Ant & Dec Podcast Production STOPS for 8ft Bear!

Hanging Out With Ant & Dec

Ant & Dec wrap up their Canadian podcast series by diving into listener mail, tackling the lifelong 'supper vs dinner' debate, and reminisci

Key takeaways

• Ant and Dec reveal their SM:TV Live Pokémon sketches were written by producers who assumed the duo knew the show, resulting in a silent, confused live performance that kids surprisingly loved.
• A listener's pony named Joey famously stopped acting like a diva and listened intently to the podcast while being tacked up.

Main topics

• Supper vs dinner regional definitions
• SM:TV Live Pokémon sketches backstory

Notable quotes

"We didn't know any of the Pokemon's names. We didn't know any of the characters. And we rehearsed it in the break just before we're about to do it live... nobody laughed."

Conclusion

The episode delivers nostalgic TV history, lighthearted listener inter

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:00) Guys, we've just got a message. Apparently there's a bear. Speaker 4 (0:03) Round here? Speaker 1 (0:04) Yeah, but we're doing this so we can't see it. Oh, Speaker 3 (0:06) you're joking. Go Speaker 4 (0:08) and Speaker 3 (0:08) tell them to hang on. Are we on? We're on. Oh, hello everybody. Welcome back to Canada for the final... Oh, Speaker 4 (0:14) to our Speaker 3 (0:15) last Speaker 4 (0:15) Canadian Speaker 3 (0:15) adventure. Canadian hanging out. We should Speaker 4 (0:18) have called it that for a while. We Speaker 3 (0:19) should Speaker 4 (0:20) have called it that. Why didn't we think of that? Speaker 3 (0:22) We've got lots of your airmail for a question and answer session. Speaker 4 (0:27) Go get it, sport. I start calling him sport. It's good, isn't it? Well done, sport. You're getting ready for Australia. Buddy, I should call you buddy. Well done, buddy. Whoa. Look Speaker 3 (0:38) at that. Speaker 4 (0:39) Look at that. I'm going to delve straight in. Thanks for all your letters. Thank you. Keep Speaker 3 (0:44) them Speaker 4 (0:44) coming at this hanging out at bellabox.com. Speaker 3 (0:47) Hi, Ant and Dec. Hi. I have some breaking news. Oh. You have a new biggest fan and he is not human. What? He's my four-year-old Connemara pony. And he is a total legend, but also a total diva. When I'm trying to tack him up, he will not stand still. He dances around, tries to eat my phone, and after my phone, he tries to eat me. He's a nightmare. He's a hungry horse. The other day, I was sick of listening to music while tacking him up, so I thought I'd put the podcast on instead. And you will not believe what happened. What? Joey just stopped. He stood perfectly still. He put his ears forward and listened to you two chatting away. He was glued to the iPad. I think Joey is now officially obsessed with you guys. I had to stand there holding his saddle while he listened. So thank you so much for finally finding a way to make Joey behave. Lots of love from your two biggest fans, Emily and Joey the Pony from County Clare in Ireland. Speaker 4 (1:47) Oh, that is a lovely letter. And isn't Joey beautiful? Look, if you zoom in, you can see. He got the iPad in front of the horse's eyes. Look there, you can see. Why don't we get ourselves round next to the bins and show the last episode of the pod to the bear? Yeah. See what happens. When Dex saw Speaker 1 (2:04) some of his friends. Huh? When Dex saw some of his friends. What do you mean, Speaker 4 (2:07) Dex's friends? Speaker 1 (2:08) The bear. Speaker 4 (2:09) Maybe one of my bears that I spotted. That never happened. Speaker 1 (2:12) That Speaker 4 (2:12) didn't happen. I've scrubbed that from my mind. Didn't happen. It's a work of fiction. Thanks for bringing that up, Fiona. Speaker 3 (2:16) Didn't Speaker 4 (2:16) happen. Speaker 3 (2:17) Thanks for bringing that up. Rift. Ant and Dec Rift. That is brilliant. That was very good. Speaker 4 (2:20) Thank you, Emily. Any other animals that are fans of the pod, then please send us in any photos, any videos of them watching, because she could have just pointed the horse at her iPad. Speaker 3 (2:31) I Speaker 4 (2:31) would not. Just saying. Just saying. I don't think Emily would have done that. She could have just done that. So little video would go down very well. I've got one here. Hi, team. Hey. Love the pod. Thank you for all the epic chuckles. Stumbled across a good old Smash Hits magazine recently. Saw these 10 commandments and thought the boys would like to revisit them. The Cult of Ant and Dec's 10 commandments. Now, the Cult of Ant and Dec was our ill-fated third album, which we liked, but didn't sell as well as the other two. Shall I read out the commandments? Yes. I've got them here. Speaker 3 (3:06) Yeah. Speaker 4 (3:06) Number one. Thou shalt wear thy mask at all times. Never deface thy mask. nor spill any liquids on thy mask. Speaker 3 (3:15) Now this isn't like a COVID mask. No. This is a mask that was given away free with smash hits, which was a mask of hand and a mask of deck. So you got a free mask when you bought Smash Hits. Speaker 4 (3:27) You'd like that, wouldn't you? Yeah. Two, thou shalt not wash whites with colours. That's pretty. That's just good advice. Yeah. Good commandment. It is a good commandment. Three, thou shalt honour thy mam. Always. Honour your mams out there. Mams, mums, mummies. Whatever you call them. Mama. Mamas. Speaker 3 (3:46) Mum, mummy, mama, mama, mummy, mama. Number Speaker 4 (3:50) four, thou shalt not step on Dex Blue's red shoes. Speaker 4 (3:54) We obviously wrote these in a rush. Yeah. I've got Sandy's suede shoes on today. Yeah, and you wouldn't appreciate me standing on them, would you? I sure would not. What would you do? I'd smash your face in. Oh, yeah, of course. Number five. Every morning, thou shalt recite the lyrics to You Crazy Cats. Oh, you cats, fall about. Raise Speaker 3 (4:12) your hats to Speaker 4 (4:14) the man and Speaker 3 (4:15) chat. Let me Speaker 4 (4:15) say yeah. Whoa, whoa, Speaker 3 (4:17) whoa, whoa, you crazy cats. Way-oh, way-oh. Whale, whale. Speaker 4 (4:24) Number six, thou shalt never touch another man. We're just going to give you no context to that one. It sounds like we're just talking a foreign language, doesn't it? Thou shalt never touch another man's flipper. Speaker 3 (4:36) That was because we played Speaker 4 (4:37) a lot of pinball at the time. We did. Speaker 3 (4:39) We Speaker 4 (4:39) did. And you should never, and I repeat, never flip another man's flipper if he is on the pinball machine because they'll go flipping mad. Seven. Thou shalt never sulk. I think we're starting to script the one with the varalier. But no, this was mine because Depp was a sulker back in the day and I put this in for him. He used to sulk. Speaker 3 (4:58) Oh, did he? Yeah. Number eight. Yeah. I think this might have been mine. Thou shalt not put our records on the jukebox when we walk into the pub, then giggle with your mates and look over at us as if it's the first time it's ever happened. Speaker 4 (5:11) That used to happen a lot. That used to happen all the time. That used to happen Speaker 3 (5:14) a lot. Speaker 4 (5:14) Didn't it? Yeah. Speaker 3 (5:15) It was so annoying. Speaker 4 (5:16) Number nine, thou shalt demand a free pizza on ordering your 200th of the year. Well, that should be a rule. 200 pizzas in one year? Yeah, it's a lot, isn't Speaker 3 (5:25) it? Speaker 4 (5:25) That's Speaker 3 (5:25) a pretty Speaker 4 (5:25) good going. It is a pretty good going. So therefore, Speaker 3 (5:26) you Speaker 4