Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Hidden Voice Memos: Travelling The World With Rhianna

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

In Hidden Voice Memos, we dive deep into the vault of our cringiest and most awkward voice recordings. In this New years eve episode, we dive into the incredible story of Megan’s 2012 adventure traveling the world with international pop sensation Rihanna! Hear exclusive voice recordings of the superstar and uncover the surprising reason why Megan ended up salty with her.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This John O'Bien podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. Memo! Ben just opted out today. Oh, I was just getting ready for it. Sorry, I was just trying to find some voice memos. It does catch you off guard, doesn't it? It does. Memo! Yes, when we clear one of our voice memos, we do it every day.

We each get to play something that we've got stored on our phone. And you get to, you know to hear it before we delete it. Whatever it is. You get to hear it. Lucky you. Some of them date back. Yours date back to 2014, don't they? Mine go back to 2010.

2010? Mine don't go back that far. No. Whether it's an upgraded phone or something, but then also there's a whole lot of period that I did try and delete a whole lot of them. Yeah, you're pretty good like that. I've just left everything on there. This was a vintage 3rd of December 2020 for me.

Now, it's just labeled hand sanitizer. Oh, 2020. I hope that's hand sanitizer. Oh, that is. That's confronting. You not... That's confronting. You're nasty. That's confronting to listen to. Yeah, and when you do apply hand sanitiser,

it is a confronting noise, isn't it? 2020, that would have been right in the peak of the COVID time, wouldn't it? Hand sanitiser everywhere. Tell you what, you cannot get it nowadays. What's that? I went to the supermarket, they had none. That's as I was like,

I thought they'd have too much these days. No. They've still got heaps. You've got leftovers, have you? Yeah. Some have masks at home that are never used. There's boxes and boxes of masks out on the table outside the studio. We've got John or Ben hits masks.

If you want one of those, text us, 4487. We've got those. Yeah, face masks. That was such a thing. And then it became like, if everyone's wearing it, it's fine. But when you're just that one person, you know, whatever that one person. Remember when designers were coming out with face masks? That's right, yeah.

And there were some that, you know, Balenciaga, like Bane from Batman. Like $200 face masks. Well, I guess people were wearing them so you can get them with your favorite sports teams on it, things like that. I guess it was something. Yeah, I was in the chemist's warehouse the other day, and now they've got a, because you don't get the tests now. I know hardly anyone's testing.

Right. But they do have a test now that can pick up anything. So COVID, flu, if you've got like four or five different things. But then I wonder, what do you do with that information? Because you're like, okay, well, I'm sick and I'm contagious, so I'll just stay home. That's the thing. Do you need to know what type of sickness it is?

Well, some manufacturer believes you do. You can pay a pretty penny for it. Okay, well, there we go. We've got some hand sanitizer. You're a big hand sanitizer guy. I still enjoy it. I still take around some hand sanitizer, yeah. You know what I notice is next to the desk that we push the buttons,

this feels like half a litre of hand sanitiser. Just because it's there, I'm pumping and sanitising. You know, the access to it, you just feel obligated to. It's there, you might as well have a little, yeah. It's like those little ones that spray going, you know, if people haven't run the office, they have the shh. You're like, oh, it's here, I'll have some.

I love those ones that once you exit a public toilet, you're like, oh, they've got a little, you know, always like, and it gives you a little, put your hands under. Yeah, a little dollop of hand sanitizer. It does make your hands feel a lot cleaner, though, doesn't it?

Especially when you're eating. That's what I find when I'm always snacking away at stuff. I feel like I need to. You lick your fingers and you're like. Yeah. It's not the best tasting stuff. No.

Dude, you imagine the filth your hands have on them too. Just the stuff. Totally. And he doesn't like to think too hard about it he wouldn't touch door handles for a while there i don't like touching your bathroom door handles neither i'm not coming out of the bathroom even the toilet here i open the door way up high yeah i do that too or use it or use inside of my top or something into my top or something just because i've been there all the time people don't wash their hands yeah yeah and then you know that's the because I've been there all the time. People don't wash their hands.

Yeah. Yeah. And it's the fire. Okay, you want to do that. Well, I don't think it's fine. But if you want to do that, okay, it's fine. But you're touching the door handle. I'd rather not touch that.

Yeah. You've got to go happy birthday twice, don't you? Yeah. And internal. You definitely did not wash hands. But anyway, you do you. Okay, let's plug your thing into the old dongle today, Megan. What are you bringing to the party

This is the 21st of November 2012 Oh we're going deep How are you going to beat I sound ballsy I sound real official and legit This is Rihanna So this is from the flight that I did Why don't we start with hand sanitiser

She just said she had Rihanna. What? So this is from the flight that I did. Why don't we start with hand sanitizer? Yeah. She just said she had Rihanna on the bloody phone. Remember that flight I did? It was in 2012. Yeah, well, I remember. Yeah, amazing trip. Seven countries, seven days, seven concerts on a 777. So I was on a plane with Rihanna.

What did the number seven have to do with anything? Is that her lucky number? I don't know. It feels like they really they really committed to seven it wasn't even her seventh album because aren't we waiting for her right it's a great gimmick a great talkability thing so she did seven concerts over seven days in seven countries yeah and a seven seven seven sounds like a radio story i love it i love everything about it but a radio station with budget yeah yeah so this is her

on the plane intercom obviously yeah I want everybody getting a ride so all people here know we're going to do this show

in New York girl what fuck fuck fuck I can still understand more of what she's saying than the pilot when the pilot talks on there

rah rah rah you guys are not I can still understand more of what she's saying than the pilot when the pilot talks on there. You guys are not playing the game with her. She's like trying to get a chant going. You're giving her nothing. A bit more from Rihanna. Then at that point... We can hear you, but we can't see you. Oh, okay. So this might have been at the point...

This might have been at the point of the ride when she'd kind of ditched us. All right, we can hear you. Salty. Salty. I'm sorry for flying you around the world to seven countries in seven nights to go to seven concerts. I made it to national news because I started a chant, where have you been all this flight? Did you start a chant?

Yeah. Salty though. No, everyone was very salty. We were very ungrateful. You look at it though with hindsight. Okay, you're frustrating at the time, but you look at what position you were in. Yeah.

And you're like, oh, I haven't seen Rihanna in my life. Like one of the greatest experiences of my life. Sorry for not, I'm Rihanna. I've been doing concerts and all sorts of other stuff. She left us on the tarmac in the plane for six hours. Sorry we're not coming around and seeing you as I fly you to France and all these places. Who were you? That little comment there, who were you talking to?

I had a winner with me, Stacey. She did come around at the start with a bottle of champagne, so she poured us all a glass of champagne. We can't hear you, but we can't see you. Show us your face! She finished in New York, right? I think that's where we were headed there. She finished in New York and we were at this club

and I remember it was two levels and on the mezzanine, I could see Jay-Z. Wow. So, like, I've been in the same room as Jay-Z and everyone was just, like, excited to see him watching her. Could you hear him but not see him? Or see him and not hear him? I can see you, but I can't hear you, Jay-Z.

I'm so ungrateful. Oh, my God. The funniest line. Rihanna, come back here to economy. I can hear you, but I can't see you. Bring your ass down here. It's like, I imagine it's the RSA situation where someone's talking

in the mic and it's not working and people are like, speak up, speak up. You're one of those that have opened. I love how she's going

brrrah, brrrah and everyone's like. Just giving her crickets. Yeah. You guys really were tired by that point of the trip. Oh, that's very good. I can't top Rihanna.

I'm going to plug this into the dongle. I found this one actually and I thought it was quite cute because my daughter, one of the things I used to, you know, I loved doing when my daughters were young is pick them up. You know, when you pick them up from school, you'd walk home and Sienna still is my oldest daughter. Just a chatterbox, just constantly.

And no surprise, she has not stopped talking. And this is one moment where she, I think she segues I listened to this before. How old was she? She would have been probably she's primary school age, I'm guessing sort of 8 or 9, she's going, she starts maybe not even that old she starts talking about I think Niue, something she

learned at Niue, something about her friends dogs and then segues into something else here. In Niue there's Saturday schools. Every second Saturday, the people have to go to school. It used to be every Saturday, but then people didn't agree to it. So it's every second Saturday now. And my friend Jovi used to have 13 dogs when she lived in Texas.

But now she's moved to here and she can only get one because the dogs are more expensive here and well because she had 13 dogs here, she had like three dogs and then they had puppies so that's how it happened and then there's a dog as big as daddy that's like $13,000. And you can dig over 40,000, what's it called? You can dig 40,000 feet underground. Wow. She's covering some ground. It's like an info dump.

Here's everything I know today. I know, so I didn't know what, the new way where that came from. Every second Saturday, they got sick of going to school every Saturday. And then where she's digging, who are the people digging? There was a lot of questions on her head. Oh, everyone had heaps of dogs. And then all of a sudden, the people are digging like 30,000 feet or something. Don't know why.

Don't know the context behind that, but that was just a small taste of what. She's so articulate. Very articulate. She just keeps talking, but she still does. She's all, you know, like, because a lot of people are like, oh, teenagers, they won't do it. Opposite with her, she just keeps talking. You've got too much chat. Chatting away. She sounds like the world's all, you know, like, because a lot of people are like, oh, teenagers, they won't do it. Opposite with her, she just keeps talking. You're like, too much chat. Chatting away.

She sounds like the world's most random website. And if you like that, you'll like this. Do you know about this dog with my friend? I'm like, um, Jovi, okay. 13 reasons why you want to be a Nui. Saturday school. And I haven't fact-checked anything. Do they have Saturday school?

Maybe I'll do that right now. Yeah. I've never been to Nui. I had a dear friend from Nui when I was in primary school, Jason. He's a lovely guy. I had not seen, you know, again, another friend from primary school, one that I didn't pee on. I was about to say, did you pee on him out of a tree?

I haven't seen Jason in many years. He doesn't remember the other ones. And he's no longer friends with Jason, so the signs point to yes. I remember I'd go to his birthday parties, and they, like a lot of the Pacific Islands Have that wonderful raw fish dish In coconut cream Like a ceviche

Beautiful You're not a seafood person I was going along with you They put lemon in it and the lemon cooks the fish I can appreciate that No, did you get the stats on the school? Oh no Was that fake news? I don't know Lemon cooks the fish. I can appreciate that. Noah, did you get the stats on the school? Oh, no.

Was that fake news? I don't know. I don't know. It feels like, yeah. Obviously, it was big news at their time. But yeah, not currently doing Saturday school, although Sienna was seen to be onto that as well. It felt like the teacher had snapped and gone, you know when your parents are like,

well, I'll give all your food to the kids in Africa. It felt like one of those moments. Well, at least you're on your way to go to school on Saturday. You want to come back here in Africa. It felt like one of those moments. Well, at least you're new, mate. You go to school on Saturday. You want to come back here on Saturday? It felt like one of those moments. It could have been one of those moments. There we go. Clearing our voice messages for another episode.

We'll be back again tomorrow. No!