Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - MINI: What Was Your Claim To Fame?

Episode Date: July 21, 2021

We heard some of the most outrageous stories about your CLAIMS TO FAME, one woman worked with Kanye West (and spilt the TEA on him), another met Meghan Markle before she was a royal, and one held hands with Colin Farrell! CRAZY STUFF.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben new to your mornings friends of Skinny New Zealand's most recommended telco Jono and Ben hanging out with you yeah thank you

for hanging out with us too Ben Boy's hanging out with his family at home in the kitchen broadcasting live he's just waiting for test results

aren't you buddy that's right NCEA I hope to pass this year finally guys this is my year he's been trying for 20 years this will be the year he comes I hope to pass this year finally, guys. This is my year. He's been trying for 20 years.

This will be the year he comes. I hope to get into university, get a qualification and not do radio, so hopefully things work out for me. But I was telling you a story, I was speaking to a friend of mine. This is very impressive, his claim to fame. So he's got this story that he tells people he's just met to impress them. And his claim to fame is he had lunch with Beyonce and Jay-Z. Wow. What a claim to fame.

That is amazing. Now, this was Beyonce and Jay-Z had come to New Zealand. And I don't know if they were married at this time, so they weren't engaged. So Jay-Z was with his fiancée, Beyoncé, in an Auckland restaurant. I remember they came to New Zealand. I think they booked out a boutique accommodation like Molly's in Auckland, I think that was the room.

Yeah, they stayed there. Yeah, well, he was, by chance, in the restaurant when Beyoncé and Jay-Z walked in, and he says, I had lunch with Jay-Z and Beyonce. Technically, when you break it down, technically, on a technicality, Jay-Z and Beyonce sat

beside him and he was, you know, Beyonce had turned her back on him like she had the members of Destiny's Child and he was sitting back to back with Beyonce in the restaurant. Right, so they weren't at the same table not at the same table but still having lunch at the same time yeah and then you go oh well yeah he's right he had lunch with jay-z and beyonce both of them were eating lunch in the same building at the same time but

he said because you know when i imagine with you sitting next to famous people like that you'd just be watching every move they make. And he's like, Beyonce, they flew there on a helicopter apparently and she only had half a bowl of chips. Oh really? Only had half a bowl of chips and Jay-Z only had half a salad. And

he was like, oh, I could feel like dessert and Beyonce's like, I don't think you're ready for this jelly. So he had to skip out on dessert was that just a set up yeah it was

did it work no no I liked it Juliet liked it I liked it no but it kind of made everything else

you said before that like now I'm questioning everything you said before was Beyonce and Jay-Z even in the restaurant in New Zealand

yeah no this is a true story and she did only eat half a bowl of chips which he said when they left he actually snuck a chip just to say I am nice to Beyonce the restaurant in New Zealand? Yeah, no, this is a true story. And she did only eat half a bowl of chips, which he said when they left, he actually snuck a chip just to say,

just so he could add more weight to the story that he technically did have lunch. But that's pretty cool. That's a pretty cool claim to fame. I don't have anything impressive for a claim to fame. Oh, then hang up on him. Oh, he could. The one thing that people are like, oh, really?

Was it you? We've talked about this before. The Novus Windscreens, the Show Us Your Crack ad. I was one thing that people go, oh, really? Was it you? We've talked about this before. The Novus windscreens, the Show Us Your Crack ad. I was one of the people that wrote it and also sang on the ad. Show us your crack. Oh, Novus. When you find your vision lacking, Novus windscreens for you're cracking. Show us your crack.

Ah, Novus. That's true. I sang in the chorus and also got my, ah,, Novus little solo moment as well there at the end. You wrote it. You've never once shown me your crack. It's got a crack-free windscreen. It has for many years. Never had a crack on it, has it?

Thank you, Novus. What's my claim to fame? The only thing I could think of was the Commonwealth Games were once held here and I, through the help of a neighbour who was involved in the administration of the games, was the flag bearer for Papua New Guinea

as a child. Oh so you got to walk out in front of the team. Got to walk out with the team and well listen thankfully the honour was bestowed on me from another child who started to get, his arms were sore and he couldn't carry the flag anymore. So he passed the flag over to me.

He's like, do you want to take this? So then I walked at least a quarter of the track as the flag bearer of Papua New Guinea. Oh, so was it quite a heavy flag? Well, I guess if you're, you know, if you're eight or nine years old, the weight of a flagpole. And the novelty probably wears off too, doesn't it? You're like, and nothing screams screams Papa New Guinea like me. Does it?

So that's my claim to fame and boy, I felt like a million dollars. Oh, this is fun. Let's open up the phone lines because usually we have them closed but right now I think it's time to open them up. 0800 the hits, 4487 on the text. I've opened up the floodgates.

It's like a floodgates opening band. They're pouring through. Open them up. Let the calls come through. What is your claim to fame? Yeah, what do you do to impress everyone? You're one story. And you can text us too, 4487.

We've opened up the flood lines. We've opened up our borders to Australia. They're coming on in. Give us a bell. We'll start with Nick. Welcome from the Waikato. Morena. Morena, buddy.

How are you? Good to have you on, Nick. What's the Waikato. Morena. Morena, buddy. How are you? Good to have you on, Nick. What's your claim to fame? I actually had lobster with meatloaf. What? Not meatloaf, but meatloaf the singer. I was going to say, is that the technicality

that you had a bit of meatloaf with a lobster, like the actual food thing? But this is the singer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was doing security in the green room and he was having lobster and he offered me some, but this is the singer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I was doing security in the green room and he was having lobster and he offered me some,

so it was pretty cool. Oh, that's lovely of Meatloaf. It seems like an inappropriate dish for Meatloaf to be eating. Yeah, well, yeah. Given his name. He's probably sick of eating Meatloaf, isn't he?

Yeah, true. Yes, yes, yes. And that was, what, did you talk to him while you were eating lobster with Meatloaf? Yeah, yeah, him and his daughter. They were actually a nice couple. Really good. Good to talk to him while you were eating lobster with meatloaf? Yeah, him and his daughter. They were actually a nice couple.

Really good. Good to talk to. Lobster with meatloaf. I'll take that as a claim to fame. Yeah, I use it all the time. That's a beauty. We'll go to Sarah in Christchurch. Welcome.

You're on the air. Your claim to fame says? Hi there. My claim to fame is that we're family friends with the Connerys, Sean Connerys' grandkids No Yeah, we used to live in the States Sean Connery, the James Bond, one of the greatest James Bonds

Yeah, the James Bond Did you meet Sean? No, can't say I did unfortunately, but yeah, we went to their house for a few dinners and stuff And my parents went to their house in the Bahamas What, to Sean Connerys? Yeah No, that's cool Yeah, we went to their house for a few dinners and stuff. And my parents went to their house in the Bahamas. What, to Sean Connery's? Yeah. No, that's cool.

Yeah. Well, you met the people who have the same bloodline as Sean Connery. And I'll take that as a claim to fame. That's a beauty. Let's go to Lisa. Welcome. You're on from Auckland. Are you a claim to fame, Lisa?

Hi. So my claim to fame isn't too cool, but basically when Rita Ora came, she did her first Ora tour in New Zealand and she did a show at the power station.

And me and my friend were like obsessed with her. So once the show finished, we thought we'd just go around the back of the power station just to see. And anyway,

she was standing out there and they were like loading the van to leave. And so we got to chat with her for a bit. Oh, right, so you stalked her after a show. I always wondered if that worked. Yeah, I hate to admit, but it does work for like lower-class celebs. Oh, lower-level ones, the obtainable celebs.

Because Juliette, many years, you spent 10 prolific years stalking Justin Bieber. Yeah, I do. to the point where there is I think some form of an order where you can't go within 200 metres of him. Yeah, that sounds about right. But what's your claim to fame? Well, in the days of being in love with Justin Bieber, I

very embarrassingly had a fan Twitter account dedicated to him. That was part of the FBI evidence as well. Honestly, I can't believe I'm admitting this. This is so embarrassing. Honestly, I want to die inside right now. But yeah, so I had this fan account, Twitter account for Justin Bieber. And once I just tweeted the Backstreet Boys being like,

please follow me on Twitter. And then the Backstreet Boys started following me. And I just lost my marbles. Yeah, why not? Why wouldn't you tweet Justin Bieber to follow you? Well, I tried that many times for many years, and that didn't work, so I settled for the Backstreet Boys.

And would you interact with the Backstreet Boys? No, well, I think I tried to DM them, but that Twitter account is long gone. I deleted everything of it when I finally matured. Yeah. All traces of your BB years. Your wild BB. Some texts flowing through here.

Some great texts, actually. 4487. My claim to fame is I've met four members of the royal family, Prince William, Prince Charles, Camilla and Fergie. Wow. Jealous. Good claim to fame. Another one here involving the royals.

While working in London, I sold Princess Diana two matchbox cars in a toy shop in London. That's pretty cool. My dad, Kevin, he dines down the fact that he met Princess Diana once. He's even got the photo in a frame. I don't think he's got any framed photos of me up in his house, but he's got one of him meeting Diana when she came to Masterton, of all places.

And there were a whole lot of people, because Dad was the headmaster of a school, and he went up and basically got to say hello. And she said, are these all your kids? And he said, oh, not mine personally. And she goes, good, because I knew there must have been family planning in New Zealand. So I thought it was quite a good joke from her actually.

Oh yeah, on the spot, a bit of ad-libbing comedy there. Yeah, that was a regular bit. When the royals come here, why don't we go, oh, you must go to Masters. I mean, I'm from Masters and I'm like, oh jeez, would you go back there? Prince Harry, you've got to check out Stewart Island before you leave No wonder Harry wanted out

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