Our First Podcast! Dec’s Lost 90s Diaries & Ant Meets Zendaya’s Dog

0:04Hello! Hello! Hello! Let's get some lights on here!

0:13Hello, everybody. Hello, everyone. Good morning, good evening, and welcome to Hanging Out with Ant and Dick, our brand new podcast. In today's episode, Ant meets a brand new butcher. I'm serious about my meat, so I want him to be serious about his meat. And a Hollywood A-lister. So he said, hi, I'm Sam's brother. That is classy. He's a class act. We find out how Dick's New Year's resolutions are going. A last of the week. Well, well done, you. We delved into the postbag to find out what you've been sending us. When it got to me, I said, And the silence was definite. And I convinced Deck to read his 90s diary, and you won't want to miss it.

0:52Top clubs. Respect, guys. Oh, my God. Stop. Stop. Oh, God. What's this all about, then, Ant? What is it all about? What are we doing? Well, we decided eventually to do a podcast because we realise we're not hanging out as much as we used to. We're not. We're now dads to very small children. I have big kids. And you've got big kids. But the little ones especially take up a lot of time. They do. And effort and energy. I love them dearly, but they do take up a lot. Doesn't sound like it. Doesn't sound like it. Tricky weekend, was it? It's been a very tricky weekend. But we don't hang out as much as we used to.

1:29No, we don't. Anne's moved house now. I have, yeah. Geographically, we're further away from each other than we've ever been. Oh yeah, you came out to see it, didn't you? Came around at the weekend. Dec described it as spectacular. Good, eh? Yeah. That stuck in my brain, that did. Spectacular. So we don't get a chance to hang out as much and talk rubbish anymore. So we decided to come up with the idea of doing a podcast to sit together and talk some rubbish and let you join in too and hopefully enjoy. We have got Fiona and Lola, who you may know if you watch Jungle Club, our Instagram Live, which we used to do.

2:07After I'm a celebrity. After I'm a celebrity. Our long-time tormentors. And Jemima, who's new. Ooh, she's new. She's new. Jemima, anything we need to know about you? No. Okay, good. A woman of mystery. She's not one for a lot of chat, is she? A woman of mystery. Listen, I've been listening to lots of podcasts. Have you? In the build-up to this one. Go on. You know, your happy place with Fern Cotton. Yes, which we were on. Your rest is entertainment with Richard Osman. Yeah, which I like a lot. And they all seem to start out by having a little chit-chat. A catch-up. A catch-up. Yeah. I think that's what we're doing now.

2:40Is this a catch-up? I think this is. Well, you haven't really, I'm not caught up on any part of your life. Oh, okay. Because I already knew you were doing a podcast. All right. Because I'm involved. Let's start with a chit-chat. Right. Happy New Year. Shut up. We're not doing that. Why do we? We're well into January, man. We're past that. When do you stop doing Happy New Year? I reckon a week into January. That's really early. Yeah, but we're bored of it. I'm bored of Christmas by Boxing Day. Like, I'm done with Christmas. I'd take the trees down by 27. No. Yeah. And it's not that I'm a Scrooge.

3:13But it's not, do you know what I mean? No. It's a lot of build up for what essentially is a Sunday dinner. But it's a lot of faff and a lot of hassle. And then New Year's New Year. I don't like New Year. I don't like New Year. I just don't. I don't like New Year. I always thought as well, you know, Christmas is for the kids, New Year's is for the adults. Yay, wooey! But now I'm an adult, I still don't like New Year. Now you don't. It's just too much pressure to have a good time and where are you going to be at midnight? Did you have a good time? No. You didn't? No, I did have a good time. Who were you with?

3:42With all my family. No, I did have a good time. That's not his family, no? I did have a good time and we had a party around my brother's house. It's very late, isn't it? It is. I'm in bed by 10 o 'clock normally. Are you sticking with the resolutions? Well, I've only made one. and it's the one I make every year. Go on. I've got to get fit and healthy in 26th. Never happens. As you can tell. Hey, it nearly happened. It started to happen. Go on. Well, I was doing dry January. Yes. The clue to how it's gone was I was doing it. Yeah. I lasted a week. Wow, well done, you. Well, well, well done. I'm proud of you.

4:18I'm proud of you. As someone who's been sober nearly eight years, I'm very proud of you. I'm proud of your eight days. I knew you wouldn't understand. I thought that was pretty good going. What happened? I had a very stressful day with the kids. Really? Very stressful day. They've been feral since... You brought them up. Since New Year. Right. Since New Year. And they went back to school for that first week back at school. And I thought, oh, it's good. Bit of discipline, bit of routine is back in their lives. It's going to be lovely. They were feral all week. And then the weekend was a disaster.

4:49Really? So I was going to do dry January. In the end, Saturday night, put them to bed. I opened a bottle of wine. Ah, okay. That's understandable. Is it though? It is. It is understandable. Anyway, I'm not doing dry January now, but I'm still going to get fit and healthy in 2026. Okay, good. I went for an infrared sauna and a plunge yesterday. How was that? It was hot and cold. A bottle of wine in between? No, no. You know my resolution about improving my vocabulary? Yes. Because while that is 20 months now and he's starting to say a lot more words that rapidly day by day, he learned the word bumble the other day, which is good which is the name of one of our dogs but he just came out with it Bumbo in a really weird little weird cockney-ish accent hope he grows out like that but he so he said that and I thought I've really got to curb the swearing so I've just got to at least improve my vocabulary think of other ways to to cuss discipline him and cuss so I did download an app which gives you a word every day that's good called word of the day just it's quite simple now deck does have quite a good vocabulary so i'll test you on today's word okay boondoggle boondoggle well if something is a boon it's a it's a an extra it's a it is a can we cut any of this out if something you go oh that's a that's a boon that's a bonus and a doggle a boondoggle is a bonus thing it's something positive is it yes I'll tell you what it is.

6:24I've got the definition right here. It is, and I thought you'd like this. It's a wasteful, unnecessary project or activity, which, why did I get this on the day that we're filming the first show? Especially one funded by the public that consumes time and money without achieving much value, often for political reasons or just to keep people busy. So is this a boondoggle? Is this a boondoggle from Antem Deck? Welcome to Boondoggle with Antem Deck. That's what we should have called it. Maybe that's what it is. Hanging out with Antem Deck, in brackets, boondoggle. But I'm going to keep doing it. I'll bring you on every time.

7:07I found a new butcher. I didn't realise you'd lost your old butcher. No, because I've moved. So I had a good butcher where I used to live. Yes. And there is two, kind of in between two. You're in a thruple? No, I'm not in a thruple. I haven't shopped at two. Oh, okay. There's two options. You're just chatting to two butchers. You haven't got official. See where it takes me. Yeah, exactly. So I popped into one, had a look around, right? Great, okay. Nice, nice set up. Nice and clean. Looks a little bit posh. The other one, a little bit rougher, normal. Which you also like. Yeah, which you know I like.

7:43But the only way I decided... Is by tasting their sausages. No, it's by... I saw one of the butchers who owned it outside of his shop leaning against his car. What? Sorry, rewind, rewind. No, hold on. The reason why I chose the shop, which I'm going to mate with for life, is I saw the butcher who owns it outside of his shop leaning against his car. And that turned you on? He had a private registration, which I don't like normally. Oh. But the private reg was ribeye. Now, if you've got that as your registration... You're serious. He's serious about meat. You're dedicated. I'm dedicated. I'm serious about my meat.

8:30So I want him to be serious about his meat. And I'm going to purchase a lot of meat from this gentleman over the coming years. Wow. That's it now. And have you... That's it, we're essentially married. Butcher and patron are now. You've committed. I was going to do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. That's a ring on. Ring on the finger. It's a ring on the finger. That's what it was. Just a bizarre finger. it's a weird weird finger to put it on so have you tried any of his ribeye any of his meat Port Declan Donnelly spectacular it's spectacular spectacular and I've all got chicken kebabs and a lovely beef kebab lined up for later in the week so check in with me next week and I'll let you know how it's going if that's not a reason to come back for episode 2 I don't know what is anything else you've been up to in the new year have you started reorganising what do you mean you know like getting your life back in order I was summoned first week of January.

9:20By Mrs. Donnelly. By the current Mrs. D. Yeah. She, yeah, you never know what's going on, do you? Trust me, you don't.

9:31To our storage unit. Oh yeah. Which is always a joy on your day off. So yeah, I spent an afternoon going through. Doing what? Like organising what? Well, going through old mirrors, bits of furniture. I look great in this one. I also look great in this one. I don't look so good in this one. Let's leave it. That's all I did, is look at all the mirrors. Why do you keep all this stuff? Why? Yeah. Because we don't have an attic or a garage. We've got a garden shed, but that's full of... Mirrors. Cushions. That's got the outdoor furniture. What? Just get rid of it, man. No, it's the cushions for the summer.

10:08What? The cushions for the summer for the outdoor furniture. Oh, okay, right. The other stuff obviously has to go into storage. Uh-huh. Like the Christmas tree and... What I found in there some old memorabilia boxes of of mine from days gone by oh PJ and Duncan stuff PJ and Duncan stuff old script did you I found a diary that I kept from 1994 it's the three weeks in the run up to the first chart position of Why Me now none of you will know none of you will know what that means that was the first that was the that was the song before Let's Get Ready to Rumble yeah that was the first proper PJ and Duncan and single.

10:48How does it go? Why me? It's a cry chain. Why me? Aren't we all the same? Why me? Is it justified? Why me? Why me? You know I really don't care. Why me? He knows more than me. Why me? Did you listen to it? No. After you re-read the diary? No. But I have got the diary in my bag. Well, go on, go on. I'll give you a little snippet. I'll give you a little snippet. We stayed in a Forte travel lodge. Right. And I was bemoaning the fact there was no hairdryer. I really needed a hairdryer. What else was going on in our world? We were doing a lot of PAs. We were doing a lot of under-18s discos, a lot of nightclub appearances.

11:26We'd done a lot of them. So essentially, you'd get booked to perform and you'd go in. So it was a normal nightclub at the weekend, but on other nights, it would let in under-18s and they couldn't drink, obviously, anything alcohol, but they could dance to their favourite pop act of the day or whoever was bookable of the day. And we would go in and we would sing two songs. Or maybe if you didn't have two songs, you'd just sing the same song twice. We played a nightclub one night and it was in Liverpool. I remember it really vividly. And normally you'd go out and it was normally teenage girls watching you.

12:05But this one time we went out and it was just like a dance floor. There was no stage. So you're just in the middle of the dance floor and the girls had kind of formed a semicircle around you. So then we'd start performing. And we kind of looked and it was full of boys as well. So you kind of had girls, but then there was boys over to the right-hand side. Obviously, they're boyfriends. And we came out, we stopped performing. These girls started screaming, bizarrely, and it annoyed these boys. So they would throw ashtrays at us and ice cubes. Ice out of their drinks. It's quite a skill to mime a song whilst also ducking ashtrays.

12:41It's character building. It's character building, exactly. Diary. Diary. Come on. Diary. Do you want me to read it? No, no, no, no, no, no. It's definitely something in there about me, isn't it? Is that it? It's not even a diary. What is that? It's just a little notepad. Look, every day. It is just a little notepad. It's gone slightly yellow. 28th of March, 1994. 28th of March, 1994. Day one. Oh, boy. Oh, boy? Is that what you said? Yeah. quite a busy day today oh up at 10.30ish breakfast at our manager's house and on the road at 1.30 our fan club cards didn't arrive oh my god stop stop stop so we had to autograph flyers and stuff stop arrived in Portsmouth around 4pm had a beer and went on stage about half five that was so unlike us yeah we'd never normally have a beer and then go on stage no the crowd were great and why me went down well.

13:38Bad Boys Inc. were there too. And two guys called General Something were there. Top blokes, respect guys. Did you write respect guys? You did not write respect guys. You were top blokes, respect guys. Oh my God. I'd like to point out now that Deck does not speak for the parables when he writes this. This is Deck's diary entry alone. So we were in Portsmouth. Really? After we finished, we went straight off to Yate in Avon. The people there are very strange.

14:11And put it good, when he said, they just sit back and say, impress us. Well, we eventually warmed them up. Oh, did we? We eventually impressed them. I got them jumping. We're now in this hotel in Bristol. You got them jumping. Respect, guys. Respect, guys. We got them jumping. We're now in this hotel in Bristol, the Forte Travelodge. Nobody, nobody in their history of travelling has ever used the word forte when they've described a travel lodge. It's clean and comfy. Yeah, it was. They were very clean and comfy. But that's it. Very basic. Yeah. It's now 1am the next day and I suppose I'd better sleep before our road manager arrives and gets us both out of bed again.

14:54Oh my... Oh well... Gets us both out of bed again! Oh well, life on the road, eh? Ha ha! So let me bring you back. See, when you wrote this, What made you think you should write this diary in the first place? I foresaw a podcast. No, did you think maybe you'd need to write an autobiography one day? Or maybe like someone might want your diaries one day when you pass? It was just an exciting time in my life. Respect, guys. Respect. I've never heard you say that. I've never heard you say it at the time. I've never heard you say it since. You've never given respect to anybody. Well, I'm not doing any more pages today.

15:36We'll just do day one. Oh, how many pages are there? There are 21 days. Oh, that's pretty good going. Stay tuned. Day two, we're off to Radio Coventry. Oh. Juicy stuff. That is very juicy stuff. Have you watched any BAFTA movies? I have. Should I explain what BAFTA movies is? Please do. So, as members of BAFTA. As members of BAFTA. If you win a BAFTA award, you become a member of BAFTA, which we are, and you get access to this portal, right, that you log on to and you get to watch every movie that's been released and you get to vote for it for the Bath to Film Awards. So we have to watch all these movies, which is really exciting.

16:15We get to see the stuff that not a lot of other people get to see and we get to have to vote. But you have to make your way through them, don't you? You want to make sure you watch them all because you don't want to get kicked off. No. Because if you don't vote, they could just take away your... They kick you out. Yeah, they do. They take away the portal. Please don't take away the portal. Don't take away my portal. It's got all the movies on it. It's a portal. So have you watched many? I haven't watched many. I haven't watched many. I'm worried they're going to kick us out. They won't kick you out.

16:38You're Ant from Ant and Dex. No, that's even more reason to kick me out. I've watched a few, but my favourite one. Let us guess. Marty Supreme. Yeah. Is it? It's so good. That's my favourite one. It's so good. It's brilliant. You know my thoughts on Timothee Chalamet. Chalamet? Chalamet. Chalamet. Chalamet. Chalamet. Chalamet. Chalamet. my thoughts on Timothy. What are your thoughts on Timothy? I love him. Do you? I love him. He was great in Wonka. He was great in Dune. He was great in this. He was great in the Bob Dylan movie. Yeah. He hasn't released a turkey, has he? No. He hasn't, has he? No, he hasn't.

17:15I just had a mental illusion of going to a farm and a turkey running out. Where you go? Where you go? I love him. Building him up perfectly to play Declan Donnelly in My Life Story. He'd be good. I would like Chalamet to play him. Okay. As a joke, I want Tom Holland. Tom Holland. Oh, I met Tom Holland. What? At our golf club. He was there. Tom Holland was at our golf club? Yes. Because we've worked with Sam Holland. His brother, yeah. He's a chef and he does a show on Belterbox called Tastemates Takeout Challenge and we've been guests on it. Yeah. So we know Sam. So he said, hi, I'm Sam's brother.

17:49Hang on, hang on, hang on a minute. He introduced himself. Tom Holland, Spider-Man. Yes. Introduced himself to you as Sam Holland's brother. Yes. Because obviously he knows. That's classy. He's a class act. What can I say? I also like Tom Holland. He had the dog with him and my girls were there and they were really excited about seeing him. I mean, the canner just said, hi, quite giggly, but they were more excited that that was Zendaya's dog. That was Zendaya's dog. But he gets to walk in, but it was actually her dog. Where do you play games? Well, I did try and set that up. I said, we should play games sometime.

18:25Ellie said, yes, we should. Nicely done, my man. I mean, I never said with you. I said with him and these other brothers. No, we should. Me, you versus him and another brother. Him and Sam. I love it. That'd be good. This podcast is sponsored by Santander, who understand that getting started on a goal isn't easy and taking a meaningful first step is how progress happens. This is all a bit new, a bit scary, isn't it? It is, isn't it? Because I know it's just we're sitting chatting and it's what we do a lot of the time. But to record it... To record it. For other people to listen to it. To listen to is just a bit, yeah, scary.

19:02Scary. We kind of put it off for a while, didn't we? We kind of wanted to do it for a while, but we just kept putting it off. Didn't take the plunge. Too nervous. I have to admit, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. I've had a few sleepless nights, especially last night. Didn't sleep a lot. But now we're here, I'm actually really enjoying it. I am. I've had a laugh today. I'm having fun. Yeah, it's good. Which has been really nice. Yeah. So I know it was all nerve wracking. It was a bit of a nerve shredder. But it was worth it. It was worth it in the end. It was. And that's what Santander's doing, giving people the confidence to take that first step towards a goal that matters to them.

19:37Santander, it starts here. Now, as we said earlier, we want you to be involved in this podcast. So we did open up our post bag. We did. And asked people to send in some entries. So I'm pleased to say, Ant, we've had some responses. Hooray! I'll get them. I've got them here. That's the more... You've got to do it all yourself. OK, yeah, we have to do this ourselves. We normally have runners and stuff on our TV shows, but not now. We've got to do it ourselves. I love this one from David. It says, Dear Aunt Deck, I have a story for you. On Monday the 5th of January, our baby boy was born. Congratulations.

20:13We've named him Declan Anthony. Whoa, whoa, whoa. After our favourite presenters we both grew up watching. I know we got it the wrong way around. Yes, you did. There's no wrong way, David. Of course there's a wrong way around. There's no wrong way. It's Aunt and Deck. That's the right way around. But we do prefer Declan as his first name, of course, which you would. Well, you're going to be terrible parents. That is the first choice you've made. As parents, you've named him the wrong way around. I think you've made a very smart decision there. That is lovely though, isn't it? It's all right. He's not very happy with that.

20:44It's all right, isn't it? Oh, listen, well done. Welcome to the world, Declan. Is it Declan Anthony? Oh yeah, sorry. Is it hyphen? Is it hyphen? No, no, there's no hyphen. It's definitely a middle name. So I'm just a middle name. It's just a middle name. It's just a middle name, which is droppable. Middle names are droppable. What's my middle name? David. You never hear me saying that, do you? You never hear me saying, hi, I'm Anthony David. He's never going to use the Anthony. So she might as well, or he might as well. Who was it? David. David might as well have just said you. Your middle name, David.

21:15See? Forgettable. We are both very touched. No, we're not. We're not. I'm not touched. Thank you. I'm a middle name. Should we have another letter? Go on, then. I'll read it. This is from Aisha. Hello, Aisha. And it's about an embarrassing meeting. I love that. She says, dear Ant and Dec, I was at a workshop for professionals at my work with about 20 other people from other departments I'd never met. It was a very serious global corporation. As an icebreaker, we had to choose a dinner party guest, dead or alive. People revealed guests like Gandhi, Churchill. Yes. The Dalai Lama. Of course. Michelle Obama.

21:54There were several Michelle Obamas. I bet there would be. Yeah, obviously. I was internally panicking. I was desperately trying to think of a political figure. When it got to me, I said, I'm on deck. And the silence was deafening. I'm not surprised. But I have no regrets. Oh, good for you, Aisha. Good for you, Aisha. Stick into your principles. I'm not surprised. We're not suited to that list. Well, that is some company, that. That is some company. Ah, that's got me thinking. we've played this before oh yeah not for years not for a long time though I reckon I still could work out who was on your dinner party go on then you guess and I'll tell you whether you're right or wrong Alan Shearer no Shearer doesn't make it no I've had dinner with Shearer yeah I know you have yeah you name drop her is this what it's going to be is this what the podcast is going to become done that I've had dinner with I also met Tom Holland Sir Bobby Robson No!

22:53No That shocks me As a Newcastle United fan Well And Geordie Self-proclaimed Geordie It was between Sir Bobby And another person Oh I know I know I know I can't believe I didn't think of this Sooner Kevin Keegan Oh that's the wrong button That's the wrong button Yay That's the wrong button I knew it You see And why? Childhood Idol You loved him don't you? Loved Kevin Keegan met him when I was seven years old played football with him you played football with him? yeah what do you mean? I won a competition when you signed for Newcastle? when I was seven years old I won a competition to meet Kevin Keegan and play football with him how was that?

23:36amazing did he speak to you? yeah to you personally or to the group of the kids? to me personally what did he say? to Declan best wishes Kevin Keegan next no he was amazing I'd be photocaching with him I've got a certificate with me and Kevin Keegan I'll bring it in sometime it might be in my memorabilia box it might be there already sad news about Kev yes very sad news undergoing treatment for cancer but we send them all of our very best wishes yeah we do and lots of love lots of love from us good luck right you do me oh right you I know one of yours will be your favourite author William Boyd that's going to be that bad I can't read any of these just do the tick yeah you are right William Boyd Why are you laughing at that?

24:21You're laughing because I read books? Yeah, I am educated, you know, Fiona. Barely, but I'm educated. Yeah, he's my favourite author. He wrote a book called Any Human Heart, amongst other great novels. And he is brilliant. And I mentioned him on, do you remember we did Desert Island Disc? Yes. And I said he was my favourite author. And he reached out and said, do we want to go for lunch? And I said, I'd love to come for lunch with you. And I said, can I bring me best mate, Dek? And he said, of course. so we had lunch with them we had an amazing lunch with them do you remember the end of the lunch?

24:53so we sat there we had a brilliant lunch and we're talking about ideas and stuff oh yeah yeah yes do you remember this? yeah and he goes would you guys ever do any acting again? we're like yeah absolutely you know just be the right thing right project he went I had a brilliant idea for a movie for you two and we went oh he went yes so and he went and he got a tap on the shoulder and he went oh this is my wife have you met my wife? And so she came and sat down and was like, yeah, hi. Hi, but what's the brilliant idea for the movie? Starring us too. Yes, William. Carry on. How are you, dear? Yes, dear.