FILP Podcast

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Friends In Low Places (FILP) is an Irish midlife podcast about that stage of life where your back goes out more than you do. Hosted by four friends navigating life after 40, it’s a funny, honest and slightly cynical look at relationships, marriage, dating then and now, parenting, ageing, health, money, friendship, nostalgia and modern Irish life. Not self-help and not stand-up comedy — just real conversations, Irish humour, shared experience, and laughing at midlife realities once the dust finally settles. Website: www.filppodcast.com

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 27: The Things Nobody Warned Us About Getting Older

    Nobody warned us that getting older would involve having strong opinions about parking, mattresses, restaurant noise levels and what time we should be home.This week, Sean and Niall are joined once again by Carmel Ryan Leahy to discuss the things nobody warned us about getting older and the strange little changes that somehow creep into everyday life.Reading glasses in every room. Taking three days to recover from a night out. Getting excited about a quiet weekend. Choosing restaurants based on how easy they are to park at. And suddenly understanding the appeal of a good garden centre.But when did all these things become important to us?We ask whether our increasingly questionable habits are simply part of getting older or a sign that we've completely given up. We also look at the things that are genuinely better about being around 50, including caring less about what other people think and being perfectly happy to say no to things we don't fancy doing.Then comes The Great Midlife Trade-Off. Would you rather have a brilliant concert with nowhere to sit or an average one with a comfortable seat? A fantastic restaurant with terrible parking or an average one where you can park outside? And would you take your 25-year-old body back if it meant having your 25-year-old brain as well?Finally, we agree on the FILP Top 5 Signs You're Getting Older:Not caring what people thinkNeeding reading glassesGoing to bed earlyHaving a routineTaking longer to recover after a night outSo are we actually getting older and wiser, or just becoming increasingly comfortable with being boring? And more importantly, what's the one thing you do now that your 25-year-old self would be absolutely horrified by?Let us know in the comments. More from FILP: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FAQs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Contact⁠

    Episode 27: The Things Nobody Warned Us About Getting Older

  2. Oct 4

    Episode 26: The Older We Get…Wiser or Weirder

    Are we actually getting wiser as we get older… or are we just getting more comfortable with being a bit weird? This week we’re joined by Carmel Ryan Leahy, our first female guest and someone we’ve known since our secondary school days so she arrives with more than 30 years of potentially damaging information about some of us. With all five of us now around the 50 mark, we get into the habits, petty annoyances, questionable opinions and everyday behaviours we’ve somehow convinced ourselves are completely normal. Do you care less about what other people think as you get older? Are there things you really should know how to do by now? What would your family say is weird about you? And does getting older actually make you wiser or just more certain that everyone else is wrong? Along the way there are confessions, uncomfortable revelations and the discovery that some of the things we thought everybody did are apparently very much not normal. Carmel also brings a different perspective to FILP for the first time, although any hope that our first female guest might bring a bit of maturity to proceedings disappears fairly quickly. Mostly, it’s five old friends having the sort of conversation you can have once you reach an age where pretending to be normal feels like far too much effort. So, the older you get… wiser or weirder? More from FILP: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FAQs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Contact⁠

    Episode 26: The Older We Get…Wiser or Weirder

  3. Sep 20

    Episode 25: FILP Top 10 Greatest Irish Sportspeople

    Ireland has produced some unbelievable sportspeople. The problem is, we now have to agree on the greatest ten of all time. And this debate got so heated that Aaron somehow managed to pull his hamstring mid-episode 😂 We attempt to create the definitive FILP Top 10 Greatest Irish Sportspeople across boxing, football, rugby, golf, horse racing, athletics, cycling, GAA, snooker and more. But what actually makes someone the greatest? Is it medals and trophies? Dominance? Longevity? International recognition? Their importance to Irish sport? Or those moments when seemingly the whole country was watching? We start with our contenders before trying to cut the list down, with each of us getting a lock, a cut and a wildcard save. Then comes the difficult bit: putting the final ten in order. The question then becomes: where do they rank and who takes the No.1 spot? There are some fairly strong disagreements, some big names don't make it, and at least one sporting injury occurs without anybody actually playing sport. Tell us who we got criminally wrong and give us your own No.1 in the comments. Definitive according to four lads sitting around arguing. Other opinions are apparently available. More from FILP: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FAQs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Contact⁠

    Episode 25: FILP Top 10 Greatest Irish Sportspeople

  4. Sep 4

    Episode 24: Return of the TEDI 2: They'd Never Get Away With That Now

    Six months after our first Return of the TEDI episode, we're heading back to the TV, films and adverts of the 80s and 90s, including quite a few we somehow left out the first time. Friends, Father Ted, Glenroe, The A-Team, Knight Rider, Baywatch, ALF, Bosco, Wanderly Wagon and the Milk Tray Man all come under review as we decide what still works, what has aged surprisingly well and what hasn't a hope of being made today. We also remember when television was genuinely a shared experience: Italia '90, The Late Late Show and those moments when seemingly everyone in Ireland had watched the same thing the day or night before. We build the ultimate night in of television from our youth in the FILP TV & Film Draft. One comedy. One drama. One film. One game show. One advert. The Return of the TEDI Quiz is back, testing what we remember about theme tunes, adverts, films, characters and TV shows from the era. So was television genuinely better when we were growing up or are four middle-aged men just looking back through very heavily rose-tinted glasses? What TV show, film or advert from your childhood deserves one more comeback? Let us know in the comments. More from FILP: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FAQs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Contact⁠

    Episode 24: Return of the TEDI 2: They'd Never Get Away With That Now

  5. Aug 16

    Episode 23: The Things We Secretly Judge People For

    Everyone says they don't judge people... but we all do. In this episode, we're confessing the harmless, petty and occasionally completely irrational things that make us quietly judge other people. Talking on speakerphone in public. Not returning the shopping trolley. Being constantly late. Oversharing on social media. Filming concerts. Bad driving. Dressing up your pets. Where do you draw the line? We play "Petty or Fair?", before asking whether we've actually become more judgemental as we've got older—or whether we've just become less tolerant of nonsense. Then we turn the tables with "Judge or Be Judged", putting our own questionable habits up for judgement by the other lads. We also look at the things we judged people for when we were younger that we now completely understand. Early nights, comfort over fashion, saying no to nights out... apparently becoming the people we used to slag off was part of the deal. And finally: what's the one thing someone can do that instantly makes you think, "I'm not sure we'd get on"? More from FILP: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FAQs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Contact⁠

    Episode 23: The Things We Secretly Judge People For

  6. Aug 8

    Episode 22: Things We Couldn't Live Without That Didn't Exist 20 Years Ago

    Twenty years ago, we somehow survived without smartphones, Google Maps, WhatsApp, contactless payments and high-speed broadband... How did we manage? In this episode, we look at the modern conveniences that have quietly become essential to everyday life and ask whether they've actually made things easier—or just made us completely dependent on them. What do younger people completely take for granted? What modern habit would have sounded ridiculous 20 years ago? And what old-school ways of doing things were actually better? We play "Bring It Back or Leave It There?" — Sat Nav or paper maps? Spotify or CDs? WhatsApp or phone calls? Streaming or live TV? Then we attempt to agree on the FILP Top 10 Things We'd Keep If Everything Reset Tomorrow. Some choices are obvious. Others... not so much. Finally, we look ahead to 2046 and ask: what are we doing today that people will think is completely ridiculous in 20 years? What modern convenience could you genuinely not live without? More from FILP: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FAQs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Contact⁠

    Episode 22: Things We Couldn't Live Without That Didn't Exist 20 Years Ago

  7. Jul 26

    Episode 21: 20 Episodes Later… Are We Any Wiser?

    Twenty episodes ago, four middle-aged Irish friends decided the world needed another podcast...Were we right? In this episode, we look back at what we've learned, not just about podcasting, but about each other, friendship, and navigating middle age. What have we learned about podcasting and each other? Who prepares the most? Who's most likely to get us cancelled accidentally? What have we learned about being middle-aged that genuinely surprised us? We play "Guess What She Said", where we have to work out what our partners really think of us. We also hand out the FILP First 20 Awards, revisit our favourite episodes and moments, and put ourselves to the test with a quiz based on things we've actually said over the last 20 episodes. If you've been with us since Episode 1, thank you. If you're new here, this is a great place to jump in. More from FILP: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FAQs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Contact⁠ Chapters: (00:00) Intro & GAA Chat (02:15) 20 Episodes Later… Are We Any Wiser? (07:35) What We've Learned About Each Other (15:09) What We've Learned About Middle Age (22:38) Guess What She Said? (Partners Quiz 😂) (31:40) FILP First 20 Podcasts Awards (39:54) Know Your Podcast Quiz

    Episode 21: 20 Episodes Later… Are We Any Wiser?

  8. Jul 16

    Episode 20: The Things We Thought We’d Have Sorted By Now

    When did you realise adults don't actually have everything figured out? In Episode 20 of Friends in Low Places (FILP), the lads compare the lives they imagined they'd have with the ones they actually ended up living and discover that most of us are still winging it. From careers, parenting and relationships to money, DIY, pensions and all those "grown-up" life skills we thought we'd have mastered by now, they ask a simple question: Are we all just bluffing our way through adulthood? There's also the FILP Top 10 Things Adults Should Have Sorted By Now, plenty of honest admissions, a few uncomfortable truths, and proof that experience doesn't always come with confidence. Maybe none of us ever really grows up... we just get better at looking like we know what we're doing. More from FILP: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FAQs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Contact⁠ (00:00) The World Cup Is on Too Late (02:40) Surely We’d Have It Sorted by 50? (07:29) The Adults We Thought We’d Become (17:08) Parenting, Relationships & Bluffing Calmness (27:11) Ten Things Adults Should Have Sorted (37:51) The Few Things We’ve Actually Figured Out

    Episode 20: The Things We Thought We’d Have Sorted By Now
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Friends In Low Places (FILP) is an Irish midlife podcast about that stage of life where your back goes out more than you do. Hosted by four friends navigating life after 40, it’s a funny, honest and slightly cynical look at relationships, marriage, dating then and now, parenting, ageing, health, money, friendship, nostalgia and modern Irish life. Not self-help and not stand-up comedy — just real conversations, Irish humour, shared experience, and laughing at midlife realities once the dust finally settles. Website: www.filppodcast.com

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    FILP Podcast
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    28
  • Rating
    Explicit
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