Ant & Dec Are Related…To a Viking?!

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1:00Anthony McPartlin:Are we rolling? Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Canadian Hangout for another hanging out with him and me, where we're just discussing what we're going to have for lunch. Well, we've ordered our lunch. We've just had the menu in and we've just ordered. What have you gone for, Ant? You're regretting it now, aren't you? Well, I am. I've got my tuna and pineapple salsa. Oh, dear. So I don't know how local the tuna is to where we are, middle of the country. Well, I think it's tin. Tin? Yeah. Why would it be tin? Tin tuna. Are you expecting a nice seared tuna steak? Yeah. Doubt it. And pineapple. They don't really grow pineapples here, do they?

1:36No. Middle of snowy British Columbia. What have you gone for?

1:40Anthony McPartlin:I've gone for whiskey and maple seared. No, whiskey and maple. Whiskey. I haven't seen them any. Whiskey and maple. Whiskey. Glazed ham. Greedy pig. With truffle potatoes. Canadian pig. You're eating a lot of Canadian pig out here, aren't you? I am. You love it? I had a little slice of bacon again this morning. You're really big. How was the maple bacon, did you say? It was good. It was really good. This episode is a bonus episode, and we're going to be doing letters, airmail letters again. Should we get the post bag? One second. Get the post bag. Bring the bag in. Oh, it's only here. Oh, good.

2:21Why don't you just reach behind the wall? I don't know. I did a full lap there. Do you need to show your boots off or something? I did a full lap. Do you get your boots for free? Don't do that. Ant Canada. And it got here. Can you believe it? It got here. That's all it says on there. Ant Canada. There's no other ants in Canada. Right. What are you saying? What are they saying? They're saying, hello, Ant Deck and team. Hello. Hey, my name is Erin Pollard. And I thought I should tell you about my fish. Do you? Did you? I named them Ant and Deck. Oh. Yeah. And Stephen Mulhern. Oh. When I first saw them, I didn't ask what genders they were, but it turns out Dec was a girl.

3:04And Ant, well, Ant was horny. Ant got Dec pregnant three times. Don't just clip that bit up and put that bit out. I went on holiday and before I had even left my own town, my mother messaged me saying she... I'm going to read that again because I read ahead I went on holiday and before I'd even left my own town my mother had messaged me saying she'd found aunt dead

3:38why are you laughing? there's a dead animal this I go back from my holiday and found Stephen Mulhern stuck in one of the plants

4:01Oh God, I've got a stitch. I got back from holiday and found Stephen Muller stood in one of the plants in the tank with a bed pack.

4:15It looked broken. So I took him to the vet and they told me he might have a...

4:21Anthony McPartlin:Oh, what happened? He might have a what?

4:31They told me that I might have a bladder infection. With a goldfish? With a goldfish. I separated Stephen from the rest and gave him some special drops. Oh, my. Oh, where? Really? There's more. The special drops killed him.

4:53The special drops killed him. And that was the end of Stephen. Declore is thriving. Yeah, I will. You see? He is. I just want to say, Declore's babies are doing great too. Oh, well, that's good to know. Lots of love, Aaron. Oh, my God, Aaron. What a great letter. How unfortunate for Andrew Stephen. Andrew Stephen Mulhern.

5:13Anthony McPartlin:Funny. Very good. I've got one here from Nick from Pontypool. Pontypool. Isn't that out of Feynman's Am? Pontypred. Pontypred. Hey, Tony Mack and Double D. No, no, no. I've been catching up on the pod and only recently heard your discussion on bum wiping. When have we talked about that? Yeah, we've had a conversation on bum wiping. How disgusted. About the tissues, how you fold it. Did we talk to Michael Sheen about that? I hope not. I hope not, because we need to get more guests and we can't be having that level of guttiness. Anyway, it reminded me of a similar conversation I had years ago. Like yourselves, I'm a child of 1975.

5:54Anthony McPartlin:However, my life took a very different path and I joined the army. Again, like yourselves, squaddies spent a lot of time hanging around and talking nonsense. And we had the same conversation about bum wipe methods. And as a result, came up with what is now known as the internationally recognised bum wipe classification system. Oh, okay. Come on then. There are five main categories. Is there? The stand-up folder. What? Somebody who stands up and folds the toilet paper. No, no, no. Standing up and wiping your bum. Stand up? Does anybody stand up and wipe their bum? Not that I've heard of. Do you?

6:30You don't want to talk about it, do you? She's not getting into it.

6:33Anthony McPartlin:Number two. The number two. Yeah, that's apt. The stand-up scruncher. Okay, so the same, but just stand-up. with scrunchy scrunchy toilet paper yeah number three the sit down folder right number four the sit down scruncher yeah and number five the croucher the mavericks what's the maverick these include folk who wipe from back to front ah you can't do that or wipe using a polishing motion for example ah no way that's disgusting a polishing motion that's not real I'm a sit down folder myself, although in my youth I was a stand-up folder. Really? Your scrunchers are deemed to be selfish types who do not care for the quantity of toilet roll that they use.

7:19Anthony McPartlin:Hope this all helps. That's Nick from Pontypool. And he says, please could you say hello to my daughters, Isabel and Lola, who are also listeners but don't know I've written in. They will be mortified. I bet they will. Sorry, Isabel and Lola. But Nick, that is a very good categorisation. I too am a sit-down folder. Nick, if you could go back out into the field and get us numbers of people who do what category. You want some stats? I want some stats on what's the most common. Can we do a vote? We'll put it on the broadcast channel. If you're not on our broadcast channel yet, make sure you go to Instagram, press on our profile, says hanging out with Ant & Dec, do something about that.

7:54Anthony McPartlin:What is it? What did they do? Click on it and then you can click to add. There you go. I just have to do it and get on the vote. Next letter. Hi, Ant & Dec. Hi. I'm from the North, but I live in London. So it's genuinely lovely to hear some Northern accents when I'm out on my walks. I did notice, though, that Dec said lunch and dinner on the podcast this week. And I have to say, I was expecting dinner and tea. Yes. Just wanted to check what's going on there, Dec. Is it something you've changed over the years? It is. When my husband and I first got to know each other, we realized we had a serious lunch, dinner, tea language barrier.

8:29It got so confusing that we ended up saying all three when we still described any meal.

8:34Anthony McPartlin:Oh. All the best, Sophie. Any Canadian slang you've heard and you want to pick up, she says in brackets. Oh, we haven't. That is very true though. I used to say tea for dinner, for me tea. And lunch was dinner. Lunch was dinner. Dinner sign. And dinner was tea. Yeah. That was the same in my house. But since moving to London, then nobody understands what you're talking about. No, they don't. So I've had to change. And now my children don't understand what I'm talking about. When sometimes I do say I'm going to go and have my dinner. Like if I'm at home and I'm going to have my dinner. And they go, you mean lunch, daddy.

9:10Anthony McPartlin:Ah, so you get chastised from the kids. So I get chastised off the kids now. So yeah, I'm now a breakfast, lunch and dinner kind of guy. Because that's the thing. When we were growing up in Newcastle, you'd have your Sunday dinner, which is like a roast dinner. Yeah, your Christmas dinner. And you call it roast dinner. I tell you what we don't eat in our house. What? Supper. No, no, no. Who has supper? Not me. What is that? Is that dinner? or your tea or your dinner is that supper or is supper something later don't know if you have supper get in contact I'd like to put a list on the wall of when what times I should be eating things do you know what I mean yeah this next bit is brought to you by Gemini Google's AI app so question for you go on did you do a full body workout today no I did not do you want me to do a workout plan with Google Gemini that's a great idea there's all sort of function on here where you can film yourself doing a workout and it'll tell you about your form so you thought you're doing it the right way you want to try it yeah let's do it right come on hop on the table then so jo and i can you be brutally honest about the form of these push-ups please thank you as you asked here is my brutally honest opinion on the form of those push-ups I noticed that you kept your body in a nice straight line from your head to your heels, which is an excellent foundation.

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11:13Anthony McPartlin:Absolutely. Download the Gemini app today to unlock the power of Google AI on your phone. Check responses, set up required, compatibility and availability varies. 18+. Hi, Anton Deck. Hi. This is from Jen. She's in Middlesbrough. Hi, Jen. Hi, Jen. Hi, Jen. I've been showing my two and a half year old all the TV shows I used to watch in the 90s and noughties and came across a little gem called Engie Benji. Gem. Jen came across a gem. I would recognise those voices anyway. It's me and you. Yeah, I know. How did this come about? She's asking. Are there any other children's cartoons or shows that you are on?

11:55Anthony McPartlin:Loving the pod, Jen from Middlesbrough. Good letter. Do you know what? That's got me thinking. We should show Wilder NG Benji. Oh, yeah. Because he's two and a half. So he'd, I reckon he'd like it as well. Yeah, I don't think I've played my kids NG Benji. Have you not? I don't think so, no. We should play it. It's a good idea. So for those of you who don't know, NG Benji is a little boy who is a mechanic. Fixes things. Fixes things. and he's got a car called Dandan. He's got a dog called Jollop. Who's me? And there are lots of characters who live in the town like Pilot Pete and Plane and Messenger Moe and Bike.

12:35Anthony McPartlin:So there's lots of people in the town and Engie Benji fixes all of their... Transport. Transport to get around. I played Engie Benji. So we got a call just from... We got a call from ITV saying that this was coming out. We'd be interested in adding some voices to it. So we said yes. So I was Engie Benji and Ant was Jollop the dog. So Jollop didn't really say much. He did. He did. He said this. So if you watch any of the episodes, they're quite energy heavy. So I was in the recording booth for quite a long time whilst Ant was in the car park eating crisps. And we got paid exactly the same. We did.

13:21Cooler. They want an ante deck. 50-50 on everything. That was their mistake. I was happy about this situation. I signed on the dotted line. Quick as a flash.

13:32Anthony McPartlin:But then Series 2, Series 2 you became Trucker Troy. Trucker Troy. Yes, I was, wasn't I? You had two characters. Two characters. Good. I should have got paid double, really. I should have. Two characters. Yeah, you're right. I should have. I should go back on that. Yeah. when we're looking to be paid royalties for being on the CITV channel I'll look into that yeah I do yeah I do I'll have a look at series one next letter oh this one says hi deck and team oh oh hi I thought you said deck and team that's what I thought you said hi I might have missed the aunt out there hi I'm deck and team oh hi we were in the BFI do you know what that is The British Film Institute.

14:19Yes, in London recently. And they're showing all TV programs. Not only was Biker Grove shown, but... But. Is this Ant again in a sex education cartoon? Loving the podcast. Always makes me laugh out loud at the gym. Forgetting where I am. Love you both. Laura from Newton Aiklin. Thank you, Laura. I presume there's a picture with this. Well, there's one on there. There we go. Oh, there he is. Look. And there's a G.I. Joe. It does look a bit like me. It's a big forehead. Long eyelashes. Who's she? Don't know. That's not my wife. Yeah. It's me again. It's you again. Can you believe it? Maybe I'm just the easiest shaped face to draw.

15:01Maybe that's what that is.

15:02Anthony McPartlin:You do get around, don't you? I do get around. Whereas the decks are a little bit rarer. One here from Anya in Ireland. Why? You've got an East Col, Anya. I've got an East Col, Anya. Hi, and deck team. Just said that. Oh, did you say that? Hi, Ant, Dec and team. Yo. Recently, you read a letter from someone who was afraid that during Saturday Night Takeaway, you would go live to their living room. My sister and I thought it was randomly chosen and wanted you guys to show up at our house. One year, however, we were particularly scared to be picked because we both had caught Verrucas after swimming lessons and had to soak them every night for weeks.

15:40Anthony McPartlin:On Saturday nights, we were allowed to do this in the living room while watching Saturday Night takeaway and we were so embarrassed that you guys might see us with our feet in basins. Our parents love to watch us panic every week when this segment of the show began. Respect guys, Onya from Ireland. P.S. Have you ever had a Veruca?

16:03Oh, that is a very good letter. That's great. I would love to have seen the panic in their eyes as they sat in their foot baths, their feet soaking in balls. The same ball that you put your popcorn in, the same ball that you're in the same ball that you put the Halloween treats out. It's always the same ball, isn't it? That ball. It's that ball. We've always got a ball.

16:21Anthony McPartlin:Yeah. We've all got that same ball that we use for everything. I'd love to have gone live to their house to see them. Oh, wouldn't it be brilliant, wouldn't it? And the explanation of that on a Saturday night would have been brilliant. I'm gutted that we didn't. Have I had a veruga? No, I haven't. Have you? I have. Have you? I have, yeah. Got it from the swimming pool as well. Same thing. Took ages to go. We've got to like burn it and all of that. It goes black. Did you have to soak your feet in front of the table? No, I think that must have, I don't know what, I've never heard of that treatment, the feet soaking thing.

16:51I just went to the chiropractor. I've never had. The chiropractor. Went to the chiropractor. And they couldn't do anything. Do they hurt? They can do, yeah. Do they? When it burns it, yeah. I've never had. Oh, now, now though, there's a gun. So they have this little gun and they put it on the sole of your foot, right, because as mine was going, she was like, I can use this on you. So what's that? It's like a, it's a gun in it. It's a microwave and it shoots a microwave pulse. I've got a microwave

17:24Anthony McPartlin:that's also an oven, but I don't have a gun that's also a microwave. It shoots a microwave pulse into your foot and burns it like however many hundreds of a degree. Did you have the gun? Yeah, it's all gone. All sorted. Wow. Perfect. Great for you. Wow. As you know, from Wikifeet. Yeah. As you know. How is his rating? Have we checked it lately? It has gone up now. Now they know I've got no verruca. It's gone up. Yeah, but now people know that you did have one, don't they? It might affect your wicky feet rate. I haven't had a notification. And I've got Google lists for those kind of things. Did you have a verruca when you were at school?

17:57Anthony McPartlin:No. Do you remember the kids who had a verruca at school, but you still went swimming and they had to wear a verruca sock? Yes. Yes. How embarrassing. That was embarrassing. It was quite embarrassing. Did you point at them and laugh? No, I just didn't. Good. I didn't. I would never do that. Just inwardly, you'd just be like... Ha ha.

18:20Anthony McPartlin:Well done, Anya. Thanks for your letter. Oh yeah, that's you. Right, I've got one. Hi Ant and Dec team. Hi. I recently re-watched Ant and Dec's DNA journey. Oh. I don't know more. There's more. I was thinking of doing a DNA test with DNA tests myself to find out the origins of my family and see where it leads. Shauna from Gateshead. Yeah, do it. Do it. Yeah. Find out what you got to lose. Fascinating. What have you got to lose? Nothing. Everything again, nothing to lose. You're getting something for your money. You're not losing your money. How expensive are they? You want a good one though because you do some of them and they just go, you are 3 % Swedish.

19:04Anthony McPartlin:Yeah. You want a bit more information than that, surely. Yeah, you do. Let's know the results, will you? Fascinated. Yeah. Unless they're really boring, then don't bother. But if they're really good, let's not. Didn't you guys find out that you're actually a little bit related? Yeah. I mean, that's a spoiler alert. If you haven't watched DNA Journey, that's the very end of it, is a spoiler alert, is that we go back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back to about the 11th century. We both share a common DNA marker, which was shared by a Viking invader to Ireland from about the 11th century.

19:36Anthony McPartlin:And we both got the same marker from this guy. so we are distantly, distantly related. Wow. But that is a spoiler alert if you've not watched the documentary. It is still on ITVX if you wanted to watch it. What was it like actually filming the whole kind of episode? Was it emotional? It was really emotional. Yeah, really emotional. Yeah. And it took us all over the world as well. So it took us obviously to Ireland. Well, you weren't sure, were you, whether your ancestry was Scottish or Irish? I thought my part was Scottish. Someone saw I got a tartan made and everything because I thought I was Scottish.