Health Binge

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.

Adam uses this week's podcast to wax lyrical about Phil Spector. The boys discuss Blue Monday... Which is exactly what you think it is, as well as Adam's quest for a box. 

The boys turn their attentions back to the mental struggles of lockdown this week as COVID cases soar across Ireland, the days are at their darkest, and the weather reaches freezing. Stephen does Dry January and plays with a drone, Adam has trouble sleeping. Also, what's the deal with robins and cold weather?

69, yes you read it right, 69 mouth-watering episodes. This week we tackle the important issues such as whether alpacas realise they are llamas, what comes out of a Stretch Armstrong if you tug him too hard, and all things Beandad. Fitness rears its ugly head again. How did Stephen get on with his sprinting? Listen in to find out.

Stephen and Adam count down to a new year by reviewing some of 2020's most memorable moments. Did yours make the list? Get in touch to let us know what we missed!

In the All Ireland Football Final Special, Adam learns what a pallete knife is. Christmas talk abounds, with chatter of who is naughty or nice. Spoiler alert: Leo is a dick.

Stephen and Adam are mired in the crust of life this week as yet another of their childhood heroes turns out to be a bum and a braggard who's lost all his swagger. What a kick in the gut!

Under the legal shelter of a somewhat ambiguous covid rule, the boys meet to record a Christmas Special in Dublin. Quizzes, presents and badmouthing of celebrities abound!

This one is a bit of a gimmie folks! Here we have it, the worst Health Binge episode we'll ever publish! Stephen and Adam hit a mental wall this week. With the short, dark days setting in and the impact of lockdown in full effect, the boys are decidedly worse for wear. Stephen completes his 60k for moustaches, Ireland moves into level 3, the Toy Show steals a classic Stephen and Adam bit, and someone has their testicles hanging out of their jeans. Who is it? Tune in to find out! Or give this one a miss, we can not blame you for that.

Imagine yourself sitting behind a desk in the office, you put out a bowl of sweets and next thing Adam's germ-ridden pilfering hand goes rooting around to pull out a handful. Well, we here at Health Binge think that should be a thing of the past. Adam celebrates Christmas in November as Stephen Grinches it up. More exercise, more Leo bashing... Everything you want from a podcast.

Adam's been spending his holiday wrapping Christmas presents and playing D&D while Stephen has been working himself up into a frenzy over a satisfying shank. Find out which animal Stephen thinks he could beat in a fight, why it's Adam's fault people in Ireland can't drink on the street anymore, and how Italians have been getting food wrong for hundreds of years. Does fitness rear its ugly head again? Tune in to find out.

In a week of great political tumult, Adam is raging at the cocktail people who wouldn't sell his friend a cocktail, while out on a 30km walk he expects us to believe took place all inside his 5km radius. This episode addresses politics, exercise, Grease and finishes on a nice little musical number.

Happy Halloweeeeeeen! Adam and Stephen (finally) get back to talking fitness after a couple of weeks of procrastinating, Elon Musk unexpectedly drops into the studio, and the boys have a special spooky surprise in store. Get ready for some scary sh*t y'all.

Adam poisons himself with a less than Italian approved carbonara, in an episode that shows the far-reaching influence of this humble podcast. The boys talk Borat and share what they are grateful for. Adam is grateful for watching stuff.

Adam and Stephen spend their Monday night trying to predict the restrictions for Ireland's second COVID-19 lockdown. Step-by-step discussions of the potential new measures to face Ireland this week (today in fact!). Also in this week's episode: famous last words, the heroes at An Post, Mark from Maynooth, Flan O'Brien's masterpiece The Third Policeman, punk rock spousal murders, and retail activist Jeff Bezos glass bombs Adam by mail. Complaints about the lack of fitness talk in this week's show can be made via Twitter to @StephenRyanJ

What is this? An episode of a health podcast that discusses exercise? Unprecedented. This week the boys do a post-mortem on Stephen's big run, before the discussion quickly turns to politics.

The whole of Ireland is brought down to Dublin's level as the government roll out a level three lockdown nationwide. Adam and Stephen discuss the new national guidelines and who will be most impacted by them. In other, non-fitness-related news (who'd have guessed it?), soccer scores and canned audiences, the South Park Pandemic Special, Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, and Galway being a general mad bastard and ruining the fun for everyone. Also, why is Stephen so horny for a good Chinatown?

From fake holidays to the 1918 Spanish flu, the boys morosely make their way through over 100 years of history.

Another week where we do our best to talk about anything except fitness! Adam turns 30, Stephen drinks the arse out of it and builds catheters, Leo Varadkar gets a smoothie thrown at him, and Dublin enters into a new lockdown.

While Stephen's weight loss has stalled, it doesn't stall the proverbial 'banter' as the boys discuss the Cardi Binocular hit single Wet and Gushy.

Join the great Abrakebabra keto debate of 2020 as Stephen desperately tries to convince Adam of the virtues of picking the meat out of a literal kebab and calling it health food. Lockdown fashion and social readjustment for introverts, the fatal side of napping, ordering from the children's menu, and a cocaine-slinging heel turn for everyone's (second) favourite Health Binger!

Stephen hits another weightloss milestone while Adam reminisces about his battles with his greatest enemy of them all... six year olds.

Listen in to hear about Stephen's weight loss this week. He finally hits a milestone he's been hoping for! Just in case you're worried we talk too much about fitness in this installation of our fitness podcast, also on the table in today's episode: Graham Linehan's transphobic ramblings, analysis of Phil Hogan's inter-county jaunts, resolutions and decision-making in lockdown scenarios, and Adam gets introspective about introspection. Don't forget to wish Stephen a happy birthday over on Twitter (@stephenryanj)!

After forty-nine long episodes, we have finally made progress. The boys talk about Stephen's weight loss, his diet, and his approach to exercise. As well as talking of course about all the other topics you would expect: socialism, housing, tv shows, fights on foraging groups, and uranium beads.

A veritable smorgasbord of conversation topics once again this week –we even touch a little bit on our fitness journeys, surprisingly. Stephen takes on the challenge of intermittent fasting (though how intermittent it is remains to be seen) while fashionista Adam takes on the greatest challenge of all… a baseball cap. Mike Tyson wrestles sharks, Stephen day drinks and learns about uranium glass, the boys browse eBay, and a tweed suit changes everything.

In your favourite health-themed podcast, the boys talk about people pretending to live in Ikea, hats, welfare, Napoleon Bonaparte and Anna Nicole Smith (the "lady with the big boobies").

Adam and Stephen take a deep dive into the facts surrounding the recent cutting of Ireland's Pandemic Unemployment Payment for almost 150 claimants in Ireland travelling abroad. Chat turns to steins v pint glasses, Kölsch, Ireland's Ancient East, government policy's impact on live entertainment, staycations, and the Drogheda Samba Festival. In other words, anything except fitness. In lighter news, Stephen met his hero, alleged pizzaiolo Ian Bailey, and came away with a bust and a delightfully unusual experience.

The boys have a go at Dublin, Roscommon and Carlow. Before pondering which serial killer they would like to meet in this episode of a health podcast.

Things turn political today as Stephen reveals the red wave of communism creeping up inside him. Meanwhile, creeping up inside Adam is a revelation of how far he has left to go on his fitness journey. Serbian personal trainers, homemade mozzarella, and that gosh darn bubonic plague.

The boys are back after a week in which Adam felt responsible for a spate of celebrity deaths. Catch up with chat about pubs opening, tequila handwash, good Twitter pages and, of course, the usual Varadkar bashing!

In the first episode since moving to the new weekly schedule, Stephen finds a new love in eating and cooking mindfully while Adam longs for simpler times of passing wind and kicking children. The show quickly devolves into an Italians Mad at Food fancast as it appears all the boys' cooking efforts stem from one Facebook group full of angry Mediterraneans. Also in this episode: in defence of Karens, dirty bastards spitting on the street, and things get dangerously close to salmon pizza.

The boys turn towards the left as they discuss the merits of a 6-hour workday. Adam is swimming in high-calorie granola bars and it turns out Linkedin is for the bin.