Ant Learns The Importance of Punctuation & What Happens When Dec Gets The Giggles

It’s Thursday, so time to hang out with your favourite (and possibly only known) Geordie duo. This week, we get a long awaited update from Ant’s butcher, the boys discuss Dec getting the giggles in some iconic Britain’s Got Talent moments, and Ant gets wound up by a listener with a bone to pick. Dec also shares a rather shocking revelation about Ant from his diary, (accompanied by a new jingle!) and of course, the postbag is back! Keep your emails coming to [email protected] ----- 00:00 - On Today's show 02:28 - Listener’s map 10:28 - Pancake Day 12:10 - What should the boys give up for lent? 13:00 - Ant’s Butcher is BACK! 14:55 - Meat based registrations 16:30 - Dec’s extraordinary Chinese Takeaway 19:00 - Dec’s Diary 25:00 - All new Britains Got Talent 27:30 - Postbag 39:25 - Tattoo suggestions This episode is sponsored by Santander Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Ant McPartlin?

  Coming up on the show, we chat about Britain's Got Talent, which starts this week.

• 0:03Declan Donnelly?

  And he fell down the stairs.

• 0:05Ant McPartlin?

  That was it. That was it. We've done take after take after take.

• 0:09Declan Donnelly?

  Ant really doesn't enjoy one of the letters from our listeners.

• 0:13Ant McPartlin?

  I'm just gonna hold the crystal for the rest of this podcast, because you wound me up. My butcher takes me on an unexpected adventure. I'm gonna go out the back and he's gonna show me like secret meat.

• 0:23Declan Donnelly?

  My diary reveals a shocking revelation about Ant.

• 0:27Speaker 02

  That is disgusting.

• 0:28Ant McPartlin?

  There was no toilet. What do you expect me to do? And I reveal why Deck is so annoying to eat a Chinese meal with.

• 0:35Declan Donnelly?

  It's sophisticated, how are you?

• 0:36Ant McPartlin?

  It's not sophisticated, it's infuriating is how you eat Chinese.

• 0:39Declan Donnelly?

  That's all coming up on today's Hanging Out. Enjoy the show.

• 0:49Declan Donnelly?

  Stick the lights on, Ant.

• 0:50Ant McPartlin?

  I will stick the lights on. Respect, guys. It's on again.

• 0:55Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, we are not rehearsing. We are on air.

• 0:58Ant McPartlin?

  Hello.

• 0:59Declan Donnelly?

  Good morning, good evening. Welcome along to The Hangout.

• 1:04Declan Donnelly?

  For more of Hanging Out with him and me.

• 1:08Ant McPartlin?

  I thought we established, KSI established that.

• 1:11Declan Donnelly?

  All right, I'll do that again. Take two. Welcome to The Room.

• 1:14Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that's it. Thank you.

• 1:15Declan Donnelly?

  That's quite uninspiring.

• 1:17Ant McPartlin?

  Really? It is. It is. It is. So if it's not The Hangout and it's not The Room, it's The Attic? We're in The Loft. The Loft.

• 1:23Declan Donnelly?

  That's The Hangout.

• 1:23Ant McPartlin?

  The Loft. It's The Hangout, isn't it? It's stuck now, isn't it?

• 1:26Declan Donnelly?

  But we're back. Have you recovered from Monday from getting beaten to a pulp?

• 1:30Ant McPartlin?

  I mean, he's got quite a punch in him, hasn't he?

• 1:32Declan Donnelly?

  If you haven't seen it, we had KSI here on Monday, came through the mystery door and ended up in a fight. So.

• 1:38Ant McPartlin?

  Well, well.

• 1:40Declan Donnelly?

  Ended in a fight.

• 1:41Ant McPartlin?

  Punches were thrown.

• 1:42Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah. So if you haven't seen it, go back and have a look at Mystery Door Monday.

• 1:45Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, have a look on YouTube, because you wanna see. Just subscribe to Belt Box, right? Go on to Belt Box and just see me get smacked by KSI. And you smack him though, don't you?

• 1:56Declan Donnelly?

  I got stuck into him.

• 1:58Ant McPartlin?

  Smacks him.

• 1:58Declan Donnelly?

  He put Ant on the ground and I went, I'm not having that. My best mate. Get into him.

• 2:02Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, if you do go on Belt Box and watch this, we may have over egged the pudding a little.

• 2:07Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, maybe. Click, clickbait. Is that clickbait? Rage bait. Clickbait.

• 2:11Ant McPartlin?

  Rage bait.

• 2:13Declan Donnelly?

  Uh, but it's great to see you.

• 2:15Ant McPartlin?

  Do you know what rage bait means?

• 2:16Declan Donnelly?

  That.

• 2:19Declan Donnelly?

  So I've been going in the comments to see where you are.

• 2:22Ant McPartlin?

  Course you have, nothing better to do. Going to the comments. Whereas I have a very busy life.

• 2:27Declan Donnelly?

  Wanted to know where you're listening to, what is our reach out there?

• 2:31Ant McPartlin?

  Stop that.

• 2:32Declan Donnelly?

  I love knowing where we're being heard. So I'll put you on our little map. Shall I get a listener's map?

• 2:36Ant McPartlin?

  It's not that little, but please get it.

• 2:38Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, so all of the yellow flags here, if you're listening, we've got a map here with yellow flags and all the yellow.

• 2:42Ant McPartlin?

  Yellow flags.

• 2:44Declan Donnelly?

  Our new location.

• 2:46Ant McPartlin?

  My red flags is you talking about yellow flags.

• 2:51Declan Donnelly?

  That's a red flag. So we have got some listeners now. Anita is listening in Massachusetts.

• 2:56Ant McPartlin?

  Hey there Anita, hey there Massachusetts America.

• 3:00Declan Donnelly?

  You ever been?

• 3:01Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, Mr. Massachusetts, no.

• 3:04Declan Donnelly?

  Lisa in Orlando, Florida.

• 3:05Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, hey there Lisa.

• 3:08Declan Donnelly?

  She sounds like she's travelled from Massachusetts.

• 3:10Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, she was born there, she moved to Florida. Yeah.

• 3:13Declan Donnelly?

  Ever been?

• 3:13Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, I have. You know I've been there.

• 3:15Declan Donnelly?

  I know, but tell the story. Go on, tell the story.

• 3:18Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I've been to Orlando, Florida a few times for Saturday Night Takeover when we did the final episode from Orlando, Florida.

• 3:27Declan Donnelly?

  Hey there.

• 3:27Ant McPartlin?

  Hey, hey now, great to see you again, guys.

• 3:30Declan Donnelly?

  Leon is listening in France.

• 3:32Ant McPartlin?

  Howdy. Oh, that was still America. Bonjour.

• 3:35Declan Donnelly?

  Bonjour Leon.

• 3:36Ant McPartlin?

  Ever been?

• 3:37Declan Donnelly?

  You, si, oui, oui, si.

• 3:41Declan Donnelly?

  Si.

• 3:42Ant McPartlin?

  Oui, oui.

• 3:42Declan Donnelly?

  Oui, oui, been in France a few times. You ever had frog's legs?

• 3:45Ant McPartlin?

  I have had frog's legs, yes.

• 3:47Declan Donnelly?

  You have had snails?

• 3:48Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, I've had snails too.

• 3:49Declan Donnelly?

  Dirty beast.

• 3:50Ant McPartlin?

  Esco go. Have you ever had snails?

• 3:53Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I've had garlic snails.

• 3:54Ant McPartlin?

  Why garlic? Why throw the word garlic in there? Yeah, but I just said, have you had snails? You have had garlic snails? Why, why did you feel the need to throw the garlic in there?

• 4:06Declan Donnelly?

  I just didn't pick up a snail on the floor, neither. It was like, it was prepared in a kitchen by the chef.

• 4:10Ant McPartlin?

  That's why you said it, didn't you?

• 4:11Declan Donnelly?

  What? It sounded like a dirty beast.

• 4:13Ant McPartlin?

  Nobody expects you. Nobody thinks when you said, I've just had snails, that you've eaten them from the garden.

• 4:18Declan Donnelly?

  I'm just making sure, I don't want that reputation. And I've heard the rumours, so stop this. Whoever's spreading that rumour.

• 4:26Declan Donnelly?

  Diane is listening in the Netherlands.

• 4:28Ant McPartlin?

  You dirty snail leader. Not you Diane, not you Declan.

• 4:33Declan Donnelly?

  Have you ever been to the other regions?

• 4:34Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, I have been to the other regions.

• 4:37Declan Donnelly?

  Vicky is in Argentina.

• 4:39Ant McPartlin?

  Hi Vicky, in Argentina. I'd love to go to South America.

• 4:42Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I've never been to South America.

• 4:43Ant McPartlin?

  Argentina in particular. I'd love to go. So ask the question.

• 4:46Declan Donnelly?

  Have you ever been?

• 4:46Ant McPartlin?

  No, I haven't. I'd love to go. Why? Because I'd love to do South America. I've been to Mexico, but I've never done kind of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Peru. You get the picture? None of South America other than Mexico. I'd love to go. So Vicky, if I can stay at yours, that would be a bonus. Stay at your hotels.

• 5:07Declan Donnelly?

  Makes it a bit cheaper.

• 5:07Ant McPartlin?

  Wouldn't it be nice that, wouldn't it? We could do a YouTube series.

• 5:11Declan Donnelly?

  Where we go and stay at listeners'.

• 5:12Ant McPartlin?

  Where we go and stay at listeners' houses.

• 5:13Declan Donnelly?

  And viewers' houses.

• 5:14Ant McPartlin?

  That would be good.

• 5:16Declan Donnelly?

  Can we bring the team? Vicky, let us know if we can bring the team with us.

• 5:19Ant McPartlin?

  She doesn't sound very Argentinian, Vicky.

• 5:21Declan Donnelly?

  I think a lot of our listeners are British that have moved overseas.

• 5:24Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, that doesn't count.

• 5:25Declan Donnelly?

  Does it not?

• 5:25Ant McPartlin?

  No, I don't think so. You've got to, well, you've got to really immerse yourself in the culture of the country. So if Vicky's immersed herself in the culture of the country, then we'll do it.

• 5:35Declan Donnelly?

  Okay. Shaun and Lorraine are listening in Bangkok.

• 5:38Ant McPartlin?

  There are a couple, aren't there, Shaun and Lorraine?

• 5:39Declan Donnelly?

  Do you think?

• 5:40Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I do.

• 5:41Declan Donnelly?

  Lorraine spells her name very differently. L A R A. L A U R A.

• 5:47Ant McPartlin?

  L A R what? How does she spell it?

• 5:48Declan Donnelly?

  So it's basically Laura in. Lorraine. No, I think it's Laura in Bangkok.

• 5:54Ant McPartlin?

  No, it's Laura in Bangkok.

• 5:56Declan Donnelly?

  Shaun and Laura in Bangkok.

• 6:01Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, I thought it was Lorraine. It's Shaun and Laura in Bangkok.

• 6:07Ant McPartlin?

  We've got a lot more content out of this map this week than we normally do.

• 6:12Declan Donnelly?

  You ever been?

• 6:14Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, you know I have.

• 6:14Declan Donnelly?

  Alison in Niagara, Canada. You ever been?

• 6:16Ant McPartlin?

  No, I haven't. We've established Canada last week.

• 6:20Declan Donnelly?

  Nadia is in Arkansas.

• 6:21Ant McPartlin?

  Arkansas.

• 6:23Declan Donnelly?

  Very differently. It says, it looks like Arkansas. Arkansas, USA. You ever been?

• 6:27Ant McPartlin?

  No.

• 6:28Declan Donnelly?

  How would you say hello in Arkansas?

• 6:29Ant McPartlin?

  Hey there. Hey now.

• 6:32Declan Donnelly?

  Toby's in Cyprus. Have you ever been?

• 6:34Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, I have been to Cyprus. Have you ever been?

• 6:36Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know, have I?

• 6:37Ant McPartlin?

  I don't know. I didn't go with you.

• 6:39Declan Donnelly?

  I'm not sure.

• 6:40Ant McPartlin?

  We don't do everything together.

• 6:41Declan Donnelly?

  What's in Cyprus? Rhodes? No.

• 6:43Ant McPartlin?

  What?

• 6:43Declan Donnelly?

  Where's Rhodes?

• 6:45Ant McPartlin?

  Rhodes is in Crete, isn't it?

• 6:47Declan Donnelly?

  Crete, I've been there.

• 6:48Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah? Ayenapa, ayenapa, uh, uh, ayenapa.

• 6:54Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know if I'm.

• 6:55Ant McPartlin?

  I get that back where you should go, it's really lots of fun. If you go, you can stay at.

• 7:00Declan Donnelly?

  Toby's house.

• 7:00Ant McPartlin?

  Toby's house. If you would let us stay at your houses, this is, this is genuine now. Let us know.

• 7:06Declan Donnelly?

  And also I insist on my own bathroom. I need an en suite.

• 7:11Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, you wouldn't share family bathrooms?

• 7:13Declan Donnelly?

  No, no, I need an en suite.

• 7:14Ant McPartlin?

  Right, okay. First thing you do is in the morning, you get up and you poo. So you don't want to disrupt that family dynamic, do you, babe?

• 7:22Declan Donnelly?

  Family dynamic?

• 7:22Ant McPartlin?

  Well, they might have a routine, you see. Dad goes first, then mum, then kids.

• 7:29Ant McPartlin?

  Just having to go on business of you, so you can't go, dad, Dex in there.

• 7:35Ant McPartlin?

  He's got visions of you really ruining the family dynamic that week. I thought it'd be fun asking Dex, for that, Dex to come and stay, but they just hogged the bathroom, this whole trip, and it stinks.

• 7:45Declan Donnelly?

  Don't start that rumor. I've heard that rumor going around.

• 7:48Ant McPartlin?

  It stinks because you've been eating garlic snails all night and we're in Crete, it's not even a local delicacy.

• 7:52Declan Donnelly?

  They weren't even in a restaurant, it was just off the floor. Matt is listening in the French.

• 7:56Ant McPartlin?

  We still go with this math thing.

• 7:59Declan Donnelly?

  Matt is listening in the French house.

• 8:00Ant McPartlin?

  Hello, Matt.

• 8:01Declan Donnelly?

  I don't think Matt lives in the French house. I think he's on holiday. He must be scared.

• 8:04Ant McPartlin?

  Right, I see.

• 8:05Declan Donnelly?

  Good, that's the end of it. Oh, great.

• 8:07Speaker 03

  One thing on it, can you spot the spelling mistake?

• 8:09Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 8:10Ant McPartlin?

  Greenland, Russia, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean. Ah. Atlantantic Ocean.

• 8:20Declan Donnelly?

  Atlantatic, Atlantatic.

• 8:22Speaker 03

  Is Sweden spelt Swedia as well?

• 8:25Ant McPartlin?

  What? Where?

• 8:26Declan Donnelly?

  Swedia?

• 8:26Ant McPartlin?

  Swedia, yeah.

• 8:28Declan Donnelly?

  What about that?

• 8:28Speaker 03

  Swedia and Swedia.

• 8:29Ant McPartlin?

  What's, what's?

• 8:30Declan Donnelly?

  What's Spalbard? Spalbard?

• 8:32Ant McPartlin?

  Spalbard.

• 8:33Declan Donnelly?

  What is that?

• 8:34Ant McPartlin?

  Anywho, there you go. There's the map. Thanks, guys.

• 8:37Declan Donnelly?

  Keep letting us know where you're listening from, especially if you live there. Let us know if you live there or if you're just visiting on your hollybobs.

• 8:44Ant McPartlin?

  And let us know if we can come and stay at your house.

• 8:45Declan Donnelly?

  And you've got a spare room and an en suite.

• 8:49Declan Donnelly?

  This podcast is brought to you by Gemini, Google's personal AI assistant. Are you enjoying doing the podcast?

• 8:56Ant McPartlin?

  I'm enjoying it. Yeah, yeah, I'm really liking it. Are you?

• 8:58Declan Donnelly?

  I'm really liking it. I thought, though, Google Gemini might be able to help us up our performance within the podcast a little bit.

• 9:05Ant McPartlin?

  Okay.

• 9:06Declan Donnelly?

  Hi Gemini, could you teach me how to do a convincing fake laugh for when my comedy partner tells a joke or a funny story?

• 9:16Speaker 04

  That's a useful skill. To make a fake laugh sound genuine, try varying the pitch and intensity. Also, adding a slight breath before and after the laugh can make it more natural.

• 9:29Declan Donnelly?

  Could I try one and you give me some feedback?

• 9:31Speaker 04

  Go for it. I'll let you know what I think.

• 9:39Speaker 04

  That had some good volume. To make it more convincing, try a slightly less consistent rhythm.

• 9:46Declan Donnelly?

  Got it. Thanks, Gemini.

• 9:48Speaker 04

  Happy to help with the comedy.

• 9:51Declan Donnelly?

  We need all the help we can get.

• 9:53Ant McPartlin?

  She's funny.

• 9:54Speaker 04

  Anytime. Keep practising.

• 9:56Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, keep practising your fake laugh, yeah, on the podcast with me.

• 10:01Ant McPartlin?

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• 10:15Declan Donnelly?

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• 10:20Ant McPartlin?

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• 10:28Declan Donnelly?

  How's your week been? Did you have any pancakes on Pancake Tuesday?

• 10:31Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, I did. Always do. Yes. I'm flipping great at it.

• 10:35Declan Donnelly?

  Are you?

• 10:35Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, I am.

• 10:36Declan Donnelly?

  Prove it.

• 10:39Ant McPartlin?

  What are you?

• 10:40Declan Donnelly?

  Toss.

• 10:41Ant McPartlin?

  So Deck has just given me a frying pan with, that's not a real pancake. That's not, that's not a show of Tuesday pancake.

• 10:47Declan Donnelly?

  No, it's one I bought.

• 10:48Ant McPartlin?

  That is like you'd have for breakfast pancakes.

• 10:50Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 10:50Ant McPartlin?

  I don't really flip these as well.

• 10:51Declan Donnelly?

  How many flips can you get? It's more than risk, I reckon.

• 10:56Ant McPartlin?

  That went out of shot.

• 10:57Declan Donnelly?

  Someone call Willie Nilly. Get Willie Nilly on the phone. Send him that footage.

• 11:01Ant McPartlin?

  If you're just listening to this, I've broke a new world record. We don't know what it is.

• 11:04Declan Donnelly?

  We think.

• 11:05Ant McPartlin?

  But we think we broke a record. Yeah, I've done pancakes. Let's answer your question. Did you?

• 11:09Declan Donnelly?

  What's your, what's your, uh, fill in the choice?

• 11:11Ant McPartlin?

  I like lemon and sugar for me. And the kids like chocolate.

• 11:16Declan Donnelly?

  I don't see the point in them.

• 11:18Ant McPartlin?

  What are you, what are you talking about? Once a year, it's a bit of fun.

• 11:21Declan Donnelly?

  Even when I was a kid, I was like, I like the throne then, but I was like, I'm not bothered about it.

• 11:24Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, it's like, oh yeah, all that sugar on them. Mmm, mmm, mmm.

• 11:27Declan Donnelly?

  Mmm, no.

• 11:28Ant McPartlin?

  I love sugar.

• 11:28Declan Donnelly?

  Never that bothered me.

• 11:30Ant McPartlin?

  I do, in all of its forms. I do. I really do.

• 11:33Declan Donnelly?

  Are you giving anything up for Lent?

• 11:35Ant McPartlin?

  No way.

• 11:36Declan Donnelly?

  You're not?

• 11:36Ant McPartlin?

  Certainly not sugar. Are you?

• 11:39Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 11:42Declan Donnelly?

  I always think about it every year.

• 11:44Ant McPartlin?

  You know, I should give up?

• 11:45Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 11:45Ant McPartlin?

  Garlic snails.

• 11:48Declan Donnelly?

  Done. No problem.

• 11:50Ant McPartlin?

  And normal snail, and garden snails. Give that up.

• 11:54Declan Donnelly?

  Really? No, I always think I should do something every year, but I never, I never get round to it. By the time it gets here, oh, it's Lent. I haven't decided to give anything up. I don't think it'll bother.

• 12:03Ant McPartlin?

  Right, okay. Shall we do something next year? It's, this year's gone.

• 12:06Declan Donnelly?

  This year's gone.

• 12:07Ant McPartlin?

  Next year, we can discuss it. Prior to the, uh, Lent coming up on the podcast.

• 12:13Declan Donnelly?

  Podcasting?

• 12:14Ant McPartlin?

  We can all give something up. Yeah, we can give up podcasting. That's a good idea. I'm not giving up bananas, Fiona. Screw you.

• 12:22Declan Donnelly?

  Oh yeah, if you give up bananas, I'll give up eggs.

• 12:23Ant McPartlin?

  I'm not gonna give up bananas. Why would I give up bananas? They don't have to harm anyone. Am I harming you, eating bananas?

• 12:30Declan Donnelly?

  No, but.

• 12:31Ant McPartlin?

  Am I harming you?

• 12:32Declan Donnelly?

  What, what harm are you doing to yourself? Look at your eyes, man. It's gonna sting your eyes.

• 12:39Ant McPartlin?

  My eyes are fine.

• 12:44Ant McPartlin?

  How's week been? It's like I've seen a lot of you. The whole point of this podcast.

• 12:49Declan Donnelly?

  Was to hang out.

• 12:50Ant McPartlin?

  Was to hang out because we don't hang out. I've hung out more than I've ever hung out here.

• 12:54Declan Donnelly?

  We've inadvertently spent lots of time together at the beginning of this year.

• 12:57Ant McPartlin?

  That's why we were a bit giddy this week. We're just feeling a bit giddy. I beat the butchers a lot.

• 13:00Declan Donnelly?

  Have you?

• 13:01Ant McPartlin?

  I said to him, have you seen, or have you listened to the podcast? He went, yes, and lots of my customers have.

• 13:08Ant McPartlin?

  He says, thank you very much for mentioning the ribeye private registration plate story. I said, I'm really sorry about that. He said, no, I find it funny, mate. I find it really funny. He said, I'll tell you what, it's funny. I was like, wow, here we go. I'm going to go out the back and he's going to show me like secret meat. Imagine that. Imagine going five minutes.

• 13:27Declan Donnelly?

  This is taking a turn.

• 13:28Ant McPartlin?

  He's going to show me some secret meat.

• 13:30Declan Donnelly?

  This is taking a turn.

• 13:31Ant McPartlin?

  He didn't. He took me out the front, onto the main street, along the street. And I'm like, where, where are we going? So anyway, we'll get to the famous car with the famous ribeye number plate. And he went, there it is. Yeah, I've seen it. Yeah, I've seen it.

• 13:47Declan Donnelly?

  I told the story on the podcast.

• 13:48Ant McPartlin?

  This is why, what? And he went, no, no, there it is. And he went there and he opened his boot. He went, and there's another one. I went, what?

• 13:57Declan Donnelly?

  Another private reg?

• 13:58Ant McPartlin?

  He's got three of them.

• 14:00Declan Donnelly?

  Meat based.

• 14:01Ant McPartlin?

  They all say ribeye. He's got three, but the last letter's different in everyone. So one's an E, one's an F, and one's a B, which. So technically they don't all say ribeye, but, but nearest, damn it.

• 14:15Ant McPartlin?

  He's got three of them.

• 14:16Speaker 05

  Why?

• 14:17Speaker 03

  Three different cars?

• 14:18Ant McPartlin?

  No, he's got one on the car and two in the boot.

• 14:22Ant McPartlin?

  I don't know why. I don't know why.

• 14:24Declan Donnelly?

  Sounds like he's going to rob a bank.

• 14:27Ant McPartlin?

  Anyway, he tried to sell me one and then I was like, I'm not interested. I'm not interested in.

• 14:34Declan Donnelly?

  Meat based private registrations.

• 14:36Ant McPartlin?

  But then after me kind of saying, no, I'm not interested, I'm not interested, he said, I can give you the third one. Because I don't think I'm going to use that one. I'll give you the third one for free. Shall I bring it in?

• 14:46Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 14:46Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 14:47Ant McPartlin?

  And we can put it on the set?

• 14:47Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 14:48Ant McPartlin?

  What if it's the one with a B on the end? Because that doesn't really.

• 14:50Declan Donnelly?

  It's all right.

• 14:51Ant McPartlin?

  It's all right?

• 14:51Declan Donnelly?

  It's a story attached to it.

• 14:52Ant McPartlin?

  Okay, I'll pop down there next week and I'll get it.

• 14:54Speaker 05

  We've had some people have sent in some more meat based registrations.

• 14:58Declan Donnelly?

  Private registrations.

• 14:59Ant McPartlin?

  Have they?

• 15:00Speaker 05

  Yeah, would you like to see?

• 15:00Ant McPartlin?

  I'd love to see some meat based private reg.

• 15:03Speaker 05

  Turn around.

• 15:03Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, sausage! Sausage.

• 15:06Declan Donnelly?

  Sausage, sausage, sausage.

• 15:07Ant McPartlin?

  So, uh, if you're just listening, the first one is on a van. Oh, it's the hot sausage company van. And the reg is.

• 15:15Declan Donnelly?

  S A sixty five, A G E.

• 15:17Ant McPartlin?

  The second one is J S.

• 15:19Declan Donnelly?

  Zero five.

• 15:20Ant McPartlin?

  A G E. The first two are vans and they are sausage vans. Sausage vans, yeah, that sell sausages.

• 15:28Declan Donnelly?

  The first one is the hot sausage company.

• 15:29Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 15:30Declan Donnelly?

  Second one is Churchgate sausage shop.

• 15:32Ant McPartlin?

  And my butcher has the ribeye registration because he's a butcher. Why on earth does that person who just owns a Range Rover have the number plate sausage?

• 15:42Declan Donnelly?

  S O fifty five, A G E.

• 15:45Ant McPartlin?

  Sausage.

• 15:48Ant McPartlin?

  Sausage. Here comes sausage.

• 15:53Ant McPartlin?

  Here comes sausage in the drive again, revving his engine.

• 15:57Declan Donnelly?

  Goodness me, there we go. There's the sausage regi- registration plates.

• 16:02Ant McPartlin?

  Thanks for sending the pictures of your sausages.

• 16:06Declan Donnelly?

  Your private sausage.

• 16:09Ant McPartlin?

  Keep them coming in. We like this. This is, this is very, very good.

• 16:13Declan Donnelly?

  Thank you.

• 16:13Ant McPartlin?

  Sausage meat based bant. Oh, I meant to say happy new year.

• 16:18Declan Donnelly?

  Well, I thought we weren't doing that anymore.

• 16:19Ant McPartlin?

  Happy Chinese new year.

• 16:20Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, Chinese new year.

• 16:22Ant McPartlin?

  Year of the horse.

• 16:22Declan Donnelly?

  Was that this week?

• 16:23Ant McPartlin?

  It was this week.

• 16:24Declan Donnelly?

  It was this week.

• 16:24Ant McPartlin?

  Same day as pancake day.

• 16:25Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, could I have Chinese pancakes?

• 16:26Ant McPartlin?

  Where's the?

• 16:27Declan Donnelly?

  Now I'm interested.

• 16:28Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, see, the pancakes, I love them. You love a Chinese, don't you?

• 16:31Declan Donnelly?

  I love a Chinese.

• 16:33Ant McPartlin?

  It's your favourite takeaway?

• 16:34Declan Donnelly?

  Absolutely.

• 16:35Ant McPartlin?

  It's your fav- favourite place to go?

• 16:37Declan Donnelly?

  Yep.

• 16:37Ant McPartlin?

  Get a sit down meal as well?

• 16:38Declan Donnelly?

  Love a Chinese.

• 16:39Ant McPartlin?

  What do you love about it so much?

• 16:41Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 16:42Ant McPartlin?

  Lucky's eyes were all dreamy then. Like he was like looking at the heaven like, oh. We should put music on that deck space just then.

• 16:52Declan Donnelly?

  Tell you what I like. Uh, all the dishes come and you can have a little bit of that bit.

• 16:56Ant McPartlin?

  You can reach and get the bits like.

• 16:59Declan Donnelly?

  You can have some noodles, you can have some egg fried rice, you can have a little bit of. Chili beef, you're gonna have a little bit of chicken and black bean over there.

• 17:05Ant McPartlin?

  You like your starters well, don't you?

• 17:07Declan Donnelly?

  I love the starters.

• 17:08Ant McPartlin?

  Mixed hors d'oeuvres.

• 17:09Declan Donnelly?

  Mixed hors d'oeuvres to start. A few prawn crackers, prawn crackers. A few prawn crackers. I love the event. I love the.

• 17:17Ant McPartlin?

  Ritual of the whole thing.

• 17:18Declan Donnelly?

  Ritual, that's a good word. I love the ritual. I love the process of having a Chinese meal. Tell everybody how I eat my Chinese.

• 17:24Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 17:25Declan Donnelly?

  So when I'm in the restaurant, I'll eat it. You know, you get your prawn crackers, then you get your starters, then you get your main courses. So I love the ritual so much when I get a Chinese takeaway.

• 17:35Ant McPartlin?

  That's what he does at home?

• 17:36Declan Donnelly?

  I do it at home.

• 17:37Speaker 05

  What do you mean?

• 17:38Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, I'll tell you what I mean.

• 17:39Speaker 05

  Lazy Susan.

• 17:41Ant McPartlin?

  He does have a lazy Susan at his house.

• 17:43Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I do.

• 17:43Ant McPartlin?

  So he orders his Chinese and you're like, he said, he used to text me going, do you wanna come around, man? We'll get a Chinese and we'll watch a movie. I was like, yeah, great. You go around there. He orders his starter, then his middle course, which is duck. So he has like mixed starters, his spring rolls and his prawn toast.

• 17:58Declan Donnelly?

  Get that first, you put everything else in the warm and draw.

• 18:01Ant McPartlin?

  Anybody else would get a plate, put on their noodles, put on their main course, whack a little satay and a spring roll on the side. Then you sit down, you watch the movie. Not him.

• 18:10Declan Donnelly?

  It's sophisticated, how I do it.

• 18:12Ant McPartlin?

  It's not sophisticated, it's infuriating is how you eat your Chinese. Nobody wants that. You're gonna keep posing the bloody telly. We never watch any movies. Hold on a second, I'm just gonna go and get me duck. Pause the movie. Hold on a second, pause the movie. I'm just gonna go get some chow mein. Pause the movie. I'm not coming around to watch a movie anymore.

• 18:29Declan Donnelly?

  It's the more refined way to have your Chinese food, to have it in courses, your animal, just eating it all at the same time.

• 18:35Ant McPartlin?

  Right. I'd love to know how you eat your Chinese. I reckon ninety nine percent of people.

• 18:40Declan Donnelly?

  I disagree.

• 18:41Ant McPartlin?

  Will eat it like me. Pile it all on one big plate.

• 18:43Declan Donnelly?

  Let us know in the comments how you have your Chinese, if you go for the sophisticated angle like me and eat them as they should be eaten.

• 18:51Ant McPartlin?

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 18:52Declan Donnelly?

  Or whether you're a savage like Anne. Let us know in the comments. I bet you I'll win.

• 18:55Ant McPartlin?

  I bet you don't.

• 18:56Declan Donnelly?

  I bet you I do.

• 18:57Ant McPartlin?

  You just pile it all on there. Play.

• 19:01Ant McPartlin?

  So once again, it's time for Dex Diary.

• 19:03Declan Donnelly?

  It's the time already.

• 19:03Ant McPartlin?

  Just before we do your diary. Ooh, good shots. So I've got a letter here.

• 19:07Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 19:07Ant McPartlin?

  But before I read this.

• 19:08Declan Donnelly?

  Uh huh.

• 19:09Ant McPartlin?

  Do you wanna hear your jingle?

• 19:10Declan Donnelly?

  Yes, please.

• 19:10Ant McPartlin?

  Here it is.

• 19:11Declan Donnelly?

  New jingle for this week.

• 19:15Declan Donnelly?

  Respect guys.

• 19:17Ant McPartlin?

  Talk blogs, respects guys. Oh my god.

• 19:21Declan Donnelly?

  I like the dooby dooby dooby.

• 19:22Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I hope the letter explains more. Dear Anne Deck, and the T-shirt that you made and wore to make fun of lovely Declan says, "Respect guys." You missed out the comma.

• 19:32Declan Donnelly?

  Shut up, Kieran.

• 19:35Ant McPartlin?

  Your shirt basically says, "We should respect guys."

• 19:38Declan Donnelly?

  Well, yeah.

• 19:40Ant McPartlin?

  Which, although a nice sentiment, probably wasn't your intention. Jesus. Lots of love to you both, and to Declan especially, who I know would never make that punctuation mistake. Punctuation mistake. And, in capitals, was too polite to point out "ands." All the best, Kieran, lifetime fan. Do you know what, Kieran? It's people like you that stop people like us doing our best work. Because we don't need you pointing out little comma mistakes like that. Who are you, the comma police?

• 20:13Declan Donnelly?

  We did put the comma on the respect guys' lap over there. So we did remember it over there.

• 20:18Ant McPartlin?

  I don't know if you did. I think it has been added.

• 20:21Declan Donnelly?

  Has it?

• 20:21Ant McPartlin?

  Hold on. I reckon it is. I can reckon I can peel that. Well, I'm gonna peel it off. Do you know what?

• 20:26Declan Donnelly?

  Just to get on Kieran's nerves.

• 20:28Ant McPartlin?

  Just to get on your nerves, because who spends time writing a letter to a podcast pointing out that they've missed a comma? Do you know what? That wasn't on there. And now I've ruined the life. Because I've tried to pull it off and it's stuck to it.

• 20:43Declan Donnelly?

  It's all your fault, Kieran.

• 20:43Ant McPartlin?

  It's all your fault, Kieran.

• 20:50Declan Donnelly?

  Grab your crystal.

• 20:51Ant McPartlin?

  I'm just gonna hold the crystal for the rest of this podcast because you wound me up.

• 20:54Declan Donnelly?

  Shall I get the diary?

• 20:55Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, well, I don't know if I'm in the mood now.

• 20:57Declan Donnelly?

  Let's try and move this along.

• 20:58Ant McPartlin?

  Come on.

• 20:58Declan Donnelly?

  This is April Fool's Day, 1994.

• 21:02Ant McPartlin?

  Oh yeah, of course it is, yeah.

• 21:03Declan Donnelly?

  April the 1st. Day five of Life on the Road. Up at after 12.

• 21:10Ant McPartlin?

  Good English? Kieran, do you wanna write the, Kieran, do you wanna write the tag about his diary written in 1994?

• 21:16Declan Donnelly?

  Had a cuppa, shocked on some clothes, I went to Pizza Hut.

• 21:20Ant McPartlin?

  Oh yeah, I used to love going to Pizza Hut.

• 21:22Declan Donnelly?

  With Ant and Annie from our management for lunch. Didn't eat a meaty pizza.

• 21:27Ant McPartlin?

  That's unlike you.

• 21:28Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 21:29Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, why?

• 21:31Declan Donnelly?

  Why? Didn't eat a meaty pizza because it was Good Friday.

• 21:35Ant McPartlin?

  That's why, I was gonna say Good Friday.

• 21:37Declan Donnelly?

  Good Friday. Picked up Darren, our relief tour manager.

• 21:41Ant McPartlin?

  Hmm, who's Darren?

• 21:42Declan Donnelly?

  Our regular tour manager goes off to tour with?

• 21:45Ant McPartlin?

  New Kids on the Block?

• 21:47Declan Donnelly?

  Let Loose.

• 21:48Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, Let Loose, of course, yeah, our manager, also managed Let Loose.

• 21:52Declan Donnelly?

  Eventually left after much showering and ironing.

• 21:55Ant McPartlin?

  Why? Why much showering?

• 21:57Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know.

• 21:57Ant McPartlin?

  Dirty teenager, don't you? Just like on the poster, you dirty socks. He's a dirty teenager.

• 22:04Declan Donnelly?

  Eventually left after much showering and ironing for Southend on Sea.

• 22:07Ant McPartlin?

  Oh wow, well you need a lot of fresh shirts for Southend on Sea.

• 22:10Declan Donnelly?

  And we were there, so I would have had a hairdryer at our manager's house.

• 22:14Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, right, because she had a hairdryer.

• 22:15Declan Donnelly?

  She had a hairdryer.

• 22:15Ant McPartlin?

  She did.

• 22:16Declan Donnelly?

  So, that's why I'm quite chipper to do. Arrived on time, just after 7pm. However, the club hadn't even opened and we found out-

• 22:25Ant McPartlin?

  Why are we getting to these places so bloody early? Even with a relief tour manager?

• 22:30Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 22:31Ant McPartlin?

  We're still getting there early.

• 22:32Declan Donnelly?

  The club hadn't even opened and we found out we wouldn't be going on stage until after 10.30pm.

• 22:37Ant McPartlin?

  Well, weren't we getting there before 7 o'clock?

• 22:39Declan Donnelly?

  I've no idea. Oh, good, I've written. We were in this pokey little room with Hope.

• 22:47Ant McPartlin?

  Hope that it would go well?

• 22:48Declan Donnelly?

  No, Hope were a pop band.

• 22:50Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 22:52Declan Donnelly?

  Who were also-

• 22:53Ant McPartlin?

  I thought you meant like, but all we had was Hope.

• 22:56Declan Donnelly?

  Hope, Hope were a pop band.

• 22:58Ant McPartlin?

  Hope and two songs, that's what we had.

• 22:59Declan Donnelly?

  And Ant was dying for a wee. So when they went on stage.

• 23:05Ant McPartlin?

  Oh god, what did I do?

• 23:06Declan Donnelly?

  And started peeing in pint glasses.

• 23:09Ant McPartlin?

  Oh my god.

• 23:10Declan Donnelly?

  And left them behind the sofa.

• 23:12Ant McPartlin?

  Did I?

• 23:13Declan Donnelly?

  Me and Darren, the tour manager, eventually. Eventually.

• 23:18Ant McPartlin?

  The disgust on Fiona and Lola's faces is, well, it's a lot.

• 23:23Speaker 02

  That is disgusting.

• 23:25Declan Donnelly?

  It is disgusting.

• 23:25Ant McPartlin?

  There was no toilet. What do you expect me to do? Got them be mauled by crepe pants? I don't think so.

• 23:31Declan Donnelly?

  Me and Darren, our relief tour manager, eventually made him empty it down the sink.

• 23:35Ant McPartlin?

  Made him.

• 23:36Declan Donnelly?

  And he left the unwashed.

• 23:37Ant McPartlin?

  Made him.

• 23:38Declan Donnelly?

  Do it, do it.

• 23:39Ant McPartlin?

  Why didn't I just do it in the sink then?

• 23:41Declan Donnelly?

  I've no idea. And he left the unwashed glasses in the sink. When Hope came off stage.

• 23:47Ant McPartlin?

  When Hope came off stage, what? Don't, no, don't.

• 23:50Declan Donnelly?

  When Hope came off stage.

• 23:52Ant McPartlin?

  Don't.

• 23:52Declan Donnelly?

  All sweaty and thirsty.

• 23:55Ant McPartlin?

  They didn't. They did not.

• 23:57Declan Donnelly?

  Loads of girls were shouting at the door. Richard from Hope picked up one of the glasses.

• 24:03Declan Donnelly?

  And said, "I'm gonna chuck the glass of water over them."

• 24:07Ant McPartlin?

  Over the girls?

• 24:09Ant McPartlin?

  And he did.

• 24:10Declan Donnelly?

  We stopped him from doing it.

• 24:11Ant McPartlin?

  We did.

• 24:12Declan Donnelly?

  We did.

• 24:12Ant McPartlin?

  See?

• 24:13Declan Donnelly?

  The crowd was very small, only about 200, and weren't very loud either.

• 24:18Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, well.

• 24:18Declan Donnelly?

  Not as bad as yet on day one.

• 24:20Ant McPartlin?

  Oh yeah.

• 24:21Declan Donnelly?

  But a bit of a left down after the last two, in comparison, superb gigs.

• 24:29Declan Donnelly?

  And that is the first of April 1994.

• 24:31Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, April fools, I didn't really pee in a pint glass.

• 24:34Declan Donnelly?

  He did. No, he absolutely did.

• 24:36Ant McPartlin?

  It was just, it was just on April the 1st. I just thought I'd try and, that was my get out. That was my get out. It was a good try. Right? Good try. Oh my god. Well, that's what happens on those days. Sometimes you're left with a toilet. Life on the road, eh? Life on the road.

• 24:51Declan Donnelly?

  Next week, we're off to Portsmouth again for a Now Roadshow.

• 24:55Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 24:56Declan Donnelly?

  Join us for that next week.

• 24:57Ant McPartlin?

  I will.

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• 26:00Declan Donnelly?

  Big, nice Saturday. The start of the new series of Britain's Got Talent.

• 26:04Ant McPartlin?

  We've seen it, haven't we? We've seen the first episode.

• 26:06Declan Donnelly?

  We have, we did the press launch this week.

• 26:08Ant McPartlin?

  Eight bananas.

• 26:10Ant McPartlin?

  I'm reviewing our own show.

• 26:11Declan Donnelly?

  Eight bananas.

• 26:12Ant McPartlin?

  No, it's very good. It's a very good first episode. Yeah, really good.

• 26:15Declan Donnelly?

  And a great series. KSI is now the permanent fourth judge.

• 26:19Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, he is.

• 26:20Declan Donnelly?

  He stood in for Bruno last series and he's taken the job permanently now. He's great, a great addition to the judging panel. We had him on here the other day, like we said. He is a bit more brutal than I thought he was ever going to be.

• 26:31Ant McPartlin?

  He's more brutal this season than he was first time around when he was just like standing in for Bruno because I think now he's got the job, he thinks he can just be more him.

• 26:39Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 26:40Ant McPartlin?

  Giving good constructive criticism and good constructive feedback is important.

• 26:44Declan Donnelly?

  Hmm.

• 26:45Ant McPartlin?

  It is. You should be realistic in what you can achieve.

• 26:48Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 26:49Ant McPartlin?

  Given what you've got. Like, I could never be an opera singer.

• 26:52Declan Donnelly?

  I don't know.

• 26:53Ant McPartlin?

  No, but I couldn't. Like, I don't have the lung capacity to be a really good opera singer.

• 27:01Declan Donnelly?

  Or the interest.

• 27:02Ant McPartlin?

  Or the interest. Or the talent, or the... Yeah, there's probably a lot more.

• 27:07Declan Donnelly?

  Or the inclination.

• 27:09Ant McPartlin?

  But you know what I mean? Now, if you said it to me, press the red buzzer, because I don't think you should be an opera singer. But if you want to go away and be a rapper, then fine.

• 27:18Declan Donnelly?

  Then that's more suited to your abilities.

• 27:19Ant McPartlin?

  And the world knows I was better as a rapper.

• 27:21Declan Donnelly?

  Yes, the world does know that.

• 27:23Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Can we talk about you getting the giggles on B G T?

• 27:26Declan Donnelly?

  I get the giggles a lot on B G T.

• 27:27Ant McPartlin?

  It happens a lot, especially in.

• 27:29Declan Donnelly?

  I get the giggles a lot in life.

• 27:31Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, you do.

• 27:31Declan Donnelly?

  But especially on B G T.

• 27:33Ant McPartlin?

  So there's a famous clip that has been replayed quite a lot, where you get the giggles, where the guy.

• 27:38Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, the accordion band?

• 27:40Ant McPartlin?

  Do you want to explain a little bit of backstory about that?

• 27:42Declan Donnelly?

  We were doing auditions in Scotland and we were doing this bit, which was their intro and it was an accordion band, I think it was, wasn't it? So anyway, the band had walked past us and then the guy who runs the band gets off the bus last. And he trips down the stairs and you're supposed to see what's going on here and he goes, it's the Jimmy something accordion band. And then he fell down the stairs.

• 28:03Ant McPartlin?

  That was it.

• 28:03Declan Donnelly?

  That was it.

• 28:04Ant McPartlin?

  That was it. We done take after take after take and you couldn't get it right. You couldn't get the link, whatever they, whatever we're meant to say to him.

• 28:12Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 28:13Ant McPartlin?

  Take, I got into the teens of takes.

• 28:16Declan Donnelly?

  And I didn't even have to say anything. I just understood it.

• 28:19Ant McPartlin?

  It was me. This, this, normally what happens, it's normally my line that he laughs all over. And then when it's him, you laugh anyway. Oh my God, it was so funny.

• 28:29Ant McPartlin?

  Postbag, letters.

• 28:30Declan Donnelly?

  Are you ready for some letters? Shall I get the postbag out and see what we've got this week?

• 28:34Ant McPartlin?

  Correspondence.

• 28:35Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, it's a big.

• 28:36Ant McPartlin?

  It's a big old bag.

• 28:38Declan Donnelly?

  Good one.

• 28:38Ant McPartlin?

  This week, right.

• 28:39Declan Donnelly?

  I've got a letter here. Oh, from Mia in beautiful Australia.

• 28:44Ant McPartlin?

  Hmm. Yeah, it is.

• 28:46Declan Donnelly?

  That's what she says. Hello, Aunt and Dec from beautiful Australia.

• 28:49Ant McPartlin?

  Hello.

• 28:49Declan Donnelly?

  When you guys reminisce about old songs you sang, there's something I always wonder. Were you self-taught dance or did someone taught you to dance? Teach you to dance, I guess that is. Mia. P S. I think you're really great at dancing.

• 29:02Ant McPartlin?

  Mia, I'm going to send this letter to Kiran because there's a, there's a couple of.

• 29:08Declan Donnelly?

  Claring.

• 29:09Ant McPartlin?

  Claring tense issues here.

• 29:10Declan Donnelly?

  Grammatical.

• 29:11Ant McPartlin?

  Grammatical errors that Kieran can put you right on. Were we self taught?

• 29:16Declan Donnelly?

  No, we had a choreographer.

• 29:17Ant McPartlin?

  No, we had a choreographer. I used to hate it. I used to hate, hate, hate dance choreography. Cause I was just, I just couldn't get it. I was, and I found that it was really difficult. They'd always move on too fast, too quickly from one part to the next part, thinking you've got it like we're trained dancers. And then we weren't trained at all. You did a bit of Irish dancing as a kid, didn't you?

• 29:41Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, I did Irish dancing as a kid. So I'd been through that choreography kind of background, but still hard.

• 29:46Speaker 05

  Can you remember any?

• 29:48Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 29:48Speaker 05

  Can we see?

• 29:49Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 29:51Declan Donnelly?

  I'll see if I've got any old videos of me doing it.

• 29:52Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, somebody out there will have a video of Dec Irish dancing. They will. And if they have, send it in.

• 29:58Declan Donnelly?

  Have we got any more or is that it?

• 30:00Ant McPartlin?

  One more.

• 30:00Declan Donnelly?

  One from Claire. Hi, Anne and Dec.

• 30:02Ant McPartlin?

  Hi, Claire.

• 30:04Declan Donnelly?

  When I was about 10 years old, watching Biker Grove, there was a magazine called Grove Gossip.

• 30:09Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, there was.

• 30:09Declan Donnelly?

  That was announced at the end of every episode. It said it go to Cfax teletext to order a copy.

• 30:14Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 30:14Declan Donnelly?

  Remember that? I excitedly found the remote control, went on to teletext and waited patiently until Biker Grove came up, quickly writing down the details with my pen and paper. It said, send an S A E stamped address envelope to the following address. I'd never heard of that before, but I read that as send an essay, thinking I had to write an essay for how much I liked Biker Grove in order to get the magazine.

• 30:34Ant McPartlin?

  Oh.

• 30:34Declan Donnelly?

  So I went to my bedroom, wrote my essay, posted it to the address and never heard anything back and wondered why my copy of Grove Gossip never turned up. A short while later, I spoke to my dad. He said an S A E means a stamped address envelope and had to explain what it meant. I often wondered who opened the envelope and read my essay. They were probably very confused. Much love to you both and respect, guys.

• 30:55Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Oh.

• 30:57Declan Donnelly?

  That's cute.

• 30:58Ant McPartlin?

  I wouldn't have got that though as a kid.

• 31:00Declan Donnelly?

  S A E.

• 31:01Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 31:01Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 31:02Ant McPartlin?

  But they used to, you used to see it, didn't you? Whenever you watched like Live and Kicking or Go Live or whatever.

• 31:07Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 31:07Ant McPartlin?

  But they'd always say it over the top. So you understood it.

• 31:10Declan Donnelly?

  Even when they say send a stamped addressed envelope, I was like, what does that mean?

• 31:13Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. What does it mean?

• 31:14Declan Donnelly?

  So it means, yeah, an envelope addressed to yourself with a stamp on it, ready to plop it in and send it back to you. But yeah, we're, we're 10.

• 31:23Declan Donnelly?

  How do you not to do that?

• 31:24Ant McPartlin?

  We, even now, we had it, like, yesterday, our manager sent us both a long message about,

• 31:31Declan Donnelly?

  A long message?

• 31:33Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, she did. It was really long. Anyway, she's gone.

• 31:36Declan Donnelly?

  Better than one of her voice notes.

• 31:37Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, God, they go on. They do go on. She's walking, "Hey, it's just me, walking the dog. I'm still late for first job."

• 31:43Declan Donnelly?

  I'm gonna leave my voice note, cousin. I'm gonna leave my voice note, cousin. It's quicker. It's much quicker to leave a voice note. It's not for me, it isn't.

• 31:51Ant McPartlin?

  Anyway, she sent this long message and in it, throughout this message, she just kept going, "And a couple of questions on BB and BB and BB." I'm like, "What on earth are you talking about?" And I thought...

• 32:04Declan Donnelly?

  Do you know what it is, BB?

• 32:05Ant McPartlin?

  I should know. Bella Box? Yeah, it's bloody Bella Box. Well, it's Bella Box.

• 32:10Declan Donnelly?

  Neither of us had a clue.

• 32:11Ant McPartlin?

  Neither of us had a clue.

• 32:12Declan Donnelly?

  What was?

• 32:12Ant McPartlin?

  Just call it Bella Box. Huh?

• 32:15Declan Donnelly?

  BB, hey, BB.

• 32:16Ant McPartlin?

  BB, that's what I was reading, like, BB, BB, BB. BB, what does she mean, BB?

• 32:20Declan Donnelly?

  We could include BB in this.

• 32:24Declan Donnelly?

  There you go, BB.

• 32:25Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, BB, Bella Box.

• 32:26Declan Donnelly?

  Thanks for all your letters. Keep them coming in. Hanging out at beltabox.com.

• 32:32Ant McPartlin?

  This podcast is not only sponsored by Santander, the next bit of the show is inspired by them because Santander are all about helping people take step forwards, which isn't always easy. That's exactly what we're about to do in the new segment we're calling, um, um, Agony and Andere.

• 32:48Declan Donnelly?

  Right, so we've had members of our team sending us dilemmas, situations that they're having problems with, and they would like your advice.

• 32:57Ant McPartlin?

  And I'm obviously very good at giving advice.

• 32:59Declan Donnelly?

  Are you?

• 32:59Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 33:00Declan Donnelly?

  Are you?

• 33:01Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, I am.

• 33:01Declan Donnelly?

  What is your track record of this?

• 33:03Ant McPartlin?

  Hundred percent.

• 33:04Declan Donnelly?

  Example, please. And an example.

• 33:07Ant McPartlin?

  I can't give you examples. Let's just get the net out.

• 33:10Declan Donnelly?

  Do many people come to you for advice?

• 33:12Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, all the time.

• 33:14Declan Donnelly?

  Okay.

• 33:14Ant McPartlin?

  Face your fears and do it anyway.

• 33:16Declan Donnelly?

  Is that, is that?

• 33:17Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah. Do it scared.

• 33:18Declan Donnelly?

  Next. Yeah, what is it? Yeah, face your fears, do it anyway.

• 33:21Ant McPartlin?

  Next.

• 33:22Declan Donnelly?

  Okay.

• 33:22Ant McPartlin?

  Do it scared. Next.

• 33:24Declan Donnelly?

  Okay, this is from one of our team.

• 33:25Ant McPartlin?

  Right, okay.

• 33:26Declan Donnelly?

  Dear Agony and Tanday.

• 33:27Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 33:28Declan Donnelly?

  I'm getting married this summer.

• 33:29Ant McPartlin?

  Good for you.

• 33:30Declan Donnelly?

  And I'm really, really excited.

• 33:31Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, good, so you should.

• 33:33Declan Donnelly?

  There are still so many things to work out and I'm starting to get decision fatigue.

• 33:37Ant McPartlin?

  Ah, okay.

• 33:38Declan Donnelly?

  Do you know what that is?

• 33:39Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, I do.

• 33:40Declan Donnelly?

  So she's making a lot of decisions.

• 33:41Ant McPartlin?

  And she's tired from it.

• 33:42Declan Donnelly?

  And she's tired from it.

• 33:43Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, yeah, I said, I got it.

• 33:44Declan Donnelly?

  The flowers.

• 33:46Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 33:46Declan Donnelly?

  The hymns.

• 33:47Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 33:47Declan Donnelly?

  The transport.

• 33:48Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 33:49Declan Donnelly?

  Dieteries.

• 33:50Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, that's a pain, isn't it?

• 33:51Declan Donnelly?

  Always, there's always a vegetarian.

• 33:53Ant McPartlin?

  Vegetarians I'm caught with, because at least that's a, you know, a vegetarian meal and then a carnivorous meal. But then it's the, it's the gluten freeze and the all the rest of it.

• 34:02Declan Donnelly?

  The allergies.

• 34:02Ant McPartlin?

  That's tough.

• 34:03Declan Donnelly?

  I'm finding it a lot at the moment.

• 34:05Ant McPartlin?

  No, I can imagine you are.

• 34:06Declan Donnelly?

  Have you got any encouraging words of advice for balancing everything and not getting overwhelmed? What steps can I take to make this process feel easier?

• 34:15Ant McPartlin?

  Don't do it all at once. Just take your time.

• 34:18Declan Donnelly?

  Well, she, this is the problem is that she's had a lot of time.

• 34:21Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 34:21Declan Donnelly?

  She's left everything to the last.

• 34:22Ant McPartlin?

  Everything to the last minute.

• 34:23Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 34:23Ant McPartlin?

  Well, even then, you can't just, you can't spend the night making all these decisions because you'll just end up saying no to everything. That's what I do if I leave it too late.

• 34:32Declan Donnelly?

  I think, what about if you were to give each subject a day? So like, there's no point in doing the flowers and the transport on the same day.

• 34:41Ant McPartlin?

  No.

• 34:42Declan Donnelly?

  You've got to split them all off.

• 34:43Ant McPartlin?

  That's what I mean.

• 34:44Declan Donnelly?

  And then have another day just where you're just listening along and picking some hymns.

• 34:47Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, exactly. Take your time. Take your time. Even if you've only got, I don't know, a couple of months left, then just do a day, have a couple of days off, then do a day. Have a couple of days off, then do another day.

• 34:58Declan Donnelly?

  What words of advice would you give to her husband to be if she's possibly turning into a bit of a bridezilla?

• 35:04Ant McPartlin?

  Um, I would say bear with it.

• 35:06Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 35:07Ant McPartlin?

  Bear with it. Don't say. Calm down, love.

• 35:11Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah.

• 35:12Ant McPartlin?

  That's the bad news. Don't, don't ever say that.

• 35:14Declan Donnelly?

  Just stick on the old tin hat?

• 35:15Ant McPartlin?

  Don't rage bait her.

• 35:17Declan Donnelly?

  That's it.

• 35:18Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, yes, we've just, we've learned that phrase recently off KSI. We like to use it. Don't rage bait your wife to be.

• 35:24Declan Donnelly?

  And just tin hat on.

• 35:25Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 35:26Declan Donnelly?

  Yes, dear.

• 35:27Ant McPartlin?

  One of the best bits of advice is most people, in fact, all of the people who you've invited to your wedding, want to come there on the day to celebrate you two.

• 35:35Declan Donnelly?

  That's a very good point.

• 35:36Ant McPartlin?

  They don't care about your flowers and they don't care about the meal. They don't care about any of that. They just want to be there because they want to see you two get married because that you're that much in love with one another. So always remember that. Nothing's that important.

• 35:48Declan Donnelly?

  Apart from the hymns. Make sure you pick good hymns.

• 35:51Ant McPartlin?

  Like?

• 35:51Declan Donnelly?

  I like a good sing.

• 35:52Ant McPartlin?

  Like. All things bright and beautiful. Yeah, that's a good one.

• 35:57Declan Donnelly?

  That's a good one. Guide me, oh, thou great redeemer.

• 36:05Declan Donnelly?

  That one. Bread of heaven.

• 36:08Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 36:08Declan Donnelly?

  Bread of heaven. Feed me till I want no more.

• 36:12Ant McPartlin?

  I want no more. Oh, go to people who you know, know about these things. So when it comes to things like hymns, ask Dec.

• 36:20Declan Donnelly?

  Ask Anta and Dec.

• 36:22Ant McPartlin?

  Anta and Dec.

• 36:23Declan Donnelly?

  Got another one here.

• 36:24Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, more for me?

• 36:25Declan Donnelly?

  Dear agony Anta and Dec.

• 36:26Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 36:27Declan Donnelly?

  I recently moved out of London to a new area with my family where we don't know anyone.

• 36:32Ant McPartlin?

  Same here.

• 36:33Declan Donnelly?

  I'm really keen to make some new friends and a network in our new town and I've seen there's an astronomy club.

• 36:40Ant McPartlin?

  Tell me more.

• 36:42Declan Donnelly?

  My wife bought me a telescope for Christmas. Handy. I've emailed the group, but I'm really nervous to go. I'm worried it's perhaps a bit nerdy. And making new friends as an adult is scary too. Any advice coming from a nerdy kind of girl?

• 36:58Ant McPartlin?

  Uh, what's he called? Do we know?

• 37:00Declan Donnelly?

  I do know. Do you want to know?

• 37:02Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 37:04Declan Donnelly?

  Dan.

• 37:04Ant McPartlin?

  Dan, don't care what other people think of you.

• 37:07Declan Donnelly?

  I like that.

• 37:08Ant McPartlin?

  Don't care.

• 37:09Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 37:09Ant McPartlin?

  Who cares? Who cares that people think you're a nerd? So what? Some of the coolest people in the world are nerds. It's true.

• 37:15Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 37:16Ant McPartlin?

  Nerds make the world go round.

• 37:17Declan Donnelly?

  Oh, yes.

• 37:18Ant McPartlin?

  Nerds invent things. Nerds were the first ones ever to go on voyages, to discover new lands, to come up with, nerds come up with medicines that keep you well, don't they?

• 37:29Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 37:30Ant McPartlin?

  Nerds are responsible for everything good in this world.

• 37:33Declan Donnelly?

  Nerds?

• 37:33Ant McPartlin?

  More nerds, please.

• 37:35Declan Donnelly?

  Nerds read the Guinness Book of Records. There's nothing wrong with that.

• 37:37Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that's right. You're a nerd.

• 37:39Declan Donnelly?

  What?

• 37:39Ant McPartlin?

  What? There's nothing wrong with being a nerd.

• 37:41Declan Donnelly?

  There's nothing wrong with being a nerd.

• 37:42Ant McPartlin?

  There's nothing wrong. I wonder if it's near me, because I've just moved out of London to a new part of England. And if there was an astronomy club near me.

• 37:50Declan Donnelly?

  Would you go?

• 37:50Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, of course.

• 37:51Declan Donnelly?

  Would you?

• 37:52Ant McPartlin?

  Yes. And I wouldn't care what you said about it.

• 37:55Declan Donnelly?

  I'm not saying anything.

• 37:55Ant McPartlin?

  What Fiona said about it, or Lola said about it, especially Jemima. Wouldn't care what Jemima thought about it.

• 38:01Declan Donnelly?

  Wouldn't care what, especially Jemima.

• 38:03Ant McPartlin?

  Especially Jemima.

• 38:03Declan Donnelly?

  There you go, Dan.

• 38:04Ant McPartlin?

  Dan, do it.

• 38:06Declan Donnelly?

  Just do it.

• 38:07Ant McPartlin?

  Do it scared.

• 38:07Declan Donnelly?

  Do it.

• 38:08Ant McPartlin?

  Feel the fear.

• 38:08Declan Donnelly?

  Yee-haw.

• 38:09Ant McPartlin?

  Yee-haw? Was that?

• 38:11Declan Donnelly?

  Just do it, Dan.

• 38:12Ant McPartlin?

  Yee-haw. And Dan, if you can let me know what it's like, because if it's near me, I'll join you.

• 38:17Declan Donnelly?

  Dear agony Aunt Andair.

• 38:19Ant McPartlin?

  Uh huh.

• 38:19Declan Donnelly?

  I really want to learn to lift weights. Hmm, probably asking the wrong guy, yeah.

• 38:23Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, what?

• 38:24Declan Donnelly?

  But that part of my gym is so intimidating. Please can you help me up with the words of encouragement I need to march over to that side of my gym confidently? What can I do to help me step out of my comfort zone?

• 38:36Ant McPartlin?

  Well, do you know what you can do is what we used to do. Do you remember we had that challenge? So we did the press up challenge, right? This is genuine, where we would do 50 press ups a day. Doesn't matter what time of day you do them, as long as you take off 50 by the end of the day.

• 38:51Declan Donnelly?

  You can do five press ups 10 times a day.

• 38:53Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 38:53Declan Donnelly?

  Or two sets of 25.

• 38:56Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you're waiting for the kettle.

• 38:57Declan Donnelly?

  Or five sets of 10.

• 38:58Ant McPartlin?

  Waiting for the kettle to boil, bang out 10, do 10 layer.

• 39:01Declan Donnelly?

  So you could do 12, then 8.

• 39:03Ant McPartlin?

  They get the maths. Yeah, they get all that. So then that builds up a little bit of strength.

• 39:08Declan Donnelly?

  Little bit.

• 39:09Ant McPartlin?

  Little bit of, you know, strength in your upper chest and your arms. So then you can walk over to that side of the gym and think.

• 39:15Declan Donnelly?

  And then go, I'm gonna do five press ups.

• 39:18Ant McPartlin?

  I'm gonna do 12 press ups. I know, we're for the kettle boiler, I'm gonna do 12. No, because then you can walk over that side of the gym and you're like, I don't care, I'm gonna pull out a weight and I'm not gonna struggle here.

• 39:27Declan Donnelly?

  Little bit of base strength.

• 39:28Ant McPartlin?

  You've got a base strength in there.

• 39:30Declan Donnelly?

  Good idea, that.

• 39:30Ant McPartlin?

  A little bit of building up at home first, then you can walk over there confidently.

• 39:34Declan Donnelly?

  Confidence.

• 39:34Ant McPartlin?

  And actually, if you cared about what those muscle Marys are doing, then don't, because nobody's bothered.

• 39:41Declan Donnelly?

  No.

• 39:41Ant McPartlin?

  They're not. We're not bothered. We're, we're really not, but everybody thinks we're all bothered, but everybody thinks we're all thinking about one another. We're not.

• 39:47Declan Donnelly?

  I never look at what anybody else is lifting.

• 39:49Ant McPartlin?

  Nah, and do you know what? If, if they're the kind of people who fill themselves in a gym, then.

• 39:55Declan Donnelly?

  Oh.

• 39:55Ant McPartlin?

  Drop. Come on. Who cares? Because I don't.

• 39:59Declan Donnelly?

  Get on your press ups.

• 40:00Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 40:01Declan Donnelly?

  Some base strength.

• 40:02Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 40:02Declan Donnelly?

  Get over them and then show them.

• 40:03Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, exactly.

• 40:04Declan Donnelly?

  The muscle Marys. Nerds. Muscle nerds. Well, very good. That is all from Agony and Tandere for this week. But you know, who else is good at doing this kind of thing?

• 40:13Ant McPartlin?

  The nerds at Santander?

• 40:15Declan Donnelly?

  Santander, yeah.

• 40:16Ant McPartlin?

  Yes, Santander are working hard to help their customers build the confidence they need to achieve a goal that matters to them.

• 40:22Declan Donnelly?

  Santander, it starts here.

• 40:27Speaker 05

  I've got you a tattoo.

• 40:28Declan Donnelly?

  Right.

• 40:29Speaker 05

  Oh, that's.

• 40:30Ant McPartlin?

  Oh, you fell short there. First one you've fallen short with. What a shame.

• 40:34Declan Donnelly?

  We've got a paper plane coming in here because we have got a suggestion for a tattoo for Ant.

• 40:41Ant McPartlin?

  I am all ears.

• 40:43Declan Donnelly?

  We are.

• 40:44Ant McPartlin?

  I hope it's not all ears, because that would be a terrible tattoo.

• 40:46Declan Donnelly?

  We are getting some suggestions in. Please keep them coming in. Ant is gonna get a tattoo probably this time, this summer.

• 40:54Ant McPartlin?

  Let's just, let's not commit to anything yet.

• 40:58Declan Donnelly?

  But we will get a design from you, the viewers and listeners. This one's from Catherine. Hi, Ant Dec.

• 41:03Ant McPartlin?

  Hi Catherine.

• 41:04Declan Donnelly?

  And team.

• 41:05Ant McPartlin?

  Hi. Oh, they're all burnt up then, isn't they?

• 41:09Declan Donnelly?

  I've designed a wee tattoo, she's Catherine from Ireland. I have designed a wee tattoo.

• 41:13Ant McPartlin?

  A wee tattoo.

• 41:13Declan Donnelly?

  For consideration. It's called a Trinity knot. And I've made a small tweak to the original Celtic design.

• 41:19Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 41:19Declan Donnelly?

  To incorporate the initials A and D. The Trinity knot symbolises eternity, unity and interconnectedness, eternal love and unbreakable bonds. It's also an Irish symbol representing your shared Irish heritage.

• 41:31Ant McPartlin?

  Yes.

• 41:32Declan Donnelly?

  I think that definition is very apt when it comes to you two. And so incorporating your initials maybe gives it more depth to the meaning. And I hope you like it from Catherine.

• 41:40Ant McPartlin?

  That's not bad, Catherine, to be fair.

• 41:41Declan Donnelly?

  I like that a lot.

• 41:43Ant McPartlin?

  I've got a tattoo here, which is a triangle and a circle.

• 41:48Declan Donnelly?

  Mm-hmm.

• 41:48Ant McPartlin?

  And it's-

• 41:49Declan Donnelly?

  On your wrist?

• 41:50Ant McPartlin?

  On me wrist. It's a little bit similar to that. So, we might need to add a little bit extra. But that's the best one so far.

• 41:59Declan Donnelly?

  Certainly is.

• 42:00Ant McPartlin?

  It is, isn't it? That's top of the list, that.

• 42:01Declan Donnelly?

  That is a great colour design. And the A and the D?

• 42:04Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 42:05Declan Donnelly?

  In there?

• 42:05Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 42:06Declan Donnelly?

  You're not sure about the A and the D?

• 42:08Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, I like the A and the D.

• 42:09Declan Donnelly?

  Okay.

• 42:09Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 42:11Declan Donnelly?

  I like it. What do you think, Tim?

• 42:12Speaker 03

  That's great.

• 42:13Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, you like that?

• 42:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 42:14Speaker 02

  It's a little bit-

• 42:16Declan Donnelly?

  Go on.

• 42:17Speaker 02

  Coldy.

• 42:18Declan Donnelly?

  Coldy?

• 42:18Ant McPartlin?

  Coldy?

• 42:19Declan Donnelly?

  Like Psychandricks?

• 42:21Speaker 03

  Kelty as well.

• 42:21Ant McPartlin?

  Kelty?

• 42:22Declan Donnelly?

  Kelty and coldy?

• 42:23Ant McPartlin?

  Kelty and coldy.

• 42:24Declan Donnelly?

  Well, let's leave it there. Let's not go any further with that one.

• 42:25Ant McPartlin?

  What did you call me? What did you call us? Kelty and coldy? That's my short face, then.

• 42:33Declan Donnelly?

  Think it's a bit Illuminati?

• 42:34Speaker 02

  Maybe. That's, that's where I'm-

• 42:36Ant McPartlin?

  Illuminati. Mmm.

• 42:39Ant McPartlin?

  If we ever start a cult, that could be on our robes.

• 42:41Declan Donnelly?

  Yeah, let's start a cult.

• 42:42Ant McPartlin?

  Shall we start a cult?

• 42:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 42:43Declan Donnelly?

  Well, we did, didn't we?

• 42:44Ant McPartlin?

  The Cult of Ant and Dec. We had the Cult of Ant and Dec years ago. Didn't really catch on, though. That was our, that was our least successful album.

• 42:49Declan Donnelly?

  On the front of Sm- Smash Hits. We did the Cult of Ant and Dec. Not bad, he says.

• 42:53Ant McPartlin?

  Not bad.

• 42:54Declan Donnelly?

  I like it. Thank you, Catherine. We like it a lot.

• 42:56Ant McPartlin?

  Do we know who's gonna do this tattoo?

• 42:58Declan Donnelly?

  I'm doing it.

• 43:00Ant McPartlin?

  Definitely.

• 43:00Declan Donnelly?

  Yes.

• 43:01Ant McPartlin?

  You can't do it.

• 43:01Declan Donnelly?

  Why not?

• 43:02Ant McPartlin?

  You're not trained.

• 43:03Declan Donnelly?

  Doesn't matter.

• 43:03Ant McPartlin?

  Course it matters!

• 43:04Declan Donnelly?

  How hard can it be?

• 43:06Ant McPartlin?

  Well, hard enough that people have to bloody study for it. And train for it.

• 43:10Declan Donnelly?

  Ah, be alright.

• 43:12Ant McPartlin?

  We can do a little bit. I'll let you do a little bit. Yeah, but then we can get a proper tattooist in. Either that or we get Ed Sheeran in, because he, he can do tattoos.

• 43:20Declan Donnelly?

  Can he?

• 43:20Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah.

• 43:21Declan Donnelly?

  Can he?

• 43:21Ant McPartlin?

  I'm sure Ed Sheeran tattoos now. Not like, he hasn't give up singing, now he's a tattoo artist. Not me, nah. I mean, I'm sure I've seen somewhere that Ed Sheeran does tattoos.

• 43:32Declan Donnelly?

  I think you've dreamt that.

• 43:33Ant McPartlin?

  Ed, if you're listening, watching-

• 43:34Declan Donnelly?

  He's a big fan of the pod.

• 43:36Ant McPartlin?

  He is a big fan of the pod.

• 43:36Declan Donnelly?

  He's a big fan.

• 43:37Ant McPartlin?

  There you go.

• 43:38Declan Donnelly?

  That's all we've got time for.

• 43:38Ant McPartlin?

  Yeah, that's it.

• 43:39Declan Donnelly?

  We have to go now, and I really need the toilet. I'm gonna, you're gonna-

• 43:43Ant McPartlin?

  There's a pint glass.

• 43:45Declan Donnelly?

  And leaving behind the stuffer. I genuinely need the toilet. Keep all your letters, uh, voice notes, jingles, anything's all coming in.

• 43:51Ant McPartlin?

  If you wanna get in touch about anything at all, then please do. It's hanging out at beltabox.com.

• 43:56Declan Donnelly?

  And don't forget to give Belterbox a subscribe, and to follow us on your chosen podcast provider. And we will be back here on Monday with another bonus ep. Until then, respect, guys.

• 44:07Ant McPartlin?

  Respect, guys. See you later.

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