Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: Jandal Flicking World Records With How To Dad!

Episode Date: December 18, 2022

This Jono and Ben summer episode takes us back to when How To Dad broke a world record ... with his Jandal's!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We don't have to fill it with Jandl Chip, just so you guys are aware, these are just our new versions, the Golden G2, new and improved, we've taken on feedback and we're back, and we've got kids sizes, that's great. Now we're with How To Dad, Jordan Watson, we're just getting the lowdown on the G2, the G2 Jandl, the second wave, the second incarnation of your Jandl. Yeah, don't stuff this up guys, alright, the Golden G2, lighter, stronger the comfier kid sizes available right my plug's done what do you know but you took on feedback what was the feedback yeah oh the main well as a brand we want to do things a bit different yeah why they sold out quick yeah we're brand new to jandal building right so here they sell out but we want to not just hit print and carry on we want to hear what people thought like apple would they make upgrades and they don't listen though they can bloody do it whenever they want.

So more like Nike, if we're talking footwear, they kind of upgraded their footwear over the number of years, haven't they? Again, but I don't think they listen to customers, we listen to the customers at Golden. Mate, should you listen to the customers though? Yeah you should, you should. So what have you done in the new improved, the Golden Jandals? People thought they were a bit hard, so now these are softer, but still the abrasion's right. The science that goes behind it No lie since last year to this year. This is the eighth version

Eighth version and they're a tighter fit. Most people said we set them up for my wide Maori feet Not the thin white man feet So a lot of people were like the straps a bit loose mate so the straps a bit tighter So you can get these in every warehouse in the country? Yeah, we had a trial there they sold out and we're like can you please get us back we waited months and then they're like yeah you're in now can i make a suggestion as a customer maybe this will be for the g3 time was over yeah g3 g3 if what if you had adjustable straps that's

i'll leave that with you yeah we've thought about all these science-y gimmicks, but mate, the abrasion on your foot, the rubbing of a buckle or however you do it, just... Great invention though, because obviously the unique thing about it is the bread, what was the bread tag solution that you would have when your jandal broke back in the day? You basically put that

inside the jandal. Yeah, the main thing is all those little jandal brands, we can't name them, but the popular one has the tiny little plug on the bottom. And a kid could just pull that and unplug it. And then once it's unplugged, it just keeps on wanting to pull out. So ours is larger, shape of a bread tag. The whole idea is that it won't unplug.

It can't pull through the bloody little tiny hole. So you can actually run around on the beach in summer without freaking out you're going to bail. Because you are a big backer of jandals. You're never not wearing them, right? I know. Before we launched these, I was in jandals all the time. The moment someone said to me, hey, how did that? Got a business idea for a product?

I was like, jandals. I blow out jandals every two, three months. And so now I'm proudly gone strong. Yeah, this is like, you know, the Beats headphones were too Dr. Dre. Yeah. The jandals are too. You guys have got a scoop here. Talk to me in two years' time.

I'll be a billionaire, and Dr. Dre will be wearing my goldens. Now, because how did that... It took off really quickly if people don't know your story. And it just, because we used to work with you, you sent a funny video to a colleague of ours, and it just really snowballed from that. That's exactly it. And I feel like I've told this lame story a million times.

That's a great story, though. That's basically it. My wife left me at home with a four-month-old. I was bored. I picked her up, put the camera on and did, this is how to hold a baby. Just roughed it up a bit. The rugby ball hold. The bloody rugby ball hold. Posted it to him on his Facebook page and it went viral

overnight. It was a bit of fun, no lie. Instead of watching you guys be famous dudes, all of a sudden Paul Henry was calling me. Hey, would you like to come on my Paul Henry show for an interview? And so we committed to making a video every week. And then boom, just took off and here we are. So it's a full-time gig now?

Full-time gig, yeah, since 2017. Quit the job with us. Quit the job with you guys, working behind the scenes to make you guys look funny. I didn't know what else to do. And you were a huge loss because Jordan just could, he's one of those people who can do everything. Yeah, yeah. You could do the admin, you could do the building, you could do the jandal making, you can do anything. Well, I think building props with you guys, that's what honed my jandal, you know, knowledge and just being able to build anything, guys. So did we get a cut then? Because in a way we helped design these then, I guess, in a roundabout way.

You would have got a cut if this interview you were wearing the bloody goldens that I bought you. We've just got the pair and we're going to put them on. You're going to try and set a world record today. Yeah, Guinness World Records. You Google it, right? You'd swear a Kiwi would own a Guinness World Record for a Jandl-related thing, right? No. There's like five real random bloody Guinness World Records.

And yeah, I think New Zealand should be able to proudly claim one. So with your guys' help, hopefully we get one. John, I've been reporting here from Sweet Axe, where we're trying to break a Jandl world record with How To Dad. He's got his new golden Jandls out in all warehouse stores at the moment. Most amount of Jandls flung at a target. What's the record? Hitting the target more than five times in 30 seconds.

All right, here we go. He's warming up. Has he trained for this? I don't know. I don't think he's trained. I think he just got here today and we said hey let's do this but he's going to have 30 seconds to try and break a world record the jandal target to beat is more than five okay here we go okay history in the making okay three two one go there's one there's one okay there's a whitewood one that's all okay that's one one just, there's one. There's a wayward one. That's all okay, that's one. One just under. Two! Two!

Here we go, Howdy Jam. Three! Come on! Oh, you've got this! Three more and you've beaten the record. Four! Ten to twelve seconds. Five!

Keep going! Keep going! You've got another fourteen seconds. Six! Keep going! Seven! Eight! Nine!

Six seconds! Ten! Oh my god! Eleven! 8 9 6 seconds 10 11 That's how you do it New Zealand We've done it Well done Back to you in the studio