Compiled by Tess Connery and Grace Gollasch
Looking back with a laugh on Marto’s 21st Anniversary Podcast
Monday November 30 marks 21 years behind the mic for 104.5 Triple M Brisbane’s Greg ‘Marto’ Martin.
To mark the occasion, Marto has recorded a four-part podcast where he shares stories never told on-air before – including his cancer battle, his dumping from the Wallabies and how it impacted his relationship with David Campese, when he lost 10 million dollars, and how Jamie Dunn thought he was the cleaner at the radio station.
Podcast Week’s Tess Connery spoke to Marto about how Marto’s 21st Anniversary Podcast came to be and what the highlights of his time on air have been.
Greg ‘Marto’ Martin
Marto’s 21st Anniversary Podcast was almost never launched, with Marto saying that it took a lot of convincing to get him into the podcasting studio.
“I don’t like talking about myself, I like to talk about other people and laugh at them and take the piss. It took a committee of them to approach me – I said, ‘Yeah, sure,’ but I didn’t realise it was going to turn into a four part podcast! It’s been really gruelling talking about my last few years, but then they started bringing up stories from 30 years ago, 40 years ago. It’s jolted my memory.”
The initial four episodes may not be the end of the podcast either, with Marto saying that there is definitely still material left in the tank.
“I’ve still got a few more there. I’d rather run the podcast and get mates in, it might become a thing.
“This is entrapment! I think they got me to do four, and it didn’t hurt me physically or mentally. So I might actually do more, I’ve got more stories to tell.”
After 21 years in the business, Marto has seen the way the industry has evolved first-hand. When asked how his experiences in radio now compare to when he first started, Marto jokes that he’d be taken off air within the first hour if they were on radio now
“It was so loose. I was with a guy called Greg ‘Fat Cat’ Ritchie, a former test batsman. We’d leave each day at 9am on the dot, no meetings, no nothing. No planning. We’d just turn up and trust each other, we’d tell our stories – I’d tell stories of footy and building, and he’d tell cricket stories and Footy Show stories.
“Now they have clocks, and we have a rundown. Between 5:30am and 9am is meticulous.”
With 21 years of radio under his belt, Marto says that the highlights of his time on air all involve helping the community that he wakes up and talks to every morning.
“We’ve got the power to help people, because we’ve got so many hundreds of thousands of people listening who want to help as well.
“We raised money after the Christchurch earthquake, we raised $600,000 by organising a footy game at Ballymore of old All Blacks against old Wallabies. It was just magnificent. There was a Samoan tsunami back about 15 years ago, we raised about $200,000 for them. They’re the things that stick most in my mind.”
[Listen to Marto’s 21st Anniversary Podcast here]
NOVA Entertainment’s Project ARI wins Best Original Podcast – Branded at the ACRAs
NOVA Entertainment’s podcast Project ARI has been recognised by the radio and audio industry, taking home the award for Best Original Podcast – Branded at this year’s Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRA).
The podcast was created in partnership with the Australian Government for the Stop it at the Start campaign. Aiming to positively influence young people around acceptable behaviour and respectful relationships, following the story of a fully functioning Artificial Intelligence prototype, affectionately known as ARI.
Conjointly, the initiative aims to empower adults to “unmute” themselves and act to positively influence the attitudes and behaviours of young people.
Project ARI is a fictional storytelling series and branded podcast, designed as a useful tool to help parents and caregivers have more meaningful conversations with kids about respectful behaviour.
The episodes focus on topics that can seem challenging to tackle, such as peer group pressure, bullying, excusing bad behaviour, consent, and gender roles.
Project ARI boasts an impressive cast including a range of talented young actors, who auditioned from major talent agencies around Australia, as well as Nova’s Kate Ritchie and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli, smoothfm’s Cameron Daddo and Byron Webb along with Australian professional soccer player Kyah Simon.
Audible debuts Origins, featuring Billie Eilish and Doja Cat
Billie Eilish, Doja Cat and King Princess are among eight award-winning global artists telling their ‘Origin’ stories in an eye-opening new Audible Original podcast Origins launching on 17 November.
Produced by Fresh Produce Media, Origins is an eight-part audio experience featuring musicians in their most intimate form as they interpret the question, “Where are you from?”
In reflecting on her own origin story and where it has led her, Billie Eilish said, “It was so weird to me when I was first coming up and, and the thing everybody said was, like, ‘Billie Eilish’s music is so depressing and it’s so sad and it’s too dark,’ and I was like, ‘What are you talking about? Have you listened to The Beatles and As My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Yesterday and Lana Del Rey? Like, what the hell?’ It was so surprising to me that people thought anything I was creating was dark. I mean, it’s real.”
Doja Cat said, “I’ve always tried to bring my fans into my world. I am more interested in being myself than what others want me to be. I want people to get a real understanding of who I am, and I think Origins will help them do that.”
9Podcasts and Commonwealth Bank partner to launch Anatomy of a Scam
In line with National Scams Awareness Week, 9Podcasts has partnered with the Commonwealth Bank to launch Anatomy of a Scam, a new weekly podcast series hosted by Deborah Knight that dives deep into the world of scams.
Anatomy of a Scam explores the technology and psychology used by scammers, and by the people working to protect our money and information. Each episode targets a specific aspect of scams in a fascinating, and at times, scary series.
The podcast breaks down some of the more prevalent scams to expose their anatomy and explain their inner workings. Episodes feature experts in cyber security and law enforcement, as well as real scam victims who share their personal experiences in a bid to warn others.
“Try as authorities might, we cannot arrest our way out of this scam epidemic, so education is key. Understanding how scammers target us is the first step towards recognising a scam in the wild and taking the necessary steps to stop it in its tracks”, said Knight.
[Listen to Anatomy of a Scam here]
