Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Jono goes wing walking!

Episode Date: March 21, 2024

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Yeah, we're talking about the wildest stories, the true stories that we're finding on the internet and the wild conversations that happen afterwards. And I just saw in Colorado, they're building what is going to be the world's largest plane. Now, Megan, Jono, would you fly on this? Now, it hasn't been built yet, but you look at your Boeing 747, which is pretty big planes, right?

Yeah. This is 12 times the size. Oh, my God. The cargo is enough to hold three Olympic swimming pools. The wingspan of four, imagine four bowling lanes end to end. That's how big the wingspan is across it. Whoa. It's going to be just massive.

And you're like, whoa. Do you have like an image of what it's going to look like? I don't want to fat shame the plane, but it's chunky. It's chunky. It looks like, you know, one of those people that you see have to get craned out of their house. Yeah, it does. Or like a pigeon that's really one of those ones that you're like,

oh, that pigeon's had a bit too much to eat. Like kereru. Where's the windscreen? Yeah, well, a little knobby thing at the top, I think. But surely, where is it going to land? Like, what airport is going to be able to have a runway big enough to... Yeah, true. And how fast is it going to have to go to actually get off the ground?

Because I know our airports across New Zealand had to extend their runways for the A380. Yeah, right. Have you seen the A380 in the air? Like, when it takes off and lands, it's... I'm not going to lie, I don't know what the A380 is. Oh, fair enough. I sounded like so...

A380. Just pretend like you know what it is. Jesus, and then secretly Google it, mate. Far out. A380. I'm really trying to spanner in my flow here. What I was going to say... Oh, it's got a big head.

Yeah, it's got a big head like me. Big head. But when you see the A380 take off and land, you're just like, how? How is that flying in the air? That enormous thing. And this is probably, well, sounds like triple the size. They're getting some of the world's top turbine manufacturers to help, like, to power it up to basically, because you need it, right?

Be like those big things when you drive through Palmy in New Zealand. Yeah, that's the thing. The physics, right, is that you need more air rushing underneath than above the wing. So that means that the jets need to be, like it needs to go super fast. Now you're coming with planes. Oh, A380 over here. Doesn't everybody know, does she? No, that's the physics of how a plane flies.

That definitely just popped up on the article she opened. No, I'm on images. We were actually just talking about planes earlier. We had a really interesting conversation. We had some people coming around from another department at work and they had questions. They asked us questions, which is actually really cool. It was nice.

They were good questions too. Yeah. Sometimes you have people come in and you're like, do you have any questions? They don't have questions. Or they're just like, what's the funnest part? I got asked. We had a radio class once.

It was a few years ago at the Edge asked we had a radio class once it was a few years ago at the um at the edge and we had a radio class come around and this is obviously what they want to do is get into radio they're going to lots of other stations and then we're like any questions the guy put up his hand i was like oh great he goes would you grow back your dreadlocks to me that was the question that was the only question i was like no firstly no and secondly is there any other questions do you know remember being with dreadlocks yeah I wouldn't have them now that's for sure for a multitude of reasons I'm doing a lot of googling

this dreadlocks it wasn't it wasn't yeah were you famous when you had dreadlocks you did have dreadlocks

I always wanted to have them when I was young and now I don't know if it's okay for anyway so I wouldn't have them definitely now it was fine back then

well yeah yeah so Was it? I don't know. I don't know. I hope so. But hey, I was not out to offend anyone. Oh, you look like a different person. Yeah.

Yeah. No, so that was the only question the radio school asked. These are great questions. They asked about the most wild thing that we ever did on the TV show, Jono and Ben. And you, we recollected, recollected? That's right. That's the right word. About you doing wing walking, Jono. Oh, on the planet, yeah.

That was, that was actually terrifying. Because we're driving out, you didn't, because you're doing so much, you're just working all the time and you weren't really thinking about what was happening next. And it was a punishment too. So whoever did the worst skit as voted by people on Facebook that week would have to do this. So it was a good chance that I would have had to done it We came up the idea we're like oh we're walking and so it wasn't all a day or two before I was like

Oh, John I lost this week. He's gonna have to do it Do you find that often like in radio you'll be given like things to do and you're just like, okay It's for the for the good of the show. So you just do it and it's not until afterwards. You're like that was that was wild Standing on the top but old looking play not an a380 you're familiar with the a380 and obviously the aerodynamics yeah talking through the physics of the so not one of those not a big plane i think the physics remains the same but a very old plane and a very old operator as well too the guy was you know like good on him he was still flying but i think he built the plane back in the 1920s this guy didn't you say you met him and then you went away and you came back and

he was like who are you yeah he was like he reintroduced himself and he said john asked would you ever do this wing walking standing on the plane while it was in the air and he's like fuck no so yeah so basically that yeah wow so it looked like if you had like an old person has a walker you know like they sit around with this metallic walking frame thing. It was kind of like that you were lent up against behind you and you were kind of strapped onto that sort of thing. Yeah, they were strapped over my shoulders. Standing straight up in the air on top of the wings.

Yeah. It was wild. It was, yeah. And it was one of those moments where you're like, geez, I should really think more about what's happening in the future. And you take off, you're nervous, and then you get to it. We should put the video up on the Hits Breakfast. But then you reach a certain height and you're like,

well, there's nothing I could do now. If it turns to custard, there's nothing I could do now. Oh, my God. Your demise could have been filmed. Yeah. Would you have still played it? Probably had to, eh? Because you filled the TV time. Desperate. There you go. Good actually good out good out gag yeah clear out this happened this week you know the harsh realities of tv we're

gonna have to play this um but yeah no then as you're coming back down in your head you kind of look around and do the maths you're like okay well if i fall now a couple of broken legs can survive that if i fall now yeah maybe a broken foot or something, and you kind of count down, and then, jeez, there's nothing quite like the feeling of when you've been strapped to a plane of when those wheels land on the ground. Yeah, you're very high up in the air. It was, you know, probably a 10-minute trip up in the air, but still.

You know when you stick your head out of a car window when it's moving and you're like, ha, ha, ha. With the wind, yeah. Yeah, what was it like being up in a plane? Yeah, the same thing. Your mouth blows up like a balloon, like when a dog's got their face out the window. Is it hard to breathe?

Yeah, because the wind's just going... You've got saliva running up my cheek. But yeah, that was, to be honest, the least of my worries. Yeah, saliva. So anyway, that's a wild thing. But you can't do that on the new plane, the world's biggest plane. For the best.

We were lucky enough to, we went on a work trip over to Singapore, not Singapore, somewhere. And we went on this plane and there was a guy very, he was salty next to us. We were flying from Auckland to Changi Airport. Yeah. And I was like, what's wrong with you, mate? And he's like, no, this isn't the business class that I've paid for.

He was in business class. And I said, what's the problem? He's like, you wait until we get on the next leg from Singapore to London because we're heading to the UK. Yeah. He's like, I'll show you what I've paid for. And he came and got us. He had a first-class cabin.

A room. First-class. That's what Jack Harlow's singing about. He had a whole shower, bed, desk. You could work on a desk. No wonder he was upset. He was paid so much. He was sitting next to us.

A kind of a big seat. No, we were in nice seats because it was a work thing. And we were like, wow, this is a flash. I was the goober there because my seat didn't recline recline and then they were like oh so sorry it doesn't recline i'm like it'll be fine kiwi you know me i don't you know i don't apologize um i'm like fine especially you but then it was an overnight it was like a 12-hour thing i like this is a little bit of a pain wow it's a recline properly like everyone's seats went way back and you're upright i was like oh actually this is quite a pain because they're going to lay back yeah yeah and then they're like you can choose something from the catalog as a gift i was like

oh this is exciting so i chose a necklace my wife and then i was like i haven't felt guilty i had to tell her i got free because my seat didn't recline did you get it because she was like where'd you choose that one? Where's it from? And I was like, oh, I'm not going to make a backstory. And I went to the shop and thing. I was like, oh, my seat didn't recline for 12 hours.

I had to sit upright. Yeah, well, yeah. So yeah, I worked hard for that bloody necklace. Oh my God. Yeah, you're definitely seeing it at a 90 degree angle, the whole flight.

But then I always wonder like when they put carts through the alleyway of like, who wants to buy some jewellery on a plane? I know, yeah. Who's buying jewellery? Hey, I got a free bit of jewellery. It was lovely. She always has a necklace, but yeah.

It's not cheap or anything though. No, it wasn't cheap. Why is that the place to buy the jewellery? It seems like an odd location, doesn't it? Well, they've been boys together. I've come back with some jewellery from the plane, babe. Plane jewellery. I don't know.

Are we talking cool plane stories though? Yeah. Because I've been in the some jewellery from the plane, babe. Plane jewellery. Are we talking cool plane stories, though? Yeah. Because I've been in the Air Force's Hercules. Have you? Yeah, in the back of the Hercules. That's cool. We were supposed to be jumping out the back doing a parachute, but I was pregnant.

Radio, radio. Yeah. But, like, it's empty and it's – shit, it smells. Oh, really? Put Jacinda or the Prime Minister and stuff like that on there, don't they? She goes in the skinnier one. Ah, not the cargo one that you kind of want. Not the big cargo Hercules.

What's the smell of? Like, what does it fly on? Not diesel. Oh, like aviation fuel. Burning like an old truck. Right. Wow. That's our best plane.

Yeah. Put you out there. But I was pregnant so I had to have like a little oxygen tank. Shut up.

They're actually just flowing from all the way across you. throw. It's a domestic.

You're going to need the bigger one here. There's no seat to the back, it's literally cargo.

Thank you. You were the cargo mate. Fuck you. Like Madagascar where they transported the animals. It feels really good to say that. Yeah, I know. You can't You and the cargo mate Fuck you I met a gas killer That transmitted the edibles It feels really good to say that Yeah I know

You can't do that on the radio That's why I can do this On the wild wild web You obviously didn't jump out No And I had to have a Oxygen tank Because I guess

The back of the Hercules Is not like Properly pressurised Or whatever Right So like I was going up in the air Yeah

I can reduce the amount of Oxygen I can make you go into like Pre-urized or whatever right so like i was going up in the air yeah like it can reduce the amount of oxygen i can make you go into like pre-labor or something so i'm carrying around an oxygen tank and a mask it really feels like you shouldn't have been on that flight yeah i did have like a little medical check by the medics beforehand but it's pretty cool and the whole back the whole bum of it opens up so you have to be strapped in. In case you slide out. Yeah, literally like on all the movies you've seen. Yeah, like Fast and Furious and stuff. The tail flap opens. They parachute out and they drive a car out and all sorts.

Mate, like so high up in the air amongst the clouds and it's just all open. You're like, wow, this is incredible. I didn't want to jump out the back of it though. No, fair enough. Any plain jewellery? No, not on the Hercules. No, no cart either, offering refreshments.

All right, well, there we go. That's Bob Webb for another episode.