📻 Amanda Keller's Passionate Response To Marty Sheargold Controversy

Marty Sheargold said that the Matildas players reminded him of "year 10 girls".

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation the world of Trouble over there
at Triple M with Marty sheer Gold, the Drive Time.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Host National Drive Time host.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Interjecting interjecting on a sports report about the Matilda's form slum.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
You know what they remind me of Year ten girls.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm sorry to undermine the whole sport, but that's what
I think of it.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
So you can stick it up there. Better be men.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hopefully we had a runway the Asian Cup.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'd rather hammer and nail through the head of my watch.
That got any men's sport speak.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
This is also the man who two days before that
said that endometriosis was made up? Women who did he
said that? He said, women who have endometriosis? Where it
is words here?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
He said?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
You know what I'm going to say, it's controversial, it's
made up. No, he's not, He's not joking. Look, this
is the thing. I don't even know where to start
with this. It just makes me feel sick. It makes
me feel sick. And this embarrasses everyone who works on
radio because it gives everyone a chance to say commercial
radio is filled with old dinosaurs thinking. This way of

(01:13):
thought is so privileged, outdated and boorish, and he's taken
on a team that hosted events that were the most
watched sporting events in the history of Australian broadcasting. More
people watch the Matilda's and have watched any other sporting
event men, women, boys, girls.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
And that's what's been so interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
The outpouring of outrage over his comments has come from
all quarters. And so he's parted ways with Triple M.
Mutual agreement, they say, but they both issued apologies on
behalf of what he has said. Triple M for a
long time has branded itself as being sport and comedy.
Well he's pissed over both, he really has, and he's
punched down at women That network has I think a lot.

(01:54):
Get We've got Gus Walland on our show coming up next. Actually,
he is the world's best gentleman interested to hear what
he has to say about this, because he's the softest man.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Who just spreads the love. What is this about.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
It's outdated, it's dumb, it's disrespectful, it's incorrect. He's entitled
to opinions, sure, maybe, but as broadcast as you and
I know this, Brendan, we can have our opinions and
if our network or if our audience say too far,
then they're the arbiters of what we do. And people
here have said too far.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
And he's interjected into the sports break as well, so
it's not like someone asked his opinion about women's sport.
He actually cut into the sports report about it.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
And they all laugh like Hyena's too. Too often in
radio industry there's been and particularly at Triple M, there
have been shows hosted by borish comedians, men who who
are as I said, who are comedians, and they're put
with women whose job it is to.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Say, oh, stop it. That is so boring.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Marty sheer Gold himself said when he was doing a show,
a breakfast show with he Boxed a number of years ago,
he said he became a giant ahole and he said
he was all ego and he had to step away.
He said, I battered that woman down show after show,
and I don't blame Fifi for wanting to get out.
This is what he said at the time, and then
he said he needed to take a break. This is

(03:16):
a man who was also rumored to be kicked out
of AFL Grand Final for well I said on the
news last night for comments he made about women. That's nice,
but he said he was mentally exhausted, had to take
some time away, and here we are again. How many
chances do these men get. I'm hoping that the tide
has turned. The outpouring of horror has been so loud.
And also, what is changing at Triple M. I'd like

(03:38):
to think is female executives.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Laura Bouchet, who used to be our executive producer.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
We created her.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
She is one of the best. She's a fabulous the
well but look, I hope she's making it looks like
she's making good decisions. We need women to help make
these decisions. Though this is outraging men too, is get
rid of it? Get rid of it.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
We have history, which because how many years ago was it?
You and I did the show over there as a
filling show and the dope executives executives at the time
couldn't see that we'd be a great shape. My greatest
satisfaction is beating Triple M each time. I love it.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
I had Do they allow strong women on air? I'm
not even sure. Luggy, you work with the prince here,
You've misspelled punts