Titus O’Reily and Triple M’s Mick Molloy are bringing their sports podcast, Sports Bizarre, to LiSTNR.
From the cricket pitch to the track, the footy field over to the courts and even into the pool, O’Reily and Molloy will dive into the deep history of every kind of sport, where listeners will hear stories from around the globe.
Recent episodes have explored the introduction of ‘whiff waff’ aka table tennis, the 13-year-old snooker player who skipped school to pursue the game, former Philadelphia Eagles player Tim Rossovich who famously set up pranks such as setting himself on fire, a two-part feature on golf’s most unconventional character John Daly and even ‘The Monkey Testicle Doping Scandal’.
O’Reily said, “We’re thrilled to partner with LiSTNR. It will be a great novelty for Mick and myself to work with people who understand podcasting, because neither of us do.
“At its heart, Sports Bizarre is about people doing weird things. The sport is the backdrop, it’s about people who jump naked into birthday cakes, and put itching powder in their opponents’ shorts, just good clean fun.”
Molloy said, “Every week we have a new story from the world of sports that is difficult to believe, but all of them are true. At least I think they are, I should check. All I’ve learnt from these tales of sportspeople misbehaving is how much you could get away with before smartphones. I’ve been born in the wrong era!”
The first LiSTNR episode continues the ping pong conversation as O’Reily and Molloy examine the rise of table tennis in China and how the US Table Tennis Championships were once kicked out of a venue by El Mongol, a not-so-famous wrestler.
SCA chief content officer, Dave Cameron, said: “We couldn’t be more excited to have Sports Bizarre coming to the LiSTNR podcast network. Combining the most eccentric and hilarious look at the crazy side of sport, delivered by two of this country’s best story tellers Titus O’Reily and Triple M’s own Mick Molloy, showcases LiSTNR’s focus on partnering with Australia’s best premium creators and podcasts.”