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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n Despite a \u201cclunky start\u201d, Kyle Sandilands\u2019 new digital radio show, Kyle Sandilands Live, debuted on Monday morning with guests including NSW Premier Chris Minns, celebrity psychic John Edwards and an extended, cosy chat with One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.<\/p>\n Two hours into the show, Sandilands called Hanson on his phone and put her on speaker, running the call through his microphone for his longest interview of the show.<\/p>\n \u201cI spent a bit of time with Pauline Hanson. She reached out to me after I got fired [from ARN] \u2026 and many did,\u201d Sandilands said. \u201cThe prime minister did, and the premier did. But Pauline, who I didn\u2019t know well, no one really could have been more supportive from someone outside of my own family than Pauline Hanson.\u201d<\/p>\n Hanson, as her voice ricocheted and echoed off Sandilands\u2019 microphone, said: \u201cIf all your fantastic listeners out there, if you have any common sense about you, wake up to yourselves and understand what\u2019s going on here \u2013 the division that\u2019s happening in this country.<\/p>\n \u201cI went up to Mount Isa on the streets there. I had Aboriginals coming up to me, shaking my hand, said, \u2018I love you, mate. Keep going\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Sandilands then said Hanson was the \u201cnormal\u201d one among \u201cpurple-haired\u201d lefties.<\/p>\n The call\u2019s technological issues typified the show\u2019s problems from before it even started.<\/p>\n A few minutes after the slated start time of 6am, Sandilands was finally able to declare: \u201cIt is live. We\u2019re all here, and it\u2019s a digital mess behind the scenes\u201d, after cutting in and out through his microphone.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re off to a clunky start,\u201d he then admitted.<\/p>\n About an hour in, longtime manager and close friend Bruno Bouchet had to reset the entire show due to compounding technological lag.<\/p>\n \u201cBruno now wants to turn the entire system off and reset,\u201d Sandilands said just after 7am, with Bouchet adding: \u201cEverything\u2019s going to go black here. We\u2019re going to lose all audio, all lights. Screens are going to shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n Later in the show, Sandilands defended the technological issues, saying: \u201cIt is a brand new, never before done anywhere in the world live app radio program \u2026 we put it together in 60 days, and the team have worked tirelessly behind the scenes\u201d.<\/p>\n But it wasn\u2019t just tech causing problems. Within the first five minutes of the show, Sandilands introduced Jaimee \u201cMayo\u201d Blazquez as his executive director, prompting Bouchet to refer to her using an expletive.<\/p>\n Sandilands replied jokingly: \u201cBruno, I made it quite clear to the ensemble cast. This isn\u2019t some potty-mouth all-boys\u2019 club filth nest\u201d.<\/p>\n Celebrity psychic John Edwards joined via Zoom during the first 30 minutes of the show, though his feed was impeded by technical issues and different presenters\u2019 microphones talking over him.<\/p>\n Sandilands was able to, however, squeeze in a question about whether Edwards had witnessed \u201canyone giving themselves a fiddle\u201d while travelling through the spirit world.<\/p>\n NSW Premier Chris Minns was the show\u2019s first live in-studio guest, with Sandilands recalling recently running into Minns in the Blue Mountains and mistaking him for a \u201cmeth head\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know what I like about you?\u201d Sandilands said, after the pair shared a laugh.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople on all sides of politics \u2013 Labor, Liberals, One Nation types, the Nationals \u2026 you don\u2019t seem very Labor.\u201d<\/p>\n Minns replied: \u201cWell, we try and be common sense\u201d.<\/p>\n Sandilands\u2019 only political question to the premier was whether he would get rid of e-bikes, or Lime bikes, after he revealed he had gifted one to his 11-year-old son, which had made him start \u201cbehaving\u201d by getting him out of the house.<\/p>\n Six months ago, the Minns Government announced a crackdown<\/a> on e-bikes, allowing police to seize and crush illegally modified e-bikes.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen there\u2019s a new technology, like anything, there are people that take it too far,\u201d Minns replied, talking about how rules evolved with use of the technology.<\/p>\n Minns then cut a golden ribbon to commemorate the occasion before leaving.<\/p>\n Following the premier, the second in-studio guests were a stepmother and stepson who started dating when the latter came of age, and she had split up with his father.<\/p>\n Despite costing $99.99 a year \u2013 with an upfront payment being the only payment method available \u2013 Sandilands said the show is not running advertisements \u201cbecause of the female militant activist group, the Mad F—— Witches\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThey tried to threaten all the clients. Then apparently, clients pretended to be too scared to advertise to their people, so they stopped paying. They stopped putting ads in the show, and I said, \u2018Oh well, screw them. We\u2019ll work around them. We\u2019ll go straight to the consumer\u2019,\u201d Sandilands said.<\/p>\n And the first song aired? Josh Fawaz\u2019s controversial AI-cover of Madonna\u2019s Like A Prayer.<\/p>\n The rest of the digital radio show\u2019s crew includes Alfie Laguzza and Dean Royston, with Brooklyn Ross moving across from ARN, Sandilands\u2019s former employer, as a newsreader alongside Mary Madigan, from News Corp\u2019s News.com.au.<\/p>\n Podcaster Josh Fox is also part of the on-air team, as is Pedro Cuccovillo Vitola.<\/p>\n More to come.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n![\"Kyle](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b2661531d2a331e78c4ee7655caabc145cdff9a7.jpeg\")
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Kayla Olaya<\/a> is a culture reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 10, 2026 \u2014 6:39am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-849627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849627","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=849627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}