Life with Nat - EP4: WHAT A WEEK

Episode Date: May 2, 2024

The first week in and Nat can't believe her luck. She asks Josh Widdicombe (of Parenting Hell success) for advice on staying in the charts, and thanks everyone who's listening and tells us why rabbits are a waste of time... Please subscribe, follow, and leave a review. xxx You can find us in all places here; https://podfollow.com/lifewithnat/view INSTA: @natcass1 A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] SHOW INFO: Life with Nat - it’s me! Natalie Cassidy and I’ll be chatting away to family, friends and most importantly YOU. I want to pick people's brains on the subjects that I care about- whether that’s where all the odd socks go, weight and food or kids on phones. Each week I will be letting you into my life as i chat about my week, share my thoughts on the mundane happenings as well as the serious. I have grown up in the public eye and have never changed because of it. Life with Nat is the podcast for proper people. Come join the community. ♥️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I cannot believe that I was number one well listen I could still be number one I might not be but whatever happens in my first day of releasing my two first podcasts I was number one and that is down to you lot I just I'm so thankful I'm so grateful to you all I don't know why you want to sit and listen to me talking bollocks but you obviously enjoy it and um long may it continue. I'm having such a great time. I've recorded quite a few different ones, but because obviously it's gone really well, we thought it would be lovely just to do a thank you and to talk about how it's felt really to do the launch and to see it climb up the charts. There's a billboard that's been out in the West End. I mean, it's ridiculous.

Next to the Hippodrome, if you don't mind. Great big billboard with my face on it. I have said to people, hopefully they'll send some selfies to me if they pass it. But listen to this voice note, Emma, that I got. This is from Maria, who you met the other day, guys. It's unbelievable. Babes, you're right.

I don't want to alarm you, but I've just been on looking for your podcast and stumbled across Grace Dents. It's basically your front cover, which might be a bit of a problemo. I know you love the colour green, but she's literally got green, pink rollers in. Yeah, I don't know how we've

missed that one but I think you might want to just have a little look and see if you maybe want to use one of the other picks I think your colours in that are all right but I just think it's probably a bit too close and um obviously very unintentional but you know you want to be you um yeah sorry let me know what you think love you bye oh good spot maria well done that's i mean how have we not noticed that well yeah being fair to us there are lots of podcasts no you're right so sorry grace so sorry yeah no no she's gonna fine. Do you know what? I'll send her a jacket potato or something. For the people who don't understand that reference,

because she's got the podcast is called Comfort Ying. That would be a really strange. She's an amazing restaurant reviewer. She's amazing. And I'm copying her podcast cover. No, I'm not. Subliminally, maybe I loved her photo. Maybe it is somewhere in my brain.

But the funny thing was, when we did the photo shoot with Kieran, I had a green dressing gown on. My friend Lucy bought me a beautiful green dressing gown. And we photoshopped the colour, didn't we? Yeah. We even changed the bloody, because I love green and pink. They're my two favourite colours together. But we changed the dressing gown colour.

Because we loved the pink of your jumper that's correct so we were like we like the color of this jumper but let's see what the rollers and they're the more sort of dressed and I wear rollers all the time it's like you know that's something I do you know I'll have my rollers in and I just thought I'd be funny and to do a funny face and whatever. But, yeah, I really like those photos as well. I'm a bit gutted. We'll use. It'll be okay. We'll find a way to.

We can use. I've got loads of different ones. I can chuck a few up, can't I? Different ones. It'll be fine. I hope Grace is all right, though. I hope she'll be all right with me. I might drop her a little message.

Yeah. Yeah. I think it's understandable because rollers is a go-to kind of image of women at home, pottering around. Well, if it was 1947. Yeah, well, yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? Listen, I would wear my rollers out all the time. That would be my hairstyle if I could. It's out the way. It's neat. I love it. I love having rollers in.

So yeah, I was really happy that it had all been swapped out and stuff. And then Michael sent over the billboards, which I've got that picture on, but it'll be fine. It's all right. You're on billboards in the West End. I know. It's mad. It doesn't really matter what the fuck the picture is.

I'm on a billboard. Don't worry about it. It don't matter. Are you going to have a chance to get into town and try and pose with yourself? No, I don't think I am. I've got a really busy weekend with the kids, as in doing nothing, actually. Yeah, important, but important. Which sounds ridiculous, but I just want to do nothing with them and be at home. I don't know if Eliza's got a match on either on Saturday, which will be an early start.

But yeah, I just kind of don't want to go, oh, let's go and get on the train so I can have a pic. We can have a picture of mummy's face. I'll be like, why have we come to London to see you on a billboard? It's a bit self-indulgent. So yeah, it's been really amazing and I'm really proud. The biggest thing I'm proud about, right? It just shows you what I've always said. People like just normal shit. People enjoy talking about the normal stuff and, you know, just don't dress it up. That's what I want this to be. I don't want to dress it up. I don't want to be worrying about what I'm saying or thinking, oh, is it too boring to talk about this? You know, people like talking about mundane stuff. So I'm ever so pleased with myself, actually. I lost my dad three years ago on the 24th of April.

And I feel like he was looking down on me. And he was saying, go on, Nat. I'm really proud of you. And it'll be a really good week for you. So it was just a great week. It's an emotional time. And I can be quite sentimental, but as usual, I always make a laugh out of it and, you know,

turn everything into a positive. But I know that my dad would be super proud of me and all my family have been super proud. Elvis and Maria, my nieces, they came, you know, earlier pot round. They'd bought me some beautiful flowers. One of our Irish friends who's a neighbor up the road bought me a bottle of champagne in and, you know, brothers are really excited. All my friends. It's just been really, really lovely. Now I've got to just keep at it.

This has absolutely taken over. I do feel, I do feel like I'm going to have to control the phone usage, right? Because all of you are texting me, messaging me. I've got the number now and it's really hard. I do want to get back to all of you and I'm sorry if I haven't, but it's absolutely impossible. I'm never going to be able to thank everybody, but I do the best that I can. And that's why I do my Insta posts and stuff to thank you all. But it's brilliant. Just keep on sending me voice notes all about the show. Tell me what you think of it. Sam's message loads. We are now buddies, business WhatsApp buddies. She's's been listening i don't know if you saw those m the messages from sam there was a few new ones this morning oh i've got one in and we can play

one there from sam yeah let's play sam's messaging hi nat it's sam here i just wanted to leave you a message to say that we've been listening to your life with nat this morning and you just make me laugh you're so funny you're so normal love you to bits and you're off the telly with Joe is funny but listen to you for a while actually and I just love everything about you just so bloody damn normal and you talk about normal things so yay well done girls it's just been a great morning listen to you all I've been creative making stuff and look forward to the next one lots of love bye oh love sam what a lovely lady do you know what she sounds very perky as well that was about 10 past 7 in the morning i don't sound like that by

midday brilliant but she's also i'm gonna see if i can get it up him she has also told me off this morning oh yeah what have you done when i do my videos and that on instagram i keep doing them in the morning but i haven't taken my makeup off from the night before and i'm really bad at it if i ever busy doing that i just think i brush my teeth obviously but i just get into bed and think I'll do it in the morning but uh I'm gonna I'm gonna try and find Sam's message good morning Nat it's 8 45 and I'm sitting in my daughter's house waiting for the plumber he's due between 8 and 6 p.m. 8 and 6 all day long she's got to wait. Now, Mrs, I'm so, so chuffed for you getting to number one. Wow, in a day? Really? Bloody hell. That's how I feel, Sam.

But you're not taking your make-up off, love. Come on, get a grip. It's very important you take your make-up off. All right, Sam, give us a break. Sam, tonight, when you go to bed, take it off. It's important. You've got beautiful skin. Look after it.

Just saying. Not being bossy. Well, you are. But make sure you take it off. Okay? All right, Sam. Lots of love and have a brilliant day. Really, really chuff for you.

Bye. You know... And another... Oh, there's another one. Another one? Yeah. And another thing. We've got the same quilt cover william morris strawberry strawberry thief i think it is yeah bang in bye kindred spirits we are sam oh i did one back and thanks sam yeah no we're taking the makeup off

thank you so much for listening I have got good skin I think it's because I drink water loads of it and sometimes gin I hope the what a stupid time for between

eight and six it's ridiculous anyway we'll have a chat soon I might get you on the pod soon Sam anyway that's all boring

but there you go Sam is I reckon a regular listener and he's going to be a regular voice noter so thank you Sam love it do you take your

makeup off all the time no because you wear you're very good at your makeup oh thank you thank you I don't often wear it

because I work from home and I only put it on when I'm when I'm doing something worth putting makeup on for and you should I've got cleansers I've got everything and I know you should but sometimes when I'm doing something worth putting makeup on for. You should. I've got cleansers, Em.

I've got everything. And I know you should. But sometimes, I know this is controversial, my skin is very, I'm blessed. I think it's all genetic. I don't think it matters what you pile on your face, whether you leave your makeup on or not. I think it's one of those things.

You know what I mean? I'm getting more wrinkles, you know, as the years go by. But again, that is the lines of life. Lines of life. I've always said never say never to a bit of Botox, but at the moment I'm very happy not having anything in my face. Very, very happy. But again, 10 years time, I might get to 50 and think, nah, I'll have a little bit. You never know. We'll see how it goes. You're doing it for the right reasons for you. Yeah, absolutely.

I've invited a very, very special guest on for this week. It's someone that I look up to and listen to twice weekly. I love Parenting Health so much. Josh Whittakin's coming on because not only am I a huge fan of his obviously stand up and all the work he does, I just think he's brilliant, The Last Leg and Parenting Hell, but let you into a little secret that actually Josh is part of Keep It Light Media, who is the company that believe in me and is why I'm making this podcast. So that's why I want to ask him a load of questions today. And yeah, I just feel very fortunate that I've got these kind of new friends that are helping me along the way. I'm going to ask him what it's like

to be at the top. All right. Hello, mate. Is it recording already from the moment we... Yeah. Oh, that's exciting. That's the future, isn't it? How are you? Very good. How are you? I'm a bit bamboozled, Josh, to be honest. Yeah? I'm a bit overwhelmed by it all. I don't really understand what's going on. It's great, isn't it? So good.

I know. I just don't really know how it's happened because I haven't really done any press for it or anything. No. Do you know what I mean? I've only used my Instagram really. I know, but the Instagram I'm going to tell you now is quite a big deal these days. Yeah. How are you feeling? Excited? I am excited. Yeah, I'm excited. But also really puzzled as to now how it all works. Well, it basically means that a bit like EastEnders,

you've now got another job that goes on forever. Another weekly commitment that never ends were you obsessed with it at the beginning yeah the charts and the numbers and the and the reviews and the comments on instagram and the yeah and getting back to people i just feel like i really i'm consumed by thanking people but you yeah you can But that can't carry on. I've done nothing. The house is a shithole. The house is a shithole. I've not done anything

but sit on my phone. I feel like my head's going to explode. Yeah, but that's what it's for the first week of having a podcast. Do you know what I mean? Is it? It's exciting. Can I tell you a story though, little one? Go on. I actually want your advice on this, because I'm really stressed about it. Go on, hit me.

So the picture of me in the rollers... Where's that? ...which is going to be on billboards... Yeah. Have you seen Grace Dent's cover of her pod? It won't surprise you to know I haven't, no. Well, have a look because it looks like I've completely copied her and I promise

you. No, like really bad. So there's her comfort eating one. Yeah. And are you holding a cup of tea and a Battenberg? I haven't got a Battenberg but I've got rollers in and it's the same colour palette. Oh no, that's all right

that doesn't matter does it well i've swapped it that's not obviously now the cover of the thing but the billboards and stuff this week the advertising they're using that picture and i'm really embarrassed i really don't want her to think that i've got no ideas of my own no one's gonna think that no one's gonna think that because if you did do that it would be insane to go i'm gonna copy the picture of someone else like you change it enough that it wasn't like the fact it's too close for you to so close you worry about it shows that you haven't copied it because otherwise you wouldn't have been as close does that make sense yeah i think so it must be a coincidence i might message her because I did

her pod and she's lovely. I might just say, Grace, I'm really sorry, but just so you know, that isn't going to be around for long. No. Just this week. P.S. Check the fucking charts. Where's yours at? Now, to just some, not some bad news, but

just, you're not going to be a number one forever and if you are, that would be amazing. Obviously, because I told Alistair Campbell he wasn't going to be a number one forever. And look at him, he's still fucking up there. But yeah, that backfired. But obviously you get the start bump. You go as you get the new listeners. But you can't do better than being at number one.

No, it's all downhill from here. It's not all downhill from here it's not all downhill from here what you get is you get to the point where like me and rob where you're just constantly between number 10 and 20 and you have to just make a life being you know to use a football analogy you're mid-table mid-table is good though isn't it mid-table is great mate you're not getting relegated anytime soon yeah yeah this is mid-table in the top league, everyone. This is the top top. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

Out of all of the thousands of podcasts, millions of podcasts out there, you're all, this is top, you guys. Exactly, yeah. Get groceries delivered across the GTA from Real Canadian Superstore with PC Express. Shop online for super prices and super savings. Try it today and get up to $75 in PC Optimum Points.

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Book at aircanada.com. Conditions apply. And how are you feeling about doing your ads? When it gets to the point, because if you've got a popular podcast, suddenly you're going to be going, now, before I am joined by my guests, do you ever just worry about a sandwich filling on a Monday morning for your kids' lunchboxes.

Because I've got this product. How are you feeling about that? Yeah. Yeah, I'll be fine. I don't mind. Yeah. Couldn't give a shit. You're all good.

Yeah. I listen to you guys. It's absolutely fine when you're talking about the trains or whatever. Yeah. Happy days. It's fine. Yeah. Did we talk about the trains?

You did train tickets, didn't you? Oh, did we? It's been nationalised now. That's how well that went the first time i was nationalizing it i'm all right with the adverts it'll be fine i think yeah yeah do you get a choice josh on what obviously you know yeah yeah you get a total choice you get total choice obviously on things you can reject. So we only advertise stuff we believe in. Sandwich fillers.

Really? Trains. Or at least don't actively disbelieve in, should I say. Fair enough. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have you got any questions about what awaits in the world of podcast?

Yeah, it's so much for me. I mean, I've listened to you and rob for a very long time like i absolutely love you you've learned some bad habits i haven't i haven't it genuinely not embarrassing you it is you know one of my favorites oh thank you well now i'm coming on your pod to promote our pod that's the world we live in your podcast josh so uh so what's the format what's it about um no but i do i love you too it's absolutely brilliant but what i wanted to ask you what do you think of the idea because obviously i don't think there are many maybe i love the idea i thought your is it your niece yeah she's see that you've got a dynamic with her and she's funny

in a way that you don't have if you know you're bringing in a celebrity each week like you know me and rob have that maybe when we have romesh in but otherwise yeah and do you know what that reminds me of it reminds me of like this country where they used people from their own life the daisy may cooper and charlie cooper yeah and that is it's got a different dynamic you know it's why um people love keeping up with the kardashians or to show my age uh the osbournes yeah yeah i loved loved the osbournes yeah exactly like to that is a totally fresh thing because and i am number one guilty for this there is a world in which podcasts are just the same people all interviewing each other yes that makes sense thanks for coming on though how many more have you got today

no i because i want it to be about the general public as well because a lot of my my whole idea was everybody's so nice to me online i want to talk to all of them about what they think about do you know what it also reminds me of um what joe lysett does with late night lysett where he'll have people from birmingham and i think you know but because television probably demands i mean i don't know obviously demands celebrity he probably couldn't get away with just having people from birmingham on a tv channel but you can get away with doing whatever you want on podcasts that's one of the great things about it

yeah and the sad problem for you will come when your niece or your fiance or your sister or your whatever becomes the breakout star and leaves you for dust yeah that's true at the moment i'm just bribing them and saying that uh next tuesday should we do one about uh this and she's like i'm busy i've got a job i know but else i kind of really need you to do a few of these now i'm bribing her with takeaways in that at the moment i'll have to start paying them yeah it's going to be it's going to be an issue when an issue when the ads start rolling in and you're suddenly, you're not paying your niece to say that she loves Domino's. Yeah, Danielle sent a voice message.

Hey, hon, you definitely have to get Mark on with you. You're both hilarious. Love the podcast so far. Can't wait to hear more. Take care. Have a great day. Izzy also said that in your instagram live in the comments saying you should get mark on and he replied i'll do it once the fee has been agreed so yeah he's already oh the numbers have already clicking around yeah because he's your fiance

i don't know whether this is too big a conversation have you got a joint bank account no we don't we don't have a donor we don't have a job so you so you do you would need to move the money across it's down to me i think and also he can just not be on it he's too shy anyway he doesn't want to be on it he wants to be he wants to just sort of pipe up every now and again being a man of mystery is good a bit like the stig yeah exactly a bit like the stig or banksy yeah yeah which he might be also that was a brilliant podcast did you listen to that the banksy podcast yeah i enjoyed that that was great i took my daughter to see the banksy um in the the tree

she wanted to go and see the tree because they talked about it at school yeah she did like it actually but they put had to put stuff around it because um someone threw white paint on it but you can't really get on your high horse about someone graffiti in your banksy i suppose well your graffiti is the graffiti exactly it's a difficult area to know what the rights and wrongs are um but yeah i don't think you need to bring mark on as much as your other family because obviously there are a lot of couples podcasts as it is wait till you hear my brother tony honestly i've got two brothers david and tony but they're much older than me one's a bank manager and one's a builder and this morning he sent me uh i sent him that i was number one he said wow that's amazing and i said it's fucking ridiculous i just talk a load of shit and he said that is amazing

I'm really good at talking shit in fact I have a master's degree in talking bollocks see you next Wednesday what time and so have you got any other questions just how do I stay at the top Josh how do I stay in the top 20 how have you done it for all of these years? Keep Instagramming. Yeah. You've got to be on every week. Yeah.

People will find it and then people will do it. Go on other people's podcasts. Yeah. We plugged it on Parenting How. Amazing. Expect. Thank you. Expect, I don't know, nothing or something. It's difficult to know.

There'll be a lot there. Become obsessed with the charts. I had a lovely message from Joe Wilkinson this morning. Oh, did you? Yeah, just saying. That's good. Well done, Nat. You should go on Chatterbix.

I will be going on soon. Yeah, you should go and promo on that. Yeah, they're fucking obsessed with the charts. They are obsessed. They're absolutely obsessed with the charts. Yeah. And I think they feel that I'm a bit of, I'm kind of their, they're like our Nat.

Because obviously I've been doing this on and off for a bit. And it is partly to do with them that I've really enjoyed podcasting. Well, they've launched two stars, you and Paul from The Traitors. Paul Gorton and Nat Cass. Yeah.

That's it now. Yeah, you've done. I think, I mean, it's just going to roll on and on and on. That's the other thing. I ask people to review it. Do you do that I think I mean it's just gonna it's just gonna roll on and on and on that's the other thing ask people to review it do you do that

yes I have been doing that I have been saying please review please please please review yeah yeah so there you go that's it Josh

I don't know what to say the weird thing with podcasts is the only kind of thing you can do is just keep doing it yeah people fucking love it in their lives

don't they they just love it being part in their lives don't they they just love it being part of their lives i had a lovely message from this lady who's um having chemo and she said um i've never listened to a podcast before but really like your instagram so i've taken the effort and i found it and she said and i just feel like i'm talking to a friend you know i feel like i've got a friend in a room honestly and that was so lovely i just thought you don't yeah it's so stupid and i don't want to be like oh you're making people's day but you actually are yeah because you've been making them sad for

30 years on albert square no you are that's what podcast that's the magic of podcast is that people fucking love it and they love the feeling that you're their mate chatting and they love to be a part of it and it's their part it's like they're catching up with a mate and whether that be a cast and gamble or chris and rosie ramsey or ellis and john or chatterbix yeah or you or whatever that's kind of the podcast that people love the most yeah i mean i i wait for fridays and tuesdays i'm you know i think oh it's thursday today when i'm driving to work i feel i can't listen to parenting health until tomorrow oh so yeah i get it there you go people the ball will roll on you've just got to plow on

and thank you josh because it's you stand to you as well your company thank you for having me and everything oh michael's so good honestly he's been great, but thank you so, so much. Cheers, guys. Thank you so much, Josh. Congratulations. See you soon. Bye. Bye.

Ah, lovely Josh. Lovely. He's great, isn't he? He's great. Again, I think he's very modest because he's so good at what he does. He's an amazing comedian as well. You don't want to be all gushy, but, you know, I'm a massive massive fan of his and it's lovely to get a little bit of um you know expert advice because he is a bloody expert at podcasting so it's nice to hear that he thinks i've done really well it's just weird

do you know what i mean i don't know what's good and what's not i know that i'm at number one but i don't does i didn't know if every podcast came in and, you know, started with, you know, at number one. I don't know this stuff, which is why, you know, it's important to me to talk to a few people. Yeah, I haven't got any. I don't know. Yeah.

I'm just going to do my thing and see how it goes. It's exciting though, isn't it? It is incredible. You've done so well. Oh, cheers, Em. Cheers. I spoke to my brother. he's going to come on and have a little chat soon which will be good my sister in orlinda is going to come on and we're

going to have a little chat ellian and maria are desperate we're going to do a a fashion faux pas one which is going to be really fun all of my terrible fashion mistakes throughout the years uh and we're going to sit here and they're just going to rip me apart for an hour so that'll be interesting um but there's loads and loads of good stuff coming up really really looking forward to it really looking forward to it and i'm looking you know what i'm looking forward to i'm looking forward to the summer yeah when it's really hot and we can go down to south end or brighton yeah and have a wander along the pier and talk to people down there yeah have an ice cream do you fancy it yeah have a little ice cream go and have a wander along the pier and talk to people down there. Yeah. Have an ice cream.

Do you fancy it? Yeah. Have a little ice cream. Go and have a chat with people. Pick a subject and then just have a little chat, see what people think. But I think we can get out and about a bit in the summer. Oh, big time.

Big time. It'd be nice, wouldn't it? It's still freezing. It's a lovely day. Yeah. It's a lovely, bright, sunny day, but this temperature needs to heat up because my tomatoes and chilies are getting very, very crowded on the windowsill.

They need to get outside, but it's too early. Too cold. I don't want to kill them. Wait till I show you my tomatoes. I'd love to see your tomatoes. That is not a double entendre. Well. You're going to love my tomatoes.

I do get very excited about the tomatoes and chillies. That's all I grow. And when I say I, Mark does it all, really. Mark does most of it. He does most things, really. He really does most things. I'm very lucky. Apart from the fact that he won't come on here unless he gets paid.

It's all right, I'll just give him lists of jobs to do elsewhere. Yeah. Yeah, it's all right. While you're busy being top of the chart podcaster, he can go and sort out everything else. Joe Lycett keeps phoning me on a Friday night asking me what I'm up to. I'm live on his show every Friday. It's so good.

You're on, well, not to give it away what day we're recording, but what are you going to do today? Oh, today? Well, I think I'm going to be cleaning this room because it needs a good cleaning. So I'm going to be polishing it, dusting it and having a hoover around probably at that time because the kids are going to go to bed and I've done no cleaning this week. So I'll probably be cleaning the house. So if he does choose to ring me again, I might be in here giving this a shameless plug. Love it. Yeah, yeah.

It's so fun. We've all been wondering where Nat Cassidy is. Yeah, where in the world is Nat? Where in the world? Where in the world? It's great to have a jingle. Yeah. It is good to have a jingle.

Bless him. Shall we have a little listen to some more voice notes? Yeah, of course. Who would you like to hear? This is Jill and she's talking to us about voice notes. Have a listen to this. Hi Nat, this is Jill and I'm messaging you from Dorking in Surrey. So I just listened to your first podcast, which I really loved, and I'm currently tidying my daughter's bedroom while she's at school because then i can uh discreetly throw some stuff away without her um claiming that

it's the most important no no no listen listen jill you went wrong you went wrong i'm cleaning my daughter's room while she's at school. Leave it. I leave mine. The seven-year-olds, I tidy up, but she's actually quite tidy. The 13-year-old, if I go in there now, it's like we've been burgled. I'm not picking up damp towels off the floor. Sometimes she forgets to flush the toilet. That's something I will do because otherwise it's, you know what I mean? The stench in there is unbearable.

But you've got to leave the kids' bedrooms. Mind you, I don't know how old your child is she's probably you know four or something and i'm having a go at you anyway carry on well so i have a big pile but that's not what my voice note is about my voice note is about voice notes so i've been thinking so i love leaving voice notes and me and my cousin who lives up in Shrewsbury we um we never actually talk to each other face to face we never get to see each other um but also we don't call each other either but we voice note all the time not at all can you believe this lady and so we've kind of concluded that we need to sit with a notepad when we're listening to the other person's voice note because I hear you we can't remember what this you listening to the other person's voice note because I

hear you we can't remember what this you get to the end of it you can't remember what they've talked about but you know that you had lots of important points to make and so sometimes I pause her voice note and then do like a little voice note in reply and then I listen to a bit more and I don't know why we do that why don't we just ring each other it's ridiculous but and then also a lot of the voice notes I leave are me saying what's that gonna say oh what was I gonna say she's exactly the same you know we're both like early 40s and we can't remember anything so can't remember what

the other said can't remember what we're saying or quite a lot of the time my free time is when I'm in the car so I leave her a voice note and it's me just talking about like the parking or somebody like I don't know where to park there's no way to park near school um I'm going to be late and someone's just pulled out in front of me or me just going oh for goodness sake um which must be really annoying for her she doesn't even drive but anyway um i thought i'd just leave you this rambling voice note about voice notes i'm really sorry um i've forgotten everything that she said at the beginning of it oh were you not taking notes i've got no idea

jill what you're talking about no i'm only joking thank you for your voice note it is long though jill and that's what what was that two and a half minutes or something? Oh, yeah. 25 minute voice note. I'd start, send a letter. Let's go back to getting a pen and paper out. Why don't you send her a letter and then she'll keep up with it. Bloody hell, that's a long old voice note. I do love a voice note though. They are good. Texting when you're busy and you're walking around, rushing around the house or whatever, walking. It's all good. Love a voice note. But thank you, Jill, and thank you for listening. Please don't leave me any voice notes over a minute long, please,

because I haven't got the time. It is tricky keeping up with people outside of voice notes as well and just finding time where you both want to sit down. I just think life admin is just tricky all around. Life admin, keeping up with everybody, making sure you've spoken to your nearest and your dearest. I've got so much admin to do for schools. I can't tell you it's like another job.

The emails I've got from both Eliza and Joni's schools, I've got to go through them all. I've got to do that after this, you know. I've got to sit down. There are dates I've got to write in the diary, things that need to be paid, school trips that I've got to work out, equipment and the list,

the kit list of what Eliza needs for her school trip. You know, it goes on and on. You'd think she was doing Race Across the World. It is so long. Honestly, it's so long. But I need to do some admin but yeah there's so much to get on with and this week's just really busy because of what's going on I had an absolute washing machine nightmare again this morning did a black wash was feeling really

great dropped the kids to school and I thought wow I can't believe it I'm number one in the chart pulled the washing out when I got home white white tissue over everything. So that brought me down to, you know, earth with a bang, back to reality. Keeps me grounded. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Honestly. Why can't people clean their pockets out? I'm not doing it. I'm really not. And I get a lot of messages. They agree with me. The white tissue in the black wash has got to be the worst one. Then I Googled it because there were so many pieces of tissue all over it. I shook it all off, but it was still really bad.

They're telling me to put four aspirin in the sink and soak the clothes for two hours. Who's got time for it? What's it got a headache? What's going on? Apparently, it's a hack. Apparently, if you put four aspirin in a bowl or the sink or whatever with a load of water

and soak the clothes for two hours all of the white tissue miraculously comes off the clothes do they want like the fizzy ones is that it

I think it's got to be the dispersible yeah it's got to be the dispersible pop in the other tablet yeah I know imagine just floating about just another thing to stick to the clothes if to be the dispersible. Popping the other tablet. Yeah, I know. Imagine just floating about.

Just another thing to stick to the clothes if they weren't dispersible. Anyway, what a load of old shit, eh? Did you see my new mug? Look. Oh, yeah. Love it. She's got a Life With Nat mug. Laura bought me that.

It's really nice. Really good. A couple of people saying they want a mug. Yeah, we'll have to get on want a mug yeah we'll have to get on to some merch we'll have to get onto a bit of merch and the name i did a poll about the name oh yeah name of the listeners your fans you lot yeah i've done a a poll yesterday obviously we spoke about the name of my listeners what we're going to call this group of people um and we we boiled it down to the jibber jabbers uh we had the cassettes we

had uh the gnat crackers and we had the chattelies and so far it is between the chattelies and the gnat crackers but i do think the gnat crackers are a bit seasonal so the chattelies is becoming more and more likely, but I'm still, I don't want to say that's what it is yet because someone might come up with another banger. So I'm still up for options. I would like to hear some more of what you think you should be called. As a group of people, what do you want me to say?

What are the Chatterleys doing this week? Let's hear from them. Let's hear from the Nutack crackers what they up to have you got another name that you like please please text it to me 07788 20 19 19 send me a voice note drop me a line let me know the names that you like i'd really like to hear all about it. I'll tell you what we have, Adam. We've had loads of keys, pictures of keys.

We've had loads of keys. You know, we got your keys out last week. Get your keys out for the lads. Yeah, I showed you my bunch. Got your keys out and you showed us your bunch and this is turning into a carry-on podcast which is interesting do you want to see my tomatoes show us your bunch um but yeah your trolley token

is something that i really want listen to this from julia about trolley tokens unbelievable just so you know now if you ever get caught short at the supermarket you can use your yale key if you've got a yale key um i found this out randomly accidentally but yeah just take your key off and put it in the trolley and it works just the same so i'd never have to rummage around now for a pound or anything just put your key in loving the new podcast by the way it's fucking brilliant oh that is excellent thank you now i've got a couple of things that we need to unpick from this voice now yeah number one when she said if you get caught short you can use a key for a minute i thought oh my god what is a yelky gonna do if i want to shit myself that was the first thought then i realized that she was talking about the trolley token yeah i i'm sometimes in a bit of

a rush right when i go to the supermarket so i'm at the supermarket i'm at the supermarket i haven't got a pound remember the voice note i think yes julia let's get in there get the yalkey take it off of my large bunch of keys yeah smash it in the trolley do the shopping like supermarket sweep i'm flying around the supermarket someone rings my phone i bang the trolley down what if i leave my house key in a trolley then what happens yeah that's the worrying or if for some reason it managed to snap off in there. Well, yeah, exactly. What then what? You're fucked. And also, they're all the most fiddly bit to get off the key ring, aren't they? They're usually the ones that's locked into the big ring.

They are my fingers. Yeah. They are my fingers. It's a great idea. It's a good idea, but I think I just need a trolley token. Yeah. Is that going to be our first merch? Trolley tokens with Life of Nat written on them.

Great idea. Write that down. This way she's with me. Keep those ideas flowing. My keys weigh 206 grams, said Wilma. When I say Wilma, I can't help but go, Wilma! I loved the Flintstones, did you? Yeah, it's great. I loved the Flintstones. What a time to be alive. People don't know they're bald now. The other day, talking of old things, I'm not talking about myself.

I was with someone who's obviously quite a lot younger than me and uh we're talking about magic and stuff and i said yeah because paul daniels and she said who's paul daniels i felt about 108 i could not believe this woman did not know who paul daniels was that's magic how old was she because he was 20. Early twenties. Okay, yeah. Who's Paul Daniels? When did he die? God rest his soul. Quite a while ago, I suppose.

He was still on a bit when I'm 33. He was still on TV a bit. I also get him and Phil Daniels confused, which is the guy who did Park Life. Phil Daniels, I worked with Phil. He did Parklife and he was in Quadrophenia. Yeah. And they're slightly different. I have

to say I don't get mixed up with Paul Daniels and Phil Daniels. There's quite a difference there actually. It's just the name. It's quite a large difference. Yeah, they are very different genres. You're talking shit again, Em. I am. Paul Daniels 2016, we lost him. Oh, okay. bless his heart.

So it's nearly 10 years ago. Fair enough, actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of the things that's popped up is the Mirror newspaper. It's got a website that's like, latest news updates, pictures, videos and reactions for Paul Daniels. I don't think that you're going to get many updates now. I don't think so.

I really don't think so. Oh, no, here's a good one. You you know we were talking about the um tiny little pocket oh yeah the tiny little pocket in our jeans and what what is it for yeah mark told me that back in the day it was a levi advert and it was designed for a condom oh so there is an advert if you go onto youtube where levi advertised that pocket as a condom pocket but we don't need those so well i certainly don't but i like this better and m as you're a cat lover did you know the tiny pocket on your jeans is for a photo of your cat oh that's what it's for yeah it's for a picture of your pets in a tiny little stamp sized oh maybe it was for stamp collectors that pocket just keep your stamps in your jeans but lydia thank you so much i love that little um tiny cat in that tiny little pocket you don't

have pets do you i haven't I've got two rabbits, actually. Lily and Lala, absolutely useless. Joanie wanted them for her fifth birthday. Bought the fucking things. Really cute, lovely. Hutch, absolute fortune. Yeah, yeah. Pets at home.

Hay, straw, sawdust, the best food. No one looks at them. Yeah. No one goes out there. Do you know what I mean? It's annoying. And I feel sorry for them in the winter because I don't want to start a debate here, right? And people might be annoyed.

But I don't bring mine in over the winter. I've just put loads of hay, loads and loads of sawdust, you know, really pack it out and they stay outside. But now spring's coming. Mark's built a really good kind of pen yeah i really expect so it's like a really big pen and then when it gets warm we'll put them outside all day and they run around in there they love it but the kids could not give a shit yeah i was the same we had rabbits as kids and we were always it's just absolutely pointless it's it's all the work of cleaning them

out and stuff and like it's so yeah poor little things they're lovely you know i don't know but what am i going to do now i'm not going to pop them in a stew i'm not going to do it because i've had them now for a couple of years so it is what it is but yeah they are my pets i had a pet cat when i was younger Twinkle Twinkle was lovely yeah never had a dog but my nanny's got a dog Lily

so she comes round loads so she's a bit like our dog she's here all the time when I get home from work she's here do you know what I mean so that's quite nice

and the kids love her so that's good but yeah it's good lovely got a lovely voice note from lovely polly from north london here she now lives in suffolk but north london babe hello natalie and hello natalie's listeners i just want to say that i've really enjoyed listening to your podcast it came at such

a good time for me because i'm self-employed and i've had to do the really boring job of admin and accounts and bookkeeping. However, I put on your podcast and smashed through life today. It was so nice listening. I really enjoyed it and I can't wait to listen more. All the best. Lots of love. Polly from Suffolk, originally North London girl, repping North Weezy. Do you get me? Lots of love. Take care. Oh, lovely Polly. North London, you see, you can't beat it, a bit of North London. Not that I'm against East, West or South, but North London's the best. I'm loving the fact that you've smashed through that, done what you needed to do. I do that with Chatterbix when I'm doing my washing

and when I'm cleaning and I do it with parents in hell as well I just put them on and I can get for anything so I get what you mean I just feel very very honored that now people are doing it with my voice because I've been doing it for ages with other people's voices so thanks so much polly and uh yeah keep on listening we're gonna have a right laugh hi nat it's maria here absolutely loving the podcast it is a breath of fresh air in a world of totally scripted stuff real life happenings unfiltered down to earth you're keeping us hooked girl anyway here's to more genuine and relatable moments. On another note, I've just got back from the cinema and I'm absolutely drenched. When will it stop? Are we being punished or something? Because I have never seen so much rain

and let's not even mention the temperature because people are wearing hats and gloves out there this ain't normal well it's funny you should say that kirsty because the next step is all about the weather people stripping off and uh going out and flip-flops when it's about 12 degrees but you're right it is still absolutely freezing there's a lot more weather talk in ep5 so keep listening this is a good one hey nat it's hayley doody i really really really miss the cooking ones that used to used to do lives on instagram um in lockdown and with your family and used to do like roast dinners and things and i used to love watching them um so if you could do one of them again one day that'd be fab um I hope you're well have a lovely lovely day oh thanks Hayley

that's lovely of you do you know what yeah it was in lockdown that me Maria and Ellie used to cook um and do a live sort of roast dinner and stuff which was was really good fun maybe we'll bring it back it's just a time Hayley to be honest I've got so much going on now i don't know what's happened you know it's just a busy time but i will do that at some point and we've got a lovely voice note here from chris and it's just nice to have uh a bloke do a voice note it's not just for women this pod you know i mean it's for everyone so have have a listen to Chris. Hey Nat, love the new podcast. Thought I'd drop you a voice note, maybe be your first male contributor. Found my way here after hearing you on David Earl

and Joe Wilkinson's pod. Crunch, crunch. I've had a lot of time on my hands since getting a life-changing diagnosis five months ago. So podcasts have helped me keep me sane and given me a bloody good laugh. Anyway, I've always enjoyed your acting, but hearing you on their podcast without being scripted was nice to hear.

And the real you. And see that there's no airs and graces. You are you. So I'm a big fan. And like you, I detest being late. Yes! My dad always used to say to me, early is on time, on time is late,

and late is unacceptable. Keep up the good work. Thanks for bringing another funny podcast to my ears. Cheers. Ah, Chris, I'm with you. Absolutely brilliant. And that is how we all should be. Early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable.

I love it. Let's get it on a T-shirt, Chris. The Q&A chat has gone down so well, right? But I got this message from Nikki and this really made me laugh. This was on Instagram. Just finished listening to the podcast. Brilliant.

Thought I'd share my queuing story to make you giggle. Was in Temple Bar, Dublin with the girls the girls amazing who doesn't like to go to ireland it was my round so i joined the queue chap in front of me had his hood up stood there for about five minutes and couldn't work out why the queue isn't moving turned around to look at the girls who were all pissing themselves i was stood behind a coat stand what an eejit never lived it Oh, that is a great answer. That is absolutely brilliant, honestly. That really, I was laughing earlier, Nikki. I just thought that'd be something I would do.

I would stand behind a coat hook. Waiting for a drink, thinking, why is this queue not moving? They're so slow with the service here. Yeah. Behind a coat stand. Thank you for that, Nicky, and thank you for enjoying the pod.

Brilliant. I've had a lovely message here from Kylie. Just come through. Minogue? It's not Minogue, but if she does listen, please can I have a couple of boxes of wine? The Rose is meant to be lovely for the summer.

Does she make wine now? Yeah. Ah. You've not seen it? I didn't know that. No. She does, Graham Norton does. They're all at it.

Ah. We'll make some trolley tokens and we'll make some wine. Yeah, lovely. Life with that wine. I fancy a little weekend over in Polyfusa somewhere, you know what I mean? Wine tasting. A little wine tasting up would be good at some point. Anyway, listen to this from Kylie. Hi Nat, loving the podcast so far. Massive fan and absolutely

love following you on Insta. You crack me up. After listening to your first episode and hearing you talk about the small jeans pocket, I was sad enough to look it up. It was originally designed by Levi's for cowboys in the 1800s to hold their pocket watches. Hope you like this totally useless Friday fact. Stay amazing and have a great weekend. Much love, Kylie. Kylie, you've solved the problem you're an absolute superstar there you go it was meant to be for a pocket watch in the 1800s love it thank you so much Kylie brilliant and I'm pleased you're loving the pod just tuned in and loved the podcast thought I'd send you this for a laugh this is my talented dog thanks for being so genuine keep up work. Maz, please take a pipe at this. Better song.

How unbelievable is that? If we didn't have a theme tune already I can't believe, is that a whippet? What a gorgeous, gorgeous dog Now why is he not on Britain's Got Talent, Maz? Get back to me please, unbelievable Why is he not on there with a piano? And you haven't even said the dog's name

I can't even make him famous or anything Or her, don't know what it is Can I have some more information about the piano playing dog please? I mean you've just sent that over as if it's normal i need some more info we'll talk about it on a on another pod thanks maz this sounds crazy but what i really like is that already i feel like i've got a few close friends of the pod and we spoke to bex last week and uh she's great fun and she's left me a voice note so let's listen to this well i've just listened to the first two podcasts just wanted to say amazing that it sounds fab and i'm sure everybody is going to love you i've also just been to my um

pilates class and told everybody so that's a few more listeners. I mean, and like you said, some of the ladies were like, what's a podcast? So I feel like I've just shown a couple of people the Purple app. And, you know, that'll be another couple of listeners for you, hopefully.

Anyway, love, amazing. Well done. And can't wait for more. What a lovely lady. thank you so much for doing that this is a thing this listen this is the thing which is important right people don't know how to listen i know i keep saying it but everyone you know when i started talking about doing this a lot of people who do listen were like oh podcasts they've had their day. Oh, it's, you know, completely oversaturated. Yeah.

Oh, I don't know. It hasn't started yet. What are you talking about? This is the very beginning, love, in my eyes. Certainly in my world. Yeah. So thank you, Bex. Great, great that she went to the old Pilates.

She's good. Still going to her fitness classes. In a car again hopefully not in the car probably behind a tractor absolutely right anyway a voice note's better from her because if you wait for a phone call she's always late yeah i'd rather a voice note she's great though really good oh lovely debbie debbie's another favorite listen Listen to this lovely, lovely voice note. Hello Nat, it's Debbie. Firstly, I wanted to say I've listened to two episodes of your podcast. Loving it. Absolutely loving it. I don't listen to loads of podcasts. There is one other one I listen to called What's Your Problem with Carol McGiffin.

She's a proper scream. I listen to that. And yours is just up my street. It's like tuning in to a couple of best mates, really. And I don't want to be all doom and gloom, but I lost my very best friend last year and miss her terribly. And having that someone that you can just talk to, trust, it's not there anymore. So listening to you guys is just lovely. I love all the anecdotes.

I love the day-to-day shit i loved about you know stuff on the a1 um queuing up it's just great i love it i love a bit of swearing too so nat i wish you all the very best for your um podcast i will be an avid listener and I'm sure at some point I'll be popping over quite a few voice notes with my opinions too all right darling you take care and I will look forward to listening to you I put my headphones on at night time and I'll listen to you girls having a proper chin wag and I'd love to take part one day. God bless, darling. Take care. Bye. Debbie is a legend. I just want Debbie to live next door.

I think she sounds so wholesome. So I bet she's had a bit of a life. You know what I mean? She's got some knowledge. I bet she's got some stories. And to hear someone say they lost their best friend and they feel a bit lonely, and that's what podcasts can do. Do you know what I mean? She's now got something she can listen to that's relatable and a friendly

tone of voice and a couple of people, you know, me especially, she'll be able to listen every week now and feel like she's got a bit of a mate. And I will respond. I've voice noted Debbie back last night. I don't just do it for the pod. I've texted her. I said, when you're coming on, she said Fridays are a bit of a bastard at work, so she couldn't do today. But, you know, I'm going to get her on to have a little chat and that's what I want. And making a community is what this is about. And to hear people like Bex and Debbie and Sam just makes me realise that it is going to work. My idea is going to work. So thank you so, so much. Thanks to Josh coming on.

And Em, thanks to you as always. Thank you. I can't wait to talk to you next week. Have a brilliant week. Follow me on Instagram, 07788201919. Send me your thoughts, ideas, let me know, photos. Tell me if you've got a selfie with my billboard with my great big face in it.

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