Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily

On August 29, 2021 ESPN aired a high school football game between IMG Academy and Bishop Sycamore Centurions.
What unfolded revealed a high school football team set up as a scam, a scam that made it to national television.
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Frederick Charles Standish left England in 1852 under a false name and fleeing moneylenders. Landing in Melbourne, he was forced to live on the goldfields and run a sly grog business.
Yet, just six years later, he would be the colony's Chief Commissioner of police, be a pallbearer at Robert O’Hara Burke's funeral, invent the Melbourne Cup, become a key player in the formation of the VRC and lead, very unsuccessfully, the hunt for Ned Kelly.
Titus O'Reily and Mick Molloy examine the life of one of Australia's strangest characters, a man who paused the hunt for Ned Kelly while the weights of the Melbourne Cup were declared.
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Mick and Titus look at some of the bizarrest coach firings in history, from being sacked while on talkback radio to being sacked for buying enormous amounts of Jägermeister.
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With basketball growing rapidly, people were contacting James Naismith to learn about the game; however, one misunderstanding would lead to the creation of an entirely new sport.
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Titus is joined by travel journalist and National Geographic regular contributor, Ronan O’Connell to examine some of the bizarre stories behind the world's greatest landmarks.
Ronan has contributed stories and photography to National Geographic, CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Forbes and more.
His book Hidden in Plain Sight: The Untold Mysteries, Myths, and Marvels of the World's Most Popular Landmarks is out now.
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