Ant’s Antarctica Theory & Dec’s Rod Stewart Dream

This week, the discussion jar is back, and the boys dive into what lies beyond Antarctica, the art of raw dogging flights, and what exactly makes someone ‘cool’. Plus, Ant reveals his seasonal fragrance rotations, while Dec admits he’s been dreaming about Rod Stewart. As always, keep your correspondence coming to [email protected]. Be sure to sign off your email with the name you'd like us to use. If you'd rather we didn't mention your surname, simply leave it out. And if you'd like a full name shout out, throw the whole thing in there! -----00:00 - Ant’s Spending Ban03:50 - Discussion Jar08:30 - Raw Dogging Flights12:55 - The Secret Continent16:30 - Thoughts on Matcha?21:05 - Decanter by Ant & Dec24:35 - Being cool26:40 - Dec’s Weird Dream Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 1:37Declan Donnelly?

  Ooh, hello, everybody. Good morning, good evening. Welcome back to the Hangout for another hanging out with me and him.

• 1:42Ant McPartlin?

  I've just plonked the discussion jar on the table because it is another discussion jar episode. But before we get into that, I would like to bring to your attention

• 1:52Declan Donnelly?

  Uh-oh.

• 1:53Ant McPartlin?

  that I haven't been given any bananas recently.

• 1:57Declan Donnelly?

  For your spending.

• 1:58Ant McPartlin?

  For my spending.

• 1:58Declan Donnelly?

  That is true.

• 1:59Ant McPartlin?

  My self imposed, self inflicted spending ban.

• 2:03Declan Donnelly?

  Have you stuck to your spending ban?

• 2:06Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 2:06Declan Donnelly?

  You have, or you sure?

• 2:09Ant McPartlin?

  What do you mean? Cause I'm, what do you mean? Cause I'm sure. Why would I not be sure? What do you think? I inadvertently bought something?

• 2:14Declan Donnelly?

  Well, I'm just, I'm just checking.

• 2:16Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 2:16Declan Donnelly?

  It would be remiss of me not to check, would it not?

• 2:18Ant McPartlin?

  It would, it would. Um, I didn't buy any new trainers, which is killing me.

• 2:25Declan Donnelly?

  Have you been tempted?

• 2:26Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, massively tempted.

• 2:28Declan Donnelly?

  That's what you mean, tempted by?

• 2:29Ant McPartlin?

  A new style of, I can sell Arigatos out there, but I can't buy them. There was Ortries I love. They, I said, ah.

• 2:38Declan Donnelly?

  New trainers.

• 2:40Ant McPartlin?

  I've got them.

• 2:40Declan Donnelly?

  Have you?

• 2:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I've got them.

• 2:43Ant McPartlin?

  Ha ha.

• 2:45Ant McPartlin?

  And that's it really. I mean, the house I've bought, cause it's a necessity. Yeah.

• 2:50Declan Donnelly?

  Was the big green egg barbecue a necessity? You know, those big green egg barbecues?

• 2:57Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, it's cause you cook on it. I've got to feed my children. Thank you, Declan. Or you want them to starve?

• 3:03Declan Donnelly?

  Do they have to be?

• 3:04Ant McPartlin?

  Do you want my kids to starve? Do you? Answer that.

• 3:07Declan Donnelly?

  Do they have to be cooked on such a fancy pants, big green?

• 3:11Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, it's barbecue season. They like barbecues. Do you expect my kids to starve from liking barbecues?

• 3:18Declan Donnelly?

  Can't you get a disposable foil one?

• 3:21Ant McPartlin?

  That would still be buying something though, wouldn't it? So this is buying some, I don't know, like up to now, I've bought nothing, zero, none.

• 3:29Declan Donnelly?

  Is that allowed? A fancy pants new barbecue?

• 3:31Ant McPartlin?

  Well, bearing in mind, right, no, the, the case for the defence is I've just moved house, right? In my old house, I had a barbecue outside, but it was fitted in, bricked in and all that kind of stuff. So I couldn't bring it with me.

• 3:44Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, right, right, right, right, right.

• 3:47Ant McPartlin?

  So I had to buy a new thing, but it only just arrived. Ah, actually it's arrived recently, but I put the order in two months ago. So if we work the clock back, surely that was prior to my spending ban. Was it? I don't know.

• 4:03Declan Donnelly?

  No more questions, my lord.

• 4:07Ant McPartlin?

  Your witness, do I get some bananas or not?

• 4:10Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, you do get bananas.

• 4:11Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, yes, yes, yes.

• 4:13Declan Donnelly?

  And I think we've missed some, so actually.

• 4:16Ant McPartlin?

  I still haven't bought that new putter, because we played golf the other day, right, with friends of ours. And my puttin was letting me down and me mate went, eh, try mine. And it's one of those fancy pants long ones, you know, like the.

• 4:28Declan Donnelly?

  The big, big, swingy.

• 4:30Ant McPartlin?

  Big, like a pendulum style putter. And I tried it and oh my God, it's amazing.

• 4:35Declan Donnelly?

  And the old one, would it be immediately in the pro shop?

• 4:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it would have.

• 4:38Declan Donnelly?

  How much is these? Can I have one of these?

• 4:40Ant McPartlin?

  But I didn't. I was like, that's a very nice putter. I would put it on my Christmas list.

• 4:45Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 4:46Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, that's nice.

• 4:47Declan Donnelly?

  Did your birthday before Christmas?

• 4:49Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, my birthday list then. Yeah. It's also my wedding anniversary in the summer, just saying.

• 4:54Declan Donnelly?

  I don't think you're gonna get a golf club for your wedding anniversary.

• 4:55Ant McPartlin?

  Why? Why not?

• 4:57Declan Donnelly?

  That's not very.

• 4:58Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, five years, it's a putter in it.

• 5:00Declan Donnelly?

  Is it?

• 5:02Ant McPartlin?

  Five years, it's a putter.

• 5:05Declan Donnelly?

  Come on, get your dish.

• 5:06Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, yeah, get me banana.

• 5:08Declan Donnelly?

  Get your banana dish.

• 5:09Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I'm getting it. I reckon I'm missing a couple of weeks, by the way.

• 5:14Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you very kindly.

• 5:16Declan Donnelly?

  There you go. Two bananas.

• 5:17Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you, Adam.

• 5:18Declan Donnelly?

  What we got? Discussion jar then?

• 5:19Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we do have the discussion jar. Shall we delve right into it? Do you need to give us any background? YouTube, Heckless Corner?

• 5:27Declan Donnelly?

  Hold the front page. Who's giving me a mint tea?

• 5:32Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, why are you making that noise with your teeth? Oh, ah!

• 5:37Declan Donnelly?

  Stop the pod.

• 5:39Ant McPartlin?

  Stop the pod for making that noise.

• 5:41Declan Donnelly?

  A mint tea?

• 5:42Speaker 04

  Do you not like mint tea?

• 5:43Ant McPartlin?

  No, I'm not a mint tea kind of guy.

• 5:46Declan Donnelly?

  I'll have a mint tea after dinner.

• 5:47Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, well, how are they meant to know that? People are just doing their jobs. What, you wanna fire someone?

• 5:52Declan Donnelly?

  Might do. Fancy, yeah, probably, yeah.

• 5:56Ant McPartlin?

  Don't look at him in the eye. Don't look at him in the eye and you'll get fired.

• 5:59Declan Donnelly?

  Don't worry about it. It's gonna be a bad pod, guys. Yes, fine, thanks. Thanks. No, no, no, you're good. Thank you. It's gonna be a terrible pod.

• 6:06Ant McPartlin?

  No, it's no problem. You're fired.

• 6:07Declan Donnelly?

  Clear your desk.

• 6:08Ant McPartlin?

  So we're coming up to the middle of June.

• 6:10Speaker 05

  We're going up to the middle of June, which of course is the short, sorry, the longest day of the year.

• 6:15Ant McPartlin?

  Longest day of the year.

• 6:16Speaker 05

  So I've popped in some long themed things.

• 6:19Declan Donnelly?

  Long themed topics?

• 6:20Speaker 05

  Some long topics, yeah.

• 6:22Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, mm, long topic.

• 6:24Ant McPartlin?

  Are they family friendly?

• 6:27Speaker 05

  They are, thank you.

• 6:28Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, okay, a long topic. Get your specs, or shall I go first?

• 6:31Declan Donnelly?

  You go first.

• 6:32Ant McPartlin?

  Okay. This is the 13th floor long elevator lie. Almost every high-rise hotel in Berlin skips the 13th floor on the elevator button panel out of superstition. The silly conspiracy, the 13th floor does exist, but it's where the hotel chains hide the good stuff. Secret luxury casinos, VIP lounges for the Illuminati, or a massive building-wide ball pit. Discuss.

• 7:04Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I love that to be true.

• 7:05Declan Donnelly?

  I love that.

• 7:06Ant McPartlin?

  I love ball pits.

• 7:10Ant McPartlin?

  That's what I take from this discussion topic.

• 7:12Declan Donnelly?

  I'm trying to think now if there's 13th floor buttons and lifts in hotels.

• 7:16Ant McPartlin?

  I don't think there is.

• 7:18Speaker 05

  There's not in planes either, no row 13.

• 7:20Ant McPartlin?

  There's no row 13 in planes.

• 7:22Speaker 05

  No, no.

• 7:22Ant McPartlin?

  Isn't there?

• 7:22Declan Donnelly?

  Shut your face.

• 7:24Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 7:26Ant McPartlin?

  Next time you go to Australia, leave your row one and walk all the way back. Walk all the way back to row 13 in check.

• 7:33Declan Donnelly?

  I'm gonna have a look at that. I'm getting on a plane in a couple of days, I'm gonna have a look.

• 7:38Ant McPartlin?

  Go on then. Report back.

• 7:40Declan Donnelly?

  I'll report back.

• 7:41Ant McPartlin?

  Please do. But I have heard the hotel, that a lot of hotels don't have a 13th floor for obvious reasons. Because the- They say what? Do you know what though? This is a bit, this is a bigger discussion because 13 being an unlucky number, right, is something which is, I think fundamentally false. Because there should be, we've discussed this before-

• 8:07Declan Donnelly?

  We've discussed this before.

• 8:08Ant McPartlin?

  13 months of the year. And if there was 13 months of the year, every month would have 28 days. There should be 13 zodiac signs.

• 8:19Ant McPartlin?

  Like thirteen should be out there more than it is, but it's been buried.

• 8:23Declan Donnelly?

  Why, why has it been vilified and demonised?

• 8:26Ant McPartlin?

  Because otherwise it would open our mind too much and we would know it all.

• 8:30Speaker 04

  And the people on the thirteenth floor in that ball pit?

• 8:32Ant McPartlin?

  People who are in the ball pits, uh, playing blackjack and roulette, they're living the best life and they're just, they're just gatekeeping it all. They're gatekeeping all the good stuff for themselves.

• 8:44Declan Donnelly?

  The Illuminati.

• 8:44Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, the Illuminati.

• 8:46Declan Donnelly?

  We're on to something here.

• 8:47Ant McPartlin?

  We are.

• 8:47Declan Donnelly?

  What do you think of this one? The long-legged giraffe cover-up. There is a fiercely sarcastic corner of the internet.

• 8:53Ant McPartlin?

  Hmm, I, I love the fiercely sarcastic corner of the internet.

• 8:57Declan Donnelly?

  That insists giraffes do not exist. The theory claims they are actually top-secret government surveillance drones.

• 9:04Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, give up.

• 9:05Declan Donnelly?

  Their long necks aren't for reaching leaves. They are highly elevated 5G antennas and camera periscopes designed to peer over compound walls and into second-story windows.

• 9:15Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, yeah, you're talking nonsense. When we were in South Africa, we saw, we met quite a few giraffes.

• 9:22Declan Donnelly?

  We did.

• 9:23Ant McPartlin?

  They were lovely, very nice. They didn't, they didn't come across as spies to me.

• 9:27Declan Donnelly?

  No, they did not to me.

• 9:28Ant McPartlin?

  Not to me.

• 9:29Declan Donnelly?

  But maybe they were good.

• 9:30Ant McPartlin?

  Maybe they're very good, uh, double agents.

• 9:32Declan Donnelly?

  Some of the best spies don't come across as spies, do they?

• 9:35Ant McPartlin?

  No, uh, so I'm not having that. That is something that we can just stop right here. Pigeons, yes. We all agree pigeons are spies. Giraffes are not spies. Do you trust people with long legs?

• 9:46Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah, very much so.

• 9:47Ant McPartlin?

  You do?

• 9:48Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 9:48Ant McPartlin?

  The shorter the leg, the more mistrusted?

• 9:52Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, the more, more they're not to be trusted.

• 9:53Ant McPartlin?

  Right, okay, okay. So should we trust you?

• 9:56Declan Donnelly?

  Never, never.

• 9:58Ant McPartlin?

  Next discussion point. Thoughts on raw dogging a long flight?

• 10:02Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 10:03Ant McPartlin?

  Taking a long-haul flight completely unassisted by any forms of entertainment, no movies, no music, no books, and sometimes without food, water, or sleep, often staring only at the in-flight map. Well, well, well. We have a friend who, uh, does this and it took us all by surprise. He was doing this before raw dogging was a thing.

• 10:25Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 10:25Ant McPartlin?

  He, we flew all the way to Vegas and he just sat looking at the map and we're like, he's, he did.

• 10:31Speaker 04

  How long was, how long was the flight?

• 10:32Ant McPartlin?

  It's like ten hours, ten hours, all the way to Vegas. He just looked at the map.

• 10:36Speaker 04

  Did he change the different maps?

• 10:38Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 10:38Ant McPartlin?

  No, he sat like this.

• 10:41Ant McPartlin?

  I kept looking, I'm going.

• 10:42Declan Donnelly?

  He was so intent.

• 10:42Ant McPartlin?

  I said, what's he watching? I'm gonna go and find out what he's watching, cause it looks great. Cause he was really into it. Turns out it was the map. He road dogged it before road dogging was a thing. Road dogging wasn't even a thing.

• 10:53Declan Donnelly?

  Hadn't been invented.

• 10:54Ant McPartlin?

  This was five years ago, six years ago.

• 10:56Declan Donnelly?

  I think he's a nervous flyer and he just wanted to make sure we were still flying. And he's like, how long is, how much longer we got? Do you reckon?

• 11:04Ant McPartlin?

  Don't know. He didn't seem very nervous. Legs crossed, head in his hands, smiling away. Maybe he just loves maps. Maybe he loves maps.

• 11:13Declan Donnelly?

  Maybe.

• 11:14Ant McPartlin?

  Have you ever road dogged a flight?

• 11:16Declan Donnelly?

  No, often I won't watch a movie, as you know, and I won't have any food or drink.

• 11:22Ant McPartlin?

  What do you mean you won't have any food or drink?

• 11:24Declan Donnelly?

  Well, I'll have a glass of water when I get on.

• 11:26Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I was gonna say.

• 11:27Declan Donnelly?

  But often I'll just get on, go to sleep.

• 11:28Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, give over your psychopath. Well, not this again.

• 11:31Declan Donnelly?

  But I would never, I would never do it without my Sudoku book.

• 11:35Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up, man. That's like making it 10 times worse.

• 11:38Declan Donnelly?

  You've got to have a little Sudoku.

• 11:39Ant McPartlin?

  No, you wanna get on a flight and you wanna just completely just zone out. So I wanna be entertained, greatly entertained.

• 11:47Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. Hmm. Where, can I put a five in this row? Hmm, my corner, cause I've got one in the box already.

• 11:51Ant McPartlin?

  That's not greatly entertained.

• 11:52Declan Donnelly?

  That's quite entertaining for me.

• 11:53Ant McPartlin?

  No, it's not. There was a woman we saw on a flight and she was doing a crossword when we got on recently. Did you do her a little?

• 12:02Declan Donnelly?

  Little nod.

• 12:03Ant McPartlin?

  Did you nod? Did you and her nod across the eyes to one another?

• 12:05Declan Donnelly?

  Fellow puzzle fan.

• 12:09Declan Donnelly?

  Good evening, puzzlers.

• 12:11Ant McPartlin?

  I'm not into road dogging.

• 12:12Declan Donnelly?

  You love a movie, don't you?

• 12:13Ant McPartlin?

  I love a movie. Yeah, I love a documentary, love a podcast, I love anything.

• 12:19Declan Donnelly?

  If you get on a flight and it's a night flight, do you not think, oh, I should go straight to sleep here?

• 12:23Ant McPartlin?

  Never.

• 12:23Declan Donnelly?

  Never?

• 12:24Ant McPartlin?

  Nah.

• 12:26Ant McPartlin?

  Nah.

• 12:28Declan Donnelly?

  You don't think, oh, if I get on now, go straight to sleep, that'll be eight hours sleep, I'll wake up the next.

• 12:33Ant McPartlin?

  I don't think like you. I don't think of like eight hours, I count them as hours. I don't have a ring that tells me if I've slept well or not slept well. The lines around my eyes will tell you whether I've slept well or not slept well. I slept well, guys. Um, yeah, I'm not, I'm not into that. I, I like to get on. And the thing is, because it's uninterrupted. Normally for us as well, you know, you, you get to go on a flight and you get to fly to Australia, for example, or South Africa for work. I can't wait to get on that flight. Because there's no phones, there's no emails. I mean, of course you can get wifi now, but who's switching wifi on? Have you ever switched wifi on a flight?

• 13:12Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah.

• 13:13Ant McPartlin?

  What on earth? Who are you? Why?

• 13:15Declan Donnelly?

  Just sometimes you need a hint.

• 13:17Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, shut up. You're winding me up. You're winding me up. I'm just like, right, this is it. I'm gonna get an uninterrupted version of this movie.

• 13:25Declan Donnelly?

  Nah, I couldn't raw dog it. I, I don't see the point. I think it's a wasted opportunity.

• 13:28Speaker 05

  Do you think it's impressive if people can raw dog?

• 13:30Ant McPartlin?

  Nah.

• 13:30Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 13:31Ant McPartlin?

  I think it's, I think it's just stupid. I think it's boring and stupid and they should grow up.

• 13:35Declan Donnelly?

  But what I don't understand what you get out of it.

• 13:37Ant McPartlin?

  You don't, you know, it's not hard.

• 13:39Speaker 05

  Would you say that to someone on the flight if you were someone?

• 13:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you're not hard.

• 13:43Speaker 05

  Maybe they're having some really deep, deep thoughts.

• 13:45Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that's okay. A little bit of contemplation, I don't mind. I'm okay with that. That when I go on, when I take the dogs for a walk, right? I won't listen to a podcast. I won't put music in. I just like to think, because there's very little time to think these days. When you're not distracted by your phone or whatever. So I think sometimes just giving yourself a bit of contemplation time is good. Because then you can come to decisions that you wouldn't necessarily come to.

• 14:11Declan Donnelly?

  If they're doing it for contemplation, fine. If they're doing it for a TikTok, not so fine.

• 14:16Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, exactly. If you're filming yourself, raw dogging it, you're not raw dogging it, you idiot.

• 14:22Declan Donnelly?

  The three and a half thousand mile dingo fence cover up conspiracy.

• 14:28Ant McPartlin?

  It's a long title, isn't it?

• 14:29Declan Donnelly?

  I'm still trying to work it out. Australia has a real structure called the dingo fence or dog fence. It is roughly 3,500 miles, that's 5,600 kilometres to you, long. Designed to keep wild dingos out of fertile sheep grazing land.

• 14:46Ant McPartlin?

  Right.

• 14:47Declan Donnelly?

  Because it's so heavily restricted, a massive TikTok stroke internet conspiracy insists that the fence isn't for dogs at all. It's actually hiding the edge of the world, comma, giant monsters, comma, or a secret gateway to another lush undiscovered continent with a massive ball pit. I, I added that bit on the end.

• 15:07Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I don't agree with that because everybody who knows the internet knows that the secret continent is beyond Antarctica. Everybody knows that.

• 15:16Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 15:17Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, that's where the secret continent is. That's where the aliens come from. That's where it's lush and it's green and the humans, like modern day humans, have, you know the ones that we see in the sky in the UAPs, right, the ones that have been disclosed by the US government? It's actually us from the future. But we whiz back and forward to Antarctica and that's where we live. So it's not Australia. You've got that wrong.

• 15:41Declan Donnelly?

  I've never heard this theory.

• 15:43Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you have. So you know, there's been a treaty that was signed years ago that you can only go to Antarctica if you've been given special permission by a country who has, who is part of the treaty.

• 15:55Declan Donnelly?

  So, and is this part of the thing that all of the countries own part of Antarctica? That Antarctica has been split?

• 16:02Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 16:03Declan Donnelly?

  And various countries have control of different parts of Antarctica?

• 16:06Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, well, it's kind of that, but it's more of a treaty that we can't do, we can't do something without getting the yes from the, from everybody else.

• 16:14Declan Donnelly?

  Right, okay.

• 16:14Ant McPartlin?

  But you can't just go there. So say if you were in a boat, and lots of people have made TikToks and stuff about getting to the ice wall, as they call it, and trying to scale the ice wall. And some have kind of made it to the top of the ice wall, but then you don't get any further because you get sent back. And like naval vessels will come and send you back.

• 16:31Declan Donnelly?

  So over the, over the ice wall is where the people from the future live?

• 16:35Ant McPartlin?

  Right, yeah, the future, there's another civilization there.

• 16:39Speaker 04

  Do you think David Attenborough knows?

• 16:41Ant McPartlin?

  David Attenborough must know something.

• 16:43Declan Donnelly?

  Jemima's got a hand up in the air. Just Jemima.

• 16:46Speaker 05

  I heard a conspiracy about David Attenborough that I thought you both might like.

• 16:49Speaker 04

  Oh, I've heard this.

• 16:49Speaker 05

  That David Attenborough is actually God and he's come down because he was fed up with all of us not taking care of the earth. And he's come down to try and make us appreciate it more.

• 17:01Ant McPartlin?

  I like that. I like it a lot.

• 17:03Declan Donnelly?

  I'll go with that.

• 17:04Ant McPartlin?

  I'll go with that. I love that. David Attenborough is God. That's a good tattoo. So if I don't agree with the tattoo ideas that come through, I'm just gonna get that. David Attenborough's God.

• 17:14Speaker 05

  And his tactic for making us appreciate was just making loads of dogs.

• 17:18Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Well, you would though, wouldn't you?

• 17:19Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 17:20Ant McPartlin?

  That's how you reach the most people.

• 17:21Speaker 05

  Art changes the world.

• 17:22Ant McPartlin?

  Art does change the world.

• 17:24Declan Donnelly?

  What other way to reach the people than through television? That's why we do it.

• 17:28Ant McPartlin?

  So we're demigods?

• 17:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 17:30Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, thanks. Okay. Angels, cherubs.

• 17:36Declan Donnelly?

  Attenborough's cherubs.

• 17:39Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that's a good tattoo. David Attenborough, me and you is cherubs either side, yeah.

• 17:44Declan Donnelly?

  We'll take that. So we're not having the dingos, no?

• 17:47Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we digressed a lot. No, I'm not having the dingos because we all know, everybody who goes the internet knows that the secret civilization, UFOs and everything that is reserved is in Antarctica. This one is specifically to you, although I will comment if I feel it is needed.

• 18:06Ant McPartlin?

  Thoughts on matcha?

• 18:07Declan Donnelly?

  Ha, well, as a green tea connoisseur, I'm not a big fan.

• 18:11Ant McPartlin?

  Why?

• 18:12Declan Donnelly?

  I don't get it. It's a bit too much. And I know some people think that green tea is a bit of an acquired taste.

• 18:18Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 18:18Declan Donnelly?

  Which I agree with when you first start, but matcha's a different level.

• 18:22Ant McPartlin?

  It's rotten.

• 18:23Declan Donnelly?

  It is horrible.

• 18:24Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I don't like it. Yeah, I know a lot of people do like it, but.

• 18:27Declan Donnelly?

  I've never had a good one.

• 18:28Ant McPartlin?

  I've tried it loads, like with the kids, my daughter, I used to drink it. She went through a period of drinking it loads. But then even then, when she drank it, she would always have something in it.

• 18:37Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, yeah, of course, because it's foul.

• 18:41Declan Donnelly?

  Nah, I'm not.

• 18:42Ant McPartlin?

  Now we're not having it?

• 18:42Declan Donnelly?

  We're not having that. I don't understand, I don't understand why people drink it. Is it for health benefits?

• 18:47Speaker 04

  I guess so. Yeah, it's like less of a caffeine, like intense caffeine hit, I think.

• 18:52Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, right, okay.

• 18:53Speaker 04

  Slower release.

• 18:54Ant McPartlin?

  I bet you like matcha.

• 18:54Speaker 04

  Love it.

• 18:55Ant McPartlin?

  I knew it. I knew it. Oh, yeah, because I'm really trendy. I live in a trendy part of London. And I'm part of the trendy media set. And I drink matcha.

• 19:07Declan Donnelly?

  This next bit is brought to you by Gemini, Google's AI app.

• 19:11Ant McPartlin?

  So it's a discussion topic which isn't in the jar, but because the jar's open, I think we can discuss it.

• 19:17Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, go on.

• 19:18Ant McPartlin?

  Remember a couple of weeks ago when I talked about how good I am at packing?

• 19:21Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 19:22Ant McPartlin?

  But that's for like a weekend. But for longer trips, like my summer holidays, when I'm going to Portugal.

• 19:27Declan Donnelly?

  Or when we go to Australia.

• 19:28Ant McPartlin?

  Or when we go to Australia.

• 19:29Declan Donnelly?

  We're there for four or five weeks.

• 19:31Ant McPartlin?

  That is tricky. So I thought I'd use Gemini to find the best way, the most efficient way to pack for a long period of time.

• 19:39Declan Donnelly?

  That is a great idea.

• 19:40Ant McPartlin?

  Gemini, can I have smart ways to cut the luggage weight? Buy your toiletries at a Portuguese supermarket on arrival.

• 19:46Declan Donnelly?

  That's a great idea.

• 19:48Ant McPartlin?

  I've never thought of that before. Pack for one week and do laundry halfway through. Pack ultra-thin Turkish towels.

• 19:56Ant McPartlin?

  That's a good idea too.

• 19:57Declan Donnelly?

  Two hours on a flight though, it's quite a long time with a two year old. Can I borrow that for a second?

• 20:01Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, can.

• 20:02Declan Donnelly?

  Gemini, what are a few small and light items that I can pack that are guaranteed to keep a toddler quietly entertained without making noise that disturbs the rest of the cabin?

• 20:14Speaker 06

  For a toddler on a flight, the secret is finding items that are mess free and don't make any noise. You could pack a roll of painter's tape, which is fantastic for sticking things down and peeling off easily without leaving any residue. Or some suction cup spinners that stick to the tray table.

• 20:30Declan Donnelly?

  I think the child would prefer the tape. I think I would not prefer the tape. I'm gonna end up on my head, isn't it?

• 20:37Ant McPartlin?

  Now, you're always late for things, so I thought this is a good one for Gemini. Don't pull that face. Gemini, I live about an hour away from the airport by car. Flight to Portugal is 2pm. So I need some buffer time. Build me a foolproof plan for a calm pre-flight trip.

• 20:54Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm, this is good.

• 20:57Ant McPartlin?

  There's a reverse engineered timeline for a 2pm flight. The last chance, sweep and lock up at 9am. Teens, double check their own tech charges and passports. Load the car now. Do not leave loading until departure window. 9.30 departure from the house. Leaving now gives you massive, massive safety net. 10.30, you arrive at the airport. Park the car, gather the bags, get everyone into the terminal shuttle, if using off-site parking. 11am, check in in security. Drop the bags, you're now officially inside the airport system with zero risk of missing the flight. Midday, find a sit-down restaurant, feed the toddler a proper meal, not airport snacks, and let the teens use the wifi. This kills the pre-flight anxiety.

• 21:38Ant McPartlin?

  1.15, move to the gate. Gates usually close 30 to 40 minutes before departure. Walk down early so you aren't rushing the two-year-old. That was more for me because I put the edges of my family in.

• 21:49Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 21:49Ant McPartlin?

  But I think for you, it's good to build in this as a structure for just working and life.

• 21:56Declan Donnelly?

  To get by day to day.

• 21:57Ant McPartlin?

  Just, yeah.

• 21:58Declan Donnelly?

  I think the reverse timeline though is the absolute way forward.

• 22:01Ant McPartlin?

  It is.

• 22:02Declan Donnelly?

  To work it out when you're gonna leave, when you've got to do what you've got to do.

• 22:05Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 22:05Declan Donnelly?

  And get out of there. I love that. I'm implementing that. I'm having that.

• 22:09Ant McPartlin?

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• 22:23Declan Donnelly?

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• 22:28Ant McPartlin?

  Check responses. Set it required. Compatibility and availability varies. Eighteen plus.

• 22:35Declan Donnelly?

  This is from Milana. Would you ever start a fragrance brand? Not in a creepy way, but you two always smell absolutely amazing. And it was one of the first things I noticed about you.

• 22:48Ant McPartlin?

  That's very kind of you. I thought it had finished before Red On. So would you ever start a fragrance brand? Not in a creepy way. That's not the question I was there like.

• 22:59Declan Donnelly?

  Just be, don't make the advert too creepy.

• 23:02Ant McPartlin?

  We hadn't thought about it, but we do like a good fragrance. We do like an aftershave. We do appreciate a good smell.

• 23:10Speaker 05

  You could have it attached to the calendar. So you buy the calendar that we're gonna do and you get your fragrance.

• 23:15Ant McPartlin?

  Scratch and sniff. Sounds weird, doesn't it? I think that's scratch and sniff calendar. Whoa.

• 23:21Declan Donnelly?

  Here's the thing. Do you have like a summer smell, a winter smell, a holiday smell?

• 23:24Ant McPartlin?

  I do have a more of a summer fragrance and the rest was like, like oud wood I like, but that's quite autumn, winter.

• 23:30Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 23:31Ant McPartlin?

  So then I do like more of a aquatic palmery kind of summery.

• 23:35Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 23:36Ant McPartlin?

  Vibe.

• 23:36Declan Donnelly?

  Nice.

• 23:36Ant McPartlin?

  And as we all know, I like Louva, but that's more of a summer smell. But I've run out of it. Can't buy myself any.

• 23:44Declan Donnelly?

  No, you can't. That's not a necessity.

• 23:46Ant McPartlin?

  Go on, what's, what's your rotation?

• 23:47Declan Donnelly?

  I have, um, I have a seasonal, I have an autumn smell, I have a summer smell and.

• 23:52Ant McPartlin?

  Name names.

• 23:52Declan Donnelly?

  I have a Christmas spell.

• 23:54Ant McPartlin?

  Brutal spell.

• 23:56Declan Donnelly?

  Smell.

• 23:58Declan Donnelly?

  Got a Christmas smell.

• 23:59Ant McPartlin?

  Brut, Imperial Spice.

• 24:00Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 24:00Ant McPartlin?

  Imperial lever.

• 24:01Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, that's it. Christmas, when I get back from Australia, I start wearing it immediately and I finish eh, probably like January the third, fourth.

• 24:09Ant McPartlin?

  Date, date, date something, Allah.

• 24:11Declan Donnelly?

  They do to me. Fahrenheit. Do you know the Fahrenheit?

• 24:14Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 24:14Declan Donnelly?

  Quite an old fashioned. That's what I wear Christmas. My Christmas smell makes me think of Christmas.

• 24:19Speaker 05

  What's it smell of?

• 24:21Ant McPartlin?

  Christmas. To deck, Christmas.

• 24:23Declan Donnelly?

  Tangerines, cinnamon.

• 24:25Ant McPartlin?

  Oh lovely, I want to eat that.

• 24:26Declan Donnelly?

  It's actually, it's quite, it's quite fresh, but I find it quite Christmassy.

• 24:28Speaker 05

  Turkey?

• 24:29Declan Donnelly?

  Does it smell of turkey?

• 24:30Ant McPartlin?

  Cranberry?

• 24:31Declan Donnelly?

  That's me. That's me before the Faraday. Smell quite a bit of turkey.

• 24:35Ant McPartlin?

  And then the summer?

• 24:36Declan Donnelly?

  I don't actually have a current summer smell. I need a new summer smell. And then the rest of the time is Lalabo. Santal thirty-three.

• 24:44Ant McPartlin?

  Do you know what I do always have in my cupboard is Brut.

• 24:48Declan Donnelly?

  You do not.

• 24:49Ant McPartlin?

  I do. I, I swear I gotta do. I really like the smell of it. It reminds me of Christmas growing up, but it, it's really quite fresh.

• 24:58Declan Donnelly?

  Ah.

• 24:59Ant McPartlin?

  And soapy sounds weird, but do you know what I mean? Like clean.

• 25:03Declan Donnelly?

  Brut thirty-three.

• 25:04Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, honestly. Every now and again, I've just shaved and I just wanna smell better, but I'm not going out anywhere. It's like a, it's a good house after shave. Do you know what I mean?

• 25:14Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, just to feel quite fresh.

• 25:16Ant McPartlin?

  That is my house after shave.

• 25:17Declan Donnelly?

  That's good.

• 25:18Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Try it. Let's bring it back. Let's get it trended.

• 25:23Speaker 05

  What would you call your combined to smell?

• 25:25Declan Donnelly?

  Decant?

• 25:26Ant McPartlin?

  Mm, decanter.

• 25:28Declan Donnelly?

  Decant, decanter, decant. And then I get go first for the fourth one.

• 25:32Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I'll give you that. I'll, I'll give you that.

• 25:34Declan Donnelly?

  You give us the fragrance.

• 25:35Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 25:35Speaker 05

  Decanter by Anton.

• 25:36Ant McPartlin?

  Decanter, it's good.

• 25:37Speaker 05

  And it's, the bottle is the shape of a horse cantering.

• 25:41Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

• 25:43Declan Donnelly?

  It should be like a decanter, like a, yeah.

• 25:44Ant McPartlin?

  Like a wine decanter or something.

• 25:45Speaker 05

  The horse would be a more fun bottle shape, no?

• 25:48Declan Donnelly?

  It's very expensive.

• 25:49Ant McPartlin?

  What? Horse shaped bottles?

• 25:51Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 25:53Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I mean, do some research into this, have you?

• 25:55Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. Oh, it's very expensive for your bottom line, that. You'd be sitting there like, we've sold tons and tons of aftershave, but those bottles are costing us a fortune, guys. What does being cool mean?

• 26:08Declan Donnelly?

  What does being cool mean? I presume we're not talking temperature here.

• 26:13Speaker 04

  If you saw someone and thought, they're cool, what is, paint them, what do they look like?

• 26:18Ant McPartlin?

  They look like you.

• 26:23Declan Donnelly?

  I think cool comes from within. It's not what they're, how they're dressed or how they have their hair done. It's about their confidence and how they carry themselves and their aura and demeanor and how comfortable they are in their own skin and how self assertive they are.

• 26:41Ant McPartlin?

  And good trainers, they have to have good trainers. They have to have cool trainers, they do, because otherwise they're not cool. And a cool haircut. But yeah, I mean, you, there's your stereotype of cool, you know, when, but that changes so quickly. And each generation will have a different definition of what cool looks like, what cool sounds like, what cool smells like, what cool is. But if you're just confident in who you are, and if you're kind of easygoing with it, you don't wear it too heavily, then yeah.

• 27:12Declan Donnelly?

  I think cool and fashionable are two different things.

• 27:14Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 27:15Declan Donnelly?

  Our manager, when we first, um, when we first got into show business, said to us, uh, guys, don't try and be cool. Says because.

• 27:23Ant McPartlin?

  Go on.

• 27:24Declan Donnelly?

  He's like, cool, cool doesn't last, you know, fashion doesn't last, it moves on. So you don't want to be cool, you want to be around for a long time. Like, yeah, no problem.

• 27:32Ant McPartlin?

  You can count on us.

• 27:33Declan Donnelly?

  Considerate dog.

• 27:36Ant McPartlin?

  But by the fact that you don't try and be cool, because of fashion's changing, you will be in and out of fashion, whether you like it or not. So it's, it's irrelevant.

• 27:48Declan Donnelly?

  Mostly out.

• 27:49Ant McPartlin?

  Sometimes in for a brief, brief second in the nineties.

• 27:55Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, last one for the day. I've got a chunky one and I've got another one of these as well.

• 28:04Declan Donnelly?

  Madison. Madison Owen asks, do you think our dreams have hidden meanings?

• 28:11Ant McPartlin?

  Yes. Thanks for watching. Goodnight.

• 28:15Declan Donnelly?

  Some common dreams, losing your teeth, being naked, flying, being chased, not being prepared for an exam, et cetera, et cetera. Do you think they have hidden meanings? Well, I think the science of sleep is, isn't it, that? Is it not? That when you're asleep, it's your, your mind and your body sorting things out.

• 28:37Ant McPartlin?

  Is it?

• 28:37Declan Donnelly?

  Isn't it?

• 28:39Ant McPartlin?

  Stop saying isn't, isn't it at the end of it, just, if it's a, if you think it's a fact, then say it. Don't second guess it all the time.

• 28:47Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, okay.

• 28:48Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 28:48Declan Donnelly?

  So when you're asleep.

• 28:49Ant McPartlin?

  What do you think?

• 28:50Declan Donnelly?

  I think it's your mind and your body sorting things out, isn't it?

• 28:58Declan Donnelly?

  And so that's what dreams are. It's your mind sorting things out, putting it into little boxes, into, into your memory box, into this little box over here, into your wellbeing box. So it's just sorting out those thoughts, isn't it?

• 29:13Declan Donnelly?

  No, and that's where your dreams are. That's what your dreams are.

• 29:15Ant McPartlin?

  And what if you dream of stuff that isn't a memory?

• 29:19Declan Donnelly?

  Yes. I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

• 29:21Ant McPartlin?

  You know what I mean? We often dream of stuff that wasn't, that hasn't necessarily happened.

• 29:25Declan Donnelly?

  I had a weird dream. That's just broken my dream. I had such a weird dream last night. What happened? This is really, it was full of celebrities. Honest to God, right? We were at a do and Rod Stewart was there and he had his leg up and he had no shoes and socks on, right?

• 29:41Ant McPartlin?

  No, that was, that was the King's Trust 50th anniversary.

• 29:44Declan Donnelly?

  He's obviously on my mind because I saw him a couple of weeks ago at the King's Trust.

• 29:47Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 29:48Declan Donnelly?

  So he had one leg up. He had no shoe and sock on one foot and he had his trouser leg rolled up.

• 29:52Ant McPartlin?

  What was his feet like?

• 29:54Declan Donnelly?

  Lovely, really nice. 4.9 on feetypedia.

• 29:57Ant McPartlin?

  WikiPedia. Was it WikiPedia?

• 29:59Declan Donnelly?

  No, I thought feetypedia was better. Um, and.

• 30:03Ant McPartlin?

  Patekew?

• 30:03Declan Donnelly?

  I said, are you all right, Rod? Oh yeah, he said, I've just got a bit of a sore leg. I was like, right, that's weird. He said, um, he said, but I'm away to Wembley after this. I goes, all right. He says, yeah, we're taking Michael.

• 30:15Ant McPartlin?

  Michael who?

• 30:16Declan Donnelly?

  Well, well, Michael who, you ask? He went, yeah, we're taking Michael. He says, he said they've finally let him in.

• 30:26Ant McPartlin?

  Michael who?

• 30:27Declan Donnelly?

  I looked over.

• 30:31Declan Donnelly?

  And Michael Ball was singing a song. Michael Ball was singing a song. Michael Ball was singing. He had a brown suit on and Michael Ball.

• 30:42Ant McPartlin?

  Into your head.

• 30:43Declan Donnelly?

  Michael Ball.

• 30:44Ant McPartlin?

  And I don't, I don't like.

• 30:46Declan Donnelly?

  Michael Ball was singing a song with Jack Whitehall.

• 30:50Declan Donnelly?

  Jack Whitehall.

• 30:50Ant McPartlin?

  It's not the Soccer Aid Rap Party.

• 30:52Declan Donnelly?

  It could have been. He had his arm around Michael Ball, Jack Whitehall was going like that. And Bradley Walsh was just milling around.

• 30:58Ant McPartlin?

  It is the Soccer Aid Rap Party. Was it the night of Soccer Aid you had this dream?

• 31:02Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, it might be. It might be my brick compartmentalising. But I don't know why Rod Stewart was taking Michael Ball to Wembley and why he'd finally been let in.

• 31:13Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know. They finally let him in.

• 31:15Ant McPartlin?

  Oh God, right on that bombshell.

• 31:17Declan Donnelly?

  Right, there you go.

• 31:18Ant McPartlin?

  That's it for this week's discussion, Jar. Send them in. We do like this episode a lot. We do go down rabbit holes. Make sure you check out what's been on Antarctica and if you find out that was no. But in the meantime, respect guys.

• 31:33Declan Donnelly?

  Respect guys. See you Thursday for the main part.

• 31:34Ant McPartlin?

  Bye.

• 31:36Declan Donnelly?

  Honest to God, you're singing.