Episodes

Send us a text Episode 12 Season 2 Another amazing guest joins the boy's and what a story he has to tell. Life in the Armed forces Suicide Complex Greif Adjustment Disorder Complex PTSD Trevor Bygate, 48, joins Martin and Patrick for an informal chat about his time in the Armed Forces and how he received the devastating news that his Daughter Chloe had taken her own life in 2014 when she was just 19. It led to him being medically discharged with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) a...

Send us a text Episode 11 Sorry this episode was delayed by seven days due to our special last week where Martin updated us on his Cancer and his new battle. Today the boys interview a very special guest in Jeff Boland. Jeff once an active firefighter on the front line helping people and saving lives found the pressures very hard at times and found an outlet in a lite drink with colleagues after a busy and sometimes stressful shouts. Before long the drink had taken control and Jeff became an...

Send us a text Episode 10 of Season 2 This episode replaces the episode that was due out today featuring our Guest Jeff Boland who has suffered from Alcoholism, Kidney replacement and triple bypass surgery. This episode will now be broadcast on Friday 4th October 2024 Today's episode follows Martin's recent visit to the hospital for is 3 month (quarterly) check up, the results are not quite what Martin expected. Please have a listen as Martin updates us fully and what the near future holds f...

Send us a text Episode 9 - Series (Season 2) After three weeks of wonderful guests Martin & Patrick are on there own for a catch up. Martin still doing well on his new Cancer treatment heads back for his 3 monthly check up and CT Scan. Its also good news as for the first time in nearly two and a half years Martin applies for a new Job, can you guess what it is yet all will be revealed. A new feature this week is guest Ian Trushell who is currently battling Stage 4 Bowel Cancer which has spre...

Send us a text The Lost Roller Today is Legend Music day and the boy's have yet again another very special guest, Nobby Clark from "The Bay City Rollers" fame Original lead singer and founder member of The Bay City Rollers Real name: Gordon Fraser Clark, born Edinburgh 10th September 1950. His early success in the 1960’s and early 1970’s as lead singer and founder member of The Bay City Rollers, saw him performing lead vocals on the band’s early hits: Keep on dancing; We can make music; Mana...

Send us a text The Robin Cancer Trust We have been very spoilt recently with some wonderful guests and we continue again today as we speak to founder and CEO Toby Freeman of "The Robin Cancer Trust" Since 2012, The Robin Cancer Trust have reached tens of millions of people online, engaged with hundred of thousands of people in the community, and delivered life-saving educational talks to over 100,000 young adults in schools, colleges & businesses across the region. ​The Robin Cancer Trust was...

Send us a text Something a little different this week. The Boy's are very excited to follow up a recent Podcast where a brief discussion on the near death experiences took place covering issues such as reincarnation, ghosts, spirits, the afterlife. Today we welcome a very exciting guest TJ Higgs, a renowned medium, psychic, author, mentor and public speaker for over 25 years. So interesting is the subject matter today our episode this week has been extended to give us a chance to understand t...

Send us a Text Message. Episode 5 Season II And this week its our special guest Scotland International Professional Rugby league and Rugby Union player Harvey (Harv) Burnett. Harvey was Diagnosed with Cancer in his early 20's just as he was reaching the peak of his professional career in sport, a devastating blow at such an early age Harvey tells us openly how the diagnosis immediately impacted on his health, life and exciting career. Harvey started as a junior for the Elmbridge Eagles, and w...

Send us a Text Message. Season II Episode 4 This week the boys are back at the local Pub (Bar) to record a casual Podcast and catch up generally on the summer months. Martin brings us all up to date on his recent travels and an encounter with the local wildlife, while trying to enjoy a day at the seaside. We have an update on Martins Cancer and his new challenge with weight loss and an update on the findings of his recent Diabetes examination, and new drugs suggested. The UK is going through...

Send us a Text Message. Already into Episode 3 of Season 2. We are pleased today to have our Guest Norman Hume, martin and Patrick have Known and worked with Norman for 30 years, Martin's childhood Dentists assistant was Norman's wife Anne. Norman has finally (after the second attempt) agreed to come onto the podcast and tell us about his very rare illness diagnosed as a young boy and the complaints he suffers with today. Norm has a rare illness called Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Norman also...

Send us a Text Message. Episode 2 of Season 2 and the boys are already hot on the trail of celebrities. This week Martin and Patrick are overwhelmed to be interviewing one of this Countries (UK) Mega-Star's Mr Jimmy Tarbuck OBE (Tarby). Jimmy's first television show was "It's Tarbuck " on ITV in 1964, though he had been introduced on Sunday Night at the London Palladium in October 1963 by Sir Bruce Forsyth. He then replaced Forsyth as the last original host of the show from 1965 until it was a...

Send us a Text Message. Series / Season II Well we can hardly believe it, we are kicking off Season 2 (Series 2) with a bang. Martin and Patrick get together for a chat and a discussion all around; The after life Ghosts Spirts Ouija boards Mediums Psychics Reincarnation A very interesting discussion (Both serious and humorous) around the part Mediums and Psychics can play after someone has lost someone close. Afterlife is there such a thing? reincarnation does it really exist? There are so...

Send us a Text Message. This is the Final episode in this series (Series 1), and yes we have completed 42 episodes since our very first back in September 2023. We finish on a real high as Martin tells us all about his recent Cancer tests (Martin has Stage 4 Lung Cancer), including the 4 weekly MRI scan recently completed. It was nearly 12 Months that Martin laid in Hospital with things looking very beak. Looking back we revisit Martins Highs and lows from the point of diagnosis to his update...

Send us a Text Message. Today is Episode 41 Yes we cannot believe it ourselves 40 episodes completed, today we look back on some of the popular episodes that stand out for Martin and Patrick. From Episode 1 "The beginning" released on 29th September 2023, Martin and Patrick have had some extremely interesting guests, interesting subjects and a lot of fun along the way. Heading towards the end of Series 1, the boys feel blessed that the podcast has been so successful both here in the UK and ac...

Send us a Text Message. Episode 40, wow where has this time gone. Today the boy's go down the local boozer to meet a local man this week to give us an insight into the of physio. Physiotherapy helps to restore movement and function when someone is affected by injury, illness or disability. It can also help to reduce your risk of injury or illness in the future. It takes a holistic approach that involves the patient directly in their own care. Physiotherapy is treatment to restore, maintain, a...

Send us a Text Message. This week we have a real treat as the boys travel down and into Kent. Our special guest today has had 3 number-one hit singles, appeared in the Eurovision contest twice coming second, and then First in 1981 with "Making Your Mind Up". Our very special guest this week is Cheryl Baker of the 80's Pop Group "Bucks Fizz" This is a wonderful interview staged in Cheryl's back garden during one of the sunny days recently and we are also joined by Cheryl's lovely dog Cuba. Ch...

Send us a Text Message. Cancer Research "Race For Life 2024" The boy's come live from Cancer Research Race for Life 2024 in Bury St Edmunds England. Patrick is running on behalf of Martin in the 5K race for Cancer Research UK's annual fundraising event. While Patrick slogs his way around the circuit, Martin will be making his way around the event speaking to different people supporting and participating this year. No matter how cancer affects us, life is worth Racing for. Enter Cancer Resear...

Send us a Text Message. This is a first for the boys, an outside broadcast using their new Nomono equipment in the car on the way to BBC Radio Essex, We call this Episode "Cardiac Karaoke" after the famous James Corden Series of carpool karaoke with his special guests. Patrick & Martin have no special guests, however, they are in the car and one has cardiac issues so we couldn't resist the links. It is a light-hearted episode this week where the boys chat about all sorts of things and some of...

Send us a Text Message. A Day at Mama B's - Special Cancer, especially Breast cancer is the order of the day today at "Mama B Cancer Wellbeing Days" and what a day it was, It was truly inspirational to both Martin and Patrick and a privilege to be allowed behind the closed doors of Stephen John’s Salon. Owner Steve Trowles set up the group after many years of supporting women needing wigs due to their treatment. He said: “I met these women and they opened up to me. I would then have the next c...

Send us a Text Message. Welcome to this week's episode and we really cannot believe this is number 34 The boys are taking a break from health matters this week as another guest arrives in the Studio. This week its ex-professional football player Steve Wright (Charlie). Steve spent his professional career in the football league mainly playing for Colchester United in the UK. Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) 1977–1982 | Colchester United | 117 | (3) 1982 | HJK Helsinki | 9 | (1) 1982–1983 | Braintr...

Send us a Text Message. After three weeks of guests Martin & Patrick find themselves back in the studio but this time back on their own. It's a chance to catch up and discuss some interesting topics on health matters, the ban on Ice Cream in Milan, Italy, and a Ramb that decides to attack its owners and turn on the police. One of the main topics discussed at length is the drug known as Statins, both Martin and Patrick are on Statins Martin 40 mg and Patrick the maximum dose allowed is 80 mg. ...

Send us a Text Message. Today the boys (Martin & Patrick) have professional footballer Steve Wignall as a guest and he openly discusses his professional football career. He also touches upon his recent struggle with memory loss and the possibility of having CTE (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy). CTE is a brain condition thought to be linked to repeated head injuries and blows to the head. It slowly gets worse over time and leads to dementia, but with the right help and support can manage the ...

My Wish Charity In today's episode, Martin and Patrick return to their second home at the West Suffolk Hospital to visit the offices of My Wish Charity and meet up with Sue Smith (Head of fundraising) and her colleague Tanya Fifield (Fundraising Officer). The charity was entered on the Central Register of Charities on the 15th of September 1995. It constituted 91 individual funds and was managed ad ad-hoc by the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust’s Finance department. A part-time fundraising m...

Well today is a very special day as we welcome our second celebrity guest World Champion Snooker Player Cliff Thorburn Patrick and Martin have a great informal chat to Cliff who now lives back in Canada. Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn (born 16 January 1948) is a Canadian retired professional Snooker player, Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play. Cliff won the World Snooker Championship in 1980 defeating Alex Higgins 18–16 in the final. He is generally recogn...