Disgraced comedian Marty Sheargold claims he was kicked out of a professional podcast studio after bosses decided his values didn’t “align” with theirs.
In a new interview, the comedian revealed he’d been gearing up to launch his own podcast following the abrupt end of his radio career last February, which came after his controversial remarks about the Matildas.
ICYMI: in February 2025, Sheargold demeaned the women’s football team on the radio, saying there’s “something wrong with the Matildas”.
“They had that wonderful tournament out here where we all fell in love with them,” he said at the time, referencing the team’s 2023 World Cup campaign in which they made the semifinals, though he wrongly referenced they “didn’t make the quarters”.
“You know what they remind me of? Year 10 girls,” he said, with laughter heard in the background.
“All the infighting and all the friendship issues, ‘the coach hates me and I hate bloody training and Michelle’s being a b**ch’.
“Now I’m sorry to undermine the whole sport, but that’s what I think of it so you can stick it up your a**.”
The fallout was fast and hard, with Sheargold parting ways with Triple M and being slammed by scores of public figures and later apologising, but the damage was done.
A year on from the controversy, he’s now spoken out about how the incident has impacted his career, including being booted from a podcasting space.
“I booked in a [podcasting] space, I paid five weeks in advance,” Sheargold told the Game Changers Radio podcast.
“After the first week, someone at that podcasting space has decided, and these were the words they used, ‘his values don’t align with ours’, and so that was the end of that first attempt at doing it.”
The incident allegedly occurred a couple of months ago, and Sheargold still plans to go ahead with the project.
“I’ve purchased all the stuff I need to do it at home,” he said. “And I will do that.”
During the podcast ep, Sheargold shared that it was mostly his decision to quit Triple M last year following the controversy.
“I spoke to Dave Cameron [Southern Cross Austereo’s former Chief Content Officer] and he said, ‘listen, I’m going to the board to find out what they want to do. What do you want to do?’ And I said, ‘well, why don’t we go our separate ways?’
“So that was that conversation,” Sheargold said. “I never heard from the CEO and I never heard from anyone on the board.”
“It’d be awful if the way that I’m sort of remembered in the business is, ‘the guy who made the Matildas blunder,’” he continued. “But look, really, I don’t give a f**k about that … in terms of caring what strangers think.”
The Fisk star admitted he wasn’t in the best headspace when he made the controversial comments about the Matildas, revealing he’d been at his dad’s funeral just three days earlier.
“I was grieving,” he explained. “I probably shouldn’t have been at work at all.
“I’m not playing this card as any way to sort of explain away my behaviour,” he said. “I take full responsibility for what happened on air. I’m just trying to put context around why … I couldn’t have cared less about that day at work.”
He also admitted he hadn’t been all that keen on his radio show for a while before his outsting.
“What I should have done … is leave that job … two years before I did,” he told podcast host Craig Bruce. “But you know what it’s like when you’re earning good money and you haven’t put any thought into life after the job that you’re doing, it’s just easier to keep rolling on.
“I don’t know that I was fully invested in the day to day of the show,” he continued. “I was always across the show, obviously … but I don’t know that I was really trying to actively improve that show on a daily basis.”
More than 12 months on from the drama, Sheargold said he considers it to be “a blessing in disguise”.
“I probably had six months where I really just concentrated on parenting and being around the house, which I hadn’t done for a long time,” he said. “And it’s been an absolute pleasure and a luxury to be able to do that.”
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