Pod Insights Hanging Out With Ant & Dec Ant's Shocked By Gary Oldman & Dec’s A Great Uncle! About this episode This week, the boys discover a GHOST IN THE STUDIO, Ant has a new foxy friend, and Dec is expecting twins... or is he?
Ant’s also started new beef with an Oscar winner, Gary Oldman, Dec is campaigning to bring back Word of the Day and find out which National Treasure can’t tell the boys apart - but if anyone can get away with it, they can!!
As always, we dive into your postbag, tattoos, and share some new TV recommendations. Keep your correspondence coming to [email protected] and sign off your email using the name you'd like us to use; if you don't want your surname mentioned, please don't add it, and it you'd like a full name shout out, throw it all in there!
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00:00 - Coming up04:45 - A Great Niece & David Attenborough10:15 - Ant’s Foxy Friend12:10 - Bring Back Word of the Day?17:55 - Ant & Dec’s Hobbies22:25 - Banana TV ratings26:15 - Tattoo Suggestions32:28 - Postbag
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1:30 Declan Donnelly? Coming up on the show, Ant Swap finally arrives, and it's not annoying. It has a strange force.
1:38 Ant McPartlin? The fall is. We create a lot of clickbait. Deck, are you expecting twins? Yes. Yes.
1:45 Declan Donnelly? Ant starts a new beef with an Oscar winner.
1:48 Ant McPartlin? And then I'll come and find you backstage and we'll have it out. I talk about my encounter with David Attenborough. And he went, congratulations to you, Ant or Deck.
1:57 Declan Donnelly? Good job it wasn't me, I would have smashed his bracelet.
2:00 Ant McPartlin? Plus, loads more of your postbag. Enjoy the show. I'm going to talk about BTS.
2:10 Declan Donnelly? Oh, hello. Oh, Ant, Ant, come in, quick, quick. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, good evening. Welcome back to the hangout.
2:19 Ant McPartlin? Stop your chitter-chatter.
2:20 Declan Donnelly? There's been a delivery.
2:21 Ant McPartlin? Stop your jibber-jabber.
2:22 Declan Donnelly? If you're just listening, there's a cardboard box on the table here. And it's got a big sign on the front saying, Ant's Swap.
2:27 Ant McPartlin? I don't remember ordering a TV bracket.
2:30 Declan Donnelly? That's not what you swap for.
2:31 Ant McPartlin? Better not be a TV bracket.
2:33 Declan Donnelly? TV bracket box.
2:34 Ant McPartlin? I remember swapping for something very particular.
2:39 Declan Donnelly? Ooh.
2:39 Ant McPartlin? Oh, we got, and these are free? These are free gift? Tater Crisps, my favourite crisps of all time.
2:46 Declan Donnelly? They're amazing.
2:47 Ant McPartlin? There you go, you hold on to them.
2:48 Declan Donnelly? Oh, yes.
2:49 Ant McPartlin? Oh, my God, it's here. It's here. So if you missed the pod a few weeks ago, I swapped my golf clubs for a bit of golf memorabilia. Shall I go out and put it on?
2:59 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
2:59 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, okay, hold on then. There's nothing else in there, is there? There's a letter. Read that letter, will you? To the viewers.
3:04 Declan Donnelly? Okay.
3:05 Ant McPartlin? Because I know you're not good left on your own because you won't know what to say if I'm not here.
3:08 Declan Donnelly? I'm getting very shy.
3:09 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, he gets very, very camera shy. I'll be back in a moment.
3:12 Declan Donnelly? Nice banana card saying, thanks a bunch. So this is from Amy and Tom. Hi, guys. We're so grateful you picked us for the swap. I promise I'll take good care of Ant's clubs. I hope you have better luck with them than he did. I remember you mentioned on the podcast that tater crisps are always better in Ireland. So I've thrown some of those in.
3:30 Ant McPartlin? Quiet, please. Quiet, please. How good is this? How good is this?
3:36 Declan Donnelly? That is brilliant.
3:36 Ant McPartlin? This is, and I can just do that when you've said too much.
3:40 Declan Donnelly? When I go on a bit.
3:44 Ant McPartlin? This is perfect.
3:45 Declan Donnelly? It has a strange, it has a strange force. That it just makes me stop talking whenever he uses it.
3:54 Ant McPartlin? It's a good swish. Can you hear the swish? Good swisher. Just get him and hit you, don't you?
3:59 Declan Donnelly? Yes, I am.
4:00 Ant McPartlin? Not. You talk that with the quiet, please, sign us up.
4:04 Declan Donnelly? Sorry, I shouldn't.
4:07 Ant McPartlin? The fire, ew.
4:11 Ant McPartlin? Oh my god, that's so good. What was he saying in his card?
4:14 Declan Donnelly? Basically cheers.
4:15 Ant McPartlin? Ah yeah, cheers to you too. This is brilliant. You don't have to be quiet though. This wasn't, I wasn't, I was just showing the viewer, I wasn't, this wasn't held up. You'll know when I hold it up, all right? That's how I hold it up.
4:29 Declan Donnelly? Amy said, Tom wanted me to point out, he got everything when he worked as a stand student at the Portrush Open. We are not sending stolen goods.
4:37 Ant McPartlin? Okay, thank you. Because I'm already wearing it and I'm already using it. So I would be an accessory to stolen stuff. And this
4:46 Ant McPartlin? is the flag. Signed by no one. We could, uh, could get that signed? Could we get that signed?
4:53 Declan Donnelly? By who?
4:54 Ant McPartlin? By someone who played in the Open that year. Not by him, he's not a famous golfer, but this is.
5:02 Ant McPartlin? Doesn't work so well, well. It's only when I'm going to attack you.
5:07 Declan Donnelly? You get the swish when you're quieting me down.
5:10 Ant McPartlin? Uh, this has been signed by somebody. We're not sure who.
5:13 Declan Donnelly? Tom can't remember who he got it signed by.
5:15 Ant McPartlin? Tom can't remember. We'll put that through AI, uh, to figure it out. AI being Fiona and Jemima. And they can figure out who that golfer is. But that's very, very good. That is the best swap we've had. Let's have a go.
5:30 Ant McPartlin? Don't hit us with it.
5:30 Declan Donnelly? Sorry, I couldn't get the swish. Oh, let me try again.
5:35 Ant McPartlin? Ah, you idiot, giving me that, man. Right. Untangle me from my bib.
5:42 Declan Donnelly? Undress me. It's like watching Virgin Island all over again.
5:46 Ant McPartlin? When I put a bib on Wilder now for his dinner, I can just put my own bib on. Danny's doing it too. Don't say no, Danny's got his own bib. That is so cool. We'll get that in a frame and we'll get that on the shelf. And, uh, these I will just wear around the house. Thank you very much, Tom.
6:02 Declan Donnelly? With nothing else.
6:03 Ant McPartlin? Great swap. How have you been?
6:05 Declan Donnelly? Good. Quite an exciting week. I have become.
6:10 Ant McPartlin? A dad again. Congratulations. Name me number three on the way. Congratulations. Just clip that bit off a clip bit. Just get that to get everybody watching the pod.
6:22 Declan Donnelly? It's like those awful AI adverts that are on. I get people keep sending me, they go, oh my congratulations, you're gonna be. No, we have not.
6:30 Ant McPartlin? Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. It's always you having more kids.
6:32 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, crazy. No, I have become a grand uncle. Is that a, no, a great uncle. A great uncle.
6:41 Ant McPartlin? What?
6:42 Declan Donnelly? Great uncle. No, not a grand uncle, that's weird. Great uncle. My nephew, Matthew and his wife have just had their first little baby. So it's my mum's first great granddaughter.
6:55 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
6:56 Declan Donnelly? Great grandchild.
6:57 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
6:57 Declan Donnelly? So that makes me a great uncle, I think.
6:59 Ant McPartlin? Oh, congratulations, yeah.
7:01 Declan Donnelly? I'm a great uncle.
7:02 Ant McPartlin? I love about you. Tell me more about the baby.
7:04 Declan Donnelly? Oh, she's lovely.
7:05 Ant McPartlin? It's a she, it's a girl?
7:07 Declan Donnelly? She took quite a long time to come out.
7:08 Ant McPartlin? Right.
7:09 Declan Donnelly? She thought about staying in for a bit.
7:11 Ant McPartlin? Liked it in there?
7:12 Declan Donnelly? But she eventually came out. Eight pounds ten, I think she was.
7:15 Ant McPartlin? Oh.
7:16 Declan Donnelly? Um, so yeah, very, very excited. It's my first great sibling. Great, it's my first great child.
7:27 Ant McPartlin? I'm not quite sure of your terminology, but we get, we get you're very proud, as you should be. That's nice.
7:32 Declan Donnelly? I'm a great uncle.
7:33 Ant McPartlin? Send my love.
7:33 Declan Donnelly? Thanks, I will, I will.
7:35 Ant McPartlin? Please do.
7:35 Declan Donnelly? They are, um, over the moon.
7:37 Ant McPartlin? Good.
7:37 Declan Donnelly? I've had another little surprise this week as well.
7:39 Ant McPartlin? What?
7:40 Declan Donnelly? While I was at home, I had a bit of a, cause that, that went, that was going on and it was been a busy week. And, um, I passed my Alexa in the kitchen.
7:50 Ant McPartlin? Good morning. What do you mean you passed her Alexa in the kitchen? Good morning Alexa, good morning Declan.
7:56 Declan Donnelly? Well, she does say good morning Declan to me.
7:57 Ant McPartlin? What?
7:57 Declan Donnelly? I'm the only person in the house that says, good, good morning Declan.
8:01 Ant McPartlin? Does she?
8:01 Declan Donnelly? Yeah. No, nobody else in the house, just me. Good morning Declan. Anyway, she's glowing yellow, which means she's got a notification for me. She said, good morning Declan. David Attenborough is arriving today.
8:18 Ant McPartlin? What? What now? That's a big flex. Have you got a picture of you two together?
8:22 Declan Donnelly? No.
8:23 Ant McPartlin? Because that trumps everything. That beats Declan Rice and he's now a league winner.
8:26 Declan Donnelly? She said David Attenborough is arriving today.
8:30 Ant McPartlin? How did he know?
8:31 Declan Donnelly? Well, I thought, I haven't bought anything for his birthday. He's just turned a hundred. I haven't gotten him anything.
8:36 Ant McPartlin? That'd be rude.
8:37 Declan Donnelly? So I was like, what the hell is going on here? I have no recollection of anything David Attenborough related.
8:42 Ant McPartlin? Is that what he's put in the diary?
8:43 Declan Donnelly? So I eventually get to the bottom of it. I have to go and look at my orders. She's bought one of those books, you know, Little People, Big Dreams. Those books, the David Attenborough story.
8:53 Ant McPartlin? Ah, right.
8:54 Declan Donnelly? Because it was his 100th birthday and Isla did David Attenborough at school. So she's bought him.
8:59 Ant McPartlin? So it was the book?
8:59 Declan Donnelly? It was the book.
9:00 Ant McPartlin? Oh, that's a shame, isn't it?
9:01 Declan Donnelly? It was a shame. I thought he was coming, I thought he was coming around.
9:03 Ant McPartlin? We met David Attenborough briefly once at the BAFTAs. And when you win a BAFTA at the end of the ceremony, which is a very long ceremony, they ask all of the winners to hang around in the auditorium, get on stage to have a winner's picture all holding the BAFTAs.
9:19 Declan Donnelly? Quite a nice thing to do.
9:20 Ant McPartlin? It is a lovely thing to do. We got split over on stage. You started talking to somebody from the night manager. You know, I remember I hadn't seen it, so I thought I've got nothing to offer this conversation. I can't even pretend. Because you were talking about storylines and plotlines and all of this kind of stuff. So I just kind of turned and I'm so pleased I did because I turned into David Attenborough. And now, yeah, I turned.
9:40 Declan Donnelly? Turned into him.
9:41 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
9:42 Declan Donnelly? He turned around and went, here we are.
9:44 Ant McPartlin? Here we are, on stage at the BAFTAs. I turned into David Attenborough and it shocked us that it was, he was so close. And I went, um, and the only thing I could think to say was congratulations. I said, congratulations, David. I really deserved win. I said, I love the series. And he went, congratulations to you and Ordek.
10:05 Ant McPartlin? So he either loves Love Actually and is quoting Bill Nighy in the movie, or he genuinely doesn't have a clue which one's which.
10:12 Declan Donnelly? I'd say the latter. I think the latter.
10:14 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
10:14 Speaker 04 He's probably the only person he can get away with.
10:16 Ant McPartlin? Oh, he got away with it all right. I laughed heartily like I've never laughed before.
10:22 Ant McPartlin? How good are you?
10:23 Declan Donnelly? Good job it wasn't me. I would have smashed his face in. Attenborough, not.
10:29 Speaker 04 Have you guys seen that Gary Oldman's been talking about eating bananas?
10:32 Declan Donnelly? I did see this. Gary Oldman is in a new play, right? And he has to eat bananas in the play.
10:37 Ant McPartlin? Does he?
10:38 Declan Donnelly? He eats like two bananas every show.
10:40 Ant McPartlin? That's nothing. I have that for breakfast.
10:42 Declan Donnelly? But imagine those shows where he does a matinee and an evening show. That's four bananas a day.
10:47 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
10:48 Declan Donnelly? Six or seven days a week.
10:49 Ant McPartlin? Piece of piss.
10:52 Ant McPartlin? That's easy, man.
10:53 Declan Donnelly? That's a lot of bananas.
10:53 Ant McPartlin? That's not a lot of bananas.
10:55 Declan Donnelly? Every day?
10:56 Ant McPartlin? Yes.
10:57 Declan Donnelly? You don't eat bananas every day?
10:58 Ant McPartlin? I do.
10:59 Declan Donnelly? Do you?
10:59 Ant McPartlin? Every day. What's he been saying about eating the bananas? Does he not like bananas?
11:03 Speaker 04 He's not into them.
11:04 Ant McPartlin? Gary Oldman's not into them? Oh, I love Gary Oldman. I used to love Gary.
11:07 Declan Donnelly? He's not a big fan, is he? He's not a massive fan of bananas.
11:10 Ant McPartlin? Might be a new beef for me, that. Gary Oldman.
11:13 Declan Donnelly? That's a good one.
11:13 Ant McPartlin? What's your problem, Gary Oldman, with bananas? Huh? Now get me free tickets to your show and I'll come down and watch it. And then I'll come and find you backstage and we'll have it out. Is that good? Is that good for you? Clickbait, isn't it? It's good. Rage bait.
11:27 Speaker 04 Any other rumours you could start for Clickbait?
11:29 Ant McPartlin? Dec is expecting his third child.
11:32 Ant McPartlin? In fact, I've heard it's twins. It's twins, right?
11:35 Declan Donnelly? According to AI.
11:36 Ant McPartlin? Did you say yes for the twins? Dec, are you expecting twins? Are you expecting twins?
11:40 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
11:41 Ant McPartlin? Yes. Use that. Talking of bananas, though, I had a lovely banana moment.
11:46 Declan Donnelly? Oh, banana moment?
11:47 Ant McPartlin? Banana moment. I have lots of banana moments throughout the week because I love them. I play golf on Monday.
11:54 Declan Donnelly? Typically, sorry, typically.
11:56 Ant McPartlin? I'm talking. Hold on.
12:00 Ant McPartlin? Get me quiet police sign out.
12:02 Declan Donnelly? Okay, okay.
12:02 Ant McPartlin? So I played golf. See, you can't actually speak when I've got this on. I played golf on Monday and I always put some bananas in my golf bag. Hold on. I'm putting my quiet police sign down. Don't I?
12:14 Declan Donnelly? Yes, you do.
12:16 Ant McPartlin? Let's back up. Always put them in your golf bag because I know that I'll get peckish throughout the round. And I was like one or two bananas, but these were quite some more. So I have three bananas in my golf bag. So I was eating the first banana and I thought, I'm gonna just plough straight onto the second one. The quiet police sign is still up.
12:34 Declan Donnelly? Sorry.
12:34 Ant McPartlin? And that goes for your laughing as well. I'm gonna plough straight onto the second banana because I'm still hungry. As I was peeling the second banana, a fox wandered by. And was looking like, I'll put this down now.
12:48 Declan Donnelly? Now you've got me attention, now you've got me attention.
12:50 Ant McPartlin? Looking at me like, I'm hungry too. So I thought, I know, I'll share half of the second banana with the fox. And surprisingly, he took it. Look, I took a video of it. There you go. He's wary, he's wary. He doesn't know what to make of me, understandably so. But then I chuck him a big old chunk of banana. He goes over, he has a little sniff, he's not sure. Takes it in his mouth and he runs off, heartbeat as Larry. And then what I didn't get to film was the third banana came out and he was back at me heels like a dog. You know, when you give a dog a treat and then they run away, eat it and come back. He came back, I'd give him the whole thing. Who knew that that foxes like bananas? Cows eat bananas, now foxes eat bananas. Everybody loves a banana, apart from Gary Oldman.
13:34 Ant McPartlin? Forget Gary. Bang out of order.
13:38 Declan Donnelly? Had a little flick through the comments this week.
13:41 Ant McPartlin? Yes, you did just watch.
13:42 Declan Donnelly? I like, I have a keen eye on what people are talking about. A lot of people are saying, where on earth is Ant's word of the day gone?
13:48 Ant McPartlin? That's a very good question and I should answer it with one, a one word reply, a really good word reply. If I still had word of the day. But I don't.
13:58 Declan Donnelly? It didn't last, did it? How long did it last?
14:00 Ant McPartlin? Well, it lasted, it lasted till I got bored. So it was a couple of weeks after.
14:05 Declan Donnelly? That was your New Year's resolution?
14:06 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
14:07 Declan Donnelly? Gone out the window.
14:07 Ant McPartlin? Well, yeah, it lasted till what? May?
14:11 Declan Donnelly? Did you?
14:13 Ant McPartlin? April, May, March.
14:14 Declan Donnelly? Nah.
14:15 Ant McPartlin? February.
14:15 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
14:16 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, February.
14:18 Declan Donnelly? Maybe end of Jan?
14:19 Ant McPartlin? Maybe, yeah, yeah. I did, no, I was getting the, but I was getting a lot of repeated words. So I'd, I'd already had the words. So then in the end I silenced the notification and moved on with my life.
14:32 Declan Donnelly? Oh, that's sad.
14:33 Ant McPartlin? Is it? I can pick it back up for you if you want.
14:36 Declan Donnelly? Let us know in the comments.
14:37 Ant McPartlin? Are you that bothered?
14:38 Declan Donnelly? Shall we run a poll?
14:40 Ant McPartlin? Are you that bothered?
14:40 Declan Donnelly? Are you bothered about Ant's word of the day?
14:42 Ant McPartlin? I'm not, I'm not that bothered. So please don't be bothered. I don't really want to have to go through it again.
14:48 Declan Donnelly? Have you lost interest in expanding your vocabulary?
14:51 Ant McPartlin? Yes.
14:53 Declan Donnelly? You've got enough words.
14:54 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I've got enough words, got enough friends, got enough words.
14:56 Declan Donnelly? Got enough friends, got enough words.
14:58 Ant McPartlin? I would definitely want to play words with friends. I've got enough of both.
15:05 Declan Donnelly? This next segment is an advert for Santander who understand that saving for your first home can feel almost impossible and the road to owning can be a bumpy one. And it's an agony and and dare.
15:16 Ant McPartlin? Oh, good, good. I do like these.
15:18 Declan Donnelly? This time it is first time buyers edition.
15:21 Ant McPartlin? Okay.
15:22 Declan Donnelly? I've got some dilemmas sent to us.
15:25 Ant McPartlin? Hit me.
15:25 Declan Donnelly? I've got one here from Stephen.
15:27 Ant McPartlin? Hi Stephen.
15:27 Declan Donnelly? Dear agony and and dare, I've just bought my first home with my partner and I'm a little bit worried about bills because it's quite a drafty house. Now we're arriving in the summer months, I thought fantastic, we could turn the heating off. However.
15:39 Ant McPartlin? Oh, what?
15:39 Declan Donnelly? My partner is cold blooded and she wants it kept on. In the winter, I negotiated hard to find the balance of her being warm at home but not breaking the bank. So when we arrived in spring and the sun came out, I thought, wonderful, we'll turn that off and she'll be fine. Alas, that is not the case. Any ideas how to find a compromise?
15:57 Ant McPartlin? Buy her some jumpers.
15:59 Declan Donnelly? That's, that's all you can do.
16:00 Ant McPartlin? You can't be leaving the heating on during the summer. That is, that's a waste of money.
16:04 Declan Donnelly? Don't you have a similar problem to this at home?
16:07 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, my wife gets very cold.
16:08 Declan Donnelly? And you're quite the sweater.
16:10 Ant McPartlin? I'm, I am quite the sweater. I'm one of life's sweaters. I get very hot.
16:13 Declan Donnelly? So how do you get around it?
16:14 Ant McPartlin? She wears more clothing. I wear less. Like, I'll never, that's it. But at home, I wear shorts t-shirt all the time.
16:23 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
16:23 Ant McPartlin? I tried to wear some jogger bottoms in the new house. I was sweating by the time I got to the bottom of the stairs, I had to take them off.
16:29 Declan Donnelly? Really?
16:29 Ant McPartlin? I put some shorts on.
16:30 Declan Donnelly? Oh, good.
16:31 Ant McPartlin? I'm naked.
16:31 Declan Donnelly? Good, good. And also finding an ambient temperature that you're both happy with.
16:35 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, but we're never both happy with it. Let's face it. I'll always sit near the window or, you know, sleep near the door, all that kind of, the small little wins you're gonna have.
16:45 Declan Donnelly? But the key is jumpers.
16:47 Ant McPartlin? Jumpers.
16:48 Declan Donnelly? One here, last one. This is from Meg. Dear agony and and dare, I've always dreamt of owning my own place and this year I really wanted it to be the year. I'm in a stable job and I've been saving for a while, but when I started looking at the realities of buying, the whole thing left me completely overwhelmed. Finding the place, putting the offer in, understanding the solicitors and then the deposit.
17:08 Ant McPartlin? Mmm.
17:08 Declan Donnelly? I didn't realise how much money people use as their deposit. I feel like to have enough for a deposit, I'll be saving for another 10 years. All this goes to say, something I was so excited for now just feels very scary and quite impossible. Any words of advice that you can give? Meg.
17:23 Ant McPartlin? Well firstly, it's not impossible because Santander are doing mortgage deposits as low as 10,000 pounds.
17:31 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
17:32 Ant McPartlin? So you can just save a little bit, do small little steps, just save a little bit. And then before you know it, that ten thousand pounds as a deposit is very achievable.
17:42 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, make sure you have a look into it because some deposits are a lot lower than you think. Santander being one.
17:47 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
17:48 Declan Donnelly? And things don't have to be perfect either, you know, tiny steps.
17:50 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
17:51 Declan Donnelly? Sometimes it feels insurmountable. Sometimes you feel like you're climbing a mountain, but you've got to start.
17:56 Ant McPartlin? Just start, just start. Yeah, exactly. Little steps will get you there.
17:59 Declan Donnelly? And a good way to start.
18:00 Ant McPartlin? Yes.
18:01 Declan Donnelly? I always think is to sit down and write a list. Otherwise you sit there and you go, oh yeah, forgotten to do this.
18:07 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
18:08 Declan Donnelly? So just to have it all down on a list and you can take things off.
18:10 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
18:11 Declan Donnelly? That's quite satisfying.
18:12 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I bet it is.
18:12 Declan Donnelly? To be able to take things off a list. Write yourself a list, give yourself some deadlines or a timeframe.
18:17 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
18:18 Declan Donnelly? And don't be too hard on yourself if you don't.
18:20 Ant McPartlin? No.
18:21 Declan Donnelly? Take as many things off your list.
18:22 Ant McPartlin? No.
18:22 Declan Donnelly? It's all work in progress.
18:24 Ant McPartlin? Exactly.
18:24 Declan Donnelly? But the main thing is to.
18:26 Ant McPartlin? Progress not perfection.
18:27 Declan Donnelly? Start, yes. Progress not perfection and make a start on it.
18:30 Ant McPartlin? Hmm.
18:30 Declan Donnelly? And not only that, we also know that Santander have a first time buyer hub to help with every step as well as first time buyer mortgages.
18:39 Ant McPartlin? Yes. Did you know that they offer deposits starting from ten thousand pounds even on larger loans?
18:43 Declan Donnelly? I did know that because we recorded an advert that said exactly that.
18:48 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
18:48 Declan Donnelly? And that could make a huge difference though for so many people wanting to buy their first home.
18:52 Ant McPartlin? Visit santander.co.uk for more details.
18:55 Declan Donnelly? Very good. That's it for Agony Aunt Andair this week. Santander, it starts here.
19:01 Ant McPartlin? Starts here. Hacklers, give us your Ts and Cs. You may lose your home if you don't keep up your mortgage payments. Mortgage subject to status and lending policy. Five hundred thousand pound max loan on houses with a ten K deposit.
19:13 Declan Donnelly? Minimum five, minimum five percent, minimum five percent deposit is required for flats, new builds and properties in Northern Ireland.
19:20 Ant McPartlin? Bit stumbly.
19:21 Declan Donnelly? We'll do that in the edit. We'll smooth that in the edit. Don't worry.
19:26 Ant McPartlin? I started reading a new book this week called Rick, you know Rick Rubin, the music producer?
19:31 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
19:31 Ant McPartlin? He's written a book about the creative process and his philosophy, it's really good actually. His philosophy is we should all create things, right? And that doesn't mean we all have to create music because he's a music producer and that we're never going to all be brilliant at it. But whether it's filming something, making music, modeling, sketches, drawing, painting, whatever it is. It's the art of the creation. So just, just creating yourself is art enough. And now the more we do it, the more we will be in touch with one another and how we'll open ourselves up to better things happening to us. And you don't do it for any kind of outer joy, you do it for personal joy, don't you?
20:14 Ant McPartlin? So when you make it in the first instance, you don't think about who's going to look at it in the future or if you're going to get paid for it or whatever. So I suppose it got me thinking about the podcast.
20:24 Declan Donnelly? Hmm.
20:25 Ant McPartlin? Do you know what I mean? Like we, we make it in the hope that people listen to it, but even if they don't listen to it or watch it, we still have fun doing it.
20:32 Declan Donnelly? Oh, yeah.
20:33 Ant McPartlin? So it's all about just creating the thing.
20:35 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
20:36 Ant McPartlin? Just get going. It's good, isn't it?
20:37 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, it is. And also I think if you are creative, if you do create something, then maybe you see the beauty in other people's creations as well. Because you understand the.
20:48 Ant McPartlin? The process.
20:49 Declan Donnelly? The process, yeah.
20:49 Ant McPartlin? That's his point, yeah. And we should all do more of it.
20:53 Declan Donnelly? That's a very nice idea.
20:54 Speaker 04 Hmm. Has it inspired you to take up another creative hobby, a bit of sewing?
20:58 Ant McPartlin? Don't have time.
20:59 Speaker 04 Stone carving?
21:00 Ant McPartlin? I did buy one of those kind of electric engraver things for, to write your name on stones. I've never used it. So this is part of the reason why I'm on a spending ban is because, I wish I still haven't spent anything, by the way. This is because I bowl crap like that all the time. I just get sucked into advertisements.
21:20 Speaker 04 What was the vision with that? What, when you bought that, were you like, oh, I'm gonna?
21:23 Declan Donnelly? I want to write my name on a stone. Is that what it was?
21:25 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what it was. Yeah. And then in the video, they were drawing like their dogs and then they would do their dogs on stones. And I thought that'd be good.
21:34 Speaker 04 How do they put the stones?
21:36 Ant McPartlin? Wherever you want. Do your stone, keep it indoors, outdoors. I did have a handheld sewing machine that I bought, which again, I thought, oh, instead of taking my trousers and get taken up to the tailor or whatever, I can just do it myself. But it was too complicated. When I was reading the instructions, it was far too complicated. No, it's just, it's only like the size of like your hand like this. And you hold it and you press the little trigger and it goes, it'd be great for you because you're always taking up trousers.
22:00 Declan Donnelly? What?
22:01 Ant McPartlin? You are though, aren't you? You're not doing it yourself, but you're always getting it taken up. That's what I mean. So that's what I thought. All this time spent with trousers, when we could just take them up ourselves.
22:12 Declan Donnelly? I've got no interest in doing that.
22:14 Ant McPartlin? Have you not?
22:14 Declan Donnelly? Nah, nah, nah.
22:17 Ant McPartlin? Are you not interested in any other hobbies?
22:20 Declan Donnelly? Not really.
22:20 Ant McPartlin? Really?
22:21 Declan Donnelly? Not really. I've got golf.
22:23 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
22:23 Declan Donnelly? But I haven't even got enough time to do that.
22:25 Ant McPartlin? No. What about a quick hobby? What's the quickest hobby you can do?
22:28 Speaker 04 Uh, noughts and crosses.
22:30 Ant McPartlin? Is that a hobby? Noughts and crosses? The pastime, isn't it?
22:33 Speaker 04 Do a bit of painting now and then.
22:35 Ant McPartlin? No, we don't paint. No, we don't. Yeah, for, for the internet. What man just supposed painted? If you're doing it just for the art of being creative.
22:43 Declan Donnelly? No, I do it for likes and clicks.
22:46 Ant McPartlin? Likes and clicks and sponsorship money.
22:52 Declan Donnelly? No, my paintings just for likes and clicks of other celebrities. I do like it. I enjoy, I enjoy doing portraits. I like it.
23:00 Ant McPartlin? I know, because you're good at it.
23:01 Declan Donnelly? I tend to drive portrait more than I does.
23:03 Ant McPartlin? What do you mean driving?
23:04 Declan Donnelly? Well, I kind of go, when we're doing another celebrity portrait.
23:06 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I don't care. Why would I want to do it?
23:07 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, I don't want to do it.
23:08 Ant McPartlin? I'm shit at it.
23:10 Declan Donnelly? I don't want to do that.
23:11 Ant McPartlin? Do you know what we should do? I mean, this would be good. And it would be full circle on this conversation right now. David Attenborough.
23:18 Declan Donnelly? David Attenborough. Let's paint him.
23:20 Ant McPartlin? I really feel I could offend him though.
23:22 Declan Donnelly? Well, he was, he doesn't know which one's which. He doesn't care.
23:24 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, it's a good point. Actually, he doesn't care, does he?
23:26 Declan Donnelly? Nah.
23:26 Ant McPartlin? He doesn't care. But is he gonna rate them? That's the thing.
23:30 Speaker 04 Apparently to get in touch with David Attenborough, you have to fax him.
23:33 Ant McPartlin? Fax him? Do you? Right, let's do it. Who's got a fax machine?
23:37 Declan Donnelly? I used to have a fax machine.
23:38 Ant McPartlin? Did you?
23:39 Declan Donnelly? Hmm. I think I've got, it might be in the lockup actually.
23:42 Ant McPartlin? Oh, I thought it was a joke.
23:43 Declan Donnelly? No.
23:44 Ant McPartlin? I used to have a fax machine.
23:45 Declan Donnelly? But I'm not one now.
23:46 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, no.
23:48 Declan Donnelly? What's this?
23:49 Ant McPartlin? Ow!
23:52 Ant McPartlin? Oh my god!
23:53 Declan Donnelly? If you're just listening, a airplane, paper airplane has just flown in and hit Ant right on the bonce.
23:58 Ant McPartlin? Right on the bonce!
23:59 Declan Donnelly? Big target.
24:00 Ant McPartlin? Hi!
24:01 Declan Donnelly? Hi!
24:01 Ant McPartlin? With Ant saying he likes TV shows about Russian spies etcetera, has he watched The Americans? An eight banana rating, no doubt, says Leighton Kelly. I haven't watched The Americans.
24:12 Declan Donnelly? No, I haven't. It's quite an old one, Americans, isn't it?
24:15 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, it is.
24:15 Declan Donnelly? It's a few years old now.
24:17 Ant McPartlin? But Leighton is saying eight bananas, so maybe I should add that to the list because I do like a spy drama. I've got more here. I think we're all talking about banana ratings, so should I read on?
24:26 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, go on.
24:26 Ant McPartlin? Hi, Ant and Dec.
24:27 Declan Donnelly? Hi.
24:28 Ant McPartlin? Hi. Loving the podcast. I would like to recommend a BBC One drama, Mint. The storyline is on the head of a crime gang in Glasgow and his family. Each episode is only 30 minutes long, so Dec's attention span should cope with it. I would like your opinion as I watched the entire series in one sitting and loved it.
24:45 Declan Donnelly? Okay.
24:46 Ant McPartlin? But I don't know anyone else who has watched it, and now I'm thinking my taste is set at such a low bar. I should stop recommending it. Don't know. I need somebody else. She needs someone to bounce off.
24:57 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, okay.
24:58 Ant McPartlin? Please check it out and let me know your views. Respect, guys. Marissa, okay?
25:01 Declan Donnelly? Okay, Marissa. We'll have a look.
25:03 Ant McPartlin? We'll have a look at that.
25:03 Declan Donnelly? I've never heard of that.
25:04 Ant McPartlin? Never heard of Mint. I mean, I've heard of Mint, like, you know.
25:09 Ant McPartlin? The, what is it called? Herb, the plant. Finally, hello, Ant and Dec.
25:14 Declan Donnelly? Hello.
25:14 Ant McPartlin? You must watch the new film release called The Sheep Detective.
25:19 Declan Donnelly? Oh, yes.
25:20 Ant McPartlin? It's with Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson. It's really good, family film. I give it seven bananas. Respect, guys. From Amanda in Derby.
25:28 Declan Donnelly? Wow. From Gold saying, you must watch this. I've got seven bananas.
25:31 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I know. Why not eight?
25:32 Declan Donnelly? What is she gonna give eight?
25:33 Ant McPartlin? What is she, what's she waiting for? What did it lack?
25:35 Declan Donnelly? I saw the trailer when I went to see The Magic Far Away Tree with the kids. It does look very fun.
25:40 Ant McPartlin? Does it? Because I saw the, the poster on the side of a bus and it looked awful.
25:44 Declan Donnelly? Yeah. Yeah, the trailer's good.
25:47 Ant McPartlin? Is it? Okay, there's laughs in it, because there's not many laughs in the poster, granted. But it was just that stock shot of that, just all that looks a bit rubbish.
25:55 Declan Donnelly? Yeah. Can I suggest one?
25:57 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, you can.
25:58 Declan Donnelly? The new Amelia Clarke ponies? I've just read some press about it, but apparently very good. And being mentioned in the same breath as the Americans.
26:06 Ant McPartlin? Right, okay.
26:06 Declan Donnelly? That's what made me think of it.
26:07 Ant McPartlin? Is it a spy thing?
26:08 Declan Donnelly? It is a spy thing. She and the other girl are wives of two CIA, American CIA agents in Moscow, and the husbands get killed, and then the two wives have to kind of go on some sort of weird spy adventure. But apparently it's very, very good, up there with the Americans. So we'll do that one as well.
26:29 Speaker 05 Can we watch Rivals, series two?
26:30 Declan Donnelly? Ah, Rivals, season two as well, we've got.
26:32 Speaker 05 Ah, so good.
26:34 Declan Donnelly? Do you like the music in it?
26:35 Speaker 05 Yeah.
26:35 Declan Donnelly? It's good, good eighties music in it.
26:37 Speaker 05 Yeah.
26:38 Declan Donnelly? Do you want a fun fact about the music?
26:39 Speaker 05 Yeah.
26:40 Declan Donnelly? The music supervisor on Rivals is the current Mrs. Donnelly's brother.
26:45 Ant McPartlin? Nepotism.
26:50 Declan Donnelly? My brother-in-law is the music supervisor on Rivals.
26:54 Speaker 05 Master, if I'd said no.
26:55 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, your music's rubbish.
26:57 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, do you like the music? Absolutely dire. Worst thing about it.
27:02 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
27:03 Speaker 05 What does a music supervisor do?
27:04 Declan Donnelly? So in the scripts where it says like, there's eighties music playing or whatever, then he will suggest what tracks. You've got to be careful that you don't play a track that is from two years in the future to when the scene was set. So he has to kind of collect all the, what the big hits were around the time.
27:19 Ant McPartlin? That's a cool job, isn't it?
27:20 Declan Donnelly? It's a really cool job. And go, have you thought about this song? This would work really well here. And then if they go, yeah, yeah, you want that one, then he has to go and do the, all the negotiations with the publishers and clear it and all the really legal stuff. So he does all of that. So he does all, he looks after all the music on Rivals. And he's done loads of movies as well and stuff. And because the music is such a big part of Rivals as well, everybody's kind of loving the music. So, yeah, he's thrilled.
27:46 Declan Donnelly? The day is drawing ever closer when Ant here will have a tattoo
27:51 Ant McPartlin? Oh god.
27:52 Declan Donnelly? To commemorate his participation in this podcast. What was it for like six months?
27:57 Ant McPartlin? My participation in the podcast?
27:58 Declan Donnelly? For like, what was it, six months or something?
28:00 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I think it was. And I keep seeing my body going, oh god, that body, not my body. I mean, I don't say that about my body. I think, oh yeah, when I see my body.
28:09 Declan Donnelly? We've got some nice suggestions this week to add to the body, or not, as the case may be. Jacqueline says, respect guys.
28:19 Ant McPartlin? Respect Jacqueline.
28:21 Declan Donnelly? How about this for a tattoo? Either a tattoo of R13EYF as a nod to the butcher ribeye registration plate, which is on the shelf behind you, or a tattoo of an ant and a duck sitting together. I've attached a drawing of this one.
28:42 Ant McPartlin? Oh, that's a very nice looking tattoo though.
28:45 Declan Donnelly? It is nice, isn't it? Do we like it?
28:46 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I like the look of that.
28:48 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
28:48 Ant McPartlin? It's not your main tattoo though, is it? Like a secondary tattoo. That's not top of your arm, is it?
28:54 Declan Donnelly? No. It's a little kind of...
28:56 Ant McPartlin? It's cute.
28:57 Declan Donnelly? I like it.
28:58 Ant McPartlin? It's cute.
28:58 Declan Donnelly? It's cute.
28:59 Ant McPartlin? Cute tattoo.
29:00 Declan Donnelly? He likes it, Jacqueline. Well done, he thinks it's cute. Hello there, Ant and Dec.
29:04 Ant McPartlin? Hello there.
29:05 Declan Donnelly? My name is Ayla Rose and I am a tattoo artist from Inverness. I've watched you guys since I was a little girl and your podcast has been the best part of mine and my partner's week since it began.
29:13 Ant McPartlin? Oh.
29:14 Declan Donnelly? You need to get some more good stuff in your week.
29:16 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, you need some hobbies.
29:18 Declan Donnelly? Love the idea of you getting a tattoo designed by a fan. I love this photo of you guys after the Newcastle Carabao Cup win. The design will be done as a simple line work or as realism, depending on preference. Thanks for taking time to read.
29:32 Ant McPartlin? That's good. That's really good. Your teeth are a bit weird.
29:36 Declan Donnelly? They are a bit weird.
29:37 Ant McPartlin? Why is that?
29:38 Declan Donnelly? My teeth are quite weird. I've got braces. Do you like it?
29:40 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I mean, you're very...
29:42 Declan Donnelly? Prominent.
29:43 Ant McPartlin? You're very prominent.
29:43 Declan Donnelly? I'm quite prominent.
29:44 Ant McPartlin? Which I don't mind. I don't know if I necessarily want a picture of...
29:47 Declan Donnelly? Sounds like you do quite mind.
29:49 Ant McPartlin? No, it's not actually. I don't mind, but I don't know, I want myself on my own arm.
29:53 Declan Donnelly? Right, yeah.
29:54 Ant McPartlin? It's just, it's a bit big headed that, isn't it? Isn't it though?
29:58 Declan Donnelly? A little bit.
29:59 Ant McPartlin? Whereas the ant and duck on the other hand, is a subtle little nod to our friendship and Ant and Dec.
30:05 Declan Donnelly? What are we saying about that?
30:06 Ant McPartlin? I think we will have to say no.
30:07 Declan Donnelly? It's a no because you don't want yourself on your arm.
30:09 Ant McPartlin? Yes.
30:10 Declan Donnelly? Okay, nice idea though, Ayla. I like it. I'd have it on.
30:13 Ant McPartlin? You have it then.
30:14 Declan Donnelly? I'd have it on Ant's arm.
30:16 Ant McPartlin? Hello, you're on?
30:17 Declan Donnelly? Nah, Jess says, hi guys.
30:19 Ant McPartlin? Hi Jess.
30:19 Declan Donnelly? I've come up with the perfect tattoo idea for him.
30:22 Ant McPartlin? Well, stop the search, stop the search, she's found it.
30:25 Declan Donnelly? Mainly because I know how much he absolutely loved this particular thing each time Deck offered a swap. So really, it only feels right to make it permanent. I'm fully expecting it.
30:37 Ant McPartlin? I know what it is, I know what it is. Can I guess? Can I guess?
30:42 Declan Donnelly? You can guess.
30:43 Ant McPartlin? It's the tap shoes, isn't it?
30:46 Declan Donnelly? There you are. As a tattoo.
30:49 Ant McPartlin? As a tattoo.
30:50 Declan Donnelly? That's very good. I'm fully expecting this masterpiece to become a reality and honestly, I'd be disappointed if it doesn't.
30:56 Ant McPartlin? No, because the way it's been drawn so wistfully, no, he can't get that, I can't get that. As much as I love.
31:03 Declan Donnelly? Oh, I love it. I love it. It's a nice idea.
31:07 Ant McPartlin? It is a nice idea. I mean, if I was, if I was looking for more places to tattoo, then I would get that as a laugh.
31:16 Declan Donnelly? It's great.
31:17 Ant McPartlin? I'm telling you, my wife would never let me get that.
31:19 Declan Donnelly? What about on the ankle or something?
31:20 Ant McPartlin? Oh, hands, we would go.
31:22 Speaker 05 On your feet.
31:23 Ant McPartlin? On my feet?
31:24 Declan Donnelly? What, those lovely wiki feet?
31:25 Ant McPartlin? On the sole of me feet, I'm not losing wiki feet marks by them tap shoes.
31:32 Declan Donnelly? Is Jess gonna be disappointed?
31:34 Ant McPartlin? Can't we just keep it on there because it's very good?
31:36 Declan Donnelly? We should put them down on the leg?
31:37 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, go on then. Yeah, but then it's on the knee and then look what's on the other knee. So I'm still on the other knee.
31:44 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
31:44 Ant McPartlin? So those two are never gonna happen, but I just like looking at them. So, so far, we have, is that all we've got?
31:51 Declan Donnelly? No, we've got a few more.
31:52 Ant McPartlin? Is this it though?
31:53 Declan Donnelly? No, I'll tell you what we've got.
31:54 Ant McPartlin? The boomerang, which we like, the respect guys, eight bananas, which we like, the ant and duck, which is cute. Uh, and the golfer with the, the golfer with the, the ball and the flag will on me belly buttons, never gonna happen. So we'll just take it off the body, sorry.
32:11 Declan Donnelly? No, you gotta leave that one. I get to choose one, remember?
32:14 Ant McPartlin? No, you don't.
32:14 Declan Donnelly? That's my one.
32:15 Ant McPartlin? Absolutely do not.
32:16 Declan Donnelly? That stays there. We've got all these little ones from Nicole.
32:19 Ant McPartlin? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
32:21 Declan Donnelly? So you've got your Psych of the Album, your Saturday Takeaway, your Respect Guys Fingers, and Stay Fresh Cheesebags.
32:29 Ant McPartlin? Very good. Just dot them around the chest area. Dot them around the chest area.
32:32 Declan Donnelly? Okay, we like these.
32:33 Ant McPartlin? Very good.
32:34 Declan Donnelly? And I've also got the Soundwave.
32:37 Ant McPartlin? Oh, of your name?
32:38 Declan Donnelly? Yes.
32:38 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
32:39 Declan Donnelly? Is it my name? My laugh. Let's stick that on the arm. It doesn't have to be my laugh, it could be something else, can't it? Like the...
32:46 Ant McPartlin? No, that's the whole point.
32:47 Declan Donnelly? Is it?
32:48 Speaker 04 It could be your children's laugh.
32:49 Ant McPartlin? Why would I want Dex's children's laugh on my arm? That's weird. You're weird.
32:56 Declan Donnelly? Well, that's good. I think we've got progress here.
32:58 Ant McPartlin? We're getting there. We are getting there. Please, please, please, send in more ideas that... Oh, just cool. Just, just cool, nice-looking tattoos. Yeah? A bit like, a bit like the Boomerang one with the Angel of the North and Thyme Bridge and the, um, Longitudinal Latitudes. I really like that because you've got to have a little think about it and it just looks cool.
33:20 Declan Donnelly? Conversation starter.
33:21 Ant McPartlin? It's a conversation starter.
33:22 Declan Donnelly? Like the golfer?
33:23 Ant McPartlin? No, no, no. Not the golfer with the ball going into me belly button.
33:27 Declan Donnelly? Great conversation starter. Keep them coming in. Hang it out at BeltTheBox.com.
33:31 Ant McPartlin? Please.
33:31 Declan Donnelly? Let's put some ink on this guy.
33:33 Ant McPartlin? For the love of God, make them better than this.
33:37 Declan Donnelly? This next bit is brought to you by Gemini, Google's AI app.
33:41 Ant McPartlin? So big summer of football, as we know.
33:44 Declan Donnelly? I can't wait.
33:45 Ant McPartlin? It's gonna get better and better.
33:46 Declan Donnelly? Can't wait.
33:46 Ant McPartlin? Hopefully. Got me thinking, I wonder who Gemini would think is the better footballer, me or you?
33:52 Declan Donnelly? Ooh, that's an interesting con...
33:54 Ant McPartlin? But hasn't seen us play?
33:55 Declan Donnelly? Conundrum, yeah.
33:56 Ant McPartlin? Okay, I'll ask. Gemini, who'd you think would be the better footballer, Ant or Dec?
34:03 Speaker 06 You're talking about the famous presenting duo, Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. That's right. Declan's slightly shorter stature might give him a lower centre of gravity, which might make an excellent winger or attacking midfielder. Ant, on the other hand, might have an advantage with reach and heading the ball, could be a strong central defender or even a commanding goalkeeper. With their famous teamwork, they'd likely be fantastic at setting up plays together, always knowing where the other one is.
34:27 Ant McPartlin? What a really good response.
34:28 Declan Donnelly? That is quite a good response. And you do play in goals sometimes.
34:31 Ant McPartlin? I do play in goals sometimes, yeah.
34:32 Declan Donnelly? Can I get some tips from Gemini, please?
34:35 Ant McPartlin? You can.
34:35 Declan Donnelly? Let me ask Gemini a question.
34:36 Ant McPartlin? Okay.
34:37 Declan Donnelly? Gemini, we've actually got a five-a-side game coming up in a week or two, and I'm gonna need a really good pre-match stretch routine.
34:46 Ant McPartlin? Oh, here it goes, okay.
34:47 Declan Donnelly? A step-by-step warm-up, please, and make me look like a pro. Gemini says, "To look like a pro and protect your hamstrings from the inevitable Tuesday night intensity, you want active movements that mimic the game.
35:02 Ant McPartlin? Uh-huh.
35:02 Declan Donnelly? Here's a high-efficiency, five-minute dynamic routine guaranteed to warm you up and, more importantly, get you looking the part."
35:08 Ant McPartlin? Come on, then.
35:09 Declan Donnelly? Five-minute dynamic warm-up. Open the gate. That's not just getting out the bottom of your garden. This is jog three steps, lift knee, rotate it outward, hips and groin. That's that one.
35:19 Ant McPartlin? Yeah.
35:20 Declan Donnelly? That looks like a footballer. Close the gate.
35:24 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, same again but reversed, yeah.
35:26 Declan Donnelly? But that. Hamstring scoops.
35:29 Ant McPartlin? Oh, yeah. Yes, yeah, that looks like a pro.
35:32 Declan Donnelly? That looks very footbally. Side lunge to twist, butt kicks and high knees and acceleration bursts. Yeah, they do that a lot, don't they, when they come on as a substitute? Ooh, they run really fast. That's a good routine.
35:43 Ant McPartlin? Can I ask Gemini something?
35:44 Declan Donnelly? Go on, then.
35:45 Ant McPartlin? Okay. Obviously, I can't play because I've hurt my toe.
35:47 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
35:47 Ant McPartlin? So I could be ref. Should I be ref?
35:49 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, yeah.
35:49 Ant McPartlin? Okay, let me ask Gemini, just because it's boring, I'd be a ref. See if I can make it fun. Gemini, I'm refereeing a five-a-side with my mates. Give me some good ideas on how to keep the game fun for me and for them. Here we go. Gemini says, "Oh man, sorry to hear about the toe." Oh, that's very kind, isn't it?
36:09 Declan Donnelly? Nice Gemini.
36:10 Ant McPartlin? It's more than what you've done. Being a five-a-side ref for your mates is a fine art. If you take it too seriously, everyone gets annoyed.
36:18 Declan Donnelly? Hmm.
36:18 Ant McPartlin? If you don't take it seriously enough, it descends into chaos. Gemini says, "Here's the fun ref matchday blueprint. Custom sin bin cards. Instead of reds and yellows, use a two-minute blue card for tactical fouls."
36:31 Declan Donnelly? That's quite good.
36:32 Ant McPartlin? Whining. That is good. Two dramatic VR reviews from controversial calls. Make the TV screen hand gesture, walk over to a sideline monitor or a blank wall, stare at it intensely and deliver a theatrical final verdict.
36:45 Declan Donnelly? That's brilliant. I want you to do that.
36:47 Ant McPartlin? That is good. Thank you, Gemini. But I could just be caught. Gemini, can I have a short, high-energy halftime speech to keep everyone locked in, please?
36:59 Declan Donnelly? We're getting in a huddle.
37:00 Ant McPartlin? Right, right, hold on, get in a huddle. Pretend, pretend. This is my speech. Gemini says, "Bring it in, bring it in. Circle up, you beautiful disasters. Here's some advice. Stop passing to the opposition. They have different colored shirts for a reason. Attacker, stop trying to walk the ball into the net. Just hit it. And defender, stop being lazy. My toe might hurt, but my eyesight is perfect. Let's actually try for the next 20 minutes. Hands in. One, two, three. Don't embarrass me." Thanks, Gemini.
37:29 Declan Donnelly? That's amazing.
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37:57 Declan Donnelly? Shall we get some letters? Got a few in the postbag.
38:00 Ant McPartlin? Go on then.
38:01 Declan Donnelly? Shall I get them out?
38:01 Ant McPartlin? Yes, please. Okay.
38:03 Declan Donnelly? Choose your weapon.
38:05 Ant McPartlin? I will have that one, you have that one, I'll have that and you have that one, nice. It's nice to read your letters again. It's your letters, it's your letters, you have that tape on Friday?
38:15 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
38:16 Ant McPartlin? Still love that. Uh, this says, hi Ant Dec and old Latine. Hi.
38:22 Declan Donnelly? Hi.
38:22 Ant McPartlin? Nice of you. I see your mum's out of dear Christmas pudding and raise you an out of date tin of golden syrup. Hmm, I'm intrigued. This all leads back to my mum serving, uh, a Christmas pudding which was older than my niece. Uh, she heard that episode.
38:39 Declan Donnelly? Oh, she heard it?
38:40 Ant McPartlin? Hmm.
38:41 Declan Donnelly? Was she livid?
38:42 Ant McPartlin? Uh, she laughed about it, to be fair. And she went, I'm just pleased that you didn't mention the other one. Which I'll tell you, I can't tell you on, on here. Well, maybe I can, but not this week, when we run out of ideas.
38:54 Declan Donnelly? Something else out of date?
38:55 Ant McPartlin? Hmm, badly. Uh, anyway, back to this letter. Unfortunately, in January twenty four, my mum had a burst pipe. Oh, okay. In the loft that flooded the entire house. The house had to be completely gutted and cleared out. It was done for my mum by the insurance company and they found many, many out of date items of food. What are they doing, checking?
39:20 Declan Donnelly? In the loft? No.
39:22 Ant McPartlin? Well, just in the house, because the house was flooded.
39:23 Declan Donnelly? Right.
39:24 Ant McPartlin? The worst was this golden syrup tin that went out of date in nineteen ninety five. And this was in January twenty twenty four.
39:34 Declan Donnelly? Oh my god.
39:35 Ant McPartlin? Wow. The worst of it was that my mum and dad moved house in two thousand and five. So she moved with it already out of date. Probably if she'd cleared the house herself, she would have kept it, I reckon. In me mum's words, my idea of out of date and theirs is very different. I'm loving the podcast, definitely a bit honest, respect guys, Amanda from Wickford in Essex.
39:54 Declan Donnelly? Oh, Amanda.
39:55 Ant McPartlin? God, that does trump my mothers, doesn't it? So that's twenty nine years after the best before.
40:01 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
40:02 Ant McPartlin? Wow, twenty nine years is a long time.
40:05 Speaker 05 Let's get to send it in then, didn't we?
40:07 Ant McPartlin? Send it in then, we'll all dip our finger in. And we'll taste us. If Dex not that bothered by best before or best before date.
40:15 Declan Donnelly? Will we have a taste, will we?
40:17 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, you will. No, we, you will. Because you're not bothered by them.
40:21 Declan Donnelly? I don't, I'm.
40:22 Ant McPartlin? Maybe that's your hobby. Trying food that's out of date. That's your new hobby. We go around old kitchens, people's.
40:30 Declan Donnelly? Idea for sure.
40:30 Ant McPartlin? House moves. Idea for sure.
40:35 Declan Donnelly? Idea for sure. Short your, short your coming out.
40:40 Ant McPartlin? Let's kill Dex.
40:43 Declan Donnelly? Pam Foster says, hi guys.
40:46 Ant McPartlin? Hi Pam. Hi. Hey.
40:49 Declan Donnelly? Alex has joined in today.
40:50 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, it's nice.
40:51 Declan Donnelly? Did you both know that Wallace and Gromit were going to have a newsreader called Anton Deck in Vengeance Most Foul? Or, like the rest of us, were you just sat down in front of the TV, bellies full of Christmas dinner? And surprised by it?
41:07 Ant McPartlin? Just like the rest of you. Bellies full of Christmas dinner, surprised.
41:09 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
41:10 Ant McPartlin? It's a real compliment though, isn't it?
41:12 Declan Donnelly? Oh, absolutely.
41:13 Ant McPartlin? Because they're brilliant. You know, Nick Park's brilliant, all the guys at Audman are geniuses. To have a career that, that long, you know, going that long, that successful, uh, says something.
41:23 Declan Donnelly? Can a company be a national treasure?
41:25 Ant McPartlin? A company?
41:25 Declan Donnelly? Yeah.
41:25 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, I think they can.
41:26 Declan Donnelly? They've done such amazing work over the years with all those movies that they've done and. Wallace and Gromit National Treasures.
41:33 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, they are. Wallace and Gromit National Treasures, uh, David Attenborough, the King. Helen Mirren. That's it, draw the line there.
41:40 Declan Donnelly? That is, that's the law.
41:41 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, yeah.
41:42 Declan Donnelly? When we, um, first started on TV, well, when we first started with our own show called The Anton Deck Show in 1995 on Children's BBC.
41:51 Ant McPartlin? Where are you going with this?
41:54 Declan Donnelly? We turned up at the BBC one day to go to work and they didn't have any idea who we were. And, um, you had to go up in reception and, and check in. And, uh, and we're like, we said, Anton Deck. And, uh, they did that. They wrote the visitor's pass with Anton Deck and gave it to him.
42:08 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, they did, that's right.
42:09 Declan Donnelly? And what's your name? I was like, no, I'm Deck. And I looked at his and he had Anton Deck on his visitor pass at the BBC.
42:16 Ant McPartlin? We said, we need two passes, we're not just one person.
42:20 Ant McPartlin? Maybe Nick, maybe Nick Park.
42:22 Declan Donnelly? Was the receptionist?
42:23 Ant McPartlin? No, I just, it was in reception.
42:24 Declan Donnelly? Alright, yeah.
42:26 Ant McPartlin? Overheard it.
42:26 Declan Donnelly? Maybe.
42:27 Ant McPartlin? I know, in 30s time, I'm gonna use that.
42:31 Declan Donnelly? So that was, that genuinely happened?
42:33 Ant McPartlin? Hi guys.
42:33 Declan Donnelly? Hi.
42:34 Ant McPartlin? Before I get into the email, can I just stop? I said, how much I have absolutely loved watching, stroke, listening to the podcast.
42:40 Declan Donnelly? Oh.
42:41 Ant McPartlin? Large bananas from me. I've binged the whole list of episodes in three days. In three days? You are our biggest fan. Beat that. Beat that. Let's see if you can beat that.
42:54 Declan Donnelly? He also needs to get out more.
42:55 Ant McPartlin? Get a hobby.
42:56 Declan Donnelly? Get a hobby.
42:56 Ant McPartlin? The reason I'm writing in is because I think you have a ghost in the studio. What? Oh my God, this is something else my mother's into is ghost hunting. Please see the video.
43:08 Declan Donnelly? What video?
43:09 Ant McPartlin? That's me, that's me, that's me. And, and I'd just got back from holiday, so I was tanned. So I could not be mistaken for a ghost.
43:15 Declan Donnelly? Okay, so we've got.
43:16 Ant McPartlin? So it's me and a striped jumper.
43:18 Declan Donnelly? Zooming in, oh, zooming in on the plant. Is that it? The plant moved.
43:23 Ant McPartlin? Do it again.
43:24 Declan Donnelly? The plant.
43:25 Ant McPartlin? Oh, it waved. It waved. It's telling us something. It's telling us that's a warning.
43:30 Declan Donnelly? Somebody tried to communicate.
43:31 Ant McPartlin? It is. It is. Said, please don't eat out of date golden syrup, because you will die like I did. That's what, that's what it's saying.
43:40 Declan Donnelly? Come on, perk up.
43:42 Ant McPartlin? Is it plastic or real?
43:43 Declan Donnelly? Plastic.
43:45 Ant McPartlin? Oh.
43:46 Declan Donnelly? It's plastic.
43:46 Ant McPartlin? How interesting.
43:48 Declan Donnelly? Plant, maybe it's a poltergeist. That is, that is up there.
43:51 Ant McPartlin? And that was from Leanne from Leyland, UK. Put me on the map.
43:55 Declan Donnelly? Who, what?
43:56 Ant McPartlin? No, the, the whole letter, the whole point of this was, uh, Leanne from Leyland, UK. Put me on the map.
44:02 Declan Donnelly? Leyla?
44:03 Ant McPartlin? Leyland. Leanne.
44:05 Declan Donnelly? Leanne.
44:06 Ant McPartlin? From Leyland.
44:08 Declan Donnelly? Just a lot of L's, I'm just trying to, trying to.
44:10 Ant McPartlin? Put her on the map.
44:11 Declan Donnelly? Leyla.
44:12 Ant McPartlin? Get your map up, put it on Leyland. Put a flag in Leyland. Where is Leyland?
44:15 Declan Donnelly? I don't know where Leyland is.
44:16 Ant McPartlin? Hello, Preston. Okay, Leyland.
44:19 Declan Donnelly? Leyland.
44:20 Ant McPartlin? Greater Manchester. Get a flag. Okay? Oh, that's a toothpick. That'll do for now. What? Yeah. Who sees this?
44:28 Declan Donnelly? Michael, she knew them ages ago with the, uh.
44:31 Ant McPartlin? Right. Where is?
44:32 Declan Donnelly? Preston.
44:34 Ant McPartlin? There you go.
44:35 Declan Donnelly? There we go, Leyla.
44:36 Ant McPartlin? Oh, they don't stick as well as foot. There you go. Leanne.
44:42 Declan Donnelly? Leanne.
44:43 Ant McPartlin? From Leyland.
44:45 Declan Donnelly? It's not sticking, the thing's not sticking, the name's not sticking, this whole thing's not sticking.
44:51 Ant McPartlin? Well, apparently we've got a ghost. We haven't, we've kind of skirted over that, fab. Now we've got a ghost.
44:56 Declan Donnelly? Got one here from Hannah. Hi all.
45:00 Speaker 05 Hi. Hi.
45:02 Declan Donnelly? Happy Thursday.
45:03 Ant McPartlin? Happy Thursday. Happy Thursday.
45:05 Declan Donnelly? I met you both in the height of PJ and Duncan fame through the Famous for Five Minutes segment on Live and Kicking, hosted by Amaphobes and Andy Peters in their prime. I remember writing in my own diary at the time that it was the best day of my life. So much so that fast forward to the next year, 1996, still on my high of being famous for five minutes. Your single Better Watch Out was released. Gone was PJ and Duncan and here was Anton Deck, the serious music artist.
45:32 Ant McPartlin? Hmm, I wouldn't say we're serious.
45:34 Declan Donnelly? I don't know whether you ever read your reviews, but let's just say there was one less than complimentary review of the single in The Times.
45:41 Ant McPartlin? Oh, what do you expect? It's The Times, for goodness sake.
45:44 Declan Donnelly? She says in brackets, "Quite a bougie read for a 12-year-old, some might say."
45:48 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, all would say.
45:50 Declan Donnelly? I took the review a bit too personally.
45:52 Ant McPartlin? Good.
45:53 Declan Donnelly? So much so that I wrote to the journalist to tell him how wrong he was and how the single was pure brilliance, suggesting that he needed to go and see you live. I believe I suggested various tour dates. He could see for himself the raw talent. Any song that starts "Ow! La la la la la" deserves true praise. A few weeks later, I received an apology from the journalist and a signed photo from you both.
46:16 Ant McPartlin? She got an apology?
46:17 Declan Donnelly? It spent many a year proudly on show on my wall next to my Famous for Five Minutes certificate. Always remember you both being so accommodating and lovely when I met you, even when you found out I was a Macam. It's been a total joy now as a 41-year-old having my kids enjoy your TV shows, loving the podcast and trips down memory lane. Love from Hannah, Famous for Five Minutes in 1995.
46:37 Ant McPartlin? Thank you very much, Hannah. I would love to read that Times review of Better Watch Out.
46:41 Declan Donnelly? If we, if we wrote personally to every journalist that has given us a bad review.
46:46 Ant McPartlin? We wouldn't stop writing. We'd still be running right in now.
46:50 Declan Donnelly? And he may, he or she may have had a point.
46:54 Ant McPartlin? Yeah, yeah, it's true. It's true. But thank you for sticking up for us.
46:57 Declan Donnelly? Yeah, thanks for sticking up for us, Hannah.
46:59 Ant McPartlin? I've never heard of that before, a fan sticking up for an artist and writing to a reviewer. Have you?
47:06 Declan Donnelly? Probably not anymore, but I guess, I bet they do it on social media now. Yeah, like if you.
47:12 Ant McPartlin? Don't our computers know, innit?
47:13 Declan Donnelly? Somebody says something bad about One Direction, don't all the, loads of people have a go at them and do a pile on online and stuff like that. So they don't, they don't.
47:22 Speaker 05 Anyone criticises BTS?
47:24 Ant McPartlin? BTS?
47:25 Speaker 05 Yeah, but like that's, yeah, you don't want to do that.
47:28 Ant McPartlin? BTS, criticising BTS, don't do it. Don't have beef with BTS. I tell you what I want to say about BTS, listen.
47:36 Declan Donnelly? Not think, you can't say anything about BTS. We'll have letters. Who else? Taylor Swift?
47:42 Ant McPartlin? What about her?
47:43 Declan Donnelly? Swifties.
47:43 Ant McPartlin? Uh huh.
47:45 Declan Donnelly? They'll come and have a go at you.
47:46 Ant McPartlin? I don't care.
47:47 Declan Donnelly? Bieber?
47:47 Ant McPartlin? Swifties.
47:48 Declan Donnelly? Beliebers. So we're not doing any swaps today because the trainers have gone to Manchester, to the artist, to be.
47:58 Ant McPartlin? Spray it up.
47:59 Declan Donnelly? So we'll get them back and then we'll resume swaps. Uh, we'll be back on Monday. See you then.
48:03 Ant McPartlin? Respect, guys.
48:09 Declan Donnelly? That was such a good one.
48:10 Ant McPartlin? I'm picking up a bit.
48:11 Declan Donnelly? Couldn't resist it. Oh yeah.
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