EP255: Scraping the Barrel #50 – down the arcades!

Speaker F 0:02:05 Hi, this is Sally Gander from Brentwood in Essex, standing here in the kitchen making my lunch, listening to the latest Scrape in the Barrel. And you're talking about the word elixir. My Alexa keeps going off saying, I do not know what you are asking me, or I do not understand. So the fact it went off about 4 times whilst you and Mark were trying to figure out exactly how to say the word, but it made me laugh. Anyway, have a good day. Enjoying the pod today.

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:51 Cheers, Sally. What a great name.

Marc 0:02:54 What, Alexa?

Natalie Cassidy 0:02:55 No, Sally Gander.

Marc 0:02:57 Alexa, what do you think of the name Sally Gander?

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:00 That's gonna piss everyone off.

Marc 0:03:03 No, Sally will like that though, because now Sally's Alexa's gonna be talking about her name. It's a nice little thing to do, isn't it? Personal touch.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:11 Miss Gander. I say Havagander quite a lot.

Marc 0:03:15 Yeah, sorry, who was last sat in this seat? Auntie Linnie. Right, okay, because the microphone's pointing at my Uh, what's that called?

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:25 Neck? No?

Marc 0:03:30 Now there's another name for that bit.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:35 Adam's apple?

Marc 0:03:36 Yeah, another one.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:38 Decla— décolleté? No.

Marc 0:03:42 Colon?

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:44 Sorry?

Marc 0:03:47 It's not, is it? I said that before. No, that's somewhere else. I mean, I do talk out of it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:03:53 You do. Collarbone. Collar.

Marc 0:03:58 That's what I was thinking of.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:00 It's funny, isn't it? Because you just said that about that sort of naming body parts and things.

Marc 0:04:05 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:05 But no one really knows about the fruit thing, do they?

Marc 0:04:09 What do you mean the fruit thing?

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:10 That you don't really know many fruits. I mean, over the years you've learned now.

Marc 0:04:17 Yeah, it's a bit old now, isn't it? That, because—

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:19 But it's not, 'cause no one's heard it. When you and Danny Dyer were standing on Albert Square, and I don't even know what fruit you were looking at now.

Marc 0:04:28 It's like a carrot or something.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:29 No, it wasn't a carrot. What was it?

Marc 0:04:31 I don't know. We didn't know what it was.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:33 Was it a Swede?

Marc 0:04:34 I think it was a Swede, which is ironic because he used to use the word Swede a lot.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:37 A lot. He likes saying it. No, no, no.

Marc 0:04:39 What was it? We were looking at something. Is it a kiwi? It might have been a kiwi. It was something like that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:44 It was a, a fruit, everybody, that is so ridiculously recognisable. And on my life, Danny and Mark did not know what it was. And they did not know.

Marc 0:04:55 We had, and we're having a proper conversation about it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:04:58 Unbelievable.

Marc 0:04:59 If you hadn't have been there, we, one of us would've Googled it probably. Not these days.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:06 But you're getting better.

Marc 0:05:09 Yeah, thank you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:10 You're getting better. We should do a Patreon special, actually, just a fruit quiz for you. That'd be really good.

Marc 0:05:15 And we could do, yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:17 Yeah, just 10 minutes. Be interesting.

Marc 0:05:20 Well, you need some, like, how's that gonna work on a podcast?

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:23 What do you mean?

Marc 0:05:24 Well, you need, like, the visuals to do, like, audio description.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:28 Yeah, I'll describe them.

Marc 0:05:30 Okay, long orange thing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:36 Carrot. You have a turn.

Marc 0:05:37 Long purple thing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:42 Aubergine.

Marc 0:05:43 Slightly bent. Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:45 Yep.

Marc 0:05:46 Classic emoji that's been used over the years.

Natalie Cassidy 0:05:48 It's funny, isn't it, how the aubergine's been tarnished?

Marc 0:05:51 I wouldn't say it's been tarnished. It's been, been misused. It's abused. Abused emoji. Yeah. Yeah. Couple that with the— what was the other one? What are the 3 dots? I mean, many a time the pair do come together. She's terrible. So there we go, about a minute and just—

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:16 3 dots. You mean splash? The splash. Do you think who made the emojis up thought that the aubergine and splash would be used in a sexual manner?

Marc 0:06:28 I don't know. I mean, there'll be plenty of people listening to this that have no idea what we're talking about.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:34 I've had a few.

Marc 0:06:36 I think there should be, there should be, please goodness, there should be a decent proportion that have got no idea what we're talking about. Good for you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:48 Unfortunately, I don't think that's the case, but yeah, fair enough.

Marc 0:06:51 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:06:53 What's your most used emoji?

Marc 0:06:55 Well, I can tell you that. It's got— what's that? Well, it's gonna be the diagonal smiley face. I think that was on Big Fat Quiz of the Year, I believe.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:01 Diagonal smiley face?

Marc 0:07:04 Yep. I will show you. You know the one. Uh, here we go. Oh, that's that crying laughter face. That's yours? Yeah. What's yours?

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:15 Mine's the straight one.

Marc 0:07:16 Yeah. Do you know, funnily enough, straight laughing face.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:19 Do you know what?

Marc 0:07:21 I used to use that all the time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:23 The eye roll's up there for me.

Marc 0:07:25 I use the, um, I use the GIF Morgana eye roll.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:33 Yes, you do.

Marc 0:07:35 I mean, what a gift. I mean, it really is like designed for the people in your family to use.

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:42 I know.

Marc 0:07:42 I mean, it's quite lucky. It's like a personalised GIF, isn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:45 Yeah, I feel very honoured.

Marc 0:07:47 He's brilliant. Have you spoken to her recently?

Natalie Cassidy 0:07:50 I haven't, no.

Marc 0:07:52 But you've been in a bit of a comedy mode lately, haven't you? Sort of, you know, with your, your pals, with your big Netflix release.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:01 Number 1. Might not be today when, uh, this podcast comes out, but currently number 1 on Netflix worldwide.

Marc 0:08:08 What are you talking about?

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:10 Alley Cats. Lovely Ricky's, uh, New show, new cartoon that's out.

Marc 0:08:16 Mm-hmm.

Natalie Cassidy 0:08:18 It's funny you mentioned that, actually. We had a message from lovely Pat, which will lead me onto a bit of a conversation about Ricky.

Speaker I 0:08:26 Oh, morning, Nat. Hi, I'm just on my early morning walk with the dog. It's Pat from Harlow. Sorry, I've got some cars going past me, a little bit noisy.

Speaker I 0:08:34 Um, I was just listening to your last episode, or a couple of minutes in, listening to you and Mark chatting about the Mozzy Bites. And I know you're never going to stop yourself getting bitten, you've tried everything the world and his wife has suggested, but there was a segment on This Morning one day last week, probably while you was away, discussing about how to treat the bites and to stop you scratching them. I mean, because I get bitten quite bad and it was quite a bit of an eye-opener, some new things I hadn't tried before. So hopefully that'll help you. I'm sorry I can't tell you what day it was on, but it was, it was really— it was only on for about 10 minutes, so it's really worth seeing if you can dig it out.

Speaker I 0:09:09 Anyway, Nat, love, uh, the pod. Keep doing what you're doing, and I'm a veteran right from the very beginning. Thank you. Bye.

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:17 Now you see, Pat, thank you for that, that's lovely, but we've got a little issue. This morning's on every single day for about 2 and a half hours. I can't sit going through how many hours? 12, 15? 20 hours to try and find this 10-minute little bit on mosquito bites. So it's, it's lovely of you to tell me, but I wish you would've known what day it was on.

Marc 0:09:44 Have you not got a mate you could tell? You're like from, from the pro— you, you're on the programme. Hey, you've been on the programme. Can you not— you've got not somebody you can ask?

Natalie Cassidy 0:09:52 Anyway, the reason Pat's message made me think about Alley Cats and Ricky Gervais is that Ricky Gervais was on This Morning, wasn't he? And I showed you it.

Marc 0:10:01 This is why you should be in radio. I mean, what a succinct, clever little link you just did there from one thing to the other.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:09 Thank you. Thank you very much. That's how my brain works.

Marc 0:10:16 I mean, you don't just throw this together, do you?

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:17 No.

Marc 0:10:18 Yes, that— funnily enough, yes, you were— sorry, he was on This Morning.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:26 It was.

Marc 0:10:26 Now, if I remember rightly, the day after you discovered— sorry, no, on the day of you discovering that, you— I think you were watching it on your phone in the kitchen.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:36 I was, yeah.

Marc 0:10:37 So we had some friends over.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:38 Yeah.

Marc 0:10:39 Went for dinner. Before they got their cab home, seemed to be on our telly again.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:46 It did.

Marc 0:10:46 We seemed to watch it again.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:47 Yeah.

Marc 0:10:48 Yeah. Do I get the slightest impression that you're a little bit excited about, Till.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:53 Very, very excited about that.

Marc 0:10:55 It is, it is very exciting.

Natalie Cassidy 0:10:56 It was exciting because he'd never, ever, ever bring me up, but lovely Josie Gibson did.

Marc 0:11:00 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:01 I actually thought the whole interview was extremely hilarious because you know that he's very uncomfortable being on a show like that, whether you like it or not. He is not sat there— I think he'll tell you about that.

Marc 0:11:15 I mean, he'll soon, right, you know, he'll send you a message, won't he, if he listens to this?

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:18 No, but he's not sat there thinking, oh, I'm on This Morning, this is brilliant.

Marc 0:11:22 He actually said at the end, I actually, I actually, I know my face doesn't say it, I actually quite enjoyed being here. Yeah. I believe it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:29 Yeah, well, me too. He wouldn't say it if he didn't mean it. But he did say that I was very funny.

Marc 0:11:34 He's not gonna slate you, is he? I know. He wants you to collaborate with his post.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:40 No, he was put on the spot. Put on the spot.

Marc 0:11:42 I mean, people like you. He's not gonna say, oh, I hated her.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:48 He texted me.

Marc 0:11:48 He did? I'm winding you up, by the way.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:50 He texted me, he said, thanks for doing an amazing job.

Marc 0:11:52 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:11:53 'Cause I messaged him, 'cause one of our lovely listeners sent me a message saying, I've watched Alley Cats, I loved it, I laughed, I cried. And I forwarded it onto him and said, I've had loads of these today. Thank you for letting me be a small part of it. And he said, no problem, thanks for doing an amazing job.

Marc 0:12:08 Has he offered you a part in the next series? No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:17 Okay, but you never know.

Marc 0:12:18 You need to get back on Chatterbix, by the way.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:20 Yes, I know.

Marc 0:12:21 I miss that. I, I love listening to that when you're on it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:24 You bloody miss it? Yeah, not as much as me.

Marc 0:12:28 Well, have a word of them.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:29 Miss the boys, don't I?

Marc 0:12:31 Well, yeah, you've got a theme tune and everything. It's gonna happen just because you've got your own podcast.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:37 No, I've had a little chat with them both. It's all good.

Marc 0:12:39 Are you gonna be doing that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:41 Yes, hopefully.

Marc 0:12:42 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:42 Yep, fingers crossed.

Marc 0:12:43 Brilliant. I hope so. You could do a really good Patreon, couldn't you? Your Patreon thing with like David and Joe could join you. You could do—

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:53 I did ask, I did ask Ricky to come on the pod. Did I tell you about that?

Marc 0:12:56 Did he? What did he say?

Natalie Cassidy 0:12:58 I'll tell you.

Marc 0:12:58 Okay, exclusive.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:02 I sent him a really long message.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:03 I said, hi Ricky, I hope you're well. I have a podcast like every other moron. And I wondered if you would come on it. You can talk about whatever you want, but I thought it would be nice to say how excited I was to be asked to do Alley Cats and chat about that. My podcast is about the very mundane things, and I don't have guests really, it's just family members, but do special episodes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:26 And with you, it would mean the world. So I'd ask you stupid things like, do you wash your feet in the shower or just let the water run onto them? I hate lateness, so I'd ask if you were a late or early person. Do you ever scan and shop and put the shopping into a bag before paying? I have a bra that's about 15 years old which I wear continuously, and I don't care because it's comfortable.

Natalie Cassidy 0:13:49 What's your most comfortable piece of clothing and how old? Just a silly chat, really. It'll be over Zoom or whatever suits you and could be any time you like. I know you're getting undated with this shit. But if you don't ask, Natalie—

Marc 0:14:07 Did he, did he block you at that point, or did he respond?

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:10 He said, hello, I can't do anything at the moment, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it one day. Also, I'm mad busy at the moment, so let me tell you when things quieten down a bit. Thanks for the offer too. With a thumbs up.

Marc 0:14:27 I mean, you really sold it to him. I mean, if he's not gonna respond to that—

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:31 I think he'd like those questions. He likes some— he likes the mundane stuff in life.

Marc 0:14:36 Okay. He does.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:39 So anyway, I think he'll come on one day. Got no doubt about it.

Marc 0:14:42 I think he's pretty tolerant, to be honest.

Natalie Cassidy 0:14:46 He is tolerant. He's probably thinking, fucking hell, I mean, why on earth did I get her in that programme? I didn't realise she stalked me.

Marc 0:14:56 You've got, you know, in there you've got a photo with a squiggle on that's meant to be his signature.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:02 Sophie. Sophie.

Marc 0:15:03 Did you not take that with you? You should have taken that with you when you did the alley cats and said, is that actually your signature? Because if not, I want a refund.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:10 Sophie got me that for my birthday. Autograph of him. Yeah. There you go. Little did I know I'd be working with him. So. All very nice, isn't it?

Marc 0:15:21 Well, I think it's amazing that you managed to— what's the word again?

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:28 Manifest.

Marc 0:15:30 Manifest that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:31 Yes.

Marc 0:15:32 Which I believe you did.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:33 I did.

Marc 0:15:34 I think that's a very, very good example of manifestation.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:37 Thank you.

Marc 0:15:37 And it is genuinely very impressive. What a lovely thing to have done. Hopefully you'll You know, you might get to do another series, be in it again.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:48 He might do something else, mightn't he, where he needs some useless bastard for an hour? I'm there.

Marc 0:15:54 I think— I mean, in all seriousness, it was really good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:15:57 Thank you.

Marc 0:15:58 It was.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:00 I think there's room for Samantha to come back.

Marc 0:16:04 Well, unfortunately, the other one, I don't think it's gonna happen.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:08 No, no spoilers, please. People haven't watched it.

Marc 0:16:11 I think people will work it out.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:13 I think there's fun to be had with the, uh, deaf and blind girlfriend of Puke.

Marc 0:16:16 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:17 It's quite a funny relationship, that. Very good.

Marc 0:16:22 Hmm. Oh, it's good though. It's really good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:25 It didn't get great reviews.

Marc 0:16:28 Well, it's doing all right though.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:30 No, I love the fact that it got shit reviews.

Marc 0:16:32 All publicity is good publicity.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:34 He could not give a shit, could he? And why would he? That's success. I'd love to write a comedy.

Marc 0:16:45 I know.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:46 What about Joni at breakfast when we went away, which made me think about doing a sketch show?

Marc 0:16:54 Oh, hang on a minute. I've forgotten already.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:56 No, you haven't.

Marc 0:16:57 Oh, this is so good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:16:58 It's fantastic, isn't it?

Marc 0:17:01 You be the waitress. I'll do Joni.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:03 Hello there. Are you ready to order?

Marc 0:17:05 Yes, please.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:05 What would you like?

Marc 0:17:07 Can I have the sausage sandwich, please?

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:10 Yeah, no problem.

Marc 0:17:11 But I don't like butter.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:14 That's fine.

Marc 0:17:15 So I don't want butter in my sandwich. Is it possible to change the bread to white bread, not the rye granary bread?

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:23 Yes, that's fine.

Marc 0:17:24 Okay. And would it be possible to take out the sausages? And, and replace the sausages with bacon.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:32 That's fine. So you'd like a bacon sandwich?

Marc 0:17:36 Yes. What was funny is when we had the whole concept of all the ingredients. Sorry. No, no, no.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:42 I had the concept. You, right.

Marc 0:17:44 You had the clever comedy concept.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:45 Of that being a sketch.

Marc 0:17:47 Absolutely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:17:48 Where every, you know, you flitter between different characters, and this one character is someone who goes to restaurants or goes to breakfast. And orders, hello there. Hi, I'd love the spaghetti bolognese. If you don't mind, I would prefer not to have the mincemeat with the sauce. And I don't particularly like spaghetti. So if you don't mind, if I could have some penne with some tuna, that'd be great. So you're changing it all the time. Yeah. You know, you're not all—

Marc 0:18:19 You could change the spaghetti for layers of pasta, couldn't you? Yeah. And then you could put the mincemeat in between the layers.

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:27 With a creamy sauce.

Marc 0:18:28 Creamy sauce on the top, béchamel sauce sort of thing. Instead of the spaghetti.

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:32 Yeah, that sort of thing.

Marc 0:18:33 Very good. You could really be quite creative with it as well, actually.

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:37 You could, you really could.

Marc 0:18:38 It's a little bit like the— no, it's not actually. I was gonna go off on a massive tangent there, which I'll save you the trouble of.

Natalie Cassidy 0:18:44 No, please, please do.

Marc 0:18:47 I was gonna do the MasterChef takeoff. You know when they do the voiceover? Oh yes, I mean. And it's like a shot of a plate and it's like ketchup squirted on. Yeah. Baked beans. 2 beans. could almost illustrate it a little bit like that. Maybe. Yes. Maybe. I don't know. I just sort of saw that and then when we—

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:00 Yeah. Very good.

Marc 0:19:01 But no, it was very amusing. She did it very genuinely and very funny.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:05 She's a funny little thing.

Marc 0:19:06 But I'm sure that she ordered a traditional, I can't speak, a traditional breakfast of, of, you know, a full English and tried to make it a bacon sandwich.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:15 It was a spicy sausage sandwich.

Marc 0:19:18 Right. Was there something else?

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:20 It's not really easy for me to say with a lisp.

Marc 0:19:21 You're so right. It was a spicy sausage sandwich. Didn't check the spice off the sausage first.

Natalie Cassidy 0:19:26 That's what I said.

Marc 0:19:28 Then did— oh, sorry. Yours, you're funnier, but not surprisingly.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:18 Didn't we have a lovely time away though?

Marc 0:22:20 Yeah, it was good actually. I've got the results actually of the, um—

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:23 Oh, our crazy golf?

Marc 0:22:24 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:25 That's fantastic.

Marc 0:22:26 What I've done here is I've stapled them together. Yeah. Along with George in Rye thank you card. They wrote a nice welcome back, it's a pleasure to have you with us again. Oh, we were last there 10 years ago when you were pregnant with Joni. Wishing you another wonderful stay, all the best for George in Rye. It's nice though, isn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:43 Very nice.

Marc 0:22:44 Did you notice that the top right corner number was your number at EastEnders?

Natalie Cassidy 0:22:47 I did. I didn't notice that was my number. I knew every time I opened the room that we were number 38 because that was our room number.

Marc 0:22:55 Yes, I hadn't thought of that, but I thought of it seeing it written down there. Brilliant. I was thinking about the fact it's the same age as me.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:00 Everyone had a number in EastEnders. We all had numbers, guys, and I was number 38, which got taken over quite quickly, I believe.

Marc 0:23:09 Yeah, I can't remember who took it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:11 Don't know.

Marc 0:23:12 Might have been Ronnie—

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:14 Ronnie Uncona?

Marc 0:23:17 I think it might have been.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:18 Happy days.

Marc 0:23:18 Could be wrong there. I'll have to look it up. But no, we did all right on the crazy— and Joanie's getting very good. Very good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:27 We had a massive big drama, didn't we, on the first round?

Marc 0:23:30 Oh yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:31 It was unbelievable the way it turned.

Marc 0:23:33 Incredible.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:34 I, I mean, if James is listening, which I'm sure he doesn't, our brother-in-law, it was like, honestly, like the Ryder Cup. The first 9, Jackie, Mark's mum, our mum, the first 9, she was on fire, wasn't she? She was doing 2s. So 3s like no tomorrow.

Marc 0:23:55 9 holes in.

Natalie Cassidy 0:23:57 Yeah.

Marc 0:23:57 Well, actually it's the 10th hole. On the 10th hole, yeah, my mum, mum had 26.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:04 Unbelievable.

Marc 0:24:04 You had 32. Uh, I had, uh, 28. Joni had 33.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:14 Yeah.

Marc 0:24:14 So in order, it was my mum followed by me followed by you, followed by Joni.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:22 Yep.

Marc 0:24:23 And I announced the scores halfway through, and my mum fell apart. She did.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:30 Too much pressure.

Marc 0:24:31 And at the same time, Joni like took off.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:34 This is what I mean, mental mind games with the golf. You actually got it, didn't you, after playing that? You actually said to me, I kind of get it now why golf's exciting.

Marc 0:24:43 I did.

Natalie Cassidy 0:24:44 That's why it's exciting, because it can take a turn at any point.

Marc 0:24:47 Well, it did take a turn because the person who was in the lead ended up losing. Yeah, came 4th on that round. The person who was 3rd held their 3rd position, no names. The person who was 2nd, me, held their position, and the person who was last—

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:11 Little Joan. came in first and we didn't muck about.

Marc 0:25:15 So they both swapped positions over those last 9 holes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:19 This is what happened.

Marc 0:25:19 It's incredible.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:20 It's great, isn't it?

Marc 0:25:21 So she won. That was that. Next round—

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:24 I have to say, guys, so it is the summer holidays. At least we're getting one out. Just remember that. But at least we're knocking one out.

Marc 0:25:33 Pardon? People will be interested in this.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:38 Yeah, yeah, thrilled.

Marc 0:25:40 So, 2nd, 2nd round, which we played that night, for the record.

Natalie Cassidy 0:25:43 We did.

Marc 0:25:44 I won. And then the round the next day— yeah, this was Hastings Crazy Golf, by the way. Best crazy golf. Best crazy golf ever. Just to say, massive shout out to them, the home of the World Crazy Golf Championships, Hastings Seafront.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:00 Absolutely immaculate, the course.

Marc 0:26:02 And then Joni and I were 1 point apart the next day. Oh, it's amazing. That was good, that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:08 It was good, and I like to do all 3. I'm pleased we got all 3 in because there are 3 courses, as you see, so it's nice to get them in. What's your favourite?

Marc 0:26:16 What course out of the 3? Oh, um, the first one. Me too. I like the pirate one.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:23 Yeah. No, not pirate.

Marc 0:26:24 Not the pirate. Adventure. Is it Adventure? Yeah, meant to be the hardest course.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:27 Is it? Yeah, that's my favourite.

Marc 0:26:29 That's my favourite too. Yep, that was good. I've got fond memories of my dad going on that and getting squirted at. The, the little figures squirt you, don't they?

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:38 I can imagine him tripping over a lot as well.

Marc 0:26:40 He did trip over quite a few things. Yeah, to be fair.

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:43 He likes to trip up, didn't he, a little bit? But when, when I see the little bunkers and holes and things, I bet, I bet he stumbled over a few of those, knowing your dad.

Marc 0:26:51 He did. What did you think of the ambiance the second day we were there?

Natalie Cassidy 0:26:58 Ambience.

Marc 0:26:59 With the tractors cruising up and down the seafront.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:02 I have to say, I wouldn't call it ambience.

Marc 0:27:05 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:06 Now I'm all for the farmers.

Marc 0:27:09 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:10 Having a go.

Marc 0:27:11 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:12 Going up and having a little few petitions, a little march. Yeah. I think they really deserve to do that because I think they're very important to us and we need them. However, The noise of these fucking tractors trying to play crazy golf going up and down. Oh my God, I cannot explain to you. And it was beeping, but the beeping and the horns were to Baby Shark.

Marc 0:27:39 Very good at that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:46 Thank you.

Marc 0:27:46 That was a really good impression.

Natalie Cassidy 0:27:47 Thank you. But really loud like that, screeching up and down, up and down. I don't see how that's helping farmers.

Marc 0:27:55 Honestly. Not in the middle of Hastings. It went on and on and on to the point where it was really starting to get annoying.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:00 It was bad.

Marc 0:28:00 It was funny the first time. It was putting me off my shots, actually.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:05 It was, it was putting me off, which is why I think I failed abysmally.

Marc 0:28:09 Yeah. You just, you just manifested it the day before when they weren't there, which is just something you imagined, was it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:20 Well, I think I could have done better.

Marc 0:28:21 It was lovely though. What a lovely breakaway in Rye.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:26 She only loves the 2p machines, doesn't she?

Marc 0:28:28 She does.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:29 She gets quite into it. Bit of a worry, that.

Marc 0:28:32 The pushers.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:33 Pardon?

Marc 0:28:34 The pusher, like the pushing machines.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:36 Oh, that's what you meant. Yeah.

Marc 0:28:37 You know the—

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:38 Yes, 2 pence machines.

Marc 0:28:41 Yeah, there's a name for them. But that, what did he used to call them? The shove To shove?

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:45 Shove apney?

Marc 0:28:45 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:46 That's a game, isn't it?

Marc 0:28:47 Yeah, it was pushers. Interesting though, very sneaky.

Natalie Cassidy 0:28:53 Oh yeah, they are very sneaky. She didn't do bad though.

Marc 0:28:57 She did all right. But if you, if you look at them really carefully, those— firstly, you've got the shelf, the metal shelf that pushes forward. If you look really carefully, there's a little sliver of like a silicone rubber down the bottom. So it bends back when it hits a 2p. It can flick the 2p up so it rides up over another 2p. It's not a solid thing, which is clever because they use mirrors so it looks like it is. And the other clever thing, which I have to admit I'd not actually paid attention to before, but obviously—

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:29 I know what you're going to say because you said it to me 3 times on the day.

Marc 0:29:31 As the 2ps move forward, there are sides when— and they disappear off into the corner. So that's your profit. Yeah, because obviously otherwise the 2ps going in eventually would come out.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:41 Yeah, not all of them do. They silently go off into the pot.

Marc 0:29:44 Very sneaky.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:45 Like roadworks.

Marc 0:29:46 Very sneaky. So that's the profit mod. But I enjoyed the penny machines.

Natalie Cassidy 0:29:50 Oh, that I love in the Rye Museum. I love all the old penny machines. They're great. That was good because you used to have some of those in Covent Garden. I'm not sure if they're still there. They may be.

Marc 0:29:59 Whereabouts?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:00 There was a— in the old market, in the, in the Oh, right, the old, you know, yeah, a bit in the middle.

Marc 0:30:05 We talk about like in 1910, 1905?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:08 No, when I was younger.

Marc 0:30:10 All right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:10 There used to be like a fortune teller one and a little scary one.

Marc 0:30:15 All right. Yeah, don't put that.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:18 But yeah, I really like those. And that reminds me of that steam fair we went to that I really enjoyed because that had those machines in it, one penny machines. But I also like— I do like a slot machine, I have to say.

Marc 0:30:32 Like a One-Armed Bandit kind of. Um, they were better when you used to pull the lever though. Got 2 of those. Mum's got 2 of them. She's got a pink one where you pull the lever on and like a, like a silver one in the garage.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:47 Quite nice to have one of those.

Marc 0:30:49 Yeah, along with the 7-pinball machines.

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:51 And, um, no, I was quite— but the One-Armed Bandit things Really fun.

Marc 0:30:57 They are nice, aren't they?

Natalie Cassidy 0:30:58 Nice thing to have.

Marc 0:30:59 They are nice. Yeah, my dad used to restore them. We've got a poker machine as well.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:04 Have you? How does that work?

Marc 0:31:07 It's like more like a fruit machine. So it's a light-up one. I believe it was illegal or something. There was some issue with it. Some reason it was a, something to do with a percentage payout or some legislation thing. But anyway, it doesn't matter because he didn't make any money out of it. It was in the garage, but it was, yes, it was like a poker machine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:27 Oh, very good.

Marc 0:31:29 Yeah. Good fun now, aren't they?

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:31 They are good fun, but gamble responsibly, folks. So quickly.

Marc 0:31:36 With your pennies.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:36 But if you're doing a pound a go.

Marc 0:31:38 Oh, the fruit machine. I mean, that you and I sat in that part of the casino was a joke. We didn't have a clue.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:45 I don't. I told Ellie about it. She said, you should have phoned me.

Marc 0:31:47 I mean, not a clue. I grew up for 20 years getting taken around shops with my dad repairing everything.

Natalie Cassidy 0:31:53 It's crazy that you don't know.

Marc 0:31:54 Not a clue how they work. I have no idea. Um, which I think is a really good thing.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:01 I know, but they are fun.

Marc 0:32:02 Well, yeah, it's just—

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:05 yeah, hey ho.

Marc 0:32:06 It was funny. You're sitting there with your little pot of— yeah, there's a— that's a tenner gone. It's like brilliant.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:11 Doesn't take long, does it?

Marc 0:32:16 God. But what do you think? So we were in a— in an arcade.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:21 Yeah.

Marc 0:32:22 And Joanie really enjoyed it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:25 Yes.

Marc 0:32:26 I think we were getting like a fiver's worth of 2ps.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:28 Oh, not even that. I think it was £3 worth. So it's not mad. We haven't gone mad. No.

Marc 0:32:32 And that actually genuinely lasted quite a long time. Yes. Those 2ps. Yeah. It really did last long. That was like an hour.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:38 Yeah.

Marc 0:32:39 Playing the machines at least. And each go is like, you know, my mum was putting down a 2p each time. I know, it was good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:32:45 It was really cute.

Marc 0:32:46 So nothing wrong with that. I get it. But it does a little bit of you not think, I mean, I understand we all know what we're doing there, but I just feel that there's this, you could very easily get carried away. The thing about the tickets, you know. Oh, the tickets one was great, wasn't it? The first time we ever went in there, I remember us being in there and getting loads of tickets playing a game, thinking we've done, blimey, we've done really well.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:15 No, you get about 1,900 tickets and you can buy a pen.

Marc 0:33:18 I know. And I just think that's really dodgy.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:22 It is what it is.

Marc 0:33:22 It's out of order though.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:23 It's just a bit of fun, isn't it?

Marc 0:33:25 It is a bit of fun and it is fun.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:27 I think as long as you go into those places and think, right, that's what I have.

Marc 0:33:31 Yes.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:32 And I'm happy to lose that tonight. Absolutely. For a night out.

Marc 0:33:35 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:35 I'm happy to lose that amount and I'm not gonna be annoyed about it, then it's fine. Be that a pound, £3, £10, £100, what? Because I'm going in there and I'm having an evening.

Marc 0:33:44 Well, you're never gonna go in there and come out on top.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:47 I mean, we're not talking about Monte Carlo or Las Vegas, are we?

Marc 0:33:51 Like, the best thing you could ever come out with is like a hair dryer.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:54 There was a steamer iron. I saw a steamer in there.

Marc 0:33:58 Fine.

Natalie Cassidy 0:33:58 I think that was about 7,000 tickets.

Marc 0:34:00 It was like a Temu, but 7,000 tickets. You probably gotta spend something like 500 quid to get that. No, you have probably 50 quid.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:09 100 quid.

Marc 0:34:09 You never ever gonna come out on top, are you? You're never ever gonna go in and spend a pound and go, blimey, I've got the steam iron. It's not gonna happen. You say that. No chance.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:19 You've got the one with the keys for the balls.

Marc 0:34:21 No, you've got more chance of, of actually going like to a casino and winning on roulette or something.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:29 Yeah, it's true.

Marc 0:34:30 You're never gonna go in one of those arcades and come out and think, oh, that's great, done all right.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:34 It's quite funny in there as well, isn't it? Just a funny, funny atmosphere.

Marc 0:34:40 Is it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:41 Just, just, um, I don't know, I just find it, I don't know, just a funny—

Marc 0:34:51 No, no, please.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:53 No, I can't really explain it.

Marc 0:34:54 Funny atmosphere.

Natalie Cassidy 0:34:55 I don't want to upset anyone, it's just, um, a bit rough around the edges, I'd say.

Marc 0:34:59 I don't have no idea what you're talking about.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:01 Whenever you go into those sort of arcades during the day with kids, you have a massive mix of people.

Marc 0:35:05 Trams. It's like anything. You have a mix of people.

Natalie Cassidy 0:35:07 Yeah, fair enough.

Natalie Cassidy 0:37:53 I've gotta tell you a story because I popped into M&S to get my euros. Have you got some euros lately from anywhere?

Marc 0:38:06 I've never done it. I'll just get them out when I'm over there. I'll just go to the cash point and get them out.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:10 I felt like I was being questioned. Like I was a criminal.

Marc 0:38:15 Well, you would have been.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:17 I got my passport out and said what I wanted or whatever, and brilliant, lovely lady. Yeah, she said, okay, right now I'm going to ask you a couple of questions. I felt like I was on The Bill, and I said okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:28 And she said, may I ask where you got these funds from? I started acting all guilty. I said, um, yeah, from my, um, it's my, my personal account, my, my money, my salary. I started stuttering and everything. Made me feel really nervous.

Natalie Cassidy 0:38:44 And she said, okay, and, uh, may I ask, uh, what you will be using them for? I said, well, I'm going on holiday, um, recreational things, um, not recreational, sort of taxis and, you know, excursions, excursions, things like that. She was like, okay. But it really made me nervous.

Marc 0:39:05 Yeah, a bit, a bit like when you walk through duty-free with like declare or nothing to declare and you walk through and you sort of pick—

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:10 everyone's looking at you and you sort of And you think, yes, I've got the fags through for Brian.

Marc 0:39:14 Yeah, the legal amount.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:18 That is true.

Marc 0:39:20 That's what I mean.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:21 Yeah.

Marc 0:39:22 You've always got that sort of—

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:24 We forgot Brian's fags last holiday.

Marc 0:39:25 We didn't. It's more money buying them there than it was. Oh, really? Yeah, there's no saving where we were.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:30 Oh, fair enough. Don't like to forget him, you know.

Marc 0:39:33 No, but there was a saving when we, when we come back from Dubai. Blimey. But no, not, not when we're coming back from where we were last.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:42 Fair enough. Not only did we go away for a couple of days, which was lovely, it felt like a week's break, wasn't it? Really nice to go away.

Marc 0:39:49 Yeah, we had a little mini break before that though.

Natalie Cassidy 0:39:51 Mine— I, we've been very, very fortunate. I've spoken about all this last week with Linda, so I won't bore you. You talked about the tent. Oh, the tent was fun. That was good, wasn't it? Yes.

Marc 0:40:04 It's a lovely bell tent, which we got an absolute bargain.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:09 I think we've, I think we've spoken about all this before, but the thing is, guys, right, it's lovely having Mark because I'm telling you now, I would never put that tent up on my own.

Marc 0:40:21 You could put that tent up on your own.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:22 And take it down.

Marc 0:40:23 You could.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:24 Absolutely not.

Marc 0:40:25 You could.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:25 I'm not saying I couldn't. I could not be bothered. I have absolutely zero interest in doing so, but you doing it is brilliant.

Marc 0:40:36 It's such a nice tent.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:37 We've got double blow-up beds in there, 3 double blow-up beds, soft sheets. We bring all the duvets out from inside. We lock the door at night. We've got fairy lights in there and it actually feels like you're away.

Marc 0:40:50 It's really cool.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:51 It is good.

Marc 0:40:52 And, and it was, well, it literally was really cool. It was lovely in there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:40:57 It was so nice in there, wasn't it?

Marc 0:40:58 It's the coolest evening I've had for a long time. Yeah. It's, it's, it's nice.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:03 Lovely things to do.

Marc 0:41:04 I actually needed to be under my covers to keep warm at one point. I woke up in the middle of the night and thought, wow, it's actually, it's cold outside.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:10 Yeah, it was really nice.

Marc 0:41:11 Oh, it's made a nice change to the weather we've had lately. Lovely.

Speaker N 0:41:16 Oh my God, Nat, I can't believe it. I am in Palma and I'm having my first ever Maxibon Mini Classic. And I'm very excited and I'll let you know if it's nice. Oh my God, I'm eating it now. It's lovely. I mean, it's reminding me of a choc ice. That is exactly what it reminds me of. Oh, it's really nice. Got nuts in it as well. Absolutely. Why don't they do these in the UK?

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:41 That make you jealous?

Marc 0:41:42 Sounds like she's having a nice time.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:44 That was Jess.

Marc 0:41:46 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:47 With her first Maxi Bomb.

Marc 0:41:48 Yeah, I haven't had one for a long time, yet I have been abroad. That's the thing, it's a little bit odd there.

Natalie Cassidy 0:41:54 We had a lovely message here, and I'm so sorry I haven't got the name, but it says, I've listened since the beginning and the whole time I've been like, what the fuck is a Maxibon? Never Googling it because, well, I've always forgotten. Went on holiday last week and I bloody found them. Yummy. Would have again.

Marc 0:42:14 Oh well, there you go.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:15 So that's nice, isn't it? Then my favourite Maxibon message this time round was from our daughter who went to Italy with Elia. Hello, it's your daughter here. Look what I found in Italy, with pictures of Maxibons.

Marc 0:42:30 Wow.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:30 But she sent it to the Life with Nat number, 07788 201919.

Marc 0:42:35 Nice.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:36 Which I thought was a bit of effort had gone in there.

Marc 0:42:40 Oh, sounds it. Yeah. I mean, it's nice of her to, to— well, I suppose she couldn't have brought it back because she'd have one and worked.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:47 It's not gonna work, darling, is it?

Marc 0:42:48 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:42:48 We had a message here from Lottie, just so you know. Hey Mark, what is a Cornetto Go? Appears to be a Maxibon equivalent. What's your thoughts from this pic, and have you tried one? Right, found in the Netherlands. Speak soon, Lottie.

Marc 0:43:07 Cornetto Go.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:09 Cornetto Go.

Marc 0:43:09 Oh, that looks good. Now that— no, that's not like a Maxibon. That obviously is a copy of the Oreo ice cream. Ah, but that is exceptional because the Oreo ice cream and that Cornetto Go is like the biscuit part of the Maxibon.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:30 Right.

Marc 0:43:32 Which is lovely to say. And can I say something? I, I thought about this the other day and I've missed the boat.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:37 Go on.

Marc 0:43:37 And actually, I've not— we— I didn't have an ice cream when we went to Hastings.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:41 No, you didn't.

Marc 0:43:43 I haven't had one ice cream.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:44 No, you didn't.

Marc 0:43:45 In fact, I've not had an ice cream.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:47 How long?

Marc 0:43:47 I did have an ice cream without it. You had one. We, we— 3 of us had it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:53 Oh, we shared one over dinner.

Marc 0:43:57 It was something really unusual. It had olive oil on it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:43:59 It was delicious.

Marc 0:44:01 It was really nice. What was the ice cream though? I've forgotten what it was. Oh dear.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:10 Was it chocolate? No.

Marc 0:44:11 No, it wasn't, because you are— no, it was olive ice cream.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:15 It was olives with olive oil on.

Marc 0:44:17 Yes, olive ice cream. Oh, it was really good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:21 See, that's my sort of thing because it's savoury. Do you know what I mean?

Marc 0:44:24 That really was lovely. But Yeah. So we did have a little bit of ice cream, but no, I didn't have an ice cream out there. But no, what I was gonna say was, I haven't really been there, but I think it was Lidl did them. They did a cookie. It was cookies and cream.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:38 Yeah, she said. Yeah.

Marc 0:44:39 And there was like these massive cookies with a massive slab of ice cream between the cookies.

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:44 Yeah. You liked those, didn't you?

Marc 0:44:45 What is the bit about it is anyone can get 2 cookies and a slab. You know, we can do that. You can, you can make it. But what's great about it—

Natalie Cassidy 0:44:52 We haven't done the Bourbon thing yet, which is meant to be good.

Marc 0:44:55 What's great about it though is the ice cream ever so slightly moistens the cookie.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:01 Yeah, and that for me is disgusting.

Marc 0:45:02 That's the bit that's so good.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:04 For me, that's the worst bit.

Marc 0:45:05 So good. It's a soggy biscuit. Oh, lovely. I grew up dunking bourbons in my dad's tea.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:11 No, I like that, but not in an ice cream, thank you.

Marc 0:45:14 Oh, it's lovely.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:14 I want a crisp.

Marc 0:45:16 No.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:16 I want something crisp. No. Something that I can crunch.

Marc 0:45:19 Nope.

Natalie Cassidy 0:45:19 That's why I don't like ice cream anyway, so it's irrelevant.

Marc 0:45:22 I'm giving it up anyway, so they could reinstate the Maxibon and I don't know if I'd eat one.

Speaker O 0:45:31 Hi Nat, just listening to your pod where you and Mark were talking about packing and you was talking about having an extra set of cables, etc., ready to go so you didn't have to maybe forget the one you have plugged in from the night before. I have a Carry-on size luggage that I have already pre-packed.

Speaker O 0:45:52 It has all my cables, it has my extra set of straighteners because my hair's absolutely horrible if I don't straighten it, clean set of underwear, socks, bra, a pair of yoga pants and a t-shirt, and all, you know, travel size shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, all that kind of stuff, uh, wet wipes just in case. And I have that all packed and ready to go. The reason being is because I have 2 children, 2 daughters that live in different states, and I always had that panic about if they called to say that they needed me, I want to be able to just grab and run and get on a flight or on the road, you know, pending whichever I can do. And so I, I literally always have this packed and ready to go. And, uh, it doesn't work out to be too expensive.

Speaker O 0:46:47 You know, I have yoga pants that I would not normally— well, I mean, I wouldn't miss it out of my clothing pile. It doesn't hurt to, you know, have this extra set of underwear packed away. And my straighteners are my old set, so I bought a new set, put the old set in. So, you know, stuff that's pretty cheap to buy. I don't wear makeup, so that, that's quite easy.

Speaker O 0:47:10 But also my husband has in his vehicle an extra set of underwear for us each and a toothbrush. So if we go somewhere for the day and we don't make it home, whether there, you know, there's been an accident, roads are closed, we have to turn around, or we just decide we're going to stay out for the night, then we do have an extra set of clean underwear and a toothbrush to use. So he's very smart there. We're not smart enough that I don't have one in my car though. Anywho, just thought I'd let you know.

Speaker O 0:47:40 Love the pod, love listening to you and Mark chat. Sounds like I'm actually sat with you, and I'm actually sorry that this went on for a little bit longer. Maybe speed it up.

Marc 0:47:49 I was gonna say, that was quite a long message.

Natalie Cassidy 0:47:51 I know, but I really like the sound of her voice. Yeah, and she also said this.

Speaker O 0:47:55 Came back to say goodbye, how rude of me. It's Rhonda, used to be Banbury, now in Maine, USA.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:02 That lovely.

Marc 0:48:03 Wow.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:04 Old Ronda.

Marc 0:48:04 Maine. How cool is that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:06 So cool.

Marc 0:48:08 I've just got an image now of her and her husband in a fresh pair of underwear with a toothbrush in their mouth, like, you know, scrubbing their teeth. It really made me laugh. Yeah, well, I thought I like the pairings of those things.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:19 It's very good, that.

Marc 0:48:20 Very, very organised.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:22 I don't have anything in the car that's worth anything. A kitchen roll.

Marc 0:48:26 An apple core maybe underneath.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:29 A couple of old mascaras dried up that Eliza's left in there.

Marc 0:48:31 Your car is absolutely disgusting.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:33 Yeah, it's not great. No, no, I've done— I have to say, I do, I get it valeted now quite a lot.

Marc 0:48:38 Do you know, I found in mine the other day a McDonald's chip.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:42 Now, when was the last time you had one of those in there?

Marc 0:48:45 Well, this is what I was gonna say to you. I think it was about 3 years ago.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:49 No, I don't think it was that long ago.

Marc 0:48:50 It was a long time ago, but the chip looked perfectly preserved. It was funny, that, isn't it?

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:55 They did that, didn't they?

Marc 0:48:56 Yeah, I think they last for years.

Natalie Cassidy 0:48:59 They put them in a museum, didn't they?

Marc 0:49:01 I don't know if they did.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:02 They put them under glass and it was 20 years or something. It was like a perfect fucking McDonald's meal, really, because of what's in them.

Marc 0:49:08 It was funny.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:10 Love a McDonald's though. Oh no, nothing better than eating a McDonald's in the car. I did that before coming to see you and not going out. That was my last McDonald's.

Marc 0:49:20 Before coming to see me?

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:21 Yeah.

Marc 0:49:21 Oh yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:23 And I had a McDonald's and I sat in the car park and I ate my McDonald's and then I walked to meet you.

Marc 0:49:27 We had a McDonald's after Strictly, didn't we?

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:30 We did.

Marc 0:49:30 At about 4 o'clock in the morning or something.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:33 It wasn't 4 o'clock in the morning.

Marc 0:49:34 Whenever it was, we went to— oh yeah, we did though. But no, um, Maine, USA.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:42 From Banbury. Near Oxford, that is, isn't it?

Marc 0:49:46 Yeah, yeah, near Bicester.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:48 Not a bad part of the world.

Marc 0:49:49 I was thinking, you know, you've forgotten you, you had a special guest you meant to phone up on this, um, episode. We've not done it.

Natalie Cassidy 0:49:57 Who was it?

Marc 0:49:58 Greg James. He said, he said, oh yeah, brilliant. He sent the message under the video and he said, get me on next time and I'll talk to you about this.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:06 We'll do that soon. Unfortunately, I do know that he's been through some trauma lately. Oh, because his wonderful dog passed away.

Marc 0:50:12 Oh.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:13 And I know that he and Bella are out of it for a little while, which is fair enough.

Marc 0:50:18 Okay.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:19 So I'm sure we can do that. And I do send all my love and wishes to them. Yeah. Barney. Barney's passed.

Marc 0:50:26 Oh, how'd you know that?

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:28 Because it's on Instagram and I follow Greg like a hawk.

Marc 0:50:31 What you do.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:33 Anyway, on that note.

Marc 0:50:35 Yeah.

Natalie Cassidy 0:50:36 We better go.

Marc 0:50:37 Yeah. Lovely.

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Marc 0:51:03 Thank you.

Natalie Cassidy 0:51:04 See you later. See you later. Love you.

Marc 0:51:06 Love you too.