Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Calum Scott Is One Of Our Favourite Artists!

Episode Date: January 1, 2023

We take you back to the time where we caught up with Calum Scott the UK pop star who lost in Britain's Got Talent to a dog... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He lost to a dog and Britain's Got Talent, we love reminding him about that. But we still catch up with him all the same, we don't know what happened to that dog. It's Callum Scott, how's it going? The dog's dead. Well that dog deserved to die, beating you. I know, I look at our careers and I go, well at least I'm still alive. Amazing, amazing. We've spoken many times about Britain's Got Talent, how it blew up. But even the video count for that has just jumped up again.

It's 370 million views for your audition. Bro, it's really hard for me to accept those kind of numbers. Because I remember when I had, before Britain's Got Talent, I put my version of Dance On My Own up on my YouTube channel. Right. When I got to 1,000 views, I celebrated like there was no tomorrow.

I was like, woo, 1,000 views. And now you tell me a number like that and I'm like, my little brain doesn't fathom that. Who's monetizing that? Is that Simon Cowell? Oh, somebody's monetizing it. It definitely isn't me. Cowell's got a sticky mitts all over that video, doesn't he?

Do you still keep in touch with Simon Cowell? Yeah, me and Simon had a little chat, a little catch up before I came out to start my world tour. Yeah, so hopefully we'll be doing some bits and pieces together in the UK. Does he still mentor you? Me and Simon had a little chat, a little catch up before I came out to start my world tour. Yeah. So hopefully we'll be doing some bits and pieces together in the UK. Does he still mean to all you? No. Simon doesn't have his own phone, you see.

So it's hard for me to be in touch directly with him. Yeah. Because when we sat down, he said, look, he said, if I can recommend you to do anything, it's get rid of your phone. Really? I mean, I'm not going gonna do that because i need my phone but like his wife has his missus has a phone so obviously if anybody needs to get in touch with him they can go through her or his assistant but yeah he said it's one of the best things he ever did it feels like simon cowell's just shifted his problem onto his wife yeah

his wife's like i'm getting all these calls for god's sake simon but the song i mean dancing on my own you've got many other great songs as well. But that song's just had another life, I understand, in America where the Phillies, the baseball team, embraced it as their sort of song. I was watching footage. It's like, what, thousands of people singing it before the Major League Baseball games? It's just insane.

I mean, obviously when I go out and I do my performances and people sing the songs with me, it's an incredible feeling. But then to have that in a situation where I'm not in is already crazy. But then for it to be in sport as well and to be used as like a victory song, that's all you can wish for as an artist and as a songwriter. I mean, obviously it's a Robin song, but, you know, for them to be using my version of it, it's just such a massive honour, you know?

Has Robin, like, because I think a while ago you hadn't actually heard from robin yeah whether they're into the song or not yeah no she is she is oh that's good we we bumped into each other by chance uh in uh in london we was at the same radio station and she sort of walked by me and i was like and then my radio lady was like oh i used to i used to work with robin i'll go and speak to her and she came over and like the whole time i was thinking is she gonna come over and be like i hate your version i hate you but thank you for making me a lot of money but she she came over and she was like look the version is incredible um i love that it's come out to a new whole whole new brand new audience um and she was really gushing about it so yeah it it made me feel a lot better to have her

tick of approval rather than thinking in the back of my head she hates me she wants me dead yeah she wants to be dead like that dog off prince got telling me there we go kelly's called us in the studio now you've been touring around australia with uh alvario and mitch james god guys i love him i love him down to his bones he's just so he's so passionate he cares about his his music and his fans so much and every night he comes up to me he's like i'm's so passionate he cares about his his music and his fans so much and every night he comes up to me he's like i'm just so grateful bro i'm so grateful i'm like i just want to adopt him yeah he's so lovely he's very adoptable isn't he he is very adoptable yeah and like he's like i've listened to his album i mean not that i want to he can do his own promo

guys yeah but i was listening to his album and he he's got some great songs on there man and for me to be able to hear it live every night is just such a pleasure. I only realized this recently, but the people who come to my gigs, they're all the same sort of people. They're all made up of the same sort of thing. You know, there's nobody throwing bottles of urine up on the stage. It's not that kind of... I did it once.

Yeah, you did. Not on my show. I just would not allow that, sir. But you know what they're all the same people everybody's like you know really in touch with their emotion real like you know real real real sensitive people and i think the the the people that have come to my gigs have fallen in love with mitch just as much as they've fallen in love with the the new music i've made as well speaking of people throwing things on stage last time you're in new zealand

power station which you're playing you got a soft toy sheep or something thrown up on stage. Yeah. Or something like that. Or a kawana or something like that. Are you expecting something like that in New Zealand? Or is that just a one and done? I'm expecting toys to be thrown up on stage. If not, I'm going to just stop the gig there and then.

People still throwing underpants on stages. Is that still a thing? Yeah. As an artist, what happens to those items? Because you see it happen all the time. Lost property. Where does it all go? Does it go on the road with you?

Yeah, I mean, the pants probably stay in situ on the stage. Unless you're a whole size... Oh, I remember these. But no, I am actually a really sentimental person. I mean, shocker, but I'm a really sentimental person. So I had to buy this. I had to have this like pirate's chest made that I have in my house

that all of my stuff that I get from fans goes in. So all of my fan mail, all the toys and things that they give me. It's quite nice to know that you have. It's interesting to know from a very famous person what you actually do with fan mail because I thought you'd just ignore it. Oh no, I love it.

I love it, man. And I try and respond where I can, but the fan mail I get as well, it's so personal and so deep and stuff. I'm like, I cannot just put this in the bin. Like this is somebody's like heart and soul. And I'm like,

cool. Throw it in the bin. I don't do that. I keep everything. I keep everything. Oh, what a lovely man. Yeah.

We throw our stuff in the bin. To be honest, we've never had any fan mail, so that's very why. I had a dog. It was pretty talented. He did the show. It died. We're like, so that's very wise. I had a dog that was pretty talented, entered the show, it died. We're like, get it out of here.

Keller Scott, we love catching up with you. It's so great to have you in New Zealand. Thank you. Well, last time was on Zoom, eh? I know. So it's nice to see you in person again. We actually got an idea we wanted to pitch to you. Okay.

Because we wanted to do like a, you know, people have a cover segment, but we had the idea of Jono being undercover, and we've got a blanket here in the studio. Could we get to sing a little bit of robin woe undercover i mean i've never done it before so there's a first time for everything right yeah this is a very convoluted way of hooking up yeah that's that's what i was angling yeah it's gonna be anybody walking by is gonna be like the hell is he doing i love it to meet you face to face man absolutely thank you for having me boys