Lucy & Sam's Perfect Brains - Perfect Saints - Rachel Robinson

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

It’s the series finale, and Lucy and Sam name their all-time favourite saints. Amen.If you want to send a message or voice note to the podcast, email it to [e-mail] or WhatsApp to [phone]Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.  Artwork by Sam Campbell. Theme music by Charlie Pelling, Lucy Beaumont and Sam Campbell. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Throughout the course of history, there's been no art of mysteries, but never won't quite as far as the secret garden of Babylon. Of Babylon, oh Babylon, the garden. Oh Babylon, do not surrender. Oh, kids that bloom all year round. An action fountain that makes not a sound. So check out this garden. Please don't be afraid.

It's Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brits. Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brits. Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brates. This podcast will be recorded for training purposes only. Hello, Lucy. Hello, Sam. Oh, and by the way, hello to our special guest. It's Mrs. Rachel Robinson.

Hello, good morning. Hi, Mrs. Rachel Robinson. Lucy was late to. to join the chat. I've got to know Mrs. Rachel Robinson very well. How well? Do you see the photo in the background of her window? Yeah.

That's her partner wearing shorts. And we were talking about his legs. He's got very good legs. Very good. Two of them. I've never seen his legs. Have you not? Ah, they do come out every now and again.

He's got great pins. Well, can we say who you are? I'm fine with you saying who I am. That's absolutely fine. This is my auntie. Rachel. Your favourite auntie? My only auntie. Oh, that's true, yeah.

And Rachel is my mum's sister. The youngest sister by some years. Yes. Yes. The same one. Yeah. Very, very different personalities you'll see throughout this interview. The divine Mrs. Rachel Robinson used to be Lucy's boss and would clean her face at lunchtime.

Yeah, I worked for Rachel. You did, you were a model employee. Well, I don't think I was. I think you had to tell me off a few times. Just quietly down the corridor. When you had your shoes on the wrong feet or something like that. Rachel was a head teacher, well, she's been head teacher of many schools, and I was a teaching assistant at one of their schools.

And it was a lovely time in the life. Rachel creates a lovely atmosphere in the schools that she governs, don't you? Well, I've tried to, yes. I can feel it already. I feel so calm and so I feel like I'm honestly feel like I'm in a cloud. Oh, excellent. A safe pair of hands. That's what Ofsted used to say about me.

A safe pair of hands and her partner has a beautiful pair of legs. Are we allowed to put pictures of his legs online? I'm sure he'd be really flattered to know that you want to put his legs online. I shall ask him when he comes home. We want permission. Yeah, I'm sure. He might charge for people. people to see them but yeah I'm sure he'd like that we are happy to pay we're happy to pay a

handsome sum excellent it's got many good features not just his legs which are the which are the features uh he's got good strong arms and he's got great beard best beard I've ever seen yeah I thought I was the same sister this is going into the realms of insanity Today, we are talking about saints. We're doing a countdown of our top 100 saints. Yeah, and we've invited Rachel along. Yeah, you're sort of an expert on saints. If you say so.

Rachel, you're a Christian, aren't you? Yes, I am, Christian. Okay, listeners, welcome to our sizzling top 100 saints countdown. Do you want to kick off, Lucy? I would like to kick off with a saint that means the most to me is St Christopher and I think my auntie Rachel will also agree that St Christopher it was sort of in our lives a lot growing up because my granny used to have a St Christopher round her neck and she used to ask St Christopher's stuff didn't she?

She did. I looked at them all and I think I fancy. St Christopher the most as well. I beg your pardon. It's a toss-up between St. Anthony and St. Christopher. We're on. We can't get on to Anthony so quickly. That's insane.

Can I just ask this small St Christopher around your granny's neck? Was that just his head or was that a full body, Christopher? It was a full body and I think he was on a rock, was he? Well, no, he was carrying a child across the sea, if you remember. As legend goes, the child was actually Jesus. that he carried across the sea to safety. And that's why, something like that, and that's why he is the patron saint of all travellers.

And so that's why your granny wouldn't go anywhere without her St. Christopher on because she thought that that was a thing that kept her safe. And she used to be really scared of flying because she saw a plane come down in the war as a child. and so when granddad made her go on holiday on an aeroplane She was a child soldier No, she was a child in Hull She was playing in the park in Hull

And she saw a plane come down during the war So she was scared of planes So she never went on a plane at all Until she was about 50 And then Grandad made a go on a plane Because they wanted to go somewhere hot for a holiday and she said, well, only two things

will make me get on that plane. One is I have to be completely cozzled so she drank something like a bottle of brandy and two, she had to have her St. Christopher with her and she did get on the plane. I have no idea how she got back again

but she definitely got on the plane. Unfortunately, that plane did crash. Oh, that's lovely. Wouldn't you love to be carried across the sea in someone's strong arms? Yeah, that would be nice. wouldn't it? I used to hear it when I was on a beach and you get all sand on your feet and then someone has to carry her and then really roughly they get all the sand off your feet with a pair of socks. Maybe they did have to do that with Jesus.

Were they at the seaside, Rachel? I don't think so. I don't think Jesus ever went to Bridlington. Is this a dream? No, it's real. Oh, can I ask you this really quickly, Mrs Rachel Robinson? Angels, can we talk about angels really briefly. Okay. So I'm noticing a lot of women referred to as angels. Charlie's angels. Someone will see a beautiful woman.

Oh, she's an angel, saying, looking to someone's eyes. Oh, oh, you are an angel in the Bible. Read this thing, front to back. There are no female angels. Angels are men. It is a bloke's tradition. Can you speak to this? Well, it's not just a male society, is it?

It's a male heaven as well, obviously. No, it's just that, yes, biblically, there were messengers, weren't they? There were more messengers, whereas saints are more kind of venerated for good deeds and for faith. And they were mortals who became saints, whereas angels were messengers from heaven down to earth. And some people believe in angels now, don't they? They believe that angels exist and walk amongst us. Well, I'm talking to two of them. Well, Lucy is definitely an angel.

I was telling you earlier, Sam, she was the best child. I have ever come across, and in my career, I've come across thousands. Lucy was definitely the most angelic of them all. Well, when we do our list of top thousand children, we'll have to bring you back on. This brings us to our number two saint, Gabriel himself. He is not actually an angel. He is an arch angel, the highest ranking of all angels. You don't want to see him with a trumpet.

Don't want to see him with a trumpet because if he comes bearing one, it means the end times are upon us. He's not my favourite, but I just like that he's an angel and a saint. He's, of course, the patron saint of broadcasters, clergy, communications, workers, diplomats, post offices, postal workers, radio, stamp collectors, telephones and television. I would if we could have a word with him about the price of stamps because they've really gone up.

Next prayer. Although, do you know what, when you think about, where you post a letter and how far it goes. I don't think it's bad value for money. It is, but when you could just send somebody an email or a text, it's not the same, is it, I suppose? Sorry, but you cannot email a used glove to someone. So at number 99, we had St Gabriel, the Archangel,

the highest ranking of all angels. He is often depicted with a spear in his right hand and a mirror in his left. Do you want to go next, Mrs. Rachel Robinson? Lucy will be able to understand this one. My favourite saint is St. Anthony because, again, because of granny, because when we were growing up, we heard nothing but St. Anthony all the time. And it was, my mum swore blind that if she lost something, because St. Anthony was the patron saint of all things lost, if she lost something, or if any of us lost something, and we were kind of tearing the house up to try and find it, then she would always make us stand still and pray to St. Anthony, or ask St. Anthony, should I say, to find it. and invariably annoyingly

you could always find it straight away but I don't know whether that was more because you could find it anyway even without St Anthony and just stopping and reflecting on where it was might help but she's more blind but she always used to say Lucy can you remember she always used to say

ask St Anthony to find it and don't forget to thank him when you do otherwise he won't help you next time People don't love his methods, San Anthony, but he always gets the results. Absolutely. And she also used to put a bra on backwards. Oh.

She used to put a bra on backwards and twizzle it round. I thought that's how everybody put the bra on. Is that not how you put your bra on? No. Ah, I've been doing it wrong all this 56 years. Well, no, you've probably copied off Granny, but I thought I'd put a stop to it. I didn't want it to carry on down the generation. But how can you see how to do it up if you've got it behind Jane?

Well, that's the fun part. I like to get mine on as fast as possible. At my age, you just don't want to see them anymore. I'm currently enlisted in a two-year-long course for undoing bras. Are you? Yeah. With one hand. Well, that's year two.

That's where you get into that. I thought St Anthony was just the sin of finding things. But it's a patron saint of miracles, travellers, finding one's spouse's pregnancy. What do they think they mean by finding one's spouse is Finding the person that you're going to marry Oh really not like because they've you know gone to a pub and you can't work out Isn't that funny that's the first thing I thought

Like finding them because they've gone on a night out And you need to get in touch with them Animals lost items lost people Or lost souls Oh Poverty Sterility What's that?

When you can't have babies Oh right Because maybe your sperm have no tails or you have ovarian cysts. Yeah. The sick, the disabled, the oppressed, the hungry, the elderly. Wow, it goes on. Do you want me to read the rest?

Oh, have you had enough? It's old of hull, actually. He's also a patron saint of swineherds. What's a swineherd? A pig man. A pig man? It's like a shepherd, but for pigs. Oh, you don't mean a pig.

A pig man? A man who's a half pig. So are you talking about some sort of depraved medical? experiment that's gone wrong and this guy has sort of the attributes of the pig and it's sort of running around sort of honking and not a man that is a pig it's a it looks after pigs looks after him the hairy of the pig the more aggressive they're also of watermen what a water men oh a river worker yeah they're the patron saint of river workers who transfer passengers across city centre rivers and estuaries in the united kingdom busy these saints aren't they yeah they're very busy

and of indigenous people. I would say he's maybe not looked after them as well, as well as he could have done. He's always finding people's keys. I mean, who am I to have a go at a saint? But he's taken on too much. They're like, will you be this? He goes, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

I can do that. We all know people like this who just say yes to everything. Oh, Babylon, oh Babylon, do not surrender. In my research, I found a lot of saints were the patron saint of fevers and the Czech Republic, weirdly, just kept popping up.

But maybe at the time they needed a lot of help. Should we call on a saint during this episode or would that be in poor taste? Well, it'd be interesting to see if anything happened. Let me look up the patron saint of podcasting. Whoa. There's a patron saint of podcasting. Apparently it's St George Breaker. He passed away in 1962.

But he won't know about podcasting then. Don't you think really? You should have been a podcaster before you come a patron saint of it. Would you like to hit us with another saint, Lucy? Yeah, can we go with St. Joseph? Oh, fantastic, Joyce. He was the patron saint of everyone.

So if Universal Church, families, fathers, expectant mothers, travellers, immigrants, and my favourite at the moment, because I am buying a house, housesellers and buyers. And so he's going to look after me, I'm buying a house at the moment. And he has got a grotto, so he's got his own grotto. And what's lovely is in the grotto, there's always a light that never goes out. Are we talking here about an eternal flame?

Yeah, and eternal flame and the, and the other Smith song, there's a light that never goes out. And Joseph is also considered to be the patron of the New World, which is China, Canada, Korea, Mexico, Austria and Belgium. I could do with a carpenter because I want some wardrobes building in my bedroom in South Cove. So I could do with a bit of help from St. Joseph there. Should we get on to him? Should we summon him? Yes, please. Yeah, something in hardwood painted cream, please.

St. Joseph, blessed a ye. We would like to summon you to build a hardwood cupboard and also to help Lucy with the property market. Yeah, get on to Halifax. Help out with that, if you would. F.B.R. C-A. I've got one, absolutely. This one sort of reminds me of my co-host. It is St. Lucy. Ah, I was going to pick that one. Beaten to the punch. I didn't know there was a St. Lucy. Often known as Lucia, often called Lucia, of Syracuse.

Her feast is officially the 13th of December. So on the 13th of December, remember to have a big feast. She is, of course, the patron saint against dysentery. Hemorrhages, blind people. She is also the patron saying for labourers, martyrs, salesmen, sore throats and writers. But we don't find much about their personalities. What were her hobbies? Oh no, I know about her. So she would take food to persecuted Christians in hiding and she wore a candle on her head.

Did she? Just something I could imagine you doing. Yes, my hair's gone up in flames so many times. I can't tell you. It's tea lights. It's when you, you know, when you just lean over a table, do you smell it before you realize and you think? They say, Lucy, your hair's on fire again.

Okay, so she was the daughter of Yutacha. And she was very worried about Lucy's future and arranged a marriage for Lucy to a young man from a wealthy. You're not going to like this. You're not going to like this. Oh, you're going to hate this pagan family. Controversial. Yes, no, thank you.

So Lucy was committed to the Christian god. She did not want to marry this man. He loved her eyes. He goes, he's pagan. So he's like, you have such beautiful eyes. He's probably wearing, I don't know, some horrible robe with symbols. And what Lucy did was she plucked out her own eyes. She never.

To sort of dissuade him. Bloody hell. She did. Wow. She plucked him out. This pagan guy's like, ugh. Yeah, I'm going to find a girl with eyes. eyes, but Lucy was rewarded and God gave her a pair of even more beautiful eyes.

Oh. That's one theory. Another theory is that the Emperor Diocletian had her eyes plucked out because he was jealous. That does sound more likely, doesn't it? Yeah, he thought he had the most beautiful eyes in robe. And then everyone's like, oh, there's this girl, Lucy, all the pagans are after. And he goes, you know, get them plucked, plucked them right out. I wonder if she was actually just plucking her eyebrows and then slipped.

Yeah, she was embarrassed. so she just thought, right, I'm just going to pluck, I'm just going to take the eye out. It could be a fringe as well, Rich, couldn't it? Because once you start cutting your fringe, then you might as well pluck your eyes out. Thank you to Lucy, one of our favourite Virgin Martyrs. I'm going to have St. Lawrence, who was being roasted alive on a huge gridiron by the Romans. and as he was being roasted alive, he looked at his executioners and he said,

you can turn me over, I'm done on that side now. He did it. He did. Start with his sizzle. Wow, he was like the Frankie Boyle of Saints. That's incredible. I don't know what is the patron saying, Tom. Maybe barbecues or...

And potentially quips. It must be being cute. I just thought of a joke. I just thought of a joke. Let me know if this. this is good. What do you think of this? Okay. This is an original joke I just thought of. I really hope it. Okay. And tell me if it's also in poor taste. But a man is being crucified. And he keeps yelling out. He goes, Josephine. Josephine, help me. Josephine. And the guy on the cross

next to him, he goes, okay, this guy wants, you know, and the guy keeps yelling out, Josephine, please, please, come to me. You must help me. Josephine. You're the only one who can save me. The guy on the next cross is like, oh, this guy really wants Josephine. And the guy keeps yelling, Josephine, please. come, come, I need your help. You can help me, Josephine. And the guy goes, finally, he goes, okay, so who's Josephine? Is that your wife?

Is that your mother? He goes, no. Josephine is my pet termite. Do you get it? Like, would me be able to eat the cross to free him? It's good, that, Sam. Oh, it's good.

I think you're next, Lucy. My sin is, they're sometimes calling for shots, St. Elmer, but he's sent, St. Hermus. And he's fascinating. So he's the patron saint of Bowles. Okay. He was, again, like so many, was persecuted by the Romans. And he went and lived alone on an island. I think it was five or seven years. And then, you know, a raven, you know a raven? Well, a bird came to him and said, no, it's time to go back to where you're from and face up. to them. And so he did, he listened to this bed. Yeah. But sadly, maybe he shouldn't have

listened to the bed because then he was disemboweled. Wow, that, I mean, it is sort of analogous with modern times. It's kind of like when your parents go, oh, you should come and visit. And then when you turn up, they go, what, you're just going to be on the iPad the whole time? What, you're just going to do that? When are you going to sort out tax? And they start yelling at you. You go, well, I should never have returned. I should never have listened to The raven. Yeah, and be careful which bird you listen to as well. Absolutely true.

The raven, is it symbolically, you maybe want to listen to a dove or a goldfinch. Lucy, sorry, goldfish is not a bird. No, no, goldfinch. Oh, sorry, just one minute. Someone's got to come and measure the windows in this room. Well, yeah, as long as they know a lot about canonisation, then they can tell us about the schism. The measure has got, that's not a measure of. That's a boy.

This is insane. Lucy's now, there's eight men and a boy are all in the room. We're just talking about our favourite saints. Do you have one? Me? Yeah. A saint? Halfly.

Well, my son's in his son was due on Patrick's Day. Oh, his son was due on St. Patrick's Day. So we call him Patrick. He wasn't. He was actually born two days early, just for the record, but we call him Patrick. Oh, wow. Do you know that St. Patrick was not. Irish. He wasn't a snake himself, was he?

Was he not? No, he was Scottish. I just need to check. Do you need to do this one? Can I move? I've never had my windows measured, but it's never eight men. It can't be eight. There's eight men and a boy. This is insane. What is this company? I think I'll just have to move the laptop. Ten men in their son.

What are you up to for the rest of the day, Mrs. Rachel Robinson? I'm going to make a banana loaf for tea. Oh, and tonight I've got a ballroom dancing lesson. Okay. Now I'm starting to be very interested. How many lessons have you taken? This will be number four, I think. We try and go every week.

And my partner goes twice a week, so he does four different classes. He's got four different partners. But I only go one. So the only one dances one of the classes with me. Well, that's very modern. Yeah. Yeah. It is. I'm good at the steps, but I'm not very good at the style,

so I'm always getting into trouble for having my head in the wrong position or not having my hands in a nice female pose, you know? Well, I imagine your hands are often making their way down to those sort of, well... Yeah, those beautiful calf muscles. Absolutely. I like to fit his knees while we're doing the fox chart. This is Rachel Robinson. You are wicked. Lucy has been perfect brains. Lucy has been professionally measured by about, I don't know, 40 men and a boy.

And we were talking about Mrs. Rachel Robinson's ballroom dancing while you were dealing with that. And I'd like to talk about a saint called St. Vitus. Young guy, young saint, 12 years old when he was executed. He was the son of Modestus. And Modestis didn't like the Christian thoughts this boy was having. He said, cut it out with that. This young guy, Vitis, his nanny and his tutors, took him away. They loved the stuff he was saying.

He actually began teaching them. Imagine that. The tutors become the tutored. He's got amazing sort of thoughts and things like that. The Emperor Diocletian got him to heal his son. 12 years old, this guy, doing all this stuff. But he was thrown into a cauldron. of boiling tar and molten lead.

Ouch. We have a twist. He miraculously escaped, unscathed. If I got thrown in the cauldron of boiling tar, I'm going to get scathed. I'm pretty sure there's some scathings. I can't walk past a bush without getting scratched. Exactly, yeah.

But he was executed after that. They don't like people, you know, they just didn't like that kind of thing back then. Anything showy, they just said, nah, no, that's not on. He is the patron saint of actors. He is against animal. attacks, lightning, oversleeping, against rheumatic courier, I don't know how to say that, against snake bites, against storms, of course the Czech Republic, dancers, dogs and epileptics.

So yeah, they made a statue of him and everyone in Germany was dancing before it, and that was the first ever dance craze. Sent fighters dance. Yeah, you've heard of this. Yes. Have you done it at ballroom dancing, mate? No, but I might give it a go tonight. What sort of moves is?

So that's where you act like you're lying on the ground, you're pretending you're in a cauldron and then you slip out. That's a bit like, Come on Arlene, the dance you do with that. Maybe that has the roots into. Are you too young to remember the Come on Eileen dance, Sam? Oh, I know that song in the dance, yeah. It's slipped into my generation. Do you know the Doja Cat dance from TikTok?

No. No. I'm a very young guy. Who is your next saint, Mrs. Rachel Robinson? Well, I sort of like the one, I don't know quite how to say it. I think it's St. Blaze. It's a guy. Catholics get their throats blessed on February 2nd every year at the Feast of St. Blaze

because he miraculously cured a young boy who was choking on a fishbone. I kind of like that because obviously I like the idea of children being saved if they're choking on a fishbone. but it annoys me a bit because one year when I was a head teacher in North Yorkshire I saved a young boy from choking on a roast potato and I did it by throwing him against the basin in the medical room which sort of acted like a Heimlich manoeuvre. I was trained but I kind of threw him against it and obviously he spat them roast potato out and he turned to me and he said oh mrs robinson you've just saved my life

and i'm not a saint i haven't been canonised yeah but you need to do two miracles you've only done one two miracles uh okay okay well uh yeah okay i'll be working on the second miracle then i think can i just ask where did you train in boy throwing At teacher training college, the teacher how to do that. What's the closest thing you've done to a miracle, Lucy? Do you know, I saved a child's life as well? What, really? Yeah, really.

I was on my way to a gig in London, and it was like a really long tree-lined avenue, and it was dark. It was like winter. And in the distance, but it was a really busy road, you know, traffic. And in the distance, I saw under the streetlight, I saw this little figure. and I could see the nappy, the white of the nappy was sort of illuminated under the street lamp

and then it disappeared and I thought, oh my God, that's a child. So I ran as fast as I could and it was in the middle of the road. It was like a toddler just started walking and I picked him up and the door, there was a front door open so I went in and it was his mum

and she didn't even know that he'd got out. Do you keep in touch? No, she was a bit confused why I was in her in her hallway with her child. Oh, I've got a really nice one here. Simeon, the stylight. Okay, so he was a young up and comer.

Everyone's like this guy. He was, he was working, he was, went to a sort of a monastery, and he was just so hardcore. So he went the entire duration of Lent without eating. And so a lot of the other people studying

that were getting jealous, because they were like, oh, you know, I'm giving up a, oh, you know, whatever it is, soft drinks or something. And he goes, I'm just not going to eat. And they're like, good luck, but he would do it.

And so he eventually got kicked out because he was too devoted, if you can believe that. And he started, he got really interested in pillars. He's what's known as a pillar hermit. So there's different types of hermits, cave hermit. There's hermit who hang around wetland and quagmires and such. He's a pillow hermit. So first he found, he was amongst the ruins.

in modern day, what we now call Syria, but Telanissa, and he found a pillar. It was about three metres high. He shimmied up and he just loved it up there. He goes, I could get used to this, but I'm going to need a higher to find a higher pillar. So he kept investigating pillars, would go on top of them for a few weeks at the time.

He finally found, and Hermit Crabs do this, by the way. They will search for different shells until they find the perfect one. So he found a pillar that was 15 meters high. and stayed up there for 37 years. I thought you said pillow first. I was thinking that is... Oh, yeah. Are you serious?

No, a big pillow. I thought you were saying pillar. He wasn't lying on a big pillow. They probably didn't even have pillows back then. I don't know. Tony's textiles is quite a well-established company. Pillar of the community. Oh, Babylon.

Oh, Babylon. Do not surrender. Who is your next Saint, Lucy? Well, do you know, Sam? My next soon. is who I think should be saints. Okay. Is that okay?

Yeah, you can have one of those, sure. There's one called the Bee Lady of Hull, who I think should be canonised as a saint, and the other dinner ladies all throughout the world. So one of them is one woman who works with bees, and the other one is all dinner ladies. Or maybe the Bee Lady could be patron saint of dinner ladies. Do you know this bee woman, Mrs. Rachel Robinson?

Well, sadly she's no longer with us. She died, but yes, everybody from Hull knows the Bee Lady. She was amazing. She earned loads of money for charity. She used to dress up as a bee, which is why she was called Bee Lady. She was invited to open lots of events and new buildings and things. So she kind of whole royalty, really. And she was very old when she died.

Was she 90-something, I think, when she died? And she was just happy all the time. So, yeah, she just used to stand on the street dressed as a bee. I think it was helped the aged that she actually raised the most amount of cash for. Would you throw honeycomb into the bay in crowd? What other stuff would she do apart from just dressing as a bee? She got an award from the Queen, yeah, an MBE, and she called Jean Bishop. Jean Bishop, that's it.

Guess how many years she's dressed as a bee? How long? 25 years. That's pretty good. Now, when the Queen celebrated her, the Queen should have also dressed her. as, like, you know, sort of the queen bee and sort of, do you know what I mean? And she, like, sort of, don't you think that would have been good?

It would have been good, but I don't think Gene would have liked that. I think that then you would have seen a different side to Jean. Oh, really? If someone else tried to do it, because she was lovely and always a smile on her face. But if she walked into the room and the queen was dressed as a bee, she'd be like, no, no, this isn't happening. I'm the bee lady. The women in Hull can be very aggressive.

Warm-hearted, confrontational. Yeah, confrontational. Lucy has some perfect brains Lucy and Sam's perfect brains Okay I think we were supposed to do the top hundred saints I think we've done about six I would love to know the listeners what their favourite saint is

Please email us and let us know other saints you'd like us to cover I think we will I mean we've got to do this again we've got to have Mrs Rachel Robinson on again you have been such a wonderful guest we would like to thank you so much Thank you I'd live to come back

Thank you for having me Yes, thank you so much Do you have any sort of tips for us? Tips for you For the podcast Yeah No, just keep going It's fantastic

I shall be listening every week now I am Lucy's biggest fan But I am now Sam's biggest fan too Ding ding ding ding ding ding Ding you have just performed Your Second Miracle And Mrs Rachel Robinson

I venerate you as a sage You may ascend Ascend ascend ascend ascend Ascend ascend And we would like to end with a quote from Mary MacKillop. She is my favorite saint. She is an Australian saint

and she almost organized a union with all the sisters. She goes, it shouldn't be the bishops telling us what to do in all these different diocese. The sisters need to all work together and regardless of their background, she had a radical vision and she was venerated

in 2010 by Pope Benedict and one of the things she said, she said, never see a need without trying to do something about it. That's lovely. Hit us up at Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains at gmail.com with your favourite saints or if you are an auntie and you want to come on the podcast,

we'll have you on as a guest. Big up to Mary Macillop. Lucy and Sam's Perfect Brains. This podcast will be recorded for training purposes only. Not answering, I'll have to leave him a message. Hi, darling. I'm sorry to bother you. I know this is another bizarre request. I know that you're used to them.

by now. The photograph of you on the mantel piece behind me were you sitting on the rock in Dorset, is it okay if we actually have that photograph online? Is that okay? Because you've got the best knees that anybody has ever seen and we would really like to celebrate those knees. I have explained that you have got other lovely body parts too. But your knees have one hands down, if you've pardoned the pun. So it'd be really great if you've said yes. Well, the nation could celebrate those knees along with me. Is that okay?

Just text me later and say yes to knees or no to knees, if that's okay. Thanks, darling. Hope the show is going well. Bye. Oh, nice. I'm Amy Gledhill. My name is Ian Smith. And we are from the Northern News podcast. If you like podcasts where it's a male and female host,

The Woman is from Hull, you're going to love Northern News. Yeah, and if you're thinking, but I'd like the man to be from Gull, that's what this is. Yeah, not Australia. No, but if you listen to our back catalogue, you will hear both Sam Campbell and Lucy Bermont doing bloody good bits on our show actually. Yeah.

And it's all about it. finding the weird bizarre stories from the north of England or wherever our guests are from. Things like pure evil blackbird named Derek terrorising Yorkshire village and attacking children. Woman in tears after spotting spitting image of dead dog in Bathmat. And we've got special guests. We're talking about people like Phil Wang, Jessica Napit, Ed Campbell and Ross Noble

who joined us in the studio. Woo-hoo! Yeah. That's Northern News, out every Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.