Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily

On 8 August 1907, a secret meeting at Bateman’s Hotel in Sydney established a professional version of rugby in Australia and League was born. The very next day, details of the secret meeting were in the paper and League had gone less than 24 hours before their first crisis. Mick and Titus look at the early years of League in Australia as the NRL Grand Final approaches. Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now. Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne https://theleadbeaterhotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/d7d3259b-2256-48b0-be2e-174d62dd917e Wed 20 Nov: Rosemount, Perth FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT SECOND SHOW ADDED https://rosemounthotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/63cc2642-6733-4511-9362-dff37fe6a685?Event=199073 Wed 27 Nov: The Triffid, Brisbane https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/titus-o-reily-sport-the-unauthorised-history/171148 Fri 29 Nov: The Comedy Store, Sydney https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/138570 Sat 30 Nov: Fun Time Pony, Canberra FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT SECOND SHOW ADDED https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1285551 If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mick and Titus discuss the ethics of a chimpanzee who likes to smoke and a group of otters that attacked a jogger. Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now. Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne https://theleadbeaterhotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/d7d3259b-2256-48b0-be2e-174d62dd917e Wed 20 Nov: Rosemount, Perth FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT SECOND SHOW ADDED https://rosemounthotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/63cc2642-6733-4511-9362-dff37fe6a685?Event=199073 Wed 27 Nov: The Triffid, Brisbane https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/titus-o-reily-sport-the-unauthorised-history/171148 Fri 29 Nov: The Comedy Store, Sydney https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/138570 Sat 30 Nov: Fun Time Pony, Canberra FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT SECOND SHOW ADDED https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1285551 If you’d like more Animal Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In July 1985, it was announced that Geoffrey Edelsten had purchased the Sydney Swans, the first private owner of a VFL side. What followed were cheerleaders, Warrick Capper, a liaison with Hitman Mr Rent-a-Kill, Christopher Dale Flannery and possibly a pink helicopter. In AFL Grand Final week, Mick and Titus remember one of the early episodes as the AFL pushed North. Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now. Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne https://theleadbeaterhotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/d7d3259b-2256-48b0-be2e-174d62dd917e Wed 20 Nov: Rosemount, Perth SOLD OUT Second Show added https://rosemounthotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/63cc2642-6733-4511-9362-dff37fe6a685?Event=199073 Wed 27 Nov: The Triffid, Brisbane https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/titus-o-reily-sport-the-unauthorised-history/171148 Fri 29 Nov: The Comedy Store, Sydney https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/138570 Sat 30 Nov: Fun Time Pony, Canberra SOLD OUT Second Show Added https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1285551 If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Titus and Mick discuss the saga of the swearing parrots, and learn something about sloths that they can't unlearn. Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now. Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne https://theleadbeaterhotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/d7d3259b-2256-48b0-be2e-174d62dd917e Wed 20 Nov: Rosemount, Perth 2nd Show https://rosemounthotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/63cc2642-6733-4511-9362-dff37fe6a685?Event=199073 Wed 27 Nov: The Triffid, Brisbane https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/titus-o-reily-sport-the-unauthorised-history/171148 Fri 29 Nov: The Comedy Store, Sydney https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/138570 Sat 30 Nov: Fun Time Pony, Canberra 2nd Show https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1285551 If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When multi-millionaire Bernard Tapie purchased French football club Olympique de Marseille the fans were thrilled, here was a man who would do anything to win. 'Anything' turned out to be doping and the bribing of almost anyone thought to be able to help them out. The result was the tainting of the first ever Champions League. Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now. Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne https://theleadbeaterhotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/d7d3259b-2256-48b0-be2e-174d62dd917e Wed 20 Nov: Rosemount, Perth SOLD OUT Wed 27 Nov: The Triffid, Brisbane https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/titus-o-reily-sport-the-unauthorised-history/171148 Fri 29 Nov: The Comedy Store, Sydney https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/138570 Sat 30 Nov: Fun Time Pony, Canberra https://comedyact.com.au/event/titus-oreily-sport-the-unauthorised-history/ If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Titus and Mick discuss the Tiger attack a Dreamworld, before Titus reveals the dangerous threat twerking wombats present to us all. Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now. Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne https://theleadbeaterhotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/d7d3259b-2256-48b0-be2e-174d62dd917e Wed 20 Nov: Rosemount, Perth https://rosemounthotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/ed9737fd-1489-4fd4-998d-e34c429daa02?preview=1ba6d0ef-997f-4881-b462-13c400f7086e Wed 27 Nov: The Triffid, Brisbane https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/titus-o-reily-sport-the-unauthorised-history/171148 Fri 29 Nov: The Comedy Store, Sydney https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/138570 Sat 30 Nov: Fun Time Pony, Canberra https://comedyact.com.au/event/titus-oreily-sport-the-unauthorised-history/ If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Louis Zborowski's parents died he became the fourth richest teenager in the world. So he did what any incredibly rich teenager would, put jet engines in cars. The result was Chitty Bang Bang, one of the fastest cars of its time, creating a legend that lives to this day. Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now. Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne https://theleadbeaterhotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/d7d3259b-2256-48b0-be2e-174d62dd917e Wed 20 Nov: Rosemount, Perth https://rosemounthotel.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/ed9737fd-1489-4fd4-998d-e34c429daa02?preview=1ba6d0ef-997f-4881-b462-13c400f7086e Wed 27 Nov: The Triffid, Brisbane https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/titus-o-reily-sport-the-unauthorised-history/171148 Fri 29 Nov: The Comedy Store, Sydney https://aucentury.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/138570 Sat 30 Nov: Fun Time Pony, Canberra https://comedyact.com.au/event/titus-oreily-sport-the-unauthorised-history/ If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mick and Titus discuss a bald eagle that is too fat to fly, sharks' long history, and animals' reactions to an eclipse. If you’d like more Animal Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 family musical about a flying car, hardly leaps to mind when you think of sport. But the film and the book were inspired by one of the most amazing families of early motorsport, the Zborowskis. It's a tale spanning the richest families in the world, James Bond, divorce and some of the most absurd cars ever built. If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Titus returns from a trip to Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo leading to Mick revealing his multiple run-ins with crocodiles, and a debate breaks out over whether crocodiles are dinosaurs. If you’d like more Animal Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Titus is joined by one of the greatest Paralympians of all time and wheelchair racing legend Louise Sauvage to look back at the history of the Paralympics. They also discuss Louise's career and look at the upcoming 2024 Paralympics. Louise also has a new podcast that tells the history of the Paralympics and Australia's involvement. You can listen to it on the link below. The paralympic journey | From rehab to elite - ABC listen Titus has a live show in Adelaide on September 1. Tickets are available here. If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When Marge Schott purchased the Cincinnati Reds, fans welcomed her and her St Bernard with open arms. Yet despite a World Series, soon a run-in with professional wrestler Randy 'Macho Man' Savage made fans wonder if Marge was a difficult person. This was soon confirmed with a world-record string of PR disasters. Titus has a live show in Adelaide on September 1. Tickets are available here. If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mick and Titus discuss the etiquette surrounding emotional support animals, and if a kangaroos can be considered one. If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While women's boxing exploded in controversy at the Paris Olympics, the real story was hiding in plain sight, boxing is on the verge of being finished as an Olympic sport. The real story involves decades of corruption, fixed fights, financial mismanagement, the U.S. Treasury Department, Vladimir Putin and Russian bikies. If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's episode, Titus tells Mick about his trip to the Darwin Cup and they discuss all the ways animals get high. If you’d like more Animal Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Animal Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The games have begun, but African American Jesse Owens shatters Hitler's dreams of Aryan supremacy, or did he? The Berlin Olympics were strange, but partly they are strange because the story we tell of them now is not the story told at the time. If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When it comes to Olympic controversies, Winter or Summer, none matches the weirdness of the Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding saga. Days out from the 1994 US Figure Skating Championships, Nancy Kerrigan had just finished training at the Cobo Arena in Detroit when a man approached and hit her with a metal object just above her knee. Almost immediately, the FBI would identify four men as behind the attack, all linked to Kerrigan’s main rival, Tonya Harding. Titus and Mick look back on the motley crew that carried out the attack, how they managed to botch almost every part of their plan and left a trail of clues so wide that anyone on the planet could have solved the case. If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mick and Titus discuss a man who tried to sneak 100 snakes past customs in his trousers, treadmill workouts for dogs and how elephants use names for each other. If you’d like more Animal Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the Olympics continue. we visit the ill-fated voyage of the 1932 Brazillian Olympic team. In 1932, with the world going through the Great Depression, Brazil had no money to send its Olympic team to Los Angeles. Then a government official had an idea—load a ship with 50,000 bags of coffee, and have the Olympic team sell the cargo to fund the entire trip. Titus O'Reily and Mick Molloy look at a strange trip which included pretending the ship was a warship, and civil war breaking out. If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the United States on board, the Berlin Olympics commenced, and first, there was the Opening Ceremony. A ceremony so grandiose that every single Olympics since has copied what the Nazis did. If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you’ll get: Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTube See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.