Please Keep Me Anonymous with Natalie Cassidy

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19:56Rosie Ramsey:would you get it done though in the future Botox yeah depends never say never I'm the same because now I see all my friends but I think we're at the how old are you if you don't mind me asking no of course not 43 43 I'm 40 this year I feel like oh you're young really young 3 years old no I know but you're in your 30s you're still in 30s oh for another couple of months we're literally 27 days different to each other yeah I'm the 3rd of August She's the 30th of August. Yeah, we're both 40 this year. Cracking, what are you doing? You've got to do something large, surely. I've already done it. I've just got back from a golf trip.

20:32I went and played golf with my mates.

20:34Rosie Ramsey:I went to Verona with my mum and my sister. Oh, that's lovely. We're so lucky because we work together. Whenever we come down to London to do this, we have a night. You have time together, yeah. We have lovely nights. We're really lucky in that way. So actually, I don't feel like we need to do it. We're going on a lovely family holiday. Yeah. Quite a spendsy one next month, aren't we? Nice, nice. So I feel like we are doing some lovely little things and we might have a little gathering of the friends we chatted about. But, yeah. So, yeah. I was saying, when you've done the stuff we've done, we've sold out the O2.

21:05We've done all these huge things. Massive things, yeah. These massive things. Isn't that mad to sell out the O2 with a podcast? Don't you think that's mad? That was nuts. It was insane. It was nuts. You can't really remember it. Wasn't you in the Guinness World Records? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we were literally, we couldn't remember, like we couldn't barely remember it. It was a whirlwind, wasn't it? I mean, I get excited when I see that Hartford Beam, which is like 140 people or something, and I feel really proud. But that's 140 people. I will never, ever not be so humbled. That people come out.

21:36Honestly, looking through the curtain, when they're sitting down, they're taking their coats off, they're putting their bags down, they're sitting down and they're looking, getting ready for it to come out. It's the most incredible feeling in the world. And people think I'm full of shit when I say, I have moments on stage where I'm still like, I can't believe you're here. It's so true. and you're listening and you're laughing it's mental it's so true point being when you've done stuff like that together as well your two of them went and stayed in a nice hotel and so filling the local community centre with your mates and putting a spread on it's like it's nice but we didn't need to do that do you know what I mean it's like it's fine thanks for coming but I'd rather just had a quiet one and went for a curry we don't need everyone here

22:07Rosie Ramsey:we're proper like foodies so for us that's all I want to do I'm like I just want to go for a meal tasting menu oh my god with the wine pairing get a bit of cheese at the end Have you been to the Leadbury? She doesn't do cheese. I don't like cheese. Have you been to the Leadbury? No, what is the Leadbury? Just write it down and go, please. Where is it? Not in Hill. Oh, okay. The Leadbury. Right. The Leadbury. Right. The Leadbury. Oh, I haven't heard of it either. You need to go there. Is it a tasty menu? Wine pairing? It's extortionate. Of course it is. But I think, do you know what it is? I think if you work hard, I always kind of put it to different ways.

22:44Rosie Ramsey:You know, sometimes my friends and that, we like really nice wine. I don't go out very much. I think we are the same person. I think we are. It's horrible. I'd rather spend£30 on a nice bottle of wine and have it in the house, pay me mortgage for, that I love, right, in my pyjamas, being comfortable watching film. But I like going to the pub. Mark and I will always, we'll pop over the pub. Yeah. But we don't really do, I like being at home with the kids. Me too. I enjoy being at home. This is so horrible. I love being at home. You know when people go, oh, you've got to go out. You've got to have a life.

23:16You've got to go away. on your own I don't want to go away on my own I like going away with my family Rosie's perfect idea of a night is she's sitting in the house she's having a drink she's watching the telly the kids and me we're around but we're not bothering her like we're there but we're not bothering her so in a perfect way I may be doing bedtime and you're just sitting with a glass of wine that's a perfect night

23:36Rosie Ramsey:I just always want to be I want to be near them because I just feel like I don't know it's like a lovely feeling but I don't want them to bother us I want to go in the back She wants them to be there, but she doesn't want to have to get up to make a juice. Yeah, I don't want to have to get up and do anything. That's what I want from your 40th. I've said this before. I want a night in the house from, let's say, from four o 'clock, right, from when they get into school. You do everything. They can come and say hello to us. I want to cuddle. They can have five minutes each. I want cuddles and stuff.

24:06Rosie Ramsey:But I don't want to have to do anything and I don't want them to bother us. Can I have that? No. I'll go in the nice room. I'll shut the door. Okay. Right? Yes, of course you can have that. You can have that tomorrow night when we get home if you want. I'm not bothered. Oh, you canny. My nice lounge has now got a lot of kids stuff in it, which is really upsetting. Oh, you've got to be strong. I tell you what, I try. But because the nine-year-old now, she's just watched The Devil Wears Prada. So she watched the first one. The first one. And then we went to the cinema. Oh, did she love it? Watched the second one.

24:33She didn't really like the second one as much, but I think it's when you know the first one, the second one is all the nostalgia. You're right, Nodgy. I was crying all the way through. But she wants to play that now. so she gets all of my magazines, Tate magazines and Vogue magazines and old ones and she has them all and I have to do, I have to be my Wall Street. I'm like, that's all. And we play the game but she's in the lounge that's where the magazines are so there's suddenly a laptop and a notebook and a pencil and I'm like, I can't have this.

24:57Rosie Ramsey:I know. Not in the nice lounge. I know. We've got such a big age gap between our two that they don't necessarily like the same TV programmes so the older one has slipped into the nice room and I'll just find like, I'll find like ice lolly sticks like on the side of the sofa and then I'll, and I'm just like, oh Jesus Christ. we haven't talked about this. Has he got his heart out on the sofa? I don't know. We haven't talked about this but he, the way he, he finishes an ice lolly and then he chews that stick. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Within an inch of its lap. I'm like, mate, you're going to get splinters in your gums.

25:33Chews everything. How are you doing it? He just chews everything. It's you. It's you. You're a chewer, aren't you?

25:37Rosie Ramsey:I loved a good chew when I was a kid. We're going to do this question because we have just sat and chatted. Hold on, let's quickly, very quickly. Go on. What's the question? I was just going to, before we finished, mention Nat's podcast, Life with Nat. Oh, that's very good. She records at home and she's a one-man band. She does everything. Well, you say everything. No, you get the WhatsApps and everything, don't you? I get the WhatsApps on my phone, yeah. Wow. There's a lot to go through. That's insane. But it's good. A lot of them just like, Love Juni Stenders. No, they love the topics, don't they?

26:11People are very passionate. I've got another thing to ask you.

26:14Rosie Ramsey:Dead quickly. Did you enjoy Mighty Hoopla? It was so good. It looked so good. I'm desperate to go. Honest, it was brilliant. You've got to go. It was so fun. It's just a wonderful, massive, big LGBTQ festival. It's like pride in a festival. It just looks amazing. Wow. And I went on a Sonia. They asked me to go on a Sonia. And I actually got my niece, who's on the problemate, She got me on eBay a peach bridesmaid dress. And I took my trumpet and I was on stage and the gays went mad. I died. Well, do you know Hunsnet? Yeah, of course. Do you know Gareth from Hunsnet? Yeah, lovely Gareth. He used to be my boss at Pondons.

26:50Rosie Ramsey:Yep. Brilliant. And then I worked in Rhodes with him for two years. Oh. And he's just living his dream. Oh, he's doing amazing. And it's so good to see. I know, it's class. Yeah. He's such a nice guy. But yeah, that's amazing. Right, okay. But we're going to do these. Yeah. I was going to ask about the documentary. I didn't even enter the documentary. we have it's just great I love that the doc's been a success it's been amazing people can relate to it there's 8 episodes half an hour it's on daytime but you can catch it on iPlayer caring together caring together and it's just very real it's not sexy it's not glamorous but you've got your health and social care you've went and done it got a distinction what I can't believe it Good for you.

27:33That's amazing. Crammed in the work as well. See, well, yeah. And that's proper, that's not tellied. You genuinely got... No, no, I worked hard. I did two assignments, did an exam. Yeah, no, I was really proud because, like I said, not being at school for so long, it was bloody daunting going back into a classroom. That's amazing. With all the kids, like 16, 17, 18-year-olds. Oh, my God, did you look like... Did you look like Elf? Be careful, Chris. Is that when you wish you'd got your four dogs? I meant, did you look like Buddy the Elf in Elf? Just massive on a dolly.

28:03Rosie Ramsey:On a tiny chair, I actually did. No, you should be really proud of yourself. Careful, Chris. You see, I've just snapped at me a couple of times. Yeah, I'm living on the edge. She's been doing this business. I'm getting adrenaline. She's a man who does it out. She's a man who does it out. No, they're all full of testosterone. I'm very easy to get on with. I'm a carman with a full head of hair. I need to stop talking about full heads of hair, don't I? Yeah, people get very triggered by it. I'm very lucky. Oh, do you know something? That's the only thing they've got to fucking worry about, men. Bit of hair on her head Didn't want to see him Jesus Christ Mine though It must be sad When your hair falls I could imagine It being quite triggering I can imagine it's sad Two things I never take the piss out of Two things Hair fever stuff for us Bald blokes Please don't talk to me About hair fever There we go See I will never Have a go at any one Fever than things Because you can just Get hair fever one year Which is just awful Do you know how many Fexifenedine I take a day How many Four Oh god Really bad Non-dosey I assume Well thank god like that nice to be here bless you though that's intense isn't it yeah it is horrible you're right two things I never take the piss out of can happen at any point to anyone well exactly terrifying no it is terrifying I'm just saying that we go through more absolutely not a competition though is it so no it's just factual nah not a competition though is it look at me Sean's done with these disgusting men oh here it is I'm just doing it to wind him out here it is I'm not I love men honestly love women I'm not a man hater if I wake up tomorrow it's her fault I'm not a man hater they get on me nerves but I don't I can't be now I've got two sons well there you go I've had to really change my whole view on a man you know now that I've got two sons I'm like oh god I have to really actually sort of like understand them yeah but you're in a beautiful position where you can raise two brilliant men and release them out into the world who are caring and kind and understanding of the plight of women that is always fucking going on oh god I like no well yeah they've got no choice literally the Robin And Robin asked me, oh my God.

30:02Rosie Ramsey:He didn't say it right, but he asked me if I was penny menopausal. Brilliant. I love it when they get words wrong to you. I went, where have you heard about that? Where'd he seen it? Was it on The Simpsons? He's seen it on something, yeah. It was on something? He called us helicopter, our parents, the other day. Oh no, he's a, honestly, he's gaslighting us. He's got some sass on him, that kid. Yeah, anyway. He wanted to go jet skiing on holiday. Yeah. Kept wanting to go jet skiing. asking us all the time. I went, you don't, first day, jet ski. Like, we just got there. I'm like, you don't get off the plane and get on the jet ski.

30:35That's not how you do a holiday, pal. You pace yourself. Remember what he said? We're sitting around. You were like, it was two o 'clock or whatever, three o 'clock. You were like, should I have a little afternoon drink? I was like, well, have a little afternoon drink. I was like, do you want a G &T? You went, yeah, I'll have a G &T. He lent in. He went, how about we'll go and do a bit of G &S? Jet ski. Prick. We had to just laugh. We were like, you know what? He's nailed that. How about we won't do a bit of GNS? I thought you were going to say to her and I said, listen, you've got to pace yourself with those drinks.

31:03Oh, I would, yeah. Oh, yeah. He loves having a go. Loves having a go when you've got a drink in your hand.

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32:51So, dear Chris and Rosie, please keep me anonymous. Always. A few years ago, my husband and I went to a neighbour's yard sale. We picked up a large tent and a pop-up shade canopy. Both were packed in canvas bags, so we took them home and we decided to put them together to make sure all the pieces were there. Secondhand tents upset me, something rotten. Don't know why you'd do it. We put the tent up back in the yard. Everything was great. Out of space in the back, we started to assemble the shade canopy in the front. We quickly ran into difficulty. It just didn't seem to fit together in the way we thought it should.

33:29In the bag was the web address of the manufacturer. Only when we went to the website for assembly instructions, did we realise what we were actually putting together in our front yard was some kind of sex bondage cage. LAUGHTER A front garden! They put the other one in the back. And they've got the front streets. Number 14, I put the sex dungeon up again. After a quick laugh, we scrambled to get the structure down, back into the bag and into the garage. Luckily, the neighbours who had the yard sale were moving, so we never had to see them again. The bondage apparatus stayed in the bag in our garage until I became too haunted by the possibility that we might die and a loved one would find it while going for our things.

34:18we agreed we were both too mortified to try to sell it so we got rid of it piece by piece in the recycling and trash that's the great escapement the great escapement you know when they're shaking when they're shaking the mud out of the mud yeah yeah yeah

34:36Rosie Ramsey:that is brilliant I'm imagining just like a little it's like a box isn't it can I just say the idea that there is a market out there catering for people who don't have the spare room space to make an actual sex dungeon so you can actually just make a pop-up one is so sad, but so sweet in a way. But where are you putting that if you've bought one of those? What are you doing with that? Popping it up in the posh town? Well, no, the office, you'll just, we'll move your desk to the corner, we'll push the chair over there, we'll put the thing and then we'll pop that up, we'll do the bondage and then we'll take that back down because, you know, you've got to work, you've got to Zoom on Monday morning.

35:09Rosie Ramsey:That's one thing from doing this podcast, we have learned that people have very different lives. Like everybody lives, We're very vanilla. We are hugely vanilla. We've learned some stuff. Yeah. But it's fine. Each to their own. Each to their own, yeah. Yeah, if they're not hurting anyone, but... I just love the happy ending of that story. They moved, so they never had to say them again, and then they got rid of it. It's just perfect. But front lawn. Front lawn. The only sort of saving grace is if they didn't realise what it was, but then again, it might be one of the things where while you're busy doing it, you didn't realise, but from a distance, it might be...

35:43You know, sometimes you've got to step back to see what something is. I don't know if I would even know. Do you know what I mean? I don't know if I would realise. Well, it wasn't until I went on the website, was it? But what's the difference between kind of a cage? Well, I suppose it's a cage, not a tent. It's a cage, isn't it? But I don't know. Or, you know, it could be a large dog tent. Or it could be... I wouldn't really know. I like the idea that the backside of it that they weren't looking at had some explicit either words or picture on it. And they never went round that end.

36:07Rosie Ramsey:I'd have to finish putting it together and see what it looked like. I'd have to have a shot on it. I feel like you'd have to, wouldn't you? Yeah, you'd have to pop it up. second hand so to speak pop up very good great you'd have to pop it up great work absolutely great work unbelievable we've done now that's it I could sit and talk this is what I was like do you remember when I came back from Swanby yeah we didn't stop talking yeah and I was like I could have just sat and talked if we were at school we would have got told off yeah you're the same person it's terrifying we'd be nattering we'd be like oh what are we doing now we didn't stop talking there it is but thank you so much thank you for having me it's been lovely to see you both oh and you you're looking so well thanks Hope you have a lovely summer.

36:44Rosie Ramsey:You too. You too. Enjoy the summer. Yeah. Are you going anywhere nice? Yeah, Montenegro. What? Oh, I know. It's wild. I don't go anywhere. Where is Montenegro? Where's Montenegro? My niece, Elliot, said, Natalie, just book something different. You drive me mad. I go to Cornwall every year. We love Cornwall. Well, beautiful. Beautiful. I love it. She said, it's meant to be really nice. Just book it. And I did. Just went on Airbnbs, did it? I was just talking. This is so weird. because I was just talking this morning about we need to get a bit more adventurous with holidays. Have a look at Montenegro.

37:15Okay, I will. It looks ever so nice. Do you know where... Yeah, it's very close to Croatia. It used to be, it's all of that area. Right, okay, okay. Well, Cup starts next week. I like the World Cup. Me too, I love it. I don't sport football, but I like the World Cup. I've got all the sticker books. Oh, yay! Wow! Yeah, I've got all the stickers. I know, sad. No, it's sad.

37:32Rosie Ramsey:Got to have hobbies. Got to have hobbies. Can I just say as well, I've read in your notes, it's obviously it's one of these conversations where we didn't have any we didn't have to read any of your notes just like we didn't have to use any notes because we've had a lovely chat but you did it said it said in your notes that you consider yourself an old soul and I would 100 % agree with that now because no one has ever come off this podcast at the end and gone hope you have a lovely summer I hope I'm not an old person thanks for having us you both look well hope you had a lovely summer I know I'm not an old person I feel like you're about to offer us a fucking word that's original I know it's been a pleasure thank you Thank you.

38:05Rosie Ramsey:Thank you. It is so much fun.

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