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One of the most challenging athletic feats in human history is to swim the English Channel.It’s 34 kilometres of open sea between England and France, which also happens to be the busiest sea lane in the world, with water temperatures hovering
Mick and Titus pay their respects to Magawa the rat who dedicated his life to detecting landmines. Plus, they discuss the Bahraini seagulls that are too fat to fly; loud cicada sex parties and the monotreme with four penises.Titus has three li
By the 1930s, SP bookies were everywhere, with investigations discovering that every pub had an SP bookie, and the rare one that didn’t wasn’t economically viable.After the radio had changed everything, the next bit of technology was about to
In their first episode of Animal Bizarre, Mick and Titus discuss a bear that invaded a Japanese military base, penguins that get too cold and a woman breastfeeding a cat on an aeroplane. They then cover a man who while fleeing a swarm of bees
At the beginning of the 20th century, Australia decided to do something against its nature, ban gambling.The result was the rise of the SP Bookie, illegal bookmakers based in pubs, barber shops, pool halls and anywhere people wanted them.The
Mick and Titus are thrilled to announce a new show, Animal Bizarre, which will be released each Wednesday, starting next week. Sports Bizarre will remain the same, out every Monday.“From seagulls who are too fat to fly, drunk echidnas, a crypt
With their first season at the top level in the bag, the Crazy Gang set their eyes higher, but not before a key member announces he is leaving.Before the season is over, the team will achieve something special, but it will also contain the see
Unfortunately Mick was unwell last week, so we bring you one of our most popular episodes. Wimbledon will be back next week.On 4 June 1974, the Cleveland Indians decided to host a ten-cent beer night to attract fans; beer at the stadium normal
In part two, Wimbledon’s Crazy Gang unlock their on field persona, tough, hard, and hated by opponents.As they push up the Football League divisions, a new young player joins the team, named Vinnie Jones, and the club begins their assault on t
In the mid-1970s, Wimbledon FC were an amateur football side that couldn't afford training cones, so they stole them from the nearby highway.But the club was going about to go on one of the greatest runs of any team in sport, rising from the b
Albert Belle could hit a baseball. He could also hit a range of other objects when he got frustrated, from sinks to buffet tables.Joining the hapless Cleveland Indians, he was a big part of turning them around, but he also lost it at fans, tea
In part two, Babe Didrikson turns to golf as her next sport to conquer, becoming one of the greatest of all time.She also meets her husband George Zaharias, a professional wrestler, known as the 'Crying Greek from Cripple Creek.'Together, the
Babe Didrikson might very well be the greatest athlete of the 20th century. As a teenager she led her team to the National Basketball Championship, before moving on to the Olympics and became a two-time gold medallist.Baseball was next, playin
In 1977, the movie Slap Shot starring Paul Newman was released about the crazy exploits of a fictional minor league ice hockey team.The plot was so unbelievable the movie flopped but later became a sports classic, partly because all the crazy
In 2002, none other than Michael Jackson came to Exeter City's stadium to deliver a speech to the 7,000 fans in attendance. What followed was a rambling speech about curing AIDS, stopping poverty, and for good measure, ending racism.What made
With Taylor Swift in Australia, we look at her impact on the NFL and examine other sport/entertainment relationships, like Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, Posh and Becks, and Denis Rodman and Madonna.If you’d like more Sports Bizarre, become
After a few legal checks, we can now bring you part two of Fine Cotton, and we didn't even have to change it!When we left you, the horse was bright red, the race was imminent and it all looked like this slow-moving disaster was going ahead.
Unfortunately, we can't bring you Fine Cotton Part Two today, we explain why in this pod, but it will be arriving soon. Instead, we present Frank Worthington, one of the wild men of English Football in the 1970s.A friend of George Best, he on
We are back, and with the most requested topic we've ever had.In Australia, the two most famous racehorses are Fine Cotton and Phar Lap but for opposite reasons. When a handful of colourful racing types attempted to swap the poor horse Fine C
Titus sits down with The Ringer’s Editor-at-Large Bryan Curtis to discuss the wonderful world of Texas football.They look at high school football, the rituals and rivalries of college football and the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans.B
Titus sits down with comedians and authors Paul Nardizzi & David Barend who literally wrote the books on how to annoy Jets and Yankees fans.They discuss the Jets disastrous season and why non-Yankees fans hate Yankees fans.We are doing two li
Titus sits down with Devin Gordon, author of So Many Ways to Lose: The Amazin' True Story of the New York Mets.They chat about how Mets fans experience more pain than almost any other fans, and how whenever things look good, they go bad in the
This week we look at people creating mayhem just for the joy of creating mayhem.First, we look at snooker legend Jimmy White, particularly when he teams up with fellow madman Alex Higgins. Next, we look at the total mayhem of mob football at
This week we look at people who had too much money. Starting with F1 racer James Hunt, and his relationship with Lord Alexander Hesketh, a man who had money, and knew how to have fun with it.Then there’s J. William Oldenburg, who owned the US
This week we look back at one of our favourite characters ever.Albert Griffiths, or ‘Young Griffo’ began life in the slums of Sydney, as leader of a local gang. This proved to be the perfect training for boxing, and before he was twenty he wa
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