Stephen Mulhern Breaks Into The Hang Out & We Can't Get Him Out!!

Fresh from Canada, we're back in Blighty! Ant and Dec are in the studio when none other than Stephen Mulhern bursts in, and things get silly FAST! They discuss the hilarious but unflattering AI videos of them, reminisce about how they first met, and Ant & Dec go head-to-head in a brand-new game, ‘Even Stephens’… but which Stephen is higher or lower? Plus, the boys dig into some hilarious stories for Stephen’s non-existent memoir, including the time he thought he’d won an award, and Stephen vows to come back on the pod… with a RIPPED body! We go through all your grumbles, one very smelly trick of the trade, and we finally GET RID OF STEPHEN! As always, keep your correspondence coming to [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 00:23 - Welcome along! 02:10 - Ant's been to the ice hockey 06:00- Dec's weekend 07:00 - Does Dec look like a certain American President...? 08:15 - Stephen Mulhern's been watering the plants! 10:00 - Stephen's been through our comments 12:35 - Accidental Tourist is coming back! 23:00 - Stephen Mulhern's memoir ideas 23:30 - THAT Saturday Night Takeaway Undercover prank on Stephen 26:40 - Ad break 28:45 - Tricks of the Trade 31:00 - Stephen's prepared a game for Ant & Dec 35:45 - Stephen's plans for Men's Health 37:45 - Ant & Dec address those AI videos 39:10 - In For A Penny chat 42:35 - Your grumbles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:28Ant McPartlin?

  Coming up on the show, Stephen Mulhern bursts into our hangout.

• 1:32Declan Donnelly?

  We discuss those AI videos of the three of us.

• 1:36Ant McPartlin?

  And whether we would ever bring back Saturday Night Takeaway.

• 1:39Declan Donnelly?

  Stephen reveals some anecdotes from his non-existent memoir.

• 1:42Ant McPartlin?

  And he practices some poses for men's health.

• 1:46Declan Donnelly?

  Not to mention your tricks and grumbles too. Here we go, enjoy the show.

• 1:57Declan Donnelly?

  Hello, everybody.

• 2:01Declan Donnelly?

  Get your light on.

• 2:02Ant McPartlin?

  Get your light on, I've got my lights on. How are you all? Why, you okay?

• 2:08Declan Donnelly?

  It's so nice to miss you.

• 2:10Ant McPartlin?

  Missed you too.

• 2:10Declan Donnelly?

  It's so nice to be back in the hangout with you all. Lovely to see you. Welcome along for another hanging out with him and me. We're back, we're home. How'd your jet lag?

• 2:20Ant McPartlin?

  Horrendous.

• 2:21Declan Donnelly?

  Oh my gosh, it was horrible.

• 2:22Ant McPartlin?

  I got back later than you. Mine's still bad.

• 2:25Declan Donnelly?

  You stayed on for a couple of days.

• 2:25Ant McPartlin?

  Wilder was awful last night.

• 2:28Declan Donnelly?

  He doesn't know what was going on, does he?

• 2:29Ant McPartlin?

  He doesn't know what's going on. It was up at midnight, two o'clock, uh, three. And then Amzie went in and had to sleep with him in the end because you just, bless him.

• 2:39Declan Donnelly?

  Yikes.

• 2:40Ant McPartlin?

  It's tough.

• 2:41Declan Donnelly?

  It's horrible. You didn't try and drug him with anything?

• 2:43Ant McPartlin?

  No, I didn't.

• 2:44Declan Donnelly?

  Any tixylex, Benalyn? A little bit of Calpol?

• 2:47Ant McPartlin?

  None of that, just cuddles. Yeah, my jet lag's been tough. Yours?

• 2:50Declan Donnelly?

  It was tough for the first few days, but it was lovely. I landed back in the UK and I was traveling with some of the team, as you know. And I said, oh, look, it's a shame we didn't arrive half an hour earlier. Cause I could go to the school run and pick up Isla from school.

• 3:03Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, yeah.

• 3:04Declan Donnelly?

  And they went, leave your bags with us, get to school. We'll pick up your bags and send them to your house and you can go and do the school run. So I made it. I picked Isla from school. She came out and her little face was beaming and we had big hugs at school.

• 3:20Ant McPartlin?

  That's nice.

• 3:20Declan Donnelly?

  It was lovely coming home to that.

• 3:21Ant McPartlin?

  Good.

• 3:22Declan Donnelly?

  It was really, really nice.

• 3:23Ant McPartlin?

  We, um, yeah, it's been tough. Jet lag's been tough.

• 3:27Declan Donnelly?

  World of pain.

• 3:27Ant McPartlin?

  Well, I stayed out in Vancouver. I went to Vancouver, so you flew home.

• 3:31Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 3:32Ant McPartlin?

  And I had a few days in Vancouver before I flew back, which was brilliant. We had a great time. It's such a cool city.

• 3:37Declan Donnelly?

  Is it?

• 3:38Ant McPartlin?

  Really cool. And we spent the last night going to see the Vancouver Canucks.

• 3:43Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah.

• 3:43Ant McPartlin?

  Ice hockey team.

• 3:44Declan Donnelly?

  They're awful, aren't they?

• 3:46Ant McPartlin?

  It wasn't great.

• 3:47Declan Donnelly?

  No. Everybody there, everybody there that we spoke to said, they suck.

• 3:51Ant McPartlin?

  But it was the season opener. It was their first home game.

• 3:55Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 3:55Ant McPartlin?

  So we talked, like, there was me, Amzie, Daisy and Wilder. And it's in three thirds. So it's 20 minutes, then a 50 minute interval, then 20 minutes, then 50 minute interval, then 20 minutes, right?

• 4:06Declan Donnelly?

  Right.

• 4:07Ant McPartlin?

  So the actual game time is like an hour, but it's about a two hour watch.

• 4:11Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 4:11Ant McPartlin?

  And it was great. There was like smoke machines and music and the players came on to, you know, a little kind of skate on music and all that graphics came up. So he loved it. It was like wonderful for him. We left early and left Daisy there because she just enjoyed it. So we had a great time.

• 4:27Declan Donnelly?

  Were there any fights?

• 4:28Ant McPartlin?

  There was, there was a couple of fights. Someone got sent to a sin bin.

• 4:31Declan Donnelly?

  Good.

• 4:32Ant McPartlin?

  Some timeout. All the slamming up against the, because you've been on ice hockey game, right?

• 4:36Declan Donnelly?

  I went to Philadelphia.

• 4:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it's brilliant, isn't it?

• 4:38Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, it's amazing. There was a huge fight. And what I didn't realize was, there's a huge fight on the ice. And then, um, like here, if it was in the Premier League, they'd frown on it, frown upon it and go, oh, we don't show that again. They do the replays on the Jumbotron of the fight.

• 4:52Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 4:53Declan Donnelly?

  That's amazing.

• 4:54Ant McPartlin?

  Gloves off, everything, they're stuck in there. I was like, go on.

• 4:57Declan Donnelly?

  And they all get sent to the sin bin and stuff and they all have a little breather to calm down. Then they show the fight again on the Jumbotron, just to get everybody going again. You're like.

• 5:04Speaker 05

  They only stop when the gloves come off.

• 5:06Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Yeah, they do.

• 5:07Speaker 05

  They have to let it go, part of the game.

• 5:09Ant McPartlin?

  It was brilliant. So we were halfway kind of through it and I was like, what do you call it? Do you call it a goal or do you call it a, is it a kickoff? Is it a puck off? I said, I wonder how long this, this half is. Is it a half? Is it a quarter? And then this, then this woman from behind us just went, uh, is this your first time at an ice hockey game? I was like, uh, yeah, it is actually.

• 5:29Declan Donnelly?

  Yes, it is. Was my big palm finger.

• 5:32Ant McPartlin?

  I can tell. And then she basically gave me the lowdown on the rules. So, and who the star players were.

• 5:38Declan Donnelly?

  Right.

• 5:38Ant McPartlin?

  The person I bought the shirt with the name on the back is the worst player. So I've been pleased about that.

• 5:43Declan Donnelly?

  Right.

• 5:43Ant McPartlin?

  Should have asked that in the shop. I wondered why there was lots more of his shirt than there were of other team member shirts. But yeah, I bought the palm finger.

• 5:51Declan Donnelly?

  Of course.

• 5:51Ant McPartlin?

  Wilder loved that.

• 5:52Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 5:52Ant McPartlin?

  Popcorn, hot dogs. Although I went and got a hot dog, got a hot dog for me, got a hot dog for my wife, got a hot dog for my son, got a veggie dog for my daughter, because vegetarians.

• 6:02Declan Donnelly?

  She's, she's at university, she's vegetarian.

• 6:04Ant McPartlin?

  So I'm walking, yeah, exactly. So I'm walking out like this with the hot dogs and as I turn, I hear someone say, I'll have the foot long, please. There's a foot long hot dog. I'm more devastated about missing out on that than I am missing out on seeing a moose in Canada.

• 6:21Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 6:22Ant McPartlin?

  That I didn't have the foot long hot dog. That's, that's ruined my trip.

• 6:26Declan Donnelly?

  You've got to have a foot long.

• 6:27Ant McPartlin?

  You left after the bear safari you went on without it.

• 6:30Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 6:31Ant McPartlin?

  Which people are there on my side about. Thanks, guys. We were going to go on the same safari, right? So we booked to go. And then this woman who was serving us for breakfast said, why don't you go to the back of the, there's a place where I go to the gym, which is about 10 minutes down the road. She goes, and when I'm on the treadmill, I always see bears on the treadmill. So we went to a couple of places where we thought we'd see the bears. We didn't see the bears. And I was like, why don't we just try the gym place? And everybody was going, oh, I don't know, a bit tired. Should we just head back to the hotel? Let's just try it. I said, it's literally there. So we pulled into the car park, we walked around the corner, there was a mum and a cub in the middle of the grass.

• 7:09Declan Donnelly?

  Lovely.

• 7:10Ant McPartlin?

  And we just sat there for ages watching them. Filmed it all. Wonderful. I've got the footage, I'll send it to you. It's good, it's much better than what you got. I have to say, I saw a cub. Did you see a cub?

• 7:20Declan Donnelly?

  No, I didn't see a cub.

• 7:21Ant McPartlin?

  You didn't see a cub, I saw a cub. Mother of a cub.

• 7:23Declan Donnelly?

  Happy for you.

• 7:24Ant McPartlin?

  Thanks. Thanks a lot.

• 7:27Declan Donnelly?

  I shot home for the weekend.

• 7:28Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 7:28Declan Donnelly?

  Back to Newcastle, was there for a family christening. It was lovely.

• 7:31Ant McPartlin?

  Who, who was getting christened?

• 7:32Declan Donnelly?

  Little baby Alfonso's.

• 7:33Ant McPartlin?

  Ah.

• 7:34Declan Donnelly?

  He got christened. So we went and did that big family thing. And then on Saturday night, we had a Saturday night takeaway. The reason we do that is you can't really go to a restaurant with my family because there's too many of us. For those that don't know, I'm the youngest of seven kids. I've got 11 nieces and nephews plus my kids now. And those nephews and nieces and nephews have all got partners. So if you try and.

• 7:54Ant McPartlin?

  Had kids.

• 7:54Declan Donnelly?

  And some of them have had kids now. So if you try and go to a restaurant for a family dinner, it's like 35 people before you've, you've.

• 8:02Ant McPartlin?

  You don't get that much dinner before you.

• 8:03Declan Donnelly?

  No. So we do it all around my mom's house. So we did that. So that was lovely. Did the christening on Sunday and then, um, then then we got straight to the airport and fly back to get Isla and Jack back for school on Monday morning. So I was on the plane in me christening clothes.

• 8:18Ant McPartlin?

  Right.

• 8:19Declan Donnelly?

  Not, not a christening robe or anything. I just was wearing a, I was wearing a blazer.

• 8:23Ant McPartlin?

  A white dress.

• 8:26Declan Donnelly?

  A blazer, trousers, a nice little white, uh, white shirt with stripes on it, little pocket hand key. I thought I looked the business. And I was on the plane and on my backpack, I had a, a cap. That was in my backpack and I thought, I'm going to lose that cap if I don't put it on my head and take it off the plane. So I put the cap on to get off the plane. So I've got my backpack on, I've got the kid stuff. And I caught the current Mrs. Donnelly gazing at me adoringly. As I was queuing to, to get off. And I said, you all right? She looked at me with what I thought was love in her eyes. And she said, you look like Donald Trump.

• 9:03Ant McPartlin?

  There you are, there. Yeah, you do look a bit like Donald Trump.

• 9:08Declan Donnelly?

  In the suit. And you know when he's like getting on Air Force One and he's got a long flight and he has.

• 9:11Ant McPartlin?

  It's a great suit. It's the greatest suit. You look great.

• 9:15Declan Donnelly?

  So I was like, yeah, it is quite Trumpesque, isn't it?

• 9:20Declan Donnelly?

  So.

• 9:20Ant McPartlin?

  Make Newcastle great again.

• 9:23Ant McPartlin?

  Make Greg's great again.

• 9:26Declan Donnelly?

  So, yeah, I wasn't expecting that. I thought she was like, think, looking, oh, doesn't he look handsome? No. She said, you look like Donald Trump. It is, um, it's very nice to be back in the hangout, isn't it?

• 9:37Ant McPartlin?

  It is. It's nice to see you all.

• 9:38Declan Donnelly?

  I have missed it. I know we did our Canadian shows from our little ski lodge.

• 9:47Speaker 06

  You're joking me? I think you were back.

• 9:50Ant McPartlin?

  Hello.

• 9:51Speaker 06

  Went to water, the pub, the Laganga place.

• 9:52Declan Donnelly?

  You've been looking after the place while we've been away?

• 9:54Speaker 06

  Oh, gee.

• 9:55Ant McPartlin?

  What's that? Water?

• 9:57Speaker 06

  The water, the plants.

• 9:58Declan Donnelly?

  They're, they're, Stephen, they're all plastic. They're plastic.

• 10:01Ant McPartlin?

  They're all plastic.

• 10:02Declan Donnelly?

  No. Have you been watering them?

• 10:04Speaker 06

  Every day.

• 10:07Speaker 06

  Oh, you know what?

• 10:08Declan Donnelly?

  There's a lot of electrics going on up there.

• 10:11Speaker 06

  I wonder why it wasn't growing? Let me get a chair.

• 10:13Declan Donnelly?

  Pull up a chair.

• 10:14Speaker 06

  Let's get me my.

• 10:15Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, he knows where the spare mic is.

• 10:16Speaker 06

  Of course I know. I'm the caretaker.

• 10:19Ant McPartlin?

  I'll get the keys back.

• 10:20Speaker 06

  Yes, you can.

• 10:21Declan Donnelly?

  For those of you just listening, Stephen Mulhern, if, if you hadn't realised, has just entered the hangout.

• 10:26Ant McPartlin?

  Of Deal or No Deal, Catchphrase.

• 10:28Speaker 06

  Yes, Accentual Toys.

• 10:29Ant McPartlin?

  Accidental Tourist fame.

• 10:30Speaker 06

  Yeah, need to talk about that.

• 10:31Declan Donnelly?

  Big stars, little star.

• 10:32Speaker 06

  Absolutely.

• 10:33Declan Donnelly?

  Pick me, fingertips.

• 10:34Speaker 06

  God rest his soul. And don't talk about it for a penny. I know everybody wants it to come back.

• 10:39Declan Donnelly?

  We all want it to come back.

• 10:40Speaker 06

  You've got a petition for it.

• 10:41Declan Donnelly?

  Can we get you a drink while you're here?

• 10:42Speaker 06

  Do you know what? I would love a cup of tea, if you don't mind.

• 10:44Declan Donnelly?

  Lola, can we have a tea?

• 10:46Speaker 06

  Actually, I'll have it black, which.

• 10:48Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 10:48Speaker 06

  This is the same reaction I get all the time. Have you ever tried black tea?

• 10:52Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I don't used to drink black tea all the time.

• 10:54Speaker 06

  It's the way it should be.

• 10:54Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, it is, yeah.

• 10:55Speaker 06

  Absolutely.

• 10:56Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 10:56Speaker 06

  Trust me, lose the milk.

• 10:58Ant McPartlin?

  But it's the one thing I never thought you would order.

• 11:00Speaker 06

  I don't know what it is. I just love it. Camomile, push it to sleep.

• 11:04Ant McPartlin?

  You drink Camomile tea?

• 11:05Speaker 06

  Night before. Thank you. Cheers, Lola. Thank you so much.

• 11:08Ant McPartlin?

  Ever since he went to Vietnam, you've changed.

• 11:10Speaker 06

  I know your team of names.

• 11:12Ant McPartlin?

  Well, you know Lola.

• 11:14Speaker 06

  Jemima.

• 11:15Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 11:16Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 11:16Ant McPartlin?

  And?

• 11:17Speaker 06

  Fiona.

• 11:17Declan Donnelly?

  Shall we carry on going around the room or shall we leave it there?

• 11:19Speaker 06

  We don't need to do it, don't go on.

• 11:22Speaker 06

  Cause, cause that was rough. But all joking aside, lovely to see you both. I just need to get something off my chest.

• 11:28Declan Donnelly?

  Go on.

• 11:29Speaker 06

  And some of it, towards the end, could be criminal. Okay?

• 11:33Ant McPartlin?

  What is this? He's got a.

• 11:35Declan Donnelly?

  A clipboard with him.

• 11:36Ant McPartlin?

  A clipboard.

• 11:36Declan Donnelly?

  He's come prepared.

• 11:37Speaker 06

  Hmm. Yeah. Well, they'll know I've got a clipboard if they're watching on YouTube. Yeah.

• 11:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, obviously.

• 11:42Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 11:42Ant McPartlin?

  For those who are just listening, Stephen's got a clipboard.

• 11:45Speaker 06

  Get yourself on YouTube.

• 11:46Ant McPartlin?

  Stephen's got a clipboard.

• 11:47Speaker 06

  And that's where it's all going. Right. So seriously, guys, this one, these are all people, and these are genuine, 100%.

• 11:53Ant McPartlin?

  What is this? Comments?

• 11:54Speaker 06

  These are all comments that have come through to YouTube and Spotify. People have made the effort because they are desperate for me to have come on your podcast.

• 12:02Declan Donnelly?

  How, how long did it take you to go on Spotify and YouTube and leave all these comments on your different names?

• 12:06Speaker 06

  100% bona fide. You cannot lie on these sort of things.

• 12:10Ant McPartlin?

  Bona fide. Yeah, you're course you can lie on this sort of thing, but it's a comment.

• 12:13Speaker 06

  You shouldn't, you shouldn't lie to your public. Bona fide. Don't lie to the public. They'll catch you out. Okay? So where is Stephen Mulhern? Kerry, I'm here.

• 12:25Speaker 06

  Hi, guys. Please, we need Stephen Mulhern. One night only on the podcast. Hashtag just saying that's from Helen. Love you.

• 12:32Ant McPartlin?

  Helen, one night only, that's what it'll be. One night only. One appearance only.

• 12:35Speaker 06

  Dear Anton Deck, we always wait and watch the podcast on a Friday night, but the one thing missing, arguably the main reason we tune in.

• 12:42Declan Donnelly?

  Get out of here.

• 12:42Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up.

• 12:43Declan Donnelly?

  You're running that.

• 12:44Speaker 06

  I swear to you, check him out, in the hope of catching a glimpse of the multi-talented force of nature that is. Lord Stephen Mulhern. Come on, you guys. You know it makes sense. Respect.

• 12:54Ant McPartlin?

  Stephen Mulhern.

• 12:55Speaker 06

  That's from the Hughes.

• 12:56Declan Donnelly?

  That is not a bona fide comment.

• 12:58Speaker 06

  Every single one of these, we won't have time to go through them all, because it will just be like self-praise. I don't do it. I don't do it. Caroline, where is Stephen Mulhern?

• 13:09Ant McPartlin?

  You're on.

• 13:09Speaker 06

  Caroline, she's a regular. And it's at shoes.

• 13:12Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yeah.

• 13:12Ant McPartlin?

  Caroline, let's have shoes.

• 13:13Speaker 06

  That's Caroline. So, oh, now you believe me. Turn the page.

• 13:18Declan Donnelly?

  For those of you just listening.

• 13:20Speaker 06

  My son, Harry, is loving watching the podcast, but Harry would love to see Stephen Mulhern. Where is he? Just a hint.

• 13:26Declan Donnelly?

  Harry, you can see him most days, four o'clock, ITV, Deal or No Deal.

• 13:29Ant McPartlin?

  He's never off the telly.

• 13:30Declan Donnelly?

  Saturdays, Catchphrase.

• 13:31Ant McPartlin?

  Sometimes twice one night.

• 13:32Speaker 06

  Well, I tell you what, they've got a quiz channel now. I'm never off that. I'm bored of myself at the moment. But this one, um, dear Stephen.

• 13:39Ant McPartlin?

  I've never worked in this medium before, but you do have to get a little bit closer to the microphone.

• 13:42Speaker 06

  Okay, okay, okay. Everyone keeps saying to me, will I do a podcast? The answer is no.

• 13:47Declan Donnelly?

  Why?

• 13:47Ant McPartlin?

  Why not?

• 13:48Speaker 06

  I don't have the time. I'm telling too much.

• 13:52Speaker 06

  Dear Stephen, any more of your, any more of your travels around the country yet? I love that programme with Anton Deck. Give me an update on the podcast. We need to know. Please. Well, yes, should we talk about that then?

• 14:02Ant McPartlin?

  Put it down. Let's talk about, so Accidental Tourist is the show that she's on about, I presume.

• 14:07Speaker 06

  How many years did we talk about doing this?

• 14:09Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, it's been kicking around for a long time, the, the idea, and we finally got all of our diaries together.

• 14:14Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 14:15Declan Donnelly?

  To be able to do, we did a one-off last year, which went down incredibly well.

• 14:18Speaker 06

  Do you know what? It's really odd, because the amount of people that say to me on a daily basis, um, the show, the, the travel show where you do all the eating, you know, not a lot of people call it Accentual Toys, but we've only done one of them.

• 14:29Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 14:29Speaker 06

  Until now, we've done three more.

• 14:31Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. So we went to South Korea last year.

• 14:32Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 14:34Declan Donnelly?

  This year, you've gone out and done three more.

• 14:36Ant McPartlin?

  Tell us where you went.

• 14:37Speaker 06

  Bali, Vietnam, India. Never been to any of these sort of places before.

• 14:41Declan Donnelly?

  You never wanted to either, did you?

• 14:42Speaker 06

  Never wanted to. You know, we were talking about doing this for about maybe three, four years, and it was just, as you say, time, but also having the guts to do it. You two know me inside out.

• 14:51Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 14:51Speaker 06

  And the reality is, is that I do get scared, and we've spoke about this.

• 14:55Ant McPartlin?

  Well, it took a lot to kind of push you in this direction. I feel that this time, when we've taken you to these three places, India especially.

• 15:04Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 15:04Ant McPartlin?

  We've really pushed you to your limit.

• 15:06Speaker 06

  Hmm.

• 15:06Ant McPartlin?

  And for, for very good reason. We don't do it just to be cruel.

• 15:10Speaker 06

  No, I know.

• 15:10Ant McPartlin?

  We do it because we think you should experience new things and, and, and visit new places and meet new people and eat new stuff.

• 15:17Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 15:18Ant McPartlin?

  And get out of your comfort zone.

• 15:19Declan Donnelly?

  I have to say as well, when we were putting together ideas of things that you could do in each of these places, there were, there were an amount of things in each place that I thought, he's never gonna do that. He's never gonna do that.

• 15:29Speaker 06

  What a bungee jump.

• 15:31Declan Donnelly?

  Well, the bungee jump.

• 15:31Ant McPartlin?

  I'm very surprised you've done that. I wouldn't have done that.

• 15:34Speaker 06

  Well, let me tell you what happened, right? First of all, I told you, we laughed about this, admitted it's not a laughing matter, going bald.

• 15:40Declan Donnelly?

  So you've got to tell the story about it.

• 15:41Speaker 06

  I'll tell you the story. For those that don't know, if you haven't seen the South Korea episode, by the way, the, the new episodes are in December.

• 15:46Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 15:47Speaker 06

  Right. So, um, so what happened is, well, a really close friend of mine, Dave, he did a bungee jump, and within two weeks, all his hair fell out.

• 15:54Ant McPartlin?

  Shut up, man.

• 15:55Declan Donnelly?

  It's not true.

• 15:55Ant McPartlin?

  It's not, it didn't happen.

• 15:57Speaker 06

  You think it's a joke? It's not a joke. He went to his doctor. He said, look, and they, they put it down to shock.

• 16:04Declan Donnelly?

  Doctor, doctor.

• 16:05Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 16:06Declan Donnelly?

  I feel like a billiard ball.

• 16:07Speaker 06

  Honestly.

• 16:08Declan Donnelly?

  Get out of the back of the key.

• 16:09Speaker 06

  That's fear. Over two weeks. Fear and, yeah. So when I was told that I was gonna do a bungee jump.

• 16:15Ant McPartlin?

  You're on, you're on.

• 16:15Speaker 06

  It told me about. Thankfully, I've been back for three weeks.

• 16:21Speaker 06

  I said to the guys, it took us about an hour and a half to get there. And you see, look, do I cry? The answer is yes, because the fear and the emotion, I didn't want to do it. But then I told myself, I'm gonna regret it if I don't do it. If I go home and I'm on the flight home, and even now thinking about it, would I ever do it again? No way. And I wouldn't suggest anybody should.

• 16:39Ant McPartlin?

  Did it hurt your back?

• 16:40Speaker 06

  I thought I'd break my back.

• 16:42Ant McPartlin?

  Cause that's the one thing, cause I would do, I would jump out of a plane, cause we've always said, whenever we see them jump out of the planes on I'm a Celebrity, we always say, oh, we'd love to give that a go. And I'd quite happily do that. I'd quite happily do a lot of things, but bungee jumping, I've just got visions of like a really bad back for weeks afterwards.

• 16:57Speaker 06

  Because it's that shock impact. And here's the worst of it. And if I ever see this guy again, I tell you what.

• 17:03Ant McPartlin?

  Dave, you're glad to. He's not bald.

• 17:05Speaker 06

  This guy said to me, right, he went, don't worry, let me do it first. Show you it's absolutely fine. So I watched him do it. He didn't even scream once. So I thought, do you know what? Okay, listen, respect where respect is due. They literally hooked my legs up, walked like I was in Alcatraz to the front. I did it. And then when I saw the guy, he went, it's horrific, innit?

• 17:30Speaker 06

  And I went, but you, he said, yeah, I didn't want to worry you. Well, I wish you'd told me, so now I could pass it on. Go and do a bungee jump.

• 17:36Declan Donnelly?

  You said it's the worst thing you've ever done.

• 17:37Speaker 06

  Worst thing I've ever done in my life. And I've done some horrible things.

• 17:40Declan Donnelly?

  Um, in contrast to that though, you loved hang gliding.

• 17:43Speaker 06

  It was amazing.

• 17:45Declan Donnelly?

  Which I thought it might be the other way around. I thought that bungee, you'd, you know, you'd, you'd dangle a bit. With this one, flying strapped to another fella, I thought you might be like, whoa, I'm on a minute.

• 17:55Speaker 06

  You've got a bit of safety, you see, cause you know that he knows what he's doing.

• 17:58Declan Donnelly?

  Right.

• 17:58Speaker 06

  You know, so I thought initially it was gonna be like only fools on horses. You know, when, or you know, it wasn't that sort of one. It's the one where you've got the, you know, you're, you're literally sitting.

• 18:06Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 18:06Speaker 06

  On, on like a seat.

• 18:08Declan Donnelly?

  It's paragliding, not hang gliding.

• 18:09Speaker 06

  Paragliding, yeah. And, um, you are, it's like you're, you're free. It's like you forget everything for a moment. Do you know?

• 18:15Ant McPartlin?

  It's really peaceful out there.

• 18:16Speaker 06

  Honestly, for those 10 minutes, I didn't think about you two once. That was a joy.

• 18:22Ant McPartlin?

  What a shame for you.

• 18:24Speaker 06

  But honestly, you need to see it. I won't give too much more away, but it was just mind blowing.

• 18:28Declan Donnelly?

  There's a brilliant moment when you're paragliding, where you've just got your eyes closed, and he's, and you're panicking, and he's saying, relax, relax, open your eyes. And you go, no, God, no, God. And you, he says, open your eyes, relax. And you open your eyes, you went, oh my God, this is amazing.

• 18:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 18:42Speaker 06

  Yeah. Honestly, I, have you, and have you done it?

• 18:44Declan Donnelly?

  No, I'd love to do that.

• 18:46Speaker 06

  Do that.

• 18:46Ant McPartlin?

  One thing.

• 18:47Speaker 06

  Go on.

• 18:47Ant McPartlin?

  Which I'm not gonna give it away, but one thing you do in the, in the episode, I never thought you'd do, and you called, you FaceTimed us just before we were about to do it. Do you remember?

• 18:59Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 18:59Ant McPartlin?

  And I'm not gonna mention it now, so make sure you watch it when it comes out, cause it is something, it, was there any trickery involved? It's hard to talk about it without mentioning it.

• 19:08Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 19:08Ant McPartlin?

  But was there any trickery or you just, you did it?

• 19:11Speaker 06

  I thought, when I've seen other people do this, that there are, there are tricks to it. I thought they'd maybe covered me in something to not hurt myself.

• 19:20Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 19:21Speaker 06

  Um, but no, there was this guru who literally taught me how to trust. And what I mean by that is, he said, look, if you don't have faith in yourself to do something, you never will.

• 19:31Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 19:32Speaker 06

  And I was like, oh, cause obviously we all like a joke, but sometimes you've got to listen to people.

• 19:37Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 19:37Speaker 06

  And he said, listen, if you think you're gonna hurt yourself doing this, you'll absolutely hurt yourself. But if you have the mindset of, it's okay.

• 19:44Declan Donnelly?

  Obviously, there's all these extreme things that you did the bungee, you've done, uh, paragliding and, and, uh, all of the, the height stuff. The one thing that people really relate to as well though, is you eating while they're away. Cause when we did the South Korea one, we got a lot of feedback of people going, I'm just like Stephen. I'm, I, I eat plain food. I'm not very adventurous. So it was more common than we thought.

• 20:07Ant McPartlin?

  Which surprised me, cause when you mentioned it, you were like, a lot of people out there would think the same as me. And I thought, that can't be the case. But looking at the comments afterwards, people are all like you.

• 20:17Speaker 06

  I had a woman who cried, literally, she pulled me aside and she cried. If you're watching this or listening to this, hello by the way. And she told me about her daughter. She said, mate, we watched it, we watched it three times.

• 20:29Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 20:29Speaker 06

  And my daughter is just like you. I said, does she look like me?

• 20:34Speaker 06

  And she was literally like, yes, your fear of food, your fear of heights, all of that sort of stuff. And it's like, yeah, there are so many, not everybody has a really good sort of open mind to everything. And I am very closed minded on certain things. And I think I always will be, but you can change.

• 20:54Ant McPartlin?

  Haven't, haven't done it all. I haven't, haven't, you've done South Korea. Now you've done Vietnam, Bali and India. Is there, I know we talked about this on the show, is there, what have you learned about yourself, having travelled and met people and experienced these things?

• 21:08Speaker 06

  I think the overall thing is, is that you can trust people more than I thought.

• 21:13Ant McPartlin?

  That's good. That's good. Why are you laughing?

• 21:15Declan Donnelly?

  It just implies you didn't trust us at all.

• 21:17Ant McPartlin?

  He doesn't trust anybody.

• 21:19Speaker 06

  But it's that thing where you go, not everyone is out to get you.

• 21:23Ant McPartlin?

  The world's not out to get you.

• 21:24Speaker 06

  No. And also have faith in yourself. Because I think people just assume, because they see someone on the telly, you're having a laugh and all that sort of stuff. Because I don't really do anything serious, do I? I don't do anything where you're gonna learn something. But with Accidental Tours, I think that's why I've enjoyed it so much. And that's why you see so much emotion in the show, as well as laughter. Because I'm not presenting at all. I'm just being myself. And I've never done like, at home with, or the magazines or that sort of stuff. So you, you do see everything raw. And, you know, I remember FaceTiming my mum, saying that we're going to Vietnam. She said, isn't there a war going on?

• 22:03Ant McPartlin?

  I wonder why you got a frog?

• 22:06Declan Donnelly?

  When was the last time she watched the news?

• 22:09Speaker 06

  But it's interesting, isn't it? If you're not worldly, you know, everything's an experience. And I think that's why people can relate to it. Because, you know, not everybody's gonna go to Vietnam. Everyone could be, I feel very lucky, but also, I'm like, wow. You know, there's certain places I wouldn't go back to. You know, but Vietnam, I thought would be hard, but I'd definitely go back to Vietnam.

• 22:30Ant McPartlin?

  Do you know, the one thing I say to my girls, especially who are older, I say to them, the one thing I want for you more than anything else in this life is to have an open mind. And, and an open mind with everything. With relationships, with food, with travel, with work, with, with anything. Just, just be open minded to the possibility that it might not be what you think. You know, and try different stuff. That's the, and that's what I've been trying to say to you all this time. Just, just be a bit more open minded to everything. You know, don't be so closed off. Don't just, because you've made an opinion on something in your twenties, doesn't mean you have to still have that opinion in your fifties. You know, be open minded to, and you can change your mind.

• 23:11Speaker 06

  I'm not in my fifties, by the way. Because you gestured to me there. You know, when you're in your fifties, I'm not. Okay? Just make that very clear. But you are right, though. How do you know, unless you give it a go?

• 23:24Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 23:25Speaker 06

  You know, that's a good phrase, actually.

• 23:26Ant McPartlin?

  But I think, but I think a lot of people as they get older, kind of close themselves in. And they close themselves into the fact, I made my mind up on that. I don't like that. Well, you never know, revisit it. You might like it now.

• 23:37Declan Donnelly?

  Shut up. You might like it.

• 23:39Speaker 06

  How do you know?

• 23:40Declan Donnelly?

  How do you know?

• 23:41Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, exactly. Um, you only tried that a few years ago.

• 23:43Speaker 06

  There you go. And now I love it.

• 23:45Declan Donnelly?

  You are brilliant in the show, I have to say.

• 23:47Speaker 06

  Oh, thank you.

• 23:48Declan Donnelly?

  So if you haven't seen South Korea, get yourself an ITVX and go and see the South Korea episode. And then you've got three absolute treats coming your way in Bali.

• 23:56Ant McPartlin?

  South Korea could be a nice little mousse bouche.

• 23:59Declan Donnelly?

  Mousse bouche.

• 24:00Ant McPartlin?

  For the start of men and dessert.

• 24:01Declan Donnelly?

  Which is Bali, Vietnam and India.

• 24:04Speaker 06

  And India.

• 24:05Ant McPartlin?

  India being my favorite episode, I have to say.

• 24:07Speaker 06

  Is it?

• 24:08Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 24:09Speaker 06

  Because we do cover a lot.

• 24:10Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you do cover a lot. We really push you.

• 24:12Declan Donnelly?

  You get covered a lot.

• 24:13Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have we got time for more of these or not?

• 24:15Declan Donnelly?

  Want more comments?

• 24:16Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 24:17Declan Donnelly?

  No, no, not, not, we haven't got time for more comments praising you.

• 24:19Speaker 06

  Fair enough.

• 24:20Declan Donnelly?

  Asking for you on the podcast.

• 24:21Speaker 06

  Okay, I'll keep them though.

• 24:22Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, you can have them, frame them.

• 24:23Speaker 06

  I'll keep them down there. I haven't told you to something.

• 24:27Declan Donnelly?

  Go on.

• 24:28Speaker 06

  I've been asked if I want to write an autobiography.

• 24:29Declan Donnelly?

  Now that, I would read.

• 24:33Speaker 06

  I have been asked before, and I was like, no, no, no, no, no, who wants to read that? But, and I'm not saying I'm gonna do one, certainly not at the moment, but I've been writing.

• 24:41Ant McPartlin?

  Just seeing that, it gets the price up.

• 24:42Speaker 06

  I've been making notes with my phone. I've been making notes, right? In my notes section, I just put it, biog. And, oh, biog stories. And I've been writing memories. Because I know you mentioned Greg's earlier.

• 24:54Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 24:55Speaker 06

  When I used to do pantomime, I was in, I was in Crawley, where you stitched me up.

• 24:59Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, on the cover, on something I'd taken with.

• 25:01Declan Donnelly?

  See it on Ballerbox.

• 25:02Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, still one of my favorite ever undercovers.

• 25:04Speaker 06

  It was, that was you. I always thought you.

• 25:07Declan Donnelly?

  Your face at the end was just, you looked so dejected. You're like, oh, you got me.

• 25:13Speaker 06

  Well, I told you both, before you two revealed, when you lifted your heads, if you haven't seen it, you need to watch it, because.

• 25:18Ant McPartlin?

  It's on Ballerbox.

• 25:19Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 25:20Ant McPartlin?

  When we get Stephen.

• 25:21Speaker 06

  I was doing this illusion, and they whipped this cloth away. And all I could see was a camera crew. And I genuinely thought, I've won an award.

• 25:27Ant McPartlin?

  Don't be ridiculous.

• 25:31Speaker 06

  So then, when you two, because you were dressed up as soldiers, when you lifted your, your heads off, that's when my shoulders went, because I thought, oh, no.

• 25:39Declan Donnelly?

  I haven't, I haven't won anything.

• 25:41Ant McPartlin?

  I still haven't won an award.

• 25:43Speaker 06

  And it's like, yeah.

• 25:45Declan Donnelly?

  It's, it's brilliant. And you're doing the whole show. We've messed with all your props. We've messed the whole thing up. We've got a full audience that we've brought in who are all in on it as well. The audience all know this is happening.

• 25:56Speaker 06

  It's incredible.

• 25:58Declan Donnelly?

  It is the best. You've got to check it out. It's on Ballerbox.

• 26:00Speaker 06

  But that's also where you miss Saturday Night Takeaway. How many people tell you that?

• 26:04Ant McPartlin?

  I got stopped yesterday by a kid on a bike, who pulled a skid. It was all.

• 26:09Declan Donnelly?

  Cool.

• 26:10Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, he did pull the tooth. Took his helmet off and went, what's Saturday Night Takeaway coming back? I was like, okay!

• 26:15Speaker 06

  I don't think people realised how much it would be missed. I think it was a staple of the family's sort of viewing, where they felt safe, they could watch it. And there's a must, there's a must, you've got, I, I speak on behalf of the nation. Listen, I do. You need to do something else. You do. Because it, it is, it's a loss. You know?

• 26:34Ant McPartlin?

  Well, thanks.

• 26:35Speaker 06

  Yeah, honestly, it's, but anyway, let me tell you about the, the Greg thing. So, so I was walking past, I was walking past, so don't forget, I was doing panto in Crawley.

• 26:44Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we've established that.

• 26:45Speaker 06

  So as I'm walking past the window, about eight people cheering. And I go, I've won another award. So I poked my head in to go, hello, yeah. They were cheering because the sausage rolls were coming round.

• 27:00Declan Donnelly?

  Shut up. Shut up, man.

• 27:05Speaker 06

  They were cheering because the fresh sausage rolls were coming round. And I'm going, going, I have never felt.

• 27:10Ant McPartlin?

  It is me, Stephen Muller, star of stage and screen.

• 27:13Speaker 06

  I have never felt so embarrassed in my entire life. It was horrific. And then to try and casually pretend that it didn't happen, as I walked past, I left the, left the door and went to the mall.

• 27:26Declan Donnelly?

  Upstairs by a sausage roll.

• 27:30Speaker 06

  But there's so many, there's so many stories that.

• 27:33Ant McPartlin?

  Are you gonna talk about us?

• 27:35Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah, of course, of course. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

• 27:39Ant McPartlin?

  Can you remember where we first met?

• 27:40Speaker 06

  I do remember. I think, because I remember telling you a very inappropriate joke. Did you?

• 27:45Ant McPartlin?

  Go on, where was it?

• 27:46Speaker 06

  See, I remember it's in a reception somewhere. That's what I remember.

• 27:49Declan Donnelly?

  It must have been like an award or something. Was it like children's?

• 27:52Ant McPartlin?

  An award that you lost at?

• 27:54Speaker 06

  Well, no, probably.

• 27:55Declan Donnelly?

  Children's BAFTAs or?

• 27:57Speaker 06

  I had a terrible story, but actually, I need to put that on our list. When Dick and Don won an award, I walked out. I did. They've got to go on the list, Dick and Don.

• 28:06Speaker 07

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• 28:37Speaker 02

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• 29:08Speaker 06

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• 29:12Ant McPartlin?

  So we know we talked about glasses?

• 29:13Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 29:14Ant McPartlin?

  And I ended up buying women's glasses and then the red glasses. I didn't know what glasses. I don't know what glasses suit my face.

• 29:19Speaker 06

  You just buy them once and hope when they suit.

• 29:21Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 29:21Speaker 06

  There is definitely a more efficient way of doing it. Gemini can definitely help with that. Just hold still for a minute.

• 29:26Ant McPartlin?

  Ooh, nice pink phone.

• 29:27Speaker 06

  Thanks. Right, here we go. Got it.

• 29:30Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 29:31Speaker 06

  Based on Ant's face shape.

• 29:34Ant McPartlin?

  Handsome.

• 29:35Speaker 06

  Tell us what style of glasses suit him best.

• 29:39Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 29:40Speaker 06

  Because oval faces are naturally balanced, he can pull off almost any style. But, but.

• 29:46Ant McPartlin?

  There's a but.

• 29:47Speaker 06

  There is a but.

• 29:47Ant McPartlin?

  Big but.

• 29:48Speaker 06

  A few specific frames will work best.

• 29:51Ant McPartlin?

  Go on.

• 29:51Speaker 06

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• 29:53Ant McPartlin?

  Go on.

• 29:53Speaker 06

  Which is what he's really bothered about.

• 29:54Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, it is, yeah.

• 29:55Speaker 06

  Right, Gemini says best styles for Ant: square or rectangular frames.

• 30:01Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 30:01Speaker 06

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• 30:08Ant McPartlin?

  I don't have a soft chin!

• 30:09Speaker 06

  That's what Gemini says. Medium depth frames. Frames with a balanced vertical height fill the middle portion of his face proportionately without drawing attention towards the forehead or dragging down the cheeks.

• 30:21Ant McPartlin?

  Why, why did you have to mention the forehead?

• 30:23Speaker 06

  I didn't mention it. Gemini did.

• 30:26Speaker 06

  Have you thought about colours?

• 30:27Ant McPartlin?

  Well, not red. More like.

• 30:29Speaker 06

  Definitely not red.

• 30:29Ant McPartlin?

  More like a dark frame, tortoiseshell.

• 30:32Speaker 06

  Like a tortoiseshell like these?

• 30:34Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, pretty much, yeah. I just have no glasses.

• 30:38Speaker 06

  Tortoiseshell, so dark frames.

• 30:39Ant McPartlin?

  Dark frames.

• 30:39Speaker 06

  Okay. And give me links for them.

• 30:44Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, good idea. You know me, I love clicking to buy something.

• 30:49Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, my spending bans all that.

• 30:50Speaker 06

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• 30:57Ant McPartlin?

  That's good. Send me the link, please.

• 30:58Speaker 06

  Okay, I'll send that over to you.

• 30:59Ant McPartlin?

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• 31:14Speaker 06

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• 31:17Ant McPartlin?

  Go on.

• 31:17Speaker 06

  We get tricks of the trade. People sending their tricks. Have you heard this?

• 31:20Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, yes, yes.

• 31:21Speaker 06

  So we've had people admitting to putting this amount of baby powder through air conditioning systems to make expecting mothers buy more things in baby shops, stuff like that.

• 31:30Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 31:31Speaker 06

  Have we got, we've got a new one?

• 31:32Declan Donnelly?

  We do.

• 31:33Speaker 06

  We have to disguise their voices so they don't lose their jobs, but they give us tricks of their particular.

• 31:38Ant McPartlin?

  Love it.

• 31:38Speaker 06

  Trades. What have we got this week? Hi guys, has this for a trick of the trade. So I used to work as cabin crew for a couple of different airlines. Cabin crews, good. And all that up and down, going into the sky, it does make a person a little bit windy. So when the crew needed to let one go, they would just walk from the front to the back of the plane, down the aisle, just letting them slip out. We did not want to do any farting in the gallery where we work or eat. It was always really satisfying, especially when the passengers weren't very nice. Respect, guys. Anonymous.

• 32:10Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, no respect to you. Back and giving that a round of applause.

• 32:14Speaker 06

  What are you?

• 32:14Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, good for them!

• 32:15Speaker 06

  What a horrible thing to do.

• 32:17Ant McPartlin?

  But imagine the terrible customers that you must get when you're thousands of feet in the air and that's your way of getting them back. Farting in their face when they're asleep.

• 32:26Speaker 06

  Well, he's not farting in his face, he's just walking up and down. Everyone's dealing with it. You get that sometimes, don't you, when you're on a plane and you're going, somebody run for he keeps farting.

• 32:35Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, it stinks. Sometimes it stinks.

• 32:36Speaker 06

  It might not be somebody, it might be the cabin crew from the back.

• 32:39Ant McPartlin?

  You just find me. It's not really a trick of the trade.

• 32:42Speaker 06

  No, it's not.

• 32:43Ant McPartlin?

  It's not really something I take into my life and make my life better.

• 32:47Speaker 06

  Yeah. Well, the reality is, tricks of trade, that's gonna last forever, isn't it?

• 32:49Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 32:50Speaker 06

  Everyone's got their own thing. If you've got any more, send them to us, [email protected]. Let us know any tricks of the trade of your particular trade.

• 32:57Ant McPartlin?

  Have you got any good tricks of the trade before you really move on with something else you've got, obviously?

• 33:01Speaker 06

  I'm itching, I'm itching. Have I got any good tricks of trade?

• 33:04Ant McPartlin?

  You've got some good tricks.

• 33:04Speaker 06

  I'm gonna walk out of here and I'm gonna kick myself. Oh, I've got one.

• 33:07Ant McPartlin?

  I heard a good one from a friend of mine the other day. He said, apparently he works at Greg's, when the sausage rolls come out, they all cheer.

• 33:16Ant McPartlin?

  Not many people know that, but that's how you do it.

• 33:18Speaker 06

  You know the fresh sausage rolls when you hear the cheer. By the way, I've got something for you. And guys, I think you're gonna like it. Ooh, close your eyes, open your hands. No, no, no. You've got a new game for your show.

• 33:29Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, brilliant.

• 33:30Speaker 06

  Yeah. It's called? Event Stevens!

• 33:38Speaker 06

  Well, this is where, if you know your Stevens, you might just have the edge.

• 33:41Ant McPartlin?

  Right.

• 33:42Speaker 06

  All right, so a bit like higher and lower. They give you two famous Stevens, you've gotta tell me who's got the most.

• 33:46Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 33:46Speaker 06

  I'm not talking about money, that's crude.

• 33:48Ant McPartlin?

  Who's got the most what?

• 33:49Speaker 06

  You'll find out. So first of all. Is this a pilot? Is this basically a pilot? Well, do you know what?

• 33:53Ant McPartlin?

  For another game show, you're the host of.

• 33:56Speaker 06

  Right, so here's the idea. I'm gonna give you two famous Stevens. All you need to do is tell me which one's got the most. It's a numbers game, all right? So let me give you an example to get you, to get you flowing, all right? But this is for a point. Play along at home if you want. No? Fair enough. All right, Stephen Graham.

• 34:11Ant McPartlin?

  Well, it's for an example, but this is for a point.

• 34:13Speaker 06

  Well, yes, I'm gonna take it serious, but this will get you into the game.

• 34:15Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, right, right, right.

• 34:16Speaker 06

  This is.

• 34:17Ant McPartlin?

  I'm gonna get it, but fine, we'll have the example.

• 34:19Speaker 06

  You know, any game show you can sum up in one line is like higher and lower. That's it.

• 34:23Ant McPartlin?

  Right.

• 34:24Speaker 06

  Stephen Graham and Steve Coogan, who's got more BAFTAs? Think about it.

• 34:28Ant McPartlin?

  Steve Coogan.

• 34:29Speaker 06

  Coogan. Straight in.

• 34:30Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, straight in. Got loads for Alan Partridge. He's had a couple of acting ones as well.

• 34:35Speaker 06

  Adolescence?

• 34:36Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 34:37Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 34:37Ant McPartlin?

  But that was just recently. Coogan's been on for years.

• 34:40Speaker 06

  Guys. Stephen Graham has had a few, deservedly so, but I think Coogan pips it. You both got a point. Well done, well done.

• 34:46Ant McPartlin?

  Thank you.

• 34:47Speaker 06

  Do you know what Stephen Graham did? A fact about Stephen Graham, oh, numbers. Steve Coogan's got seven, Stephen Graham's only got one.

• 34:53Ant McPartlin?

  I see.

• 34:54Speaker 06

  Just for adolescence. Yeah. Do you know what? When I used to work at Bartlett's, Stephen Graham was on holiday and I had him in a game of best dancing dads.

• 35:03Ant McPartlin?

  No way.

• 35:04Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 35:04Ant McPartlin?

  Did he win?

• 35:05Speaker 06

  Did he win? Did he win? I can't remember. Stephen Fry and Stephen Gerrard, who has more Instagram followers?

• 35:11Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 35:13Speaker 06

  Yeah, you're good. Yeah, you think, see? You said it's good.

• 35:16Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, I will go with Stephen Fry. Stephen Fry too.

• 35:21Speaker 06

  I was saying Stephen Fry, it's not, it's Stephen Gerrard with 11.3, because Stephen Fry now has none, because he's took himself off.

• 35:27Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, that's bad.

• 35:29Speaker 06

  So trick, it's not like a kick in the nuts.

• 35:31Ant McPartlin?

  What did he have? What did he have before he took himself off?

• 35:33Speaker 06

  A lot. Stephen King or King Steven? But who fathered more children?

• 35:42Speaker 06

  Yeah, Stephen, by the way, King Steven.

• 35:44Ant McPartlin?

  King Steven!

• 35:44Speaker 06

  I will tell you.

• 35:45Ant McPartlin?

  That's, that's what we call you. King Steven. King Stevens here again.

• 35:51Speaker 06

  Well, King Steven, he ruled from 11.35 to 11.54. You never thought you'd learn anything, but there you go.

• 35:56Ant McPartlin?

  So just before midday.

• 35:57Speaker 06

  Five to twelve.

• 35:59Ant McPartlin?

  It's a short, it was only 25 minutes.

• 36:00Speaker 06

  But seriously, who had most kids? You're gonna have to guess this one.

• 36:03Ant McPartlin?

  King Steven. Okay, well, I'll go for the other one then, just trying to get a point.

• 36:08Speaker 06

  It is King Steven.

• 36:08Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 36:09Speaker 06

  Yes, he had five children and Stephen King had three.

• 36:12Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 36:13Speaker 06

  Yeah. Right, two more.

• 36:15Ant McPartlin?

  Go on.

• 36:15Speaker 06

  Steven Spielberg or Steve Jobs? Who has the longer middle name?

• 36:21Ant McPartlin?

  Who's the first one again?

• 36:22Speaker 06

  Steven Spielberg.

• 36:23Ant McPartlin?

  He speaks very quickly sometimes, you can't understand him.

• 36:25Speaker 06

  Feeling the pressure.

• 36:26Ant McPartlin?

  He hasn't had a good voice for a podcast.

• 36:28Speaker 06

  Once the lights are on and the cameras, different pressure. Steven Spielberg or Steve Jobs?

• 36:33Ant McPartlin?

  Spielberg.

• 36:34Speaker 06

  Oh, he's gone straight in there.

• 36:35Ant McPartlin?

  Jobs.

• 36:36Speaker 06

  You're saying Jobs. Guys, Ant is right, Steven Spielberg.

• 36:39Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 36:39Speaker 06

  His middle name is Alan, but he spells it with two L's.

• 36:42Ant McPartlin?

  I knew that.

• 36:44Speaker 06

  No, you did not.

• 36:45Ant McPartlin?

  Of course I didn't.

• 36:45Speaker 06

  Right, last one, it's two O's.

• 36:46Ant McPartlin?

  What's Spielberg?

• 36:47Speaker 06

  Steve, Steve Jobs is Paul. Just spelt normally, P-A-U-L. Just for those that wanna know how to spell Paul. Steve Redgrave or Stephen Bartlett? Which one has a better score on WikiFeet?

• 37:00Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 37:01Speaker 06

  Yeah, you know about a WikiFeet.

• 37:03Ant McPartlin?

  Steve Redgrave or Stephen Bartlett?

• 37:05Speaker 06

  Yeah, now think about what they'd do as a job.

• 37:07Ant McPartlin?

  Well, one's a war.

• 37:08Speaker 06

  One's a podcast.

• 37:09Ant McPartlin?

  And one sits with his feet under the desk.

• 37:11Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah.

• 37:11Ant McPartlin?

  So obviously it's gonna be Bartlett. Bartlett's the winner.

• 37:14Speaker 06

  You're going Bartlett?

• 37:15Ant McPartlin?

  No, Redgrave.

• 37:16Speaker 06

  You're going Redgrave. You're not gonna believe it, Ant. It's Steve Redgrave.

• 37:19Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 37:20Speaker 06

  Yes, he gets a full five stars. Stephen Bartlett, 4.57.

• 37:26Speaker 06

  You two know this for a fact, you're never ever gonna see my feet. Not on any TV show. Do you remember when he tried to get me to wear it as the Egyptian?

• 37:32Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 37:33Speaker 06

  Yeah?

• 37:33Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 37:33Speaker 06

  I wore socks with sandals.

• 37:34Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 37:36Speaker 06

  Yes, you're never gonna see it.

• 37:37Ant McPartlin?

  Why?

• 37:38Speaker 06

  Because I hate my feet. The best way I can describe my feet is like Monster Munch. They're all just, oh, not a hope in hell.

• 37:48Ant McPartlin?

  We're on show on the camera, show me them now.

• 37:50Speaker 06

  No.

• 37:50Ant McPartlin?

  Why?

• 37:51Speaker 06

  Because they're nice.

• 37:51Ant McPartlin?

  I'm intrigued.

• 37:52Speaker 06

  I think if you're.

• 37:53Ant McPartlin?

  That's how I get my kicks.

• 37:53Speaker 06

  Right, I'll show you them.

• 37:55Ant McPartlin?

  I think if you're an eagle-eyed viewer, if you're an eagle-eyed viewer, you do see a bit of them on accidental tourists. I think you do as well.

• 38:01Speaker 06

  I'm telling you, I guarantee you will not see a close-up, because I looked through that whole edit and I saw a couple of things where I thought, guys, and also you won't see a full frontal.

• 38:10Ant McPartlin?

  No, saving that for the book.

• 38:12Speaker 06

  Absolutely. Front, front cover. Did I tell you that I'm doing a boot camp?

• 38:17Ant McPartlin?

  A what?

• 38:17Speaker 06

  A boot camp to get fit.

• 38:21Speaker 06

  What? Why do you find that so funny?

• 38:23Ant McPartlin?

  Because you just hate fitness.

• 38:25Speaker 06

  Yeah, but you know I was gonna get fit before.

• 38:27Declan Donnelly?

  Well, because I bumped into you at the gym once.

• 38:29Speaker 06

  Yes, you did.

• 38:29Declan Donnelly?

  Which wasn't very far from here, actually.

• 38:31Speaker 06

  About four doors up.

• 38:31Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. And I came in one morning and Stephen was there on the cross trainer.

• 38:36Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 38:36Declan Donnelly?

  I said, ah, Stephen, what are you doing?

• 38:37Speaker 06

  Don't look so surprised, Deco's corner.

• 38:39Declan Donnelly?

  And you were like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was for a job, wasn't it?

• 38:42Speaker 06

  It was. I was gonna play Joseph.

• 38:44Declan Donnelly?

  And what happened?

• 38:45Speaker 06

  They were doing a big special event in Jersey.

• 38:47Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 38:47Speaker 06

  Then they pulled it. I thought, let's not forget this. Because in Jersey, you've got to spend most of your...

• 38:52Declan Donnelly?

  With your lot and your line club.

• 38:53Speaker 06

  On stage at the line club. And I was like, yeah, let's do it. I love Joseph. Love, love the musical.

• 38:57Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 38:57Speaker 06

  And I thought, I've got to do it. And I was ready. And if they hadn't pulled it, swear to you now, I would have been ripped. But do you want to see me ripped?

• 39:04Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 39:05Ant McPartlin?

  Not really.

• 39:06Speaker 06

  Well, this is the debate I'm having. Because I, when you think of, like, um, do you remember where you saw Andy Peters on the front cover of Men's Health?

• 39:14Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 39:14Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 39:14Speaker 06

  Yeah?

• 39:15Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 39:15Speaker 06

  Well, I thought that was a joke. Genuinely, I looked, I looked, I was in my newsagent and I thought, look what they've done. They've put Andy Peters' head on a musty man's body. I think I may even text Andy and went, you need to look at Men's Health. Then it was true. Seriously.

• 39:29Declan Donnelly?

  Do you fancy doing that?

• 39:31Speaker 06

  I don't know whether the audience will appreciate it.

• 39:33Declan Donnelly?

  I would love that.

• 39:34Ant McPartlin?

  We don't.

• 39:34Speaker 06

  I, I'm being serious.

• 39:35Ant McPartlin?

  I don't want to see, I don't want to see that.

• 39:37Speaker 06

  This is a mix.

• 39:38Ant McPartlin?

  There's been a lot of celebrities recently doing those kind of Men's Health.

• 39:41Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 39:41Ant McPartlin?

  Shirts off.

• 39:42Speaker 06

  But some people suit it. I could name a couple of celebrities that I would just go, hmm.

• 39:46Ant McPartlin?

  I'm not gonna name names, but it just, some of them put me off.

• 39:49Speaker 06

  But I'm not gonna get too big. I'm just gonna, I'm just going to...

• 39:53Ant McPartlin?

  What are you gonna do? Just get ripped?

• 39:54Speaker 06

  Yeah, I'm just gonna be, I'm just gonna look lean. That's the word. Because I don't think you want to see me, hello, welcome to Cat's Eyes.

• 40:01Ant McPartlin?

  Could you change your shape that much?

• 40:02Speaker 06

  Well, if I, if I eat right and if I did the work.

• 40:06Ant McPartlin?

  That's it. There you go.

• 40:08Speaker 06

  Have you got that?

• 40:09Declan Donnelly?

  You really need to see this on YouTube.

• 40:11Ant McPartlin?

  And how else is it? How have you been? Otherwise?

• 40:13Speaker 06

  Oh, really good.

• 40:14Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Stop sending me AI versions of me.

• 40:19Speaker 06

  Don't you blame this on me.

• 40:20Ant McPartlin?

  How many of them?

• 40:22Speaker 06

  Do not blame.

• 40:23Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, yeah, there's loads of...

• 40:25Declan Donnelly?

  They're not all AI. Some of them are actually real.

• 40:27Ant McPartlin?

  There's loads of AI versions of us doing stuff, me, Declan, Stephen, and we've sent a few to him. I thought it was you.

• 40:33Declan Donnelly?

  He, he thought, you thought it was us?

• 40:35Speaker 06

  Have you got the voice, though? I, I left you.

• 40:37Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 40:37Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, yeah, on my phone somewhere.

• 40:39Speaker 06

  Because I...

• 40:40Ant McPartlin?

  There's one which we can show you.

• 40:41Speaker 06

  There's one where I look horrific.

• 40:43Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 40:43Speaker 06

  The, the shot of me makes me, I look like a wrestler. I just woke up. You sent it at 12 minutes past five, so you must have still been in Canada.

• 40:50Ant McPartlin?

  I was in Baguio last night.

• 40:51Speaker 06

  I just woke up to that. By the way, I don't know how you done it, but the shot of me, mate, you need to delete that. Because that, oh my god. I need to, no. Get rid of that.

• 41:04Speaker 06

  So much, because I just woke up, looked at it, I said, what is going on? Then you sent it, went, when did we do this? All that sorts of, like, no, we didn't do that. We didn't do that.

• 41:13Ant McPartlin?

  It's a joke, Andy, of course.

• 41:15Speaker 06

  That's dangerous. But I tell you now, if you can do that, because I was like, hmm.

• 41:19Ant McPartlin?

  It's dangerous, isn't it?

• 41:20Speaker 06

  It really is.

• 41:20Ant McPartlin?

  It's really dangerous. That we're sending it to each other as a laugh.

• 41:23Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 41:24Ant McPartlin?

  Well, it's, it's not that funny.

• 41:26Speaker 06

  Whoever's doing it, stop it. Because it's not, it's not good.

• 41:31Ant McPartlin?

  And if you want to continue doing it, just slim Stephen down a little bit.

• 41:34Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 41:34Ant McPartlin?

  Just for his own. He was a bit fat. He was a bit fat and he didn't like it. Uh, let's talk about Inforpenny.

• 41:39Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah.

• 41:39Ant McPartlin?

  Because you wanted to speak about this when you first came on. So is it coming back? Is it not coming back? What's happened with Inforpenny?

• 41:45Speaker 06

  They keep saying, oh, we really want it back. Well, if you really want it back, bring it back.

• 41:48Declan Donnelly?

  You love doing it, don't you?

• 41:49Speaker 06

  I adore doing it, but also it's members of the public. I love being with members of the public.

• 41:53Ant McPartlin?

  And that's where you're at your best, I have to say. You are brilliant on that show. Like you were on Britain's Got More Talent. You're brilliant with people, uh, you're very funny with them. Like, well, like I said before, the fact you haven't been punched in the face more often, this is a surprise to me. Because you're so cheeky with them, but you're very, very good.

• 42:08Declan Donnelly?

  It's genuine laugh-out-loud moments.

• 42:10Speaker 06

  It is, yeah.

• 42:10Declan Donnelly?

  In, in the half hour that you're on, that you're on air.

• 42:12Ant McPartlin?

  We'd love to bring it back.

• 42:14Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 42:14Ant McPartlin?

  You want to do it.

• 42:15Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 42:15Ant McPartlin?

  So what are we waiting for, ITV? Let's bring it back.

• 42:17Speaker 06

  I couldn't agree more, you know, right?

• 42:19Declan Donnelly?

  Well, let's see if we can get all of our ducks in a row, make it again, because it's such a good show.

• 42:23Speaker 06

  And that's the beauty of the show. Like you say, it's all about genuine laughter. Because who doesn't want to laugh?

• 42:28Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 42:29Speaker 06

  You know, this is why it's great, it's great being here today, because I'll, I'll spend the rest of the day just thinking about this.

• 42:35Ant McPartlin?

  No, but honestly, I've said this to you before, and this is not me being sycophantic. I used to laugh more at episodes of Inforpenny than I did anything else on TV.

• 42:45Speaker 06

  Well, that's a...

• 42:45Ant McPartlin?

  It was the funniest thing. And when it was on, it, for me, it was the, it had more laughs in it per minute than some of the best sitcoms.

• 42:52Declan Donnelly?

  And how many people still play Pumped Up at the petrol station?

• 42:55Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, every time. Every time.

• 42:57Speaker 06

  And it's amazing how many people talk about it.

• 42:59Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 42:59Speaker 06

  Because you do know the gold jacket was from SMTV Live.

• 43:03Declan Donnelly?

  Was it?

• 43:03Ant McPartlin?

  Was it from SMTV Live?

• 43:05Speaker 06

  Yeah, and it's still got in the, in the back of it, in the little tag. Yeah. SMTV Live.

• 43:09Declan Donnelly?

  No way.

• 43:10Speaker 06

  So for all of those series, we use the second name jacket.

• 43:14Speaker 06

  It was cheap as chips, that show.

• 43:16Ant McPartlin?

  It really was cheap as chips.

• 43:17Speaker 06

  Yeah. But, um, yeah, listen, watch this face, who knows?

• 43:20Speaker 05

  This is great. We'll say thank you and we'll, um...

• 43:24Declan Donnelly?

  Get rid of him.

• 43:24Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, okay.

• 43:25Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 43:27Speaker 06

  I hope you all heard that. We'll just finish on this bit and then we'll get rid of him. That is the most offensive thing I've ever heard. And if I heard it, wow.

• 43:38Ant McPartlin?

  That can't, that can't be the most offensive thing you've ever heard. Well, listen, thank you for bursting in and surprising us.

• 43:45Speaker 06

  Well...

• 43:45Ant McPartlin?

  Come on again.

• 43:46Speaker 06

  I won't come on again.

• 43:47Ant McPartlin?

  Come on again.

• 43:47Speaker 06

  I'm gonna have to, judging by, you know, I don't want to mix it again, but the comments.

• 43:52Ant McPartlin?

  The comments want them on again.

• 43:54Speaker 06

  Keep them coming in, keep them flowing. We didn't squeeze them all in. Apologies, but, you know.

• 43:59Declan Donnelly?

  We heard enough of them.

• 44:00Ant McPartlin?

  Come on next time, when you're all jacked up for the cover of Men's Health.

• 44:04Speaker 06

  All jacked up. Yeah.

• 44:06Ant McPartlin?

  Well, come, come, come on topless.

• 44:09Speaker 06

  Yeah. Do you know what? That will, that'll be a couple of years. Maybe a year.

• 44:13Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, you can do it in 12 weeks.

• 44:15Speaker 06

  Are you serious?

• 44:16Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 44:17Ant McPartlin?

  Are you serious?

• 44:19Speaker 06

  Well, hang on a second. Let's put a date on it. No, it can't be 12 weeks. That's impossible.

• 44:23Declan Donnelly?

  No, let's do it, let's do it in the new year.

• 44:24Speaker 06

  Let's do six, give me six months.

• 44:26Ant McPartlin?

  How long after Christmas do you need to get rid of the Christmas blood?

• 44:28Speaker 06

  Oh, that's an interesting one.

• 44:29Ant McPartlin?

  Isn't it?

• 44:30Speaker 06

  Christmas round the corner. I think it's only eight Fridays to Christmas.

• 44:34Ant McPartlin?

  You know we love you.

• 44:35Speaker 06

  Yeah, no, it's great.

• 44:36Ant McPartlin?

  We, we love you. We, we're big fans of you. Can't wait for us to...

• 44:39Speaker 06

  You were.

• 44:41Ant McPartlin?

  We are big fans of you.

• 44:42Speaker 06

  You said you were.

• 44:43Ant McPartlin?

  You're trying to give them a cover.

• 44:44Speaker 06

  Rewind it.

• 44:46Speaker 06

  There, you know you said you were.

• 44:49Ant McPartlin?

  Come on.

• 44:49Speaker 06

  Bye, everybody. It's been a train team. Bye, everybody. See ya. See you soon, guys.

• 44:56Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, god.

• 44:58Declan Donnelly?

  Is he seriously more than them plants?

• 44:59Ant McPartlin?

  Why am I always exhausted whenever we spend time?

• 45:01Declan Donnelly?

  I know. Whirlwind. Oh, that's nice to see him.

• 45:06Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, he's so funny, isn't he?

• 45:07Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, my god.

• 45:08Ant McPartlin?

  My favourite bit of that was the fact that he thought he won an award when we surprised him. For undercover, and then he was mugger and it wasn't an award. And then it was us. Oh, god.

• 45:19Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, well, I think that's gonna take up most of the podcast this week.

• 45:22Ant McPartlin?

  Have we got time for two grumbles? Couple of grumbles?

• 45:24Declan Donnelly?

  Have we got some grumbles? Go on. Oh, go on. Let's have a couple of grumbles before we leave you.

• 45:27Ant McPartlin?

  Let's do one each. One each before we leave you.

• 45:29Declan Donnelly?

  Okay.

• 45:29Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, because Stephen took up most of the time.

• 45:32Declan Donnelly?

  Okay.

• 45:32Ant McPartlin?

  But we will, uh, we'll give you a couple of these before we go.

• 45:35Declan Donnelly?

  Thank you for all your grumbles. Keep them coming in. Hang on at beltabox.com.

• 45:39Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, hi, sexy, nice and heckless corner.

• 45:44Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, your voice is very sexy, sexy.

• 45:47Declan Donnelly?

  Well, it was quite a sexy high, wasn't it?

• 45:48Ant McPartlin?

  Wasn't it? You're really getting into this role. My grumble is automatic slash motion detector soap dispensers. They never work. And if they do, you look like such an idiot, sweeping your hands repeatedly underneath the sensor to try and get the soap out. I just don't understand their purpose. They say it is to improve hygiene, but you're about to wash your hands. In capitals.

• 46:13Declan Donnelly?

  Very good point.

• 46:14Ant McPartlin?

  So why does that matter if you haven't touched the soap dispenser? You're about to wash all the germs off. It's petty and it really doesn't affect my day-to-day life, but it enrages me. Love the pod, Lucy. At least she finishes on a high. Uh, yeah, I get a point. I get a point.

• 46:30Declan Donnelly?

  I agree.

• 46:31Ant McPartlin?

  You, you agree?

• 46:31Declan Donnelly?

  I agree.

• 46:32Ant McPartlin?

  You have a lot?

• 46:32Declan Donnelly?

  Not just soap dispensers, taps. Taps. When you're like, how the, how does this work?

• 46:39Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 46:40Declan Donnelly?

  It's not, it's not, and I find that, you know, I'm lucky enough every now...

• 46:44Ant McPartlin?

  It's like you're blessed in the sink.

• 46:46Declan Donnelly?

  When you're waving around trying to get the tap to, yeah, and you've got the soap on your hands, you're like, now, how do I do the flipping tap? And, uh, I'm lucky enough every now and again to go to quite nice restaurants.

• 46:55Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 46:56Declan Donnelly?

  And I find the posh of the restaurant, the harder it is to get the water out of the fucking tap.

• 47:00Ant McPartlin?

  Do you know what's hard as well is when you, have you been those ones where they've got three separate things? And you put your hands under and the water's meant to come because there's a sensor.

• 47:09Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 47:09Ant McPartlin?

  Then the soap comes from another sensor, then the other one is a hand dryer.

• 47:13Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 47:13Ant McPartlin?

  Like, what the hell? I mean, I know there's a picture of what you're meant to do, what order.

• 47:18Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 47:18Ant McPartlin?

  But it's like, you, you, you're shaking all about like the hokey-cokey.

• 47:21Declan Donnelly?

  Yes. I was on holiday once and had, had exactly that in an airport. And I was next to a very large Russian guy.

• 47:29Ant McPartlin?

  Mm-hmm.

• 47:30Declan Donnelly?

  Um, and he was, he was doing exactly that, hands in, hands out. Couldn't get it to work. Couldn't get it to work. And he just punched the mirror.

• 47:36Ant McPartlin?

  Did he?

• 47:37Declan Donnelly?

  And walked out.

• 47:38Ant McPartlin?

  Did he?

• 47:38Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 47:39Ant McPartlin?

  Brilliant.

• 47:39Declan Donnelly?

  I know.

• 47:40Ant McPartlin?

  That would be my way of dealing with it, I reckon.

• 47:42Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, yeah. So, yeah, I hear you.

• 47:44Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, we're having that, Lucy.

• 47:45Declan Donnelly?

  I hear you, Lucy. Very good grumble. I've got one here from Lisa. She says, hi, guys.

• 47:50Ant McPartlin?

  Hi.

• 47:51Declan Donnelly?

  My grumble is your response to Sophie's escalator grumble. I don't think you've considered how inconvenient this can be for other escalator users. This is interesting. The other side of the coin. The other side of the escalator coin. So I should probably recap for those of you who don't remember, Sophie's escalator grumble was people getting on the escalator. Walking up the escalator, then getting kind of halfway up or towards the top and just stopping, getting in people's way. So Lisa says, I have found myself in this situation many times, even though I'm not a particularly frequent escalator user.

• 48:25Ant McPartlin?

  What? What?

• 48:27Declan Donnelly?

  The issue, when someone stops at the top or bottom of an escalator, the escalator itself doesn't stop, creating a human pileup at the top or bottom of said escalator. Apologies for saying escalator so many times, but I think you now understand the importance of the grumble. I stand with Sophie, but not at the top or the bottom of the escalator. Please reconsider your stance on this matter. Respect, guys. Lisa.

• 48:49Ant McPartlin?

  We weren't bothered, and I'm still not that bothered. I'm not.

• 48:53Declan Donnelly?

  Sorry, Lisa.

• 48:54Ant McPartlin?

  Sorry, Lisa. That's two letters now we've had about the same subject, and I don't think it bothers people that much.

• 48:58Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 48:59Ant McPartlin?

  It doesn't.

• 48:59Declan Donnelly?

  It doesn't bother you?

• 49:00Ant McPartlin?

  It doesn't bother me that much. It doesn't.

• 49:02Declan Donnelly?

  Are you a particularly frequent escalator user?

• 49:04Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I mean, you know, if there's an escalator on offer, I'll take it.

• 49:07Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 49:08Ant McPartlin?

  I'll always take it as opposed to getting up the stairs.

• 49:10Declan Donnelly?

  I've been on quite a few escalators recently.

• 49:13Ant McPartlin?

  Have you?

• 49:13Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 49:14Ant McPartlin?

  Why recently?

• 49:15Declan Donnelly?

  I just feel like I've been in and out of airports quite a lot.

• 49:18Ant McPartlin?

  And did it bother you? Did it bother you?

• 49:21Declan Donnelly?

  No, no.

• 49:22Ant McPartlin?

  Didn't bother you?

• 49:22Declan Donnelly?

  It's more the...

• 49:23Ant McPartlin?

  Doesn't bother that many people?

• 49:24Declan Donnelly?

  It's more the horizontal escalator that is supposed to get you through the terminal quicker.

• 49:30Ant McPartlin?

  Quicker, and people stop.

• 49:31Declan Donnelly?

  I can't bear that.

• 49:32Ant McPartlin?

  You don't like that?

• 49:32Declan Donnelly?

  I do not like that.

• 49:33Ant McPartlin?

  Especially if they don't leave a gap near them, so you can walk past.

• 49:36Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 49:36Ant McPartlin?

  That gets on my nerves. I'm not behind that, but whereas this, the automatic hand soap dispensers, I'm getting behind.

• 49:43Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 49:43Ant McPartlin?

  So that wins.

• 49:44Declan Donnelly?

  Well done, Lucy.

• 49:45Ant McPartlin?

  What, does she win the book token? Do we give away book tokens still? I've been away for a while. Is it book token? Thumbs up. Well done.

• 49:51Declan Donnelly?

  You win a thumbs up. If you're just listening, we are giving you a thumbs up, Lucy. Well done. You are grumble of the week. That is good morning from Lucy.

• 49:59Ant McPartlin?

  That's it. That's all we got time for. Stephen Mulhern ate up all of our time, as he normally does, but it was a pleasure to have him on. We should have him on again.

• 50:08Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 50:08Ant McPartlin?

  Give it a while, though. I need a little while for that to...

• 50:10Declan Donnelly?

  We need to decompress.

• 50:11Ant McPartlin?

  I need to rinse that out of my system, and then we'll bring him back.

• 50:13Declan Donnelly?

  Thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. Remember to give the podcast a follow wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe on YouTube if you're watching us there. And we'll be back on Monday, won't we?

• 50:22Ant McPartlin?

  Monday.

• 50:23Declan Donnelly?

  Monday.

• 50:23Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, the bonus episodes.

• 50:24Declan Donnelly?

  The bonus F. But until then, respect, guys.

• 50:28Ant McPartlin?

  Respect, guys. See you later.

• 50:29Declan Donnelly?

  See ya.

• 50:29Ant McPartlin?

  Ta-ao.

• 50:29Declan Donnelly?

  Bye.

• 50:30Ant McPartlin?

  Bye-bye. Love you loads.

• 50:31Declan Donnelly?

  Love to be back. Love you all.

• 50:32Ant McPartlin?

  Bye.

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