Tardio says Hinch was the reason he got into radio.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
He says Hinch dominated the airwaves like no-one before and no-one since.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
Tardio finishes off with another of Hinch’s famous phrases: “thank your mother for the rabbits”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tardio says Hinch was the reason he got into radio. He was working at Prahran Market in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,372622,134,372791,268531,71551,22177],"class_list":["post-811449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-derryn-hinch","tag-entertainment","tag-hinch","tag-human-headline","tag-senator","tag-state-funeral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}