Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - What is happening with Justin Timberlake?

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

We are joined by our entertainment reporter Nicole from New York to discuss everything in the tabloids + American news stories that shocked the world in the 90's!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This John Owen Ben podcast, hey that's us, brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. Are you in the height of summer? Oh well no, I mean it's not even officially summer yet. It's just, it's just like it'll be summer like in, I don't know, like a week or two. Yeah. But we're having a heat wave so it's like 95 degrees here and we're melting and in a city, it feels like hell. Yeah. Sitting on Satan's asshole do you live right

in the city do you yes I live right on the Upper East Side oh nice cool she's 35 degrees and

it's hot yeah I was just looking at that as well I was like we do Celsius over here we're a bit weird oh my god I know every time

every time we say that Ben has to tell me that you're you guys do it the right way well i don't know if it's the right way it's the british 95 makes it sound very extreme though when you're talking about 95 wow yeah i don't even know i don't even know how to tell you what that is for you guys yeah hey uh i'm sure taylor brought you across it we're just doing a silly little feature this week What was a better era, the 90s or the early noughties And just a whole bunch of nostalgia stuff really

So we might throw some old stuff to you too Okay Yeah, yeah Yeah, we'll see if I can remember I partied pretty hard in college I think I vaguely remember yeah okay uh we are rolling nicole how you doing i'm doing okay it's good to see you guys oh well you're probably doing better than justin timberlake uh the big news over the last day or so you know we'll be talking this week about the 90s and the noughties

he's the star that's been with us since the late 90s. Still around, still a big star, but he's been done for drink driving. Is that right? Yeah. And listen, I just, this is just the timing is so horrible. And, you know, he didn't do what he's supposed to do. Like I've, I have a friend who told me always, if you ever get arrested, thankfully knock on wood, I never have been. You always smile in your mugshot, because that picture will live

on forever. So you don't want to look like, so he's not smiling, so that's like the first issue. But now everyone's worried because he's in, out in the Hamptons. He's going to be doing the New York City show. It's this huge deal. Now everyone's like, oh my God, is his crisis team and his PR team going to send him to rehab? Are they

going to cancel the show? And again, you don't know. Did he have like two drinks, or was he like, like destroyed? Was he like pissed? Well, cause his friends are saying he had one martini, right? But then if you believe the reports, he refused a breath test. It's like, why are you refusing it? And you look at his eyes, someone on the internet said, he looks like he's about to cry me a river. They look a little glassy. They look a little bit glassy, but the, I don't want to joke. It's still great lighting in that mug shot. Who has one martini? Yeah, exactly. Like, if I got

stopped after I had been drinking, which again, I don't do, but like, if you do, you're not going to be like, yo, listen, I'm loaded. That's not going to be what you say. And I was told before that you are supposed to like, refuse it if you can, because it takes time for them. Then you have like more time

for the alcohol and metabolize and they get there and by time they get like the blood test going you might be a little bit better but who knows if that's you know BS

geez this is your specialty topic isn't it it really is it really is someone who doesn't do it you certainly know a lot about it definitely don't do it don't do it

so well but I mean surely he would be able to get a driver. He's got money, right? I mean, it seems very unnecessary. Give him an Uber, Justin. One drink or lots of drinks, whatever happened for him to be driving at all.

You're Justin freaking Timberlake. Like, I'm a regular Joe Schmo. I will always take a cab or an Uber or Lyft or whatever. Why? What is the point? You are one of the richest people ever. You're so famous. You're on a tour that is making

you a lot of money what is the point of taking that chance call an uber if you don't have a driver but i would think he would have a driver so what are you doing yeah yeah is he a nice guy you would have met him oh my god he is he is a sweetheart um he doesn't the last time he was supposed to come in he ran like two hours, which I'm never a huge fan of. No. All the biggies have kept us waiting. Like Christina Aguilera kept us waiting. Mariah Carey kept us waiting for four hours.

Oh, my God. This was years ago. What is the longest amount of time you've had to wait for a celebrity? It was Mariah Carey. It was four hours. That is ludicrous. And her people had her list of all the things that she wanted, so there was a whole platter of all her favorite treats and all these things, and they were like, it has to

be here. It has to be here. She got there and pushed it away like it was garbage. Like it was gross. When you're that famous, time isn't even a factor, is it? But to other people, you've got stuff you need to go and do. Yeah. I'm somebody who i probably

should work on this seeing as like i could probably get fired if i say the wrong thing to the wrong person but i feel like yeah you would never do this for tv right like you would never be late for television but they people are late for us at my job all the time and i will call them out on the air and when they sit down they finally get there i'm like so like what what were you doing like what took you so long like i'll call them out i try to make it funny but their pr or their publicist doesn't always think it's that funny it's a good question it's good like why how are you four hours late what are you doing what have you been doing you just don't give a crap about my time yeah exactly one oh yeah it takes a while to drink one one margarita, doesn't it? Or martini.

So we're looking this week at the 2000s and the 90s, the early 2000s. We might start with that just to mix things up. Now, obviously, some big pop culture moments, you know, from the start of American Idol, Survivor, Kardashians, the early 2000s. But a real moment that went worldwide and a very sad moment for the world when 9-11 happened. Yeah. went worldwide and a very sad moment for the world when 9-11 happened yeah it's crazy because i remember i was at call i was in college and i was at my boyfriend's dorm at the time and i remember we were sound asleep because we had been out the night before and his mother called and we sort of like groggily got that like picked up the phone and she was like screaming and crying because she had known somebody there and she's telling us what had happened and we were like what are you talking about like thought it was a dream

and like hung up and then all of a sudden like our lives changed you know we kind of woke up and started watching the footage we all got together with our friends and it was it was terrifying i mean it was one of the most terrifying things that i've ever watched you know what part of the country were you in at the time so i was in upstate new york so i was not in new york city but um i mean i had i knew tons of people here my husband now um was in new york city and his family was away and they were freaking out because they couldn't get a hold of him so there was a lot of those stories it was like you couldn't get a hold of people for the longest time or you know even if they live work down there or they were they were nowhere near there people were

freaking out what if they are near there? What if they're on a subway on the way there? I mean, there was so much unknown and it was like, oh, my God, I get chills even thinking about it. It's crazy. Has everyone's attitude or approach changed since then? Or has things gone back to the way it was previous? I mean, listen, I think if anything has changed in the more recent,

the pandemic has changed the way that the city is and the way that like the U.S. is. But, yeah, I think it took at least like at least a good 10 years for people to not always be like wondering. You know, I think that scared people to fly when they were in the U.S. Maybe it scared people everywhere to fly. You know, there was a lot of my mom wanted me to check in with her a lot more than I used to have to, especially once I moved to New York city, it was like, you never know. And I think, I don't know, like, you know, lightning doesn't strike twice. You don't get like in an accident more than twice, but like, so you think something

like this would never happen, but like the world is crazy and terrorists are crazy. So it was, it was a scary place and place to be in life now i understand where the twin towers uh used to be there's like a museum right in ground zero where they haven't rebuilt anything but people can go along and pay their respects yes it's absolutely beautiful um most of the people that i know friends and family have all been there um my husband and i have not been able to bring ourselves to go down there but we have two children that have asked about it because they're learning about it in school and we need to go down there. But it is one of those things that even though it's this many years later and it is just a memorial, it stirs up a lot of emotion and it's just, you can't believe something

this catastrophic happened. It's just, it's really, it's just surreal. We've got Nicole with us, our entertainment reporter live from America, the 90s. we're celebrating the 90s today nicole now do you remember the 90s i do remember the 90s i mean i was young in the 90s it was like middle school high school for me but it was um it was fun it was awesome i feel like things were like easier then and i remember just the whole like like i was obsessed with grunge i was obviously like you know like blind melon and pearl jam and nirvana and spin doctors and like i just i just was obsessed with all of all of those bands and i just thought it was so badass were you were you running a uh thin high eyebrow like megan here oh my mom threatened me with every inch of a tweezer

because she knew, she was like, this is not going to last. And I remember wanting my eyebrows to look like Drew Barrymore, wanting them to be the tiniest things ever. And she was like, you're going to regret it. I'm so glad I never did because most of my friends did. But it was the look. It was like that

stained lip and the thin, itty-bitty eyebrows. Horrible. Itty-bitty eyebrows the thin itty-bitty eyebrows. Horrible. Itty-bitty eyebrows. Your itty-bitty brows looked good, Megan. No, they did not. They literally looked like the McDonald's look, like very arched as well. The golden arches.

Yeah, definitely. Horrific. When you look at the 90s, so many things came out of the 90s. As you say, amazing music, amazing movies, but Friends, a show which was set in New York, if I can say that, obviously not filmed there, but very, a show, you know, which was, well, set in New York, if I can say that, obviously not filmed there, but very iconic to the city that you live in. Yeah, it's really nuts. And, you know, they've got the whole experience that you can go and kind of visit, like, what, you know, the place that they would visit. And they have, like, the parts of,

like, the sets all still there. So you can feel like, you know, you're, like, you were there. But it's one of those things that changed television, right? It changed the whole entertainment industry when they all decided that they were going to stick together. And all of a sudden, it was like, it had never been done like this. All of a sudden, they're getting a million an episode. Between that and Seinfeld,

it's just the whole television realm changed, just the way that they did everything. And they were so cool and they were such trendsetters and everybody wanted their hair and their makeup and their looks it was just such a cool time i remember wanting to look and be like every one of them the rachel haircut was a huge thing right i had it the thin eyebrows and the rachel haircut didn't you megan oh you had the double megan i Hey, I was super cool at the time. Also, it's really funny because Jennifer Aniston did it.

Like, her hairdresser just did that. Like, she didn't ask for that. He just was like, okay, we're going to do this new look. Like, she wasn't. He, like, created it. And then all of a sudden everybody went nuts over it. I wonder, was she thrilled with it when she first got it? Yeah.

I think she'd like to burn any picture of her with that haircut. You would have met the Friends cast, I'm sure, over the years? No. No, never. It's interesting. So we have met some of the biggest superstars ever, but then there's just a small echelon of celebrity and of actor that has not come in.

We've never gotten a a brad pitt i never got a jennifer aniston which i did not mean to say together because they used to be married um but yeah there's there's certain art like there's certain artists there's certain celebrities that just don't need to do radio right like all they have to do is a late night television shows yeah and then maybe like like a good morning america type thing and that's it they don't that's the only promo they have to do and then like a red carpet somewhere so they don't need radio so yeah i didn't get to ever meet any of them. Who's your star that you

always wanted to interview? I mean, Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling. Done and done. Done it. Met Gosling. No. Oh, she wants to. Oh, wants to. No, I want to. So he has been up to our radio station, and he was doing this special for, I don't remember what movie it was,

and I remember hearing that he had been up there and I called one of the people in talent and that books, all of our talent. And I was like, how could you do this to me? Like, how could you not tell me he was going to be here? Cause it was like top secret.

Cause they didn't want everyone like fawning over him. And, and I was like, you know, that's my number one. Like, you know, no,

that's betrayal. Oh God, hurt my heart so bad. Can I tell you, I have interviewed him in the flesh before. He's a beautiful man. Shut up.

Stop it. A beautiful man. He came to New Zealand when he was very young on a show called Young Hercules and he filmed and lived in New Zealand. So he's got a bit

of a New Zealand connection. Is that when you interviewed him? Not in New Zealand. No, no. I didn't mean to be around that long doing this job. That's for sure. He interviewed Gosling

when he was a child i mean one day he's gonna be famous and the two of us together as kids no no i too late we talked about he's not we all remembered the time he was here don't lie you know that you tried out for the mickey mouse club it's okay i would have killed for the mickey mouse club and so what would be your preferred era uh nicole 90s or the early noughties i mean i think i have to say the 2000s like whenever i'm listening to music in the car whenever like 2000 i mean i obviously like have a very like soft spot and special place in my heart for the 90s because it was just such a moment and it was so like angsty and like it was like i hate you mom and

dad kind of thing and totally rebellion, but the 2000s music, like that, when all those songs come on, I'm like, yes, yes. And you started loving your mom and dad again. Yes. Then I was like, okay, it's not all your fault anymore. Just quickly, I imagine you would have been quite young, but a very iconic thing to have in America in the nineties was the OJ Simpson trial. I mean, that was huge worldwide as well. What do you remember for that? So I remember sitting at the kitchen table, my mom was cooking dinner and that's when the chase was happening. And I remember not understanding, but them explaining to me and I was like, oh my God. And then I remember my mom and dad being

like, oh, is this guy crazy? Like, is he nuts? Does he think he's going to get away? And then I remember when they were, you know, reading the verdict every in all of the schools where I lived. And I imagine a lot of places in the U.S. they wheeled televisions into all of our classrooms. I was in a class called technology at the time, which really what the heck does that mean? It was like a workshop. And they they wheeled them in and we all watched the verdict. And I don't know it was for was for us as a learning experience or it's because the teachers were all like, what the heck is going to happen?

But either way, I remember watching it. It was nuts. It really turned into a big racial conversation, didn't it? Yeah, it really did. And I mean, and then there's always been ebbs and flows of that, like things that happen and scandals and moments, I think, here in the u.s that have raised like or like like another racial sort of like uprising or you know bring attention to like you

know the differences and and the inequalities but that one was special because he was not just african-american but he was like a very wealthy african-american and it was like is he being treated differently for different reasons because of his race on one side? Like, I think some people thought that if he was if he was acquitted, which he was, it was because he was very wealthy and had the money to have all these people, these great lawyers. And if he wasn't, it was because we weren't going to let a black man walk kind of thing. Right. So, you know, there was a lot of crazy stuff. And then, you know, it got reignited with the Kardashians because obviously Chrisris was best friends with you know nicole brown and um so that kind of re re came into the pop culture realm again when the kardashians became on television which is interesting she made it she made a gag about it too kim kardashian at the tom brady roast oh just recently yeah she's like my family's back to former footballers before

that didn't turn out too well. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, listen, they're not always the most gauche, but like, I think they have to take a lot of the stuff that they're given and like the craziness

that surrounds them and they have to make fun because you either have to make fun and laugh with everybody. Otherwise you're just, you know, I feel like you gotta laugh, real cry.

If I was in her position, you gotta laugh with everybody before you just cry. Hey, Nicole, thank you so much for chatting again. I really appreciate this. I love hanging out with you guys. It's lots of fun. We really

do appreciate your time. Enjoy that 90-whatever degree temperature. Thank you, guys.