EP236: Scraping the Barrel #46 – Our famous listeners!

Marc 0:02:04 I actually was trying to get a haircut.

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:27 Yeah.

Marc 0:02:27 But you can't get a haircut on a Monday and I've got Royal Ascot Tuesday to Saturday.

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:30 That's all right.

Marc 0:02:31 So I can't get a haircut.

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:32 That's fine.

Marc 0:02:32 No, it doesn't look fine. It is absolutely ridiculous.

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:35 I don't think it is.

Marc 0:02:35 I look in a state. And when I got into bed, Joni was like combing my long bushy eyebrows.

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:42 But you can trim those yourself, can't you? Little bit of self-care doesn't go amiss. The, um, TikTok that I put up of me fiddling with the hair that I had here, which is actually already coming back, by the way.

Marc 0:03:00 Nice. Have you given it a name?

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:01 No, I pulled it out. It just keeps coming back. Actually had a message from someone.

Marc 0:03:05 Hair has a habit of doing that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:06 Yeah, I know. It's just annoying that it's the one right there.

Marc 0:03:10 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:10 But I actually, I had a message from somebody regarding that. Where is it?

Marc 0:03:16 Welcome to Life of Nat, by the way, everyone.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:17 Welcome.

Marc 0:03:18 Welcome.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:19 Yeah. 07788 201919. Please get involved with the the conversation. That sounds a bit like LBC, doesn't it? I listen to LBC too much.

Marc 0:03:27 Yeah, you do. You've got to give that up, actually.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:29 Can I tell you, can I tell you something regarding that, actually?

Marc 0:03:32 What, LBC?

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:33 You're not going to believe this. Go on.

Marc 0:03:36 Your brother's on it all the time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:37 No, Dave does like to phone up, but I didn't know what LBC stood for. I, I—

Marc 0:03:46 well, it wasn't it originally London Broadcasting Corporation, and then it's now Leading Britain's Conversation. That was the rebrand. If they say that in the trails.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:58 But is that what LBC is?

Marc 0:04:00 I always thought it was London's Biggest Conversation.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:02 Oh, so you don't know either? So I'm not completely—

Marc 0:04:06 Originally, I think LBC was London's Biggest— we could Google it. Let's not spoil it though.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:11 Nah, let's not spoil it.

Marc 0:04:12 And we are gonna Google it, so no need to text in.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:14 Let people WhatsApp in about whatever they want to.

Marc 0:04:17 I'm just saying that it's not pressing, is it? You're right there. What are you doing, playing Snakes?

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:21 I can't find the, um, wish I did have Snakes. Loved it.

Marc 0:04:24 That would be a good app actually for the iPhone. Can you, I bet you must be able to get that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:28 Of course you can.

Marc 0:04:28 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:29 Here we are. Katie, I'd love to know how many women checked for chin hairs when you mentioned yours on the last Scraping the Barrel episode. I immediately did and found one, so I appreciate that. Thank you. Also, piss holes in the snow is one of my husband's favourite sayings. things. Love, Katie. So you may have not heard it.

Marc 0:04:50 Generational thing. She must be a bit older than me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:52 Helen from Essex said, pissholes in the snow made me laugh. Can't believe Mark has never heard it. Always one my dad said when I was growing up. Also, read the getting ready and hair thing. You're absolutely right that men will never understand. I'll get showered, hair washed, etc., and then the husband will say, are you walking the dog today, or shall we go cycling today, or similar. Why not mention this before I wash my hair? Yes, Helen, I'm with you.

Marc 0:05:18 It's a tough old life, innit, girls?

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:21 Yeah.

Marc 0:05:22 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:23 It is, yeah. Don't start all that chat.

Marc 0:05:27 What chat?

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:28 Just the chat about—

Marc 0:05:29 Oh, it was like I could feel the room turn then.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:32 Mm.

Marc 0:05:33 With the spirit of 40,000 ladies, like, really annoyed with me immediately. Well, but whatever, there you go.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:43 Yeah. Oh, Eliza's just texted. She can't be dropped home.

Marc 0:05:46 Sorry?

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:47 She can't be dropped home. I've got a collector.

Marc 0:05:49 You knew that anyway.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:50 I know, I just sort of sent her a message and said, any chance you can get dropped home later?

Marc 0:05:53 Any chance she could get a cab out of her pocket money or out of her savings? Any danger of that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:01 I might get her a cab.

Marc 0:06:02 Right, okay. She's not got— I mean, honestly, it's just nice, isn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:05 You're home early. It's just that we can have a glass of wine.

Marc 0:06:08 Lovely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:09 We could stroll over to the pub and I've gotta pick her up.

Marc 0:06:11 You're basing this whole thing around you drinking, by the way.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:13 I know. Yes, it's terrible. It's bad. How's your Prosecco?

Marc 0:06:18 It's lovely, thank you. It's not Prosecco though, for the purposes of the AI that, that will monitor this podcast and see if there was any alcohol consumed in its, in its construction.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:27 Why?

Marc 0:06:28 Is it— do you not remember this whole conversation? No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:33 Oh, what about where, where the episode can go and stuff if there's alcohol in it?

Marc 0:06:38 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:38 Yeah, no, I do, I do, I do remember. All right, that's sort of bad for us. There's quite a lot of episodes where there's a few drinkies going on.

Marc 0:06:46 Absolutely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:47 Interesting.

Marc 0:06:48 I was up for work today at half 4.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:51 Yes, I know. Aren't you a trooper?

Speaker I 0:06:53 Hi, Natalie. Hi, Mark. It's Nicola from the museum here, but please don't worry, there'll be no paid or sponsored ads, um, in this message, you'll be pleased to know. But Mark, it was so It was such a pleasure to meet you today outside the museum and on the Horse Guards Parade, and to hear all about your prep for Trooping the Colour.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:12 I just find it fascinating, all of the detail and precision.

Speaker I 0:07:17 So it's not only the military precision, it's the cameraman precision as well, when you're all doing it live on the BBC. It's just fantastic. But yeah, thank you so much.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:26 It was amazing to meet you, and just to tell you again about how much the podcast has meant to me and helped me through whilst I was caring for my mum. I won't talk about that too much more because I spoke about it a lot in my first voice note that I sent across, but just to say thank you.

Speaker I 0:07:46 Really, really enjoyed the caring episode and the bonus episode that you've done this week.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:52 I will get around to watching the full documentary later this weekend after Trooping's finished, but I think unless you've truly been through anything like that, it's really difficult to describe. And hearing some of the other people talking about what they've been through was just really lovely.

Speaker I 0:08:12 And, um, especially the lady who was talking about, you know, taking it for granted just going out for something to eat when you're all hands on deck looking after someone.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:24 That is a pure— luxury. And until October this year, after my mum passed away, I think one of my biggest readjustments has been learning how to do stuff again and being sociable, because it takes up such a huge part of your life.

Speaker I 0:08:43 But yeah, thanks for popping in, Mark. A pleasure to meet you. Natalie, I look forward to meeting you soon, if not in— where, where's where?

Speaker J 0:08:52 or Harlow Water Gardens.

Speaker I 0:08:54 Take care. Love to you both.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:57 Bye. Oh, well, isn't that lovely? Lovely Nicola.

Marc 0:09:00 Do you know Nicola lives— I'm not gonna say where, but— Where?

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:04 No. Go on.

Marc 0:09:05 Lives in the same place where I bought your engagement ring.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:11 Ah.

Marc 0:09:11 Not very far at all. Lovely then. And she said when her and her sister Alison go into Harlow, they always wonder if they're gonna bump into you or see you around in that sort of area. But yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:21 And Nicola brought Alison To the Christmas show.

Marc 0:09:24 Correct. Yeah, so, so, um, Alison didn't, didn't listen to the podcast and then got taken to the live show in December at the Clapham Grand, and now she's a listener apparently. That's brilliant. Oh, that's lovely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:40 So how was today?

Marc 0:09:42 It was great.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:44 It was, um, quite important really, isn't it, when you think about it? It's quite a big job.

Marc 0:09:50 what, the old King's birthday, official birthday?

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:52 Yeah.

Marc 0:09:53 Do you know what, Nicola, actually, it's really interesting, but I'm— we are going there, by the way, today. Yes, to the Household Cavalry Museum.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:00 Yes, I'd like to do that.

Marc 0:10:02 It's really interesting. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. We need to arrange that. But no, she was explaining that it started off— I've forgotten who the Queen was.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:09 Queen Elizabeth?

Marc 0:10:11 No, it wasn't, but it started off— Queen Victoria? No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:16 Queen Anne?

Marc 0:10:16 Natalie, I don't have a clue. Okay, but the Horse Guards Parade, it was, it was built for like some jousting for that queen's birthday. Makes sense. And that's kind of where it started.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:26 I see.

Marc 0:10:27 That's such a bad, like, imitation of what I was told.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:31 It's all right, innit?

Marc 0:10:33 But no, um, yeah, so the king's, king's sort of, you know, official birth— was it official or unofficial birthday? Official birthday. I don't know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:41 I think it's— It's a birthday parade.

Marc 0:10:42 Yeah, exactly.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:44 I think it is an unofficial thing. It's the birthday parade, but there's always— the dates are a bit wrong. I don't know. It used to be Her Majesty's. Yes, but her birthday is June, isn't it? Oh no, it is June now.

Marc 0:10:54 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:54 I can't remember.

Marc 0:10:56 Anyway, hey ho, people are screaming at the radio— not a radio, I don't know, whatever their listening devices about this. But it went really well, thank you. And the weather was nice, it didn't rain.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:05 No, which is lovely. And it has rained all week.

Marc 0:11:08 Were you worried about that, thinking, oh, Yeah, it's not great when it rains, but no, it was nice. It's so nice to do a sort of a traditional job like that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:20 Yeah, yeah.

Marc 0:11:21 I really enjoy that. And it isn't— the novelty isn't, you know, lost on me for sort of seeing the King and, you know, all that sort of thing. Do you think that will continue?

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:34 Do you think when William takes over, It's an interesting one.

Marc 0:11:37 I don't know, but it's a very— it's a nice thing for us to— it's important. It shows how good our armed forces are. Yes. And it's really impressive to watch it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:48 Yeah.

Marc 0:11:49 It really is. Like, what they're doing is clever, and there's— yeah, there's a lot in it. I mean, Claire Balding's narration of the whole thing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:58 Yeah, it was great. I caught the last half an hour.

Marc 0:12:01 Right. No, it's interesting.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:03 She was with Giles Brandreth, wasn't she?

Marc 0:12:05 You didn't get the last half hour. You basically just turned on the end. He always pops up right at the end.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:09 Oh, sorry.

Marc 0:12:10 When all the serious stuff's finished.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:11 I know, I was watching. They wheel out— Come on, we'll pop it on iPlayer later. I would like to see a bit of it.

Marc 0:12:16 Yeah, but you know, he literally does the very end.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:19 But—

Marc 0:12:19 And just—

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:20 I did think he's a very, very good person to have on there.

Marc 0:12:24 He's very funny.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:25 Yeah. Well, he loves to chat and he's full of facts.

Marc 0:12:28 Yeah, not— would you say facts? He's full of stories.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:30 Lots of stories, but no, he's quite factual. He's a very intelligent man.

Marc 0:12:34 Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:36 But yeah, I like him.

Marc 0:12:37 Yeah. Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:38 He's got a podcast, doesn't he? It's called Rosebud.

Marc 0:12:40 Has he?

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:42 Yeah, I'd quite like to go on it.

Marc 0:12:43 I dunno.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:44 Yeah.

Marc 0:12:45 Okay. Well, all right, you've done your little plug then. There you go. That's fine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:47 It's all right.

Marc 0:12:48 But no, it was, yeah, it was good. Do you know there was a veteran, a D-Day veteran was there. I did a shot, I did a shot of him. Unfortunately, uh, when it was live, yeah, it was towards the end and I took a shot of him. That was me. It was a bit windy as well, so it was a bit shaky, which wasn't great. But he then did a big yawn.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:08 Oh.

Marc 0:13:08 Which was a bit awkward.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:09 He's 102.

Marc 0:13:10 He's 102 years old in the blazing sun. I mean, good luck to him. Good. I mean, what a— oh, it's amazing. Amazing. And I was desperate for, for a shot of him to go through. So I kept offering shots of him.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:23 Oh, bless him.

Marc 0:13:23 Throughout the whole thing, if I wasn't doing much, a quiet bit, I'd do a shot of this guy watching.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:28 102.

Marc 0:13:29 Amazing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:30 Just to get out, get up and go to London.

Marc 0:13:33 I know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:34 I don't do that. It takes a lot for me to get up and go to London, you know.

Marc 0:13:38 It takes a lot for you to do anything.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:40 Yeah, no, I have had a bit of a week of it, to be honest. I feel rather tired. What's his name?

Marc 0:13:46 Arthur O'Boyle.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:46 Oh, bless him.

Marc 0:13:47 Sorry, I spoke over you there, which was awful. You've had a, you've had a bit of a week of it, haven't you? Busy.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:52 I've just had a very busy and odd week. I'm gonna say that I'm not going to go into, but what I would say, and I did think about it earlier, Tony always says something which always stays with me, and that is what's happened this week. You can worry about the most ridiculous things or things that you think are gonna happen, And the things that really are gonna make you worry are things you would never ever dream of.

Marc 0:14:20 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:21 And they just come up and you have to deal with them.

Marc 0:14:22 Well, you wouldn't see what happened this week coming around the corner. That was, that was random, but it's fine now.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:28 Yeah. No, it all is, all is good. Sorry to be cryptic, everybody, but if I feel—

Marc 0:14:32 Serious.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:33 If I'm a little bit— Elia. Hang on a sec.

Marc 0:14:36 Let's answer that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:37 Bells, bells. Hello, you alright? We're doing a pod, you're live, sorry.

Speaker D 0:14:42 Alright, thank you. Oh, cracking, you alright?

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:44 Yeah, very good. What you up to?

Speaker K 0:14:46 Just on the way home from Van Houten.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:48 Lovely.

Marc 0:14:49 Good line.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:50 Sorry, yeah, no, I've just seen what you're doing, if you wanted to pop over for a rosé. Oh, I would love to do that. Well, let's— let me hurry up and get this done and then we can do that.

Marc 0:15:01 This is going to be a 15-minute-long podcast now today.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:04 Yeah, I'm hurrying up now.

Marc 0:15:05 All right, fabulous. Brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:07 All right, I'll phone you after this. Okay, thanks, darling. Bye-bye.

Marc 0:15:12 Do you know, she, she went to where I took my steam engine earlier in the year today. She just sent me a photo with James.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:19 Yeah, found Higgs.

Marc 0:15:20 They were there earlier, and I thought, brilliant, you go when I'm not there. Not a care in the world, she's there now.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:26 It was pouring with rain that day, freezing cold. Yes, it rained once. It was also, if you remember, It was a timing thing because James has a nap, you see. No, he does. He goes to bed at half 11 and you, you were steaming up and it was gonna be half 11. Just didn't work, Mark.

Marc 0:15:42 Whatever.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:43 Anyway, back to it.

Marc 0:15:48 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:48 So you've had a good morning?

Marc 0:15:50 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:50 I'm trying to think what else has been going on.

Marc 0:15:52 You've just had a very busy week. Uh, what else has been going on?

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:56 Well, I haven't watched any of the World Cup, I can tell you that.

Marc 0:15:58 Well, no, I mean, who, who is going to watch the World Cup when it's on at 1:30 in the morning on a Saturday?

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:03 Some of them are 2 o'clock in the morning, 3 o'clock in the morning.

Marc 0:16:06 I wouldn't watch it if you paid me. Well, you wouldn't watch it if it was on at 7 o'clock at night. No, that's true. There'll be no dancing on the tables in the local pub for you, will there, for this World Cup?

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:15 There's a few 9 PM games.

Marc 0:16:16 Oh, great. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:18 I will be going.

Marc 0:16:19 I'll tell you what worried me when they went the other day. They said, oh, it's, um, 5 and a half weeks' time, World Cup final.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:27 Yes.

Marc 0:16:27 And I thought, right, it's 5 and a half weeks, 5 weeks now. Okay, 5 weeks' time. That, by the time that happens, I would have done Royal Ascot, Wimbledon, had a break for a week, and then done 2 weeks of Wimbledon. Yeah. And then it's the following. That's a lot. I mean, I'm, I am right in the thick of it at the moment.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:46 Well, you always are this time of year.

Marc 0:16:48 Yeah, I know. I do feel it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:49 I feel like Trooping the Colour kicks that off.

Marc 0:16:53 Wow. Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:54 Well, you know.

Marc 0:16:55 Yeah. Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:56 I mean, you have been doing other stuff as well.

Marc 0:16:58 Yeah, it's been, it's been all right. I mean, it's good because I've been quite quiet prior to that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:02 Absolutely. Yeah.

Marc 0:17:03 Yeah, no, I just thought—

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:04 Swings and roundabouts though, isn't it? And then we've got a lovely holiday to look forward to. I know, I can't wait for that holiday. Can't wait for that.

Marc 0:17:08 That's gonna be excellent.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:09 Can't wait. Well, I've got 2. Hopefully you've got 2 as well.

Marc 0:17:13 Well, we'll see about that, won't we?

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:15 Work dependent.

Marc 0:17:16 Yeah. Don't know.

Marc 0:19:26 How did you get on?

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:31 Yes.

Marc 0:19:31 We asked last week about if any listeners have had any sort of cameo roles or—

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:37 Oh yes, got loads of things to say regarding that.

Marc 0:19:40 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:40 Yeah, when you spoke about that, I did wonder. I thought, oh, bit random.

Marc 0:19:44 Bit random, but I thought it was a good subject.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:47 Yeah, you've come up trumps again. Talking of trumps, very quickly.

Marc 0:19:50 Interesting you bring that up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:51 Lovely listener of the pod And friend Camilla.

Marc 0:19:56 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:56 Who works at Diddly Squat Farm. You know, she gave me some Clarkson's Farms— Clarkson— Clarkson— the old Clarkson Farms Top Trump cards.

Marc 0:20:11 Clarkson's Farm?

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:13 Yeah, I've got the Top Trump cards.

Marc 0:20:16 Amazing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:16 Camilla gave to me. Oh, okay. And a fridge magnet and some socks.

Marc 0:20:20 Have they got like a souvenir shop there then?

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:23 Oh, it's in the farm shop, isn't it? All the bits and pieces.

Marc 0:20:26 Okay. Yeah, because that would probably go down well with tourists, those sort of items.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:29 Absolutely. But anyway, you said trumps, made me think of it.

Marc 0:20:36 Righto.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:37 I haven't even opened them yet. I bet they'll be good.

Marc 0:20:39 I said trumps. I didn't say trumps.

Natalie Cassidy 0:20:41 Oh, I said you've come up trumps. Sorry.

Marc 0:20:44 Sorry. Yeah, I mean, you're now putting words in my mouth.

Speaker M 0:20:46 Hi, Nat, it's Grace from Didcot. I've just been listening to your podcast, Scraping the Barrel, episode 232, and you were saying about being an extra in a film or a TV show. I have been an extra in 2 films. It was probably one of the best experiences of my life. I loved it. I was very looked after.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:09 And honestly, I keep looking to see if there's any other extra work that I can go into again, 'cause it was just so good. Aw.

Speaker M 0:21:16 I was in a film with Maisie Williams, and Florence Pugh, and the cast were really lovely, and it was a really good experience. Love your documentary. I've watched every episode. Really hope there's gonna be a series 2.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:31 Oh. Take care. Thank you. What a lovely girl. Thank you, Grace.

Marc 0:21:35 I wonder what she was in, though. You've not said what you were in, Grace.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:39 Films with Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh.

Marc 0:21:44 I want the titles.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:45 Who are they?

Marc 0:21:45 Right, I want the titles.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:47 I've got no idea about actors. I love how you said that like I wasn't listening.

Marc 0:21:50 I was listening to every word of that voice note. Didn't say the title.

Natalie Cassidy 0:21:54 Well, she said she loved it. I always, when I look back to EastEnders and—

Marc 0:21:59 I would like to be an SA. Really? Yeah, I'd love that as a job.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:04 Really?

Marc 0:22:05 Really.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:06 In the freezing cold pissing rain with a t-shirt on? Up on this lot all day long for 10 hours. Really?

Marc 0:22:16 Yeah, it'd be amazing because I'd do that anyway. I wouldn't have to be on a camera.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:20 Oh yeah, that's true.

Marc 0:22:21 What are you talking about? And I wasn't talking about EastEnders. You're very EastEnders-centric. I wasn't saying I'd be on an essay on EastEnders.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:29 I am talking about EastEnders because that's all I know in terms of extras.

Marc 0:22:35 And you can't say extras apparently. You should say supporting artists. Oh, supporting artists.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:40 Okay.

Marc 0:22:40 S.A., supporting artists.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:41 They don't mind, the ones I know.

Marc 0:22:42 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:43 But I just think it's amazing. Some of them have been there for so long on EastEnders.

Marc 0:22:47 Amazing. I'd like to see them, you know. Yeah, they ask about you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:51 Yeah, I would really, really like that. I have to try and organise something.

Marc 0:22:55 You just need to go and get in it for a week.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:00 I don't wanna do that.

Marc 0:23:01 Just go and work there for a week. Nah. Be in an episode.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:03 No, I don't wanna do that.

Marc 0:23:04 Sorted. You see everybody, tick every box, and you get paid for it. Perfect. Sort it out. Have a word. Have a word of Ben. Just say, "Can I come back for an episode?" I would never ask. Just do it when I'm not there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:16 Yeah. Oh, sorry.

Marc 0:23:17 Checking up on me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:18 Excuse me.

Marc 0:23:19 Yeah, go on.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:19 There is some major news.

Marc 0:23:21 All right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:22 Massive.

Marc 0:23:23 Oh, I know what you're gonna say now.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:24 Da da da da da da da da da da da da da. Lacey Turner. She's doing Strictly.

Marc 0:23:32 All right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:33 Yeah. She's doing it. Yeah. She'll listen to this or see this.

Marc 0:23:36 She won't listen to this. She's got much better things to be doing than listening to this nonsense.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:40 Oh, I'll tell you something.

Marc 0:23:41 She'll listen to this. Have a bit of excitement.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:43 We've got another night ahead.

Marc 0:23:44 No, I'm looking forward to someone being in it. I wanna watch.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:47 Exactly.

Marc 0:23:47 Which would be nice.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:48 I can't wait. I'm gonna put a bet on her.

Marc 0:23:50 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:51 Absolutely. She'll win.

Marc 0:23:53 Do you think?

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:53 Yeah, absolutely.

Marc 0:23:55 Depends who else is in it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:56 Nah, I, I, I just, she's so professional. Right. And I think she's so hardworking and very quiet, and she's as dark horse as our Lace, right? She smashes everything she does.

Marc 0:24:07 Are we gonna go and watch it again?

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:08 I'd like to. The only problem with that is it's quite a long night, isn't it? But I will for Lacey, of course I will.

Marc 0:24:15 Well, you can go before the results show.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:16 You can't. You shouldn't do that. You're not allowed.

Marc 0:24:20 The person sat next to us on the left went.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:22 Well, that's rude.

Marc 0:24:23 Well, they left, and 2 SAs, in fact, came and sat in their place.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:28 That's out of order, right? Shouldn't do that.

Marc 0:24:31 But he left and he was being paid to be there because he was doing one of the— he was doing the phone number.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:35 Have we spoke about the new presenters, you and I?

Marc 0:24:38 No, talking— sorry.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:39 What do you think about those?

Marc 0:24:40 We'll come back to that. Oh, very importantly, yeah, if you've not listened to this before, how can you do a voice note? You've not said—

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:47 I did. 07788 2019 19 on the WhatsApp.

Marc 0:24:51 Do the WhatsApp voice note us. Really important.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:54 Yeah, the voice notes are good, aren't they?

Marc 0:24:55 I love a voice note.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:57 I do feel like it makes it very radio, which I really like. Why are you looking at me like that?

Marc 0:25:02 So inspiring listening to you. I mean, it's like revolutionary, the comments you're coming out with. Your inception of this podcast, when you thought, I know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna get the— it's like vox pops. I'm gonna get like the population for listeners to communicate in an audio format, just like a radio phone-in, just like they've done for the last 35 years.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:26 Longer than that, darling. You're getting older. It's 2026.

Marc 0:25:29 Okay, a bit longer than that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:32 Yeah, quite a, quite a lot longer.

Marc 0:25:34 Yeah. Okay, how long have radio phone-ins been going on, Natalie, in your expert opinion? I would imagine, all right, we don't— 45 years, probably since the phone.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:44 50. Yes.

Marc 0:25:45 You get the gist.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:47 I do.

Marc 0:25:48 But anyway, seriously.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:49 Anywho, there you go. Anyway. Going back. Any road. I want your— any road.

Marc 0:25:53 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:53 Going back to your opinions, 'cause I've chatted before, but I like to hear it. Josh Widdicombe.

Marc 0:25:57 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:58 Emma Willis.

Marc 0:25:59 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:59 And Johannes.

Marc 0:26:00 Mm-hmm.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:00 What we saying?

Marc 0:26:01 Sounds like the new lineup for the Strictly presenters.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:05 Yeah. What do you think of them?

Marc 0:26:07 What, personally or professionally? Do you think it'll work?

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:10 I'm talking about the show.

Marc 0:26:11 Will it work?

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:12 Yeah, do you think it'll work?

Marc 0:26:13 It'll be fine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:14 I didn't say fine, did I?

Marc 0:26:16 I have to— I don't know if I could say what I was gonna say. Do you think it's gonna be— I was gonna say something. Go on, say it. Which is really controversial. Be brave. Oh, I'll be honestly brave.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:24 Yeah.

Marc 0:26:24 We, well, we like Strictly. We didn't really get into the last series.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:28 Nah, I was bored stiff.

Marc 0:26:30 Yeah, we didn't like it. But traditionally, as a family, it's sort of event viewing and it's something that we sit down and watch. Traditionally, that is a fact.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:38 It has been, but not now the girls are grown up. That's going back quite a while.

Marc 0:26:41 Okay, 2 years ago. You're 2 years old.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:43 You are, you are, you're getting really old. That— we haven't sat and watched Strictly for a good few years. 2 years.

Marc 0:26:49 Well, all right, do you know what? You've just blown my conversation apart again. I was gonna answer that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:54 No, go on, please do.

Marc 0:26:55 That's all right. Done the same thing you did this last time and people get annoyed. And I was— I heard it from people, they were annoyed you kept talking over me and interrupting my flow. So I'm gonna shut up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:03 It's called a— you carry on. It's called a conversation.

Marc 0:27:05 Arguably not, but yeah, go on.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:08 What do you think of them? What do you think?

Marc 0:27:10 I have never watched Strictly because I want to watch the presenters. I don't care who's presenting it. I don't watch it for that reason. I watch Michael McIntyre's The Wheel 50% because I like Michael McIntyre and 50% because I like the format. I don't watch Strictly because I like Tess Daly or the other one.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:30 The other one? What's she called?

Marc 0:27:34 I've got— because I'm getting old, I've forgotten her name.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:36 Claudia Winkleman.

Marc 0:27:37 Yeah, I don't watch it because I like Claudia and Tess. I don't mind them presenting it, but it's— I don't watch it for them. They're presenting it. No, you're right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:44 That's interesting.

Marc 0:27:45 So it's not— and in actual fact, for the Strictly viewer, I think that Johannes, his notoriety is greater being an ex-dancer. Yes. He's not even an ex-dancer, is he?

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:59 No, he's gonna still dance, he said. I don't know how it's gonna work, but yeah, he's not done dancing. But you know what I mean?

Marc 0:28:03 Like, that's— that for Strictly fans, a big deal.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:06 Yeah, no, I feel that. And also, I love him.

Marc 0:28:09 People are talking about it like Strictly's never had a presenter change. Well, sorry, who used to present it, the legend that used to present it. But you know what I mean?

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:17 It's true.

Marc 0:28:18 It's happened before. That is true. So I actually don't really understand all this nonsense about, oh, it's gonna fall apart now. No, it's not, because no one watches it for Tess and Claudia. No offence, Tess or Claudia, but they don't watch it for you. You're good at doing it and you've done it a long time, and it's a safe pair of hands. But you watch it because you watch the dancing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:33 That's what I thought, actually, with, with Josh, Emma, I thought, oh, it made me go, safe pair of hands.

Marc 0:28:41 Josh is a random one though. Was he— has he ever been in it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:44 He was. He must have been dressed up as a penguin, um, for a Christmas show.

Marc 0:28:49 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:49 Um, but I think people forget that Josh Widdicombe has done live television for a very, very long time. He does The Last Leg.

Marc 0:28:56 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:57 So I think people don't think he can do live presenting, do you know what I mean? When actually he's got a lot of experience of live television.

Marc 0:29:04 Yeah, fair enough. No, no, I'm sure he'll be great, but I have to say, you know, it's like going, oh my goodness, the 6 o'clock news is being read by Joe Bloggs tonight. No one's gonna watch it. No one tunes in for the person presenting it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:16 I'll tell you now, if Joe Bloggs did the 6 o'clock news, I'd watch it.

Marc 0:29:21 Well, it's gotta be someone. I mean, also, who's called Joe Bloggs? There you go. If you listen to this and you're called Joe Bloggs, or you know, or you know someone called Joe Bloggs, That would be so good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:31 Let's get Joe Bloggs on.

Marc 0:29:33 There's gotta be a Joe Bloggs.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:34 There's gotta be a Joe Bloggs we can talk to. Anyway, going back to—

Marc 0:29:39 Where does Joe Bloggs come from? As a most— that's funny, that, isn't it? Someone must have—

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:43 Georgina, get on it, love.

Marc 0:29:45 Joe Bloggs.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:47 Emma Willis, however, I think is fantastic at her job. I think she's been brilliant through all of her Big Brother days. Yep. The Voice.

Marc 0:29:55 Used to work on Big Brother. Well, I didn't work there really. I was, I was holding a cable. But she was presenting the series.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:00 Yeah.

Marc 0:30:01 You know, back in my era.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:02 I think she's fantastic at what she does, so I'm pleased she's got the gig.

Marc 0:30:07 If you are called Jo Bloggs and you make video content, you could call yourself Jo Vlogs. How good would that be?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:14 Brilliant, that.

Marc 0:30:15 Sorry, I just thought of that. Jo Vlogs.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:18 But if you were a writer, yes, you could keep your name and be Jo Bloggs.

Marc 0:30:25 It's brilliant, isn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:26 Really good.

Marc 0:30:29 I think we should end it there. I don't think we're gonna beat that. I think that was quite a good one. Good podcast. We peaked.

Marc 0:32:30 When is Maria gonna bring that chair back that she took? Oh, she's making— I don't know. Have I got one? Yeah, you have got one. You know it very well. It's in your shed.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:43 Unless she's cleared the shed out and got rid of it.

Marc 0:32:46 Sorry.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:46 Could have done that.

Marc 0:32:47 Well, she did. She's got a massive chair she's forgotten about.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:49 I don't think she really goes in the shed a lot. Right. But she's gonna have a look for me. She's gonna have a look. I mean, we're not desperate for it. It's just nice to have a pair, innit?

Marc 0:32:57 Sorry, you started saying about having it for the railway. What were you talking about?

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:01 I just think if I was to come— What railway? Your railway. If I were to come to the railway—

Marc 0:33:05 The Barnards' miniature railway?

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:06 Yes.

Marc 0:33:06 Why would you bring a chair?

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:08 Because if it was sunny, yeah, I would sit on one of those chairs. There's not really comfortable seating there.

Marc 0:33:13 Pardon? You'd bring a chair?

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:16 Yeah, if we have a picnic, and I'd bring those chairs.

Marc 0:33:18 28th of June, by the way, at Barnard's Miniature Railway.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:22 Open day.

Marc 0:33:23 Big open day.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:24 Oh yeah, don't start putting it on here, it'll be rammed. I like it that it's quiet.

Marc 0:33:29 Oh yeah, the stampede. They hear about it on this, that's it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:39 2 people.

Marc 0:33:39 The A127 on the way to Southend, gridlocked. Like the traffic and travel carnage as everyone's driving to Barnard's Farm for the garden open day. Oh yeah. No, but you know, no, no, it's a good day. It's a good day. Have a look at it. 28th of June, Sunday garden open day. I think we open about 1 o'clock. It's really good. The cars are out. It is so lovely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:01 Vintage cars to look at, railways running. It is really good.

Marc 0:34:04 Go around the gardens, archery usually. You can drive a Model T.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:07 I don't know if I'm there. Not sure what I'm doing that day. I don't know.

Marc 0:34:10 You're in Copenhagen, I think.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:12 Oh, fair enough.

Marc 0:34:13 So I'm, me and the girls are gonna have a lovely time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:15 I'm looking forward to that trip.

Marc 0:34:15 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:16 I'm hoping to get there with a, a bit of time to go to the art gallery or just look at it.

Marc 0:34:23 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:23 I don't wanna get there, go to a hotel, do the job, come home.

Marc 0:34:25 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:26 I'd like to say, oh, I've been to Copenhagen, you know, had a look round.

Marc 0:34:30 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:31 Someone said, hey Nat, hope you are well and having a lovely weekend. Just doing my food shopping and found these, not quite Maxibons, but very similar.

Marc 0:34:38 Ooh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:39 Thought Mark might like them. I'm gonna give them a try as a fellow Maxibon lover.

Marc 0:34:43 Okay. Let's have a look.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:45 Hazelnut chocolate and hazelnut ice cream sandwiches.

Marc 0:34:47 Oh, hang on a minute. Let's have a look. Where are they from? Yeah, that's exactly it, isn't it? Sainsbury's.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:56 However, go down in the message. Unfortunately, I think you're gonna be disappointed. What did she say?

Marc 0:35:03 I just had one and it's 5 out of 10, unfortunately. Well, I've got— now I'm gonna— I'm sorry to say this.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:09 Let's have that back because Abby's just texted me. I want to see what she said.

Marc 0:35:11 I'll be honest, the Chocobon copy is also substandard. Let's be honest, it's no Maxi Choc from New Forest Ice Cream, and no, certainly no Maxibon, but I have to say it's better than nothing. So maybe that Sainsbury's one will be okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:28 So we had lovely Grace. I only managed to play one message in.

Marc 0:35:33 Oh yeah, who else?

Speaker E 0:35:35 It's Neil from Canada. To answer your question, I've been on telly many, many, many, many years ago in junior school. I don't know what age I was, very, very young. I was in the Marmite commercial, and the whole class was. We were sat on a bus coming back from a ski trip, sat on a bus pretty much all day and got filmed walking off the bus.

Speaker N 0:35:58 That was it.

Speaker E 0:35:59 But I did see myself on TV. Okay, have a good day.

Marc 0:36:02 Oh, Marmite commercial. Did they get paid though?

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:06 I bet they didn't.

Marc 0:36:08 They should have done.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:09 Not if they use a, you know, bus full of kids. Bet they didn't. Okay, our Dawnie has been on the radio. Have a listen to this.

Speaker O 0:36:19 Hello Natalie, it's Dawnie from Kent. So I was just listening to yours and Mark's, um, podcast this week and you was asking if anyone's been on the telly or been on the local radio. Well, I have been on the local radio. I was a security guard a few years ago before Max was born, and I did that for about 7 years. I worked as a doorwoman, a bouncer, um, on nightclub doors.

Marc 0:36:49 And I got approached by one of the dads at nursery, because I also did that as well, to be on the local radio.

Natalie Cassidy 0:36:59 His name was James Hemming, and he worked on Heart, um, which was based in Whitstable, not that far from me.

Speaker O 0:37:08 And he wanted me to be all in my sort of bouncer outfit tie, shirt, blazer, you know, all of it, and be on the radio for a competition where 3— I think it was 3 people had to try and blag their way past as if I was standing on the club door.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:30 And it was for one of them for a trip to go to America, Bacardi Breezer, uh, competition thing.

Marc 0:37:39 Um, so yeah, I was on the local radio and they recorded it and it went out live. And yeah, I had an amazing time, but I'd lost my voice that week, so I sounded really husky. So that was quite funny. But yeah, so I have been on the local radio, been broadcasted all over Kent, which was fantastic.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:57 And we had a really, really good time.

Speaker E 0:38:02 And a lady that won the competition, she told me that she'd lost her shoe in the club and she needed it.

Speaker O 0:38:09 One lady told me that Robbie Williams was inside and she was meeting him, and I can't remember what the bloke's excuse was, but yeah, it was such good fun. Um, but yeah, that was my little claim to fame.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:22 Yeah. So yeah, I thought I'd just share that. Sorry. Yeah, I love you, Dawnie. I'll tell you what, but that didn't make any sense, half of that.

Marc 0:38:31 So she was in the club.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:33 Yeah, I get why, what she was doing, and she had the outfit on and what have you. Yeah, but it was for the radio, so what'd she have to dress up for? Oh, because no, Of course she did, because they had to get past her, didn't they? There was a competition going on.

Marc 0:38:46 I would just query with her, did you ever actually hear this on the radio, or was this some weird setup from some slightly odd father at the school that sort of roped you into some scenario that you're slightly unsure of? Something funny's going on there, I feel. Do you know I was on Radio Kent?

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:02 No.

Marc 0:39:04 I was on Radio Kent and I loved it, and I'm trying to think of the presenter. What did you do? And he was brilliant. Uh, because I was in an AmDram group and I was playing—

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:14 Stop fiddling with that wire.

Marc 0:39:14 I'll fiddle with whatever I want to when I'm sat here, thank you. My hands are under the table and no one can see what I'm doing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:19 But what if it affects the wire?

Marc 0:39:22 Me fiddling with this is not going to affect anything with the wire. This is why I say it's so much better to listen to this, not watch it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:29 No, it's true.

Marc 0:39:30 Because anyone listening to this is a whole other dynamic.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:32 It's true.

Marc 0:39:34 Anyway, ignore what I'm doing here. But just listen to what I'm saying. Keep your eyes on me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:38 Yeah.

Marc 0:39:39 Don't look at what I'm fiddling with.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:40 Okay.

Marc 0:39:41 So what I was saying—

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:41 Make yourself laugh.

Marc 0:39:45 I did. That's really not funny. Terrible.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:48 It's about right.

Marc 0:39:48 Entertaining myself.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:50 Well, I'm sorry that I'm not entertaining for you and that doing a podcast that is gonna be broadcast soon—

Marc 0:39:57 I was having a fiddle with the cable.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:58 Isn't, you know, interesting enough for you. Would you like to do a stuck skydive or bungee jump this afternoon?

Marc 0:40:06 Yeah, I would actually.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:08 Should we pop down to the River Thames and do some windsurfing? Or, you know, what would you like to do?

Marc 0:40:12 Windsurf? How many people windsurf on the River Thames?

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:14 I don't know, I'm just thinking things up, aren't I?

Marc 0:40:17 Oh, lightning speed. It's like the Lee Mack of a podcast, that speed you thought of that stuff. Yeah, I was playing the Tin Man in Am Dram. thing, and we got interviewed. I'm trying to think what his name was, but he was a bit of a legend, a Radio Kent legend. That was when it was based— Dorniel, like this— it was based in Tunbridge Wells, and you could walk through the little shopping centre in Tunbridge Wells, and there was a window that used to look into the studio.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:42 Tunbridge Wells is, um, a lovely area. I used to go there.

Marc 0:40:46 My sister got married there. We went to her wedding there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:48 No, I know, beautiful. But I like that. I liked Tunbridge Wells. I used to spend a lot of time there with Jack Ryder.

Marc 0:40:52 Yeah, so I've heard all about it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:55 Well, don't be jealous.

Marc 0:40:57 I'm not jealous.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:57 You are. Whenever I mention Jack, you're like, oh.

Marc 0:41:00 You know that it was on the telly that you were in a relationship with him? You know that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:04 Yeah, I do.

Marc 0:41:05 Right, because you're starting to sound like a weird fan that—

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:09 No, I just, I have extreme— I would like, in fact, and jokes aside, yeah, I really would love to have him over here. I would love to see him.

Marc 0:41:17 Okay, we'll get him on the podcast. Why don't you do an interview? Yeah, you could do that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:21 Get him over and do a pod. People would love that, wouldn't they?

Marc 0:41:24 Do you know what, people—

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:25 That's a great idea.

Marc 0:41:25 You can write that down.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:26 Yeah.

Marc 0:41:27 She's writing it down. She's actually writing that down as an idea. Unbelievable.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:34 But then me and him could do that, and then we could have a bit of dinner and he could meet you. He was— I love Jack.

Marc 0:41:39 I think we need to hire a producer for this podcast.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:43 What do you mean?

Marc 0:41:45 Well, just someone to sort of think of these things and maybe organise it a bit.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:49 I'm fine, thank you. I'm quite happy doing it myself. Um, Emma helps as well.

Marc 0:41:55 You've got some exciting news about the podcast you're going to say later.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:57 I certainly am.

Marc 0:41:58 When are you going to talk about that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:00 I'll talk about it later.

Marc 0:42:01 Everyone now fast forwards to the end.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:03 This is a lovely message, Mark. Listen to this, so lovely. And I'm so happy people are booking up for our shows that are at the end of the year. Have a listen to this.

Speaker P 0:42:14 Hi, Nat, it's Christine from Lincolnshire. Just a message to say that myself and my daughter have managed to book tickets for Covent Garden. So she lives very near you and has crossed over with you so many times and just not managed to meet up. So we thought we'll go to one of the podcasts. Oh, that's lovely. So we missed out on the Beam at Harth. So we've booked as far in advance as it is. We've booked for November, and we're going to use it as a little pre-Christmas day out and hopefully have a nice afternoon with yourself.

Speaker B 0:43:03 But could you please make sure Mark and Tony are on this one? Because them together with you just crack me up. Anyway, we'll keep listening until November. Keep up the good work and we'll see you there. Bye for now.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:19 Isn't that a lovely message?

Marc 0:43:21 A really nice message.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:22 She wants you and Tony there.

Marc 0:43:24 But she hasn't heard me and Tony together.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:27 No, but she likes me and Tony and me and you.

Marc 0:43:30 She's assuming that that's going to work then, is she?

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:32 Absolutely.

Marc 0:43:33 I see.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:34 But isn't it nice that people have booked it already and are looking forward to something?

Marc 0:43:37 It's mad.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:38 It's good.

Marc 0:43:39 I mean, I haven't looked at the other listings for what's on in London, but—

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:43 What are you doing now?

Marc 0:43:44 I'm fiddling with this.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:45 Would you stop?

Marc 0:43:45 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:46 Elia does this. What, fiddle? She's always fiddling with something.

Marc 0:43:49 That's all I hear.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:50 Do you know what's been really lovely today? Doing this with you.

Marc 0:43:53 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:54 I feel like we haven't done it for ages.

Marc 0:43:56 That's what I thought. And, um, I don't know why I laughed at that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:06 It's a bit of a lie, isn't it? What'd you do that for?

Marc 0:44:11 A little shiver went down my spine then.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:14 I'm gonna tell the listeners.

Marc 0:44:16 No, you're not.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:17 I am.

Marc 0:44:18 No, you're absolutely not.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:18 We have had—

Marc 0:44:20 No, no, no, no, no, no. An afternoon to ourselves.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:22 No, it's good.

Marc 0:44:23 An afternoon to ourselves. Yeah, I need to go and cut the grass. Can we crack on, please?

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:26 You can't bear it, can you? It's nice, it's nice. When have we ever— when do we ever get an hour in the afternoon on our own?

Marc 0:44:32 Very rarely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:33 So it's nice.

Marc 0:44:34 What's nice?

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:35 To, to have that time. And with them coming here to do this pod and we're in jovial moods, it's good, it's healthy.

Marc 0:44:42 I've got no idea what you're talking about.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:44 Shut up, Mark.

Marc 0:44:44 No, I don't.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:46 I've really enjoyed sitting here.

Marc 0:44:47 Brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:48 After the week I had, I was really dreading doing the pod.

Marc 0:44:51 Why?

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:51 Just because I was tired, couldn't be bothered.

Speaker E 0:44:53 Oh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:54 Didn't want to do it. And I think about it and then I hear all the voice notes And I read all the messages and I think, this is brilliant. This— people really do love it. They're invested in it. But it is really important that you give us your messages because that really does— I always say it, without you, the pod is very boring.

Marc 0:45:13 It's a nice community feel.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:15 It is.

Marc 0:45:16 And it is— I miss it when we haven't got voice notes on this.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:18 I know exactly what you mean, actually. I agree.

Marc 0:45:21 But I also appreciate it is quite a big thing. Nicola was saying that the other day. When she was saying about doing the, um, doing a voice note. Yeah, but she, she did a voice note to explain that her mum, she'd cared for her mum. Yes. Which she sort of alluded to in the second voice note. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But she said it took a long time to sort of build up the confidence to sort of do a voice note. And other people have said the same. And yeah, Claire at work goes, oh, I should have done a voice note the other day, but I didn't bother.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:43 Yes.

Marc 0:45:44 And I think, why not? But you say that though. I mean, I, I mean, I get— I have to talk on here. Like, I mean, it's not just a voice note. I mean, I, I get away with it, so surely— I mean, if you've got any doubt in your mind, just do a voice note. No, just send me a voice note.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:58 It's lovely. Talking of community, something exciting is happening next week, right? So from the 22nd, Monday of June— Yep.

Marc 0:46:09 Phoebe's birthday.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:10 Yes, it is. Yeah, we are going to get a Patreon page.

Marc 0:46:17 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:17 Now, I'm— I think people are gonna laugh at me 'cause I don't think it's called a Patreon page.

Marc 0:46:20 Right. I, I'll go— I'll be honest here. What, what is a Patreon?

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:23 I, I don't know if it's, we're on Patreon, we've got a Patreon page because I'm ancient and I don't know. So this is a new thing. Loads of podcasts have it.

Marc 0:46:33 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:34 Right. Loads and loads of people. So they have their pod and then they have this special Patreon. Yeah. And it's where people that really love the pod pay a little bit of something each month, right? And they get bonus episodes, and there is a whole kind of community that grows there.

Marc 0:46:52 Like a club?

Natalie Cassidy 0:46:53 It is a club. Yeah, well, it's like, for me, what I said, which I think is quite nice, is come and join the family, be a part of the family.

Marc 0:47:01 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:01 And it's going to be a fiver a month, right?

Marc 0:47:03 It's not bad.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:04 Well, it's like a cup of coffee, innit? Yeah, fiver a month. And then there'll be stuff on there And next Monday, I'm very pleased to say, I know I get so many messages. I'm inundated actually with people saying, I can't make the live show. Where can I watch a live show? I'm, I live in Ireland or Scotland and I can't make the show. So I am putting out the Hertford live show on Monday, and that's the first thing that will be on.

Marc 0:47:28 That's brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:29 For people to watch.

Marc 0:47:29 Is that just to watch or listen to?

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:31 I think you can watch or listen. Yeah. But that will be on there.

Marc 0:47:34 Because Ed filmed it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:35 Yeah.

Marc 0:47:35 So you can watch it. So you can actually— so you can spend a fiver and watch the live show. The live show. That's very good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:40 It's good, isn't it? And then I've got other live shows. Yeah. So I'm gonna—

Marc 0:47:44 You might put them in.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:45 I will put them in at some point. There'll be, there'll be bonus material from us.

Marc 0:47:49 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:49 But sort of silly bonus stuff. Okay. Because I feel like we don't get to do it. So for instance, Kat, our lovely listener Kat and Elia's friend. Yeah. And my friend. She really is desperate and keeps saying it. I want to know everyone's death row dinners.

Marc 0:48:04 Right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:04 So I think that's really— we can just sit and do our favourite foods, death row dinners, what we like. So there'll be little bonuses, or there'll be a quiz, or there might be an episode where me, you, and Tony— I don't know, one night when me and Tony have done one, we come up and do half hour about something.

Marc 0:48:19 We could maybe do the— when we go on holiday and we do stuff on location.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:24 Exactly, because, because it's all video now.

Marc 0:48:26 Yeah, you can't really do those anymore.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:28 Not really, but on Patreon you can, and we can do anything on there.

Marc 0:48:30 But also If you're listening to this and you think, okay, I've barely managed to listen to this as a podcast, as in, you know, this is— you're not really into your technology or whatever and it all sounds a bit weird, does it affect you as a general listener?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:44 Absolutely not. It's exactly the same, right? Nothing changes.

Marc 0:48:48 It's just a bonus if you fancy a bit of bonus stuff. It's a bonus stuff. And you have to pay for Patreon?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:53 You can sign up to Patreon for free and you'll get a monthly newsletter, right? And you'll be able to Yeah, just see what's going on a bit and see what is available.

Marc 0:49:02 I see. So, um, well, okay, so if you're listening to this and you think you can do it, sign up.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:09 Yeah, even if you don't have a look, just sign up.

Marc 0:49:11 Yeah. And then if you want to have a go, once you've signed up and pay, you then get to see this.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:15 Yeah, I've said it's a fiver. I don't know if they said 6 quid now. I'm really worried.

Marc 0:49:19 Oh dear.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:20 Anyway, 5 or 6 quid.

Marc 0:49:22 5 or 6 quid for a month. It's not bad really, is it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:24 Well, every single week there'll be something new in the bonuses. I'm gonna put the book club on there.

Marc 0:49:29 Do you have to— hang on, if you, if you're paying for Patreon, yeah, do you get adverts? Do you? No adverts. Oh, so ad-free. So if you— okay, well, that might encourage people as well.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:42 It's ad-free.

Marc 0:49:43 So if you don't like the adverts—

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:45 So it is all very new to me though, and I do feel like—

Marc 0:49:49 Wait, that doesn't exist yet?

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:49 I'm not quite— no, I know, but I was a member, but I was a member of, um, Chatterbix's Patreon.

Marc 0:49:54 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:55 I pay for that.

Marc 0:49:56 Brilliant. You've been on it, but they haven't let you have that for free? No. Brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:01 No, but I don't think I asked them. It's weird. I might have a word with Joe about that.

Marc 0:50:04 I think that's an interesting one. Surely you could be. I love how, as a contributor to their podcast, they charge you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:10 I haven't been though for ages, have I?

Marc 0:50:12 Are you still a Patreon member for the podcast?

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:14 No.

Marc 0:50:14 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:14 I'm not a Patreon member now.

Marc 0:50:16 I bet that. I mean, blimey, they, they do enough episodes as it is.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:19 Yeah, but the stuff they put on there, it's just sort of David playing a guitar or a phone conversation, or it can be anything. Like, if me and you have a load of funny voice notes, we could just pop those on.

Marc 0:50:29 I don't know what you're saying then. I mean, maybe could I, could I launch my train podcast for the, for the husbands on there?

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:35 Yes, you can.

Marc 0:50:36 So I could do my own little episodes?

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:38 Absolutely.

Marc 0:50:39 I don't wanna put anyone off though. That's the trouble.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:40 Well, no, people just won't listen to it. But yeah, you can shove that on there.

Marc 0:50:44 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:44 Yeah. I've said to Maria about doing some fashion stuff where you really are honing in on clothes or what I'm wearing, and we go shopping and we have the mics. And so just fun stuff, obviously, for stuff we want to do. What are you laughing at?

Marc 0:50:58 Nothing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:59 It's quite exciting though, isn't it?

Marc 0:51:01 I wonder what people are gonna get more bored of, the trains or the fashion. Both of us are quite geeky really, to be fair. Just wondering. Um, yeah, no, it sounds good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:12 Might be other family members that I bring on for a little chat.

Marc 0:51:14 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:15 Friends.

Marc 0:51:16 You're not gonna neglect the actual podcast though, and you're not gonna get all excited about this Patreon thing though, are you?

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:21 Absolutely not. Pod is number one.

Marc 0:51:24 So it is literally a bonus.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:25 All bonuses.

Marc 0:51:27 It sounds like it's worth it. Well, it certainly sounds like it's worth signing up anyway if you can sign up for free.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:32 Well, I just— I get quite a lot of people saying, oh, I wish there was more a week.

Marc 0:51:35 And if you sign up for free, you get what, a newsletter? You get a newsletter, yeah. You're gonna write a newsletter?

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:40 I've done it. I've done mine for next week.

Marc 0:51:42 I'm impressed.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:44 Yep, there you go.

Marc 0:51:46 I mean, that's worth signing up for in itself, surely. Handwritten. Is it handwritten or is it—

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:52 Handwritten? No, I did it. I typed it up and sent it to the person who's doing it.

Marc 0:51:56 You didn't use ChatGPT, did you?

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:57 Absolutely not.

Marc 0:51:58 Obsessed with ChatGPT.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:59 I do love it for certain things, but I would never write something with it.

Marc 0:52:01 I hope not. But you let us know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:03 Absolutely not.

Marc 0:52:04 Yeah, let us know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:05 Right, on that note, should we go and have a rosé at Elias?

Marc 0:52:09 Yeah, okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:10 It's lovely.

Marc 0:52:11 Brilliant. You, you're driving around there?

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:13 Yeah, that's fine.

Marc 0:52:14 Yeah. We'll walk around there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:16 Thank you for listening. Have a lovely week, everybody. Thanks, darling, for taking up your time, precious time, after being up since half past 4 this morning.

Marc 0:52:25 You're more than welcome.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:26 I love you.

Marc 0:52:27 You too.

Natalie Cassidy 0:52:28 Tim, he won't say I love you. Take care, everybody. Speak to you on Thursday. Cheers.