Ant’s Trip To The Beach, Dec’s Sexy Glasses & The Boys Pay Tribute to Kevin Keegan

This week, the boys are hanging out on holiday. Ant's been spotted at the beach, Dec's got some sexy new specs, and they tackle the all important question: do Geordies wear coats? Plus, golfing champion Ryan Fox is on the line, Ant and Dec nearly fall out over an all new game of ‘Glasses or No Glasses’, and the boys discuss their trip to Japan, which broadened their minds. We also hear from the boys as they pay tribute to their friend, hero, and football legend, Kevin Keegan. Stay in touch with us at [email protected]. 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 - Coming up 01:45 - King Kevin Keegan 06:00 - Ant's trip to the beach 11:00 - Listener Comments 14:42 - Holiday Bingo 18:35 - Glasses! 21:01 - ...or No Glasses? 27:17 - Hiring more Foreign Correspondents 30:22 - Ant's Book Club 33:25 - Dec's Mini Golf 35:23 - Do we wear coats? 36:35 - More inventions! 39:53 - Ant's Mini Golf 41:52 - Open Champion Ryan Fox Has Some Advice! 43:34 - The Holiday Dice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:30Speaker 01

  A payday candy bar is miles and miles of peanuts. Salty crunchy peanuts, sweet, sweet caramel, raving you up with every bite. Enjoy the tasty journey, my friend. Payday Peanut Caramel Bar.

• 0:45Declan Donnelly?

  Coming up on today's show, we remember our hero, Kevin Keegan. You know, they say you shouldn't ever meet your heroes, but he was absolutely the exception.

• 0:53Ant McPartlin?

  That's been poorly and I got secretly popped on the beach. So his belly kind of protrudes out and but he stood next to me, so it looks like my belly.

• 1:03Declan Donnelly?

  We have a big falling out over glasses.

• 1:06Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, nobody knows what you mean. We put a rumor about us to bed because we're from Newcastle. Do we wear coats? Yes, of course we wear bloody coats.

• 1:14Declan Donnelly?

  And our golf career has peaked as we get advice from the Open Champion.

• 1:20Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I wasn't, anything he said, I was too shocked. And we hear where you've been on holiday as a foreign correspondent. Enjoy the show.

• 1:42Declan Donnelly?

  Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to Hanging Out with Him and Me, where we're on holiday, hanging out on holiday.

• 1:51Ant McPartlin?

  Hanging out on holiday.

• 1:52Declan Donnelly?

  Um, we're having a lovely time away, um, but it's lovely to be back with you in your ears and in your eyes.

• 2:00Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, don't say that. Stop saying that.

• 2:02Declan Donnelly?

  Can't say anything. Put my glasses on. There we go. I can see you now.

• 2:05Ant McPartlin?

  There goes. They seem to be the right size for your face.

• 2:08Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 2:09Ant McPartlin?

  Unlike, unlike my, unlike these.

• 2:11Declan Donnelly?

  It's quite a knack that.

• 2:13Ant McPartlin?

  I like these. It's quite a, yeah.

• 2:15Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, don't hold any balloons now.

• 2:17Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, up he goes. I've got, I've got a different pair. Try them on later on when we have to read something.

• 2:25Declan Donnelly?

  Great.

• 2:25Ant McPartlin?

  How are you?

• 2:26Declan Donnelly?

  I'm good. I'm not bad. Um, now, just after we recorded last week, we got the very, very sad news that the legend Kevin Keegan had passed away. So we didn't get to talk about it on last week's pod. Um, but I thought we could take a minute at the, at the beginning of this one, just to kind of pay tribute to him. Our own little tribute and what he meant to us and what he kind of did for our part of the world and how much he meant to the people of Newcastle and the North East. Kevin Keegan was the reason that I really got into football. Um, he was the, the David Beckham of his day. He was the Lionel Messi, the Cristiano Ronaldo

• 3:10Declan Donnelly?

  of the seventies and eighties.

• 3:12Ant McPartlin?

  He was. He won two balloon doors, didn't he?

• 3:14Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 3:15Ant McPartlin?

  Ballon d'Ors, as you should say.

• 3:17Declan Donnelly?

  He was the European Footballer of the Year a couple of times and, and inexplicably, he signed for Newcastle United in 1982, um, which is just when my eldest brother had started taking me to, to football. So him signing for Newcastle was huge news. And, um, that started my kind of roller coaster love affair with Newcastle United and football. And he was genuinely, genuinely my hero as a kid, my childhood hero. And when we got the news through last week, I was absolutely devastated. I'm not ashamed to say I shed a tear when I heard the news. He just meant so much to the people of the North East, what he gave to us in, in,

• 4:02Declan Donnelly?

  in his energy and enthusiasm and the hope that he gave us for our football team, which we hadn't had in huge amounts up until Kevin got involved with the, with the club. But he just meant so much beyond football to the whole region. He was just such a special man. And we were very lucky enough to meet him on a couple of occasions. The first one, I met him when I was, I think, six or seven and I won a competition to play football with Kevin Keegan. Played loads of fun games and all of that. And then Kevin Keegan comes along at the end of it and you get to kick a ball around with him and, um, and then we all went in for, for sandwiches and crisps afterwards.

• 4:45Declan Donnelly?

  And then every single one of us had a photograph with Kevin and he sat with each of us and put his arms around us. And as a six-year-old boy, that was just the best, meeting your hero. You know, they say you shouldn't ever meet your heroes, but he was absolutely the exception. So, um, yeah. I shed a tear last week and shed another one this morning, but, um, yeah. R I P Kev, King Kev, special K. What a guy.

• 5:18Ant McPartlin?

  Well said. Well said. It's true. You know, words like legends and saviors get bandied around, but he did. He saved our club when he came back as manager. He saved, he transformed our club, saved it. He was, he's a true legend of the game and a true legend to Newcastle United supporters. And he will be missed. Love you, Kev.

• 5:42Declan Donnelly?

  We both met him, didn't we, when we went to the kit launch on the pitch at Newcastle? For the, for the entertainer strip, the old, the old Adidas.

• 5:50Ant McPartlin?

  With the grandad collar and, you know, it's got the Newcastle Brown Ale, that thing in the middle, the logo in the middle. Classic, classic strip.

• 5:59Declan Donnelly?

  We were doing a photo shoot on the, on the pitch, I remember, and it was just me and Ant and for the local press and stuff. And, um, Kevin was around doing, uh, all of his kind of media duties and he saw us on the pitch, doing a picture on us, on our own. And he was like, I'm going to get on, in on this. So he got right in the middle of us, got us both around the neck. It's like, come on lads, have one with me. He was just the loveliest man.

• 6:23Ant McPartlin?

  He was. This one, this is the picture here.

• 6:25Declan Donnelly?

  Have you got it there?

• 6:26Ant McPartlin?

  I've got it. I've got it here. Some people keep sending it to me. That's it there. Look at that. It's, um, I'm going to get that framed. I need to find that shot and get that framed. I'd be good in a frame. Uh, King Kev. Legend.

• 6:45Ant McPartlin?

  So, good week for me. Played a bit of golf, had a bit of fun.

• 6:50Declan Donnelly?

  I saw that.

• 6:51Ant McPartlin?

  I've been, tell you what, guys, I've been popped on the beach.

• 6:57Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 6:58Ant McPartlin?

  Yes. I went to the beach the other day, which I invited you to, didn't I? But you're, you're a bit under the weather. We'll, we'll talk about that in a minute. Um, went down there, had all me chairs, had me little trolley thing that I pull Wilder along in with all of the beach stuff, the volleyball and the blankets and the waters and the crisps. All of that stuff that you've got to take down the beach, just in case. And I never check any U's when I'm away. And someone sent it through this morning and just go, oh, see you on the beach. It's like, oh God, shirtless shot on the beach. Um, to be fair, the reason I mention it is because if I was in my twenties or thirties, that would have freaked me out.

• 7:41Ant McPartlin?

  It would have freaked me out, the fact that we were getting popped, that I was just in swim shorts, that it was a big deal. And now I'm like, I'm 50. I don't care. You know, like, it's okay. I look all right. You know, I'm not, I'm not ashamed to say it. You know, I've been, I'm not embarrassed at all. But also you're like, it, it is what it is. Do you know what I mean? It was one of those things where I think if you stress about it too much, it can really ruin your holiday. And it can really bother you and you can really find out, oh my God, how did they know and who did he just spoke to? And you can start second guessing everything. Do you know what? It doesn't matter. I was on the beach. I had fun. I didn't realise, yeah, funnily enough, Dec wasn't there and I got popped.

• 8:24Declan Donnelly?

  I didn't come.

• 8:25Ant McPartlin?

  Funny that, isn't it? But yeah, I, I think it just goes to show that we've been doing this for so long that you just get to a point where, and it's not like, I don't, I don't care less. It's just, it doesn't bother me. It's all right. It's just, it's just part of the job, you know? And we had fun and there you go.

• 8:42Declan Donnelly?

  It's so rare though. Really rare.

• 8:45Ant McPartlin?

  And I would never even, even noticed it if a friend hadn't sent it through. But there's a shot of me standing in profile, right? And one of our friends, and I will name him, Andy Collins, is stood right next to me. And he's a larger gentleman than me, so his belly kind of protrudes out. And but he stood next to me, so it looks like my belly. And at first I'm like, oh my God, I look awful. And then I'm like, actually, that's not my belly. And I feel like just taking that shot and putting it on my socials going, not my belly, guys. Uh, but I probably, probably vested on do that. Yeah.

• 9:21Declan Donnelly?

  That could be a game. That could, we could make that a game. Belly no belly.

• 9:25Ant McPartlin?

  Belly no belly.

• 9:28Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, that is.

• 9:28Speaker 04

  They get your feet in shot.

• 9:29Ant McPartlin?

  Um, not that I've seen Fiona, but I'm sure, I'm sure there would have been a separate photographer just for the feet from, from WikiFeet. And yourself, I haven't seen much of you this week.

• 9:41Declan Donnelly?

  No, we haven't seen a lot of each other, have we? Because I haven't been well this week. I've been in bed ill. I spent two days in bed, um, not very well. I woke up at four o'clock in the morning, the other morning with a killer sore throat. Um, and then that developed into a very bad headache. And then I started getting a temperature. So Ali was there, the current Mrs. Donnelly was there with the kids. The mom had us sticking it in my ear going, yeah, you are very hot. So yeah, I had a temperature of 39 and ended up in the doctors. The doctor said, it's probably COVID, but we don't test for that anymore.

• 10:21Declan Donnelly?

  So yeah, I had two days ill in bed. I couldn't, couldn't move. One of the days I tried to get up, um, couldn't move, went back to bed. But the worst part of being ill was I was ill on Jack's fourth birthday. And so I didn't really get to spend any time with him. And I tried to go out for dinner that night with him. Um, and I got to the restaurant and Ali said, you have to go home. You look awful. So I drove home and went to bed and I missed his birthday dinner and his birthday cake.

• 10:50Ant McPartlin?

  Oh. Did you feel awful or was it just aesthetically she just thought you looked?

• 10:56Declan Donnelly?

  She didn't want to look at me.

• 10:58Ant McPartlin?

  In case you get popped, you should go home. You look horrendous.

• 11:01Declan Donnelly?

  Put your shirt on and go home. Since I've been ill, I have developed a bit of an upset stomach as well.

• 11:07Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 11:08Declan Donnelly?

  So I managed to get out last night for dinner. Um, and somebody ordered the crunchy tuna and it looked delicious and I couldn't resist it. And I put a bit in my mouth and the current Mrs. D looked over at me and she went, are you sure?

• 11:25Declan Donnelly?

  And I was wearing white trousers.

• 11:27Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, no.

• 11:28Declan Donnelly?

  That was a very brave move.

• 11:30Ant McPartlin?

  Tell you what, though, after a few days of having an upset stomach and being ill, you want to get yourself popped up on the beach.

• 11:35Declan Donnelly?

  I might go down.

• 11:36Ant McPartlin?

  You look thin as anything.

• 11:38Declan Donnelly?

  Actually, I'll give him a.

• 11:39Ant McPartlin?

  Just don't stand next to our mate.

• 11:40Declan Donnelly?

  I'll just give him a text. I've still got his number from the other day.

• 11:46Ant McPartlin?

  Do you think these remote recordings of the podcast are going down well? I've got no way of knowing. I don't check that. As you know, I don't check the comments.

• 11:53Declan Donnelly?

  Never reads the comments, never reads.

• 11:55Ant McPartlin?

  Never reads the comments.

• 11:55Declan Donnelly?

  Famously never reads the comments.

• 11:57Ant McPartlin?

  Go on.

• 11:58Declan Donnelly?

  I'm not sure if I'm honest with you because I'm me holders and I haven't been reading the comments either. So I don't know. Is anybody actually enjoying these episodes?

• 12:05Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, hold on. We've got. Jemima has just shared something on the screen.

• 12:09Declan Donnelly?

  We've got some comments here.

• 12:11Ant McPartlin?

  Joyce Smith says, Ant's teeth look a lot wider. It's because I've got a tan.

• 12:17Declan Donnelly?

  That's what that is.

• 12:17Ant McPartlin?

  When you get a tan, your teeth look wider.

• 12:19Declan Donnelly?

  Susan says, would love to meet the hecklers. You've just put that in. You've scoured the comments.

• 12:26Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you have.

• 12:27Declan Donnelly?

  Just to put that in. Well.

• 12:29Ant McPartlin?

  And then has that got 60 likes, that comment?

• 12:32Speaker 04

  Hmm.

• 12:32Ant McPartlin?

  So 60 people would like to meet you.

• 12:34Speaker 04

  Wish to meet and greet.

• 12:35Ant McPartlin?

  That's all right. We can charge them money and do a meet and greet. We can get some coin back. Pay for these remote recordings.

• 12:41Declan Donnelly?

  Well, Susan, the hecklers will be on tour this autumn.

• 12:45Declan Donnelly?

  Up and down the country playing back rooms of pubs.

• 12:50Ant McPartlin?

  Caroline says, Dec has finally got rid of that thing on his beautiful face.

• 12:53Declan Donnelly?

  Was that my beard?

• 12:56Declan Donnelly?

  Was that my beard?

• 12:56Ant McPartlin?

  Must be, must be.

• 12:58Declan Donnelly?

  I was quite proud of that beard.

• 13:01Declan Donnelly?

  I'm not going to grow back again, though.

• 13:03Ant McPartlin?

  No, you're not, are you?

• 13:03Declan Donnelly?

  No. Laura said, I love unfiltered ant. Never.

• 13:10Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, Laura.

• 13:11Declan Donnelly?

  Never go back on telly, stay on the pod.

• 13:14Ant McPartlin?

  Whoa, Laura. Whoa, Laura. Con your jets. What if you've never got back on the telly? I'm the same person on the pod as I am on the telly.

• 13:23Declan Donnelly?

  No, you're not. You're.

• 13:24Ant McPartlin?

  Maybe a bit looser.

• 13:25Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:25Ant McPartlin?

  I would say.

• 13:26Declan Donnelly?

  You're so sanitised on TV, you.

• 13:30Ant McPartlin?

  That's what it is, yeah. I can't read that name. Someone tied a dog that I wanted it says, BTS three, welcome Dex to the BTS army. Ha ha. Oh, yes.

• 13:41Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah. Because I was a big fan of them at the World Cup final.

• 13:44Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you were.

• 13:46Declan Donnelly?

  They're laughing at you here, aren't they?

• 13:47Speaker 04

  I'm laughing at home, Fred. The heart.

• 13:50Declan Donnelly?

  That's a heart.

• 13:51Ant McPartlin?

  What's a heart?

• 13:52Declan Donnelly?

  The R O three.

• 13:55Ant McPartlin?

  That's a heart.

• 13:55Declan Donnelly?

  That's a side with a heart.

• 13:58Speaker 04

  Have you never seen that before?

• 14:00Ant McPartlin?

  No, and do you know what? I pride myself on being down with kind of.

• 14:04Declan Donnelly?

  Text savvy.

• 14:05Ant McPartlin?

  Because, yeah, because my kids use all those kind of like LMK and BRB. All that kind of stuff, all the time in text messages. And it always takes me a while to work it out. But I've never seen, I didn't know that was a heart.

• 14:17Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 14:17Speaker 04

  You learn something new every day.

• 14:19Ant McPartlin?

  You do. You do. Thanks. Thanks, guys.

• 14:21Declan Donnelly?

  Jamie Hogan says, Heckler's Corner is amazing. That's got 14 likes. Why is this comment in there? This has got nothing to do with the pod on holiday.

• 14:29Ant McPartlin?

  I'm going to put my big glasses back on. Brick Robb says, there definitely needs to be a hanging out with the hecklers episode. Shut up. Put those two Geordie gasp bags in the corner where they deserve to be.

• 14:41Declan Donnelly?

  Guys, you need to think of some better pseudonyms. These are very bad fake names you've been creating, fake accounts. Amelia says, I'd give anything to work in Heckler's Corner. What a great group of people they are. They clearly work so hard. Respect, guys. Are they the best comments you could find about the, about the pod on holiday?

• 15:00Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's mainly just about us.

• 15:01Ant McPartlin?

  Nothing about like our golf chat. We wanted comments about our drivers and shafts and all that kind. None of that? All about you?

• 15:08Speaker 04

  Well, there have been some golf chat. And what I thought is for this week's mini golf section, I'd keep it contained to that part. So when we.

• 15:18Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 15:18Speaker 04

  Sound.

• 15:19Ant McPartlin?

  When we get there.

• 15:20Speaker 04

  The mini golf, you will each be sent the comments so you can work your way through them.

• 15:27Declan Donnelly?

  No, we forgot to do this last week, which was holiday bingo.

• 15:30Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, we did.

• 15:31Declan Donnelly?

  We started it off a couple of weeks ago, but we forgot to do it last week. So we've had loads of your holiday bingo situations sent in to us. Shall we go through a few?

• 15:40Ant McPartlin?

  We can. I can go first, though.

• 15:41Declan Donnelly?

  Go on, then.

• 15:42Ant McPartlin?

  I saw, remember we talked about stray cats?

• 15:44Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 15:45Ant McPartlin?

  I've seen three stray cats.

• 15:46Declan Donnelly?

  Three?

• 15:47Ant McPartlin?

  All together. It was like a mum and two little kittens.

• 15:51Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 15:52Ant McPartlin?

  Like playing around this tree. So add that to the bingo card.

• 15:55Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 15:56Ant McPartlin?

  It's good. Okay.

• 15:58Declan Donnelly?

  First one, Sean from Sligo says, you have to add, meeting someone from your hometown whilst abroad. That's a very good one, Sean. He says, I was in Sicily on a walking tour and met a couple from Sligo, my town. Turns out the wife was in my oldest brother's class at primary school.

• 16:16Ant McPartlin?

  No way.

• 16:17Declan Donnelly?

  What a small world.

• 16:18Ant McPartlin?

  That is a small world. Well done. Good one. Add it to the bingo card. Jamie from Northampton says, you've got to put that little bill sign we all do with our hands at a restaurant on holiday because we haven't learned how to ask the language. Yeah, asking the language. Can I, yeah, can I have the.

• 16:34Declan Donnelly?

  The little writing with the pen.

• 16:36Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 16:36Declan Donnelly?

  The air pen.

• 16:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 16:39Declan Donnelly?

  That one. That's a brilliant one.

• 16:40Ant McPartlin?

  Add that to the bingo card.

• 16:42Declan Donnelly?

  Olivia from Norwich says, could we put having an argument in the airport on the bingo card? Oh, I love my husband dearly, but we do always have a small bicker every time we're going anywhere. We just have very different concepts of time.

• 16:56Ant McPartlin?

  Hmm, yes.

• 16:58Declan Donnelly?

  Interesting.

• 16:58Ant McPartlin?

  Brianka from Southampton says, what about when seeing someone from your plane everywhere you go on holiday?

• 17:05Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 17:06Ant McPartlin?

  That's such a good one.

• 17:07Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 17:08Ant McPartlin?

  That's such a good one. It's someone that you've seen on the flight over there who aren't staying in your hotel. Where you just happen to see them. Restaurants, nights out, clubs, beaches. Very good. Yeah.

• 17:19Declan Donnelly?

  Very good. Nicola from Liverpool says, we have to add continually commenting that the heater feels different when you're abroad.

• 17:28Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, agreed.

• 17:29Declan Donnelly?

  That's true.

• 17:30Ant McPartlin?

  Agreed. Paul from Dumfries says, reserve a sunbed with a towel. Then more of our people are reserving sunbeds with their towels.

• 17:37Declan Donnelly?

  Very true, Paul.

• 17:39Ant McPartlin?

  Very true. I wouldn't do it, though. I can't stand it. It winds me up. Winds me up.

• 17:43Declan Donnelly?

  Can't bear it. Also, I can't be bothered. So I get really angry if you want to go to the pool and there's nowhere to go. And everybody's away at lunch or something, but loads of towels everywhere.

• 17:52Ant McPartlin?

  And books and like kids' life vests and all. Anything they've got, they're to reserve those sun loungers.

• 17:58Declan Donnelly?

  Liam from Solihull says, you've got to add packing your running trainers or exercise gear and never using any of it.

• 18:07Ant McPartlin?

  Couldn't agree more.

• 18:09Declan Donnelly?

  Packing with the best of intentions, as that is, isn't it?

• 18:11Ant McPartlin?

  Exactly.

• 18:12Declan Donnelly?

  Well done, Liam.

• 18:13Ant McPartlin?

  I packed, do you know, I packed. I've been doing, I have been doing a bit of like wasted stuff out here. But do you know what I packed? I saw when my spending bond was lifted and I was free to buy stuff from, when I was easily influenced by Instagram.

• 18:26Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 18:27Ant McPartlin?

  I don't know. That works. A skipping rope, a boxer weighted skipping rope. That's what I need. I need to skip more. Because when I do boxing in Australia, they skip and I'm terrible at it. I'm not a good skipper, right? But this is a weighted skipping rope, so it helps build up your shoulders.

• 18:45Declan Donnelly?

  Right.

• 18:46Ant McPartlin?

  It's still in the drawback there.

• 18:50Ant McPartlin?

  That's what I'm going to get it out. I'm going to get it out. Well done, though. Very good shout. And finally, Marie from Cornwall says, I always overestimate how many books I'll read abroad and end up logging four books in my bag, only to pick up a magazine in the airport and only read that. Very good. Oh, they're so good.

• 19:08Declan Donnelly?

  They're brilliant.

• 19:08Ant McPartlin?

  They're so good.

• 19:09Declan Donnelly?

  Keep them coming in, anything to add to the holiday bingo card, things that happen when you're on holiday. Keep them coming in to us, hangingoutabellabox.com.

• 19:20Ant McPartlin?

  Remember these glasses from last week's episode?

• 19:21Declan Donnelly?

  Yes, I do.

• 19:23Ant McPartlin?

  I found another pair. Well, I found two more pairs. So I'd like to get your opinion on the set glasses. So these are the up glasses.

• 19:32Declan Donnelly?

  So for those of you just listening, these are big, black framed, and not even Eric Morkham. They're bigger than that. They're.

• 19:39Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, God, they're not. I'd like a pair of Eric Morkham ones, but they've got like a kind of, what do you call it, Lola?

• 19:45Speaker 04

  Cat feline shape.

• 19:48Ant McPartlin?

  They've got a feline shape.

• 19:49Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 19:49Ant McPartlin?

  So those are the originals. I found these ones, a red pair.

• 19:55Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, very Christopher Biggins.

• 19:56Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it's very, it's Timmy Mallett, isn't it?

• 19:59Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, Mark Curry on Blue Peter.

• 20:01Ant McPartlin?

  Mark Curry, Biggins, Timmy Mallett, but a bit red.

• 20:04Declan Donnelly?

  A bit, a bit. It's, they're bordering on zany.

• 20:09Ant McPartlin?

  Nobody wants zany glasses that I won't be wearing then.

• 20:12Declan Donnelly?

  They're nice, though. They're nice. You pull them off.

• 20:14Ant McPartlin?

  Finally, we have these.

• 20:17Declan Donnelly?

  Yes, they're better.

• 20:19Speaker 04

  They're nice.

• 20:20Ant McPartlin?

  God, you said that because these are my actual glasses.

• 20:22Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah. They suit you.

• 20:23Ant McPartlin?

  And my wife had packed them. She had packed them. So I'm very thankful I've got my proper glasses now. Although I do still enjoy the feline version. And I think I'll wear these for, I'll wear these for reading and I'll wear these for the podcast. Perfect.

• 20:40Declan Donnelly?

  I found my glasses that I bought on holiday last year.

• 20:45Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, yeah.

• 20:45Declan Donnelly?

  Remember those ones?

• 20:46Ant McPartlin?

  I do.

• 20:46Declan Donnelly?

  Got them here. Check this out. These are great holiday glasses and I'll tell you for why. So you put them on like this. And there you, there you, you see us and you read us. But if you're out and about and it gets a bit sunny and you're like, hmm, can't really, I want to be able to see and read, but I can't do it in the sunshine. You just snap them on.

• 21:10Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 21:11Declan Donnelly?

  Aren't they good? Little magnetic sunglasses.

• 21:15Ant McPartlin?

  Do you get them? And add like a really cool sexy bit of music.

• 21:19Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, I'm ready.

• 21:23Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, perfect music, guys.

• 21:25Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, very good.

• 21:27Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, very good, very, very, very sexy. Yeah, it is again. Yeah, well done.

• 21:32Speaker 04

  Well, while we're on the topic of glasses, you know, we've been playing the know the game.

• 21:37Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 21:37Declan Donnelly?

  Which we love.

• 21:38Speaker 04

  Well, someone, someone wrote in with a version that they like to play, which is called glasses or no glasses. And I wondered if you'd like to play glasses or no glasses.

• 21:48Declan Donnelly?

  We love a game on holiday. Let's play glasses on all glasses.

• 21:51Speaker 04

  Okay, number one, Pedro Pascal, glasses or no glasses?

• 21:57Ant McPartlin?

  Glasses.

• 21:58Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses.

• 22:02Speaker 04

  Which means?

• 22:03Ant McPartlin?

  He doesn't know what he means. What? I'm gonna stop playing these stupid games if this is, if this is the outcome.

• 22:12Speaker 04

  So.

• 22:13Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, what am I saying?

• 22:15Ant McPartlin?

  Well, yeah, that's the question. What are you saying? You don't even know.

• 22:20Declan Donnelly?

  Um, Pedro Pascal, no glasses.

• 22:22Speaker 04

  Glasses.

• 22:24Ant McPartlin?

  Hooray.

• 22:25Declan Donnelly?

  Really?

• 22:26Speaker 04

  Number two, Justin Bieber.

• 22:29Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, the Biebs, the Bieberster.

• 22:32Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses.

• 22:33Ant McPartlin?

  No glasses.

• 22:34Speaker 04

  No glasses.

• 22:35Declan Donnelly?

  Too young.

• 22:37Speaker 04

  Sabrina Carpenter.

• 22:40Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses.

• 22:42Ant McPartlin?

  I've seen her in glasses, but were they like prop glasses?

• 22:48Ant McPartlin?

  Glasses.

• 22:48Declan Donnelly?

  Glasses.

• 22:50Speaker 04

  Glasses.

• 22:51Ant McPartlin?

  Yes. Hold on, you said no glasses?

• 22:54Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses.

• 22:56Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, shut up.

• 22:58Speaker 04

  There was a comma.

• 22:59Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 23:00Speaker 04

  Um, Tom Holland.

• 23:03Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, glasses.

• 23:05Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses.

• 23:07Speaker 04

  Glasses.

• 23:10Speaker 04

  Alison Hammond.

• 23:14Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses. She wears glasses.

• 23:18Ant McPartlin?

  No glasses. I'm saying no.

• 23:20Speaker 04

  Glasses.

• 23:23Speaker 04

  Harry Styles.

• 23:25Declan Donnelly?

  Mmm.

• 23:26Ant McPartlin?

  Same as them.

• 23:27Declan Donnelly?

  I've seen him in glasses, but are they just fashion glasses? Are they just watermelon sugar high glasses? Are they just sexy glasses? Are they just sexy stylesy glasses?

• 23:44Declan Donnelly?

  I'm saying glasses. I'm saying no glasses.

• 23:49Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I'm saying glasses.

• 23:50Speaker 04

  No glasses.

• 23:52Ant McPartlin?

  No.

• 23:53Speaker 04

  No.

• 23:54Declan Donnelly?

  They were just sexy stylesy glasses.

• 23:56Speaker 04

  Okay, Alan Shearer.

• 23:58Ant McPartlin?

  No glasses.

• 24:00Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses.

• 24:00Speaker 04

  No glasses. One more, Jamie Oliver.

• 24:05Ant McPartlin?

  Jamie Oliver.

• 24:06Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses.

• 24:08Ant McPartlin?

  Glasses.

• 24:09Speaker 04

  No glasses. What's the score, Fiona? It's a draw. Right.

• 24:13Ant McPartlin?

  There you go.

• 24:14Speaker 04

  Five all. I have a tie break.

• 24:16Declan Donnelly?

  I, we've got a tie break. Come on.

• 24:17Speaker 04

  I do have a tie break.

• 24:18Ant McPartlin?

  Come on, man.

• 24:19Declan Donnelly?

  Who's gonna answer first?

• 24:21Speaker 04

  Oh, I don't know. The first person to take their glasses off. That's how you answer the question. Pop your glasses on. Barack Obama. Deck was first.

• 24:31Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses.

• 24:35Declan Donnelly?

  What? No, hang on a minute.

• 24:37Ant McPartlin?

  No, you can't hang on a minute. No, you can't do any of that. No, no, no, no, no, no, absolutely no way.

• 24:42Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know what I mean.

• 24:43Ant McPartlin?

  He said no glasses. Ah, nobody knows what you mean. This is how you end up winning this? Because then you just go, you go back on a technicality and say, no, there was no comma. If there was no comma, I bet, right? I actually bet no glasses.

• 24:55Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses.

• 24:55Ant McPartlin?

  I bet glasses.

• 24:56Declan Donnelly?

  No glasses. I'm saying no glasses.

• 24:59Speaker 04

  And?

• 25:00Ant McPartlin?

  I, it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

• 25:03Declan Donnelly?

  It does?

• 25:03Ant McPartlin?

  I don't, I don't know what's going on anymore.

• 25:06Speaker 04

  Well, for those who are interested.

• 25:07Ant McPartlin?

  I'll go the opposite of what he says.

• 25:10Speaker 04

  Barack Obama does not wear glasses.

• 25:13Ant McPartlin?

  Do I win then? Cause Dex said, no glasses. So he meant he wears glasses.

• 25:18Declan Donnelly?

  No, I changed my mind. I said no glasses.

• 25:20Ant McPartlin?

  You can't change your mind.

• 25:21Declan Donnelly?

  Course you can.

• 25:21Ant McPartlin?

  If you take your glasses off first, you've got to have a.

• 25:24Declan Donnelly?

  Where in the rules? Does it say we can only accept your first answer?

• 25:27Ant McPartlin?

  First, then, then you've got to give that answer.

• 25:30Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I give me answer?

• 25:32Ant McPartlin?

  Well, you changed your mind?

• 25:33Declan Donnelly?

  No, where in the rules says I can't change my mind?

• 25:36Ant McPartlin?

  Well, you can't just take your glasses off and then give two answers. Well, I mean, let me take my time and think about it.

• 25:41Declan Donnelly?

  I didn't see a final answer.

• 25:50Speaker 04

  No winner. I won.

• 25:53Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you.

• 25:54Speaker 04

  I won.

• 25:54Ant McPartlin?

  Do you matter? No winner.

• 25:56Speaker 04

  Dex disqualified.

• 25:57Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, agreed, agreed.

• 25:59Speaker 04

  Why? Why?

• 26:01Ant McPartlin?

  For cheating.

• 26:02Speaker 04

  But?

• 26:03Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 26:04Declan Donnelly?

  I didn't say.

• 26:04Ant McPartlin?

  Give him two answers.

• 26:05Declan Donnelly?

  I didn't say final answer.

• 26:06Ant McPartlin?

  Swipe in your glasses off and not even having the thought in your head.

• 26:09Declan Donnelly?

  I didn't even say final answer.

• 26:11Ant McPartlin?

  That's like pressing your button and going, um, uh, uh, you're forced out.

• 26:16Declan Donnelly?

  That's not in the rules. Show me, send me the rules. Send me the written rules.

• 26:19Ant McPartlin?

  Fiona, send the rules.

• 26:22Declan Donnelly?

  And don't.

• 26:22Ant McPartlin?

  Just, just, just write them up now. Send, send the ones that made me win.

• 26:27Declan Donnelly?

  What do I win?

• 26:29Declan Donnelly?

  What do I win?

• 26:30Speaker 04

  A pair of glasses.

• 26:32Ant McPartlin?

  The title of bad winner. That's what you win. A sash which says bad winner.

• 26:36Declan Donnelly?

  The thing I do not need.

• 26:37Ant McPartlin?

  Bad winner.

• 26:38Declan Donnelly?

  Any more glasses. I have got enough glasses.

• 26:42Ant McPartlin?

  Please. There you go. There's another go.

• 26:45Speaker 04

  Six eyes.

• 26:46Ant McPartlin?

  Six eyes. Get the red ones on the top. Yay.

• 26:54Declan Donnelly?

  If we don't win specs wearers of the year this year, I will be furious.

• 26:59Ant McPartlin?

  So will I. We're giving, we're giving you so many options, guys.

• 27:06Ant McPartlin?

  If they're serious though, if there are any optometrists out there watching, I would like to get properly sized up for glasses. Cause I've only ever kind of been in boredom of, you know, how they look. So I think I need a proper good pair for me, Ed. So get in touch, guys.

• 27:26Speaker 04

  Dex looks like a villain from like a.

• 27:31Declan Donnelly?

  Not so fast, Spider-Man.

• 27:34Speaker 04

  We haven't flipped a coin for mini golf, by the way.

• 27:37Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 27:38Speaker 04

  I've got a coin here.

• 27:39Ant McPartlin?

  Who went first last week? Oh, you got a coin. Go on then.

• 27:41Speaker 04

  I've got a coin. Heads or tails?

• 27:44Ant McPartlin?

  Heads.

• 27:45Declan Donnelly?

  No heads.

• 27:47Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up.

• 27:49Speaker 04

  It's heads. And would you like to go first or second?

• 27:52Ant McPartlin?

  Nah, nah, nah. I'm still breathing after the whole stupid glasses thing. Let him go first. I'm losing water.

• 28:01Speaker 01

  Payday bars have a bone to pick with the other candy bars. Enough with the toppings and layers and stuff, kay? Payday bars are just salty crunchy peanuts and sweet caramel. Delicious. Payday Peanut Caramel Bar.

• 28:17Speaker 05

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• 28:47Speaker 06

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• 29:17Declan Donnelly?

  We've had tons of messages from people on their holidays who are listening to the pod and who are joining the hanging out tourist board as our local correspondent. Would you like to hear from some?

• 29:27Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, please.

• 29:29Declan Donnelly?

  Cali and husband are in Amsterdam.

• 29:33Ant McPartlin?

  He who shall not be named.

• 29:34Declan Donnelly?

  The current, the current Cali husband is in Amsterdam.

• 29:38Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 29:39Declan Donnelly?

  Ever been?

• 29:40Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 29:41Declan Donnelly?

  See.

• 29:42Ant McPartlin?

  Let's not talk about it. We went on a stag do quite a few years ago to Bider.

• 29:47Declan Donnelly?

  Not one of ours, not one of ours, was it?

• 29:49Ant McPartlin?

  Not one of ours, that is. It was a friend of ours. And then, yeah, let's leave it there. We don't need to go into that on the pod. I mean, that's it.

• 29:57Declan Donnelly?

  Don't need to go any further, do you? Stag do in Amsterdam.

• 30:00Ant McPartlin?

  That's it, guys.

• 30:01Declan Donnelly?

  Kelly is in Fiji.

• 30:04Ant McPartlin?

  Fiji?

• 30:04Declan Donnelly?

  Fiji. Have you ever been to Fiji?

• 30:06Ant McPartlin?

  I've never been to Fiji.

• 30:07Declan Donnelly?

  I've never been to Fiji.

• 30:08Ant McPartlin?

  Should we go to Fiji?

• 30:09Declan Donnelly?

  I'd love to go to Fiji.

• 30:11Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, I'll see you in Fiji.

• 30:12Declan Donnelly?

  How do you get to Fiji?

• 30:14Ant McPartlin?

  I think where you get to Australia. You can go from there, can't you?

• 30:17Declan Donnelly?

  It's not far, is it? From Australia, Fiji?

• 30:20Ant McPartlin?

  They filmed the first Love Islands there when it was, do you remember when Love Island was a celebrity?

• 30:25Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 30:25Ant McPartlin?

  That's how it started.

• 30:26Declan Donnelly?

  That's right. Claire is in Jamaica.

• 30:29Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, hi Claire.

• 30:31Declan Donnelly?

  Listening to the pod, lying by the pool, listening to the sea.

• 30:35Ant McPartlin?

  Claire, you're now our Jamaican foreign correspondent.

• 30:41Declan Donnelly?

  I love that, Claire. You painted a wonderful picture.

• 30:43Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 30:44Declan Donnelly?

  Of your little holiday in Jamaica. Thank you for that. Andy and Chloe are in the caravan.

• 30:50Declan Donnelly?

  They haven't told me where we are.

• 30:52Ant McPartlin?

  Could be in the bottom of the garden.

• 30:54Declan Donnelly?

  Still in the drive.

• 30:56Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Andy and who?

• 30:58Declan Donnelly?

  Andy and Chloe.

• 31:01Ant McPartlin?

  Andy and Chloe. So they, well, we can't really give you a correspondence title because we don't. You could be caravan correspondence, I suppose. We could send you anywhere in the UK.

• 31:11Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 31:11Ant McPartlin?

  Or Europe, or Europe. You're a UK travelling correspondent. Well done.

• 31:17Declan Donnelly?

  Claire Manson on her first solo abroad holiday in Kuzadasi.

• 31:22Ant McPartlin?

  Where the hell is that?

• 31:23Declan Donnelly?

  Turkey.

• 31:24Ant McPartlin?

  Kuzadasi, what a great name. I want to move there. Well done.

• 31:27Declan Donnelly?

  I hope you're having a lovely time.

• 31:28Ant McPartlin?

  For being brave. And hey, all of you solo travellers out there listening to the pod, well done. Because I actually, not now, but I think back in the day, I kind of regret not doing it. I regret not just doing a backpack, getting out there and just travelling and seeing the world on my own. And kind of finding out, you know, who you are and how good you are in certain situations. And I think you learn a lot about yourself, don't you? But I'm not going to do it now because it would be like I'm just abandoning the family. It'd be difficult for us now to do that.

• 32:00Declan Donnelly?

  And me.

• 32:00Ant McPartlin?

  And you. Yeah. Good point.

• 32:02Declan Donnelly?

  For all of you people that are out there solo holidaying and listening to the pod, I hope we're keeping you company on the, on your travels. And I hope you're enjoying the podcast and you never know, you could get to bond over listening to, hanging out.

• 32:16Ant McPartlin?

  That'd be good. Little community.

• 32:19Declan Donnelly?

  Let us know if you're solo travelling, where you are. That's quite exciting.

• 32:23Ant McPartlin?

  And as for solo travellers, for group travellers, I was thinking about this. Have you read much on this holiday?

• 32:30Declan Donnelly?

  I haven't read a thing.

• 32:32Ant McPartlin?

  Not a thing?

• 32:32Declan Donnelly?

  Not a thing.

• 32:33Ant McPartlin?

  Well, we're lucky because Wylde still has a afternoon nap.

• 32:36Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, bliss. Hold on to that as long as you can.

• 32:40Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I will. He didn't have one yesterday. I was like, what's going on? I don't get it. This is me reading time. But I was thinking, I'm going to mention the books I've been reading because it's always worth it if anyone's going on holiday to have some good recommendations. Now, you know, my favourite author ever is William Boyd.

• 32:57Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 32:57Ant McPartlin?

  Right. So I love him. My second favourite author is this guy, Amortos. He wrote this, The Lincoln Highway. He also wrote A Gentleman in Moscow, which is an excellent book. But then I was recommended this guy, Callan Wink, he's called. You can see that book's called Bait Tooth. It is brilliant. So obviously I got obsessed and then bought all of his books, but he's only got two.

• 33:24Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, right.

• 33:25Ant McPartlin?

  I tried to buy all of them, but he's only got two. This one called August. It's very good. So they're my summer reading, they're my recommendations. I mean, I don't know, we could start some kind of like book club thing, but you know.

• 33:38Declan Donnelly?

  Is that a thing?

• 33:39Ant McPartlin?

  It's on the top of my head. I don't know if it's ever been done before. Don't know. Don't know. Like I'd tell you what books are like. We all read the same book. We get together, we discuss it. Sounds too much. It would never work.

• 33:49Declan Donnelly?

  No, I don't think so. Never be a thing. I've got one here from Oliver from Maidstone who says, hello, Ant Dec and the crew.

• 33:58Speaker 04

  Hey.

• 33:59Ant McPartlin?

  Hey.

• 34:00Declan Donnelly?

  I am writing to share where I am on holiday as requested.

• 34:07Ant McPartlin?

  As requested.

• 34:09Declan Donnelly?

  I am in Italy, specifically Lake Maggiore in the north. There are great views of the lake and the mountains, lovely weather, around 27 degrees and a bit of thunder to add some fun. The only thing I could possibly fault is the curtains. They only open halfway and when trying to pull them out, they came crashing to the floor, leaving an awkward scenario as to whether I should tell reception. Would love your guys' thoughts on whether to tell them and would rate this holiday a solid seven out of eight bananas. Respect, Oliver from Maidstone. Should he tell reception that the curtains have fallen to the floor? Absolutely, I would. Liz, on the other hand, is listening by the pool in our villa in Champagne.

• 34:53Ant McPartlin?

  In our villa? What? What the hell?

• 34:56Declan Donnelly?

  In her villa.

• 34:56Ant McPartlin?

  What's she doing? Okay, in her villa.

• 34:59Declan Donnelly?

  Liz is listening by the pool in her villa in Champagne. I don't know if the pool is filled with champagne. I have a vision of Liz swimming in champagne.

• 35:09Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, and there's a sunken Rolls Royce on the bottom, like a 70s rock star.

• 35:13Declan Donnelly?

  Liz, you are very decadent. What a lady. Have you ever been to Champagne?

• 35:19Ant McPartlin?

  I have not, no.

• 35:20Declan Donnelly?

  Me neither. That concludes this week's travellers and our foreign correspondents. What the heck is that?

• 35:28Ant McPartlin?

  That's your minute to talk about golf, isn't it?

• 35:30Declan Donnelly?

  Is that my, is that my golf minute?

• 35:32Speaker 04

  That's your, if you have a look at your phone, there's a couple of comments. Once you have a read through, I will start the timer.

• 35:37Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, golf comments. Kevin G in Edinburgh says, for a fast swing, you should have a stiff shaft. Swing slow with a soft shaft. Dex chipping, topping the ball, he's lifting his head too early and chucking it. Maybe he's standing too close or not hitting the ball first, then grass. Hmm. Thanks for that, Kevin. Emma North, Emma in North Wales says, Dec, chip and advice, keep your arms in a V shape all the way through the swing. Don't deviate from the V shape. Feels weird, arms are stiff, but give it a try. P S, let them talk golf, you monsters. I shouldn't say that. I added that at the end. Martin says, I take a little distance off my iron's wedges by playing the ball from my front foot.

• 36:19Declan Donnelly?

  Very good, Martin. Front foot sends the ball on a high trajectory, so lands with not much run on the ball. Back foot keeps the ball on a low trajectory, so it runs more. Great for little chip and run shots around the green. But keep those hands pushing through to finish the swing or you'll decelerate before hitting the ball, catching it fat or thin. Need to keep the golf chat in the pod, but not too much, says Martin. So I tried what you said, Anne, about the chipping, and that got through the ball, but I absolutely thinned it and it went right through the green and into a bunker. So I don't know what I'm doing. I think, I think you're going to have to get hands on with me.

• 36:54Ant McPartlin?

  Right, I'll show you. I'll put my hands around you and then I can do the motion.

• 36:59Declan Donnelly?

  Like the pottery scene in Ghost.

• 37:00Ant McPartlin?

  Like, yeah, exactly. Is that exactly that?

• 37:02Declan Donnelly?

  I'm going to try these though. I'm going to try Emma's.

• 37:04Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, do.

• 37:05Declan Donnelly?

  Chipping in a V shape with stiff arms.

• 37:07Speaker 04

  Quiet, please.

• 37:08Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, God.

• 37:09Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, God, what?

• 37:11Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, I'll do, I'm going to try some chipping advice and maybe we'll film it and put it on our socials and see if I can actually perfect the chip.

• 37:23Ant McPartlin?

  They talked about us on Parenting Hell.

• 37:26Declan Donnelly?

  Joshua and Rob Beckett.

• 37:27Ant McPartlin?

  Nice to get a mention. Cheers, lads.

• 37:29Declan Donnelly?

  Thanks.

• 37:30Speaker 04

  They wanted to know if you wear coats.

• 37:32Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, yeah, they did. Because we're from Newcastle, do we wear coats? Yes, of course we wear bloody coats.

• 37:38Declan Donnelly?

  Have you ever seen I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here? We're always in bloody coats.

• 37:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 37:41Declan Donnelly?

  In the studio.

• 37:42Ant McPartlin?

  In Australia, for Christ's sake. We wear jackets in Australia.

• 37:46Declan Donnelly?

  We get so many messages. Shackits.

• 37:48Speaker 04

  They're jackets, not coats.

• 37:50Declan Donnelly?

  They're not coats, they're shackits.

• 37:51Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, yeah, they're jackets, you're right. They're shackits and jackets, not coats.

• 37:55Speaker 04

  Why do people think people in Newcastle don't wear coats?

• 37:58Ant McPartlin?

  Well, people, it is kind of true. People don't wear a coat on a night out. So this is more like a Thursday, Friday, Saturday kind of thing. So if you're going into town, if you're going, if you're going to the tune and you're going for a few drinks, then why would you want a big, heavy coat? Because all the bars are kind of near each other. So once you've had a couple of drinks, you don't really feel the cold anyway. So you go out, you don't take a big coat with you. And it's, and it is notoriously mostly the girls who don't wear coats.

• 38:30Declan Donnelly?

  Otherwise you've just got to carry it around all night.

• 38:33Ant McPartlin?

  So it's kind of true what they're saying.

• 38:35Speaker 04

  Have you seen Peter Jones on the golf course yet?

• 38:37Ant McPartlin?

  No, I spoke to him on the phone and I said that we are talking about it on the pod.

• 38:45Declan Donnelly?

  We've received a cease and desist letter.

• 38:49Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I haven't heard back from him since then, if modest.

• 38:55Ant McPartlin?

  So I can't pitch him anything. Have we had any more hacks?

• 38:58Speaker 04

  I've just, I've sent you one, Anne.

• 39:00Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, okay. Yes, you have. And look, I'll read it out and if it's worth it, I'll compile the best ones.

• 39:07Declan Donnelly?

  Because we had a brilliant one last week. The, the, the white gloves to clean your vision blinds was, it was, you know, to coin a phrase, it was a blinder.

• 39:15Ant McPartlin?

  It was. And I think the video sold it.

• 39:19Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 39:19Ant McPartlin?

  It's all about, it's all about the pitch in it. It's all about the pitch.

• 39:22Speaker 04

  Well, actually our listeners have really loved that. Do you want to see what they've done?

• 39:27Ant McPartlin?

  There he is, Dr Gloves. That is very good. Hundred percent cotton. I'd worn your gloves once. It's most.

• 39:34Declan Donnelly?

  That is brilliant.

• 39:35Ant McPartlin?

  No clothes. That's brilliant. You guys, I love you guys.

• 39:39Declan Donnelly?

  Amazing.

• 39:40Ant McPartlin?

  I've got one here then. It says, hi guys.

• 39:42Declan Donnelly?

  Hi.

• 39:43Speaker 04

  Hi. Hi.

• 39:44Ant McPartlin?

  Love listening to you all. And when I heard, sorry, hold on. Do I put the big ones on? I'm going, let's cut, let's put the big ones on.

• 39:50Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, big one.

• 39:51Ant McPartlin?

  Love listening to you all. And when I heard your recent episode asking for hacks or ideas, I couldn't resist writing in with an absolutely genius business idea, which I've been annoying my family with for years.

• 40:01Declan Donnelly?

  We'll be the judge of that.

• 40:02Ant McPartlin?

  Small lockers at entrances to airports for your car keys. Who wants to carry your car keys on holiday and risk losing them? Hmm? Well, small lockers with an app to provide a unique code means you can keep them safe from the moment you leave to the moment you return. The app could also signal if someone has removed the keys without your approval, so the police could be called out immediately. Sorted. Respect, guys. Claire. Discuss.

• 40:32Declan Donnelly?

  Not sure about that.

• 40:34Ant McPartlin?

  You don't like the small lockers? It wasn't that a thing though. Like you always see that in movies. Not necessarily at airports, but at train stations, there used to be lockers.

• 40:44Declan Donnelly?

  Like safety deposit boxes or something?

• 40:45Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, like the end of Trainspot where he goes to the, to the locker and puts something in there.

• 40:51Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 40:52Ant McPartlin?

  I would just say look after your car keys.

• 40:55Declan Donnelly?

  Seems like a lot of faff.

• 40:56Ant McPartlin?

  So this one is more of a hack. Hi, Aunt Dec and Heckler's Corner.

• 41:01Speaker 04

  Hey.

• 41:02Ant McPartlin?

  A lot of love for Heckler's Corner. Don't hear from Fiona. She really likes you. I'd love to share a life hack that my husband discovered completely by accident. It's honestly been a game changer. If you've ever struggled to find the end of a roll of cling foam, oh my God.

• 41:18Declan Donnelly?

  Who hasn't?

• 41:18Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, I have. Try this. Wet your hands first. For some reason, with wet hands, you can find the end of the cling foam in seconds. It lifts and rolls instantly. I would say this is a massive 10 banana rating. Doesn't work because it only goes to air. Respect, guys. Helen in Oxfordshire.

• 41:38Declan Donnelly?

  Well, we have to try this out.

• 41:39Ant McPartlin?

  We do have to try it out. That is a good hack.

• 41:42Declan Donnelly?

  I've never seen that hack before.

• 41:43Ant McPartlin?

  Nah.

• 41:45Declan Donnelly?

  What a hack.

• 41:45Ant McPartlin?

  How do you find it more with wet hands? I don't get the physics of it.

• 41:48Declan Donnelly?

  Does it work with sellotape, I wonder?

• 41:50Ant McPartlin?

  It must do.

• 41:52Declan Donnelly?

  I doubt it.

• 41:54Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, is it me? My name is Eagle. Right. Do I have any comments, please? Pray tell, hecklers.

• 42:00Speaker 04

  You do have a couple of comments.

• 42:02Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, yes, yes, yes.

• 42:03Declan Donnelly?

  Comments about your stiff shaft.

• 42:04Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, yes, yes, yes. And you should buy ladies clubs for more flex. Shut up, you. Emma from Leeds. Hi, I'm Josh, an eighteen year old golfer, but an ace handicapper. And the shaft normally depends on your swing speed. Generally speaking, Ant, if you're a slow speed from northern ninety-five miles an hour, you should use a flexible shaft. However, if you feel you're more of a faster swing speed, then that's when you use the stiff shaft.

• 42:29Declan Donnelly?

  That's good to know.

• 42:30Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, that is good to know. Respect, guys. Josh, thank you. And get fit for a driver and your clubs. Best thing I ever did. Rich K from Telford, Yorkshire. And my boyfriend had his, this is a different person. My boyfriend had his grips changed to thicker ones. That changed his game. Amy Duke.

• 42:49Declan Donnelly?

  All of, all of the grips?

• 42:51Ant McPartlin?

  All of the grips to thicker ones.

• 42:53Declan Donnelly?

  Big fat, um, iron grips.

• 42:55Ant McPartlin?

  Well, well, actually, on the driver's phone, yeah, I've got twenty seconds. I, um, I had two drivers at the range and I have really worked on one of them. Uh, it's working at the minute. And the one where I wanted a really flexy shaft.

• 43:09Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 43:10Ant McPartlin?

  I went into the golf club.

• 43:11Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 43:12Ant McPartlin?

  After I'd done the podcast last week.

• 43:13Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 43:13Ant McPartlin?

  And I said, can you change this to a, um, really flexible shaft? He said, let me have a look. I hit two balls with this shaft. They went.

• 43:20Declan Donnelly?

  Quiet, please.

• 43:21Ant McPartlin?

  Straight down the middle of the fairway.

• 43:23Speaker 04

  Quiet, please. Quiet, please.

• 43:27Ant McPartlin?

  In the middle of a story?

• 43:28Speaker 04

  Go on, finish it, finish it.

• 43:30Ant McPartlin?

  Are you serious?

• 43:32Speaker 04

  Go on, finish it.

• 43:33Ant McPartlin?

  It went straight down the middle of the fairway and he was like, I'm not going to give you a more flexible shaft. This one's mid. He says, and you've hit it really straight. He says, don't waste your money. Get out of here.

• 43:44Declan Donnelly?

  So he refused.

• 43:45Ant McPartlin?

  He didn't think, get out of here. He's very fresh though.

• 43:47Declan Donnelly?

  He refused to change your shaft?

• 43:49Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. He wouldn't, wouldn't change the shaft.

• 43:52Speaker 04

  Oh, sorry. I've just realised there's one more comment I forgot to share with you. Um, it's here.

• 43:58Ant McPartlin?

  Is it from you? Uh.

• 44:01Ant McPartlin?

  Hey, Ant and Dec. It's Ryan Fox here. Uh, had you had a golfing trip at the moment? Um, and might need some advice. Um, I'm certainly going with the claret jug. Um, so, you know, golf's a game of strategy. Uh, I'd like to say, don't follow up a bad shot with a bad decision. Go out there and have fun. Enjoy it and, uh. Oh my God. This is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.

• 44:29Declan Donnelly?

  The current.

• 44:29Ant McPartlin?

  What the hell?

• 44:30Declan Donnelly?

  Champion golfer of the year, Ryan Fox, has just given us golf advice.

• 44:36Ant McPartlin?

  Oh my God.

• 44:38Declan Donnelly?

  Life has peaked.

• 44:39Ant McPartlin?

  I didn't, I wasn't, anything he said, I was too shocked.

• 44:41Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know. He just said, just keep doing what you're doing and be brilliant or something. I don't know. I don't know what he said.

• 44:46Ant McPartlin?

  I, I don't know what he said. It was brilliant. Oh my God. Thanks, Ryan. Thank you. And congratulations again on your win.

• 44:51Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 44:52Ant McPartlin?

  You're a brilliant golfer and a nice guy. I met him, I met him at our golf club, you know?

• 44:56Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, did you?

• 44:56Ant McPartlin?

  Did I say this last time?

• 44:57Declan Donnelly?

  He, he, he holds the course record, doesn't he, at our golf club?

• 45:00Ant McPartlin?

  He does. Holds the course record at our golf club. And he was, he just played before me. Thank God he wasn't stuck behind me for hours. Um, but he was the loveliest guy when I met him, um, in the, in the bar afterwards. So, um, respect to you, Ryan.

• 45:14Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, congratulations, man. That's brilliant. Thank you so much. What a lovely message.

• 45:20Ant McPartlin?

  That was nice. Did you, oh guys, that, did you, were you, you guys?

• 45:24Declan Donnelly?

  Cheeky guys.

• 45:25Speaker 04

  He's a fan of the show. He heard you and looking for advice.

• 45:29Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, thanks, Foxy.

• 45:30Declan Donnelly?

  That's amazing. Amazing.

• 45:35Declan Donnelly?

  I've got a very beige lunch lined up. Still, yeah, still.

• 45:40Speaker 04

  Can you do that?

• 45:40Ant McPartlin?

  You can't eat a lot. You can't eat it. What is that noise? What are you doing?

• 45:44Speaker 04

  I'm just rolling some dice for the holiday bingo. Forgot to take the tombola.

• 45:47Declan Donnelly?

  You didn't bring the tombola home, did you?

• 45:49Speaker 04

  No, so it's just, it's holiday dice today.

• 45:52Declan Donnelly?

  Holiday dice.

• 45:53Ant McPartlin?

  Fine, fine, fine.

• 45:54Declan Donnelly?

  We've got some holiday questions.

• 45:56Speaker 04

  We've got some closing questions for you.

• 45:57Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, let's do it.

• 45:59Speaker 04

  Number eight, I've just rolled on two dice, to clarify, that's two dice.

• 46:04Declan Donnelly?

  You can roll at anything.

• 46:07Speaker 04

  Number eight, what is your dream holiday destination and what is the allure?

• 46:15Ant McPartlin?

  Oh God, there's so many. There's so many places in the world I want to go to. Top of my list at the minute is Buenos Aires in Argentina. I've always wanted to go to South America, so I'd love to go there. Or Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, because it's hard to say, isn't it? Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Robert De Niro.

• 46:36Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, I can, yeah, yeah.

• 46:37Ant McPartlin?

  Robert De Niro in Brazil. I'd like to meet Robert De Niro in Brazil. Yeah, wicked. That'll be cool. Uh, yeah, there's loads. There's, there's that, there's loads of, I'd still love to meet the Copenhagen. I talk about it all the time. Want to go there. Um, they're, yeah, there's, there's, there's too many, too many to list. Vietnam, I'd love to go Vietnam. Bali, you mentioned before, I'd love to go there. It's just like travelling, man.

• 47:00Declan Donnelly?

  I want to go to Bora Bora.

• 47:03Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that sounds good, doesn't it?

• 47:05Declan Donnelly?

  Doesn't it? It's the furthest place away from home. Like, you can't get any further away than Bora Bora. And apparently it is incredible.

• 47:12Ant McPartlin?

  And you can swim with pigs.

• 47:14Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 47:14Ant McPartlin?

  Pigs, pigs swim out there.

• 47:16Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 47:17Ant McPartlin?

  You do?

• 47:19Declan Donnelly?

  Baby John Pork.

• 47:20Ant McPartlin?

  You can swim with John Pork. Oh, it's like all of your dreams realised. That's because you've always wanted to do that.

• 47:25Declan Donnelly?

  I've always wanted to do that.

• 47:26Ant McPartlin?

  Constantly saying, get your shorts on, John Pork, we'll go swimming.

• 47:30Declan Donnelly?

  I've wanted to do so much that sometimes I just throw a few sausages in the swimming pool here and just get the same kind of feeling.

• 47:35Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you can. You can go swimming, swimming with pigs.

• 47:37Declan Donnelly?

  Can you really?

• 47:39Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 47:39Declan Donnelly?

  There you go. Look at that. Twenty twenty-six. We're living in the future.

• 47:43Ant McPartlin?

  Here we go again. Okay.

• 47:46Speaker 04

  Four and two, six.

• 47:50Ant McPartlin?

  Everyone's stepping in on holiday, aren't they?

• 47:52Speaker 04

  Um, how have holidays changed through your life from being kids to being young adults and lads to being dads?

• 48:00Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, that is quite interesting. Well, I suppose they've kind of come full circle because going on holiday as a kid, you know, your parents pack all your clothes, they tell you what to wear every day, you get taken somewhere, you do an activity, you you, you just exist on the holiday. You go and, um, have a lovely time. Then you grow up a bit and you become a bit of a lad and you have a few lads holidays and it's all about going out and boozing and, uh, playing golf and sunbathing and doing all that. And then you become a father and then suddenly you're the one that has to pack the bags and come up with stuff for the kids to do and take them out and make sure they're having a nice time.

• 48:42Declan Donnelly?

  So the roles have kind of reversed and you have to make sure the kids are having a lovely holiday. So I suppose, yeah, they come, they've come full circle.

• 48:49Speaker 04

  Another one?

• 48:50Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 48:51Speaker 04

  Last one. Six and five. That's probably the hardest one to add.

• 48:55Declan Donnelly?

  Eleven.

• 48:56Ant McPartlin?

  Eleven.

• 48:56Speaker 04

  Eleven. What is the place that you've been to that shifted a perspective you had?

• 49:01Ant McPartlin?

  Do you know when the first time we ever went to Japan to do promotion for, um, our music? We landed and we got picked up at the airport and it was, I think it was like a TV crew there from MTV or whatever, constantly filming. So we'd never been on a long haul flight before. So we landed in Japan, you're constantly being filmed, you're jet lagged, you're tired, you're, you're in this mini bus. And I just remember feeling like the biggest fish out of water because everything was different. It was like I'd landed on the moon. None of the signs or any of the, the literature I could see was in English. It was nothing.

• 49:39Ant McPartlin?

  Now, I'd been abroad before to Europe, but nothing was in English, none of the road signs, anything. And as you go and the traffic was really, really busy, I remember. And when we got to the hotel, everything was culturally so different. I just thought, oh my God, we're not the centre of the universe. You know, the UK and Europe and the way we do things is not, is not everything. It's not all about us. There is a whole world out there with their own way of doing things and their own cultures and their own um, languages and, and beliefs and et cetera. That opened my eyes to go, things are different, things can be different. And, and I think it's,

• 50:20Ant McPartlin?

  you can't help but have your mind open to more possibilities. And I think you're a little bit more tolerant with people. You understand different people more and different cultures more and different backgrounds more when you travel more. I think that, and they say travel broadens the mind. It really does. Because it, it makes you less rigid in your beliefs and, and the way you think people should be or how they should act or behave or whatever. You travel the world and you go, oh my God, it's so different. We're all so different. And that's cool. And that's the great thing about it. They do it that way. We do it this way. Wicked. That's, that's what makes the world go round.

• 51:01Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, absolutely. Even going somewhere like that and going into your hotel room and putting the TV on and not having like very many English speaking TV channels. You know, you got, we had CNN and probably BBC World. And that was about it. And other than that, it's all Japanese TV and Japanese game shows and Japanese daytime shows. You're like, what is all this about? Can't understand any of it. And then, yeah, you realise that this is their culture and I need to fit into this. I need to kind of enjoy this. This is why I'm here. I'm not here to

• 51:36Declan Donnelly?

  just experience English, British culture whilst being in the Far East. I'm here to immerse myself in this. Even though we went to a steak restaurant every night and didn't eat any raw fish whatsoever. Went for ribs.

• 51:50Ant McPartlin?

  Our palate took a little bit longer to mature than that.

• 51:53Declan Donnelly?

  The rest of us.

• 51:54Ant McPartlin?

  They're on, they're on mines.

• 51:55Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. Yeah, I think, I think I agree with that. The Far East, definitely.

• 51:59Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, that's it. That's, that's all we've got time for.

• 52:02Declan Donnelly?

  Thanks for watching today. Uh, remember to give us a like, a review, a follow, a subscribe, wherever you're listening or watching. We're back on Monday with a bonus. But until then.

• 52:13Ant McPartlin?

  Respect, guys.

• 52:15Declan Donnelly?

  Respect, guys.

• 52:16Ant McPartlin?

  Guys. No guys, no that.

• 52:20Declan Donnelly?

  Enjoy your holidays if you're on holiday. Uh, we'll see you back in the studio next week. All right.

• 52:25Ant McPartlin?

  Bye, everybody.

• 52:25Declan Donnelly?

  Bye, respect, guys. Bye.

• 52:27Ant McPartlin?

  Bye.

• 52:28Speaker 04

  Bye.

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