouldn't a big TV look stupid in the corner? Can't you just watch TV on your phone?
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Why do people go to Oxford Street? What happens to old binoculars? Should you wear sandals? Why does everyone have to wear a high-vis jacket?
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