Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Liam Payne: "He was the most fun human ever!"

Episode Date: October 24, 2024

We catch up with our entertainment reporter Nicole on all the latest in the world of celebs: Her review of the Miami Taylor Swift show! How One Direction spoke about each other after the breakup? Trumps unpresidential behaviour!  What Liam Payne was like in real life? An important Diddy update - 1000s of people aren't lying! Jay-Z and Beyonce's conspiracy theory... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is John O'Bien podcast. Hey, that's us. Brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. We like to talk to Nicole from New York. She works on the radio in New York and she is our New York and American correspondent. She joins us now. How are you, Nicole in New York? Welcome. Thank you. How are you guys? We're doing all right. Now, you've just been to Taylor Swift. Is that right? I have. I have. I went to see her in Miami night two on Saturday and I brought my girl, my daughter,

and it was just un-freaking-believable. I can't, it still doesn't feel real. Why? I'll tell you what doesn't feel real is that the tour is still going. It felt like it was here

about nine years ago. Yeah. You know, it's so funny because like, we went home like drenched in sweat, exhausted, like, and all we were doing was watching, right? Obviously like singing and dancing, but like watching and that girl's up there doing cardio, singing every song under the sun and just doesn't even flinch. It's just unbelievable.

It's pretty incredible. And we've seen so many amazing scenes with people wearing the bracelets, sharing those around the costumes as well. Is that everything you thought it was going to be? Yeah. It was just, it's just unbelievable. Would have been a lot of mother daughter combos there. What a great bonding experience. Right?

I know. And I thought, well, first of all, I have video of her when she was singing one song and looked over and my daughter was like, had tears streaming down her face and she's only 10 years old. So I feel like that's very young to be already crying from happiness like it was very like she made me feel good like core memory that is and she'll remember that forever too good on you better parent than we are a million no please i mean did you guys try to go to australia we did try and book some tickets uh it was very it was very stressful to try and get on we had three laptops

going my daughter and we just couldn't even get a look in. And that was to get to not even in the country that we live in. Yeah, I mean, there was right out at Miami at Hard Rock, there was a whole line of like hundreds and hundreds of people. Like the concert had started, the show had started, and they were just out there checking like StubHub and checking resellers. I mean, she was already moved on to another era,

fully in the middle of the concert. People are still out there just trying to get in for a second. Did she bring out her hot beefcake boyfriend? No, I wish. I freaking love Travis. He was unfortunately had like a little NFL game. So he wasn't able to be there. But she did send him some love.

She did change the lyrics to Karma again and said, Karma's the guy at the Chiefs, come straight home to me. So he was there in spirit, in karma. So compare it to every other concert you've been lucky enough to go to. Where does it rate? I mean, it's number one. Number one? I've been to some thick shows.

I mean, I've seen Rihanna. I've seen Lady Gaga. I've seen ACDC. I've seen Guns N' Roses. I've seen everyone. And Taylor, this is just like historical what she's doing. It's unbelievable. Been over the world twice printing money.

Just on a money printing world tour. Yeah, why doesn't she just throw us a bone? I mean, she's worth $1.2 billion with a B now. I feel like she should just, you know, spread the love a little. Put on a free concert. Yeah, do that. Why not? We've got Nicole with us live from New York.

She joins us every week. Now, really, really sad news. At the end of last week, Liam Payne from One Direction has sadly passed away in tragic circumstances as well. You've been lucky enough to meet the One Direction guys

over the years. I mean, I've probably had Liam ten times. Like, he knows us. Like, if he saw me in the street, he would know me. And he, I mean, listen, all of them I adored, but he was the most fun human ever. Every time he came up, he was just fun and funny

and he liked to make people laugh. And he was a sweetheart and he had such a good heart and he clearly was hurting. And every day when new details are uncovered and revealed, it just gets more insane and makes me feel more sad yeah poor guys it was obviously not in a good in a good place no thing that always confuses me is like who when something tragic like that happens who whips out their phone and takes photos everyone these days i mean we have it like it's kind of crazy like

there's been so many things that i've seen like horrific events like that have ended up in the news it's like how did you get that footage you saw something horrible happening and instead of trying to help that you whip out a camera and take video of it because i don't know i don't know what we're becoming as humans but it's really sick because there was a lot of um chat as well that you know after they broke up they didn't get along especially maybe him and zane but it was nice to see all of their tributes they felt very heartfelt and they felt like any beef they had was probably quite trivial yeah i mean the thing is is like you become when you work with people that close right and that's like absurdly close like that's almost like unhealthily close but like that you have to because you're in a band together you know things about them and have experienced things with them that you would

never have with any other human you become family you become brothers and regardless of what what happened over the years and after the breakup they still loved each other very much i mean every time i had one of them in for something solo they had nothing but nice things and loving things to say about each other even if there was something right like you fight with your brothers and sisters and like it felt like that. So the whole thing is just heartbreaking, you know? Sometimes you forget there's actually a real person behind that celebrity body.

Yeah, and it's a real person. And even Cheryl Lloyd, like she wrote, like just remember, like let's give him the little bit of dignity I've left. Like he, this is going to live on, right? Like his kid's going to grow up, have access to the internet and then see all these horrible things and already he's got to learn to live without his father and already he's got to swallow this horrific news but to see other gross things

that will now live forever on the internet instead of just he passed away it's going to be it's what he's going to be able to find and search it's's just, it's awful. Nicole, uh, in America, things are getting very close to the election. We, we, we see these clips over here, like Donald Trump. It's almost like he's doing a comedy tour sometimes when he's on stage.

And I say that it all do respect to women. And I love women. Nope. Nope. That's just who he is. Nope. Comedy there. Calling our vice president,

a, you know, what president starts with an S ends with a T. Right. Yeah. Oh, Comedy there. Calling our vice president a you-know-what president. Starts with an S. Ends with a T. Really? Did he? Oh, he called.

Yeah. He said that she was a you-know-what vice president. You can't say that if you want to be president. That's not presidential at all. So in all honesty now, because it is getting close, who do you think? Today, specifically, I don't feel good Right Today Today I believe he's

When I checked But it's looking like He's like a little bit higher I don't I don't know It gives me anxiety So I try not to think about it Oh sorry for bringing that up

It's happening No yeah thanks a lot Okay now I'm gonna go Think of Xanax The trauma Kind of indifferent Either way Because it doesn't really

Affect us over this side Of the world But the clips I see of her When she's asked a question, she kind of jumps around the place and doesn't make any sense. And I don't know if that's an edit on Instagram or if that's actually her. I think that there's both. And also, let's call a spade a spade. All politicians are liars. I mean, he does the same thing.

He just says words. He gets up there and just moves his hands around and just says words i love women wait have you seen at the edit where because he does move his hands back and forth a lot someone edited a an accordion into when you see him talking he moves his hands back and forth so many times it looks like he's playing i have to find it for you it looks like he's playing an accordion and it's everything oh the internet is amazing isn't it sometimes uh well speaking of awful awful things on the internet, I feel like there's two people in life now. Those who are in a diddy

hole and those who have better things to do with their life. That's the separation between the two parts of humanity now. I am one in the diddy hole. Megan, you're in the diddy hole. I'm very much in the diddy hole. Yeah, the hole is deep and I'm there. Confusion I have now is I'm getting fed so much stuff that I don't know what's fake news, what's real news.

I'm hearing stories of underground tunnels and parties. And I'm hearing that he apparently poisoned Jamie Foxx and Jamie Foxx is the one who alerted the FBI. So this is the thing. I think, because I said this to my friend today, I said, how much of these stories do you think are real? And he was like, listen, I think probably there's a lot of people that I have hopped on this bandwagon or trying to get their moment, even though it's a horrific moment. But with this many stories and so many things matching up and so many people that it didn't even happen to that are like, yeah, I was there. It was weird.

Like there's no, it happened. Like this happened. What the fact that there's so many different amalgamations of the stories right like there's like yes like the tunnels and then there's just these these freak off parties that i'm air quoting and like there's different types of stories but it sounds like he was just a freak and if you ask me i just i'm not a fan i just i think he hurt so many off he he hurt so many kids and so many humans, he does not deserve to be here. I mean, it's bad.

Yeah, well, I mean, they can't even keep up with the allegations. There's about 3,000 or so complaints. There's hundreds of people, witnesses. And thousands of people are not lying. Thousands of people are not lying. Hundreds of people are not lying. If this many people are coming forward, it happened. His private jet was apparently in New Zealand just a couple weeks ago.

Oh, Neo was on it. Oh, was that what it was? Yeah. I was trying to work out why it was here. Obviously, he wasn't in New Zealand. I am reading that he's got a lot of people getting paid off. A lot of people that were like celebrities that were around for some of these parties and are trying, like they're obviously not named yet,

and are trying to fix things before it gets to them. But I know it's almost like Jeffrey Epstein. It's like, are we going to ever see all the names? Are we going to ever know everything or the details that we are curious about? Probably not. The one that really troubles me is that a lot of the witnesses have said that they,

even you hear stories of celebrities, like when they go there, Leonardo DiCaprio is with Jay-Z and with Diddy a lot of the time. His name comes up a lot, which is really... You can't loop everyone into the same thing. No, no.

Jay-Z and Beyonce, their names keep circulating. They keep getting dragged into this whole conspiracy theory that everyone has to thank Beyonce at award shows. What way do they put it? What way are they putting on that over there in the States? Well, I feel like there's always been a rumor here, or maybe there are two, that there's this whole Illuminati

and then there's a bunch of rappers and people that were sort of in this underground world and have this almost weird VIP club. All of that sounded ridiculous until now. Right. Exactly. and have this like almost just like weird VIP club. All of that sounded ridiculous until now. Right. Exactly. It sounded like TikTok, guys. But that's the thing.

It all sounded crazy initially until. Yeah, I know, but we're saying a lot of stuff that we have no factual evidence on. You're making a lot of wild accusations with people's names. They've just like died. As soon as you start saying people's names in the Senate, it's like, based on what? Thank you, Beyonce. Just thank Beyonce and we can move on.