Down on the Farm Podcast with Henry Carpenter
Aug 22, 2026 · 47 min · 10 segments
James Smith (better known as adapt with James) was diagnosed around 5 years ago with MND. Motor Neurone Disease is a muscle eating condition in which your body's nerve cells progressively get damaged…
Henry CarpenterHostI was still able to sort of just about cycle home and I remember it was raining and I was like I'll just have a little cry on my way in because I thought I'm never going to be able to do this again.
I remember him saying to me he said the quicker you can come to terms with the fact that you were MND the quicker or the easier it will become and it's true.
Yeah accepting the fact that I have this disease that at the moment has no treatment opened doors and opportunities that I never would have dreamt of being able to do if I didn't do it and I thrive on that I think the salesman in me is constantly chasing they have been feeding me a chip in the pub because I couldn't feed myself and he was going here comes the train he was like
I was still able to sort of just about cycle home and I remember it was raining and I was like I'll just have a little cry on my way in because I thought I'm never going to be able to do this again.
I remember him saying to me he said the quicker you can come to terms with the fact that you were MND the quicker or the easier it will become and it's true.
Yeah accepting the fact that I have this disease that at the moment has no treatment opened doors and opportunities that I never would have dreamt of being able to do if I didn't do it and I thrive on that I think the salesman in me is constantly chasing they have been feeding me a chip in the pub because I couldn't feed myself and he was going here comes the train he was like
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
