Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Parenting Hell - S11 EP35: Lindsey Santoro
Episode Date: December 12, 2025Joining us this episode to discuss the highs and lows of parenting (and life) is the brilliant comedian - Lindsey Santoro. Parenting Hell is a Spotify Podcast, available everywhere every Tuesday a...nd Friday. Please subscribe and leave a rating and review you filthy street dogs... xx If you want to get in touch with the show with any correspondence, kids intro audio clips, small business shout outs, and more.... here's how: EMAIL: Hello@lockdownparenting.co.uk Follow us on instagram: @parentinghell A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hello, I'm Rob Beckett.
And I'm Josh Widdickham.
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 wo.
Because let's be honest,
There are plenty of times where none of us know what we're doing.
Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with...
Sydney, can you say Rob?
Rob.
Beckett.
Your bucket.
And can you say Josh Whittigham?
No, good.
Very good.
You're so clever.
Sydney.
Sydney, with a wire and I.
Spelt like the...
Alice here, Sydney's auntie.
This is my little sis, Kate, asking a two-year-old Sid to say your names were in Bristol.
Your neck of their words.
Oh, actually, Clifton.
I'm a Clifton boy.
You're a 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-haver, 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.
with 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 on. 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, mate. You want to shift some fucking books.
Yeah. Let's talk kids. I'll saw LA. There's no point doing that now, is it? Won't be
to get them 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 wrapped off.
Oh yes.
Yeah, we've got loads of messages for people that listen
and in the Spotify rap and top 1% of thousands of hours been listened to.
So thank you very much.
I thought our message needs to say.
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. Yeah, no, no.
It wasn't a personal message. The group text. The group message.
The group message from Sabrina Carpenter for 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 probably went for it in her message, Rob,
and I felt like we'd really phoned 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.
But we have to hold ourselves to this because we still haven't done tops off, have we?
Michael, write that down.
We are definitely, we are throwing 500 pounds in budget next year's Spotify message.
So we apologize if it wasn't enough.
Yeah.
But we can't do comedians.
We can't do.
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 over 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%.
Michael's dressed as 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.
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 of 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.
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.
Yeah.
That for me feels like over the years they've realized it can't take the weight of modern vehicles.
And that worries me.
Because Isambar Kingdom Brunel wasn't thinking about a Renault-A spas.
What is his name?
Isambard, Kingdom, Brunel.
Is that his name?
I don't know.
Isambard.
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?
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.
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 the Kingdom Brunel is at double-barreled.
Yeah, I suppose.
And his first name is in Bard.
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.
Let's see him. When did he...
He's dead.
Did he have any kids?
Yeah, he had three, including one who's got a Wikipedia.
Yeah. What's their names?
Henry Mark Brunel.
Yeah, you can tell his unbiad had the amp with his name.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Henry, come on, guys.
He built Tower Bridge's son.
He built Tower Bridge's son.
What?
No, his son built Tower Bridge.
Oh, fucking nepotism.
That's ruining that bridge.
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 fucking rocks up at the Thames and starts presenting Capitol.
Building bridges.
Who have we got on today?
Roman Camp 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's 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.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
Dorman Long & Co. A Middlesbrough based company.
Oh, that's got smart for the jollies, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, my God. Couldn't get any on yourself. You had to 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 watched Lindsay stand up and she's got it Josh she's just funny
bones just Lindsay's done some support for me on tour Rob do you know what she's got a deep
lack of respect for people are more experienced than her oh as she should be yes I have I don't
give a shit experience does not make you funny and Lindsay's got it Lindsay's got funny
she doesn't understand hierarchy Rob no I don't and my favourite was when I told you there was
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
and 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 much.
I'm not doing that again.
Not for me.
How old are they, boy or 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
primary 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
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
And 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
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 tennis
He's like
Oh right
That's why he's like really
Ditch tits
How long have you been doing stand-up
Then Lindsay
You've got a four-year-old
And a new full-time
fully professional now
Like, or do you see...
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, oh, 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, I'm 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? How long has 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 giving them 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 you see people do a show and they're like pretending to be like a boiled egg for an hour.
And they're like, oh, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, shot at your ass.
I think Rob you've met a kindred spirit
Oh absolutely
I feel like with the same person
It's really frustrated
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
doing your day job
and you had a one-year-old?
Yeah.
Fuck, yeah.
And was your partner up there as well?
Yeah, yeah, it took everybody.
I thought if I'm suffering this,
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 a management of universities?
He was a husband, and he does a lot of, oh, liais with Jeremy.
I'll get that sorted.
I'll send it over to you.
all up there and 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 doing the show because you got a break from the work?
Yeah, I like to because you 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 Donna had to come up and...
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, but...
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...
Did she pay Donna?
Don't know why.
Paying Donna.
She's 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 child care.
You don't pay Donna anymore for normal weeks?
No, because she's at school.
So you invited her up as a friend.
Yeah.
But then you made her look after your kid.
Yeah.
And did Donna push back?
No?
No.
I can't imagine you on school WhatsApp, Lindsay.
No, I'm not good.
I've had to add my husband, David,
because 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 a real.
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's, 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,
everyone has been very pleasant and delightful. So 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
we're not even at same time
Well, not even the same time within a year.
It's not really narrowing down while you'd get on.
Like, I really get on with them.
We have sex four years apart.
For 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, you know, 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, Rob Beckett and Josh Widdickham will do it.
I'll tell you now I'm not doing it, Lindsay.
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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 be you 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 cam and bear
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
And they said he can't have
I have
Just tell me what I can I have
Just tell me what I can 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 cammin bears are you knocking out in a week?
I mean, to be fair, I have a dad only for a bit, but I do.
At least once a month I have a Camembert, yeah?
Camemberg chips, breads, carbs, lots of carbs and cheese.
Yeah, you can get Listeriosis.
Hush 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 for the same breed.
I'll eat anything if it's got bacon wrapped around it.
Oh, I haven't they?
Knobbs.
Knobs?
I don't feel like to 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?
I don't know.
Anyway, the problem.
The birth, no.
You're sorry, the birth.
That was, they thought I had preeclampsia,
and I'd just watched an episode of Downton Abbey
where the woman dies on it, 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 ran 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.
A camera bear burning, run down the stairs.
And I was in hospital for 10 days.
Oh, dark, now.
Well, they were like, we can't send you home
because you might go into spontaneous labour,
and we can't induce you because 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 God.
Nobody noticed.
It's this hospital or prison?
There you were any.
David Lammy, another one.
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 if she's, 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 preeclampsia.
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 up McDonald's.
Well, you can't get McDonald's.
I was 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, hmm.
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, uh, just, uh-huh.
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 floors.
I wouldn't have gone anywhere.
Probably safe than running down the stairs.
And then like, within the next.
Yeah, well, they were like, oh, 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?
Have you not heard this?
Oh, the baby.
They break the water sometimes and it's free.
I thought you were 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.
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.
Dipping 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 gas and air.
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?
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.
Fuck, yeah.
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, added 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 horrible.
This is I interviewing a DJ about the 90s.
Anyway, long story, sure, I ended 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 up in the Groucho, we'd take that nearby.
It was just because you were half-in-based.
So you was completely out your head on Gassaner, 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 wasting money?
And I kept saying if I even started, can I not have a C-section?
They went, you medically don't need one.
I said, I'll find a way to make it happen.
Oh, Jesus.
How was it 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 it's a tire dressing game rope to the bottom of the bed frame
and pull myself up like Indiana Jones,
every time I wanted to get out.
Worst was when I was trying to breastfeed her
and I was like, I thought it looked really beautiful.
I was like, take a photo.
And he was like, you don't want a photo.
I'll have to find it and send it you.
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 solid hour.
just like a fountain.
Oh, just coming out of you?
Yeah, like it just released.
It was wonderful.
It's 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 was really scared.
The paramedics came and they thought, oh my God, the operation's not worked on the
tumor, and they got him to the hospital, run of the test, and he just was constipated
and tried so hard to go to toilet, he blacked out.
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 have had some digestion.
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 gavaskin?
And I was like, what?
My waist, what a way?
You might want some gaviscod, actually.
That might help.
Yeah, and obviously because they thought I was having a heart attack.
Like, 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.
medic, you work at the NHS, but you rung an ambulance for indigestion.
Yeah, well, it's scary when you've not had indigestion before.
You know there's a thing like osmosis of where you are, you're just subconsciously 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?
You've 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 a 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 nothing.
Well, what's the plan for this?
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 we'll 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 swear.
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 did 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. He's 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 Josh treat you on a rival? Do you have your own dressing room?
Does he have any rules for you about the tour support? What's he like as a boss?
Don't lock 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 now.
That's it.
That's it.
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 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 tallsport never watches the show at all,
it's like a bit of a slap in the face.
No, it's not.
I find it too stressful if someone's in there.
It's good. It's a good show.
How do you split it with your husband then, the childcare and stuff like that?
Who's doing the 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.
Wind her up in a fun way, all right?
Yeah, like we were playing like who can do the loudest farts and stuff like that.
Of course the fun way.
She's not like you're saying to a daughter, your air shit.
Why do you speak about that all night?
Have you met her?
Let's not rule it out, Rock.
She was eating flea cam and bears a week during pregnancy before she realised.
Next to a shellfish platter.
Top top of a bit of carver.
And a cigar.
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 like going and then the pool flew out the window
oh I can't be like all of that type of stuff and um
stop doing the rest of Josh's show as well I'm worried that on the other bit
so he's more flexible so if you're away 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, you love the wrestling, don't you?
Do you?
Yeah.
It's all on Netflix now, wouldn'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 Birmingham.
Exactly.
Yeah, my husband does all the child care.
My mom 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 might 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 her teeth and things like that.
And just sometimes I hold her upside down and brush your teeth.
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 cat walk up and down the landing to write said, Fred, I'm too sexy.
So we do a wrap of the whole song.
and then David takes over
Absolutely livid
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
like, Mom, I don't want to do that.
I want, you know.
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 see 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 a bit,
but I was just like,
It's just a pain in the ass and 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.
I've had fun, but I doubt you're good at it.
Your heartwiring in it, were you?
I weren't very organised, which was terrible really.
If I interviewed you for an admin job, I'd 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
you're interviewing, you know.
Are you ready?
I'll do it now.
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 going for that job.
Yeah, so 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 do 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 like a serial killer.
You snapped into that immediately.
Lindsay, what did you say your career highlights been 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 the 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
Oh right
Listen this is boring
Is that?
Yeah I could 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 ad would have been
I would be a kid's entertainer
I've been to a lot of kids parties
reasonably. I think I could do that. I'd say they're...
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. I 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 teachers.
Are they?
I think. Is that what they do?
you? My sister is very, I say, normal presenting. Right. Normal presenting. And my brother
is mad. 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. Yeah. Are you touring any time soon? Are you kicking around?
No, thanks for having me, but I've got nothing to promote.
What's your career highlights?
I don't know, what you're doing?
Nothing.
Well, the career highlights, I think, was 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 be, 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 age.
and 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.
And I was like, he's so good.
He's so good.
He's a great boy.
I can't fault him.
So, 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 gone off.
I'm in here with Flewie and look at this piece of shit
That's a big teddy
Oh my gosh, so 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
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 when we're 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
That's Tuesday
You don't do a podcast and a Tuesday
Wednesday
Swimming
Wednesday goes swimming
My mom comes and takes mine
We take a swimming
Thursday Friday
Saturday giggling Sunday
It's Jesus's birthday or something
I can't do anything.
I don't know what I don't like is there's no structure to comedy.
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 husband does everything.
Well, 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.
Oh, you've been on, you've been on,
the celebrity mastermind.
Stuff you've been on is on here.
What was you 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.
Why can't you do that?
It's not really any information about Toby Carveries.
It's no, like, it's not a, there's no history.
But then people were tweeting, they calling me a thick.
I'm tagging in the children's hospice.
I thought, stop 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 mammal, blah, blah, blah,
fastest blah, blah, blah.
He said, wait, okay, go, I have to stop you there.
The blah, blah, blah, blah is quite an important part of the question.
No, it's not.
It's not.
He was asking me about land mammals, Clark.
And he was saying, like, blah, 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.
But the question was, what's the 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 on that?
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.
People were 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 Clyde.
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 dyslexic 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-tenths, there.
His specialist subject was nature.
Who?
Nature.
Nature.
The philosopher?
Chris Akabusi.
Got 100% right, right.
Then they come to me, and they were like, what's Linda's bra size?
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 acaboozy 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 three your interview with Clive.
I don't do that.
So I would probably be explaining something like testicles or something.
I don't know.
I 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 was 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 cheater one?
No, please.
Please, can we play the cheater one?
That was your only boss.
So you've got nine points.
Well, do the cheater question.
Well, I can't find the cheater question
because I can't see the...
Put the subtitles out.
Someone's changed your tune.
They're bang up for it now.
When it sells me my answers,
they 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.
Wait, let's just have a list of it.
knowledge.
Here we go.
The word brecky
is a slant
for the morning
week.
Breakfast.
Yes.
That knowledge
is general.
Well done.
That knowledge is general.
Well done.
Passinger numbers.
Which London Airport
is the second
business in the UK
after he's thrown?
Um.
It stands to live there.
It's stanchard nipper.
In your defence,
London airports is a bit of a lottery in it.
I don't know.
I don't do fly in.
In 203,
Abby Cook.
became a presenter of what long-running
BBC children's television show.
Blue Peter.
Blue Peter?
Yes.
It's 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
fellow Chancellor of the Ex-Jat.
Oh, I can't remember in there.
Barbara Streisand.
What a little do Rachel Reeves?
and the dark board, what the 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.
Inside Out.
It's a sequel to what, 2015 film?
Inside Out.
Yes.
Jean-Arsano Narrows Bridge in New York City, connects the borough of Brooklyn, with which island?
I don't know.
Manhattan?
No, statenida. The disorder, no, there's somnambulism.
Sometimes called nautambulism has what more common name.
Insomnia?
I think of, nocturnal. I don't know.
I beg you.
The word cheetah for a species of big cat.
Cheater? I can't. Let's say aye. A?
No. H.
Oh, my God. I tell you are.
Please, for not so.
It's so panic-inducing.
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 a situation.
I was trying to remove myself.
Obviously, you know how to spell cheetah.
You've panicked and you've slumped.
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 iPlay.
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.
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, 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 Whitacom
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, oh God
And then Josh goes
And then he vomits in his own mouth
Hi 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 of it.
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, at one point, 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.
know the result. Chris Sakabusi loses it on the general knowledge. Mike Bobbin's 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 my daughter that the elf only goes to kids that are really naughty. So now she's gone to school and
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
Because let's face it you, you do 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 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 to
Because our children are naughty.
How do you keep coming up with things?
Just sort of love for my child, really.
When you can create such magic for free, essentially.
Just you 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 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.
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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 I'm not normally this.
And something about you, Robbins.
We've watched Mastermind, Lindsay.
Come on, mate.
Have I fucked you up?
What's going on?
No, he'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 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.
Yeah.
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.
Is that how to you spell lying, is it?
Let it honor.
La yona.
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 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, your 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 not, it's not consistent.
If it was a consistent noise on every breath.
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.
No.
Ners, no.
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.
There are people 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 on her tour.
If I'm there, might not.
Be a 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 more.
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 enjoyed your time.
I think me and Pry of Mari might need to meet up for some sort of counselling
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 with a minute.
I think you're shit.
Oh, thank you.
I feel bad now.
You 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, wouldn't we?
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.
Bye.
