June 20, 2024 • 16 mins
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!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This Gentleman Being podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey, that's us brought to you by Hello Fresh, the
Experts and Tastes that Loves.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Are you in the height of summer?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Oh well no, I mean it's not even officially summer yet.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
It's just it's just like it'll be summer like in
I don't know, like a week or two.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
But we're having a heat wave.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
So it's like ninety five degrees here and we're melting
in the New York in a city it feels like, hell, ye,
sitting on Satan's asshole?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Are you are you? Do you live right in the city,
do you?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes? I live right on the Upper East Side.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
She's thirty five degrees and yeah, I was just like
I was just cooking that as well as we do here.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We're a weird Oh my god. I know.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Every time every time we say that, Ben has to
tell me that you're you guys do.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It the right way.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
It's the British makes it sound very extreme though.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't even know how to tell you what that is.
For you guys.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Hey, I'm sure Taylor brought you across it.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
We're just doing a silly little feature this week, what
was a better era of the nineties or the early noughties,
and just a whole bunch of nostalgia stuff really, so
we might throw some old old stuff to here too, Okay, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, we'll see if I can remember hard right party
pretty hard.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
In you remember? Yeah? Okay, we are rolling, Nicole. How
are you doing.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm doing okay, it's good to see you guys.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We'll probably doing better than justin Timberlake. The big news
over the last day or so. You know, we'll be
talking this week about the nineties and the noughties. He's
the star that's been with us since the late nineties,
still around store, a big star. But he's been done
for drink driving, is that right?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
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 have a friend who told me,
always 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
(02:13):
in the Hampton's. He's gonna be doing the New York
City show. It's this huge deal. Now everyone's like, oh
my god, it is his Crisis team and his Pure
team gonna send him to ree. How are they going
to cancel this show? And again you don't know did
he have.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Like two drinks or was he like like destroyed? Was
he like pissed? Well, because his friends are saying he
had one martini?
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Right, But then if you believe the reports he refused
to breath taste, why are you refusing it?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And you look at his eye someone on the internet
city looks like he's about to cry me a river.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
They look a little glassy.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, they look a little bit glassy, But hey, I
don't want to juge. It's still great lighting in that
much has one martine?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
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 gonna be like, yo, listen, I'm loaded.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's not gonna be what you say. And I was
told before that you are supposed.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
To like refuse it if you can, because it gives
it takes time for them. Then you have more time
for the alcohol and metabolized, and they get there, and
by time they get like the blood tests going, you
might be a little bit better. But who knows if
that's you know, BS.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Jesus is a specialty topic.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It really is. It really is someone who doesn't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You certainly know a lot about.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well. But I mean, surely he would be able to
get a driver. He's got money, right, I mean it
seems very unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Drink lots of drinks.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Whatever happened for him to be driving at all?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You're just in freaking Timberlake, like where I'm a regular
Joe Schmo.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I will always take a cab or an uber or
a 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 you would.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Have a driver. So what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, is a nice guy. He would have made him.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh my god, he is. He is a sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
He doesn't The last time he was supposed to come
in he ran like two hours late, which I'm never
a huge fan of but yeah, all the all the
biggies have kept us waiting, Like Christina Aguilera kept us waiting.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Mariah Carrey kept us waiting for four hours years ago.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
But what is the longest amount of time you've had
to white for a celebrity?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It was Mariah Carey.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It was four hours, and like her people had her
like like a list of all the things that she wanted,
so there was like a whole platter of all her
favorite treats and all these things. 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 it was roast.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
When you're that famous, time as an even effector is it?
But to other people, you've got stuff you need to
go and do.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, I'm somebody who I probably should work on this.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Seeing is like I could probably get fired if I
say the wrong thing to the wrong person.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
But I feel like, yeah, you would never do this
for TV, right, Like you would.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Never be late for television.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But the 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?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Like what took you so long? Like I'll call them out, try.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
To make it funny, but their pr or their publicist
doesn't always think it's that funny.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's a good question, it's good like what hell are
you four hours late?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
What are you doing? What have you been doing? You
just don't give a crap about my time?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah one, Yeah, text a while to drink one one
margrat or doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So we're looking this week at the two thousands and
the nineties, the early two thousands. We won't start with that,
just to mix things up. Now, obviously some big pop
culture moments, you know, from the start of American Idol
Survivor Kardashian's the yearly two thousands, but a real moment
that went worldwide and a very sad moment for the
world when nine or even happened.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
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 Groggley 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
(06:05):
are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Like I thought it was a dream, and like hung up.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
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.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know, what part of the country were you in
at the time.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
So I was in upstate New York, so I was
not in New York City, but I mean I had
I knew tons of people here. My husband now 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
lived worked down there where they were, they were nowhere
near there. People were freaking out. What if they are
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near there? Where if they're on a subway on the
way there.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I mean, there was so.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Much unknown and it was like, oh my god, I
get chills even thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
It's crazy, dude, his differend's attitude or approach changed since then?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Or was things going back to the way it was previous.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
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 US is.
But yeah, I think it took at least, like at
least a good ten years for people to not always
be like wondering.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I think that got scared people to fly when they
were in the US, and maybe 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.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Know, lightning doesn't strike twice, you don't.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
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.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So it was. It was a scary place and place
to be in life.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Now I understand where the twin tails used to be
there's like a museum right in ground zero with I
haven't rebuilt anything, but people can go along and pay
their re speaks.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yes, it's absolutely beautiful. Most of the people that I know,
friends and family, have all been there. 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
(08:16):
something this catastrophic happened.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
It's just it's really it's just surreal.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I got a call with us in SI Reporter Live
from America the nineties. We're celebrating the nineties today in Nicole. Now,
do you remember the nineties?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I do remember the nineties. I mean I was young
in the nineties. It was like middle school high school
for me.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
But it was it was fun, it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I feel like things were like easier than 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, It'spin Doctors and like I just
I just was obsessed with all of of all of
those bands, and I just thought it was so bad
as you were, you.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Running a thin hall my eyebrow like Megan here.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Oh, my mom threatened me with every inch of a
tweezer because she like knew.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
She was like, this is not gonna last.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
And I remember like, but wanting my eyebrows to look
like Drew barrymore, like wanting them to be the tiniest
things ever.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And she was like, you're going to regret it.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I'm so glad I never did, because most of my
friends did.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
But it was the look.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It was like that, like that.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Steamed lip and like the thin, itty bitty eyebrows.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Horrible you anybody brows looked good? Megan Good did not.
They literally looked like the McDonald's slow, like very odd. Yeah. Perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
When you look at the nineties and from so many
things came out the nineties, as you say, amazing music,
amazing movies, but friends show you know what was well
sit in New York, if I can say that obviously
not filmed there, but very iconic to the city that
you live in.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, it's really nuts.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
And you know, they've got the whole experience that you
can go and kind of visit like what we know,
the place that they would visit. 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 it's one of those things that like 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, like it was like it had never been
(10:14):
done like this, all of a sudden're getting a million
in episode between that and like 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.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It was just such a cool time. I remember wanting
to look and be like every one of them.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The right hiccut was a huge thing.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You read the double meg.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I was a super cold at the time.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Also, it's it's really funny because Jennifer Inison did it
like her hair dresser just did that, Like she didn't
ask for that. He just was like, Okay, we're gonna
do this new look like she wasn't he created it,
and then all of a sudden everybody went nuts over it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Dub wond it was she was. She thrilled with it
when she fished.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I think she'd like to burn any picture of her
with that hair.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You would have made, You would have made the friends,
you would have made the friends cast I'm sure over
the East.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
No. No, it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
So like there's like there's we have met something like
the biggest superstars ever, but then there's just like a
small echelon of of of celebrity and of actor that
has not come in, like we've never gotten like a
Brad Pitt. I never got a Jennifer Aniston, which I
did not mean to say together because they us too married.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
But yeah, there's there's certain art like there's certain artists.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
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 and then maybe like like a Good Morning
America type thing, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
They don't that's the only problem they have to do.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
And then like a red carpet somewhere they don't need radio,
So yeah, I didn't get to ever meet any of them.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Who's your star that you always wanted to terv Gosling,
Ryan Gosling, Done and done.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Done, Mit Gosling, No, no, I want to.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So he has been up to our radio station and
he was doing this special for I don't remember what
movie it was.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
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?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Like how could you not tell me he was going
to be.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Here because it was like top secret because they didn't
want everyone like phoning over him.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And I was like, you know that's my number one?
Like you know, no, that's betrayal my heart so bad?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Can I can I tell you? I haven't interviewed him
in the flesh before. He's a beautiful man, beautiful man,
beautiful man. He came to New Zealand when he was
very young on a show called Young Hercules and filmed
and lived in New Zealand. So he's got a bit
of a New Zealand connection.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Is that when you interviewed him that long doing this job,
when he was a child, I mean, to be famous
and the two of us together as kids.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
No, no, we talked to me, he's not. We all
remember the time he was here.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Don't lie. You know that you tried out for the
Mickey Mouse shops, killed for.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
The Mickey mask.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And so what would be your preferred era? Nicole? Nineties
are the only Norties.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I mean, I think I have to say the two thousands,
Like whenever I'm listening to music in the car, whenever
like two thousand. Mean, I obviously like have a very
like soft spot and special place in my heart for
the nineties 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.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
It's totally rebellion.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
But the two thousands of music like that, when all
those songs come on, I'm like, yes, yes, and.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You started loving your mom and daddy.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Then I was like, Okay, it's not all your faults anymore,
just just cooking. I MEAs you would have been quite young.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
But a very iconic thing to happen in America in
the nineties was the OJ Simpson trial. I mean that
was huge worldwide as well. What are your member for that?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
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?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Like is he nuts? Is he thinks he's gonna get
a way?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
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 US,
they wield televisions into all of our classrooms. I was
in a class called technology at the time, which really
makes me what the heck.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Does that mean?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
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 us, like as a learning experience
or its because the teachers were all like what the
heck was going to happen?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
But either way, I remember watching it. It was It
was nuts.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
It really it turned into a big racial conversation, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, it really did.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
And I mean and then it's there's always been ebbs
and flows of that, like things that happened, and scandals
and moments I think here in the US that have
raised like like like another racial sort of like uprising
or you know, bring attention to like, you know, the
differences and the inequalities. But that one was special because
he was not just African American, but he was like
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a very wealthy African American, And it was like, is
he being treated differently for different reasons because of his race?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
On one side, like I think.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
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 gonna let a black man walk kind of thing.
So you know, there was a lot of crazy stuff,
and then you know it got reignited with the Kardashians
because obviously Chris was best friends with you know, Nicole Brown,
and so that kind of really came into the pop
(15:28):
culture realm again when the Kardashians became on television, which
was interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
She made a gigabite it So Kim kardash at the
Tom Brady Rush just recently.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Yeah, she's like, my family's back to former footballers before.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, they're they're not always the
most ghosh, but.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Like I think they have to take a lot.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
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 he had a
laugh real cry in her position.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You gotta laugh for the.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Nicole. Thank you so much for chatting again. I really
appreciate this, and you go love hanging out with you guys.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It's also fun. We really do appreciate your time. Enjoy
that chorus ninety whatever degree temperature.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Thank you guys,
This Gentleman Being podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Are you in the height of summer?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Oh well no, I mean it's not even officially summer yet.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
It's just it's just like it'll be summer like in
I don't know, like a week or two.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
But we're having a heat wave.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
So it's like ninety five degrees here and we're melting
in the New York in a city it feels like, hell, ye,
sitting on Satan's asshole?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Are you are you? Do you live right in the city,
do you?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yes? I live right on the Upper East Side.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
She's thirty five degrees and yeah, I was just like
I was just cooking that as well as we do here.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We're a weird Oh my god. I know.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Every time every time we say that, Ben has to
tell me that you're you guys do.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It the right way.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
It's the British makes it sound very extreme though.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't even know how to tell you what that is.
For you guys.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Hey, I'm sure Taylor brought you across it.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
We're just doing a silly little feature this week, what
was a better era of the nineties or the early noughties,
and just a whole bunch of nostalgia stuff really, so
we might throw some old old stuff to here too, Okay, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, we'll see if I can remember hard right party
pretty hard.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
In you remember? Yeah? Okay, we are rolling, Nicole. How
are you doing.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I'm doing okay, it's good to see you guys.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We'll probably doing better than justin Timberlake. The big news
over the last day or so. You know, we'll be
talking this week about the nineties and the noughties. He's
the star that's been with us since the late nineties,
still around store, a big star. But he's been done
for drink driving, is that right?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
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 have a friend who told me,
always 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
(02:13):
in the Hampton's. He's gonna be doing the New York
City show. It's this huge deal. Now everyone's like, oh
my god, it is his Crisis team and his Pure
team gonna send him to ree. How are they going
to cancel this show? And again you don't know did
he have.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Like two drinks or was he like like destroyed? Was
he like pissed? Well, because his friends are saying he
had one martini?
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Right, But then if you believe the reports he refused
to breath taste, why are you refusing it?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And you look at his eye someone on the internet
city looks like he's about to cry me a river.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
They look a little glassy.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, they look a little bit glassy, But hey, I
don't want to juge. It's still great lighting in that
much has one martine?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
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 gonna be like, yo, listen, I'm loaded.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
That's not gonna be what you say. And I was
told before that you are supposed.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
To like refuse it if you can, because it gives
it takes time for them. Then you have more time
for the alcohol and metabolized, and they get there, and
by time they get like the blood tests going, you
might be a little bit better. But who knows if
that's you know, BS.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Jesus is a specialty topic.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It really is. It really is someone who doesn't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You certainly know a lot about.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well. But I mean, surely he would be able to
get a driver. He's got money, right, I mean it
seems very unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Drink lots of drinks.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Whatever happened for him to be driving at all?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You're just in freaking Timberlake, like where I'm a regular
Joe Schmo.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I will always take a cab or an uber or
a 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 you would.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Have a driver. So what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, is a nice guy. He would have made him.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh my god, he is. He is a sweetheart.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
He doesn't The last time he was supposed to come
in he ran like two hours late, which I'm never
a huge fan of but yeah, all the all the
biggies have kept us waiting, Like Christina Aguilera kept us waiting.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Mariah Carrey kept us waiting for four hours years ago.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
But what is the longest amount of time you've had
to white for a celebrity?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It was Mariah Carey.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
It was four hours, and like her people had her
like like a list of all the things that she wanted,
so there was like a whole platter of all her
favorite treats and all these things. 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 it was roast.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
When you're that famous, time as an even effector is it?
But to other people, you've got stuff you need to
go and do.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, I'm somebody who I probably should work on this.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Seeing is like I could probably get fired if I
say the wrong thing to the wrong person.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
But I feel like, yeah, you would never do this
for TV, right, Like you would.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Never be late for television.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But the 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?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Like what took you so long? Like I'll call them out, try.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
To make it funny, but their pr or their publicist
doesn't always think it's that funny.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
It's a good question, it's good like what hell are
you four hours late?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
What are you doing? What have you been doing? You
just don't give a crap about my time?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah one, Yeah, text a while to drink one one
margrat or doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So we're looking this week at the two thousands and
the nineties, the early two thousands. We won't start with that,
just to mix things up. Now, obviously some big pop
culture moments, you know, from the start of American Idol
Survivor Kardashian's the yearly two thousands, but a real moment
that went worldwide and a very sad moment for the
world when nine or even happened.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
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 Groggley 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
(06:05):
are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Like I thought it was a dream, and like hung up.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
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.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know, what part of the country were you in
at the time.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
So I was in upstate New York, so I was
not in New York City, but I mean I had
I knew tons of people here. My husband now 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
lived worked down there where they were, they were nowhere
near there. People were freaking out. What if they are
(06:44):
near there? Where if they're on a subway on the
way there.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I mean, there was so.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Much unknown and it was like, oh my god, I
get chills even thinking about it.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
It's crazy, dude, his differend's attitude or approach changed since then?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Or was things going back to the way it was previous.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
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 US is.
But yeah, I think it took at least, like at
least a good ten years for people to not always
be like wondering.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I think that got scared people to fly when they
were in the US, and maybe 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.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Know, lightning doesn't strike twice, you don't.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
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.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
So it was. It was a scary place and place
to be in life.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Now I understand where the twin tails used to be
there's like a museum right in ground zero with I
haven't rebuilt anything, but people can go along and pay
their re speaks.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Yes, it's absolutely beautiful. Most of the people that I know,
friends and family, have all been there. 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
(08:16):
something this catastrophic happened.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
It's just it's really it's just surreal.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I got a call with us in SI Reporter Live
from America the nineties. We're celebrating the nineties today in Nicole. Now,
do you remember the nineties?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I do remember the nineties. I mean I was young
in the nineties. It was like middle school high school
for me.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
But it was it was fun, it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I feel like things were like easier than 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, It'spin Doctors and like I just
I just was obsessed with all of of all of
those bands, and I just thought it was so bad
as you were, you.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Running a thin hall my eyebrow like Megan here.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Oh, my mom threatened me with every inch of a
tweezer because she like knew.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
She was like, this is not gonna last.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
And I remember like, but wanting my eyebrows to look
like Drew barrymore, like wanting them to be the tiniest
things ever.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And she was like, you're going to regret it.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I'm so glad I never did, because most of my
friends did.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
But it was the look.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It was like that, like that.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Steamed lip and like the thin, itty bitty eyebrows.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Horrible you anybody brows looked good? Megan Good did not.
They literally looked like the McDonald's slow, like very odd. Yeah. Perfect.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
When you look at the nineties and from so many
things came out the nineties, as you say, amazing music,
amazing movies, but friends show you know what was well
sit in New York, if I can say that obviously
not filmed there, but very iconic to the city that
you live in.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Yeah, it's really nuts.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
And you know, they've got the whole experience that you
can go and kind of visit like what we know,
the place that they would visit. 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 it's one of those things that like 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, like it was like it had never been
(10:14):
done like this, all of a sudden're getting a million
in episode between that and like 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.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
It was just such a cool time. I remember wanting
to look and be like every one of them.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
The right hiccut was a huge thing.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
You read the double meg.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Hi.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I was a super cold at the time.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Also, it's it's really funny because Jennifer Inison did it
like her hair dresser just did that, Like she didn't
ask for that. He just was like, Okay, we're gonna
do this new look like she wasn't he created it,
and then all of a sudden everybody went nuts over it.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Dub wond it was she was. She thrilled with it
when she fished.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I think she'd like to burn any picture of her
with that hair.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You would have made, You would have made the friends,
you would have made the friends cast I'm sure over
the East.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
No. No, it's interesting.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
So like there's like there's we have met something like
the biggest superstars ever, but then there's just like a
small echelon of of of celebrity and of actor that
has not come in, like we've never gotten like a
Brad Pitt. I never got a Jennifer Aniston, which I
did not mean to say together because they us too married.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
But yeah, there's there's certain art like there's certain artists.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
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 and then maybe like like a Good Morning
America type thing, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
They don't that's the only problem they have to do.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
And then like a red carpet somewhere they don't need radio,
So yeah, I didn't get to ever meet any of them.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Who's your star that you always wanted to terv Gosling,
Ryan Gosling, Done and done.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Done, Mit Gosling, No, no, I want to.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So he has been up to our radio station and
he was doing this special for I don't remember what
movie it was.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
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?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Like how could you not tell me he was going
to be.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Here because it was like top secret because they didn't
want everyone like phoning over him.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And I was like, you know that's my number one?
Like you know, no, that's betrayal my heart so bad?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Can I can I tell you? I haven't interviewed him
in the flesh before. He's a beautiful man, beautiful man,
beautiful man. He came to New Zealand when he was
very young on a show called Young Hercules and filmed
and lived in New Zealand. So he's got a bit
of a New Zealand connection.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Is that when you interviewed him that long doing this job,
when he was a child, I mean, to be famous
and the two of us together as kids.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
No, no, we talked to me, he's not. We all
remember the time he was here.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Don't lie. You know that you tried out for the
Mickey Mouse shops, killed for.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
The Mickey mask.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And so what would be your preferred era? Nicole? Nineties
are the only Norties.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
I mean, I think I have to say the two thousands,
Like whenever I'm listening to music in the car, whenever
like two thousand. Mean, I obviously like have a very
like soft spot and special place in my heart for
the nineties 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.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
It's totally rebellion.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
But the two thousands of music like that, when all
those songs come on, I'm like, yes, yes, and.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
You started loving your mom and daddy.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Then I was like, Okay, it's not all your faults anymore,
just just cooking. I MEAs you would have been quite young.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
But a very iconic thing to happen in America in
the nineties was the OJ Simpson trial. I mean that
was huge worldwide as well. What are your member for that?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
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?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Like is he nuts? Is he thinks he's gonna get
a way?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
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 US,
they wield televisions into all of our classrooms. I was
in a class called technology at the time, which really
makes me what the heck.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Does that mean?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
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 us, like as a learning experience
or its because the teachers were all like what the
heck was going to happen?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
But either way, I remember watching it. It was It
was nuts.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
It really it turned into a big racial conversation, didn't it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yeah, it really did.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
And I mean and then it's there's always been ebbs
and flows of that, like things that happened, and scandals
and moments I think here in the US that have
raised like like like another racial sort of like uprising
or you know, bring attention to like, you know, the
differences and the inequalities. But that one was special because
he was not just African American, but he was like
(14:58):
a very wealthy African American, And it was like, is
he being treated differently for different reasons because of his race?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
On one side, like I think.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
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 gonna let a black man walk kind of thing.
So you know, there was a lot of crazy stuff,
and then you know it got reignited with the Kardashians
because obviously Chris was best friends with you know, Nicole Brown,
and so that kind of really came into the pop
(15:28):
culture realm again when the Kardashians became on television, which
was interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
She made a gigabite it So Kim kardash at the
Tom Brady Rush just recently.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Yeah, she's like, my family's back to former footballers before.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, listen, they're they're not always the
most ghosh, but.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Like I think they have to take a lot.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
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 he had a
laugh real cry in her position.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
You gotta laugh for the.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Nicole. Thank you so much for chatting again. I really
appreciate this, and you go love hanging out with you guys.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It's also fun. We really do appreciate your time. Enjoy
that chorus ninety whatever degree temperature.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Thank you guys,
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