Guyon Espiner is one of New Zealand’s most highly respected journalists with over 20 years across print, radio and television, as a reporter, political editor and anchor. He currently works at Radio New Zealand as an investigative journalist and has just released his new book The Drinking Game – which looks at how big business, the media and politicians shape the way we drink.

Guy Williams is one of New Zealand’s best known comedians and has worked on many of our biggest TV shows and is currently the host and creator of the critically acclaimed show New Zealand Today. He is a tornado of energy, noise, and good chat!

For over a decade Dame Lisa Carrington has been the best in the world at her sport. She is New Zealand’s most successful Olympian of all time with five gold medals and one bronze medal during her canoe racing career to date. In addition she has 12 World Championship titles and a boatload of Halberg Awards. In this episode we were lucky enough to get an insight into the mind of a true champion.

Marc Ellis is a dream guest – and he delivered in this episode! He’s said that his life can be viewed in chapters and Marc has done enough in his life to have an episode dedicated to each chapter. Marc’s unpredictable brand of hijinks and gags was resurrected in this ep, and his infectiously positive and fun personality rubbed off on us both. But behind the laughs and wild stories is an incredibly driven, successful, thoughtful guy.

Dave Wood is a human performance specialist who works with some of the world’s most elite athletes to make them better at their job. Wood is now one of the most in-demand integrated health specialists in Australasia but the story of how he got to the top might be as remarkable as his quick rise.

Melodie Robinson is a former Black Fern and now TVNZ's General Manager, Sports and Events where she is leading the sport and event strategy for TVNZ’s coverage of global sporting events. She is a kiwi trailblazer who has risen to the top of every field she’s entered.

Mike Minogue is a talented man. He’s an agent, creator, writer, producer, actor, a member of The Alternative Commentary Collective, and a host of The Big Show on Radio Hauraki. After growing up in Levin and partying in Sydney he returned to home to start a career in the arts that has seen him work some of the biggest projects in the New Zealand film and television industry since 2003.

Paul Henry was one of New Zealand’s last great broadcasting celebrities. His seven-year tenure on Breakfast saw ratings soar and he boasted the type of star power at his peak that just doesn’t exist in broadcasting anymore. But alongside the fame were a number of on-air controversies that followed his career.

Luke Kemeys is the driving force behind Boys Get Paid – another member of the Alternative Commentary Collective – and a community of over 20,000 people with an active interest in the horse racing industry. But he’s not just about big bets and a day on the punt. He’s also an award-winning Chartered Accountant, social media enthusiast, and all around GC with a million tales to tell.

In this Best of 2022 Entertainment compilation, we pick out a bunch of our favourite clips from episodes featuring some of the best kiwi talent from broadcast, business, comedy, entertainment, and music we hosted over the year. Included are Jack Tame, Jason Hoyte, Hayley Sproull, Chris Parker, PJ Harding, Petra Bagust, Mikey Havoc, Dom Harvey, Brodie Kane, Mitch James, Lucy Blakiston and Jono and Ben.

In this Best of 2022 Sport compilation, we pick out a bunch of our favourite snippets from some of our favourite sports episodes across the year. Included are Dion Nash, Ryan Fox, Kendra Cocksedge, Shane Cameron, Ric Salizzo, Brad Smeele, Eliza McCartney, Ross Taylor, Daniel Kereopa, Lance Cairns, Grant Fox and Ruth Croft.

Butch Miller is one half of the kiwi WWE Hall of Fame tag team, the Bushwhackers. From humble beginnings in New Zealand, Butch started wrestling with his tag team partner Luke Williams in 1966 beginning a 35-year journey to the top of the wrestling world in the WWE and were eventually inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015.

Ruth Croft is New Zealand’s trail running queen, and perhaps the mentally strongest athlete we’ve talked to. Not only has she conquered multiple distance races, including the prestigious 100-mile Western States, but she has also calloused her mind through meditation and multi-day silent retreats. She is a thoughtful, disciplined, and inspiring Kiwi legend.

Marcus Daniell is one of New Zealand’s best tennis players. He’s an Olympic bronze medallist, who's won 5 ATP titles, made quarterfinal appearances at both Wimbledon and the Australian Open and has won over $1 million in prizemoney across his career. But he has also been doing incredible work off the court in the charity space.

Lucy Blakiston has a story that is quite incredible. In 2018, she was sitting in a uni lecture, getting increasingly frustrated with how disconnected she felt from the information she was being delivered. So, along with her two hometown best friends, she started a blog called Shit You Should Care About. Four years later, it’s turned into a mini-media empire. Her daily newsletter reaches 60,000 subscribers every morning, she hosts two podcasts and runs an Instagram page which has 3.6 million followers.

Chris Parker is one of New Zealand’s most prominent comedians, and an active voice of the LGBTQ community in New Zealand. During lockdown he grew one of New Zealand’s most entertaining and well-known Instagram pages but there is a lot more than viral fame to this kiwi entertainer.

Carlos Spencer is widely regarded as one of the best rugby players of his generation. He played 44 times for the All Blacks, 89 for Auckland, 99 for the Blues where he won two Super Rugby championships, then enjoyed stints overseas in England, South Africa, and Japan.

It’s the Between Two Beers Podcast third birthday and our 100th episode, so we figured it was a good time to reflect on our podcasting journey, talk about some of the best, worst and cringiest moments along the way and play a few of our favourite clips.

Mikey Havoc was one of the biggest stars in New Zealand entertainment for nearly two decades across music, radio and television during the late 90s and 2000s. He started out as a singer in the rock band Push Push, before going on to pump up the volume as a dance DJ and the long-standing voice of alternative radio station bFM, and then became a familiar face on TV, with his show Havoc and his partnership with Jeremy Wells.