Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: The Wiggles Perform Our Big Red Car Remake!

Episode Date: August 21, 2022

The guys talk to the Wiggles, about everything from early morning shows to nappy deals (Jono likes the sound of this), test how low Simon's voice can go, and get the Wiggles to sing some new lyrics to an old classic...enjoy!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits with the Jono and Ben podcast. Hey, beaming in from our wiggly studio upstairs is the Wiggles. How's it going? Hey, good to have you guys. How are you? Do the finger guns. Do the finger guns. Cool.

Welcome back to New Zealand. We're so excited to have you here. You guys still get excited playing gigs? Yeah, we do. We always get excited. We can't wait. I mean, particularly over the last couple of years, we're touring sort of grind to a halt to be back out on the road

and back in New Zealand is amazing. So we can't wait. We start shows tomorrow. We're so excited. Listen, I've been to a couple of Wiggle shows in the past and it's a lot of energy at 10am on a Saturday morning.

It's a lot to take in. But for you guys, ideal, you knock off your shows before it's even night time. Yeah, well, that's right. I mean, we're proudly sponsored by caffeine in the mornings and then we have little afternoon naps.

Well, some of you, even Lockie, you have naps during the show. I mean, there's the whole wake up Lockie. Yeah, that's right. We're doing some driving on this tour too, so we've got to make sure we've got the... There's a couple of big drives, like four hours? Yeah, I think so, yeah. So, yeah, we're doing north and south and driving all over,

which is a great way, you know, it's such a beautiful country and we get to see, you know. It is, but the big red car doesn't have a roof and it's so cold. I thought you were going to get the big red rental car or something from Hertz. Now, Sahai, you're 16 years old in the Wiggles. You must have

grown up watching the Wiggles. This must be a dream come true for The Wiggles, you must have grown up watching The Wiggles. This must be a dream come true for you. Definitely, yes. I grew up watching The Wiggles on repeat. It was always played around in the household. So I guess it makes singing and remembering songs a lot easier because it's kind of like muscle memory. But it's definitely a dream come true to be performing as A Wiggle now. Your life must have just changed over the past year or so. I mean, it's incredible

Yes, definitely Touring and stuff has never been a part of my life So getting used to that has been fun I love it I love when everything's busy and crazy So I'm having the best time At 16, I was still learning how to do the alphabet Or you could be part of the Wiggles

Do you still have to juggle schoolwork or this is your full-time gig now? Well, I went to a full-time dance studio for most of my high school years. So I did studying online and I danced for seven days a week. So I'm pretty used to having a busy schedule. So this has been pretty easy to fit in. Seven days a week is a lot of dancing. Too much dancing. You're here to perform for families all over New Zealand,

but Anthony, you've been doing some adults-only shows with the original Wiggles in Australia. Yeah, the original Wiggles. Craig, Murray, Jeff and myself are coming together on Saturday night in Auckland and then we're doing it in Christchurch in Wellington, I think, or just Christchurch. But anyway, what we do, we play the show exactly as we would. We play it straight, all the big hits like Fruit Salad,

Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga. But the audience, they've grown up and they're not drinking cordial in the audience. So you can imagine. It's fantastic. it's so much fun we did it around Australia and we said we've got to go to New Zealand it's going to be fun

Simon you're running a very deep voice and we wanted to see how deep you can go ok Ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma It's so deep, the zoom is cut out. It's blown zoom. Lockie, I want to say, what's the thing that you've seen your face on? Because you guys are on a lot of merchandise that you're just like, oh my goodness, my face is on this. What's the one thing that stands out? nappies or a toothbrush it's pretty

pretty bizarre the first time around do you brush your teeth with your own face on it or yeah on the little on the little handle but the the children love it and if it helps them brush their teeth beauty mate beauty mate yeah i've always wanted a lucrative endorsement nappy deal. Nappy deal endorsement. Funnily enough, the original Wiggles, they have an adult nappy deal. Before you go,

we wanted to be kind of like you guys and help, you know, to write a song and we've kind of updated one of your songs. So we thought, you know, the big red song. And we've kind of updated one of your songs. So we thought, you know, the big red car, great song. But obviously people are getting into electric cars now. Yeah, so we thought maybe we need to make it a bit more 2022. There's some lyrics there.

Can we, so you can see our lyrics, our effort, and so you can judge us and tell us how good we were in coming up with a new version of the song. Got it. Feel free to join in if you want. Okay, now please don't sue us for any plagiarism. No. Okay, so it goes.

We don't want a big red lawsuit. Okay. Toot, toot, charger, charger, EV car. We'll go as long as the batteries charge. Toot, toot, charger, charger, EV car. All the CO2 has gone. Come on, guys, let's sing. Toot, toot, charger, charger, EV car Or the CO2 has gone Ba da da da da da da Toot toot

Charger Charger EV car Our emissions Are six stars Toot toot Charger Charger EV car We've updated our song It works Here we go

So lovely to see you guys. We're huge fans. New Zealand loves having you back. All the best for the tour. Thank you. It's great to be here. Thank you. See you guys.

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