Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Megan Talks to Her Ultimate Teenage Crushes, Five!

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

We make Megan wear a heart rate monitor while she talks to Five. If it hits 150, the interview stops!They share how they missed out on …Baby One More Time because the writer gave it to a then-unknown Britney Spears. We also chat about what their kids think of them. Megan admits her favourite member, and there’s some unexpected rubbing. Plus, we reveal what the backstage vibe is really like, with less vandalism than you’d think.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks to Hello Fresh Cookies, he delicious dinners, the whole family will love because nothing beats dinner time. Yay! Come on. I feel like we've zoomed into a stag to do. Doesn't it look like,

oh, you're phoning the lads on the stag? It does. It's like, yeah, we're running a bit late, guys, but we'll be there soon. You know what? We're going all day. This is the way we're rolling. Oh, my God.

It's so nice to see you guys. It's so awesome to have you guys back together. And you're coming to New Zealand. We're very excited about that. We actually finish our Australian and New Zealand tour in New Zealand on the 25th of May because we knew it'd be an absolute party and we can't wait.

Oh well we must, can we just share something with you? So Megan, who we do the show was, she's over here and huge fan, like monumental fan. Hi, me, yeah. Hi. Oh, Megan, tell them that you had your posters all over her room. That's love, man. Are you going to make me tell them?

Yeah, you tell them. Um, so I used to have your posters on my wall and at night, I might have kissed you goodnight. A kiss good night. Is that all? Is that all? That's all we can talk about at breakfast time on Radio New Zealand. So that's all. Oh my God. Not at all creepy. Not creepy. No, you're right. We've hooked up Megan to a heart rate monitor, okay? And there's going to be a little game

we're going to play. We're going to continue chatting to you, interviewing you, but she's got to try and keep her heart rate below 120. Well, no, so she was on 80 this morning when we started. That's my resting. And now she's jumped up. I think she's way over that already, Jono. I'm at 134. Okay, so we'll say when it hits 150, maybe.

This is exposing me. This is, I was trying to play it cool and ask, you know, like, good questions. Oh, Megan, I feel sorry for you. I feel like that big kid was brilliant in the workplace. It is. The lines are blurred. If she goes over 150, interview's over, guys. The interview was over.

So Megan, it's on you to stay calm. But what would you like to ask? We've got the guys from five here. These are my teenage fan girl questions, okay? Is it true that baby one more time you guys were offered that song, Brittany's song, back in the day, and you turned it down? No, it's not true. Happen one.

Diamond Cowell was our record company executive. He wanted the song for us. He heard it. It was doing the rounds. Max Martin had written it. He called Max. He went, I love it. I want it for the boys.

Max said, I'm really sorry, but I've promised. it to someone else he went well who have you promised it to i'll give you the most expensive thing car you i'll give it you he said no i've promised it to some unknown girl like she's she's new on the theme she's called brittany spares he said yeah but you know i've got five like they're already they'll sell millions of records and he said no no no i promised it to her i'm going to give it to her wow whatever happened to her yeah yeah it didn't do too bad it didn't make it it Megan heart rate update where we're at?

I've calmed down a bit. She's calmed down a bit, guys. We can continue talking to you. Given that I was a creepy fan kissing your posters and stuff, what is the most memorable? It doesn't have to be creepy, but it could be.

What's the most... It was creepy. It was creepy, yeah. What was the most memorable, surprising or creepy thing a fan did for you back in the day? I was given a thong. What's the thong in New Zealand?

Gee Street. Yeah. Yeah. But it had like a bit. a bit where you can put your bits in it and you had a measuring. Do you mean like an elephant? I remember.

Yeah, like an elephant's trunk. I've got a picture of me wearing it on my head. Yes, fantastic. That's all right. Yeah, so that's amazing. Scott, I'm going to confess that you might have been my favourite. But how long? Scott, it's a first bump.

I'm rubbing his nipples for you. I'm rubbing his nipples for you, Megan's a heart rate. Heart rate's going up, guys. It's going up 140. Her heart rate's pretty good. 130 at the moment, heart rate. She's keeping it under control. Can I ask, because you know, you guys got kids now?

You know, what do your kids think? Because they've probably never seen you perform other than on YouTube videos. Well, yeah, so, like, three of us have got, I've got children. I've got four. So my oldest two have seen like bits and stuff, but my two youngest, they're 11 twins. And they've only, yeah, only YouTube videos and stuff. So they're really excited to come to the shows and actually see what their dad does

and what the rest of the band do. And it's amazing, but they've just seen, we performed with Robbie Williams recently at a stadium in London. And they see that for the first time. And I think they really appreciated like five are pretty cool. My daughter actually went to see Take McCray

at the co-op arena in Manchester. And I just, in passing, I said, oh yeah, that's where Daddy's playing at the end of the year. And she was like, oh my God, like, you're so cool. Really? You're going to play that? Oh, that's good. I'm so proud of you down.

Is there going to be a bit of a different vibe backstage when you go on this tour to what it was, you know, years ago? Obviously, you know, obviously we're, you know, we're a little bit more sensible now because we're older. But not really. There's going to be, you know, we're still bringing all the energy backstage and on stage. I think there'll be less things vandalized. Yeah.

I've asked for a tank of oxygen in a sick bucket. How long did it take you to spike your hair back in the day? They were immaculate. Really, it did take a while, but I did perfect it, but there was a few times, an abs will vouch for me. There's a few times where I got abs to do the back of my, where he was in a rush,

abs to be doing the back of my hair, so I'd do the front of my hair. And he got pretty good at it. John, can I tell you a secret? I didn't really twist him at the back. He ain't got eyes on the back of his. Yeah, I'm just going to wax in his head. Megan, you've done really well.

You've dropped down to 122 now, okay, so the interview can continue. Whereabouts was the BPM when Ab said he was Robin Scott's nipple? 1-20, 1-50, 1-50. Yeah, it went up to 140, 140. I think we peaked at 140 there. Is there anything you guys could say to Megan to maybe get this heart rate getting up a bit further? Sing a song. Hi, how are you?

How you doing? Went down to 20. Yeah, yeah, she's flatline, guys. It's quite work, Scott, unfortunately. Has there any lyrics now that, you know, you're having to do so many years on? Like, wiggy, wiggy, I'm getting jiggy. Those sort of lyrics now doing them,

how do they feel now doing those, same lyrics? I enjoy doing it, but I still find it really, I don't know, I have a little thing with it, is the five bad boys with the parts of rock you. Like, what are we actually trying to say here? Because so many, so many lyrics to remember. Like, have you forgotten a lot of the lyrics? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. We've started doing the set list, and it's getting, it's getting to a point where you're listening to songs that we put in the set list, and you're going, hang on, I've not even heard this song. I don't even remember pulling this song.

No, Abbs swore that we listened to all the albums, and he swore that there was one song. He's never even heard before. Yeah. Well, we can't wait to have you here. It's been so nice hanging out. What, I'm Megan? I don't think we didn't have to cut the interview short.

Hey, you love to see you guys. Can't wait to have you in New Zealand. We'll catch you guys soon. Can't wait for a bit of a day. See you soon.