Life with Nat - EP5: Flip flops, Vienettas and wheelie bins.

Episode Date: May 5, 2024

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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. Visit superstore.ca to get started. Hello again, you lovely lot. Welcome to Life With Nat. I hope you're all well. Hope you've all had a lovely weekend. Oh, this comes around quick, doesn't it?

Yeah, we're riding high still, quite early on. But this is, yeah, only episode five and we are getting through it so this was a day a couple of weeks back it was still absolutely freezing and we had one day of a little bit of sun come out in fact um i've got a voice note from ells bells from that day no i'm sorry i just had to let you know um i've driven home from mum's. I'm wearing a full on tracksuit with socks, like proper Mayadanola thick socks. I'm absolutely freezing. It's 12 degrees according to my car, therefore probably a bit cooler outside. And as I'm driving home, I've seen a woman wearing a mini skirt and a string vest top. I'm sorry. I'm confused. It's like 10 degrees. It's freezing cold outside.

I'm confused. Honestly, I've never seen anything like it. And I just had to let you know. Yeah, let's do an episode regarding the fact that when the sun peaks its head, when it's still not... I mean, let's be honest, even now, you know, it's not weather to be going out in your flip-flops, your vest tops. It's just not the weather. It's not miniskirt, even now, yeah. It's not miniskirt for me at any time, to be quite honest with you.

Yeah, no, no. Not with my legs it was lovely it was lovely to feel a little bit of sun on your skin but i saw people i mean they went for it it was yeah it was big time it was my bear in june july i wasn't summer dressed i was still jumpers i was i was jumpers i was cardi yeah long sleeve top if sitting in the sun i might take the cardigan off yeah with a long sleeve top but a few of our listeners have come up with some corkers play in joe if you don't mind you're right now i'm joe i live in kent and i follow you on instagram honestly i said the same to my husband yesterday i popped to elders yesterday

morning to get some stuff for like shopping and doing dinners and honestly i came back and i said to my husband i feel like i'm living in marbella like everyone was like sunshades best little crop tops mate i still had hoodie on a pair of leggings'm like, I'm not dressed up for winter, but this ain't summer. Until I actually wake up in the morning sweating and I can walk out and I feel the sun burning my face, it's not summer. And I literally felt cold looking at all these people. I'm like, mate, it is not convertible weather. It is not shorts and crop top weather.

So your story just absolutely cracked me up i'm like i'm glad i'm not the only person feeling this but i hope you're well babe i love following you on insta honestly you are such a real person like your average next door girl and i just i love catching your stories and just how real you are about life. And yeah, honestly, I think you're great. I'll tell you what, Jo sounds like somebody I'd like to have on my side. Yeah. I really feel like Jo, I could ring her up and say, Jo, I'm in a spot of bother. Could you come and help me out?

But Jo, I'm pleased you were with me. I think we'll star Jo. I reckon she'll have quite a lot of opinions in the future. I'll keep her number and keep in contact. This was my favourite voice note of the week. Listen to Mike and Alex. Why not? Sorry about that.

The Herbie was shouting about somebody's arse on Instagram. As you do. As I started the voice, no. Oh, I don't want the family to do that. Soon as the sun comes out, they're getting their ar their asses out yeah my nipples are still like bullets um but you know massive fans we love you we uh enjoy your instagram looking forward to the podcast yeah i've even got a lovely um t-shirt emblazoned with your lovely face all over it. Bless his heart. I'm sure you won't be.

Oh, and a candle, yeah. I forgot about that. I had a candle made especially for me for my birthday. My husband got me a big scented candle with a picture of you on it. What a bastard. What do you smell like? Like heaven. Gwyneth had a vagina candle, didn't she?

Yeah, didn't she? Didn't have her face on. The random things people do when the sun comes out keep us awake by having parties that extend way past civilized hours suddenly lose all sense of sensibility and walk around uh with no clothes on for some reason in wales whenever the sun's out people just seem to get absolutely steaming i want want to fight everybody. So I loved Mike and Alex so much. And I just thought I love the way that Alex kept chipping in in the background. And I just thought you're so fun. So I got in contact with Mike.

I phoned him and he was very excited. And I said, it's Natalie here. And he said, is it really? Oh, my God, whatever. And I said, yeah, I'd like to. Can I zoom you on my next podcast and can you be a part of it you and alex with me so we're gonna zoom them oh look at you both to see you you've got to give the t-shirt, Will. It came out. Oh, that's so cool. The t-shirt is very, very cool.

I got it especially for you today. The candle's been refilled, so we'll show you that when it's back. Oh, that's all right. No problem. There'll be plenty of time for that. What does she smell of? What's the candle smell of? I think it was peppermint and chocolate.

Oh. Interesting. A bit like an after eight. Yeah. Exactly like an after eight. It's a bit fancier. Maybe more of a Viennetta. Oh, fair enough.

Well, a mint one. Yeah. Do you know Viennetta's are one of the only things that haven't gone up in price? Really? They are always a pound. I love a girl who knows the price of a Viennetta. I'm just sure they're always a pound. See, if you go knows the price of a Viennetta. I'm sure they're always a pound. If you've got the milk question, everyone gets stuck.

Or you could be like, Gervais just says, I don't know. Here's a grand, go and buy me one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you've solved our cost of living crisis, because I'm going to get even fatter now and live on Viennetta. Just live on Viennetta. So have you got enough for him in the freezer? Yeah.

I'll chuck all the stuff we've got in there out and just go and buy a Viennetta just live on viennetta so have you got enough room in the freezer yeah no i'll chuck all the stuff we got in there i haven't just got we can have a little bit of video in case i want to put it on you're right with that aren't you yeah yeah shall i record the audio on my phone i got a special little microphone to do it with a microphone did you have that already we did have it already because i was planning on doing some social media stuff for our skincare range oh amazing but it's one of those things it's been in the bowl buried by lindor chocolate on the side it's having its first whirl after christmas oh bless its heart it's quite a long while to be in hibernation oh honestly oh i know oh you want to see his knicker drawers fucking terrible oh oh that's a very

a very that just makes me think oh yeah because how blue can we go because this one's got a foul yeah I I'll restrict myself

if I know I can't say E and G no you can go as blue as you like it's not really acceptable we have to bleep no no I don't do that bleep

it's fine I mean it's my favourite word okay I don't want to be bleeped for you Nat no it's alright a bit of bleeping is can believe it's fine i mean it's my favorite word okay i don't want to be bleep for you now no it's all right a bit of bleeping it's not a problem so i wanted to talk to you i've just played in the voice note regarding summer and what have you okay so this episode i just thought i'd start with the fact that as soon as the sun comes out everyone goes mad i know that's why i've got my my lovely little fleecy cagoule on my nipples

were like truck nuts this morning honestly i wish i'd have bought a thicker jacket yeah what have you got on now a t-shirt oh it's um it's work it's arcade skincare who we are do you want me to cover it no don't want me to cover it not at all so i was going to get to what you do and everything oh preempted us yeah so what is it you both do originally so i trained as a biochemist yeah i was going to be making babies so i did my post-grad in ivf fertility type stuff um and instead of making babies we make skincare now because i was sick to death of going to the big guns yeah and being ripped off showing him the labels and going i've spent loads of money but i think i've got it in each say animal cruelty it's a chemical it's a toxin they've hidden that with a different name

and i was getting really really frustrated because there are other people like me that you want to be conscious about what they're putting on their body yeah absolutely and what actually they're using um and you just weren't getting it so they burst the creation of arcade arcade skincare oh that's brilliant what we keep ourselves busy with. Absolutely. Listen, we've given that a little plug now. I hope it goes well. Oh, thank you.

You'll have to send me some. We will. Definitely. If I could send a coach, I would. Yeah. I'll tell you what we don't need now, though. SPF. Oh, I know.

Honestly, it's typically British. It is typically British. I'm longing for the sun. Yeah. But then I know as soon as the sun comes out, I wish I could put my coat back on because I'm sick of sweating yeah because uh you know the heat's not made for uh but none of us are body ready either we've been in hibernation for so long yeah we all want to get our tits out when there's a bit of glory and when none of us are ready to do that I know but I'll tell you what Alex I saw a really good post on Instagram

which said do you know what my body's ready because it's ready all this getting ready my body is my body and it's ready whatever time it is yeah that's true all this gotta get ready for summer i would love to say i'm gonna get a bikini body but i can't put the lindor chocolates down so i mean i'm fat and i'll be fat in the summer or the winter i am what what I am. As long as the elastic don't give, I'll go anyway. Absolutely. My Mark loves the Lindor chocolate. Oh, he's terrible. He loves them.

I'll pop a couple of balls in the box for you. Don't show your balls with that. Jealous. You don't get jealous about his balls. Oh, I know. I don't mind sharing. How long have you two been together um it's nearly 10 years yeah i'd say eight years been married a year oh that's lovely when did you get married

then what month july july last year in the blazing hot sun yeah and because we're so clever we picked to get married in a essentially a greenhouse so the weather was absolutely fantastic it was brilliant but it it wasn't really the the kind of weather you needed to be wearing a three-piece tweed suit in. Because by the end of it, you could have rung me out like a towel at a swimming bath. It was disgusting. I had me crocs in me handbag, so I slipped all me socks, changed into a T-shirt. I was like, I'm not doing this. This is too much.

The cake was slipping off the table. Everybody eventually went outside because the weather was glorious and for i mean for the british summer we were really lucky because it rained pretty much the entire month of july yeah and on the on the 13th it was glorious and um yeah i just wish we'd planned to get married on the beach because i could have wore a bikini the 13th is my favorite number number 13 oh i was born on fridayth. Oh, and my mum was. That's why we did the... Yeah.

Because my mum had passed. Yeah. We turned it from a negative to a positive, so it was really, really nice. There you go. All the best, Star. See, that's... We're connected.

Yeah. I remember my mum, when I was naughty, she used to run up the stairs. She used to say, yeah, Friday the 13th, that was my bad luck for life. She didn't mean it

god rest her soul hope not anymore no my mother tells me every day that she wishes she was a lesbian I've got a couple of voice notes from other people so have a listen to these

see what you think of these I'm a bit sceptical about whether this is actually Nat Cass but I hope it is because i'm a big fan and um yeah i used to have a cardboard cut out of you and gail platt in me downstairs loom oh gail platt i just saw your instagram about things that people do that are weird in the summer and there's one thing i don't know i mean I don't know it might be normal but um I'm from the north I don't know if you can tell and we don't get like that much sun there um when it gets to like 15 I don't know if this is a normal thing I really don't well I don't think it is but maybe it is who knows but it gets to 15 and every year without fail during our like one or two days of summer

my dad will go out into the garden strip off like from nothing on apart from like his boxers or some shorts or god forbid like probably some speedos if none of us are there when he said that i thought she was going to say the knob was out and you, some people might put a bit of suntan lotion or, you know, that oil with the sun protection or whatever in. My dad, no, my dad uses vegetable oil. Right from the bottle, straight on, sits outside in the sun and literally cooks himself for the duration of the day without moving he proper smells like a fish and chip shop um yeah so that's one thing that i've always thought like i've never

actually said that out loud um but yeah there's one really unusual thing that i'm very interested to know if other people's parents do that well it's gonna be like a jacket potato jeez louise but you know i can completely relate to that because i think every council estate in the uk so back on the council estate in the summer yeah it would literally be every woman would be laying out on the front it was never the back garden it was the front garden so everybody could see and they would use whatever cooking oil they have i mean they'd be digging lard out of the chip pan yeah slathering themselves in the crisp and dry in the oils and they would literally be cooking in between school runs yeah straight on from the bus honestly the whole place would smell like it would smell like an open-air food market because they would they would be all these

women in between school runs cooking themselves with chip fat it was like laying on the front and then if you were really lucky and your mum was posh and had hose pipes she turned the wheelie bin into a paddling pool my mother's only five foot tall so she used to leave bits in the bottom oh that's brilliant bless her well i listened to that and thought oh that's so terrible blah blah blah and then when i thought back i remember being young and pouring beer all over us. Wow. I remember having cans of beer and pouring it on and spreading it on because we'd heard that beer made you more tanned. Just make you a buffet for the bees, surely.

I know. Wasps would be going crazy. Things you do when you're young. Do you remember putting lemon in your hair to lighten it? Lemon in your hair. Oh, yeah, to lighten it. Squeeze all the lemon juice in. I was convinced I would be peroxide blonde the next day but i

just have crispy air so yeah i just go from blue to red back to blue again yeah yeah i'm not i don't tan very well no no use me i mean i i'm quite lucky i do tan but i always say that i i my my body was made for the shade so i'd rather not sit in the sun and cook um luckily i didn't inherit that from my mother because she would sit in the sun until she looked like a leather handbag my mum always sat in the shade right she always sat in the shade didn't like full sun my dad sat in the sun but my mum had the most beautiful skin so i've always kind of not been one to sit out in the sun and also i get really bored same position laying there i mean i'm getting better as i get older i think i'm

getting lazier but i'd rather be up have a little walk have a bit of sun but i like a brolly and people do say to me you've got nice skin and i do think it is not sitting in the sun loads and loads i do think it helps well yeah the sun is the worst thing i mean i think you know 80 of your skin damage is caused by the sun so i mean you'll still look 21 in 30 years time so you're doing fab now not add a bit of botox you do know that don't you and you look fabulous not a thing for all the trauma you've been through yeah honestly you should have had a couple of gravel lines well i have i've got i'm quite deep frown lines and all that but i think do you know what that's your face isn't it yeah yeah someone once said to me that don't think of others wrinkles think of them as reasons you had to smile in the past absolutely they're all memories aren't they

yeah they're the maps of your life that's what i say good or bad doesn't matter does it good or bad i mean don't get me wrong i'm not saying i'd never say never to anything in 10 years time i might have a load of botox feel really good about it yeah but at the moment i like not having anything i like being different to everybody else yeah it's true because everyone's walking around at the moment looking pretty much the same copy and paste. Yeah. They say be pale and interesting. Yeah.

Not tanned and boring. I don't think the Kendall Jenners are covering themselves in beer, jumping into a wheelie bin. No. That's like an alcoholic frenzy. Emma, these are getting on my nerves. I've got my rollers in, right? I've had my hair done today,

and I thought I'll keep the rollers in Just for the night Just so it stays the hair for a bit And now I can't get the fucking headphones over them I thought that the rollers were You know part of the backdrop I think that should be a thing For every podcast you do now

I think that'd be perfect Because that's how you would chat If you were with your mates You're getting ready You'd have your rollers in Yeah Little fizzy drink Yeah And you'd just look like that So I think yeah that's that's the what you're going for oh i do

there'll be weeks where who knows what i'll look like it doesn't matter my mother said she looked like she'd been shagged around the bins as i'm paddling it in the summer what are you up to the weekend we're going to see a show tonight, Operation Julie. Oh, okay. And then tomorrow we're having our new sofa delivered. Oh, lovely. What colour is it?

Like a rusty orange. Oh, I love a bit of rusty orange. Because we were so organised, we got rid of the old one six weeks ago. What have you been sitting on? On the bed, just watching telly. Yeah, we've been like the grandparents of Charlie and the the chocolate factory we've just been taking ourselves to bed i feel like i'm doing the cost of living crisis come on let's share the warmth get a duvet out but honestly you want to see the state of it from the lindor balls and the crisps that you think they'll pay the pigs i'd live well

i keep waking up thinking that i've got new molds and they're not it's just like dried on bits of chocolate bits of my chocolate you've turned into those two the grandparents you can't do that we've gone right down since we got rid of our sofa

so when he sent me the text message yesterday saying the sofa's coming Saturday honestly I was jumping for joy good

big clear out spring clean get the sofa in new season new you I agree little lick of paint ready for the summer that'll be nice that's another thing people do is to have the overwhelming thing to decorate

yeah as soon as the weather changes or christmas i feel like it's a seasonal thing because colors change and your palette changes do you know what i mean so in the winter i want all my dark green cushions out and yeah your red velvet and you want it all Christmassy. And then obviously as it gets lighter, you want all your light colours, don't you? Your pastels for Easter and your pale pinks and what have you. It's nice, but you can't change your sofa every six months. So it's the cushion.

Other things have to change. Your throws, your cushions. Yeah. I mean, I think if he had his way, we would. Oh, yeah. I love a change. I feel it's really if keeping your environment fresh yeah it's healthy a change is as good as a rest yes true it is whip the doors open have a little fresh in there air the old knickers yeah get them cobwebs away yeah leather lighting this isn't very light this room's really light and lovely but because i'm'm filming with you, look, I've had all this.

What do you think of it, by the way? Do you like my sign? I love it. Yeah. I'm going to be really weird now and say I was watching you decorate the room when you were doing it. It started from Instagram. Yes. So we followed the decoration.

I felt all part of it. I was like, oh, yeah, that's lovely. Yeah, go for that, girl. Oh, thank you. I was so intrigued to see the end. I think it looks fab though I like it it gives me like

Marbella beach club vibes it's a nice little oasis it's away from the family away from the madness oh yeah lock the door keep them out

keep them all out my little room only let him in for his chip and pin number you can keep his Lindor wrappers downstairs yeah you all want me in.

Now you'll be rolling in chocolate in five minutes. No, I'd kick you out the window. No food allowed. Wine only. I'd just be in there ruffling, mincing around, ruffling your cushions. That's a lovely throw. Do you want anything about changing that to go with your room? Do you ever come to London?

Or not really? My sister lives in London. Whereondon where so yeah we do visit tooting back oh yeah oh well next time you visit we should have a bit of lunch or something definitely that'd be lovely we were talking about this the other day actually i said it's funny i feel like like when i was talking to you it's like oh i've known you forever but you have and he said you have and i, it is bizarre to think that. Like, you've just been part of, you know, you were in my living room. Well, I've grown up, yeah.

I've grown up on the telly, haven't I? I always say that because people always say, if people come out with me, say friends that, you know, friends or mum friends who aren't out with me a lot and will walk along the road and I just get, all right now. And they say, oh, does that not annoy you? And I say, well, no, because it's all part of, it's a really weird thing because I have completely grown up since 10 in people's living rooms.

It's all you've ever known. So that's all I've ever known. I can't remember not being recognised. You're a real person with feelings and thoughts and you've got the same things as we have. You've got people you look up to, aspire for. Oh, absolutely. And we've all got things going going on and that's why this is so important to me because i think there's so much listen there's podcasts about everything now you know and everyone will have something they'll choose one that they really like and you know it's like a television channel

there's hundreds and hundreds and you find a program you like but with this i didn't want to rely on getting a celeb on every week no to you know to have the pressure of what someone's promoting for instance and i've got to have them on because they're promoting something which is fine i've done yeah but i just thought how lovely just to talk to the general public i mean you two are celebs to us now yeah you're all like that's so lovely thank you alex yeah no i think i think it's fab i think um like everybody and i think the biggest compliment anyone ever gives about you that we've heard is people always say oh she's lovely she's so normal and i think well yeah that's that sums you up because everybody you

you are literally just like one of the mums that you could be mates with down the school yeah absolutely you know you're not stuck up yeah that's all i want to do and i think with my instagram and everything i think people are they like the fact that i go on when i make up on and i just have a chat and you know i won't kind of create a video if i if i don't think of something if i'm not doing something that's real then you'll see you know i won't go on a lot i should probably go on more but i'm not going to sit and think oh what am i going to do today because then it will all be fake it won't work and most people are like that you almost feel like they're trying to sell you something that's not there like you look and you go oh what's this for now because you only

show up when you've got a vlog something or you promote you know you with you you show up and you're saying this is my problem like we would offload to a friend go and have a coffee whereas you you get another celebrity and they go oh but by the way to solve my problem i've got this influence and you never do that well i don't never say never as i always say you don't know i might be on there soon if the money's right if the money's right if the money's right you know we were talking about people they have all their tops off and showing all the flesh when the sun's out.

Yeah. It made me think about what happened with Hannah Waddingham. Did you see the clip? Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. So the clip for anyone

who doesn't know Hannah Waddingham is just this amazing actress. Isn't she gorgeous? She's beautiful isn't she? Very very talented. Yeah. And she was at the Olivier Awards

and she was on the red carpet in this beautiful dress. She's got really long legs you know she's Very, very talented. Yeah. And she was at the Olivier Awards and she was on the red carpet and this beautiful dress. She's got really long legs, you know, she's really stunning lady. And the photographer went, Hey, whatever,

show us a bit more leg. And instead of her doing it, she sort of realised and went, Oh no, no, no, don't be a dick. Don't tell me what to do.

And she sort of walked off and obviously it's got all this press, but it made me think about, do you know how many times I've been on a red carpet and they've gone, well, firstly, they haven't said show us your leg because let's be honest, it looks like a bone of ham. Did I miss a note?

No, it looks like a bit of ham, my leg. But they have gone, could you turn here and put your arm down here and turn to the side and do do do when i think about doing it next time i'm gonna say no i'm just gonna stand like this take the photo leave me alone smile look up here do this no move your arm put your back down dance monkey performing monkey but it really made me think brilliant i was so pleased she did that and maybe that bravery comes with age yeah because

i'm getting less tolerant of people possibly and i think she hit the nail on the head when she said you wouldn't ask a bloke to do that absolutely you know i mean if if like you said ricky gervais was walking up the red carpet who would say to him show us a bit of tit right like it wouldn't even enter their brain would it to be honest alex i was gonna say it'd be fucking boring wouldn't it and what are you wearing tonight a suit and what have you got on another suit generally if you're gonna give me a gown i'll get my tits out but i'll only do it the once you can't ask me every runway you've seen them once you're not getting them again you're not having the whole farm you can have a cow this time i'll give you a duck the next time but no farm i love it when they say, so-and-so spilled their curves into a red dress.

Oh, I have a day off. Do you know the amount of times over the years that I've been in the magazines with the tics and the crosses? I mean, that's going back. Circle of shame. Circle of shame, tics, crosses. Terrific. Little bits of arm fat, you know,

cross where the belly is, circle the... You know, that was the time but when you look back honestly it's not good for now i've still got your workout video with my share workout video have you i really have then and now honestly and it was you you get inspired by people who inspire you and you feel like to make a change but like you and you were really honest about it you didn't bang on about it and then change you just slip back into life like we all do and i think that normalization of it makes you really think though we can all do it when we want to yeah but you don't have to live by that to be perfect yeah because none of us are i know but

the thing is with that i had so much pressure when i did that dvd because you have to you know it's a contract you're going to lose the weight for the DVD. Yeah. As soon as it was over, you know, I put more weight on than when I'd lost the bloody weight before that. I never even thought about it. Because post DVD,

you put a bit of weight on. I did. And it feeds them even more because they go in. Oh, look, she's put weight on. Yeah. She lost all this weight and put it back.

You can't win. No, you can't. That's normal life. Yeah. Because like you saw the put weight on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She lost all this weight and put it back. You can't win. No, you can't win. But then that's normal life. Yeah, it is. Because, like, you saw the maintenance for that is a dedication. Yeah. And like me and Mike, you know, we can't be bothered

because the Lynn do call, like, we want to go to the theatre. We don't. We know it's bad for our health. What, going to the theatre? But then we pick it up and do it when we really need to. No. No, no. Being fat and happy. we don't we know it's bad for our health but then we pick it up and do it when we really need to no no no like instead of going to the gym we dedicate our time differently because the gym is a choice you know but we choose to go to the theater instead and people will go but what about your health and i think the mind and body need to be aligned you've got to do things that are

positive for both and if you don't feel good mentally exactly oh no no genuinely you both look really really good and really lovely so stop talking about that but um i i think heart and personality are more important than anything and like my mother always said is no one will ever turn up and say they had a really nice six-pack they drove a wonderful mercedes absolutely their house was huge they'll stand there and they'll say he was a good person weren't they a lovely person that's right and said

and you've achieved everything if somebody stands and says that about you so everything else is infinitely unimportant yeah no it's true I agree

oh well listen good luck with the sofa tomorrow oh thank you I know thank you so much for taking the time out to talk to us no thank you

I really enjoyed it keep in touch take care guys bye bye bye bye bye bye talk to us no thank you keep in touch take care guys bye bye bye bye weren't they lovely

lovely I knew when I heard the voice note that they'd be gold fun just fun and just thought they were great

and I really yeah it makes me a little bit excited to think I think I've got my first little couple that might be regulars and come back. Yeah.

Because that's what I want it to be about. Play us the voice note from the lady who talks about Essex. Claire the baker has sent in this message regarding the weather. And this is not against anyone, please, from Essex. This is someone's opinion. Have a listen to this. All I'm going to say on the weather subject is don't ever go to greys in Essex when a little bit of sun is out.

Your eyes will never be the same. So that message from Claire about greys in Essex, don't go to greys, right? Now, I'm not having it. Look at this back in 2014. I'm just going to show you, Em. Oh! I did my first and last ever panto in greys. back in 2014. I'm just going to show you, Em. Mm. Oh.

I did my first and last ever panto in grey. Oh. In 2014. First and last. I was going to say you look so young there, but you haven't changed. It's exactly the same. The reason I say that is everyone in grey seemed to be dressed well,

but that was the winter pantomime season. I'm not one for pantos, you know. Love going to watch them. Absolutely love it. The best person in pantomime season I'm not one for pantos you know love going to watch them absolutely love it the best person in pantomime Brian Connolly oh no he isn't

oh yes he is yay he's amazing I look forward to seeing him every year but for me panto

it felt like a punishment because I love Christmas so much and that you are working your socks off through the whole of the festive period i hated it basically every day it's every day that was some days were three shows a day so you'd have an 11 a.m sorry a 10 30 maybe wow so it was for schools yeah so you'd have a 10 a.m 10 30 then a one and then obviously an evening or have you it was absolute that those people chris they work so hard it is really hard job and it's great and i also think it's a very important bit of theater

because i always think that's the first mostly the first thing in theatre that children see. Yeah, big time. So it's a really big impression for them. It's a really important thing, I think, panto. People take the mic. Oh, old actors doing panto. Oh, old soap stars doing panto. It's a really, really arduous, hard thing to do.

And you need to have a lot of thing to do and you need you need to have a lot of talent to do it properly there's a lot of shit ones out there I'm telling you but people that do it properly it's amazing but yeah it's not my thing again if I needed the dosh I'd be doing panto but

I don't enjoy it when it's your favourite time of year and then they go oh by the way you're working every single day apart from Christmas Day, which obviously you know when you sign it up, but you think, oh, no, it'll be all right because I'll have the morning or I'll have the evening, and you're tired, so you don't have any of that time. I reckon if there was a little Easter show,

because they do Easter pantos sometimes, don't they? Yeah. Not in the big theatres, but in little ones. They do, like, Easter shows. Lovely. So I'd be up for that because I'm not really bothered. Yeah. Not really into chocolate.

It's always freezing cold at Easter. You can't enjoy it, you know. It's meant to be spring. Let's go to a nice farm and look at the lambs freezing. Yeah. So, yeah, I'd be up for a little Easter adventure or a summer adventure. Summer panto. Yeah.

All right, start. What do you think? I've seen some, they do some really fun camp kind of drag pantos for all year round. Yeah, brilliant. Do you know what I want to do? Talking of that. Oh, yeah. I've never been, I really want to go to Drag Bingo.

Yes. Do you fancy it? Yeah. Well, why don't we book one in and do it as a pod? Lovely. Let's do that. a pod lovely let's do that yeah let's let's definitely do that right so if anybody can recommend to me a really good drag bingo maybe in the Hertfordshire or Essex area could you please let me know I mean we can look it up but it'd be lovely if you've got a story a little photo a bit of an experience from

it let us know. Me and Emma are going to go. I might take some of the family. Who knows? Be fun though, wouldn't it? Oh, yeah. Proper night out. Oh, Mike and Alex could come and we'd have a laugh, wouldn't we?

Drag bingo with Alex and Mike. Yeah. Sorry, I'm getting carried away. Yeah. Anyway, there you go. Nye has been just a non-drag bingo. Oh, yeah. So I went out to bongo bingo on friday night and i'm not even joking there was girls in crop tops and skirts that you could see their knickers i don't know

if it's me being old or if i'm old-fashioned but i had my big knickers on. I had a vest under my top and a fluffy jacket on. Well, Naya had the right attire. Naya with the attire. Like it? Yeah, Naya. Naya and the attire. Thank you very much for that. I didn't even think about it.

What is Bongo Bingo? Is it music-based? Is it bongos? I don't think so. I just wonder what the bongo's for. Can we Google it, please? Yeah. Social extravaganza and a night of pure nostalgic escapism.

They do lots of really big, silly prizes, I think. Oh, wow. Gosh. That looks like quite an event. Yeah. Bloody hell. Sold out an arena by the looks of it there. That looks like an arena.

No, I don't want all that, Em. I just want a little one. I do. I just want quite an intimate bingo because I haven't been before. Some of the people were telling me at Mecca and all that, at the big bingo, the old women, they're mad. They have like 12 stampers. Yeah.

And they have it all out and they're proper into it. Yeah. Have you been to bingo before? I haven't, no. Oh, my goodness. We're bingo virgins. I can't wait to go. I've loved that.

Mike and Alex were absolutely brilliant. They're a scream. I like the fact that we've got a few regulars. You know what I mean? We've got Bex, we've got Sam. Now, do you remember the hilarious Catherine who took her children to McDonald's in COVID and queued up for three hours and waited and they ended up being in the paper and were devastated, really embarrassed about it. She's been on honestly talking about, she said, just a quick message to say I absolutely love your pod.

It's like sitting in the living room with the family. That was last Thursday. And then today I've just got Nat we're driving to Alton Towers and I put episode two on well that's me ha ha ha the kids are laughing their heads off at me so Catherine thank you for being such a loyal listener and I hope to really speak to you soon. We'll have a natter about something soon. One of my besties, Sophie, has also said she thinks it would be really good if me and her came on with my Eliza and her Imogen, who are both 13.

So we do kind of a pair, and we're going to interview the teens about what it's like being a teenager today. Basically take the piss and aggravate them. But I think that'll be a good one too. Loads, loads to look forward to. I am absolutely loving it. I'm having a ball doing this.

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