By Sport Bizarre
Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily are always on the lookout for a bizarre story. The harder to believe, the better.
Yet all these stories are true, even if many of them shouldn’t be.
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With Phar Lap now the favourite for the Melbourne Cup, Harry Telford started to turn his eye to his expiring contract with David Davis, resulting in the men engaging in more political manoeuvring than you see in Parliament.
None of this mattered to Phar Lap, who was about to deliver the greatest Melbourne Cup Carnival ever, despite an assassination attempt.
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Wed 27 Nov: The Triffid, Brisbane
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As the Great Depression began to bite in Australia, Phar Lap would bounce from his third-place finish in the 1929 Melbourne Cup and begin to establish his legend.
With a display of front running that would shock the racing industry, Phar Lap would conquer the AJC Plate, before Harry Telford took him to South Australia on a cash grab, a move that did not go down well with the public.
Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now.
Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne
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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
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After announcing himself as a horse worth watching, Phar Lap would unleash on the Sydney and Melbourne Spring Carnivals, only for the intrigue to build around him.
Some of the biggest punters in Australia started to make plans around the horse, resulting in a match-up against his half-brother in the 1929 Melbourne Cup.
Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now.
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Wed 20 Nov: Rosemount, Perth FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT SECOND SHOW ADDED
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Wed 27 Nov: The Triffid, Brisbane
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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
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Mick schools Titus on the difference between venomous and poisonous, and Titus does a deep dive into Robert F. Kennedy Jr's strange relationship with animals.
Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne
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Fri 29 Nov: The Comedy Store, Sydney
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After four starts, Phar Lap had come last and his best finish was seventh. He needed a win badly, as did his trainer Harry Telford who was deeply in debt to everyone.
As Phar Lap's three-year-old season started, no one could have predicted what the unfancied horse was about to unleash on the Sydney spring carnival.
Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now.
Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne
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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
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Mick is certain a snake will bite him, while Titus tells the story of a robot whale shark passed off as a real one at a Chinese zoo.
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
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On the 4 of October 1926, late in the season, a horse was born in Timaru, New Zealand.
The horse's arrival couldn't have been less interesting to almost everyone, except for an Australian trainer Harry Telford. Broke and perpetually down on his luck, Telford saw something in the horse's bloodline.
Yet even he, upon seeing the awkward, gangly horse thought he had made the biggest mistake of his life.
That horse's name was Phar Lap.
Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now.
Sat 16 Nov: The Leadbeater, Melbourne
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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
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Former Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman offered to go to Russia to talk to President Vladimir Putin about the imprisoned WNBA star Brittney Griner.
While Rodman claims somewhat falsely that "I know Putin too well," there’s one dictator he does know well, North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
Between 2013 and 2018, Rodman made numerous trips to North Korea, calling Jong-un a ‘friend for life’. At one point, Rodman was one of only two men in the world who had met Kim Jong-un and then President Donald Trump.
Titus O’Reily and Mick Molloy discuss the strangest relationship in international politics and look at claims Rodman was an intelligence officer working for the Central Intelligence Agency or just a useful idiot for the North Koreans.
Titus is touring the country. Tickets are on sale now.
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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
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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
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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
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The podcast currently has 158 episodes available.
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