Matters of the Heart, and other Failures

In this bumper first episode, Nathan Sparling and Scott Agnew kick things off with the full story of how Nathan found out he had severe heart failure - following a boozy bike ride, a slow-motion crash, and a very unexpected diagnosis.They cover hospital panic attacks, fluid-filled lungs, the politics of salt, and how ChatGPT became a stand-in nurse. Plus, a Bell’s Palsy scare in Turkey, missing Eurovision, and the battle between Beck’s Blue and 0% mango IPAs.This episode sets the tone for the podcast - part comedy, part therapy, all chaos - as Scott joins officially as co-host and the pair begin their honest, no-filter journey through heart health and life’s many other failures.Expect medical mysteries, emotional truth bombs, and the kind of stories you’d overhear in a pub... if the pub was in a coronary care unit.

When 35-year-old Nathan found out he had heart failure in the most random way possible, he did what any millennial with a malfunctioning organ would do: he started a podcast.Matters of The Heart, and Other Failures is part health chat, part therapy, and part comedy - where Nathan sits down with comedian pals, paramedics, cardiology pros, and famous faces to talk about heart health… and all the other things that have nearly broken us.Honest, funny, and probably a bit inappropriate - because if you can’t laugh about fluid retention, what can you laugh about?Follow now - episodes launching soon.