Tardio says Hinch was the reason he got into radio.
He was working at Prahran Market in the 1980s and made sure he finished cleaning the floors in time to get into his car and listen to Hinch’s show.
He says Hinch dominated the airwaves like no-one before and no-one since.
“He interviewed the famous, locked horns with the powerful, romanced the most beautiful women, wrote millions of words, became a radio star, a television star, took on big and sometimes unpopular causes, went to jail, was put under home detention, founded a political party, sat in the Australian senate, drank too much, was within weeks of death, got someone else’s liver, got an extra 16 years of precious life. And had a bloody good time doing it all.”
Tardio finishes off with another of Hinch’s famous phrases: “thank your mother for the rabbits”.