Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - What is pony'ing?

Episode Date: May 20, 2024

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Today on the Wild Wild Web, why mimicking horse riding could get you the body of a lifetime. Welcome to the untamed realm of the world's wide web. A swirling vortex of weirdness, bullying and self-obsessed social media posts. In this digital jungle, Jono and Ben are your fearless guides. Leading you through the wildest parts of the wild, wild web. This is the wild, wild web. Hello, welcome along to another edition of the wild, wild web, where we look at a news article, something that's captured our attention that we've found on the internet,

and we get to talk about it and see where we end up. What are you laughing at me? You put that on the wrong button bar. You know what I did. You can't turn it down. Bit of an insight if we load audio on a particular button. You can't control the levels of it and it's a bit loud.

Poor Ben has to talk a bit louder. Welcome to the wild, aren't we? Meanwhile I'm just laughing. You're laughing. That's behind the scenes. That's the joy we have here behind the scenes. Now I'm going to play you. We find something from the internet, each of us. We're tasked with bringing it to the podcast and this was an ad that popped up on my Instagram feed. Now, this is a new fitness fad.

And I couldn't tell if it's, is this taking the mickey or not? But it's in German. Okay? So have a look. I'll play it to you now. And I'll take the sound off it. And we'll go full screen. You just describe what they're doing okay so it looks like they're in a like a gymnasium and they've got those little box things

they sort of step up I've seen this before they've got like horses with you like kids horses kids horses with the sticks and you sort of they're jumping around on them they're running around up and down I guess It's a fitness class. Yeah. Is it called ponying or something? Yes. Yeah. And you basically play with toy horses

and get your cardiovascular workout in a let's all mimic riding horses. I think there's classes in New Zealand for ponying. Maybe that's what Genuine was singing about when he was like, my ponying, that's right. Maybe it wasn't as dirty as we thought the whole time. Maybe it was just trying to get a cardio workout heart rate above 160 yeah you're supposed to pretend that you're a horse and do like you know high knees and i guess in some ways it's

probably sometimes i feel like with exercise if you can trick yourself into having a good time yeah you know and maybe that's it maybe it's something different you know it's a bit you know it's not miserable that's why i often playing sport is really good because you're kind of distracted by the game rather than actually feeling like i need to run for 10 more minutes on this treadmill yeah you know so yeah maybe maybe something you know are you being swept up in a fed a fitness fed i'd once did the vibratrain uh media when it came onto market basically just meant to shake the fat off you. But I would go on there and get very sick. Like motion sickness. Oh, really?

You spend half an hour just going. It's too confronting because your fat jiggles. It's like, oh, I can feel everything wobbling. Your bits all jiggle. And I don't know. Is the vibratran still going? I don't know. They probably are, to be honest.

In some regard. It seems too good to be true. Yeah. It seems very easy to just stand on this shaking platform and weight will fall off you. I remember doing it like years ago, just after coming to Auckland

and doing it like, my mate was a member of, I think one of the, I thought Lees Mills or something, those pump classes, very popular. Oh, you went to a pump class? And we went along

and we were like, we hadn't done it before, but we felt kind of, you know, we're probably like early 20s, we're like feeling pretty good, we're like, I hadn't done this before and they were like, they're like, grab some weights, put And we went along and we were like, we hadn't done it before, but we felt kind of, you know, we're probably like early 20s. We're like feeling pretty good. We're like, I hadn't done this before. And they were like, grab some weights, put it on the bar,

and you're like, well, you know, how low do you go on this? Pretty low because you do high reps. That's the mistake we made. Low weight, high reps. And my mate was like, look, at least, you know, those older ladies, they could do it. Like, we could definitely go more. We could not go more.

But they are still like 50 minutes in. They're like, yeah. I love that class. How heavy is the weight? Well well you just go quite low that's the secret sort of seven to ten kgs each track is like five minutes and you have to lift that weight for five minutes and different but we made the mistake of putting more on thinking oh we can do a few of these and then within like 30 seconds we're like we're done and these people are still going yeah like what you do for one set you're not going to do for five minutes yes real real yeah you're looking around you're like at the end of it like you couldn't even lift the bar like your muscles are so fatigued yeah you know because you've been going for like 50 minutes anyway oh my god but i guess you build it up over

time so yeah i was like i can't lift this bar above my head i want to hit someone with it but i couldn't even lift it that class is hard too because usually when you're doing like one like muscle group at a time this is your whole body so you walk out and your whole body's like shaking yeah and it's good enthusiastic but you're like oh i'm just hurting i didn't go up into that stage of enthusiasm you've got to appreciate the people on stage with the madonna microphones across their cheek they're still talking and doing the exercise. And they're doing heavy weights. And they're enthusiastic about it too.

That's a whole other exercise in itself. And pole dancing too, popular. Yeah, true. Do you know what I've done? What do they call it? The pink things. The rings? The ribbons.

Oh, it looks like pink does. Oh, yeah, pink. Oh, yeah. How'd that go for you? I managed to hang upside down a little bit. Did you? The rings? The silks. The silks. Oh, silks like pink does. Oh, yeah. Pink. Oh, yeah. How'd that go for you? Managed to hang upside down a little bit. Did you? It's like you feel like you're an angel doing these graceful moves.

And then someone took my photo and I looked. I'm like, I don't know how she does that. Look, graceful and sing is really hard. You're an angel in someone's eyes, Megan. Thanks. Am I? I don't even think of my husband's because you this is what I wanted

to do with Megan because every now and then she's like oh I just added one to the list exactly every now and then she sort of drops

in gnarly sports that she's participated to the point where I'm like has she actually done roller derby and cricket I've done all of these things

no I haven't done cricket cricket sucks what was the one hockey no hockey I've done softball I was a catcher so I thought All of these things. She's tried a lot. No, I haven't done cricket. Cricket sucks. What was the one? Hockey? No, hockey. I've done softball. Softball. I was a catcher in softball.

So I thought over one day we'd go, okay, well, you show us. You show us that you've played all these sports. Netball, volleyball. We'll chuck the ribbons or the silks into the mix too. God, yeah, okay. We'll just take a quick break for the Wild Wild. We're back after this. Welcome back. That's's good though trying a lot

of sports because you don't you don't know what you're good at unless you try rowing and some things you're like i should have tried more stuff yeah so i just said that to kids because you know you go one thing you're like i like that and you carry on but you're like what if i was going to be the best at something else yeah archery or something you didn't even know i know well i tried lots and i was the best at none of them. I was a jack of all, master of none. Yeah, but you tried. Exactly. And there's no harm in that, right?

Yeah. See, I'm actually real sporty. Well, you get involved in sports chat, don't you? Yeah. We're going to get you to prove it over a day. And the other thing that we wanted to do with you, you've never been on public transport. Take you on a bus ride. Yeah.

Yeah. Across every city in New Zealand. Let's do it in a different city other than Auckland, though, because, you know, we might not actually get to go on the transport. Yeah. It might be broken down. Like it cancelled or broken down. Do you remember my mate?

He works with buses, and he said the amount of people that defecate on them. See? Terrible. And, like, spew and wheeze. I hope that's not happening all the time, though. Happens more often than you think. on them. See? Terrible. And like spew and wheeze and the one time I went on a Happens more often than you think. A bus from Disneyland, you know those buses that

yeah, there was a person with a gun in their jacket and I was standing beside them and I was like, this is why I don't do public transport. Oh, in America you allow guns though. Yeah, America. I know but it's very confronting for a keyword. It's always good to have a gun at Disneyland. I don't think you would be able to take a gun into Disneyland. You it's always good to have a gun at Disneyland I don't think you would be able to take a gun

into the happiest place on earth you definitely would be able to take a gun into Disneyland their security is pretty tight yeah Mickey would frisk you

what's the most exotic sport you've done exotic sport or like different I'd go volleyball a crack right volleyball is a fun sport

yeah it is fun the only problem is the top of your thumbs and the meaty part of your hand really does start to read and swell up over a game of volleyball. I imagine after a while you get used to that, I imagine, but I haven't played enough of it to get

used to it. Isn't it supposed to be your wrists rather than your hands? I think all you're just bashing it with whatever. Tell you who can play volleyball, my Pacific Island friends at school. Jeez, they could smack the hell out of a volleyball. They know how to play volleyball. Just generally pretty good at sports all round could smack the hell out of a volleyball they know how to play volleyball just generally

pretty good at sports all round they are was it Tom Cruise in the first Top Gun he was pretty good at that wasn't he volleyball on the

beach shirtless is that like in the second one they were playing volleyball on the beach no I think in this

one they were playing American football on the beach oh yeah I just remember they were shirtless it was a homage

Tom had his shirt on though he was watching the lads he was the only one with his shirt on, though. He was watching the lads. He was the only one with his shirt on. Well, because they were sort of the younger. I mean, he still ripped.

But they were the younger lads, right? Yeah. So, yeah. What's his face from that rom-com? Yeah. He was there as well, too. What can I think of his name? And Miles.

Is it Miles Teller? Miles Teller. That was a bloody good movie. It was really good. Everyone thought it was a bloody good movie. It was really good. Everyone thought it was going to be shit, didn't we? And it was really good. Loved it. Yeah. Yeah.

They had some hotties, didn't they? I thought they did a really good job. They shouted out to who they needed to shout out to. What's his name? Yeah, I'm struggling. Glenn Powell. Glenn Powell. Why do I always forget his name?

He was topless. We were just like distracted by Glenn and Miles. He's pretty ripped. Anything but you movie, is it? Anyone but you, sorry. Both of them had perfect bodies. When they're standing on the yacht in their togs, everyone's just like, God.

Sidney Sweeney and Glenn Powell. None of us look like that. Yeah. Well, it's the movie stars. Good on them. They're doing all right. They'd look good on the silks. They'd look angelic on the silks, wouldn't they?

They'd probably be fine in a pump class. You should try the silks. You should try the silks. We've tried so many different sports. Have you done silks? No, no, but just for TV and radio purposes over the years. But I'm happy to try them. Most of them I learn I'm not very good at, but it's kind of fun.

You've got core strength? A lot of sports you're not really good at the first go anyway. you know yeah and just step up in the golf course and hit a hole in one you know you've got to kind of be able to do that yeah what are we doing uh oh barefoot water skiing oh that was hard that was yeah that was there's this beautiful right at the end no it took a while though but you uh there's this beautiful family and they've got a man-made lake uh just out of all tucky yeah and basically their houses are on the beautiful family and they've got a man-made lake just out of Ōtaki. Yeah. And basically their houses are on the property.

Right. And they all are like basically the royal family of barefoot water skiing internationally. Oh, really? Yeah. So they're Kiwis. Georgia was her name. She's a world champion. She's the daughter.

And the two brothers, her dad and his brother, they both have houses on the lake. And they just barefoot water skate the whole time. Does that hurt? When you come off, I was trying to find the video here. I'll see if I can get it up. Or even just the water like ripping on your feet. Well, because you're going very fast. Because you learn on the bar at the first.

Here's me here right now. Will you describe that to us right now? And I didn't really know what I was doing. I was trying to stand up. I'm just flying like a washing line full of like the. A piece of clothing. The water's making you its bitch. Really going, Ed, what's with that?

Oh, babes, you're going to eat shit. I am about to eat shit right about. There you go. Oh, my God, you were just going so fast. Cartwheeling like face first into the water. And Jono as well. That's his first attempt. Here we go.

Oh, he already looks more. No, but no, he got a lot better. But they just, though, their feet are so fast. And bang. He already looks more. No, but he got a lot better. But they just, their feet are so fast. And bang. Can you put your feet down in the water and there's just a whole lot of gush of water going between your legs? Like flipping over like about four or five times as you land in the water. I was like, there was a five-year-old kid there that day and he was better than me. And he was just standing on the bar.

He's lighter. Yeah, I was like, oh, jeez, how's that happen? But her brother, George's brother is in America And he's always on like ESPN and stuff Doing crazy stuff Barefoot water skiing Oh yeah He'll like do pushups on the water

As it's going along Yeah he's wild There was the other one Wakeboarding Because I've never been able To manage skiing Because you have two legs Like they just end up flailing

In different directions But like wakeboarding It's just one board, both feet working together. I've always preferred that. Yeah, right. Well, we'll get you out on the wakeboard as well. Another one to add to the list. It's been a long time.

I stupidly told Jono that I once did a 180 switch. Oh, right. Did we try wakeboarding? It was really hard. Was that wakeboarding? No, it was kite falling. Oh, kite falling. Oh, that was impossible.

Oh, kite surfing? Yeah, it was like kite falling or kite. You. Oh, that was impossible. Oh, kite surfing? Yeah, it was like kite falling. You know the foils on the America's Cup yachts? They've now got them on many surfboards, basically. Oh, my God. And so you can have a parachute towing you along, and you're going on a surfboard. It looks amazing.

Oh, when they're doing it, it's majestic. Yeah. It looks incredible, but it's so hard. And particularly, like, we turned up, and they're like, well, you're not going to do this in 90 minutes, which we have allocated to film. You're like, oh, okay. I saw an electric one the other day. Oh, wow.

A guy named Steve from Huffer was on it. No parachute. He just had like a, it was just going along and he was standing on it and it was out of the water. Crazy. Because I wanted to do kite surfing, but you have to practice with the kite first. I wasn't that good with the kite.

It lifted me up and threw me down the hill, so I never even made it to the water. I was like, no, no, no, no. Too far away from the water, you're like. No, I don't want to do this. I sit in the car now. My dad got into windsurfing, and he was probably a little old to do windsurfing,

and he got blown all the way out to sea, and he didn't have the strength to turn around, so he just had to sit out there and wait for the wind to change so he could come back in oh my god because when the sail goes in the water you actually have to

pull it back up out you have to get all the water off it yeah he bloody loved windsurfing I remember just sitting on the beach going I've been here for 4 hours

I think he's behind Rangitoto how old were you when you were just sitting on the beach waiting for him oh 7 or 8 yeah he'd be like I'll be back soon your dad could have been lost at sea How old were you when you were just sitting on the beach waiting for him? Oh, I was seven or eight. Yeah.

Oh, my gosh. He'd be like, I'll be back soon. Your dad could have been lost at sea and you're just sitting on the beach. That was the last time I saw my dad. Different time, too. No device probably to play with or anything. No. What did you do?

What did I do? And he's just like, wait here, boy. Built sandcastles. Yeah. Went for a swim. Wow. You did stuff. Well, you did stuff, you know? Yeah, true. We didn't know about iPads. No. So sandcastles. Yeah. Went for a swim. Wow. You did stuff. Well, you did stuff, you know?

Yeah, true. We didn't know about iPads. No. So I wasn't missing anything. Wow, that's crazy. Nowadays, it's a lot easier when you're a kid. Anyway, well, where do we start? Where did we end?

I have no idea where we started. There's a bit of a movie review chucked in the middle there somewhere of Top Gun. Oh, yeah. Top Gun. Yeah, we did kind of segue into that. We started with the pony class, the gym class. Oh, that's right. The German horse class.

Yeah. And then we ended up with a bit of a chat about John on the beach. So there we go. That was today's Wild, Wild Web. If you want to get fit, you can grab yourself a pony class. If not, we'll catch you again tomorrow.