Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Megan Papas on Why You Should Watch The Robbie Williams Doco!

Episode Date: November 9, 2023

We chat to Megan about the Robbie doco and the interesting and almost sad career he has enduredSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What to Watch with Megan. Megan, good morning. Good morning, Jono. Just, you're unloading on us about the amount of time you spend in traffic every week, sitting in your car, wasted time, and it's such a good point you make. It's like an hour and a half for me to get to work, and I should have been learning a language or, you know, listening to some intellectual podcast, but I don't. What have you been doing?

I listen to radio. I listen to you guys. That's great. I listen to lots of people, flick around and listen to music. What's the market like out there? Busy. There's a lot going on, eh? There's a lot of radio.

There's a few of them. It feels like there's maybe too much, but it's not for me to say. Sitting in traffic, I always find when you're on that standstill stuff, I love to look around and see what other people are doing in the cars because everyone feels like it's a closed off space that no one can see inside, right? Yeah, yeah. The amount of nose picking that goes on. I feel like I'm the person that people would look at though

because I do my makeup in the car. I eat my toast. I'm busy in there. Do you do your makeup in the rear-vision mirror? Yeah. And I've had a toot from truck drivers being like, and then look up and see the car's way ahead. I'm like, oh, sorry, I'm doing my mascara. We spoke to a lady.

Oh, she shaved her legs. Shaved her legs. Yeah. While driving on the motorway. Seemed very adventurous, didn't it? Yeah. Or did like a dry shave. Shaved her legs. Yeah. While driving on the motorway. Seemed very adventurous, didn't it? Or like a dry shave. I don't know.

You'd prefer foam, wouldn't you? I know, but how are you washing that off? I have so many questions. Yeah. We didn't probably ask too many questions. We just went,

oh, okay. And then, you know. Yeah, we kind of get a bit anxious around ladies' shavings. Yeah. We don't know how far do we dip our toes in. Exactly. Yeah, so we dusted Over that one

But we're impressed This week a big one Robbie Williams The documentary on Netflix It's astounding What's happened In my life But

The past has me In a Headlock Something has to get Who is In the country This weekend And watching this Will give you an insight

Into what he's like going on stage Before the show He's a ball of nerves Is he? He's like a massive entertainer Showman Full of confidence But he is not

Yeah, do you know He started in Take That when he was 16 years old So he says he was kind of robbed of the adolescence years. But he just never enjoyed himself. He likes performing on stage, but he's just had the fame and I guess the criticism his whole life. Wow. He talks about one holiday he went on with Jerry Halliwell, Ginger Spice. He said that was the first time he was happy.

Oh, really? Were they dating for a while? Sort of, yeah, yeah. Well into his career. And he was like, that's the first time I really. That's sad enough. It is. Yeah, at the same time you just look at him and he's been so successful, you know.

And it's surprising that you'd think he was struggling with nerves beforehand because another one, there's people you're like, oh, he's so confident. And he was diagnosed with depression at 22. So still well into his career. But he still continued on in this game where he's getting criticism from the British tabloids and everything. And a lot of focus on everything he does. And he is very depressed. And he doesn't really take time to deal with his mental health.

And so because he was doing a lot of drinking, a lot of partying, wasn't he back in the day? He's sober now, isn't he? Yes. Yeah. He looked like he was having a good time. Yeah, yeah. He did.

Maybe he wasn't. That was the band-aid for everything that he was experiencing with his mental health. I think we know he's a party boy and everything, but watching him, so the documentary is kind of him watching back on 30 years of behind-the-scenes footage. Is he like, Jesus, 30 years? It's a long watch.

But watching him process it and go through the pain, watching it back is a weird insight. And he said, I don't think this is healthy for people to be doing this. Some of it he fast-forwards because he's like, I literally can't watch that. What did he do when the Breeze ad came up? Oh dear God.

That he was in. Why did I say yes to that?