Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: ENTY Our Hollywood Insider On Madonna and Lisa Kudrow

Episode Date: August 16, 2022

We catch up with our man on the inside of Hollywood ENTY to chat all things Madonna and Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe from FRIENDS) being in Aotearoa!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is NT. All right, time now for our expensive phone call to Los Angeles, NT. Come on in. How are you? You know what I thought about? I'm great. You know what I thought about this morning was I think that you guys wake up about the same time I do, but there's still the 19-hour time difference.

That's what's crazy to me. Oh, so what time do you wake up over there? I probably wake up about 6.30 or 7 a.m., which is about 2 a.m. your time. Oh, you're dead right. A day later. Mate, there's some bleak mornings. I tell you what, Monday morning, 3.30 a.m. That's not pretty, NT, I'll tell you that.

How long have you guys been doing that, where you wake up so early every single morning? Well, only two years. We're only new to it to it feels like a long time it feels like 22 they call that prestigious breakfast slot there's nothing prestigious about the slot Madonna 64 years old and looking at pictures of her yesterday she looks like she could be my 19 year old daughter that's you know what they call a little photoshop a little filtering a quench for thirst i mean can you imagine a 65 year old just saying you know what i want to do i just want to get half naked and let everybody take a good good look at me oh my god i mean if i look like that i would i would as well i mean she looks great she does

look good i must admit looking at it, very saucy, racy photos. I don't know if my mum, any prior on her 64th, wanted to get down on all fours and me photograph her in some sort of saucy negligee. It would be awkward for me. Have you had dealings with Madonna in the past, Andy? I mean, I've met her a few times, but I've never done business with her or anything like that.

And my meetings with her have been backstage at a concert or something like that. Because she's more New York based. And because I'm in L.A., our paths don't usually cross. She's done. I'll tell you what she's done a good job is keeping in the zeitgeist, hasn't she? Over her entire career. Whether or not you're like, oh, you know, getting into your knickers on your 64th birthday, is it attention-seeking or not?

She's done a really good job. She's done it all the way through. That's been her. She's done it shamelessly, which is pretty awesome that she does this. I think that if you look at her, that she has or was the first person to be able to say, I can switch genres. I can do this. If you go back to borderline in the 80s and then see how she progressed her career and when she needed to do a change, she did a change. And when she needed to have a different style of music, she did a

different style of music. It wasn't until about the past decade or so that she finally said, OK, I can't keep up anymore with all the changes and everything. But for a solid 30 years, she was changing. And if you think about people who haven't been able to change somebody like Katy Perry, I think that she said, you know what? I had my little run. Now I'm just going to do judging on TV shows and stuff like that. Lady Gaga is really trying because Madonna is her idol.

She's going to keep trying. But it's just that ability to read what the new music is and a new generation and what they're going to like. And it is very difficult to have a three or four decade career like Madonna did. She's paved the way. For the likes of Cardi B doing WAP, she should be thanking Madonna for that WAP song. Yeah, I mean, if you think about Like a Prayer, how

controversial that song was, and the entire world was in an uproar, that she had some video where she had a person, you know, basically pretending to be Jesus. The whole controversy that surrounded that and everything that she did,

and she hasn't backed down. If you think about what she did with her birthday photos, it's the same kind of thing she hasn't stopped being madonna no well good on it i mean you know all those people who were complaining in the 80s if only they were around now to see what we're to see what we're digesting the content uh we always get excited when celebrities come to new zealand i don't know if you have any idea why she's here maybe she's just here on holiday but lisa kudrow uh Phoebe from Friends, is here. We're excited about that, but we're not sure why she's here. And we want to leave her be, but at the same time,

we're very curious to know why she's here. You know, I don't know. I know that Rita and Taika Waititi, they're in Wellington. She's in Wellington. I mean, I think he's supposed to start filming Time Bandits or something in Wellington. Maybe she's doing that. Maybe a little small wedding in New Zealand and she's there for that.

But I can't find that they're necessarily, I don't think that they're friends. But the thing is, NT, you know, being a small country, and you're used to it over there, you're surrounded by celebrities and movie stars and TV stars. Over here, we get very excited. We come on too strong. We're like, she was at a restaurant in Wellington on Saturday night. All of a sudden, we're phoning, well, not us, but the media, we're phoning the restaurant, what did she eat?

Who did she look at? Did she go to the toilet? How do we act around celebrities? You tell us. We don't know. That's Lisa Kudrow. Can you imagine if it was somebody who actually was famous right now? I know! Friends has just started in New Zealand. That's how far behind we are.

Thank you so much for your time mate really great insight into Hollywood and Andy we'll catch up with you next week my friend hey you guys

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