Why Ant & Dec Are Proud of Each Other

While the boys were away, Hecklers Corner came to play - what happened over the summer when people phoned the studio? Well join us for this week’s bonus episode with a hilarious answering machine that’s bursting at the seams with voicemails! We hear from Ant all the way back in 1996, Dec shares his own advice for getting older, and the boys reveal some of their weirdest and funniest interactions from over the years. Plus, a heartfelt moment in the studio between the boys… and an all-important question: which one of them would be the first to make contact with an alien? Next week, the boys are taking you somewhere very special to a secret location, for Life on the Road, Eh. Stay tuned to find out and as usual keep your correspondence, car games, tattoo fails and grumbles coming to [email protected] ----- 00:00 - Hey Guys!00:38 - Coffee Habits04:00 - The Answer Machine is full!06:01 - Dec Dreaded His Thirties08:32 - What Dec Did That Annoyed Ant13:20 - Weirdest Photos15:00 - What Are We Most Proud Of For Each Other?17:24 - Hidden Duck War!19:25 - Who Makes Alien Contact First?23:00 - Respect, Guys! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:33Ant McPartlin?

  Hello, everybody. Welcome once again to How to Fit the Music, Fit the Music.

• 1:40Declan Donnelly?

  Welcome back to the Hangout, Brother Hanging Out with him and me. It is great to be in your eyes and your ears.

• 1:45Ant McPartlin?

  Me and him, ugh.

• 1:46Declan Donnelly?

  Once again.

• 1:47Ant McPartlin?

  Ugh. Bonus episode, Monday, we've got the yellow banana phone out. I love these episodes, don't you?

• 1:53Declan Donnelly?

  These are voice note episodes.

• 1:55Ant McPartlin?

  I love them. I love hearing what you've got to say for yourselves.

• 1:57Declan Donnelly?

  We love all of your voice notes. Keep them coming into us. Hangout at ButlerBox.com. Got it right today.

• 2:02Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, yeah. Lovely, lovely coffee there.

• 2:05Declan Donnelly?

  What's your go-to coffee?

• 2:09Ant McPartlin?

  Why do you put your thumb out like that?

• 2:10Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know. I've never done that before.

• 2:12Ant McPartlin?

  Funny, isn't it?

• 2:13Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know.

• 2:13Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that, don't make it a thing.

• 2:15Declan Donnelly?

  I like to do this when I ask a question. What's your go-to coffee?

• 2:20Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 2:20Declan Donnelly?

  You know, you do when people...

• 2:22Ant McPartlin?

  Take your glasses off.

• 2:22Declan Donnelly?

  Take your glasses off.

• 2:23Ant McPartlin?

  Point your glasses at someone.

• 2:24Declan Donnelly?

  What's your go-to coffee?

• 2:25Ant McPartlin?

  I like a extra-strong latte. But I like it with not a lot of milk. I don't like too much milk. So if I was in a place that was really good at making coffees, I'd ask for a cortado.

• 2:39Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, that sounds exotic.

• 2:41Ant McPartlin?

  Which is like an espresso, double espresso, but with a little bit of foamy milk on top.

• 2:47Declan Donnelly?

  What's an Americano?

• 2:48Ant McPartlin?

  Americano is just black coffee.

• 2:52Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, okay. That's coffee without milk?

• 2:54Ant McPartlin?

  Well, that's what my daughter has. A black Americano, so coffee without milk.

• 2:57Declan Donnelly?

  But what could you have an Americano?

• 2:58Ant McPartlin?

  Americano is just like a long coffee, like there's a lot of coffee in it. Do you know what I mean?

• 3:02Declan Donnelly?

  Is that what a latte is, though?

• 3:05Ant McPartlin?

  No, a latte is espresso shots with milk.

• 3:08Declan Donnelly?

  With lots of milk.

• 3:09Ant McPartlin?

  Lots of foamy milk, yeah.

• 3:11Declan Donnelly?

  See, it's a minefield. This is why I don't drink coffee. It's a minefield. I don't know what to ask for.

• 3:15Speaker 05

  Do you want a tongue twister about coffee?

• 3:17Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 3:17Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 3:18Speaker 05

  Okay. I drink coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.

• 3:23Ant McPartlin?

  I drink coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.

• 3:26Declan Donnelly?

  I drink coffee from a proper coffee copy pot. Copper copper coffee pot.

• 3:31Ant McPartlin?

  So I win. So it turns out I'm the winner.

• 3:33Declan Donnelly?

  I wasn't really trying.

• 3:34Ant McPartlin?

  Turns out I'm the best.

• 3:35Declan Donnelly?

  I wasn't really trying.

• 3:36Ant McPartlin?

  I am the best.

• 3:37Declan Donnelly?

  I'm gonna try now. I drink coffee from a proper coffee copy cup. I really tried there.

• 3:43Ant McPartlin?

  I bought a new coffee machine.

• 3:44Declan Donnelly?

  Another one? Another one? Another one?

• 3:49Ant McPartlin?

  Oh my God, it's sensational.

• 3:51Declan Donnelly?

  How many is this now?

• 3:52Ant McPartlin?

  So there's so many people. Now my kids have got boyfriends, and not all three of them. The girls have got boyfriends, while they're still too young.

• 3:58Declan Donnelly?

  Well, they're only two.

• 4:00Ant McPartlin?

  Boyfriends, and they've got friends popping around. It's been the summer holidays.

• 4:03Declan Donnelly?

  They all need a coffee machine each.

• 4:05Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I can't be doing is making loads coffees and grinding the beans and all that kind of stuff. All of that, the ritual, which I like doing for myself.

• 4:12Declan Donnelly?

  For yourself.

• 4:12Ant McPartlin?

  And my wife. But when the house is full, it's a bit of a pain to be getting them all the time, to be making them. So I thought I need one where you can just press a button, but it can make different coffees. So my daughter drinks Americano, the other one will have something else. And other people will have different things. So you can program it to make six different hot coffees and six different cold coffees. You can have an iced latte or iced Americano.

• 4:36Declan Donnelly?

  What a waste of time.

• 4:39Ant McPartlin?

  No, that's not. It's a time-saving device, actually, if you let me finish. So you've got the coffee machine, but in the coffee machine is a mini-fridge. And you open the door and you have a milk reservoir, and then the next door you have a water reservoir. So once you fill your milk and you fill your water and you shut the doors, all you've got to do is press a button and it goes. So you want latte? Okay, it makes it. It's like an airport lounge. You ever been to an airport lounge?

• 5:08Declan Donnelly?

  Never.

• 5:09Ant McPartlin?

  You've never been to an airport lounge? Yes, you have.

• 5:11Declan Donnelly?

  I don't travel like you. I go, I check and go straight to the gate.

• 5:15Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up. You've been in the airport lounge. So they make hundreds, hundreds of coffees a day.

• 5:20Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 5:21Ant McPartlin?

  It's the same principle. It's an airport lounge-style coffee machine.

• 5:25Declan Donnelly?

  Wow.

• 5:26Ant McPartlin?

  It's class.

• 5:27Declan Donnelly?

  Right, let's get to those phones.

• 5:29Ant McPartlin?

  All right. The flashing blade.

• 5:32Declan Donnelly?

  Who's on line one?

• 5:34Ant McPartlin?

  Memory full. Memory full. What do you mean it's full?

• 5:39Declan Donnelly?

  Full? It's because we've been away, innit?

• 5:41Ant McPartlin?

  What do we do?

• 5:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, I think we actually, we got you an answering machine while you were away.

• 5:46Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, that's old school.

• 5:47Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, have we? Is that what that is? Yeah.

• 5:49Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 5:51Ant McPartlin?

  We used to have one of these.

• 5:53Declan Donnelly?

  When we shared our first flat, we had an answering machine.

• 5:56Ant McPartlin?

  And we recorded a message. Well, we taped the beginning of the Pulp Fiction soundtrack and the spoken word bit, and we put it on an answering machine. And it was the bit where it was like, any of you freaks move and I'll execute every motherf***ing last one of you. Which didn't go down well with Dexman, did it?

• 6:17Declan Donnelly?

  No, it didn't. Didn't go down terribly well.

• 6:19Ant McPartlin?

  Sorry for that again, Anne.

• 6:21Declan Donnelly?

  But we got, it was...

• 6:22Ant McPartlin?

  Funny, though.

• 6:23Declan Donnelly?

  It was funny. So yeah, you can record your own greeting on these things.

• 6:27Speaker 05

  Yeah, we know.

• 6:28Ant McPartlin?

  Have you done one?

• 6:30Speaker 05

  Maybe.

• 6:30Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, God. Can we hear it?

• 6:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, just press play.

• 6:34Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 6:35Speaker 06

  Hey, strange as it may be, I'm a date or not in a hangout. If they were here, they would pick up the phone, but they're not. So leave a message at the beep beep.

• 6:53Ant McPartlin?

  Yay!

• 6:54Speaker 06

  Believe the thing, that was us. He's the real one.

• 7:01Ant McPartlin?

  That was great!

• 7:02Declan Donnelly?

  I love that.

• 7:03Ant McPartlin?

  Well done!

• 7:04Declan Donnelly?

  That is amazing.

• 7:05Speaker 05

  Keep it.

• 7:06Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 7:06Ant McPartlin?

  Jeremiah, did your parents organize that? Yeah.

• 7:11Ant McPartlin?

  That is really good.

• 7:14Ant McPartlin?

  That's really good. Really good. Well done. Well done, hecklers. Well done. And a wedding, Fiona. You've been busy this summer. You've been busy.

• 7:23Declan Donnelly?

  So have we got all of our messages on the answering machine?

• 7:26Speaker 05

  They are. Just press play and we're all.

• 7:27Ant McPartlin?

  All right. Come on then. Hit it.

• 7:29Declan Donnelly?

  Let's get this one.

• 7:31Speaker 06

  Hey, Anne and Dech, I'm Leah from Somerset and I'm turning 29 next month. I'm dreading hitting 30 next year. My question for you is, was there an age that you were approaching that you had anxiety around or were just dreading a little bit? I know we should be grateful for every birthday that we have and I am, but there's something about leaving my twenties that's just given me severe anxiety. So if you have any advice for a girl dreading leaving her twenties and hitting the big three, I would very much appreciate it. Okay, guys, love you. Love the pod.

• 7:59Ant McPartlin?

  Was that on double speed? It sounded like you were on double speed, didn't you?

• 8:03Declan Donnelly?

  Leah, I can completely relate. I had a...

• 8:08Ant McPartlin?

  It really bothered you, didn't it?

• 8:09Declan Donnelly?

  I had a real meltdown going into my thirties, turning 30. Oh, I was dreading it. I was absolutely dreading it. But let me tell you, right, what happens is, you will dread, dread, dread, dread, dread it all the way up until the day. And you'll probably be out the night before, might have a few drinkies, and you'll wake up on your 30th birthday and you'll be 30 years old. And what's gonna happen is you're gonna open your eyes and you're gonna look around you and nothing will have changed. You will feel exactly the same. You might feel a little bit worse where because you have a few drinkies. But you'll open your eyes and the room will be the same, you will be the same, you will feel exactly the same. And that is the moment that I realized that age isn't anything but a number.

• 8:54Declan Donnelly?

  Doesn't matter. You are only as old as you feel and it doesn't matter. Becoming 30, it's no big deal, let me tell you. And this has come from somebody who was really not looking forward to turning 30. You've never had an issue with it, have you?

• 9:09Ant McPartlin?

  Me, I never had. Couldn't care less. Well, I think probably because I've got that attitude. Like, it doesn't matter. You know, I don't feel, I don't feel 50 now, you know? I don't feel, I didn't feel 30 when I was 30. I think you feel as young as you act and who you hang around with and, you know, what you watch, what you listen to. So, yeah, it doesn't bother me. I'm just grateful to be here, guys.

• 9:28Declan Donnelly?

  Exactly.

• 9:29Ant McPartlin?

  Grateful to be.

• 9:30Declan Donnelly?

  Aging is a privilege.

• 9:31Speaker 05

  How old do you mentally feel in your head?

• 9:34Ant McPartlin?

  How old do I mentally feel?

• 9:35Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:35Ant McPartlin?

  16?

• 9:36Speaker 05

  Really?

• 9:37Ant McPartlin?

  Nah, I'm joking.

• 9:39Declan Donnelly?

  How you act?

• 9:40Ant McPartlin?

  Not 30, I mean...

• 9:42Declan Donnelly?

  I feel like I'm early 30s.

• 9:44Speaker 05

  Mentally stopped at early 30s.

• 9:45Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, like 33.

• 9:47Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, 33 specifically. I don't know, but 33, 33 and a half.

• 9:52Declan Donnelly?

  33 and four months.

• 9:55Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, early thirties.

• 9:56Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 9:57Declan Donnelly?

  It's not, it's honestly, Leah, don't worry about it.

• 9:59Ant McPartlin?

  Right, next one.

• 10:02Speaker 06

  Hi guys, it's Lisa Rinbarth and Humber.

• 10:05Declan Donnelly?

  Hi Lisa.

• 10:05Speaker 06

  Not my first time asking you a question. In November nineteen ninety six, I was a caller on Live and Kickin' and I asked you, as you spend so much time together, is there anything that annoys you about each other? I am curious as to whether you can remember what your response was that day? And of course, I really wanna know, thirty years on, is there anything that annoys you about each other? You did answer someone else that day, saying that you really hoped to still be around doing what you're doing twenty years on. I'm really glad that you are. Love the podcast. Respect, guys.

• 10:41Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, Lisa.

• 10:42Ant McPartlin?

  Respect to you, Lisa.

• 10:43Declan Donnelly?

  How about that? Second time caller.

• 10:46Ant McPartlin?

  That's brilliant. I love that. I do remember that.

• 10:49Declan Donnelly?

  Do you?

• 10:50Ant McPartlin?

  I remember going on Live and Kickin', I remember taking answers on the phones because it was quite a big deal to be asked to take calls from callers on the line, wasn't it?

• 10:59Declan Donnelly?

  And you remember Lisa?

• 11:00Ant McPartlin?

  You felt like, don't, don't remember her specifically. But I remember doing it, I remember thinking, that's a big deal to be asked to do that, you know, it's quite a privilege.

• 11:07Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 11:08Ant McPartlin?

  I don't remember what my answer would have been.

• 11:10Speaker 05

  Do you wanna hear?

• 11:11Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, have you got it?

• 11:12Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:12Declan Donnelly?

  Well, hang on, let's have a little guess.

• 11:13Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 11:14Ant McPartlin?

  It's just, why do you, why, not everything's a game. She had it there to play.

• 11:19Speaker 05

  No glasses.

• 11:22Declan Donnelly?

  I reckon, did I say, I'm picking his nose?

• 11:27Declan Donnelly?

  From what you would you have said about me?

• 11:28Ant McPartlin?

  Did Dec fart in? He farted loads back then.

• 11:31Speaker 05

  Right, this is Zoe Ball introducing the caller.

• 11:33Declan Donnelly?

  Zoe Ball? Hello Lisa, I'm beside you, through to the boys, what's your question?

• 11:37Speaker 06

  You spend so much time together, so is there anything that annoys you about each other?

• 11:40Ant McPartlin?

  Sounds similar. Loads of things, really, do you know what I mean? Not, not that much that I could say.

• 11:46Speaker 06

  Oh, come on.

• 11:48Declan Donnelly?

  I think it's always, it's always just when we're tired and, you know, we, and it's just little things about each other.

• 11:52Ant McPartlin?

  But Dec leaves the margarine out the fridge.

• 11:57Declan Donnelly?

  Not again. That is a big sin. But the thing is, if you, if you take it out of the fridge, right, it's nice and it's just nice to spread.

• 12:04Ant McPartlin?

  Flourish taste, stuck in the fridge, I'm telling you.

• 12:06Declan Donnelly?

  If you leave it in, you cut, it rips up your bread. Am I, am I right? Cut, am I right?

• 12:13Ant McPartlin?

  We didn't guess it, did we?

• 12:15Declan Donnelly?

  We didn't get it.

• 12:15Ant McPartlin?

  Didn't guess that?

• 12:16Declan Donnelly?

  Didn't get it.

• 12:17Ant McPartlin?

  Margarine.

• 12:20Ant McPartlin?

  It's like a, it's on the banned list of things, do you now, isn't it? Margarine. Uh, yeah, only for kicks. You'd never use margarine these days.

• 12:32Declan Donnelly?

  So, and is there anything nowadays?

• 12:34Ant McPartlin?

  Do you leave the butter out of the fridge now, still?

• 12:37Declan Donnelly?

  No, I'm not allowed. Cor- Cor and Mrs D puts that away. I do try and sneak it out of the fridge and leave it out for a bit.

• 12:42Ant McPartlin?

  Sneak it out of the fridge?

• 12:45Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, just try and take it out and then leave it like by the bread bin, hide it behind the bread bin.

• 12:49Ant McPartlin?

  Let it melt a little bit.

• 12:50Declan Donnelly?

  Let it melt a little bit. Otherwise, I still have the same issue. It rips up my bread. I don't like it. Is there anything?

• 12:57Ant McPartlin?

  Nothing.

• 12:57Declan Donnelly?

  Nothing that annoys us about each other?

• 12:59Ant McPartlin?

  No.

• 13:00Declan Donnelly?

  It annoys me when Ant talks over me like that.

• 13:01Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, shut up.

• 13:04Declan Donnelly?

  Thank you, Lisa, that was brilliant.

• 13:06Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you, that was very good. What a lovely trip down memory lane.

• 13:10Declan Donnelly?

  This next bit's brought to you by Gemini, Google's AI app. Golf was good the other day.

• 13:16Ant McPartlin?

  It was good, wasn't it?

• 13:16Declan Donnelly?

  I loved it.

• 13:17Ant McPartlin?

  Are you stiff?

• 13:18Declan Donnelly?

  Oh my god.

• 13:19Ant McPartlin?

  I'm really stiff, like, I'd never, I never used to get this stiff.

• 13:22Declan Donnelly?

  Obviously, we're getting a bit older.

• 13:24Ant McPartlin?

  Do you want me to ask Gemini to see if there's a good kitchen stretch?

• 13:26Declan Donnelly?

  I think that is a very good idea.

• 13:28Ant McPartlin?

  Gemini, please, can you give Dec some stretches to do, uh, after golf in the kitchen when the kids have gone to bed? Okay, Gemini says, here's a quick, quiet kitchen routine for Dec. Hold each for twenty to thirty seconds and breathe deeply.

• 13:46Declan Donnelly?

  Okay.

• 13:48Ant McPartlin?

  Lat and spine stretch. Grip the edge of the sink, step back, hinge at the hips until the torso is parallel to, this, this is the kitchen sink, that's it, that's it, that's it.

• 13:58Declan Donnelly?

  Good idea.

• 13:59Ant McPartlin?

  That's a good one. So breathe, breathe, breathe.

• 14:03Declan Donnelly?

  It's got me hammies as well, that.

• 14:05Ant McPartlin?

  And breathe out. There you go, well done. The kids are in bed, so you can't, you can't be that loud.

• 14:09Declan Donnelly?

  Oh yeah, that's a good point, that's a good point. That's a good little routine, man.

• 14:13Ant McPartlin?

  Good little routine.

• 14:14Declan Donnelly?

  We don't stretch enough, full stop.

• 14:16Ant McPartlin?

  We don't stretch enough.

• 14:17Declan Donnelly?

  We don't stretch ourselves.

• 14:20Declan Donnelly?

  We're in our comfort zone.

• 14:21Ant McPartlin?

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• 14:37Declan Donnelly?

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• 14:42Ant McPartlin?

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• 14:45Declan Donnelly?

  Eighteen plus.

• 14:49Speaker 06

  Hi guys, this is Alex from Newcastle.

• 14:53Declan Donnelly?

  Hey.

• 14:53Speaker 06

  On the back of an interaction I had with Dec.

• 14:57Declan Donnelly?

  Interaction?

• 14:57Speaker 06

  Not sure if he'll remember, but I did ask him at Heathrow Airport to take a photo with my mam, but it was my mam in Lego version. I did realise as I walked away that I only asked him to take a photo with little Sandra Lego and not actually myself, so I hope he didn't think that was rude. What other random or weird things have you guys been asked to do or say in the wild?

• 15:26Ant McPartlin?

  In the wild, that's very good.

• 15:28Declan Donnelly?

  I do remember that, and I thought that was a bit weird, like, and also there is always a sneaking suspicion at the back of your head, like, is this for real? Like, is this really the Lego mam or is she stitching me up here?

• 15:40Ant McPartlin?

  And we've had photos with, you know, stuffed animals and, and toys and teddy bears and like I said, bras and knickers and all of those things over the years. Yeah, we've had a, we've had quite a lot of weird interactions and asks, haven't we?

• 15:58Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm, yes. Do you remember when charity wristbands were a thing?

• 16:02Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 16:03Declan Donnelly?

  And we got asked a lot, didn't we, to wear wristbands for different charities?

• 16:06Ant McPartlin?

  And you, you just take it on face value and you go, okay, that's a, you know, that's a genuine thing, then of course, it helps someone.

• 16:13Declan Donnelly?

  And we did one, had the photograph and then ended up on a BBC documentary.

• 16:16Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 16:17Declan Donnelly?

  About the mother of all cons.

• 16:19Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 16:21Declan Donnelly?

  I was watching the, the documentary, it's quite good, this. Oh my god, that's us. Let's have another one.

• 16:29Speaker 06

  Hi Ant and Dec, I have a question for you. Having been best friends a long time, what are you most proud of for each other, other than of course, your careers? I'm Becky from New Oak Cliff. Thank you.

• 16:43Declan Donnelly?

  No, thank you, Becky.

• 16:44Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you, Becky, for your very sincere question. A lot of emails on the, on the answer for messages.

• 16:50Declan Donnelly?

  There are. It's like my voicemail, that.

• 16:52Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 16:53Declan Donnelly?

  Still with girls.

• 16:55Speaker 05

  Going wild.

• 16:56Declan Donnelly?

  Going wild.

• 16:57Ant McPartlin?

  Oh god.

• 16:59Declan Donnelly?

  Back of the day.

• 17:00Ant McPartlin?

  What am I proud of? I'm proud of his humbleness, of just how, this humility. I'm very proud of Dec as a, as a man, you know, as a, as a human, as a, as a dad, as a person. He's a good person and I think there's, there's something to be said about it. I forget all the queer stuff. He's a good person.

• 17:18Declan Donnelly?

  It's very nice of you to say so. Thank you. I do try my best, I try to be nice. It's nice to be nice.

• 17:22Ant McPartlin?

  This is the guy that rang the services when he hadn't paid for his food. He rang them and paid money to charity. A lot of people would just go, go away with that. But he didn't.

• 17:31Declan Donnelly?

  I did wait till after I didn't mess on with him, in case they tried to take it back.

• 17:38Declan Donnelly?

  I would say I am most proud of Ant of, um, I think, um, well, it's something we talked about in the last pod, actually, your first ever tattoo.

• 17:50Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 17:51Declan Donnelly?

  And I am really proud of him, the way that he has managed and dealt with the adversity you've faced in your life and how you've, uh, you, you took it on yourself to make yourself a better person and to, um, improve yourself and to change the path of your life. And how well you've done and how you have given yourself and given your family a whole new life and the way that you have taken responsibility and done all of that. And I think your first tattoo completely sums it up how brilliantly you've faced your issues and your problems

• 18:33Declan Donnelly?

  and turned your life around. I think that is a real testament.

• 18:38Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you. See, and that, coming from a, coming from a good man, means a lot. Thanks. It does mean a lot.

• 18:48Declan Donnelly?

  Let's have a funny one.

• 18:49Ant McPartlin?

  Keep it light. Play.

• 18:51Speaker 06

  Hello, I'm the Dec, it's Georgie from Portsmouth.

• 18:53Declan Donnelly?

  Hello, Georgie.

• 18:54Speaker 06

  Me and my husband have started a little war with our best friends. We have keys to each other's houses and it started by moving the ducks that are in the bathroom around their house. Every time we went around there, but now it's sort of escalated to us hiding a hundred mini ducks in their house.

• 19:10Declan Donnelly?

  That's good.

• 19:11Speaker 06

  They even hid another hundred mini ducks in our house. Do you have any ideas of what we could do in their house? Doesn't have to be duck related, could be benign related, but any ideas are very, very welcome. Peace and love, respect, guys. Thank you.

• 19:27Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, I think it should be duck related.

• 19:29Declan Donnelly?

  Definitely duck related.

• 19:29Ant McPartlin?

  Because that's the start of the gag. Um, if you can get into their house for a longer period of time, so if you could get in the morning, like wallpaper their living room with duck wallpaper would be a good one. Cause it's not vandalising. It's not, it's not tastefully done, you're tastefully done, so that's gonna be permanent. I think the permanence of this is where mischief goes from this level to this level, and I'm all about this level of mischief.

• 19:58Declan Donnelly?

  You've got to be very careful though, because

• 20:00Ant McPartlin?

  Why?

• 20:00Declan Donnelly?

  this could escalate.

• 20:01Ant McPartlin?

  You'll be very careful, pointing your fingers at me.

• 20:03Declan Donnelly?

  You've got to be careful because this could escalate.

• 20:05Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it's already escalated.

• 20:07Declan Donnelly?

  What you give out is gonna come back to you.

• 20:09Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it is. And I'm for it.

• 20:13Declan Donnelly?

  Here for it.

• 20:14Ant McPartlin?

  I get it, still down there, with the wallpaper table. Or hide a tiny little speaker somewhere in the house where it just goes

• 20:23Declan Donnelly?

  That's a pretty nice idea.

• 20:25Ant McPartlin?

  Wah wah, and they'll never find out where it is and you could be out in the car and say, just go and press the button like

• 20:31Declan Donnelly?

  Like a fart machine, but it's a quack machine.

• 20:35Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 20:36Declan Donnelly?

  Which is full of duck related japes and shenanigans here.

• 20:40Ant McPartlin?

  That's good though. We like this. Stay in touch. Yeah. Stay in touch and let us know. And we want videos, photos, and eventually the fallout from your wonderful friendship.

• 20:50Declan Donnelly?

  Let's quack on. Hey.

• 20:52Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, quack on.

• 20:54Declan Donnelly?

  Here we go.

• 20:55Speaker 06

  Respect guys.

• 20:56Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, fella.

• 20:56Speaker 06

  My question to you, Ant and Dec, yeah. If aliens was going to come down to earth and there was all the choice of either you Ant or you Dec to make first contact, which one of yous would make the first contact? And what would your first words be towards the aliens?

• 21:16Declan Donnelly?

  It should be me. We all know that it should be me. Don't we? We all know it should be me. Because.

• 21:22Ant McPartlin?

  Why?

• 21:23Declan Donnelly?

  Well, it's a big moment and we can't risk.

• 21:25Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 21:26Declan Donnelly?

  We can't risk wallpaper and the spaceship and duck related nonsense. So we all know it should be me who makes first contact.

• 21:33Ant McPartlin?

  But it won't be because he'd be too scared. This should be me. But oh my God, it's aliens. And you get out there. What would you say then?

• 21:42Declan Donnelly?

  First of all, I come in peace. We want to work together with you.

• 21:48Ant McPartlin?

  On what? A new project? Me and the put together? Right to me. Will you be in I'm a Slumery Wild Frontier?

• 21:56Declan Donnelly?

  Has anybody ever pitched you a fly on the wall document? Have you got a podcast?

• 22:02Ant McPartlin?

  Shall I take you to my leader?

• 22:03Declan Donnelly?

  Do you want to come on our podcast? We come in peace. We want to work together and enrich both of our civilizations. No, is that not a good opening gambit?

• 22:15Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 22:16Declan Donnelly?

  What would you say?

• 22:17Ant McPartlin?

  What do you want? No, what do you want? What is the secret?

• 22:23Declan Donnelly?

  Well, that was going to be my next question after I've.

• 22:24Ant McPartlin?

  What do you want? And also, we've got a list of questions we need to get to. How long you been around? Have you been watching us? Have you been in our?

• 22:31Declan Donnelly?

  Have you seen Britain's Got Talent? I'm a celebrity.

• 22:34Ant McPartlin?

  Not us. I mean, the human race.

• 22:35Declan Donnelly?

  Are we in outer space? Have we made it out as our reach?

• 22:41Ant McPartlin?

  No, they're not out there listening to the podcast.

• 22:43Declan Donnelly?

  It might be.

• 22:44Ant McPartlin?

  Even though it is out of this world. Clip it up. Clip it. Clip up that gold. Yeah. I'd like to know how long they've been around. Have they been here before? Are we part of a great civilization which bred with the aliens thousands upon thousands of years ago?

• 23:01Declan Donnelly?

  I think you might be overwhelming them a little bit with questions.

• 23:04Ant McPartlin?

  Why? But they've got the answers. They hold all the answers. Unless they don't. I say, oh, okay. I'll cut it short. Are you the aliens with the answers? And they say, no. I say, well, Dec wants to read you. If they say yes, I say.

• 23:16Declan Donnelly?

  Dec wants to read you. It's all right. He comes up, please.

• 23:19Ant McPartlin?

  He wants to work together on something. He wants to work together on something. I don't know. An advert or something. I don't know what he wants to do. You ask him. It's his idea. He wants to work with him.

• 23:37Declan Donnelly?

  I just think it would be a very entertaining show.

• 23:39Ant McPartlin?

  Sure.

• 23:40Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I thought that's what we were doing.

• 23:43Ant McPartlin?

  Big ratings, wouldn't it?

• 23:45Declan Donnelly?

  The biggest. The biggest. Well, anyway, so it's going to be me. We've decided it's going to be me.

• 23:52Ant McPartlin?

  Well, no, we're going to decide what kind of aliens they are first. If it's like the grays, the really boring kind of worker aliens, we're not bothered about that. But if it's the aliens that hold all of the answers.

• 24:02Declan Donnelly?

  But surely the grays will take us to the interesting.

• 24:07Ant McPartlin?

  I don't know. Don't know. If it's the reptilians, then they're already here anyways. So.

• 24:13Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, veering into conspiracy theories here.

• 24:17Ant McPartlin?

  Hmm. And we're out of time. What a shame.

• 24:21Declan Donnelly?

  Just as it's getting spicy.

• 24:22Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 24:23Declan Donnelly?

  What do you know?

• 24:24Ant McPartlin?

  Hashtag reptilians.

• 24:25Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, that is all we've got time for today on the bonus. Yes. Thanks for all of your voice notes. Any more, keep them coming into us.

• 24:32Ant McPartlin?

  Please do.

• 24:33Declan Donnelly?

  Hanging out at ButlerBox.com. We're back with you on Thursday with the main pod.

• 24:37Ant McPartlin?

  But we won't be here.

• 24:39Declan Donnelly?

  No, we won't be here.

• 24:40Ant McPartlin?

  We'll be out on the road.

• 24:41Declan Donnelly?

  A top secret mission.

• 24:43Ant McPartlin?

  They know.

• 24:44Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, we're going overseas.

• 24:45Ant McPartlin?

  They know where we're going.

• 24:46Declan Donnelly?

  And we're going to take you with us. No.

• 24:48Ant McPartlin?

  Why?

• 24:48Declan Donnelly?

  So join us on Thursday when we will be somewhere overseas.

• 24:55Ant McPartlin?

  Mm hmm.

• 24:56Declan Donnelly?

  For some special life on the road, eh? Episodes. Life on the road, eh?

• 25:01Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 25:02Declan Donnelly?

  Until then, um, give us a follow.

• 25:09Declan Donnelly?

  Give us a follow wherever.

• 25:11Ant McPartlin?

  I'm not going to do the follow thing.

• 25:13Declan Donnelly?

  Podcast. And remember to like and subscribe to the YouTube channel. We will be back on Thursday. Until then.

• 25:20Ant McPartlin?

  On the road.

• 25:21Declan Donnelly?

  We are life on the road.

• 25:22Ant McPartlin?

  You said all that.

• 25:24Declan Donnelly?

  Until.

• 25:25Ant McPartlin?

  Respect guys.

• 25:26Declan Donnelly?

  Until then. Remember. Respect guys. See you Thursday.

• 25:30Ant McPartlin?

  I'm going to pack for Canada.

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