Nova 100’s Ben Harvey ticked another off his “things I’ve never done before I’m 30” list off by being on the No 1 breakfast show in Melbourne.

The on air trio of Harvey, Belle Jackson and Liam Stapleton, who won the 2023 ACRA for best comedy segment are working together to check off the list for Harvey’s pending 30th when a caller, Caitlin from Fitzroy, called in with a little dig and suggested he’d never done a No 1 Breakfast show in Melbourne.

Some further context from their breakfast show:

Ben:      So the challenge was to get on a number one radio show. Now, there’s two ways you can look at that, there’s FM radio, which is Christian O’Connell. Or there’s like, outright number one. So there’s an AM/FM altogether. That’s Ross and Russ.

Liam:     Because older people, they don’t have Netflix. They just listen to the radio all day every day. And that’s Ross and Russ, they crush it. And very exciting because it’s hard to line it up with whilst we’re doing breakfast. They’re doing breakfast, but we managed. We were listening to their show this morning and they asked for some people to call up. And it just so happened that we were in a song. So Ben quickly jumped on and he got through and he got on Ross and Russ. So Ben has been on a number one radio show in Melbourne now he can take that to his grave it’s an experience he’s had.

Ross and Russ on 3AW were hosting a grouse or shouse segment when Harvey called while Nova was playing a song, and got on air:

Ross:     Ben, grouse or shouse?

Ben:      G’day Ross and Russ. First time caller long time listener, love the show. I go on it’s absolute shouse when people were activewear in a professional workplace.

Ross:     Ben define active wear? it’s more clingy than a tracksuit is it not?

Ben:      Yeah so you know someone might come into workplace wearing like a you know a jumper and tights you know.

The full audio of Harvey’s (ahem) once in a lifetime experience is below.