Life with Nat - EP214: Scraping the Barrel #40 - Should Nat host strictly?

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

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Hello and welcome to Life with Nat. Glorious Thursday. I hope everybody is getting up and ready for Easter. Getting up and ready? Gearing up. Gearing up for Easter. Good Friday tomorrow. Fish and chips only?

It's funny, that, isn't it? What's funny? Well, I'm not a Christian. Right. But you should only eat fish on a Friday. But I don't know why my family did that. So we weren't religious. No.

But a few rules. I mean, why are you celebrating Easter? Why is everyone coming around on Easter Sunday then? Because I think I am partly just quite interested, I suppose, in Jesus's birth and demise. Okay. You like Christmas as well. That's what I mean. Yeah.

The birth and that. Scraping the barrel today, if no one had noticed. How are you, darling, anyway? You good? Pretty good, thanks. Busy at the moment. Very busy. I might, he's going to use a loo.

in a minute. Oh, okay. So I might have to have a little break. Okay. Just realised that after we started recording. That's right. That's okay. Yeah.

Did you want to do it now? No, not really. Okay. It'd make a mess of the carpet. Did you know that it's something like 90% of British people announce when they're going to the toilet and we do that more than any other nation? Doesn't surprise me at all. Just going to the Lou.

Just going to have a wee. Just going to nip up to the, yeah, back in them, excuse me, just going to the loo. Joni called me upstairs the other day. Yeah. And I was really busy. I was cooking. I was doing something. She was screaming.

Mammy! And I felt what on earth has happened. And I came up. And she wanted to show me her poo and how large it was. All right. I mean, she won't thank me in the future when she listens to this. But she'll probably skip over it. Let's be honest.

She's not going to listen to all of them. I empathise with that, actually. There's been times, well, I've, you know, I thought it was a bit of a talking point. But refrained from, you're calling you a name. I mean, it was impressive. I think it could have sunk the Titanic. I don't know how it comes out of her, bless her little heart.

Good though, it's good though. But it did make me laugh. Well, you've load the tone in the first two seconds. Not lower in the tone. It's general life, isn't it? Don't miss all that. Don't miss changing nappies and all of that. I thought that today when I was with Eleo and James.

I mean, you know, you're smelling their bums. Have they done a poo? Haven't they done a purr? I don't miss that bit. No. No. Fair enough. I mean, what a subject.

It does worry me, actually. Why's that done? I felt very sorry for Lewis the other day. You'd come into our live pod. Yeah. This was a guy who's been brought along to watch the live pod show. And he must have just been thinking, what is going on

and actually I understand you've got some messages from people I've got lots and lots of messages all from the Bristol show which will be coming up in a little while

and the husband's sort of like what is this yeah but loved it but I will play those in a little while wanted to pop back to our marriage chat

from the last pod because lots of people think we should definitely get married they say that marriage is a lovely thing and a lovely story here and I love this from Vicky

Just finish listening to your pod tonight with Mark Thought I'd share my parents' story They had their first date at the beginning of December And were engaged that same year And were married at the end of the following March Yes, four months They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last year We sadly lost mum a few months later

So it was the first Mother's Day without her Not sad as I use these days to celebrate her But how lovely. Four months, married, 60 years marriage. Brilliant. Also, read the feeling of days. I always get a real hit of nostalgic feeling on a Saturday evening around 5 o'clock, particularly in the summer. And especially watching a certain era of only fools and horses takes me back to being at my nans. So I totally get the feelings of days things. We've got a lot of messages about the feelings of days. weren't quite sure what I was talking about, but lots of people understood me. No, I knew what you were talking about.

But I get that Saturday night thing. Saturday night, five o'clock. Yeah. Sort of dinner time, the pools, all that sort of. I'll tell you something I've realised. It's happened a few times, actually. So to give you an example, if I have listened to something that I've really enjoyed listening to, there's then been occasion when I've been in the car with you

and said, oh, you've got to listen to this. I listened to this the other day, and I was driving back from blah blah, blah, and we listened to it. And we've done that a few times. Yeah. What's odd? I don't think I've ever said this to you before, but it's happened on many an occasion.

Or if I'd just listen to something again. When I'm re-listening to it, I'm remembering precisely where I was, what I was doing every little bit of, say, the car journey I was on when I first listened to it. Okay. So, like, a joke or something, and I think I was going around that roundabout, blah, blah, blah. Really? And I can picture myself, go on exactly where I was on my journey.

Photographic memory? That's not a photographic memory, I don't think. Well, I would not know the route I was on if I was listening to something for the second time. It's the association of what I'm listening to. Yeah, and it takes you back to where you were. Very bizarre. And that's happened a few times, actually. And even happens, even more, more often this happens,

you're listening to, say, a podcast episode. You arrive at your destination, if you're driving. You get back in the car at the end of the day. And you go, oh, I'll just whack it back like five minutes, get back into it. and I'll pull it back five minutes, hit play, and I start driving, and I start listening to a moment which is recognisable, and I remember exactly what happened that morning,

like the person crossing the road, or it's really odd. It really does take me back to exactly where I first listened to it. And is that kind of within a couple of weeks? Is it like a, do you know what I mean? Or is it, can you do that and go back 20 years? No, not 20 years. Right. Because, well, firstly, I didn't really listen to podcasts,

No, but a programme. I don't really know what the time would be on, you know, time limit of the longest it's been, but probably a while, because I think that's happened, say, yeah, it has actually. Like we, we did a drive to Cornwall a couple of years ago, and I remember it happening on that.

It's very interesting. It's association by that, you know, it's a little bit like when we do the game, the shopping list game, you know where we do that, I went to the shops and I bought an apple, banana. And my little way of doing it, It came from Derren Brown's book.

Well, you picture everything. You picture it in an order. So I think of a journey around the house, and the first item I put there, and then open the front door, and the next item's inside the front door, and you visualise it all. And you can remember every single little bit of...

Well, maybe you've taken that... Maybe. It's bit too far. Maybe Darren's books had a lasted impact on you. But I'm not doing it consciously. No, no. Could come in handy that for the future. Yeah, anyway, I forgot what we were talking about.

Ironic. We were just talking about, no, just that sort of feeling of nostalgia on different days. I find it fascinating. I mean, someone here, this is very interesting because I absolutely know what she means, but I can't explain it. Carla. Hi, Nat and Mark. Yes, on certain days, feeling more like the other. Thursday, 8pm and October.

have the same feeling. So weird and I can't explain. Mark, for the love of Christ, read the book. It's fab. There you go. Sorry, working backwards. What book could we... Mine.

Oh yeah. I kind of get what she's saying about Thursday, 8 o'clock in October. Is that Gardner's World? No. Right. University Challenge sometimes. Right. Maybe not.

She's not a fan of it. I don't think it's a bad feeling. Right. It's just a feeling. I'm a little bit lost. I feel like a member of the audience in Bristol. I don't know why you keep saying that. We've had rave reviews.

Okay. Have a listen to this one. Hi, Nat. I was just listening to your Monday episode of your podcast and I have to say, completely understand what you were saying, when you were saying that when it's a Tuesday and it feels like a Thursday,

I mean, I get this all the time when we've had a bank holiday and you've had the Monday off work, and then you go back in on Tuesday, your whole week just feels completely out of sync, and you never know where you are. Even down to your bin collections, like my bins always get collecting on a Wednesday, but on a bank holiday week, they always come a day later on a Thursday, and it always just kind of throws you off and you don't know where you are or what's going on.

So, yeah. And also, like, you were saying, like, Tuesday and that being the day of the week, I always find that when you've had the Monday, it's not so bad because you've just had the weekend. And then when you hit Wednesday, you think, I've only got Thursday and Friday, to go. But that Tuesday is a nothing kind of day. You've just had the weekend and the weekend still seems so far away. So yeah, completely get what you were saying. And also what you was mentioning about Neighbors and Harold Bishop, I actually started watching Neighbors again when they decided to exit on Channel 5. So I thought, I can sit down and watch the last six months of it and actually

got really into it. And Harold was actually in Neighbors back then. And also, he actually came back into it as a series regular when they rebooted it on Amazon FreeV. So, yeah, he was still in it, but he did have to get written out when the actor Ian Smith actually got diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Oh, bless him. They did actually bring Anne Charleston back. She came back as another character called Agnes and they kind of met up and they went off and lived happily ever after. But I was actually reading that Ian's actually doing really well and they said that he wasn't going to live past March 2025 and he's still here. So that's some good news. Yeah, anyway, Keep up the great pod.

Charlie from Chigwell here anyway. Love that, Charlie. Condensed message, Jeff. Just a fantastic message with a lot of information in. Love your neighbour's knowledge. Oh, the knowledge about neighbours. I was wondering how do you know about his neighbour's knowledge? I mean, how do you know who his neighbour is?

It was the first question I had in my mind. It's confusing myself. Quite confused about the days, though, there. That was quite a... No, it's true, though, isn't it, about the days? Well, I'm confused. Fank holidays. Yes.

Well, you have bin day, don't you? Yes. And it all changes. It does, yeah. But we go on the... Fucks a week up. Yep. Does it really?

I mean, I don't know the normal bin days. No, you don't. Which is ironic. It's irrelevant. The second time I've said ironic. Third. Third. Do the impression, again.

Of what? I don't put... You just said, I don't put for bins out. What could I possibly be describing? She did put the bins out. Thank you. So did the impression. Just putting the bins out, and I?

Weird, I do. Yeah, they're like that. When West Jet first took flight in 1996, the vibes were a bit different. People thought denim on denim was peak fashion. Inline skates were everywhere, and two out of three women rocked, the Rachel. While those things stayed in the 90s,

one thing that hasn't is that fuzzy feeling you get when West Jet welcomes you on board. Here's to West Jetting, 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at westjet.com slash 30 years. Lovely message here from Tara. Morning Nat, this is Tara from Farnborough in Hampshire. Just want to say that you and Mark are so fantastic together, are we? And I was listening to your scraping the barrel.

You're mentioning the yellow pages ad. Listen to this. Did you know that the little boy that was trying to kiss the girl was Robbie. Williams. You know that? No, I didn't know that. There you go. Have you fact checked that? Fact checked it?

Fact checked it? No. I've had two people message me about that. Right. Also, I want to say that your pod is bloody fantastic. I love listening to every single episode. Keep doing what you're doing because you're bloody amazing. Thank you, Tara.

That is brilliant info about the little boy. Not looking great on the fact-checking. I'd love it to be true. Why, what's it saying? Well, I've just Googled it, and it says the iconic 1992 Yellow Pages Christmas advertisement, which featured a young boy using a phone book to kiss a girl under the mistletoe. Did not feature Robbie Williams.

Despite persistent rumours and a strong resemblance, the child actor was seven-year-old Dean Cook, while at the time Robbie Williams was 18. I hate stuff like that. Oh, I'm sorry, Tara. You have to ruin everything. Do you know what? This is almost as disappointing as my research that I'd done on William Willett,

who is associated with the British summertime coming into play. Yes. And I went off on one about, I'm not going to do it. I did the whole story in the cab on the way to Bristol. Emma said, no, no, no, no. There was actually someone else attributed to it. And actually, when you look into it, there's quite a few things attributed to that sort of stuff. There's a lot of things.

The William Willett thing. does seem to be plausible. But everyone's got a story. Everyone's got a story, yeah. It's a shame, isn't it? I'm going to go with farmers wanting more light. Yeah, that's something that is wildly disputed.

I'm going to go with it. That's the main one, actually. But most, if you actually do a, even if you do a simple Google now, most of it is around energy saving and the First World War. Well, I'm not going to do that now because we're doing a podcast.

And I think if I listen, listen to a pod and all people are doing is on their phones googling, I get pretty fucked off really. Well, welcome to my world. That's like me going to bed with you. I beg you a pardon? I get it to bed. Whenever... You'll just googling it on a minute. Someone in Bristol, I can't remember

her lovely name. You gave the Easter egg to her. Oh, I didn't. You did. Oh yeah, you bought the Easter egg, I gave it to her. Correct. What was her name? I don't know. Was it Linda? It's really bad. I'm so sorry. Oh, 7-8-1919. Please can you get in touch? We didn't write it. it down, we got all excited, you told

us, but you said you wanted us to talk on today's pod about arguments that we have. That is worth an argument. When do I ever get into bed and Google stuff? All the time. Not Google, you're just on the phone.

All the time when I get into bed, I'm on the phone. Pretty much. It's a lie, guys. Okay. Okay. Actively, I'm not on my phone when I get into bed now. Okay. Or in the morning. All right. What happened last night? I read my book and I finished it.

Didn't read your book? Be on the phone. Read my book? Oh, dear. So there you go. Any other, but let's honour that subject as it was selected and you've barely done anything other than actually have an argument. Clean surfaces. I like clean surfaces in the kitchen if I've cleaned. I don't argue about that. I agree.

Well, you aggravate me with it. And I could have an argument about it. Well, we don't argue about it. I just get annoyed because I can't be bothered to argue. We argue about the clocks going forwards and back and what the time is. Yeah? Yeah, you don't like that. We argue, we don't really argue,

but argue about me not taking my shoes off. It's not really enough, but we've never really argued. Only because I can't be bothered to carry on, because what we do is I'll say something, you go, oh, you're nagging me again. But I wouldn't be nagging if you listened. That's the thing. I argue about the rabbits and the fact that I have to,

anything to do with the rabbits when I said... Fed the rabbits tonight and watered the rabbits tonight? Don't... Please don't try it. Who was the last person to put them in the run and clean the whole hatch out? You? But was that the first time you've done it in six years?

No, not six years. Four years? A good... No, a good six months. Three years? No, I do it very occasionally. Okay. But I think it's fair to say that I unfortunately have the line...

You definitely take 90%... Right home. ...of the rabbit stuff. How much money do you feel? I think I've spent on those rabbits since you've had them. I could work this out because I've got an account with the pet. Probably quite a lot on the hay and the food. It's quite a lot, yeah.

For two creatures that no one cares about. I do. That's really rude. I go out, I talk to them. And now when spring's coming up, we'll put them in the run. I love seeing them bubbling about outside, especially if you've got a little train on. It's coming up to that time of year.

You're talking about them because it's been dark and cold and they don't come out the hutch. You're in a right moment. tonight. Someone has sent me a fantastic picture. You're not going to like it. I know.

We're going to have to pop it on Instagram. I might even just pop it up tonight because otherwise I'll forget. Might be best. Easter tree. Another argument I won. Or did I show this last week? I don't know.

Got deja vu. What I really enjoyed... We've got a voice note to go with this. Do you mind? Hi, Nat. Just catching up on the pod. I feel like I've gone into some sort of Christmas time warp. So I've not listened for a few months. Life has been really busy.

But I've listened to episode 176 and 177 today and you're talking with your niece is about Christmas films and advent calendars and Mark, you've just been talking about Christmas trees. Really missed it, guys. You've made me laugh so much and kept me company on my drive home. I'm the lady that normally puts her tree up at the beginning of Rottover and takes it down by Valentine's Day. This year though, that hasn't quite happened and my tree is still up. However, just for you, Mark,

so I remember the topic was discussed last year and I have a full-blown Easter tree. I'll send you a pick. Lots of love, keep doing what you're doing. Love you guys. Jen. So on the subject of Easter trees, we've discussed this on the podcast.

Yep. And sure enough, when I've said, oh, you know, who's got an Easter tree, and I bet no one's got an Easter tree. Because a lot of people listen to the podcast, which is lovely, quite a few people... Have an Easter tree. Right in.

I noticed when I had a proportion of our audience in front of me on Sunday, a few, quite a few people in a room. Yeah. And the subject came up and I thought, oh, this is an opportunity. Put your hand up if you have an Easter tree. One person did. Right. I arrest my case. Why?

That's my point. made. Still a person. One person. I would say as a percentage of the population, if we take that as a proportional representation... Lou, Lou, it's got a tree. She sent me a tree, Lou.

Okay, Lou, brilliant. But for every one of Lou, there's like another thousand people that haven't got one. Fair enough. That's the point. Just saying. Nothing against it, Lou.

Still list of trees around. But it's a very strange-looking object. I mean, for example, I've been working on a television program the last week, which was quite mainstream. There's no Easter trees. Well, they've filmed it all.

All right, okay. When I've worked on it, when they're filming Easter, there's been no Easter trees. Well. Just saying. Props department. Not seen any Easter trees on any...

Have you ever seen a drama and it's an Easter tree? Any drama. Any film? A film? I think we've watched Home Alone and there's definitely Christmas trees in it being a Christmas film, but there's not really...

It's not a big deal. It's just a decoration. It's a very old decoration. Chill yourself out. Strange. The idea that Jen has kept a full blown Christmas tree up and just changed decorations, you might as well leave it up now, Jen. What can you do after Easter?

You can just make it springy, a few dafts in there, then move on to summer. I don't know what you could do. Maybe you've got some birthdays or something, cover it in cards. Just leave it up. It's a great addition. brightens up the room if it makes you happy

you do it that's what I say we've had a fascinating message that came in very late just as you were putting Joanie to bed tonight which I think you'll like don't know if you've seen it have you had a little look no have a look it's the sun from Tuesday May the 22nd

1984 so I was um one and one week-ish old. Packing up the house as we are on the move, looking through boxes that have been in the loft since we moved in, who knew that a Vienetta hasn't really increased with the cost of living? It was 85 pence in 1984.

It doesn't surprise me. That does not surprise me. But that is impressive, isn't it? It is. That's Heidi, by the way, from Huntingdon. Thank you, Heidi. Fascinating. It's impressive, that?

I know. Lovely Sarah, who wrote a slip out at the Bristol Live show and asked for your marmalade cake recipe, said, love this afternoon, that was so brilliant to see all of you, and I'm so chuffed to have Mark's cake recipe now. Thank you so much and safe journey home. Did I go into the detail? I can't remember now.

No, you do what you usually do, really. It's just very short and sweet. You said it's BBC good food and I'll change a few things. But I said what I changed Yeah I said you do it like 10 minutes less And and use like mixed fruit Exactly I put a bit more orange pill in it really

I think that's all I do though I don't think I do anything Anyway she was chuffed Let us know when you've baked it and send us a photo It's a nice cake It's nice Hi all just got home after coming to see you today And just wants to say I thoroughly enjoyed it

I honestly feel like I've met you all before You are all so lovely, funny and warm. I thought of a couple of questions for your next pod. If you were asked to host strictly, would you do it? Do you and Mark watch Netflix series together? And if so, which ones? Bridgeton Series 4. Thanks again for a great afternoon.

P.S. Mark is so funny and chilled. You're all fab, Tracy. That lovely message. She'd been on the old Vinoes that night, which one? Should we do have questions? because I think it's lovely that she's thought of us. Let's go for it. Would I host strictly?

No, because I'm not a presenter. It's live television. It takes years to be able to present and anchor something of that size. It's huge. If strictly it takes two as knocking about, BBC's two, weekdays, yeah, I'd give it a go. but no I wouldn't

petrifying I wonder who's taking we've not heard any more have we about that I saw some sort of clickbait advert for that the other day Not seen it for ages Well I'd like to think

that maybe Zoe might pop into doing the main show and you could go and do the It takes two Or is it Zoe? Does it now? Years ago she did it Oh I don't know I don't watch it now

Zoe Ball Ryland can go into it Is it Ryland Ryland and Zoe Rylan and Zoe should do strictly in my opinion That would make a lot of sense I think it would be great

I think that's a That's possible You never know do you No No Do you and Mark watch Netflix series together And if so

Which one's Bridgeton series for Never watch Bridgeton in our lives Have we? No No Where's that one past the spy Do you think I don't know

Never watched it But we have watched The Crown. That's a Netflix series. Yeah, yeah, we love the Crown. There was another one we watched which was really good about the babies being swapped. Is that Amazon or Netflix? Oh, yeah, I can't remember.

David Tennant, wasn't it? No, the one that was done in Cornwall. David Tennant? David Tennant? Yeah. Is he in that? I think so. I'm terrible.

I'm sure it was. I never remember. I've got no idea. Do you know what it is, I think? It's all rolls into one. We're also always so tired when we watch something. I don't remember programs. And I'll tell you something,

there was one we started watching, and I'd love to know what this was. Oh, I know what you're going to say. And it was two different things. So it starts off on a plane, and we watched one episode. The next episode started, it was a whole other story strand, and it's two different perspectives. Rubbish.

And you were like, no, I don't want to watch this. No. It was just really aggravated me. No, it wasn't accurate. I want to watch that. And what was that called? Not sure, Tracy, the other one that we loved, very, very good succession.

Oh, that was good? Great. Is that Netflix? I think that might have been ours. No, that's HBO. Sky. Is it? Yes.

Sky Atlantic. Does we have another series of that on? No, it's finished. Okay. Have we, about Line of Duty? Is that finished now? It's finished, but it's coming back.

They're writing the scripts. I've seen all of that going on. And where did we get to with that? God knows, but I think we should definitely put that back on. Yeah. Go back a few series. You know, just to get back. You say that.

We've got to not watching much at the moment. I haven't got time to watch anything. I don't watch the news, let alone. I don't think so. Do you know what baffles me? And I don't mean this in a bad way because I think this is incredibly amazing if you can do it.

But when people say to me, I've had people in the past at work or in general, whatever, when they go, oh yeah, we watched a whole box set on Saturday. We don't sit down. No, I know. I say, I thought you know.

I know. I did think that earlier because we recorded a scene where a character says to another character fancy going to go and do this this afternoon. And I actually had this thought, thinking, oh, they've got a life.

This character in this make-believe world. She just said to his son, do you want to go and do this with me? I'm thinking, was he not got a bit of decorating to do? Does he not got a job? But people do put going out before anything else, which is the right way to be.

If we were two characters in a soap, that would be quite interesting. like all we'd never we'd never be able to do any we'd never take part in any of the actual storylines because we'd just be wandering around just sorting stuff out oh you'd just get written out when you

you'd never do a scene though would you but I mean there's no characters We'd be in the pub maybe once every month once a month we've not been to the pub in a month do you see what I mean we'd be like this most ridiculous

far-fetched couple of characters well we are who did nothing other than than sort out stuff. I just sort out washing all day now. It did washing all the time. That's all I do.

Yeah. All day long. I've got a question as well. Yeah. There's a loading at the moment. We've got two washing machines, may I add. One being my dad's, that's the way it is. I know it's weird to have two washing machines.

Both of them are on. It's like a laundrette and there's no more people here. And today I thought I'd cracked it. I'd done all of Eliza's washing because she's been away. And then I went round to the... washing baskets and they're all full up again. Someone's taken a piss out of me. Well, normally, when I'm at home

and I've had a go at trying to do the washing, I'll get Eliza's washing basket and probably 50% of it just gets folded up and put away again. Agreed with you, but on this occasion it was actually hers was empty. Your stuff doesn't muck about. What do I mean?

Our bin gets filled up very quickly in our room. But I only wear one set of clothes a day and I change my pants every day, which is possibly a good thing. I don't know. Of course you change. Who doesn't change their pants every day? So I don't know what the problem is it.

Socks, load to socks. Thousands of them. Again, I wear a pair of socks a day. I think, don't you wear two pairs at times? This is really disgusting. If I wear two pairs of socks, the outer pair, get worn as a normal pair the next day. That's not true. Sometimes they're inside of each other. I have to pull them out to wash them.

That's occasional. A beg to differ. A pair of socks is what we're talking about here. You're actually saying that's like, what's that the straw, at Brent the camel's back. A pair of socks. It can be. Right.

Just get on with it. Joni is now turning into Eliza. I now have to pick out her stuff, check if it's clean, because she chucks it on in the basket as well. So she's doing the same as what Eliza's. In fact, Joni... It's morphing into Eliza.

It's very interesting. The baking now. It's very interesting how that's happening. And no one's telling her to do that. No. Fascinating. Yeah. Bless her. I love her in the kitchen though.

And yesterday she made me a bacon roll all by herself. Did she? She used the air fryer, buttered the roll. That's nice. You've never done that to me. She needs to make a cup of tea. I need to teach her how to use the kettle. Yeah.

Because that would be lovely in the mornings. Why don't you teach her how to use the washing machine? Hi, Nat. It's Chloe from Bristol. I've just got home from seeing your Bristol Live Shell. I dragged my friend along who's never listened to your pod before. and she loved this show just as much as I did. Thank you and your family for doing the pod. I've listened from the very beginning.

I always listened to your pod wherever I am, whatever I'm doing. So thank you so much for always keeping me company. Love you lots. Bye. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you for coming and I'm pleased your mate enjoyed it. Hopefully she'll start listening now as well. Good morning. I know this is an early message. Just wants to say what a fantastic show yesterday.

I was there with my wife. I was the guy and the cat behind. Lewis, the guy in the cap. Very good. Drinking a can of Thatcher's Gold, which is based in a village of which I grew up, I did spend a lot of my time running around the Apple Orchards as a kid. This man is 43 now, lovely Del. I am an avid listener from the start. My wife does listen when we're on a journey in the car because she has no choice,

but she does love it too. She's just not really a podcaster, which is just not on. Anyway, have a cracking day, and again, thank you for yesterday. it was bloody awesome. Keep on keeping on. Dell from Western Super Mayor. Thanks, Del. Funny, isn't it that?

What's that? The old Thatcher's gold. Oh, cool. I looked up on the way. I did my research, didn't I? On the way. Thank God you got a cheer, didn't it? The Thatcher's gold when I mentioned it.

Did it? Did it? You were there? You were sat next to me. I can't remember. I was so tired. I'm so, honestly. I do.

I mean, it was fun. You do realize Yeah. Another pet peeve for people. Yeah. People who are, say, working in the emergency services while listening to this. Yeah, yeah. I don't know.

Cleaning a school through the night or bin men or delivery drivers, listening to people like us. People with a job. People listening to people like us banging on about how tired we are and we do things we really enjoy doing. Every single one of those people you just mentioned Since I last had a day off Have had a day off

In my defence You don't know that I know what you're saying as an average No I think about that It's illegal If they haven't It's illegal Massively

So what's the lesson there then Oh Just don't get dragged into going to do live shows on what potentially could have been a day at home. So you are blaming your tiredness for sitting in a car for six hours

having a drink, having a laugh and coming home again. It is tiring though. It's tiring. It is very tiring. No, I don't know what it is. I think I'm fighting something. In all seriousness, I enjoy doing the live shows, that's a joke. I know. And I think you're fighting something. I think we both are.

Yes. Joni last week, very dark-eyed. She shivering. she fault it off, but she could have come down with something. I've got a mouth full of ulcers. If I sound weird today, I mean, I always sound weird. Don't get me wrong. But if I am talking in a funny manner, my mouth really hurts. I'm sorry about that.

And you've got a cold sore, haven't you? Yeah. Or coming. It's actually not there. Where is it? It's there. The camera's outside, by the way. You just looked.

No, no, I wasn't looking at it. Oh, did you not? No. I thought you looked at that one. No. It looked like you tried to look like that. No. Right, okay.

But yeah, I mean, you said you've got a cold, so I can't see it. All right. I'm not lying. Where is it? You're sitting a long way away from me. I know, I just point to where it is. But in here, it's really sensitive. Well, in the lip.

Is it coming out? Yes, it is. So you can feel it itchy in? No, it's gone past that, and it's now something I can feel. Please, don't, read out some more messages. Don't talk about a cold sore. Cold soar, cold so, cold sore, coldslaw. Hi Nat, is Linda from Dorset, just had to message you.

We've literally just got back through the door after coming to see you in Bristol. A bit windy in your house. I was meant to come with my sister and niece, and they got poorly and couldn't come at the last minute. So my beloved, Neil came with me begrudgingly. He was driving me anyway, but anyway, I dragged him in. We sat in the back row, and for the most part, he said, I don't know what I'm listening to. Fair enough. Anyway, on the way home, I put on a Natsneese's podcast from last week, and he was cracking up,

loved the icks and the driving and the parking that Elia particularly was talking about and a road range and all sorts of stuff. And then we carried on and moved on to last week scraping the barrel. And he said, oh, Mark's very intelligent, isn't he? And then I said, oh, and he really likes Maxibonds. And you started talking about Maxibonds. He said, well, yeah, MaxiBonds are really, really good. So you may have a new listener there.

Anyway, love the show and great to see you guys. Thank you. Bye. No, thank you. Thank you. What a lovely message. It makes me very, very happy. Hi, Nat and Mark. Hope you both well and had a safe journey back yesterday. Bristol was excellent. It was so lovely to see you all. You asked for a question or, you know, a topic to debate on your podcast this evening. So I am going to ask you, how do you serve your sausage? What is your ultimate sausage recipe? Are you a comfort, sausage mash and gravy type? Do you like a toad in the hole? Do you just like it with a breakfast? Or do you like a sausage surprise? What even is in a sausage surprise? Is it the fact there's got no sausage in it?

So discuss your sausage servings. Lots of love, speech you soon. Take care. Bye. Can always count on Claire. So why did Claire not bring this up as a suggestion during the actual show? But that would have been some excellent material to have discussed, can I just say. And that is not a serious message, surely.

Yes, it is. How do you take your sausage? Shut up. That's not been contrived. How do you like your sausage? Natalie. Oh my God. You heard the lady.

I know. So do you prefer a sausage at breakfast? Would you prefer it at dinner time? do you like it in a batter do you prefer it between two slices of bread I quite like them when they've got when you've left them on the side they've gone cold and hard I quite like them as a late night snack

and that is the truth I always remember mummy in the frying pan frying a load of sausages and there'd be a few left over on a plate and the fat would congeal a little and they'd be cold All right. So I like, my favourite thing, which you can't do anymore, because they've stopped doing it in Witherspoons. They've stopped doing bread and butter.

You'd be able to get sausage chips and beans and aside of bread and butter. It was so good. She had three sausages. So I'd have one sausage and eat it conventionally with the sausage chips and the beans. Lovely. For your other piece of bread,

one piece of bread, you'd economize, butter the bread, Cut one sausage in half, put it on half of bread. Fold the other half over a little sandwich. Much around the little sandwich. And then you've got one other piece of bread where you could either put some chips in it

and have like a little chip buttery. Or if I was really wanting to spoil myself, I'd do another half of sausage in the thing again and do it again. And then butter would melt over the sausage. A bit of ketchup, but oh, it was so good. So it's a breakfast for you? Is that a break? Well, no, we'd have that.

Me and Brendan, we'd go out and we'd have that. But if stopped. You'd have that meal for a dinner time. Yeah. The last time I had fat. Jesus Christ. Why would that have been? I don't know.

What's wrong with that? It's crazy. Oh, it was lovely. Lincolnshire sausages. Can't beat them. Fair enough. And you want like a cold, hard sausage that's been left out of an evening?

I don't mind that. If I were to really go for my favourite sausage, it would be the same as you. It would be in a sandwich. Yeah, white bread, thick butter, a little bit of tomato or brown sauce. White pepper. Oh. Delicious. White peppers are very old.

Very old condiment. Now there's something. There's something I don't understand. When our jar, our little tub of white pepper comes out, you get annoyed about it. It annoys you. No. The white pepper annoys you. It doesn't annoy me.

It does. You act, your face changes when I get it out. Sort of incredulous. Why would it be on the table? It's the weirdest thing. What is it? What is white pepper? I've never known of it.

White peppercorns. Until I knew you, I didn't know what white pepper was. I've never heard of it. Honestly, never, ever heard of it. Never had pie and mash? Of course I've had pie and mash. With white pepper on it? Not with white pepper, but with liquor.

Yeah, definitely. No white pepper or vinegar. No. Bacon sandwich, white pepper, tomato sauce. Never. I've never, honestly, I've never had it. Roast dinner, white pepper.

Never had it. There you go. Anyone else? Love a bit of white pepper. Got a lovely, lovely message here from Kate Carter from Bista in Oxfordshire. And we've got a lovely picture of her from... I'm with Kate Carter.

As we were sat in the front, she was sat right... She was right. She was right in front. to me really, but one. To the left. Next to the flight case. Hi Nat, this is the first time I've messaged you,

but have listened since August last year whilst on holiday, when I binged to get up to date. I love all your pods with all of your lovely family. It was amazing to see and meet you at Bristol at the weekend. I was so lucky to get a front row seat. My husband also enjoyed it and found Mark really relatable. Well, it's just a bloke who's obviously got his head screwed on. Thank you for this pod.

It saw me through the winter months I find so difficult. And you all keep me company on my drive to and from work as a nurse. Keep doing what you do and love to you and your family. And that's from Kate and Bista. Thank you so much, Kate. It was lovely to see you. You really look like one of Joni's teachers. And on Sunday, I kept looking, thinking,

who do you look like? And now you've sent me a picture. That is uncanny. actually. Isn't it? You are right? That's pretty funny. But I was thinking that on Sunday

when she was sat there. I thought, what did you look like? You know, you do that thing. It's a photo of a blooming... That Christmas tree, sorry, that Easter tree. It's actually the same one. It's the one that looks like a twig

that someone's found on the floor. It's exactly the same. The white one, lovely. All the bits on it. Give it to me. Does Kate, do you think, shop at the outlet centre? I'd hope so

if she was in Bista I wonder if you live near somewhere like that though you just get annoyed with it because of the traffic and the volume of people it brings to your town it's like when you That's like saying someone lives in London doesn't ever go out in London

No it's not It is No it isn't No it's like someone from Dartford Hating Blue Water being built Because Dartford town Has ruined And there's sort of

Not enough shops there And everyone goes to Blue Water And there's traffic Someone was saying that to me the other day and I can't think of it was. As seen as somebody who grew up in Dartford and spent their youth in Blue Water, definitely that was an issue.

I think us locals did go to Blue Water. It was quite a convenient place to go actually. I think, though, if you'd live there for 35, 40 years and that were built, you'd have the hump with it. So if you were stick of a dump and you lived in the quarry and then one day these nasty men of machines turned up and built Blue Water in the quarry, in the quarry.

Stig of the dump. Stig of the dump was a TV program. Now that is going to get some texts. What was it about? It was about a character called Stig. Did he live in a dump? He did.

You never watched Stig of the Dump? No. There were people screaming now at the radio going, they're screaming, aren't they? They're screaming, aren't they? Well, we're not screaming. Stick of the Dump. Some feedback from the show in Brizle on Sunday.

From our side, we love the pod. and love listening, but didn't know what to expect from the live show. But it really delivered absolutely fantastic. When I opened this, I thought, oh my God, this is going to be an absolute... A complaint. Yeah, I really... I thought, fuck. I thought, fuck.

I thought, oh my God, do I want to read this? We found ourselves smiling from ear to ear, laughing and just having a great time. The time flew. It was genuinely better than a lot of the stand-up shows we've been to. We most certainly will be back when you do more live show. It's so fun and so raw and organic that we were saying it's great that if we go again, it'll definitely be different.

You thanked us all for taking the time on a Sunday, but I'd like to thank you all for making the time for us on your Sunday. It was well worth venturing out in the rainforest. My only criticism is that 16 quid a ticket is far too cheap. Thanks again, Vicky. Oh, what a nice message. Isn't that lovely? 16 quid is good for a show.

I think it was Vicky that spoke to me in the toilets I know that sounds dodgy but it was like a unisex Lou, it was queued. Yeah. She's mentioned something about stand-ups. So I'm sure it was the same person, as what I'm saying. But yeah, and she is right, because they are all different and it all depends on the dynamic and who's with you and all that sort of stuff.

Different every time. Yeah. If you're really lucky, the next time you go, I might not be there and Elia will be there and that will be fine. Yeah. The next one is heart for a lot of. and it's sold out? Yes.

And that'll be everybody. Because it's ten minutes down the road. Yes. Is it everyone? Are we all doing that? It's ten minutes away. I'm sure everyone's going to do it, yeah. Yeah.

The one before that, however, is the grief pod, and that's just me and Linney. Yeah. That's selling really well. So try and get your ticket, everybody. What are you laughing at? There's nothing. Just have me talk about that.

I just do see you both with, like, Grim Reaper outfits on. I mean, honestly. Very important to people, close to people's hearts. I'm not... Just because you don't want to talk about it. That's your problem. Pardon? That's your problem.

I don't want to talk about it. You don't really don't talk about grief a lot. And I think you laugh because it makes you a bit uncomfortable. Absolutely not. I'm quite taken aback by you saying that. Really? Yeah, I'm surprised at you. Would you come to the grief show and enjoy it?

You don't like sitting, listening to other people talking about their grief, though. That's not a bad thing to say. I think it is quite... No, I think Linda and I are... I think there's a lot of... No, it's good. And the thing about it is,

it's an interesting subject because obviously it affects people in different ways. It's a very serious subject, and it sounds like I'm now jesting about it, and I'm not. No. What I'm joking about is just... It's very different. as a live show

and I think it will work very well is my honest opinion I hope so and I do think there's actually a lot of light and shade with it because I know from my own experience that you know

the 24 hours, 48 hours I experienced when my dad passed away was one of the most horrific things that's ever happened to me and at the same time hilarious there were some hilarious things that came of it and very special things

Yeah. So I understand it's good to talk about stuff like that. And actually, when I listen to you and Linda talking about this sort of stuff, exactly the same story is you get the same voice notes, you get the same texts. So I think it'll work. I think it's an interesting thing. And it's good. So when is it on? What date is that? May the 10th. May the 10th. Chelmsford Theatre Studio. How much is it a ticket? 16, 17,000, I would imagine. So, well, if Vickie's anything to go by, it's worth of money. Worth a go. If anyone is coming to the grief show, and I will put this on Instagram, please could you bring a little photo as the person you've lost?

You'll get the photo back at the end, or if you want to copy it. And we're going to pin them up in between us, get some little pegs, pin them up, and a little note and a name of why you're there, so we can, you know, come over to you, talk to you. It's an idea anyway. If we get enough photos, it would just be lovely for you to be able to pin them up. Because it's quite a small studio, so that'd be nice. What about if I'm, if I'm, so argument's sake, I want to go, but I'm not going because I've lost somebody, though.

Is it appealing to people that just doing interested in a subject? I think it's not just about bereavement of people. It's bereavement of things, pets, losses, losses that hurt you, ends of things, marriages. My razor for Eliza lost. If you wanted to come along, we could talk about the razor? I'm quite upset about that. It cost 18 pounds to replace. You could talk about your Zovaracts today, couldn't you?

You've lost. I'm not. I mean, I... 15 times he said, where's the Zovrax? Have you seen the tubes? Bigger, is that the tube? It's not that. It's not that thick, actually.

But if you were to squeeze that together and elongate it, it's roughly the same mass. It's strange, I was going to say that myself. Clever. Hi, Nat, this is Paula Lewis's mum. We've just got back from your live show in Bristol. I've not sent a voice note before. I've listened to you from the beginning,

and this is probably about my fifth attempt now sending this. Lewis said that I was using my telephone voice, so I'm trying not to. Anyway, we had such a brilliant time. It was a really good laugh. Stop in there a minute. Why do children berate their parents? She's trying to send a message,

and Lewis is going, don't do that, you don't sound right, you don't do that. Oh, you're using your telephone. Don't stop doing this some bad impact? I can imagine, Eliza saying that to me. Okay. Anyway, off you go. I wasn't sure what Lewis would make of it, to be honest,

but I got the tickets, but he really enjoyed it. So you've got a new listener in him. But he's here, and he's also got an idea for your pod on Thursday. Yeah, so I'd love to hear sort of a recap of your tour. And sort of, yeah, what venue was like your favourite, which city you liked saw the most, and which crowd was the best, which one was the worst? and yeah, which parts I guess you found, you know, the funniest

and any funny stories that came out of that. Yeah, we'll be tuning in on Thursday, see if that's what you talk about. Anyway, thank you. Bye. He was great, wasn't he? It was. Unfortunately, because of the producer of this episode, putting your message at the end of it, it's kind of scuppered the discussion and good subject matter

that Lewis kindly provided. No, because we've had lots to go through, and to be honest with Lewis, I'm not going to sit in and say this one was terrible. I mean, genuinely, when you say the worst, I would say for location, turning up in Manchester, Lewis, to a corrugated shed, was quite an experience, but a fantastic audience.

But location-wise, going up a set of steps with kind of a wonky banister, a tiny room that was pitch black. We had no light to get ready. It was quite something. But, again, a very magical place, actually. A brilliant show and just very quirky. You've not done one where you've said you didn't like it, have you? No.

So it's sort of, yeah, it's been brilliant. It has been brilliant. It is, it sounds a bit cheesy, but all of the audiences of, you know, it's very supportive. because they obviously listen to the podcast. They are. I'd say some have been quieter than others.

Not everyone listens to the podcast. But some have been audiences, you do feed off of an audience and it is interesting when you get an audience that aren't maybe as loud to start with, they're quite quiet

and that makes you kind of maybe a bit quiet or a bit try hard. But if there's a raucous audience from the beginning like Bristol you're just in, you feel safe, you feel like they're just holding you throughout it.

It is incredible. It's been such a learning curve for me. I feel like from the beginning, how nervous I was and how I felt, to how I am now, I've learned so much because I'm more confident in talking to the audience of it and having a laugh,

and I'm more confident that people are coming to see us because they do listen to the pod, or maybe they have brought someone along who hasn't listened, but it is a podcast show. And what we do is sit and talk, and that's what it should be, Whereas at the beginning I had it in my head that you've got to do more and add things. You had Linda wandering about in a maid's outfit, cleaning stuff and me sitting, you know,

there's all sorts of wild and wacky ideas that you had. I did. Quiz show. Yeah. I'd do a quiz. Yeah, yeah. But it is what it is. People just want to see us having a chat.

Well, which is, I don't know what to say about. I know. It's amazing. I can't get over it. But Bristol was brilliant, though. I'm not just saying it because you were there, Lewis. It's such a warm. lovely, funny audience made us feel very welcome, very at home.

So that was great. Yeah, it was good. But please listen and let me know. It sounds like you'll come up with a lot of good questions for me and some comments about pods. So please, 07-820, 1919. Don't forget us, Lewis, all right? Because that number's on your mum's phone at the moment.

And stop having to go at her telephone voice. Right. One hour, one minute. By the time that gets cut down, we'll have a good half an hour. I hope you all have a fantastic weekend. We're going to have a lovely Easter, darling, aren't we? We are, yeah.

Happy Easter to all of you. Let me know what you've been up to, what you do over the weekend. I'm going to try and squeeze in a very, very small book review pod. And also, I've got a few presents from people that I haven't mentioned yet. And I'm going to do a little shout out to those. So I'm hoping to get that out to you Easter Sunday morning. It'll be really quick, 15 minutes at most.

Until then, speak to you soon. Love you loads. Thank you for listening. Tell you mates. Follow us. www. www. For your merchandise

and for your tickets. Mark, always a pleasure, never a chore. Thank you, Natalie. It's like very formal, isn't it that? Anything to say? To me? See you later.

Good night. Anything else? Um, give me a clue. I'm not really sure we're expecting me to say now I'm actually being serious as send me a message to him see you everybody

bye see ya