Life with Nat - EP20: Scraping the Barrel #3

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

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Hello and welcome to Life with Nat. Happy Thursday everybody. Roasting isn't it? Absolutely roasting. It's about time. I've had to get two fans out today I've got them out the Christmas cupboard which is rather weird I've got a large cupboard in this room in this very studio where I keep all my Christmas decorations and the summer fans so it's a little bit of both seasons and I got them out Joni was sweating she was in bed she couldn't sleep so I got them out plugged one in didn't work uh so she's got the dyson the lucky little thing so she's calmly asleep because we wanted to record this tonight and we needed a child free evening because i have my lovely mark with me tonight hello sweetheart

hello how are you i'm good scraping the barrel part three sorry it's got to be called that now because people know what they're getting it's a good warning i suppose it is a warning yeah Scraping the barrel part three. Sorry. It's got to be called that now. Because people know what they're getting. It's a good warning, I suppose. It is a warning. You're very popular. I'm not very popular. Don't start acting.

Well, here we go. Give her half an hour. She'll find a message for you. I know. If this was television, it'd fade to black. I mean, it would fade back up again. Four hours later. It's funny you said four, because that is exactly what I was just about to say How interesting

Now you are popular Sam Smith said It's not the Sam Smith singer But lady, Sam says Hey Nat, me again, Sam from Portsmouth I've totally caught up on the pod So patiently waiting for the latest one to drop I just wanted to give a shout out to mark

he is brilliant and you two must have such a great relationship full of laughs you really bounce off each other so well keep the pods coming because i'm loving my new pod life have a great week yeah isn't that lovely is that a friend of yours did you make them message me? No. No? Yeah, it's nice. Very nice. Here's another one for you, Mark. Joe. Joe from Anstead. Dog walking again. Listening to Scraping the Barrel number two.

I think Mark's got a lovely voice. Just not a chair. Bye. There you go. Oh, nobody has ever said that before, I can assure you. Oh, it's all embarrassed, Joe. Gone red. Red well that's good two people that's that's nice that's it yeah yeah exactly but they're good aren't they uh yeah i want to talk about the hot weather just for a minute i know we always talk about weather but people love it we love it don't we be honest it's about 35 degrees in this

room tonight i think we might have to get an air con unit in here. I think that would be wise. Between now and September, I don't think we can sit. Well, you and I could put up with it, but I couldn't have a guest in here. What do you mean you and I could? Well, me and you are sat in here. It's ours. We can put up with it.

We can be hot, jump in the shower. But say I invited someone over. Say I invited over, I don't know,amesh's wife lisa popped over i said come and have a pod let's have a chat i couldn't allow her in this room this temperature no no that is true it's it's warm it's probably down to the curtains not not helping much well we're in the roof aren't we yes that that doesn't help no that's true anyway there you go and the window's not open well you can't have the window open because of the sound and the reason i've got the curtains is to block out the sound yeah so i'm not gonna open the window am i emma you said the temperature's about

31 degrees in your flat yeah bang on 30 right now apparently according to my little sensor thing so yeah also melting very good i uh i just spoke to ellia ellia is in las vegas at the moment with jack um and it was 10 a.m and it was 38 degrees how are you emma yeah i'm all right thanks how. How are you? Yeah, yeah, very good. It's been busy. Yeah. Busy old weekend, busy old, yeah, lovely. Really good. You've been on the telly. Again, you're always on the telly. I've been on telly. On telly. On telly in a different way. So I've not been on EastEnders, well I have, but I was a panellist on Loose Women today. She's officially a loose woman. How do you feel about that, Mark? Officially?

Out there? Yeah. I'm sure it was great. I've recorded it. I didn't watch it. That's all right, darling. You were on a bike ride, weren't you, with Joanie? I was, yeah.

You got lost, didn't you? Not so much lost. I just wasn't 100% sure where was oh okay at one point and you decided to go out in the midday sun yes well she wanted a picnic so it had to be around lunchtime however on reflection possibly not the most responsible thing i I mean, she was covered in sun cream. Yeah. And like you said, I said, did she have a cap on? But obviously she had a helmet.

Exactly. Yeah. But I got home tonight and honestly, the poor little thing, I think she might have had sunstroke. Oh. Yeah, she was overheated. She was so tired. But it's very hot.

It was five five miles I think it's quite a lot isn't it for a seven year old yeah be a lot for me I can't ride a bike so

well yeah one day maybe you're missing out no you are missing out no thank you because you

I mean it would have it would have taken hours I know but I like walking. You've never walked? You've never got that far when you've gone that way? No. It would be a day.

It wouldn't be a day. Went for a walk in the country once, about six hours in lockdown, me and the girls. You were at the railway. Well, I did that walk with you, most certainly. No, you didn't. Most certainly you did. But we'll agree to disagree.

The listener, Natalie, just slapped herself on the face and slowly rubbed her hand down it. It was quite a warm part of the day, but she wanted a picnic, so naturally we left it. Our seven-year-old loved it. Do you know what? She wants to go on a bike ride, but all she cares about is the picnic doesn't she yeah she can't wait to pack the you know

that's the whole thing isn't it the food well it reminds me of when i used to go fishing with my friends luke and brendan oh yeah and we used to go to eriff pier and uh it wasn't really about the fishing it was because there was a tesco next door and you got loads of beers um not so much you did get a lot of beers we had a little um stove it was like a petrol stove you put i mean it sounds ridiculous you put unleaded petrol in it pressurized it yeah camping stove basically run on petrol and uh yeah we used to we used to cook burgers and sausages and what have you and we didn't catch a fish ever in about 10 times of going is that when you used to sail not sail go on your boat up and down and stop at the pubs

no no no that was later. Track women up. No, that was a lot later. Fair enough. He's got a boat and a train. I haven't got a boat. No, he hasn't got a boat. He has.

You've got a blow-up boat. A blow-up boat? Is it not a blow-up boat? It's an inflatable boat in the garage. A dinghy. It's a dinghy. I've still got it. I'm telling you now, you've never called it a dinghy. You've've said that's my inflatable boat on that shelf it is an inflatable boat not

like the one you know like the ones you get for a tenner on the seaside it's a little bit more only a little bit really we've never been on it never got it out for me i haven't known why haven't you got it out for me? There we go again. Your mind's filthy. You know I'm fed up with this. It's not. If I had that sort of thing, I'd be whacking it out and showing off. Yeah.

How big's it? Is it massive? Huge. It's a grower, not a shower, because when it's folded up in the garage, it's quite small when it's folded, but... You pump it up and it's much bigger than you'd expect. Absolutely.

He's had to move out of the frame. He can't handle it. I can't do this. He can't handle it. It's like being on a carry-on film. Well.

Carry-on boating down the dinghy. Dinghy down the canal. canal no but it was lovely it was a nice thing to do it was good it was what was loose women i was quite scared that far away yeah we go but yeah tell us about it very very nice to go on there and be a presenter part of the panel you have done it before haven't you years and years ago i think i was a guest presenter but i've been on there more as a guest today i was in the meeting and had car loose women cards and a pen and everything very good it was really really good i really enjoyed it i had Brenda who is hilarious she just really

makes me laugh she's a bundle of energy Charlene who anchored it it was amazing and Colleen Nolan so I was very lucky great group of ladies

just four of you there's always four oh okay yeah now the reason I want to talk about it because I've told you before Emma

I'm very scared of live television hmm now I'm not scared of live television now I'm not scared of having an interview I can sit on telly all day I went on Lorraine last week lovely I have a cup of tea and I have a chat happy with it so today I get there we have our meeting we talk about you know what the show's going to be about all all the different parts. Really lovely. I'm happy. Get down to the studio.

Got my makeup on, my hair done, costume on. Go down. Lovely lady. Puts my mic on, et cetera. Sound assistant. She then says, when you get to your desk, I'll just pop over and put your earpiece in. So I just look at her.

Genuinely, I looked at her. I said, I can't. I'm not doing that she sort of looked at me she went um well everyone has one it's not going to be you're not going to hear loads and loads of talking it's just if they've got 30 seconds to go and you need to wrap it I said I can't I'm not doing that I'll go from everyone else I promise you I won't need it I'll go so she was fine about it and then lovely lovely Dickie, the director, said, that's fine, if you don't want one, don't worry. And I think they were a little bit worried

about me just chatting away and not realising the time. But I have to say what I am good at is looking at other people's reactions and knowing where we are in the show. It's kind of obvious, I think. So I got away without wearing one. But the panic within me about putting that earpiece in it was not good i've got to get over it i've got to go somewhere and do some

practicing i mean it's just fair if you're talking and then if i'm talking now right and i'm chatting away and someone says something in my ear seconds yeah but i'm gonna stop saying what i'm saying i'm not gonna be able to do 10 seconds 10 seconds. Can't do it. I mean, it is hard when you're speaking, and I get it. It's like, I mean, I can't be on the phone, and someone starts talking to me. You can't do anything. You can do one thing at a time, darling.

You're a man. I disagree with you there, because at work, I'm on talkback. So I'm listening. I'm doing several things at once. Might be reading a shot card. That is true. Yeah. So actually.

But that's practice, isn't it? It is actually. I just need some practice. I want to be in a studio. I was watching Charlene today. Anchor the show. And I thought that is brilliant. She's got her auto cue.

She's leading the show. She's wrapping up the breaks. I thought that is unbelievable. That is a her autocue. She's leading the show. She's wrapping up the breaks. I thought, that is unbelievable. That is a great skill. And I want to do it. Were you reading off the autocue or were you just there for vibe? I had no autocue. No, no.

You have the anchor who does the autocue stuff and then the other three are just chatting about the topics and what have you. But it's still live for an hour. But that doesn't bother me. It's the earpiece and mucking things up But it was great I think it went down well I wore a red lip Which is something I don't do often

A red lip? Yeah A red lip I had a red lip today What's that? It's Where my lips had red on Oh I thought it was like a brooch or something.

Oh, okay. No, a red lip. I thought it was a red lip. I've never heard of a brooch called. No, I don't know. That's right. But it sounded like an object. I see.

I wore red lipstick, which is unlike me. Okay, yeah. But it was nice. Nice for a change. Change is as good as a arrest and all of that. Mm-hmm. But it did make me think about you. Mm. When you did the Queen's funeral, for instance.

Yeah. And everyone is waiting for your one shot on the mouth. How does that make you feel? Because I would poo my pants when you do live. So for the listeners, Mark is a cameraman cameraman some of you may know that some of you might not but mark does varied jobs different things i met him on eastenders but mark does a lot of live stuff so he'll go to the ballet and film swan lake live which then goes into the cinema or he'll film in a couple of weeks time he'll be on center court and he'll be filming tennis balls going at 120 miles an hour he films lots of real

things and he only gets one shot at it and that petrifies me and what i do so does it scare you when you do that because i would poo myself it doesn't really but then there's a very different thing to being i'm behind the camera so I'm not exposed am I if something goes wrong I know but when you're at work yes everyone knows what shot you're doing yeah so if you muck that up you know you've done a bad job it's not that different I remember being at college and there was a lovely man who sadly no longer with us who was an ex bbc cameraman actually we were doing an exercise in the studio where um we were learning to it's the first time we used a studio camera and there's various little little things to do shots to do you know we were given and he said uh the one thing you'll find

if you end up doing this as a job is that you're not worried about the however many well at the time millions thousands of people watching it's more about the people you're standing next to your peers your colleagues which is absolutely right i disagree i'm honestly from my point of view i think the people around me that is not my problem it's the fact that on the telly I'm going to make a mistake because I had a terrible this all stems back from this morning

years ago and I did the news hub and I can't find it on YouTube I can't find it anywhere and people have really tried to find this Joe and David from Chatterbix have really tried to find this clip and I think that it was so bad they got rid of it because they didn't want their name on it but i stood there

with an earpiece in and philip threw to me in that news hub and i was like a rabbit in headlights it was like alan partridge it was i just stood frozen going like this and then they never threw back to me and that's what's done this to me. It was horrific. It's a shame that. It was really bad. It's really interesting you say that though, because like you're not worried about your colleagues and don't care.

No. But from my side of it, you do because that is the only, they're the only people that know it's you. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So it's interesting.

I never thought about that. Yeah. No, it is interesting. I mean, obviously the. Yeah. No, it is interesting. I mean, obviously, the object of the game is, you know, you don't want to make a mistake. Well, no. That's kind of.

Of course. But today, Charlene made a couple of little mistakes, but she was so chilled about it. And actually, what I was doing, when she was doing hers, I was reading the autocue because it's on all the cameras. And I was sat there pretending to do it in my head and I was sort of like,

tomorrow we've got, and I thought, I've done that in my head, perfect, I could do this. But then I just think the nerves would kick in. On shows with autocue,

it is a common issue that the guests read the presenter's autocue. Mouthing along. It's a thing. I wasn't mouthing along. I'm sure i wasn't mouthing i'm sure you weren't i know my camera i know where my light comes on i know when to smile yes so i'm good at all that you are good i'm good well you come from an era of doing there were cue lights on the cameras at

eastenders well they still are but they're not we don't use them. No. But, well, it depends. It depends on various factors, doesn't it? It depends on all sorts of things. But it's got the capability of having the cue lights on. Oh, well, I think what you do is marvellous. I really do. I think it takes balls of steel. I mean, he did. He did the shots at the funeral, Emma.

Queen's funeral. Yeah, but that was a very tiny tiny cog in a very big machine I know but it's a big deal I know

but it was a it was a lot of us doing that he's at Royal Ascot last week mincing about filming old King Charles as were the rest

of the crew working extremely hard yeah hard week that wasn't it extremely hard yeah hard week that wasn't it it was a hard week yeah but

hot I mean you couldn't make it up everyone's been moaning about the weather yep Royal Ascot all of a sudden

I've got to wear top hat, tail coat waistcoat it was in the Royal enclosure so you have to wear top hat and tails you know

it doesn't matter what job you're doing. Wandering around with a camera on my shoulder and it was baking hot. You could not write that, could you? No, not really. Nice though. It was a fabulous weather. It was good. Not as hot as it is now either.

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and I thank you so, so much. Here's one from Nicola. Hi Nat, just wanted to say I've been listening of messages and I thank you so, so much. Here's one from Nicola. Hi Nat, just wanted to say I've been listening to your Pride episode. Brilliant, like obviously absolutely brilliant that you've decided to do it in a Pride episode. And it's shocking and wonderful in so many ways because the two people you had on, sorry, I think they were called Heather and Riley. I always feel proud to live in a country where we have such diversity, but it doesn't seem like they feel the same way. oedd yn dda, dwi'n ddiolch, dwi'n meddwl roedd yn cael ei enw'n Heather a Riley. Rwy'n bob amser yn teimlo'n ffodd byw mewn gwlad lle mae cymaint o amrywiaeth ond nid yw'n ymddangos fel y byddant yn teimlo'n un ffordd. Ie, dyna'r stori. Roeddwn i'n mynd i ddweud, mae'r hyfforddwr ysgol fywod fy mab,

mae'n gael ysgol a chreuodd y cyfnod wych ym maes y clas. Felly, yn ystod y wythnos, fe wnaethon nhw gyd-wyth o wythnos a chyflawni'r Sgol o Gwyrdd Ysgol. Ond yn amlwg, mae'r so basically last week they did like a whole rainbow week and the school have won rainbow awards but obviously my son's school is for children with disabilities and special needs so they called the week it's okay to be included and the whole thing was about inclusivity so people who have disabilities learning disabilities who are gay trans lesbian i was so proud how the parents got on board the kids did it how much they learned about it and I'm a big advocate for even though we come from a family where I have a husband but I teach my son like it's okay to have two dads or it's okay to have two mams like I'm a big on there's so much children's literature out there now that you can kind of put out there read to your children about

it's okay to have two dads it's okay to have two mams it's okay to be adopted and you know all these other families and I think it's important that from such a young age we teach our children that it's okay people are just in love and happy and that's okay because i think if you teach them from being a child that's only how they grow the acceptance as an adult keep doing what you're doing love the episode see you soon oh forgot to say it's just me nicola from newcastle thank you so much nicola what a lovely message oh but your son had a lovely week what a lovely thing to do absolutely lovely great to hear everyone got involved parents kids everyone teachers just lovely to hear here's

another little message from ross hi nat and the gang i. I just wanted to say hi, and my name's Ross, and I love your podcast. I've just listened to all of them over the past week. I've caught up. I'm a Chatterbiscuit, Crunch Crunch. Crunch Crunch. And the episodes you're on are brilliant. I love you with the guys,

and I just want to say that your podcast is amazing and that you're a national treasure, and I think it's about time we were referring to you as dame natalie cassidy so i think we need to get a petition together for the king to sort it out carry on i like you ross now i think you could start that up ross for me i think you have to send a little letter get a little petition going and then everyone sends in a few bits about what i've done and whatever and i could get on the old list i don't know about dame mbe in the next few years

i think might be possible run two marathons for charity i do a lot for charity i've worked in television for over 30 years i'm a positive person i reckon what do you reckon i mean you've got to be in the running surely but i think people have to start the ball rolling so i'm just gonna just asking emma mark my partner my fiance my love maybe have a little look into it, how the ball gets started. Are you suggesting that we need to send an email to King Charles? No, no, no. Right. I haven't got his email, just saying.

I think we utilise Mark. Right when we've got the petition filled up, print it off, get him to take it to Ascot for the Royal Enclosure. I think that's where Mark comes in here. Yeah. He might even be at Wimbledon in a couple of weeks. Oh.

Or you could pass it on to his son. William will be there centre court final day. You see them a lot. Yeah, they do. You do see them a lot. Yeah.

So. Yeah. But I think it would be not, I just, I don't know what goes into it. I don't know what you have to do. But I'm just putting it out there, guys. Are you sure?

You've not looked into this a little bit? Never looked into it in my life. Okay. But you see the honours list. It wasn't long ago. Yeah. And I'm looking and I'm seeing the people thinking that's great. But I'm thinking I could be on there, surely.

That's it. That's all I'm saying. Em, I want to talk to you about something very, very important. This is extremely important. Now, you know we had the Davinia rep and she was fantastic. Yeah, really great. A different sort of episode, a topical episode. Anyway, she told me to buy something called Molka San.

So she said, have a go, you know, and it takes the bloating. She said it took the bloating down. It's not her product. It was, she sent me an Amazon link, you know, it's just a Vogel sort of organic thing. And I thought, oh, well, listen, I'm going to have a go. I'm going to have a go. Emma, I bought this stuff and I tried it on Sunday morning. Let me tell you something. And I don't care who I offend. Anyone who can get up every morning and tell me that's the first thing they put in their mouth every day, I'm sorry. I'm okay, I'll be bloated.

She did tell us it tasted of sick. No, no, no, no, no. Is it worse? Even worse than that? It is the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth and they're saying something. Isn't it, Mark? Well well i've tasted your tea so yeah must be bad i make a lovely cup of tea you do rush it a little bit but yeah okay so what did it taste like this stuff it's terrible it was it was i you you're meant to have two capfuls

right followed by the aloe vera juice It was, you're meant to have two capfuls. Right. Followed by the aloe vera juice. What are you doing? I can't talk about it. The aloe vera juice did taste, it was like sperm. I'm not going to lie. I'm going to be honest.

You can't say that. No, the consistency of it. The texture of aloe vera gel is like, yeah, it's slimy. Stop doing that noise. That noise is really bad. No, stop it. You can't listen to that. That's horrible. I'm really sorry.

This first thing, this Malkosan, I know she said it tasted like vomit, but it's fermented whey. Oh, okay. That's what it is yeah yeah i've i can't i can't explain it i can't you said to me that i was exaggerating on sunday night when i was still talking about it and still gagging over it yeah i think uh suppose so you said to me i don't know why you're still moaning it couldn't have been that bad well only because it's something it's promoted to drink and is meant to be good for for what is it for bloating right okay okay yeah so you're meant to drink this let me just tell you this again before you drink anything else in the morning you're meant to get up open your eyeballs and have two caps of this followed by the aloe vera juice

in water okay okay oh she's got it live taste test what is the bowl for just in case you need the bowl for? Just in case you need the bowl. For what? For your mouth. Eh? In case you feel sick. I've got some tickets for you. At least you've bought me from a welfare perspective. That's nice. There you go.

Just have a little swig. I don't want you to do two capfuls. From the bottle? Put it in the cap. Half a cap see what you think don't put your hand over your mouth that's really worrying

she doesn't even want to smell it in the air hold your breath this isn't some sort of trick, is it? No. You don't like taking out a... No trick needed. No insurance policy been taken out of the last seven days, no?

No. Okay. I did take a little... No, you mustn't... No, there was a little whiff then. You mustn't smell it. No, that was a little bit like... Yeah, I mean, you can smell that. i've just taken the lid off okay okay i hit my like the back of my throat then hang on

right wait a second this is really mean this can't spit it. You can't spit it out. You can't spit it out. I didn't say I was going to spit it out. Off you go. But you're saying I should drink it. You say that to me often. Off you go. Do you need a countdown?

No, not really. Go on, do a countdown. Go on. Three, two, one. You're laughing at a cat fool by the looks of it. He's happy with it. Oh, it's not that bad. Are you joking?

No. Are you joking? No, seriously. That's not actually that bad. I thought it was going to be terrible. I thought I was going to be sick or something. I'm holding the bottle. You think that's okay?

It's not okay. It's disgusting, but it's not, like, going to make me sick. Oh, well. I could drink more of it. Go on, then. Oh, you're better than me. Oh, I'm drinking more of it. No, don't.

You're not having any more. I might do my belly a favour. Be good. I can't believe this. I can't believe this, Emma. I can't believe what's happening to me. It's going to keep going. I can't believe it. It's a little me? It's going to keep going. I can't believe it.

It's a little salty. It is. That's all right. That's not that bad. I'll be honest with you. That's not, I'm actually quite proud of myself for trying that.

There you go. It's, I mean, it's not pleasant. You've made me look like a right knobhead. No, I've not. Massive knobhead.

No, it's, anyone, are you ready for me? Anyone who's, I mean, I've not. Massive. No, it's... Are you ready for me? Anyone who's... I mean, I'll be honest with you. It's got a very nasty... It is disgusting. And it tastes like...

Hang on a minute, though. Vomit. I've just had that now. What's that going to do tonight? You're meant to have it in the morning, no? I reckon you'll be on the toilet in about 20 minutes. I'm really sorry. It's a very...

Do you know what? I'll have a bit of a bloat on. No, I'll be honest with you. I'm fine. Right. I'm okay, thank you. I'm going to get up and I'm going to have

a cup of coffee with my... I like my little bit of creamer. My fat creamer. No, I mean, you wouldn't... I mean, I'll tell you... I can't believe that you've done that.

I genuinely can't believe it. I know you really well. You haven't got a stomach of steel. You moan about smells. You moan about stuff. You won't eat a fish with a head on it. You won't have a lobster. You won't have a crustacean.

You won't try an oyster. Yet you've sat and had that with no problem. I'm blown away. Bamboo's a bite. No, to give you credit, it tastes disgusting. try an oyster yet you've sat and had that with no problem I'm blown away bamboozle bite no to give you credit it tastes disgusting and also

just so so just describe it it's got the smell was potent it's very it's like drinking vinegar it isn't

I can drink vinegar apple cider vinegar all day long not a problem the smell is terrible but but now I've got this feeling of... I can feel it going down.

I can feel it. I don't want to talk about it anymore. It's not done what I thought it would do. I thought that you'd be gagging. I thought you might be sick here. No, it's got... But it's a shame. It's a very strange feeling because I don't think I've ever consumed anything

where I've actually felt the journey of it go through my body. So as we're sitting here, I can actually feel it within me, and it's getting lower and lower. It's very odd. That's not normal. I mean, who wants to drink something like that? It stinks. It's meant to be very, very good for your insides.

Anyway, that backfired. For fuck's sake. Are you swearing that? You just made me look stupid. No, I'm not. It's disgusting. On to a nicer subject. Stacey said that there's a Viennetta 245 daylight robbery.

Not sure where she is, but it's £2.45. At least it isn't £4.35 in Anglesey. That's all I can say. Paulina or Paulina. Lotus Biscoff Ice Cream Cake, 650ml, £3.75. That sounds lovely. Well, it's a Viennetta, but it's a Biscoff, you know. You'd like that, wouldn't you't you sweetheart love a bit of ice

cream apparently so yeah he's struggling a little bit with the food chat after that horrible syrup do you know what yeah i mean i wish i hadn't drunk that it's a bit unfair i think you maybe drink that talking of fans charlotte said just listening to the new episode and i actually have a fan on every night even if it's freezing or i can't sleep and my partner hates it now all my children have one too that was from charlotte loves a fan you got yeah there's something about the noise and stuff that people like the white noise, the whirring. Yeah, I can't cope when it's cold. I can go without a fan, even if it's baking hot.

And we don't change our duvet. The duvet remains the same summer and winter, and it's a heavy-tog duvet. Yeah, why is that? It would be wise to maybe get a summer duvet. Yeah, I'm okay with it. Okay. I just sort of have my whole body out, legs over the top. I don't know, I know it.

Well, you just wrap yourself up in them and tear them up. Snug as a bug in a ripped up rug. This is from Andrea. Oh, Andrea. Hi, Nat. It's Andrea from Chingford. I've just been listening to the latest episode you talk about napping and stuff um I definitely with you I can have a nap pretty much anywhere anytime um most days I have one in the afternoon because by about two three o'clock I

just can't function and I definitely believe that naps save lives. I can definitely sleep for 20, 30 minutes. I always set an alarm and it definitely makes me feel better. Also, I was listening to your niece talking about falling asleep, watching Friends and then turning it on in the middle of the night. And I'm really intrigued as to how that works with a partner if she has a partner and do they not mind that the tv comes on in the middle of the night when she can't sleep and it's a random episode of friends um i just i can't understand that at all but um anyway great pod bye i shall let ellia answer that question but basically jack doesn't have a choice that's the answer to that poor man jack has no choice she does what she wants to do and he lives with it but no i think he don't he doesn't mind it

obviously it works it works claire said hey nat loving the napping pod the victorians started sleeping on a washing line with the extreme poverty if you were poor and didn't have a home after work you could pay from your wages that day to hang your arms over a chest-height line to sleep. Anyway, enough boring history. I'll tell you what, Claire, that's not boring. Because I've heard it's from the Navy. But Claire is saying it's from the Victorians. I suggested the Navy. I thought it was drunk sailors. Whilst we're on the subject of napping, Danielle said hey nat just listen to podcast about napping your brother is so lovely and i love how protective and positive he is with you you both sound so similar in your reasoning to things so thank you danielle he's a bloody

good egg my brother's home it's a shame he wasn't free tonight well it is a shame yeah let's have you on again exactly earlier in las vegas marie's busy sarah said today when i was listening you said you hope people didn't fall asleep to your podcast i'm cabin crew and i fell asleep in my bunk in the middle of the night over the atlantic listening to you in a good way and then i listened properly on my run the next day I like how she's just put that in I know thank you Sarah good

yeah international listening oh I love it just in her own headphones fantastic it's a good job she wasn't a pilot that'd be worrying yeah

lucky that this is what Elaine had to say just listening to episode 15 lying in the garden eyes closed ear pods in lovely just to say uh the conversation about the suitcases getting stolen uh happened to my mother-in-law and father-in-law they packed up the car the night before going to ireland car got broken into everything stolen yep it does happen mind you we're going back a few years but still i'm in agreement with

your niece all right bye well elaine i have to say after chatting about it a few people have said to me never pack your car up the night before we have done that before darling haven't we we have we have but we get you know we pack the car up and we're in the car in like four hours time i mean yeah anything could happen couldn't it it's a bit of a risk what made me laugh when ellia said that yeah she said what if your car got stolen yeah then you wouldn't be able to get to the airport and all your stuff would have gone. And I just thought, so what she was basically saying was, if they woke up in the morning, they hadn't put their stuff in the car, sensibly, but the car had been stolen.

Well, I don't know if we'd then go, oh, never mind, the car's been nicked, but we'll get a cab to the airport. Well, I would. I wouldn't waste money on a holiday. No, no, that's the bit I'm saying is interesting. Oh, never mind, the car's been nicked, but we'll get a cab to the airport. Well, I would. I wouldn't waste money on a holiday. No, no, that's the bit I'm saying is interesting. I think that would have kind of put a bit of a downer on the holiday, knowing that I've left, my car's been nicked. Thankfully, I didn't put the luggage in it, so I've got all my stuff.

I walked out of my old house one Sunday morning, and my car wasn't on the driveway. I thought of that story as well. Why is that so funny? Got up Sunday morning, opened the front door. I thought, it's funny.

There's usually something there. Yeah, something's odd. Weird. Didn't notice for ages. Yeah. I think Maria and Linda, someone had been on a power walk past the house and didn't notice. Turned out someone had just stolen my car off the driveway.

It is the weirdest feeling when your car's just not there anymore. Very odd. What was funny, he phoned me. He phoned me up and he said, he said, why have you taken my car? I said, I haven't taken your car. He's like, oh no, go on.

My car's on the drive. I was thinking, oh, don't be a fuss. And this was in the old house. So you very much would have walked past when leaving the house you would have walked past the space where the car was parked

yeah which I'd obviously done that morning and not told me about that's what I'm saying no no no but the funny thing was no no no

don't skirt past it you left the house yeah got in your car and went somewhere. I hadn't noticed. And didn't notice my car wasn't on the drive. No. That's mad.

It was. And I was telling some of that story the other day. Just casually walked out. No car of mine. I mean, I walked where... The funny thing was, I actually ended up walking where the car was meant to be. I walked through the car to get to mine.

Yes. Didn't notice. Two hours later, why have you driven my car? I've not driven your car. I thought it might be nice, actually. I've had a couple of messages about different subjects. It's a little bit of a little Q&A. This is from Lucy, and she would like our opinion on a subject,

and I thought it was very interesting. So here's Lucy. Lucy sent me a voice note at 1 minute 48, so I'm going to speed it up to a 1.5 level. I like it when you do this speedy i thought this was very good last time we did this thank you hi natalie it's lucy here from horsham in west sussex i've just started listening to your podcast and i think it's amazing well i'm on episode 5 at the moment so a little bit behind but hoping to catch up um i just thought of

something that really really annoys me and i thought you know what let's tell natalie about it she might agree or have an opinion um i don't know if you do online shopping grocery shopping um but what I do and it really winds me up when you put something on there and then you check out then you get the receipt come through and some things are unavailable they tell you about that but sometimes the things that you put on there completely disappear and it makes you feel like you're going mad especially if you're jointly doing the shopping with your other half so you think that they've removed it or it just drives me up the wall and I think what happens is it's not available at the time when you check out or you do it on a

Monday you put it on there on a Monday and by the time you check out on a Thursday it's not available in the shop anymore but they don't tell you it's unavailable they just completely remove it from your shopping list so you don't know whether you imagine that you put it on there or not and yes it might not be important it might be something you can go and just get for yourself or you might not even need it that week anyway but that's not the point the point is they make you feel like you're going crazy and it just happened to me and I thought I would share and breathe thanks Natalie have a good Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, Goosey, Lucy, Lucy. Don't do online shopping. I know it's controversial. I did it a bit.

I've done it before. I've done it a bit. It's kind of catching on these days. No, thank you. I'll tell you why, shall I? You put your shopping in. I've never had... Is she all right?

Yeah. Sorry. It's all right? Yeah. Sorry. It's all right. Emma's just holding her pussy. We didn't know. Do you know what? I saw that and I thought, do you know what? Miss Double Entendre, of course she's going to say.

I mean, it's such an obvious thing, isn't it? I really. Honestly. It's unbelievable. You call it scraping the barrel because I'm on it. Your repertoire of comedy is very much. Oh, I see. Exactly.

She does get filthier when it's just you as well. I've noticed that. She does. She gets in power to do naughty jokes. I can't help it. Why is that? Oh, don't do that face. That's like now you've turned into Sid James. No, you're rubbing your legs and doing a Sid James face.

It's very awkward. Love you, don't I? Fancy you a lot. I don't know. Oh, God. Going back to the internet shopping. So, online shopping, food shopping, you put everything in the basket.

Now, Lucy, I've never had a list shared with Mark in terms of a... No, not on a... Yes, we have on the iPad where we put stuff on it. On a Cardo or Sainsbury's or something. No, no. We haven't. No. Right, let me finish what I'm saying.

Sorry. Sorry. But I've done a shop where I've put in all of the items. You pay for it. Then they send you 12 items. 12 items aren't available. So instead of six submarine rolls, we're going to send you a tiger loaf. I don't want one.

I need six submarine rolls. Oh, the fairy liquid in green that you like, the sensitive fairy liquid, we haven't got that, so we're going to send you an own brand of lavender. I don't want it. When you get the food that is correct through the door, it is the day you get its date on it. The sell-by date is today, whatever, 24th of June. It would turn up, it would be the 24th or 25th.

I want to go into my supermarket. You know, you get the black crates. So let's say you've got some courgettes and they will say the 26th of June on them. Do you know what I do? I lift the crate off, put it on the floor. I lift another crate off, and I get the 28th. When I'm in the shop, I can get the latest dates I want. I know what I'm buying.

I get the latest dates. I go to the back of the fridges, right to the back. I don't make a mess. If I'm in Marksies, I say, Carol, right to the back. I don't make a mess. Well, if I'm in Marks, as I say, Carol, give me a minute. They know me in there. They know that I'm not going to muck up the store. Sainsbury's the same, but I get fresh produce and I can see it and I can look at it. I don't know why you do online shopping. That my rant i know people won't agree with me 0778 20 19 19 but i don't like online food shopping you like to look at the products before you buy them don't you are you taking the piss out of me no no no i've seen it emma what what do you think about this

subject please i'm an online shopper. Okay. I get my shopping online. It's awkward. It's not awkward. I'm up for it. I'm up for it. People do what they want to do. You know my views. It's absolutely fine.

Do you not worry about the dates? When you get it through, does it not bother you? Not really. No? When you get your four potatoes through, and one of them is sprouting in the packet, do you ever think, oh, I wish I'd picked those myself? Well, I tend to plant the sprouty potatoes and then I've got a little potato plant.

I tend to pick up the very fresh stuff just locally in the tiny little shops nearby. I tend to get all the kind of stock cupboard stuff delivered. The issue is, is that if I go into the shop, I will spend three hours there and get very overwhelmed. It will take up all my day. I just find it too much. Then I never get everything I need to. Well, they're made for that.

They're designed for that. Yeah, exactly. You can't go food shopping hungry, people. No. I am a very good shopper. I'm going to say it now. Let's do a whole episode on food shopping because I'm passionate about it. People that go shopping with their children also,

I know sometimes that is necessary for some people, but if you have children between the ages of four and 18, go in the school hours. Why are you taking your children on a Saturday to the food shop? Might be the... Got some mocha sand. Repeat. Get in there now the old cheesy

vomit might have something to do with it all I am saying when it comes to online shopping I'm sorry Lucy

I just don't think online shopping is a good idea you're always going to have flaws in it because you're not

in the shop and you're not getting it yourself you're being ruled by a computer and someone dumping it because you're not in the shop and you're not getting it yourself you're being ruled by a computer and someone dumping it in you're not picking it you're saying you'll you'll put your potatoes in a pot you're not going to do that are you really what grow them i do grow them

yeah oh fair dues but from a sprouted potato from a supermarket? Yeah. I'm interested. Oh, wow. Well, then, I mean, it just makes a plant. It doesn't really, I don't really ever get anything proper potato-y out of it. But it's a plant, isn't it? I try. No, well, listen, you've got to have a bash. I'm proud of you. Our tomatoes and chillies are coming on lovely.

Mark just put in a What's it called? Irrigation system Oh, a little drippy water That's it Yes, it's like a little Yeah, water sprayer thing It was very clever though

It came in a box from Amazon It's all little pipes Yeah With the little nozzles And you just went round all the pots, didn't you? And put it all in Yeah, I swear it's alright Quite pleased about that I thought it was gonna you know it's good yeah

yeah but they're coming on lovely now coming in strong aren't they looking forward to them highlight of the year that is one of the highlights oh it's lovely when those cherry tomatoes come up can't wait fresh bruschetta, fresh pasta sauce. Delicious. Spicy salsa overload. Oh, the chillies. Can't wait for it. I love the chillies. You won't get that on an online shop.

We're going to do a food shopping episode. 07788 2019-19. Stories about food shopping, feeding your children in the supermarket. When you go to the supermarket, what's the best time, any funny stories. It's a whole city. In fact, you could just have a podcast about it. That's a good episode. I find it interesting the people that allow their kids to eat stuff from the supermarket.

Elia and I have touched on this. Right. But it needs to go into great depth. I was never allowed to do that as a kid. It had to be paid for first, and then I could have it after the shop. But it's unusual, isn't it? People do that quite a bit.

Yeah, as long as you have the empty packet or empty drink at the end, no problem. But what if you don't? Well, you would. Then you're stealing. Well, exactly. But people do it. You see the empty packets left on the shelves. It's terrible.

But we went shopping recently and you went mad sorry we went shopping we went shopping where we never ever go food shopping this is gonna trigger your memory go on i walked in the supermarket pulled out my shopping bag and you said what you're doing and i was putting stuff in the shopping bag oh yeah and you said no no you can't? And I was putting stuff in the shopping bag. Oh, yeah. And you said, no, no, no, you can't do that. You can't put it in the shopping bag. Yeah, no, I'm not having that. You did.

No, I know I did. I'm saying I'm not having that behaviour. Yeah. Well, you scan as you went round, though. That's what I like to do. The few times I go in person. No, no, no, there was no scanning. There was no scanning.

We were in M&S. He had a shopping bag. And he was putting his shopping in the bag before we got to the till. To then empty out of the bag into the till to put it back in the bag? Correct. There's a little bit which goes, yeah, it's not the most efficient. Scanning shop. I said you can't put stuff in the bag.

I'm not the only one. I mean, I didn't make it up. Other people do that people do not walk around marks and spencers putting things into their bag without paying for it okay so i go in i need to stop this conversation here why it's an episode i'm not doing it it's not an episode it is one thing let me say one more thing on it. Go on. In my defence, I've got my shopping bag.

Yeah. Because these days we don't use carrier bags. Correct. Right. If I'm not going to put the goods in my shopping bag, what do I do with the shopping bag? So I've got a basket and a shopping bag. Yes. I've got a basket and a shopping bag? Yes

I've got a basket and a shopping bag? Correct I haven't got a third arm What do I pick stuff off the shelf with? You fold your shopping bag up into your basket It would take up a whole basket You can't walk around You can

Not unless you're scan and shopping What's the phone number? 07788 20 1919. Does anybody agree with me? There you go. I said my piece. Carry on. I think we've covered a lot tonight.

It's been a lovely ep. It's been well-rounded. We've had a few subjects. And I feel very happy. So I thank everybody for your messages Because without you it would have been shite Well, clearly No reflection on you, Emma

But certainly the fact that you've dragged me back out again Just because we're scraping the barrel Doesn't mean the barrel isn't worth scraping Well, Natalie's getting her money's worth out of the barrel, is all I'm going to say. I had an idea. I'm going to leave on this note. Romesh said that Lisa wouldn't come on a podcast

in his latest Bonus Wolf and Owl episode. Lisa, if you're listening on your run, I would really like you to come on. Then I thought, why don't we extend this? If Rose isn't away, if Lou's around, Petra's around and Naomi's around, I can get all the podcast boys' wives on my pod. The podwags. Right to reply.

The podwags. We can have a girly night in. Ladies, if you agree to that, I would recommend just do a Zoom. Don't come here because you will feel like you are being cooked. Do it on a Zoom. Don't come to Natalie's. I don't think everyone's going to come here. No.

It would be roasting. It'll be all right Christmas time. Yeah. But I just thought it would be lovely to have the pod wags on because they're the unsung heroes of these men. I can tell you that now. They might all sit around podding, but those women keep those men. They keep them where they are, and they look look after them and I'd like to talk to them

so I'm throwing it out there podwags get in touch with me some of your hubbies have my number some of you can just dm me I don't mind I'm not fussy but get get in touch. Let's have a little nag about all your poddy husbands. I'm going to leave it there. I hope you've enjoyed today's episode. I will see you on Monday. Have a fantastic weekend. Thank you for listening. And I'll see you next week.

Lots of love. Bye. Hi, this is Chris McCausland. And this is Diane Boswell. And we've got a new podcast, haven't we, Di? We do. What's it called? Winning.

Isn't. Everything. Every week, me and Diane, we're going to be having a little catch-up on the back of Strictly, aren't we, Di? We are. I've missed you, Chris. I've missed you too.

We're going to talk some nonsense so why not tune in? Available everywhere you get your podcasts.