Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S11 Ep35 Lindsey Santoro

Episode Date: January 11, 2026

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And I'm Josh Willickham Welcome to Parents in Hell The show in which Josh and I discuss What it's really like to be a parent Which I would say can be a little tricky So to make ourselves and hopefully you Feel better about the trials and tribulations Of modern day parenting

Each week you'll be chatting to a famous parent About how they're coping Or hopefully how they're not coping And we'll also be hearing from you The listener with your tips, advice And of course, Tales of Parenting Woe Because let's be honest There are plenty of times

When none of us know what we're doing Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with Sydney, can you say Rob? Your bucket. And can you say Josh Whitigam? Thank you. You're so clever. Sydney.

Sydney with a wire and I. Spelt like the city. Alice here, Sydney's auntie. This is my little sis Kate asking a two-year-old Sid to say your names. We're in Bristol. Your neck of their words. Oh, actually, Clifton. I'm a Clifton boy.

Clifton Boy. Thanks for lots of laughs. We both listen in the car when we drive to our parents with Lil Sid in the back. I'm a proud non-child haveer, by the way. I love when you have the odd other like me on the show. That's the second time in 24 hours. Someone said to me last night, in fact, that they loved the Elizabeth Day episode. So there we go. We should get Greg James on because he's been quite vocal and open about not wanting to have children and stuff. He got a bit of a backlash about it, but I thought it was very eloquent in the way he described it. Oh, I'd love to have Greg James. I think we've both got his number, aren't we? I haven't got his number, but, you know, he went to, he went to uni with my very agent, Rob, bizarrely. Well, yeah, we should get Greg on. He's got a book to promote.

Oh, come on, Greg, Mike. You want to ship some fucking books? Yeah. Let's talk kids. I saw LA. There's no point doing that now, is it? Won't be able to get him into the new year. Won't give a shit while then.

On the subject of audio. Can I lodge in? I want to talk about bridges in Bristol as well. Yes. Do you want to do audio first? Audio first. I'm going to put a pin in that. Okay.

Thank you to everyone who we topped the Spotify Rapped off. Oh yes. Yeah, we've got loads of messages for people that listen and in the Spotify rap and top 1% as thousands of hours been listened to. So thank you very much. I thought our message needs to be better next year, Rob, because I got one of those messages. Did we do a message? Well, exactly, Rob.

I only remembered when I got my message from Sabrina Carpenter. It's not your message. What? The message that you... The message. No, no, it wasn't a personal message. The group text. The group message from the one, the people in the top.

Yeah. I'm not 0.7%. Yeah, so the teenage girls and perverts. I'm listening. There's nothing perverted about listening. You're listening and imagining. No, not imagining. You're listening and thinking.

I'm not thinking. I'm thinking this is a great song. She properly went for it in her message, Rob, and I felt like we'd really found it in. Yeah, she was like dressed in one of her outfits, and she was like, I mean, it was probably just recorded just before she went on a gig, but it did feel like we've just thrown it together. Yeah, but that's what our whole show is. Yeah, true.

So it'd be out of character if we put suits on and stood in front of a Christmas tree. Let's do that next year. Okay. Let's overproduce it to the point where Spotify says it doesn't feel intimate enough. Yeah, okay. I want a fucking confetti cannon. Yeah.

Let's go mental for it. We have to hold ourselves to this because we still haven't done tops off, have we? And all that. We are definitely, we are throwing 500 pounds. in budget next year's Spotify message. So we apologise if it wasn't enough. Yeah. But we can't do comedians.

We can't do it. In that little clip, you've got to try and be funny. I can't do sincere. You know how much we love doing this and how much it means to us. Well, thank you. Thank you. But thank you very much for listening. And we're going to go above and beyond.

Next year. Michael might make an appearance as Father Christmas. Oh, yeah, that's good. Michael might be Father Christmas. And we sit on his lap in suits. No, no, no. Yeah, 100%. And Michael dresses Father Christmas.

I'm in a suit and Josh is in a pair of swimming trunks. And then we have a confetti cannon. You know what? I'll be in a pair of sun's spell pants and Rob will be in a pair of underarmers. But then is that not like sending a dick pick? Yeah, that's bad. That's bad. So Michael will be dressed as Santa and I'll be dressed as a small child and Rob will be dressed as my mum.

Spotify go. Yeah. Guys, the Spotify wrap. It is a parenting podcast and like you're like half naked in it. You should have seen Sabrina's video, mate. Yeah, you're lucky it's not. called Spotify Unratt. Hello.

Right. Tell me about Bristol. Wordplay. I love bridges. He's good, isn't it? I mean, he sells out like 28 nights in Glasgow. No, not Kevin Bridges. The Clifton Suspension Bridge is incredible.

It's an underrated bridge to Clifton suspension. I love a bridge you can walk across and you can drive across. And cycle across. Have you ever, I went to a festival. When my mate was at uni in Bristol, I went to festival on the other side the Clifton suspension bridge. Yes, lovely. I actually saw Russell Howard and John Richardson performing before they were famous.

Oh. But we'll come to that, because we're going to interview Russell Howard, so I'll bring that up with it. That gig. Anyway, we all had to walk back across the bridge at the same time. Yeah. And because there were so many people on the bridge, it was swaying from side to side. Oh, I don't like that. I did not like that.

No. I did not like that. Because it don't look. I don't find suspension bridges look that strong. No. And also, what worry about that suspension bridge? It is one way of traffic. There's like traffic lights where not many cars can go on it at once.

That for me feels like over the years they've realised it can't take the weight of modern vehicles. And that worries me. Because Isambard Kingdom Brunel wasn't thinking about a Renaulte. What is his name? Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Is that his name? I don't know. Isambard.

Oh, Isambard's quite a mouthful. What should we put in his middle name? Just kingdom. Well, is kingdom his middle name or is it his surname? name. If Michael says we've discussed this before, we have to stop the pod because there's nothing else to talk about. We've said all the words.

You know that monkeys with typewriters? His parents were called Sophia Kingdom. Right. And Mark Isambard Brunel. So they've basically combined their names. It's an uncommon name of Norman Germanic origin, meaning Iron Bright or Iron Axe. It's mad for someone that did the Industrial Revolution. I don't know anything about him.

So Kingdom Brunel. Double-barreled? Yeah, I suppose. And his first name is Embard. Oh wow, he came from, like, his parents didn't have much money. His father was... Get him on the show! Get him on the bloody show!

Listen, if you were in? When did he... He's dead. Did he have any kids? Yeah, he had three, including one who's got a Wikipedia. What's their names? Henry Mark Brunel. Yeah, you can tell his unbarred, I'd have d'unt with his name.

He's just got him. Henry, come on, guys. He built Tower Bridge's son. He built Tower Bridge's son. What? No, his son... Yeah. Built Tower Bridge.

Oh, fucking nepotism. That's ruining that, actually. Yeah, there we go, the fucking bridge. The fucking Roman Kemp of bridges. Martin, doing all the hard grafting Bristol, and all of a sudden he rocks up at the Thames and starts presenting capital. Building bridges.

Fuck it out. Who we got on today? Roman Kemp is on today. No, do you know what's underwhelming after you've been to the Sydney Harbour Bridge? And I don't get angry, Jaldives, but their bridge is actually quite small. Yeah.

It looks bigger. in pictures and you imagine it being bigger but it's actually a little nifty little fella It's not a tight little boy It's good on the train, the Newcastle Bridge Hey, don't get me wrong, I love the bridge Yeah, but I know what you mean Who built that bridge?

Who built Newcastle Bridge? It can't be called that Just before we bring on Lindsay Santoro Built the Tyne. Is it called the Tyne Bridge? Yeah, it is. Yeah. Dorman Long and Co. A Middlesbrough based company.

Oh, that's got smart for the jewellies, isn't it? Yeah, oh my God. Couldn't get anyone yourself, She had to bring in some of them. The bridge was built by a Macum, built by a Mac. Macum Sunderland, yeah. What's Middlesbrough then? Just Janineo and stuff.

Janini, Emerson. Right. Lindsay Santoro, should you bring her on? Why not? Mother of one, brilliant new comedian, absolutely crackers, but we love her. Here's Lindsay Santoro. Welcome to the show, Lindsay Santoro. Are we started?

Yeah, how we go it, Lindsay. Don't fuck about. Sorry, morning. Me and Lindsay were just chatting. I was saying I've not actually met Lindsay yet, Josh. You sung Lindsay's praises. Because I've been on tour, I've been like gigging loads and not seeing all the new acts coming through

like you would when you're on the circuit. But I watched Lindsay, because I do prep when comedians come on. But not Ed Bulls because I don't care. But yeah, I've watched Lindsay stand up and she's got it, Josh. She's just funny bones. Lindsay's done some support for me on tour. Do you know what was she's got? A deep lack of respect for people who are more experienced than her.

As you should be. Yes, I have. I don't give a shit. Experience does not make you funny. Lindsay's got it. Lindsay's got funny bones. She doesn't understand hierarchy, Rob. No, I don't.

And my favourite was when I told you there was a ghost in that theatre we were in. And then when you started the show, I started moving the curtains behind you. Lindsay, welcome to the show. We're very excited to have you on. How many kids you got? Let's do that first before we crack on. One. And that is plenty.

Thank you very. Very much. I'm not doing that again. Not for me. How old are they, boy, girl? What are we got? Girl, four. Just started school. I don't know what. People have more than one. No fence. Lindsay, did you invent the Brummy accent, by the way? Is this the ground zero of the accent? No, listen. This is... Everybody has a go at me because my accent... I got described in a review in Edinburgh. Oh God, what was it now?

It was like her accent takes is a bit much and takes a few minutes to tune into. But once you're there, it's fine. So I apologise. No, do not apologise. I love it. It's what makes you you. Basically, those kind of reviewers aren't used to hearing people like you

be on platforms and talk and say what you think and feel. No, exactly. They like, someone from Birmingham who sounds like Joe Leicester. That's what they want. I know, but he don't sound like that when he's not on the turn. He's like, Right. Oh, that's what you're like, really.

Dits, tits. How long have you been doing stand-up then, Lindsay? You've got a four-year-old. Are you full-time, fully professional now, like, or do you still... Only just. Yeah, it's mad because when I filmed the Apollo, I was still working. That's mad. Like, I only just stopped, yeah, yeah.

When did you start comedy? I did a comedy course in, like, 2013. But then what I was, I did, like, a gig every six months, because I just couldn't be asked. Yeah. I thought there's no money in this. Not if you gig once every six months. So when did you go, I should have a go at this?

I did the BBC New Comedy Awards and I got through. And I thought, imagine if I tried. And so what was your day job? What was you doing? I'm going to say this and then I'm going to say a caveat after it. So I worked for the NHS. I worked for the children's speech and language team. Now, listen, I was an admin.

I didn't talk to people. I wasn't on the phone. I wasn't helping kids to speak. But you did all the phone calls, so parents must have rung up and gone, God, they've got that three-year-old's confidence up to answer the phone. Isn't she doing well? What about how long she's been treated for and when she'll be better? I love that job.

They were so good to me. They're like, I've reduced my hours to like three days when I went on to did Edinburgh. I worked remotely. They were wonderful. They were so great. Did you work from Edinburgh? So you're doing Edinburgh? Yeah.

Did you get nominated for newcomer? Yeah. So I was working in Edinburgh. You were working in the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good on you, Lindsay. Well, no, I've got a mortgage, you know. Some of us can't fanny around.

Which a lot of them do in Edinburgh. How angry, because I'm better now, mainly because I've done all right, but I used to hate all the people at Edinburgh that were there when their parents were, like, giving them, like, money to do it or paying their accommodation. That used to really infuriate me. Did you have a chip on your shoulder when you were there, or could you rise above it?

I just used to just go home. I just thought, I can't, these people drive me mad. And then, like, you see people, like, do a show and they're, like, pretending to be, like, a boiled egg for an hour. And they're like, oh, how? I'm like, God. Oh, I'm short your ass. So I just... I think, Rob, you've met a kindred spirit.

Oh, absolutely. I feel like with the same person. It's really frustrated. But I did, because where we were renting in Edinburgh had, like, a spare room. So I was like, to people, oh, come and stay with us for free. And then I'd just throw my... She was only one at the time one or two,

and I just threw... Have my baby, though. The caveat is, you must have... my child. So when you were doing the Edinburgh and you won the new act of the year competition, you were renting a place in Edinburgh. Yeah. Doing your day job and you had a one-year-old.

Yeah. And was your partner up there as well? Yeah, yeah. It took everybody off. If I'm suffering, so is everybody else. What does he do? Oh, I don't know. It's been too long.

He does some stuff for universities, but he's not a teacher person. He's a, I don't know. Admin? Does you admin or? management of universities. And he does a lot of, oh, liaise with Jeremy. I'll get that sorted. I'll send it over to you.

So you're all up there with the baby and doing the show. How did you not like have a breakdown or was the show a bit of escape? You know, did you enjoy it in the show because you've got a break from the work? Yeah. I like to because he kept me grounded. And also she's a really good kid. So she's not like a twat. And she's got very used to being abandoned.

So she doesn't care anymore. Well, she's not. But she was up there with her dad as well. She wasn't abandoned. You went to work for an hour. Yeah, and like a grandparent school. I managed to Swiss the childminder that we had at the time. My friend Donner had to come up.

Oh, she stayed up as well? Yeah, I was like, do you want to come to Edinburgh for a week? And she was like, yeah. I said, oh, do you mind working? You can bring your husband. So you rented somewhere of a spare room and you were pretending to invite people up to enjoy the Edinburgh fringe. But basically what you were doing was sort of stealth childcare.

Yeah, I had a carousel of friends that would come up. My friend Emma came up. and my friend Donna and David's parents and I invited my friend Cherry up but then I realised she's got no childcare skills so she was fucking useless so she really fucked my week up Did you pay Donna or did you consider

Pay Donna? Don't it pay Donna? Paying Donna. She got free holiday out of me. Do you pay for a train? No, pay for nothing. Listen, Donna was my friend first then she was my childminder

and then she was free childcare. You don't pay Donna anymore for normal weeks? No, because she's a... at school. So you invited her up as a friend, but then you made her look after your kid. Yeah.

And did Donna pushback? No? No. I can't imagine you on school WhatsApp, Lindsay. No, I'm not good. I've had to add me husband, David, because I can't, I'm not allowed to reply to things.

He's told me. Because I'm tempted, and I've stopped myself, but when they're chatting a load of shit or they're doing something, I just want to just chip in and go, literally no one cares. I had to get Rose.

to archive one of our WhatsApp groups because I thought she was too much of risk. Oh, what, to chip in on it? To chip in on it. I was like, you need to archive this because I don't trust you not to chip in. No, but I like watching the passive-aggressive arguments on there. Yeah, so do I.

But I think Rose thinks I need to tell them all this doesn't matter. She's a flight risk. I haven't got to that point. There's no arguments in my group so far. Well, no, someone said there's terrible traffic at the school gates. So beware. And then someone went, oh, God, that's a nightmare, isn't it?

And then another person went, it's because of the idiots at the senior school that pull around the front and don't leave a gap for the junior school to get through that clog it all up. And then someone else went,

well, actually, I think that the reason for the backup is there's a wedding at the venue nearby today. And then the one who said about the senior school was like, yeah, but the senior school

don't help normally. I'm like, oh God. No, it's not bad. It doesn't matter. Just say there's a traffic. We don't need to know why. This isn't one that's happened, but for any example,

you would just get someone go, do you think we need to have a word with the school about how bad the lunches are? And then it'll just be a debate over whether the lunch is a good or bad. Or radio silence, someone says. Or radio silence. You feel worse.

And I think someone needs to chip in it because this is painful. Well, you'll be your daughter. It's only the first year. So you've got all this to come. You've not, everyone's playing nighty. You're feeling each other out in the first year. It's only been two months, isn't it?

Yeah, it's not been long. Well, a lot of them were in nursery together as well, so they're kind of all. So far, But everyone, it's been very pleasant and delightful. Have you made friends? I don't really have friends. Is this a cry for help or is a choice?

I'm not very good at making mum friends because I don't know how to talk about my child without making a joke and then people think it's serious and then social services. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I've got, I'm Pally. It's hard making friend friends, though, isn't it, with strangers? Because the only thing you got in common is you live near a school.

Yeah. And you have sex at the same time. Yeah, we had sex at the same time. Woo! Let's be friends. Well, not even the same time within a year. Yeah. It's not really narrowing down while you'd get on.

Like, I really get on with them. We have sex four years apart. Four months apart. I don't think there's time, is they? Just fling them in the school and go. I'm not in any of the, um, when they do, like, groups for like, I don't know, I've got like a vibe, but they're going to go,

well, can you run a comedy night? Yeah. And I'll say, yeah, right. Beckett and Josh Widdickham will do it. I'll tell you now I'm not doing it, Lindsay. Shove it up your ass. So you said you wouldn't have any more. How was the pregnancy in the birth?

Oh Lord, Josh. I hated it. I hated being pregnant. That was a nightmare. It's rubbish, I think. Talking as someone who's observed it. You can't eat camembert. I didn't know that.

What's that a problem for you? Yeah, I love camembert. I have camembert with chips. Did you still eat it then? Yeah Because I thought What's supposed to

We don't know Camember and chips You dunk the chips in The Camembert Yeah I can see that That's nice It's really nice But what happens

If you have Camembert with a baby I don't know But everyone was like Don't eat camembert And I was like Well I've had three This week

But then did you stop Once you found out Yeah And then I started Having cured Me And they can't have I have

Just tell me What can I have? Oh yeah, you shouldn't have soft cheeses. I'll risk of Listeria bacteria. What's that? You work in the NHS. I do admin. I don't save them, you know what I?

I'm not doing that. I think it's not like it has a long lasting thing. I think you could get Listeria, which then will be bad for you and the baby. I think you've over it now. You've survived it. I have Camembert constantly now.

I'm fine, yeah. I mean, it is on the NHS website to avoid it. How many camemberes are you knocking out in a week? I mean, to be fair, I haven't had only for a bit, but I do, at least once a month. For a camembert, yeah, camemberg chips, breads, carbs, lots of carbs and cheese. Yeah, you can get Listeriosis. Josh his face!

Josh his face! What's the light carbs? But if you get a chip and wrap some meat around it and then dump that in the cheese. You have pretend meat, don't you? Get pretend meat, wrap it round. Lindsay, you're my sister. Well, they're from the same breed. I'll eat anything if he's got bacon wrapped around it. Oh, haven't they?

Knobbs. Knobbs. I don't really eat a knob. I think a bit of a jump. It's like the limit, the knob. Yeah, especially you go like, I could have just put it around a normal sausage, but I've chosen a man's dick.

It seems a bit excessive. Would you prefer the knob with the bacon around or not the bacon around, Rob? Me, if I had to deal with a knob. What am I doing with a knob? If I'm sucking it off, wrap it in bacon. If it's going up my ass, leave it. Any more questions? Anyway, the berf.

Yeah, sorry, the berth. That was a... They thought I had preeclampsia and I'd just watched an episode of Downton Abbey where the woman dies on it. Oh. Preeclampsia. So I was like, I'm going to die.

And then it turned out, I didn't have preeclampsia, but they'd already started inducing me like with that weird thing they stick up. Basically, I'd run up some stairs and given myself high blood pressure before I'd got checked in. I didn't say that before I sat down.

So then they were like, oh, your blood pressure's really high. We need to get you to triage. Was a camera bear burning? Run down the stairs again. and I was in hospital for 10 days Well they were like We can't send you home

Because you might go into spontaneous labour And we can't induce you Because you're not There's no risk What I used to do right I used to have my lunch And then I'd get the train home Go home for two hours and come back

No one noticed I was gone Nobody noticed It's this hospital or prison There were any of it David Lammy Another one's gone There was a midwife and she was Scottish and had no eyebrows.

And she used to come around every night. And I loved her. And I hope she's retired now, because she was saying she's going to retire. But if she hears this, you were the only thing keeping me saying, you telling me I wasn't going to die of preclampsia. So you were in hospital for 22 hours a day?

Yeah. And what did you do in your two hours at home? I just watched the telly, really. And then I had a McDonald's some days because you can't get McDonald's. Well, you can get my dolls in hospital, but people do look at you. So did you know you didn't have preeclampsia then,

or did you think you still had it for those 10 days? No, I literally after about a day of being in there, they went, we don't think you've got preeclampsia, but because... But just in case. And I said, do you think it's because I ran up two floors to stairs? And they were like, oh, did you mention that? And I was like, no.

They were like... So they thought you just had massively high blood pressure for no reason, so they put you in the hospital, but you just run up the stairs too fast and gave yourself high blood pressure. which led to a 10-day stay in hospital? Yeah, well, I said to my midwife, what do I do? And she was like, just take yourself to triage.

And then they checked it. And they were like, eh, just, eh. So I was in there for 10 days. I think on the ninth day, I said to one of the nurses, can I go home? And if I can't go home, I will throw myself out the window. Did you actually say that? Yes.

But I was on the first floor, so I wouldn't have gone anywhere. Probably safe than running down the stairs. And then like, within the hour, they were like, we've going to break your waters. Oh, that was a nightmare. Because she'd done that thing where they poo in you. They poo in you? What?

Have you not heard this? Oh, the baby. They break the water sometimes and it's free. You're in the nurse. No, the nurse don't poo. Oh, well. Lynn, I wouldn't mind if you did. You were so good.

I'd let you. We had that where the baby does the poo and it's cool. I can't remember what it's called. Yeah, but that's what happened with my daughter. So it's a bit of a risk. Like the pediatric doctor comes in to check the baby in case they've swallowed any of it and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, so it's a bit stressful at the birth, isn't it? Because they have to take the baby away from you to check it all first. Oh, she hadn't come out yet. They broke the water poo everywhere. I was like, oh, Lord. So then they started the dripping juice in. Dripping juices. And then I took too much.

I don't know. Can you? I listened to all this positive birth stuff. And he's just like, one a load of shit. Anyway, then what happened? I did the pipe, the cast in there. Right, yeah. Josh is so disturbed.

I'm just excited about where this is going to end. How long was the birth? Yeah, how long did the birth go on for? They burst the waters, a load of shit came out, then they put a thing in your arm. So that all started at about midnight. Then I started having contractions. Then I was on the gas and air.

Then I took so much gas and air that I stopped breathing. Because they just gave me free round of the pipe. And I used to smoke. So I was like, this is great because I haven't, like, had a cigarette. Took so much that when I came around there about nine people and all the alarms going off. My husband's crying because he thinks I'm dead.

I've just been unconscious having a lovely dream. That was stressful. Not for you. No, I was off my nut. What's the, um, the epidural, didn't epigural? That was one of them. Was I interviewing a DJ about the 90s? It was bad.

Anyway, long story sure. up with an emergency C-section because I did it again with a Gassanair and they thought there was something wrong with me but it was just me playing the stuff. You gave birth in the Groucho we'd take that nearby. It was just because you were half-based.

So you was completely out your head on gas and air. You don't really know what happened. Yeah, and they wheeled me off for an emergency C-section. Oh God, so it didn't even go? Oh, right. Jesus. No, all that, what a waste of money

and I kept saying before I even started, can I not have a C-section? They went, you medically don't need when I said, I'll find a way. It's making it happen. Oh, Jesus. So, hours after that, that must have been quite a traumatic event then, when the baby came and you've got the baby at home,

having to recover from all of that, the C-section, and then have this new baby in your arms. I wasn't really prepared for how much you can't move your stomach because your muscles are essentially in half, aren't that? So you can't. So I had to tie a dressing gown rope to the bottom of the bed frame and, like, pull myself up like Indiana Jones every time I wanted to get out.

worst was when I was trying a breastfeeder and I was like, I thought it looked really beautiful I was like, saying to David was like, take a photo and he was like, you don't want a photo. I'll have to find it and send it. Obviously crop out my tip but I look at absolute. In my head I was like this beautiful goddess breastfeeding my daughter just give her mirth.

But I look like a bin, man. I look actually. Did you have, and tell me if this is too far, we've discussed this with Ellie Taylor, because my wife had an emergency C-section, and then all the stuff they put you on, it basically gives you the worst constipation in history. Yeah, but they also gave me coding as well. So when I stopped taking the coding, it was like the cork went. I remember sitting on a, I must have been on a solid hour, just like a fountain.

Oh, just coming out of you? Yeah, like it just released. It was wonderful. It was beautiful. Got Dave to take a photo. A friend of mine, he had last year, like a brain tumor thing. He's fully recovered now. He's all good.

But they had to keep a lot watching me. He went in a couple of times because it's all like the pressure in your head and stuff like that. Anyway, he was on the toilet in the middle of the night and just like fainted and fell off the thing. And like his wife rung the ambulance. It was really scared. The paramet came.

And they thought, oh, my God, the operation's not worked on the tumour. He got him to the hospital, running the test. And he just was constipated and tried so hard to. I was holletly blacked a hat. But they thought it was it. I called an ambulance once because I thought I was having a heart attack but I was just, I'd never had indigestion before.

How? You're dipping chips in Camember? You're a super spread of indigestion. I never had indigestion. And they came and put like the ECG stuff on me. I was lying in bed and they were like, they were like, have you had some gaberskin? I was like, well?

But waste. You might want some Gavisod, actually. That might help. Yeah, and obviously because if I was having a heart attack, they came within about 10 minutes. It's like, have something dry. Oh, dear. Were they annoyed?

No, because, like, my friends are paramedic, and they're like, we have, it's better to go to something. Your friends are paramedic, you work at the NHS, but you rang an ambulance for indigestion. Yeah, well, it's scary when you've not had indigestion. You know this, like, osmosis of where you are,

you just subconscious soaking information? I don't think that how works for you, isn't it? I don't really know how I'm alive. I'll be honest with you. There's a lot of things. Like that birth is quite traumatic, but for me I was like, well, this is just life, in it,

and what happens, happens? Now are your daughters at school? Are you got a load more time to yourself and is it giving you a bit of a second win? Because you're at the right, exciting sort of opportunities part of your career now, where you've gone full time. You've got dead behind the eyes, like me and Rob.

Well, you've got that momentum now. you've quit your job. You've been on live at the Apollo. You've got a brilliant agent. You've got a brilliant team backing you. And you're sort of like, it's sort of full steam ahead now. Like, is it her going to school come at the right time,

do you think, for you to push on with your career and stuff? I'm just napping a lot now. Really enjoying napping. What's the plan for Lindsay, the comedian, Lindsay the mum going forward? What's the plan of action? Well, I've just had my guttering done. So the next step is to get the roof done.

And then that will see. see what happens after that. Just needs a bit of money. I don't get booked for corporates because I'm too rude. You will. You just tweak it. And then once you do enough, you can slip in a few swel.

I always found it odd because I've done some of Josh's tour support and they booked me. I don't think anyone else was free. And they were like, do you want to do Josh? That's not true. You do the Midlands ones. It's too tight to pay for a hotel and a travel. That's why.

Correct. Correct. Oh, I like doing Josh's because he's such a lovely boy. He is. He is. Is it a lovely boy? Have you got any questions about what it's like to support me, Rob? Yeah, ask me, I'll tell you.

How does just treat you on a rival? Do you have your own dressing room? Does you have any rules for you about the tour support? What's he like as a boss? Don't look him in the eye. It gets very upset. Well, you'll get neckache as well, I imagine looking down there. That's it, really.

Cup of tea. We have a cup of tea. Slag off some comedians. Slag off comedians, yeah. Do the show. I'll go, I'm not going to watch you. I'm going to know. That's it?

That's it. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Have you not watched your show at all then, Lindsay? No, I have. I did when it was in Birmingham because I've thought, I can't really go. Can't get out of it. We've got to watch it once, at least.

I think it's mental. If a tour sport never watches your show at all, it's like a bit of a slap in the face, isn't it? No, it's not. I find it too stressful if someone's in there. It's a good. It's a good show. How would you split it with your husband then, the childcare and stuff like that?

Are you traditional? Who's the default parent? Oh, him. He is. he's like 80%. I'm not allowed to do bedtime anymore. Are you not?

No, I wind her up too much. Winder up in a fun way, all right. Yeah, we're playing like who can do the loudest farts and stuff like that. Of course the fun way. She's not like saying to a daughter, your air shit. Why do you think about that all night?

Have you met her? Let's not roll it out, Rock. She was eating flea cam and bears a week during pregnancy before she realized. Next to a shellfish platter. Top top of a bit of carver. Is your husband fun? Or is he more sensible?

But he can turn it on and off where you're just on, aren't you? He's very calming and sensible. And like, so when, like, he's, like, if he's reading a book at bedtime, he will just read the book and slow his voice and she'll slowly where I'm not going. And then the pool flew out the window. Oh, I can't be. Like all of that type of stuff. Stop doing the rest of Joshy's show as well.

I'm worried that in the other bit. So he's more flexible, so if you're all right working, because that's the thing you're quite unpredictable. Don't worry, she's always coming back from the theatre at 8pm once she's been on, Rob. She's not about late. Straight back in, watch the wrestling, go to bed. Oh, yeah, you love the wrestling, don't you? Do you?

It's all on Netflix now, isn't it? Well, that's it. I've only just started, but I like it, because nothing really happens, and it's like you can have it on in the background, and it's just men shouting at each other, and the women kicking each other in the tit, and I just think this is wonderful. It's not a night out in Burr.

Birmingham. Exactly. Yeah, my husband does all the child care. My mum as well is very great. She's me. So not really useful, but happy to be there. As a parent, then, what do you think your best strength is? Obviously, what's the thing that you go, oh, do, you know, you and your husband will go, yeah, you do that.

You'll be the best at that. Sorry, if this is quite an uncomfortable question for you, it was meant in the spirit of trying to pump you up. But actually, I think this might be confirming what everyone's thinking. Yeah, exactly. I'm good at brushing teeth. I make brushing teeth on that of fun. Are you too fun? Is that the problem?

No, I just really, um, cheat. How do you make a teeth brushing fun? What's your technique? Because I can't get my kids to do it. I pretend I'm a policeman and I'm going to catch a teeth and things like that. And just sometimes I hold her upside down and brush her teeth. Because that's her that.

Things like that, you know, silly-billy things. And then that winds are up a bit before bed, does it? Yeah. And then she's all like, and then before we go to bed, we always have to do a catwalk up and down the landing to write said, Fred, I'm too sexy. So we do that for the whole song. And then David takes over.

Absolutely, living. Are you the favourite and it really annoys him? No, I think he's the favourite because he's a constant pace of calm, whereas I sometimes come in and I'm like, let's make a castle out of these shoes I've found in the garage. Let's have a look at the dishwasher. What's in here. Look at this, up to a knife.

What a laugh. Do you know what I mean? It's quite chaotic. But fun, there'll be a point where she loves it now, but they might, as you get older, but like, Mom, I don't want to do that. I want, you know. Yeah.

How are you going to relate to a teenager? I don't know. I was a horrible teenager, so I imagine she's going to be vile. So, so let's her look forward to. Why were you a horrible teenager? Oh, I was just fat and angry. Sorry. Hormonal.

I didn't know what to do with myself. And I used to go up. I wasn't naughty. I didn't do anything exciting, like drugs or not bit. But I was just like... Fed up. Just a pain in the ass. I didn't get a job.

I wouldn't do anything. You used to just sit on the computer all day, playing on Habo Hotel or whatever the hell it was. I was on. And just to be in a knob. That's not too bad, really. I could have been on crack, do you know what? But you hadn't found your thing, had you?

It's obvious that stand-up comedy is your thing. Well, what else can I do? Well, I could work in admin. Yeah, but you probably did that badly, let's face fact. Headed. You might have had fun, but I doubt you're good at it. Your heartwining it, will you? I weren't very organised, which was terrible really.

What interviewed you for an admin job? I go, I love her. Would I employ her? Absolutely fucking good luck to her. Do you'll find something and it ain't this? I could be normal for about 30 minutes and that is being intelligent. Are you ready?

Do you know. So say you're interviewing you for like a job. Like we need a new admin assistant for parenting hell to deal with all the emails and stuff like that. Pretend you're looking for that job. Yeah, see, I'm nodding like I understand. Okay, cool. Thanks for applying, Lindsay. What made you apply for the job as the admin assistant for the parenting hell podcast?

Well, I've got about 13 years experience. I've worked across a variation of sectors. I've worked within higher management and lower management. Bullshit, bullshit, all of that. But you see what I mean? It sounds all right. They must be so furious when you turn up on the first day. Yeah, that was brilliant.

That was a serial killer. You snapped into that immediately. Lindsay, what did you say your career highlights being in admin at the NHS? I really liked it when I made a spreadsheet that just said everyone's annual leave. And then I thought, well, nobody, well, they used to do it on paper when I started you see. And I thought, how can I make this easier for me? Because that's what it is at the end of the day. I don't really deal with everyone's paper.

And I came up with this thing that works with like a system we've got where we just booked people could book their annual leave. online. I can feel your energy leaving your body. It saved me about three weeks of work. That's great. You brought spreadsheets to the NHS? No, they had spreadsheets.

They just didn't want to use them. Listen, this is boring, isn't it? Yeah, I can feel like your body language you gave up on the roleplay halfway through, but that's absolutely fine. I'm used to that. I think comedy's definitely your thing. Do you what I mean?

Yeah. I don't think that adble would have been. I would be a kid's entertainer. I've been to a lot of kids parties recently. I think I could do that. Do you? Oh God, I don't think I could do that. It's a hard graph that.

Yeah, I could dress up as Elsa. Imagine me as hell. Would you enjoy that? Wouldn't you hate that? No, but you've only with them for a short amount. You've got dyed pink hair. You'd be a shit, Elsa. Have you heard of wigs, Rob?

Get with it. Come on. Would you enjoy being a teacher? No. Because my brother and sisters. are they teachers. Are they? I think.

Is that what they did? I think. I think like you. My sister is very, I say, normal presenting. Right. Normal presenting. Yeah.

And my brother is bad. But he's also, he's like me, but he's a teacher, but he's a good teacher. He can be serious for longer than 30 minutes. He can do an hour

for each lesson. He wouldn't turn around and tell the kids to go fuck themselves. As they leave the room, he walked to a cupboard, scream into it and then bring in the next class. Yeah.

Are you touring any time soon? Are you gigging around? No, thanks for having me. But I've got nothing to promote. What's your career highlights? I don't know. What are you doing? Nothing.

Well, the career highlights is more the admin job interview. Are you going back to Edinburgh or anything? Or what's the plan? You seem very chill to relax. You're not sort of like super career career or are you? Is this underneath you are? Because you've got to go up to Edinburgh and gig every month and do all the new competitions and, you know, work really hard.

You must. Well, no, I have to say a lot of it is my agent, Andy. You know, Andy, Josh, he's a lovely boy. He's very clever, you know, because he gets me, this sounds mental, but he'll suggest things to me. And then I think it's my idea. And then I got halfway through Edinburgh and went, I didn't fucking agree to do this.

He's so good. He's so good. He's a great boy. I can't fault him at all. Wonderful. But he knows what I want to do before I want to do it, which is very clever, I think. What do you think Andy would say your plan is then? Well, I think I'm going to Weddora and I'm going on tour.

Yeah. I think I'm writing a sitcom, apparently. Oh, no. So now you're full-time comedian though, right? So what's your normal schedule? Are you doing the school drop-off, the pickup? Are you going to an office? You're writing from home?

You're doing nothing watching wrestling. She's not going off. I'm in here with blueie and look at this piece of shit. That's a big teddy. What I'm going to show is that fucking teddy man? David's got a childless friend. So he buys stupid toys. And that's bigger than my own.

And I'm waiting for the right raffle to come along to donate it to like that. They don't want teddies normally. Well, yeah, I know. No. Yeah, but my day is, Monday's normally I try and have as a day off. So that would be like I'll just play some. because my husband will all going to work and I'll just play some computer games

and watch tell you and just that's my day off. And then Tuesday I normally, I'm trying to do a podcast with my friend Harriet Dyer but we're so... She's really enthusiastic and I'm like, oh, yes, that's Tuesday. You don't do a podcast on a Tuesday. Wednesday, go swimming.

My mom comes and takes mine. We take a swimming. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, gig in Sunday. It's Jesus's birthday or so many. Can't do anything. I don't know. What I don't like is there's no structure to comedy, is it? You never know where you're going or...

You need a spreadsheet, that's what you need. Yeah, but I'm not getting paid, so I'm not going to do it. And also, there's so much travelling Thursday, Friday, Saturday normally when you're travelling around gigging. Oh, God, your December looks tough, Lindsay. Buy what's wrong with it? Are you in her diary? What do you know that I don't know? I'm just on your website.

She doesn't know she's got a website. Oh, no. I don't update that, my website. Funzos. He does everything. I'm glad you say that because above the gigs, it says, I have to manually update this. And it's a pain in the ass, so it might not be up to date. Yeah. But you've got Google, haven't you, have a Google?

It's quite an aggressive. Well, you've been on, you've been on. You've been on. Stuff you've been on is on here. What was a celebrity mastermind? Yeah. And then I did as well as you think I did. What was your subject?

Give me, give me, give me the TV series. I wanted to do Toby Carveries. I wanted to do Toby Carveries. I wanted to do Toby. They said no. Why can't you do that? It's not really any information about Toby Carveries. It's no history.

But then people were tweeting, they calling me a thick bitch. I'm tagging in the children's hospice. I was tracking it. I thought, stab it. You posted about being on it, tagged in the children's hospital. And they replied to that, including the children's hospital, saying, you're a thick. What it was, the question was, there's a land bummer, blah, blah, blah, fastest blah blah blah

He said, I go ahead and see I'll have to stop you there The blah blah blah is quite an important part of the question No it's not It's not

Because he was asking me about land mammals Cloy and he was saying like No no Land mammals and then he said He's a cheetah

And I went Well what are you telling me It's not a question And then he said What's the last letter Of the word cheetah And I said Ah

Cheetah That close The shitstorm on Twitter But the question Was what's last letter in the word cheetah. Yeah. That was the question and you said, ah.

It's funny. But are you playing for laughs or for money? And I said this to them. Please don't give you no spelling. We're in trouble. Unless they did it, I thought, it's not his fault. I've got your episode here. I've got your episode here.

Don't watch it. I'll kill myself. I think people are angry because they thought you were trying to be funny because you're a comedian, but you actually panicked and went, ah. Yeah, but then because of that, I started to slump in the chair because I was physically trying to move myself away from Clive.

And people were saying I was being disrespectful because I wasn't sitting up straight, but I was physically dying. I can really, really sympathise because when you're starting out in the comedy, you get off a loads of opportunities and you have to say yes to everything until you're in a hierarchical position.

Particularly, she doesn't say yes. Andy says yes and then tells her, she said yes. And then obviously you can get to a point where you can start to say no to stuff because you don't need it for your profile as much and then you can pick things that are more suited to you. I, for very obvious reasons, have served celebrity mastermind like the plague because I'm just sexy too and it's stressful. So I totally understand that you're now in that chair, new to the world of TV, panicking and everyone's got the up with you. And it's horrible. And I feel for you.

It was the worst was bloody Chris Akabusi. The seven and ten's there His specialist subject was nature Who? Nature? Nature. The philosopher? Yeah.

Got 100% right, right? Then they come to me and they were like, what's Linda's brass eyes? I'm like, oh, seven. And I fucked them up as well. Seven? Listen, the whole thing was absolute. I didn't lose.

You didn't lose? Oh my God, who else was on there? Mike Bubbins. Yeah. And Nikita Kanda, who's a radio presenter. Yeah, but we both. kind of panicked each other out, me and Nikita. It was very much an acabousy bubbing's head to head, was it?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what did Nikita do hers on? Whitney Houston. But one of the questions, I knew the answer to, it's so weird, because when you're in the seat, your brain turns to absolute shit. When that light goes on you and it all goes dark, because we used to do that on smart TV.

Nikita's only got, she only got three on her specialist subject. Yes. When that person called you the thick C word, you should have just tagged in Nikita, just to get the heat off you. What did I get? What did you get on your specialist subject? Five.

That's not bad. And what about on general knowledge? Nikita got up to seven overall. Lindsay. Josh isn't reading this. He memorises all the results of the whole series. Lindsay, I'm just skipping through on the eye player. Why do you do a heart symbol like a footballer like Gareth Bale,

halfway through your interview with Clive? I don't do that, so I would probably be excited. explaining something like testicles or something, I don't know, wouldn't be. Have you kept in touch with Clive since? Do you know what? He's so sweet to me afterwards. He came up and it's like, did you have fun?

Like a childhood party. And I was like, no, I didn't. You got nine. You got nine. It's good. I hated it, Clive. I hated it. Can I just play this?

Is this a cheetah one? No, please. Please, can we play the cheetah one? That was your only pass. So you've got nine points. Well done. Do the cheater question? Well, I can't find the cheater question because I can't see the...

Put the subtitles on. Someone's changed your tune. They're bang up for it now. When it sells me my answers, I went, I just get up and walk back and go, thanks for having me. I've had a lovely time. Lai. Well, the music's blasting out. I've loved it, liar.

I just feel so bad because it's genuinely like a piece of like British. You don't respect hierarchy. It's questions in a chair. You tried your best. Well, let's just have a listen. General knowledge. Here we go. The word brecky is a slant of.

No. morning week. Breakfast. Yes, in terms of... That knowledge is general. Well done. With passenger numbers. Which London airport is the second business in the UK after he's thrown?

Um, it stands to live there. Oh, Gatlin. It's a stancholm. In your defence, London airports is a bit of a lottery in it. I don't know. I don't do fly in. In fact, 2003, Abby Cook became a presenter of what long-running BBC children's television show? Blue Peter.

Blue Peter. Yes. Yes. The only prison. One of the largest in Scotland is in which city? Glasgow? Yes.

Oh, you're flying! You're absolutely flying! It's great! In 2024, which Labour politicians succeeded Jeremy Hunt to become the UK's first final Chancellor of the Ex-Jat. Oh, I can't remember in there.

Barbara Streisand. Richard Rachel Reeves of a standard dartboard, what low-scoring number is directly between the 20 and the 18? I know this now. Two. No, one, the 2024 animated film about competing emotions in the mind of a teenage girl

that features characters such as anxiety, joy. Inside Out. It's a sequel to what, 2015 film? Inside Out. Yes. Jean-Arsano Narrows Bridge in New York City. Connected to Borough of Brooklyn with which island? I don't know.

Staten. Manhattan? No, Staten Island. The disorder, no, there's somnambulism, sometimes called not tambulism. as what more common name? Insomnia? I beg him, not turn or? I don't know.

Street walking is telling I beg you. The word cheetah for a species of big cat. Cheater? I can't. Let's say aye. Aye.

No, H. Oh my God. I tell you off. Please, we can't say. Oh, Lindsay. It's so panic-inducing. The slide down is something else. Yes, I really slump.

And I'm sorry. And I wasn't being disrespectful. No, you don't need to... I had viscous leggings on and was uncomfortable in the situation. I was trying to remove myself. I think, because obviously, you know how to spell cheetah. You've panicked and you slum. No, I don't know how to spell cheetah even now.

Cheetah. How do you spell it? Cheetah. It's still not my favourite panic on the eyebrow. I don't know if it's still there. When Josh did this week... No, no, no, no. You don't want to talk about it?

We spoke about it before. I do. Let me have a Google. It's the worst. No, no, no. It's not an iPlayer. it's on YouTube. Oh, is it on YouTube?

He's on this week with Andrew Marr, Michael Portillo, and Diane Abbott? Andrew Neal. So it's Andrew Neal. So it's Andrew Neal, host it, and it's Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott.

Is it Dan Abbott? I'm fucking out. Yeah, she was so rude to me before and after. Beforehand, can I just say? What am I looking for? Yeah, this week, Josh Whitakum. Yeah, it's six minutes long.

Can't be bothered with that. But there's a point where Josh goes, there was only six people in his class or something. And he goes, well, I didn't go to private. school like you guys and then all of them go neither did we. Oh God. And then Jeff goes, oh, like,

and then he vomits in his own mouth. I, Rob, I've sent you the clip of Lindsay Slump. Oh, let me see Lindy Slump. This is what we like to do. We get guests on and then bring up harrowy moments and then send each other videos of physical evidence. It's the kind of guys here. Here she goes further

into the chair. She's sliding away. But I totally get it. Oh my God. You start laying down. Yeah, well, but I think my head was on the seat. What the fuck is Chris Akabusi wearing? Well, whatever makes him comfortable, I think.

I love Nietzsche T-shirt. I love Nietzsche. Well, Mike Bubbins wins if you want to know the result. Chris Akabusi loses it on the general knowledge. Mike Bubbins consistent all the way through. Sat up straight, had some respect for the chair. Yeah, he was very supportive of me during that difficult time. Unlike your spine.

Unlike my spine. Are you excited for Christmas? Obviously, a four-year-old. Are you doing the elf? Are you got any other sort of Christmas traditions? I told her that the elf, my daughter, that the elf only goes to kids that are really naughty. So now she's gone to school and told her everyone.

Oh, wow. That means you're naughty. I feel like the elf would be perfect fodder for you, being silly and creating fun little sick. Let's face it, you don't fuck all all week. It's totally, you know. Excuse me. I've got to put two washes on after this.

I've got things to do. I have. And I've got to go by a bunk bed. I might not do that. I seem to be like a mess, the elf. The elf. Did you do the elf? We do the elf, Lindsay.

It's hard work. Because our children are naughty. How do you keep coming up with things? It's just sort of love for my child, really. When you can create such magic for free, essentially. You just have a little elf, and then each day you can just sprinkle a bit of magic in your home. You know, I just sort of,

of just love my kids and like to express it that way. That's it, but each of their own. I think the most important thing you can give your children is your time. So that's why I don't do anything. Because I'd rather spend time with my child. Absolutely. Where's the fucking elf gone? Up your ass.

What about Christmas? Are you in charge of Christmas? Are you just your partner doing that? What's going on? Are you... Go to my mum's and then go to David's parents. in the afternoon. Oh, so you don't have to do any hosting or sorting out or cooking and stuff.

No, I can't do that. I can't do it. You're right, Lindsay? I don't know what's happening here, but you've, I'm not normally this, and something about you, Rob. We've watched Mastermind, Lindsay. Come on, mate. Can I fuck you up?

What's going on? No, it's not torture, isn't it? Like, you're picking up. In my defence, Lindsay, all I said was what you do for Christmas and you've had a complete existential, you've slumped. You've clive my reading it. You've got to be able to hold up. to these kind of relaxed questions.

For Christmas, I am yes, going out. I'll say it of a straight back proudly. Yes, Christmas. I love it. Lindsay, the last question is always the same and I'm worried for you. Because if you can't handle what you're doing for Christmas. How do you spell lying, is it?

Let it or not. Let it or not. La-on. The question is, what one thing does your husband do that makes you just so happy that you're with him and that he's the father of your child? And what one thing does he do that annoys you, but you haven't brought it up?

But if he was to listen to this. Every morning he makes me a cup of coffee and it's just so lovely. Just something simple like that. Also, he lets me squeeze his spots. That's nice. I tell him everything if he annoys me, he knows. Yeah, I.

I can imagine that. The current one is he clicks when he's asleep. Oh, that is annoying, isn't it? What can he do about that, though? Oh, stop breathing. Go in the other room. Is that why you getting bulk beds? Oh, a clicker, you top bunk.

I'm down here. I'm not doing that ladder. I'll get our blood pressure again. Stand down here. It's just like, it's not consistent. If it was a consistent noise on every breathe. So you never know how. You never know when it's coming again.

If it was regular, you know it's coming. But when it's like, oh, they've stopped down. Oh, Nerves me. Lindsay, thank you so much to doing this. I'm so excited for you and what's coming for you because you're so funny. More excited than you are? Yeah, most people are. Most people are listening to this that were desperate to be as funny as you are.

You're just floating along and do you know what? I respect it. Listen, as my nan said, and as I said, if I tried, I'd be very good. imagine the possibilities. But Andy's got it under control. Andy is a brilliant man. He's a great agent. You'll look after you. But if you're going up to Edinburgh,

definitely go and see Lindsay and on her tour. If I'm there, might not. My household name in a couple of years. And you'll have gotten and seen her early and you can brag. But yeah, Lindsay, you're absolutely brilliant. Keep going. He's laughing at that. I feel like I'm dying and you're doing like a funeral for me.

Like, please help this moment. No, I'm excited. I love seeing new comedians that are brilliant. and I get really excited when I see them slightly early just before they fully break through to doing big tours and that's what you're going to end up doing so it's exciting. I don't know what's happened in the last hour

but I feel broken. I don't know what you've done. I'm glad you've enjoyed your time. I think me and Kai of Mari might need to meet up for some sort of counselling of like if you've been Lindsay Santoroed. I don't feel like you can keep blaming the people that are setting the questions, Lindsay.

I think at some point... Lindsay, all that's happened is you've come under parenting podcast. I've asked you a question about what you do for Christmas with your kid and then said, I'm really excited for your future career because I think you're brilliant and that has stressed you out. I can't take compliments and that's what I'm trying to do at a minute. I think you're shit.

Oh, thank you. I feel bad now. You're shit and please never come on again. Thanks, Lindsay. Fuck off. Cheers, Cindy. That's brilliant. Lindsay Santoro.

Oh, look at us. We just did it at the same time. We're so in sync. Or if it was in sync, we would have read each other and left it. Yeah, we're like two footballers going for the same ball, Gerard and Lampard. Lindsay Santoro, she's so funny, isn't she? She's just got funny bones. She's hilarious.

What a one-off she is. She's amazing. Follow her on Instagram. Follow her on Instagram and then she's got loads of good clips on there and then buy a ticket to go and see her. You won't be disappointed. Especially I think she's the perfect demographic as well for our audience as well. Oh my God, yeah.

She's crackers. So, yeah, brilliant. Well done, Lindsay. Thanks for coming on. Josh. I'll see you next time. Bye guys. See you next time.

Bye. Yes, it's Josh Whitickham here. I have got a new podcast, Josh Whitickam's Museum of Pop Culture, and I'm going to say it. I'm about 85% sure you're going to love it. Here are the reasons why. Number one, I'm confident if you're listening now,

you don't hate me, and possibly think I'm funny. Number two, I'm confident if you're listening now, you like podcasts. Number three, I'm confident if you're listening to me and Rob, you prefer pop culture to people talking about things, let's be honest, boring things like history, economics, or politics. I know I do, and that is why I made this podcast. I wanted a show that tells the stories I love from popular culture in the way other podcasts do for drier topics. See above. Basically,

I wanted a podcast that realized Millie Vanilli were more interesting than Elizabeth I first. Join me as I give the definitive, or at least the funniest, takes on Mr. Blobby. When Ghost Watch convinced BBC viewers, ghosts were real, when a band burned a million pounds for a laugh. The Spice Girls, a truly catastrophic Spider-Man musical with music from from you too and David Haslehoff, Baywatch, and his part in the fall of the Berlin Wall. All of them are real, by the way. Either you know what these things are and you're about to learn far more about them than you ever realised you wanted to, or you don't,

and you're about to be introduced to some of the maddest things in modern or ancient history. Stiffnecks will learn, loose next will laugh. New episodes available every Wednesday and Saturday. Perfect to fill those gaps between your weekly doses of parenting hell. So go on, you might as well listen, subscribe and follow wherever you get your podcast, Now. Museum of Pop Culture with me, Josh Whitacom, available everywhere from the 1st of January.