Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - BONUS: PJ Harding On Motherhood, Gym-Gasms & Jase and PJ Moments

Episode Date: November 7, 2022

We chat to PJ Harding (ex broadaster) On Motherhood, Gym-Gasms & Jase and PJ Moments, as well as her brand new podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits, with a bonus podcast from Jono and Ben. PJ Harding, you'll know her from Jason PJ, on the radio for many years in New Zealand, then they went to Australia, had a breakfast show in Melbourne, and now she's back home living in the Wairarapa, where she's just had a baby and also started a brand new podcast, and she joins us right now. Kia ora, good morning PJ, how's it going? Oh, g'day guys, how are ya? We're doing alright, nice to have you on. How's our new mum life? It's good, I'm literally feeding right now.

What are we going, bottle or straight from the source? What are we doing? Oh, straight from the source. I like to do that off Ben too. Feeds me every morning. Get a little hit before the show. How is it though? How is it like, because it seems like an age ago for both Ben and me.

It was, you know, our oldest kids are sort of 12, 13 now. Take us back to these dark, dark days of newborn. Yeah, you know, it is a bit of a haze, and I think, like, finally my head's coming up for a bit of air to breathe. I don't know, going into it, I think there's so much negative talk around it now as well. Like, everyone's like, oh, you don't know what you're getting yourself into. You're never going to sleep again.

And you hear all the bad stuff. But I think the part I wasn't prepared for was just how awesome it is as well and just how much you love this little thing. It is, but it is, and it goes such a cliche. It'll go so quick. Yeah. What do they say? The days are long, but the years are short.

The years are long and the days are short. I don't know. There's a saying there. There's a saying there. Before you know it, they're all growing up and they're vaping and ram raiding. What age do they do that now? Younger and younger each year. Probably next week for you.

Because you went from, you know, you're hosting Breakfast Radio in Melbourne with Jase obviously, so you left that life behind to live a rural life. Masterton, mate. Masterton. Masterton. Masterton, Vegas. Yeah, Ben's hometown.

Yeah. Is that actually your hometown? Yeah, that's where I grew up. I spent 18 years and then I got out. He escaped. But you've gone back. Have you been back, sir? Yeah, I have.

Most of my family are no longer there now, but it was a great place. I loved growing up there as a kid, but... Your voice just went very high, Ben. If you go to the local Lone Star, he's on the wall of legends. Yeah. Are you actually? You're probably on there now too.

Your voice just went really high there too. What is it like? What's it like going from Melbourne to Marsden? You're living on a farm. Your partner is a farmer there and plays rugby in the Wairarapa. It couldn't be more chalk and cheese. I'm not going to lie. It was a bit of a culture shock,

particularly the beginning and just working out what I'm doing. There's a bit of an identity crisis coming away from a job like that, as you guys probably know. But as time's gone on and now that I've had little Charlie and I'm doing my podcast here

and enjoying the lifestyle. Awesome. I don't know. I'm doing my podcast here and enjoying the lifestyle and I don't know, I'm kind of just creating sort of the life I want, which is quite cool. Yeah, it's coming now. It's two people, Ben and myself, who have been in this shallow soul-sucking industry for 20 years. What do you mean? Too long. Too long. What is life like on the

outside? Are you a better person? Yeah. No, probably not. I think it's just as egotistical to be honest. And you crave the attention, so I'll probably be back. I'm not going to lie. You started up a podcast now, though, the PJ podcast. Yeah, well basically it's just an excuse to

connect with the outside world every week. Living on the farm, you don't get to talk to many normal people, so that's my interaction. Are you out there doing farm stuff? I only go out when it's a really nice sunny day and I can get a good picture on the top of the hill and I make it look like I'm working, but I'm doing nothing. The Insta

farmer. Absolutely. And one of the cool things about you is, you know, you're open, you share things. And I was at the last night something that you made international news for sharing you don't have to go into the store. At the gym, you shared a story about going to the gym and this made international news for sharing. You don't have to go into the store. Oh, my God. At the gym. You shared a story about going to the gym. And this made international news.

This blew up. I'd had quite an embarrassing moment at the gym. And so I was like, okay, I experienced what they call a corgasm, which is, as you can imagine, something quite pleasurable whilst working out on an ab machine. With a personal trainer. Yeah. With a personal trainer. Yeah, with a personal trainer. It wasn't because of the personal trainer,

but he was there. And then the next thing I know, I'm on the Project Australia talking about it. And they're like, the girl who has too much of a good time at the gym. And I'm like, there's all these pictures of me working out. And I'm so embarrassed.

We've got PJ Harding with us. You can catch the PJ podcast wherever you get your podcasts up. Just before you go and play a quick game, we've got some audio. You know, Jason PJ did over the years. And I want to play the audio and see if you remember what this particular moment was. Now, it might be quite tricky. What was going on here in the first one?

Holy s***! How fast did you just get? Now, was that you working out at the gym? Not me working out at the gym. What did I say at the end? I couldn't hear the last thing. How fast did you just get? Were we doing like a shock

Olympics or something? No, you were in a Tesla. Jason was driving a Tesla like 200km an hour or something. That was no, you were in a Tesla, and they were, Jason was driving a Tesla, like, 200 k's an hour or something. Oh, that was insane. Yeah, those things fly. Finally, PJ, what was going on here? Get in!

Oh, my God! Ben, I know what you've done here. PJ knows what you've done here. Lowbrow, it's lowbrow gear, isn't it PJ? None of it's lowbrow. It's all stuff you've done on the radio. No, it's getting into an ice bath. Yes, there you

go. You're getting into an ice bath. Well done. There you go. Hey PJ, lovely chatting with you. PJ, how do you catch the podcast? We're all good podcasts. That's it boys, leave a review. You know the drill. We like to leave a one star just to balance things out.

Get on your PJ. Thanks, guys.