Life with Nat - EP170: Scraping the Barrel #32

Episode Date: November 10, 2025

They've survived another live show! Nat's third and Marc's first, live in Luton, the night before this ep was recorded. How much of the end of the night does Marc remember? Or is he too busy thinking about The Traitors train and how many train places we can book for future tour shows? Enjoy! xx Please subscribe, follow, and leave a review. xxx You can find us in all places here; ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podfollow.com/lifewithnat/view⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ We're on Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/lifewithnatpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Nat's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@natcass1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Neice's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@natsnieces⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Tony's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@tonycass68⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Linny's insta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@auntielinny.lwn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ THE BIG CHRISTMAS LIVE SHOW 7th December ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- claphamgrand.com/event/live-with-nat-at-christmas/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The tiny warm-up shows 4th Nov - Dixon Studio, Palace Theatre, Southend - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.trafalgartickets.com/palace-theatre-southend/en-GB/event/other/live-with-nat-work-in-progress-tickets⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 6th Nov - Hat Factory, Luton - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.culturetrust.com/whats-on/live-nat-work-progress⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 16th Nov - Hawth Studio, The Hawth Theatre, Crawley - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk/the-hawth/whats-on/live-with-nat-work-in-progress⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Book Club: November's book - All Together for Christmas by Sarah Morgan & December's book (optional extra for the speedy readers) - A Heart for Christmas: Advent Romance by Sophie Jomain Nat’s solo chats - any rants always welcome!  Scraping the Barrel - SCAN AND SHOP VIRGIN NO LONGER! Bonce vs list! - Are you a list maker? Always collecting for Nostalgia Fest! What’s brewing with the Nieces - are we all skipping the end of summer, all of autumn and going straight to Christmas - Nat’s door is! Group chat ettiquette & pranks. Nice Lorraines… get in touch! Advent calendars & gift recommendations v. welcome! Things we’re nagging with Linny about - More lateness stories and some cleaning questions, please! The Tony talks chatter - Keep your DIY questions coming, also open to some saucy two paragraph stories for Tony to read out at the Southend show - think cheeky postcards (both in tone and length)! Can we make Tony an influencer and get him any freebies?  TBC Cultural differences ep - inspired by Linny’s Mediterranean heritage and her & Ellia's Italian trip, we'd love to hear about the cultural differences you've noticed between the UK and basically ANYWHERE else!  A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, hello, hello, hello, welcome to life with him now. I hope you've all had a lovely weekend and happy Monday to you all. What a start. I'm doing what a start. Why do you slurp so much? I don't know. I'm not happy about this seat again, you know. Eliza's got the decent seat that doesn't creak

and already this is creaking. I don't know why that. Eliza should have the creaky one. Eliza shouldn't have anyone. They should all be in here. Look at this. Oh yeah, you've had a blood test this morning. Did they distill it?

Did they put it in a bottle? I don't know. It's quick. You've got to be quick with the plaster. You've got to rip it off quickly. No, you do it. No, you do it. Can you reach?

You can't reach. Oh, on. Ah! I bet there's a lot of hairs on that. A few. Let's have a look. This blooming seat still... It's not like wax, is it?

Oh. It's not like wax. That really hurt. You should get some waxing done if you think that hurts. So should you. How are you feeling today? Yeah, really good, thank you.

How are you? Really good. How's your head? Lovely. We did, um... You can't, can't keep slurping like that. Okay, just give me a moment now. It's terrible.

I mean, you're actively trying not to, and it's still terrible. Anyway, we did Luton last night. Yeah. It's your first live show. Yeah. How did you feel? How did you find it? It was fine.

Yeah. Yeah, I really enjoyed it. It was nice to see you. Well, it was nice to see one because I've heard so much about them. Yes. So I basically sort of just sat there and enjoyed listening to you, really. I feel like I didn't talk that much. I do, actually.

There was a lot of us. Because there's loads of us, isn't there? But it was so lovely. Yeah. I thoroughly enjoyed last night and I really like this work in progress stuff I get it now

at the beginning I was like I don't understand I see how it works and then each one you do you take something from that or you lose something and I've got a question yeah you might not want to answer it truthfully

go on but do you think did you find yourself repeating things like almost like you've not scripted it but did you say did you ever feel oh we've done this bit before the

The introduction, I suppose, because not really. I'll tell you now, there was a couple of things I said. I thought I'd need to remember that next time. I mean, it was a fluky. Yeah. I thought something that was mildly amusing. And I just thought, right, you know, for everyone's benefit, I think I just need to try and remember stuff.

Do you know what I mean? What things? I don't know. I can't but I said now. I mean, that's the problem, isn't. Yeah. But it was brilliant and we've had some lovely feedback. I just think it's just a bit, it is bizarre though as a concept.

It is funny, it's like Tony was saying. You know, I've been at work today and I'm now sat on a stage. I know, it is, it must be strange for you all. But it's lovely that you're joining me on the journey. Yeah. Yeah. And I think the more we do, it's brilliant. It's great.

It's not really, I don't think I'm that cut out for it. This is not me, no, no, no, no, no. Here we go. No, I'm not for one second saying it for that reason, and I'm not being like I've been sometimes on the podcast. But come on, I'm sat on a stage with an audience. I think it's acceptable for me to go, actually, I'm not sure about this, because it is kind of an unusual experience.

Yes. As everyone has said. But it works. Okay. And everyone really, really enjoyed it. I've had a lovely message here to say, Hi, I hope you're all well. Just wanted to say thank you for a fabulous evening in Luton.

I came with my friend Claire. We had a great evening. You're all amazing. I love listening. Thanks for signing our books afterwards too. Please do more live shows. Lots of love from Katie. So that was nice.

It was lovely that people brought their books along as well. Yeah. My book's gone down to just over a tenor on Amazon. Brilliant. Is it in the bucket yet at the front of the test goes? No, I don't think so. Okay. Has it ever been more than that?

It was 20 pounds when it came out. Was it really? Because it's a hardback. So they start off at that and then they bring them down. You get a paperback? Yes, I will have a paper back, but not for a long time. Well, there you go. So.

So your book, I mean, that's a good, it's a good stocking filler. I think so. Admittedly, I've not read it yet. No. Is that bad? Should I have done? Well, we'll let the list. decide, should we?

07-8, 2019-19. I mean, you do know everything that's in it. And when I was writing it, I feel like I'd show you the pages. And so you have sort of read some of it. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

You spent my name wrong, by the way, on one of the pages. Someone's pointed out. But I think that is an auto thing. A typo. Definitely. Well, someone's corrected it. Well, it's not very good, is it? Nope.

I thought you might have got that right. One of our audience members got your name right last night. Spelt it right, did they? Yes, she didn't know that, though. She very politely went to say, well, she, I mean, you said, how does Mark spell his name? Well, she's not going to go M-A-R-K, is she? Oh, I see what you mean.

There's a bit of a leading question. Leading question, yeah. And I could tell her sort of a little, I can't but her name was now, that's a shame. Laura. Is it Laura? I believe so. Yeah. You were rather inebriated on the way home.

On the way home? Yeah. Yes I had a celebratory drink None of us as a pub family Yeah Understand How you got that drunk

I don't know It was the excitement And also I think it was the nerve It was the Live with Nat Catering to blame That needs to be sorted out

I mean I don't mind Come to do this stuff for free But we all rock up And we all sit on the stage And support you It's great It's great fun genuinely it was fun

Yeah. I really enjoyed that last night. It was pleasant. But catering. What's wrong with the catering? Well, nothing's wrong with catering if we were having a picnic, like in the summer. What's mean? I mean, it was, you can't.

It's dinner. What do you want me to do? Rock up with an air fryer, putting some breaded chicken and nuggets. No. I mean, at the very least to get like a little bus out of front. No, you could get like, I don't know, do something. A takeaway or something, get a deliveroo. I mean, opposite, there was a really nice looking restaurant.

So what you're saying is you had an empty stomach. I don't think that helped. I mean, I have to say, I did post up a picture of the pre-show snacks. That actually sounds like a tongue cristo. I know. But it was quite a large spread, I thought. I mean, I can't eat before the show anyway because of my nerves. Yeah, why are you nervous?

You're brilliant. I will always be nervous. I can't help it. My body just goes into a nervous state, but I can't eat anything. and I had one drink before the show and I don't drink within the show at all because I'm too busy and I don't want to drink there so when were the drinks

because you kept disappearing as well you kept disappearing to calm the nerves you went to the pub I hear I went to go and meet a friend who you know was in the audience so you had a pint with Callum so you had a pint with Callum

did you have a can of gin and tonne? Nick? Did I have a cab? No, I'll tell you, do you know what? I had a very strange mix of drinks yesterday. So can we just run through because I couldn't believe you in the cab? Because do you remember, do you remember saying, I'm getting out here with Maria?

I'm going to sleep in Alfie's bed and take him to school tomorrow. I didn't say that. Yes, she did. This is terrible. You don't remember that? No. Hang on. It isn't good.

Hang on a minute. This is terrible. Babe Just on the pod darling I'm just talking to Mark about how drunk he was and could you just confirm to our listeners

what he said to you about going back to your house This is so embarrassing You were going to I was a bit confused because I thought you wanted to come back to mine so we didn't have to watch traitors but then you wanted to come back to mine

watch traitors with me sleep with Alfie and take him to school this morning. Thank you because he didn't believe you, he said that. You're making that up. I've just found her to prove it. That's amazing.

You were absolutely... You took your seatbelt off and everything. You were getting out? I swear my life. That's really worrying. I was gutted to be fair. I've got a lovely whiskey. I thought I was all right when we were...

I don't know. Well, fortunately, you weren't drunk on. stage, that was quite good. We were all right. We were fine, thank you. Anyway, all right, this is brilliant. Really humiliated. Thanks, babes.

Thanks for that. I think the fresh air hit you. Yeah, the excitement. And also, Maria, I was complaining about the catering. I think that's a fair comment. I don't think there was much food. I mean, he's a pistake. He's having a go at me.

You had a beat sandwich. Exactly. Best ever as well. And he's having a go at me. Good sandwich, that. Maybe we should Maybe next time though we should get a deliveroo

Get a takeaway Maybe not get there Five hours before it starts as well Oh that Oh god And the picky bits were good We maybe just needed a few more Can't eat too much

Can you before you can't? I could easily No we wanted You wanted a McDonald's But missy bollocks Wouldn't stop off No Yeah

That would have been Cracking Yeah there you go See that would have been good There you go So basically I should really Should really have stayed at yours

and watch the traitors. Yeah. And we could have got a Macdonald delivered. Exactly that. Would have been a good evening. Live and learn. Live and learn. Hey, ho, there you go.

All right, my angel. See you shortly. See you in a bit. Bye, darling. Bye. I've just spilt coffee all down. This is really bad. I'm not in a good.

It's not good. Not in a good way, are you really? No. We're off to see Ricky Javis tonight at the Palladium. Yep. You look really. really excited about it. What show is it?

Is it the one we've seen before? No. Is it a new one? New show? Yes. Is it a work in progress? No. It's a new show.

It's coming to the end of his world tour. And it's not the one that we saw, which wasn't very long ago. Hmm. No. Okay. Don't believe you. Don't believe you know the answer to that. I don't believe so.

Hang on. I don't think he's... Oh. Mortality? Yes. I don't think it was mortality that we saw last. Yes, it was. Was it really?

Yes, it was. Correct. That was a couple of years ago. No, no, no. It was a working progress. Yeah. And then when did we see the same show? Because we compared for two.

And it was also called mortality. I don't think so. We watched it in St Albans and then we watched it in London. And I think, I think it was at the Palladium. No, it was. He loves the Palladium, didn't he? Right. Likes it. So I think we've even seen it at, it's called mortality.

No. I'm telling you now. It isn't. It is. Ricky Jervis stands up. Oh dear. I'm going to look it up. In order.

Hang on a minute. This is really exciting for anyone at home listening to this. Oh, I don't know now. We saw humanity. Oh yeah We haven't seen it We haven't Are you sure?

Yes You're making me go mad St Albans was about Three or four years ago darling Yes It goes so quickly It does But I'm very very excited about it

And You all love it I don't know what you think I'm saying it's so much But I'll hold on the book Get out of the roll watch But please If anyone here's anything

Please don't fucking tell me Your language that's the opening that I mean that was amazing the beginning of that thank you it was very impressive it was just luck

that the Traitor's final was on which I have to say I cried my eyes out it was so brilliant well I've not watched it so don't spoil it absolutely brilliant I've told you

yeah brilliant Alan was so good and the relief when he told them it was just absolutely amazing I've just messaged Alan and I just said, you'll have 15 million messages, but I loved it and I love you so much.

Well done. How amazing. And I'm a patron for solving kids cancer, which is a small neuroblastoma charity that supports families and children living with or have lost children to neuroblastoma. And he is a patron for neuroblastoma UK. So his £87,000 and a half pounds goes all to the research and help of neuroblastoma, which is something so close to my heart. And he got to say it on the traitors, which was watched by, I think it was 11 million last night,

and that's just overnight figures. That's good. So what a brilliant thing. And what's he said? Oh, he hasn't got back to me. I think he might be a bit busy. Do you think? He does follow me.

We do chat. Thank you very much. Yeah, we do, yeah. No, hang on, I'm not for one second implying that he's not going to speak to you. No. Don't get it all funny. I think he's probably having a busy morning. Why?

Can you imagine the offers that are coming in? It would have been recorded ages ago. That doesn't matter. No. I'm saying it was on last night, so everyone's talking to it. Can you imagine the morning he's having? I see what you mean. I can imagine you're on traitors.

I can see you doing that. I would love to do it. I mean, who wouldn't want to do it? Can you imagine a celebrity who goes, oh no, I don't want to do that? Or maybe. Yeah, maybe actually there are people. Well, if you're a viewer of it, I think. I think if you're a fan of the show, you'd want to do it.

Yeah, it would be brilliant. Who knows? Get a bit of time off. A bit of time off. A bit of a bit of a bit of a couple of weeks as well. It'd be nice. I wonder how long it is. Hopefully about a month, two months maybe.

Why are you being so rude? Not being rude. You are, I'll tell you now, I am scraping the barrel this morning. Really, I'm scraping it. Or in life in general? You are, even in your eyes, you're a little bit sheepish today. Sheepish? A little bit, you're a little bit embarrassed of what happened last night.

I'm not embarrassed. I'll be honest with you, though. Yeah. I think I'm a bit overwhelmed by it. I can't believe that you didn't like the food. It's really upset me. Beef and onion. No, hang on.

The sublime crisps. I liked all of the food. It was an M&S. Spesh. But not for dinner, you see. I look forward to dinner. You see, I'm not bored. I know.

And that's the thing. I think that's the issue. I think for me it's a bit of an event normally. Well, I'll get a delivery for you next time, sweetheart. Thank you very much. I promise. If I'd do it again. You've got to do it again, yep.

Next week, Crawley. Why, I've got to do it? Because it just works. I think the more people the better. And what I think I'm going to do... Who's doing it next week? The same people. Okay.

Okay, that's good. Which is good. Nice. What are you doing today? It's the cup, actually. It's the curvature of this. It's a tin... It's my engine driver mug.

Mm. Lovely. And it's a tin mug. And it's a very strange... It's got a funny lip. Why are you using a tin mug when you're at home? They're for outdoors.

It's an outdoor mug. I like it. It's an engine driver. No, but it's an outdoor mug, isn't it? Yeah, but I like it. Yeah. I'll tell you what mug I love, my new favourite mug is from our lovely listener

who is a potter. Oh, right. And she made me the mug. Where is it? Oh, it's downstairs. I use it. It's the perfect shape, the perfect thickness. It is absolutely beautiful.

Beautiful. It is the lip of that mug. Yeah? A strange one. Okay. Very self-conscious now about drinking out of that mug. Maybe you just don't have a drink when doing the pod. Yeah.

Well, it's all gone down me now, which is a shame. Do you remember the discussion we had about the show about the deaf girl and the clown from New Zealand? And you said you remembered it when we were going back in talking about shows?

No, I don't think I remembered it. No, you didn't remember it. I'm saying you were talking about it. Oh, yeah. The series was called strangers. We've heard a lot of people let you know what it is, so thank you for that. Stranger Things?

No, Stranger Things is a show now, isn't it? Is it? Yes. It's a theatre show as well. Massive series, wasn't it? What was it called? The Stranger? Yeah.

Anyway, well, strangers. How is the online shop doing? Yeah, not bad, actually. Mm-hmm. Yeah, really nice. Good. Sort of going along, and people really like the Christmas decorations. I see.

which is very, very good. And the bestseller, I have to say, I think, is the tote bag with I'm not stealing on it. Nice. So far. I haven't even got one. I will get you one. Thank you. You can have that one, actually.

I could have, as I was thinking last night, I could have worn some of the merchandise. I could have worn a jumper or hoodie. No, not into that. I like, I feel like I'd like to get dressed. I'd like a uniform. For the... But I've got to think about it. Well, do you know something?

Very successful people, i.e. Stephen Bartlett, has a wardrobe which is made up of all the same black tops and all of the same black trousers. If you look at Ricky Jervais, never changes what he's wearing. Absolutely. These people have not got time.

They don't want the decision. I want to get on with a day. That's it. I could never be like that. Okay. Well, I'd quite like to start wearing the merchandise. I will get you some stuff. That would be nice.

like? Some clothes. So, a t-shirt? Um, maybe a hoodie. A hoodie? Yeah. I think a sweatshirt would suit you better. Yeah, okay.

Rather than a hoodie. Green, burgundy, grey. What would you like? Green. Chocolate brown. Brown's nice, yeah. Brown's nice, isn't it for you? You're colouring.

Okay. So a chocolate brown hoodie. Yep. Would you like a beanie hat? That might be a bit much on stage. I wasn't really thinking about the stage. I'm really only thinking about the stage. Fine.

All right. I'll get you a nice jumper. It'd be nice to have. Yeah. Talking point. A bit of branded stuff. Yep. I got in trouble as well.

Maria told me off, didn't she? Yes, she did, yeah. I think the merchant dice is really good. I know, but you said it was expensive. It's not exactly a great seller, is it? It isn't expensive compared. Go and have a look at podcast shops. Fair enough.

And I have made sure mine is cheaper than most. And it's not, I mean, you're not making. making money on it, really. It's, it's, unfortunately. No, it's, I never did it to make money. No, it's just a nice thing to. I've done it to spread the word. I want someone to be in Sainsbury's or Marxist or Audi or wherever

and to have the shopping bag and someone next to them goes, oh, that's a funny bag. What's that about? And they go, oh, it's from this podcast. And then they go home and listen to it. And it's growing the community, isn't it? Growing the community through the shopping bag. Yeah.

And the chance conversation that might happen. Yes. Possibly. Oh, I haven't got a pound and, oh, I've got a trolley token. Oh, where's that from? Oh, I listen to this great pod called Life with Nat. Have you not heard of it? No.

Oh, you know that one who used to be in EastEnders with the trumpet? She's on there with her family and they're chatting and it's different to anyone else's because it's all about normal stuff and it's great. Five quid, you've got to be joking. No, no, it's fine because it's really good once you get into the pod. You really want one. Oh, we're doing a little, sorry. Roll play.

Yeah. Nice. Very nice. I was going to make a joke about your stockings. That was a very good joke last night. Thank you. Very good. Yeah.

What was it? Someone said something. We were talking about Christmas stockings, won't we? I can't. Please not. Please. Let's not replicate. The one thing I said that someone laughed at.

Please, let's not to repeat it now. No, we won't. Absolutely fabulous evening tonight in Luton with you and your fabulous family. We are blessed to have spent a few hours feeling like part of your family, so thank you. And I'm thinking about letting Paul go to the football on Boxing Day. Love you all from Lisa and Paul from Shefford. P.S. Trater's final was bloody brilliant. Love Claudia.

Oh, no. I love Claudia. Sorry. Sorry, Lisa. I remember them. They were in the front. They were in the front. Yeah.

I should hope you do. And Lisa was sat next to Amy. Paul. Amy the other. Yeah. And then Joe was at the end. I don't know who was in the middle. Was it Tracy?

Oh, I can't remember. Let us know. Sorry about that. Let us know, please. I mean, to be fair. Let us know. 077-828201919. They were a great crowd down there.

Brilliant. And actually, I'd never asked a question last night, but it felt like you knew more of the audience or they were related to Linda or friends of Linda. I wonder how many people there didn't actually. actually know the people, anyone on the stage? There were six of them. What, people in the audience who didn't know anyone on the stage?

No, I'm saying six people came to see Linda. And they're dear friends of Linders, and I've known them for years, friends of mine. So you had Tina, Anness, Kate, Haley and Michaela. Right. I don't remember seeing any of them. Oh no, I did speak to them after, I think. Who knows, darling? Have I missed someone out?

I don't know. So you know, in this, Haley, Kate, Michaela. I'm sure it was five. God, I'm so sorry if I've forgotten someone. I don't think I have. That's really bad. Isn't that terrible? But it was so lovely to see him.

And I just think they've all been to work. Everyone who comes out is such an effort to do that. They've all been to work and they didn't have to set off at half three. They've been to work and managed to get there. Oh, my goodness me. We set off, can I just say? At quarter past three. A quarter past three.

We need to do two pickups. Right. So then it's quarter to four. You're not leaving anywhere. It will be reflected on my invoice. I can tell you that. What a start time. I'm into overtime.

I have to say... Go on. The call time is 5 o'clock. Right, okay. For the technical team to sort out the levels, the mics, the staging. Yeah. I know there's that. bit before the show, which you're waiting around, but you're always going to have that.

Yeah, fair enough. I've been in a lot of theatre shows. You've got to do that. Yeah. The doors are open and you've got an hour. I don't know what you... No, it's true. But if I get you your takeaway, you might shut up about it.

Possibly. Can I ask one other thing? Yes. There was one bit I felt very awkward about. Oh, go on. Have a look at your WhatsApp. Okay. I've illustrated it perfectly.

It was possibly the most embarrassing thing I've ever had to do. Ah, that's a lovely photo. Did you get that off of Facebook? I did. It's lovely. It's us bowing. You've got to bow. It's lovely.

You've got to finish the show. I was so embarrassed. Why? What have I? I haven't done a performance. We've got to say goodbye. No, you don't bow, though. It's nice to do a bow.

Oh, I found that really awkward. Everyone liked it. Everyone laughed. Look at my, look at like a beetroot. I'm glowing red of embarrassment. No, it's lovely. Look, we're all smiling and laughing. I found that so embarrassing.

Well, tough. Maybe you should stand up and do a bit. No, absolutely. And we walk off. No, it's lovely to all hold hands and do a little bell. It's lovely. And I'm getting you up, aren't I? I'm getting you up.

That caught me unawares. I mean, it did. I mean, I'm used to seeing very talented people do that. Don't understand. You know what I mean? I've not done a ballet or something. No, I know, but we're just ending it. Because again,

the other ones, you go, thanks all for coming, and you just sort of walk off. It feels wrong. What I found interesting was the one you were talking about on here when you were all just sat there as people walked in. That was brilliant. That was interesting. Because it was a really small room, the Bill Murray, tiny.

I just thought, oh, is an intro going to be weird? And then me Tony and Murillo just sat there while the room was filling up. What are you doing now? What are you doing? I haven't got the thing. Oh, where's that thing? That's really what I said. You're so mischievous today.

No. I just had visions of like all of you sat on the stage. Yeah. And you could just... And you stop banging stuff? Sorry. It's just funny, like, coming in, and you're just there. I know.

But you can't... I want to put it over my head. You can just do a thing where you've got, like, this over your head as you come, as you all gets come in. And at 7.30, you just sort of go, hello? I just imagine that had been really good. Obviously, that doesn't fit over my head, so that was a terrible...

Terrible description. But that would be funny, wouldn't it? That's a different way of stuff. Oh, yeah, brilliant. Just have a little bag over your head. Actually. Yeah. Anyway.

I've got to get ready soon. Right. Okay. I've got to wash my hair. I've got quite a lot to do. Still got a lot. I mean, honestly. I've got so much to do at the moment.

We've got to pick hells up at... I'm looking... It'd be nice tonight. I'm looking forward to that. Be really nice. And they're going out afterwards. They are. Possibly.

Okay. Yeah. We're not. I've got to go to work early. No, we'll leave and go. You can stay with them. I don't want to. I really don't.

I'm so tired. Okay. I'm quite tired, actually. I could do, I mean... If it wasn't Ricky Jervais tonight, I'm not sure if I'd be going. Really? Yeah, I'm knackered. I could easily have a night in tonight.

Really? But do you get to... It's my fave, so... Fair enough. Do you get to meet him? Yeah, I don't think. Do you know you there? I would imagine he knows I'm going, because Jonathan would have possibly let him know, but...

That would be just nice to, yeah. Nice to say hello to him? Yeah. Yeah, I think he does his show and he gets home. It likes to be home, didn't he? I reckon, do you think he's going to be setting off a quarter past three today to do that show? No.

No. Definitely not. Interesting. So what time do you think his cool time is? I reckon he gets there about our past seven. Probably does, yeah. And what times it start? 10 past eight.

Hmm. There's an act on before, though, Sean McLaughlin, which will be really good. Oh, nice. Okay. So, no, it would be lovely. Lovely, yeah. Where else we got? I don't know.

You're full of chat, aren't you? We haven't spoken about going to Wales. Well, I've done that with, in he. Have you? Yeah. But we can ask you. How'd it go? Okay, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't talk to the organ grinder. Well, it's the way the pod has lied. Laid? Laid. Way the pod has laid. I'm just tired. Oh, but hang on, it's me that drank too much. No, I'm not hung over at all.

Oh, fine. I feel like I've been hit by a lorry. Fair enough. I feel exhausted. Oh. I think it's just the constant thinking. Imagine how Tony feels. I mean, he actually went to work yesterday, as did Linda.

I know. As did Maria. I know. But my creative mind and the fact that it's, you know, I own the show is. my name up there. The pressure lies with me. Right. It was.

That was, I took that. You did take that, yeah. Yeah, you did. I'd like to get another one of those. Just so I've got it. A big one, maybe. It would be suitable for the stage. Yes.

I have to get in touch with my... It was nice, but it is the one from the studio, though. It is nice. It needs a clean, I can see a load of it. I know, it does actually. Yeah. It's nice that. No, it's very good.

And Emma went to a lot of trouble I noticed with the green microphone covers She did We could actually, to be fair I'd get like purple and green couldn't we We could do alternate Like purple, green, purple Purple? It's pink

Sorry, you know what it is It's where I've mixed the colours really badly In the lights behind you Because that's purple Right, I'm just saying Sorry, it is pink But that does remind me I need to sort out that It's not too bad

It's okay It doesn't It's very difficult making that light pink. It would be nice. Yeah, we'll get there at some point. Yeah. It's all a bit of a work in progress.

No, you've done very well with the room, getting it all sorted. Show about the creaky chair. I won't keep mentioning it. No, I don't think you should. We've got some voice notes, actually, to go through. Hello, Nat, it's Julie from Rayleigh here, the summer and winter wardrobe lady.

I think you'll probably relate to me if I say that. Well done on your live podcast or your live show, I should say not podcast. And I will send you something for the 4th of November as I'm going to be at the Dixon studio that night. But I just wanted to say absolutely 100% yours is the best podcast. I don't normally have time to listen to podcasts, but I have listened to a couple of others recently. I'm not going to name and shame, but I'll tell you what, you are, well, miles ahead of them.

Honestly, you've just got the balance right, and hats off to you and all the team. Love all of you. See you on the fourth. Keep going. Bye. Oh, Julie, thank you. I've met quite a lot of people this week. Did I meet you on the fourth?

I don't know if I did. So you'll have to come to another one so I can give you a cuddle. But yes, that's really kind of you. You could have named and shamed. I don't care. Let me know which ones that you don't like. It's always quite satisfying. More to the point, if you've got any to listen to,

I'd appreciate knowing some. Don't look at, were you looking at all that for? Do you not listen to this anymore? Not really. Why? I've just... That's really bad. Been quite a bit of time around you lately.

Fair enough. It is a strange thing when you're sort of driving along and I'm listening to it, and then he phoned me. I know, I know, yeah. And it's great. And we get off the phone, no harm in that. We get off the phone and then, it's like, oh, you're still there. Still there, chatting away.

But normally a little bit more cheerfully than when you're on the phone to be. And I just think, yeah, it can be a bit. And also, do you know what? I do listen to it. I'd be lying because I didn't listen to it. I don't listen to, I don't listen to our ones really because it's sort of superfluous. But I do listen to the others. Just to, you know.

It's good to keep your hand in, isn't it? Keeping on the competition. Well, I think it's... I know Maria does that. She gets a bit... She likes to keep her eyes down. Her eyes down, her ear in. Ells Bells doesn't listen?

No. No, she's not bothered. She should, because she's so good. But, yeah, Maria likes to keep her on the... I'll take it as a compliment, you know. Yeah. You two are very funny. Why's that?

You just are. Why? You just, that, it's a very funny... Funny, ha-ha. Yeah, comedic together. I'd like to do a little pub with you too She just insults We've never done that

No, I think we should Yeah, that's a good idea We could do that Yeah But she just insults me As I noticed In the mic check She started insulting me

I thought I know where this is going I've just thought you were all so good Tony was brilliant Linda Yeah Maria's brilliant And you're brilliant Linda wasn't walking around

On stage with a feather duster She wasn't Which is something you'd propose. No, because at the beginning, I think of it as a show. So I'm thinking of it as a theatrical, more theatrical. And actually, the more I go back, the more I do, the more I want to strip it back. Because people...

Funny, isn't it? So it's almost like we're doing the podcast. Yes. Now, I remember... Flo said that to me. After that, she said, just remember. Yeah. People are coming to watch the pod.

And obviously... Yeah, Flo said that, didn't you? Flo said that. I remember a conversation when you had the, you know, the inception of the live show. I seem to remember somebody shooting me down in flames when I said, surely you're just going to do the podcast.

Yeah, you did say that. Oh, no, that wasn't the case. And then interestingly, it seems to have... Yeah. You do? you just got to go and do the podcast on the stage. It is, you know, don't overcomplicate it. Feel free to, you know, if you want to say, well, you know,

it's not every day I get something right. This is from Camilla. Thank you. She got me a ball ball. Us, I suppose. Okay. Jeremy Clarkson, Bulbul. From the Diddisquot farm.

Nice. She really treats me, you know. It's very kind. You've got a lot of nice loyal listeners. Just driving along, thinking about about tonight and that you all wanted my feedback and you know all I can say is you smashed it and everyone is there to listen to you guys waffle shit like we love it well described like a bit of tom's review that's why we all enjoyed the pod it's just you guys being you and that's all

you need to do and I cannot wait to see everyone again at the clap on grand and it is going to just be fun and everyone is there for you guys and honestly you don't need to do anything for it to be great because you're oh my god I sound like such a kiss house I'm trying to be like, you know, make you feel better that you don't need to do anything because you being you is what we're all in it for so I just wanted to say well done guys, loved it

safe trip home and see you in December thank you darling very nice, one nice message everybody who's come to see me this week it's brilliant thank you so so much and all your support and all your messages and chatting to you all. It's just great. There was a message I read earlier about someone who had brought their mum, I think,

and she hadn't been listening. And the mum doesn't listen, but the daughter did, the person that wrote the message. Oh. And sorry, for paraphrasing the message. Where is it? I can't remember. Go on. That is where I read it. Go on.

A very nice message. But it is funny. I was thinking, you know, like, so that room of people, I wonder what the percentage was of people that do listen to this. Well, because Georgina came along, our fact lady, and she bought her friend who never listened. And she said she had a really lovely evening and enjoyed it. Very interesting lady who lives in Ireland.

Yes, Christine. Yeah, and farms. She's too busy to listen to podcast, I think. She could pop it on, couldn't she, in the tractor? She could do. Pop it on? Possibly. She's feeding animals.

sound like a busy lady. Pop it in your ears. Yeah. Get it in your ears. Get it in the lug holes. But I wonder as representative proportion of people.

It's funny, isn't it? Because I never think about people listening to this when we're speaking. No, never. I'm sort of just talking to you. Yeah, I know. It's why it works. But actually...

If you started thinking about all the people, again, we would overthink what we're doing. A bit like, because live show is different and you're in front of people. I've been overthinking it. You couldn't really see anyone, though. Because he had a front row. Yeah.

You couldn't really see people's faces. No. I've got a message that I must read out on this pod. This is from Phil. Firstly, this couple are called Phil and Kathy, which does make me laugh. Because that's, you know, and he stands as couple of old.

Hi Natalie, hope you enjoyed the traitors. I came along to the show in Ware Tonight, so this is a while ago when I did the book thing. Came along to the show in Where Tonight as my wife Kathy is a huge fan and she's seen your live show. I wanted to admit I haven't listened to your podcast until tonight, but will be a regular. As a mental health nurse of 23 years who loves mindfulness, walks,

it was lovely to hear of your kindness towards others, your values and principles, not only with your family and friends, but importantly with strangers. I loved your kindfulness, a mix of mindfulness, being in the present and being kind with it. I love that, kindfulness. Really nice. Thank you for a lovely evening, Phil and Cathy Jackson. Have a great rest of the week and weekend, and please could you give a shout out to my lovely wife, Cathy, whom I appreciate and love so much. Thank you.

P.S., I think you'd be great in Tom Bazden's Here We Go. Oh, I see why you're reading this out now. I was thinking, why must you read this out? Because, no, he wanted me to give her a shout out. I don't know if I've read that on another pod now. I've, I think you may have done. I'm losing my mind. Yeah, yeah, you are, I think.

I've just looked up, actually. We did do a recording one of these after my birthday, and I genuinely didn't think we had done. I don't remember doing that either. I think I'm losing my mind. I think both of us are possibly losing our minds. What, me, you and Ro Roe? No, not the three of us.

What are you talking about then? You and me, what we're doing now. Yeah. On doing the podcast. Yes. 30th of October we did one. Oh, did we? Yeah.

So we've done one since my birthday. Oh, I see. I didn't realize we'd done that. Are you sure that's not when it went out? And we did it before your birthday? No, we spoke about the birthday. You're right. Yeah.

We've not gone to Wales, though. Correct. So there you go. That makes sense. It does make sense. Yeah. It does make sense. Wales was good.

I can't, so I need to listen to Lynne's one now to find out about what happened in Wales. Yeah, you do. Have a listen to this. Hi, Nat. I'm just walking to rack at the minute. I just thought I'd message because we were at your show in Luton last night.

It was so, so good. It flowed. It was funny. I got to meet you. You signed my book. My husband had a little chat with Mark. It was just amazing, amazing. Please, please come back to Luton and do more shows.

Keep up the brilliant work. Lots of love. Isn't that lovely? And that was Sarah from Luton. I'm just messaging you like, you're my mate. Well, you feel like my mate, my pod mate. So yeah, Sarah from Luton. First Voice Note.

Have a great day. Thank you so much. much, Sarah, and thank you for coming. God help your husband. What did you talk to him about? Do you remember? Yeah. So the next one with these we do is Crawley. Correct. Which is this Sunday. Correct. Are there tickets available still? I believe so. And where do you buy them? If you go to Crawley Theatre. Right. She's brilliant. And I get moaned at for not being a very good salesman. The link's in my bio, I believe. Believe.

Hang on a minute. Let's check it. Let's have a look at your bio. Where's your bio? On Instagram? Yeah. Okay. Oh, yes, Life with Nat show.

Here we go. Okay. Clap and. Oh, the page you were on is trying to send you. If you don't want to do. No, no, we do want to visit the page. Thank you. And this is the Clapham one.

Okay. Okay. well I'm trying to do everyone trying to sell some tickets here come on help me out I'm just going to try and find it Crawley yeah so there's a life of that

live in that show page but it's the clap on one the clap on ground that'll be fun it's going to be really really fun 1pm till 5 1 till 5pm hey I think you need to

a 4 hour megam Blimey. Unless there's two shows. I'll check that out. Could you screenshot that for me, please? Yes. Screenshot it and I can send it to where I need to send it to, please. Okay. You heard it here first. It's one till five. No, no, it's not that long. We can talk, but bloody hell.

This is a 14 plus event? Yes. What does that mean? Doors open at one? People Under 14 can't come Right That's what that means

Oh Sorry Hang on Oh no hang on Sorry What was that? I went Ooh

You can meet and greet So they can meet you Yes Oh You can get in the roll box I'm not sure if you can anymore Oh okay Well have a look

So just just Google So anyway This Sunday Just Google it. This Sunday is The H-A-W-T-H-H-A-W-T-H-K-Rawley. We need to work on this whole... The H-H-Roth. Marketing.

It looks lovely. Yeah. Theater, studio and cafe with a varied program of plays, music, dance, comedy and film. So it's this Sunday. Brilliant. Yep. But it looks really, really lovely.

Yeah, we might need to work on the, um, on the promotional side of things. Maybe you think about our links. Yes, darling. I think what I'm going to do, actually, I never started a Life with Nat pod Instagram because of my followers on Instagram and I thought, I've got over half a million followers

so I wanted it to get it out to everybody. Yeah. But now I think we are in the swing of things. Yeah. We need a Life with Nat official page where all information goes on and in the bio will be all. the shows, et cetera.

And I also need a website for people that aren't on Instagram. But again, I think we're doing quite well. All these things are happening. March has happened. That's been a lot. Me and Ro Ro Roe So, all these things are coming together. And Ro Roe-Rourke out, really. Yeah.

Yeah. There you go. You've done all right, actually, haven't you? Yeah. It's very cleverness, what you've done with your family. Why? You've had all the little, you know, sort of a studio's been done, funnily enough. Convenient, wasn't it?

You've got your niece, sorting out of your fashion. Yep. Handy, isn't it? Need a bit of work done on Tony. Wait so I get Elle's on sales. Oh, yeah. She can sell ice to Eskimos. Yeah.

You're all right. What's Linda going to do? Well, she can come around and give it all the spruce up, making some tiramisu and a lasagna. Oh, brilliant. Perfect. She'll really like that. I think, I'll tell you something.

Yeah. I have to say I love the balance I've got with everybody That's what I like It's all so different Yes Do you think I mean I've not signed a contract or anything But do you think I'll get away

We're just doing a couple of them Do you think going forward A couple of what? Your shows, your live shows Oh the live shows I'm doing two now aren't I I've got doing Clapham and Crawley Yeah

Surely you won't know Are you doing any other After Clapham we've got any dates in No not yet But I'm hoping to have some For next year and some nice I hope you'll do some

I'm quite up for doing a little trip somewhere That would be really nice Cornwall could we do Yeah that'd be nice Truro Horth Cornwall Yeah

Lovely York York could be lovely Yeah Bath That would be good Yeah Festine Ealk Plano New Fistineil

Where else could we do We could go for Romney New Romney In Kent Dungeoness maybe Tentadon Would be a good one Sheffield Park

Horsed Keynes Maybe Ringwood Where's the Bluebell Railway? Horstead Keynes Oh Coincidentally Same place I just said Yeah

Morse Valley Country Park I'm sure we could do One there An open air one perhaps No I'm just saying in some places A train-based tour No

I mean actually They've said that Most of those places do have a railroad way near them but could you believe we have had some messages this morning saying your mark's going to love the final with the traitors the mission on the steam engine

yeah I've seen that see I've seen that bit yeah were you pleased though were you pleased that it was a train yeah Ian Riley's Black 5 you knew what it was no another bloke who owns it brilliant it's yeah

and Ben at Barnard's Miniature Railway works for the company that owned that engine And what's it called? It's a black five. I don't know if he's got a name. I can't remember. They didn't have names when they were.

That is crazy. So you can look at that train and know who owns it. Well, that's just because it's in Scotland and it's a black five. And there's, I know what it. There's a lot of them around, actually. They're quite a common engine. He's got a couple of them. Wow.

I mean, if that hasn't lost anyone who was listening to this, I don't know what will. I find it amazing. I mean, there's one person listening now. You would have been... Literally, that room last night is just emptied. You would have... Would it be your mastermind subject?

Do you think you could do a mastermind on it? I'm being honest. Do some questions? No, I can't because I don't know them, but I'm saying if you went on to mastermind with it, do you think you'd do well? I'd probably be sneaky and make it quite niche, so I would do well.

Yeah. I wouldn't do it as a broad subject. No. But people do that. So what would be the niche subject? Narrow gauge. No. I don't know, I'd have to think about that.

I'd probably make it really quite sort of, you know, I don't know. I did Celebrity Mastermind years ago. What did you do about on? Friends. Right. How did that go? Terribly. Because there were 10 years of it, and I didn't do Friends Series 1 or not.

40 towels would have been a good one. You could do that? Two series. Sorry. Was it two series or one? I think it was just. just a number of episodes, wasn't it? I think it was one series.

Didn't they do nine or something? I should... We should research this stuff. I know. Do you know who would know? Forty Towers... I know it's not many episodes. It was two series, I thought so.

Two series, only 12 episodes. How many? 12? Yes. Classic British sitcom aired between 1975 and 1979. Yeah. Amazing. But yeah, it wasn't many.

And that was so sad, wasn't it? Yes. Yes. Prynella Scales passed. But then I just think, oh, she's with Tim now. Yeah. So. You've still got Timothy West's, but it's a rap.

Whiskey glass. Whiskey glass. Yeah. He was lovely. I really got on with him. And I worked with Prunella on stage. Right. Her son, Ben, their son, sorry, Ben West did a play.

Yeah. I did a monologue. Right. It was a cleaner, actually, Hoover and Dusting. How funny. And Prenella was there. It was lovely, yeah.

So there you go. You could write a book, you know. I hope you all have a lovely, lovely week. Thank you for listening. I'm sorry about him. What do you mean? I'm sorry about it. You can't say that.

It's goodbye from him. And it's, I can't do it. I can't remember. What is it? It's goodbye from him. It's goodbye from him. And it's goodbye from you? Her. Oh my God.

See you, everybody. No, hang on. It's goodbye from him and it's goodbye from me, isn't it? No. It's... Oh, I can't remember. How is it? It's goodbye from me and it's goodbye from him?

Yes. Was it that with the two Ronnie's? That's correct. Work with him and all. Ronnie Corbett. Did you? I did. You worked with Ronnie Corbett?

I did. On what? Strictly. Oh. Bruce was in one week and Ronnie Corbett stood in. Really? And I couldn't believe it.

It was like the luckiest thing that had ever happened. Wow. Yeah. How funny. The good old days, Bruce, Len. Yeah. Great.

There's a job going on that, by the way. You interested? Who do you think? It's going to do it? Have you been approached? I am not doing live Saturday night television. Why? Because I'd have a heart attack

And I'm not a presenter. You could do it with Tony. I could see it now. Auntie Linney, when I spoke to this morning for a quick catch-up, as we do. She's got an agent now. She said. Let me get. Go on.

She's, yeah, she's got an agent. No, she said. She's opening the Tesco's in Hartford. Come on. She's going to bloody kill you when she listens to this. And she does listen to everyone. No, Auntie Linney said, you and I, she said, I thought you two were so brilliant last night that I can see you doing this morning.

You could present. I said, chat out, what are talking about? No, I know Mark would never do it, but you were so good together. She was really complimentary. It was lovely. Well, that's really sweet, but not true. I could not do that. More importantly, is this a second episode of the podcast?

Because where does it ever put this stuff? We've said goodbye. She can cut out the goodbye and we can do it again. But the goodbye was all right, really? It was, yeah. Oh, well, let's just keep it like this. This is like a little Easter egg. Yeah, no, it's all right.

Little Easter egg. Just keep talking. The music's gone on. been and gone and you know what I might do I might go and get a power nap I'm exhausted A little disco nap

Before we're out again Yeah I was wanted to take you up the casino Tonight Okay But we're not We're coming straight home No I won't be doing that

Cut to you Don't like handling No The old roulette No No Anyway there we go Love you loads

You too See you later Goodbye Goodbye everyone