In the ultimate episode of Health Binge, we are graced with Adam's gross bodily noises before he attempts to shit on anyone who wants to go on holidays and people just trying to have a bit of fun. The boys ponder about whether the world is getting stupider and enjoy an amusing anecdote about a man falling off a car. Adam conflates consumerism with capitalism while Stephen takes a harsh view of customers dictating the market. Adam then proceeds to stink up the grand finale with a curious obituary for Tom Hanks.
Alleged comedian Stephen fails to buy vermicelli noodles and beansprouts and makes a whole song and dance about it. Once the boys’ funny bones recovered from a true corker of a joke, conversation in this episode turned to public drinking laws in Ireland and their potential postcolonial and Catholic influences. How will the government’s remote work roadmap lead to better pizza in Kilkenny? Is a deep dish pizza a savoury cheesecake? Find out the answer to all these questions and more!
In this episode, Adam chooses to express himself through the prism of his expertise in Eurovision before choosing to s**t all over football players for expressing emotion. The conversation turns to this week's forced landing of a plane in Belarus before a long consideration is given to Swiss-Liechtensteinian relations. The boys also discussed, as you would expect from any health podcast, Napoleon's 100 days.
For fans of continuity, here’s yet another week where fitness is strictly off the menu. Instead, we’re big on culture and brain learnin’ of all kinds! From modern pop gossip about Ben Affleck creeping into the DMs of celebs and civilians alike to Stephen’s admiration – nay adoration! – of one Adolf Hitler by way of popular public speech patterns through the ages. Also in this week’s episode, Adam’s unified Geldof’s Law theory and conversation on the greatest Irish person of all time (spoiler: it isn’t Stephen’s Austrian crush).
In an episode some might describe as erratic, Adam reminisces about his long lost fringe of old, terrible films, pole dancers he’s seen dancing, and trousers with crotches that have seen better days. Stephen brings up quantum leap an underrated show from the 80s and 90s, makes astute observations about Penney’s touts, and explains why MMA is less intimidating than boxing as a sport.
After a bad week, Stephen books himself a holiday and looks forward to the loosening of restrictions in Ireland. We talk about a collective approach to making responsible social decisions after lockdown ends and reflect on how keeping masks around post-COVID could make for a more group-focused national mindset.
Football, football, football!!! We cover it all: the Super League going tits up, Ryan Mason’s (Mourinho's replacement) unforgivable youth, and Spurs losing the Carabao Cup. All this and more before Adam lowers the tone to discuss sexy education. With laboured segues, the boys go on to talk about Simon Harris's TikTok, why Diageo could deliver vaccines, and how Daniel Radcliffe is a gas man.
It’s all football and fannies this week as Stephen and Adam do a deep dive on the announcement of the European Super League and Lidl’s new period poverty initiative. Is it fair and just to exclude teams with low cultural capital from elite sports leagues? Should private corporations stay away from duties governments should be leading the charge on? Isn’t this all just a pathetic way of avoiding talking about fitness? Find out in this week’s episode!
Stephen returns from a week off work and dieting and gives the full lowdown on all the cocktails he's had. Adam thinks twice about eating a tumor, while Stephen reminisces about puking Jagermeister into his shoe. The mood turns to politics as the boys discuss new legislation that would allow you to ask if you can work from home. The episode then finishes up with Adam having a pop at a recently-deceased elderly man who's not even cold in the ground.
It’s all things hairy this week as Stephen embraces his inner bushman and Adam opens up about the first time he shaved his head. The biggest focus of this week’s episode is the recent Right to Disconnect policy to be adopted in Ireland around working hours and a worker’s right to unhindered personal time outside of working hours. Also in this episode, Oscar watch 2021 and the glory of old man Gary Oldman.
The boys discuss the history of Kilkenny, while Adam reminisces about how he knew who to be sectarian against. A big boat up the Suez Canal sparks off a long discussion about seamen and someone gets all up on his high horse over the Beacon Hospital scandal. May include a brief health-related interlude.
Stephen takes a big crap all over his progress by taking St Patrick’s Day off while Adam takes to drinking in public. The boys, in typical fitness podcast fashion, dive into an in-depth analysis of the recent South Park Vaccination Special before speculating on Ireland’s upcoming COVID restriction announcement in April. Fun fact: Did you know Stephen is heartless and doesn’t enjoy Disney cartoons? Who’da thunk it! Apologies for the audio quality in this one – we had a couple of hiccoughs!
The boys knuckle down to business this week as Stephen loses weight and shapeshifts into a new wardrobe and Adam wakes up with the energy to get out for a run. Toast of London and The Last Days of August get well overdue reviews and Adam whinges about getting a scam phonecall!
Stephen finds his zen, Adam struggles to build a routine he can be content with, and everyone gets in on the legal marijuana trade. Why are people taking pictures of undercover Gardaí? What’s with the dodgy Romanian accents? And when did Stephen start exercising enough to lose weight? All this and more in this week’s episode!
This week Adam reminisces about plates he has lost at funerals, while Stephen nostalgises about two weeks ago when he could cook delicious food. Things quickly turn awkward as Adam veers the conversation towards being naked in a sauna with an uncle, before the podcast is saved by a ponderance over which stars of RTE could be harvesting children for their adrenochrome. You wouldn't get this range in the Happy Pear podcast, assuming they have one.
Stephen talks about his new diet plan from Limerick fitness guru Richie Ryan (not that one) as Adam bravely refuses to bow to hierarchical, outdated naming conventions. The boys do a deep dive on a superfluity of rogue nuns living on a compound in West Cork and why they broke lockdown restrictions to attend an exorcism of the Dail. COVID fatigue has well and truly sunk in…
As the COVID groundhog sees its shadow, ushering in at least six more weeks of winter, the boys wax lyrical and whine on the topics of food, lent, the leaving cert, vaccination centres, the Simpsons, hand sanitiser ads, as well as getting an unusual insight into Adam the Shank's formative years.
This week Stephen gives us the low-down on his lockdown home economics skills, along with some (we really can’t stress this enough) not fitness-focused buffalo wings and blue cheese sauce recipes. Also on the conversation menu in this episode: lockdown sleep patterns, the Mandela Effect, Lent, Stephen’s truly indulgent helpings of shellfish, and an analysis of Damien Chazelle’s Squarespace Super Bowl ad and what it inadvertently has to say about contemporary working culture.
This week boys are feeling morose as the mundane starts to pour over them. Stephen ponders over whether or not to go vegan, while Adam reminds him of everything that he will have to give up. Fake IDs, frat parties, Europol and the smell of recession all make their way into this health podcast.
The snow and bad weather has thrown a spanner in the boy’s workouts so conversation turns to Burns Night, idiots, RTE and the BBC’s poor comedy commissioning ethic, and how some aggressive Irish folks made Canada the country it is today. Also in this episode, Adam and Stephen take a look at the current COVID death toll in light of some other global pandemics and incidents.