Marty Sheargold has revealed that his plans to start his own podcast suffered a major setback following his shocking comments about the Matildas last year.
The radio host, 54, was axed from Triple M in February 2025 for making sexist remarks about the Aussie women’s soccer team.
Sheargold said he lost time on his new project when management at a podcast studio showed him the door earlier this year, telling him that ‘their values didn’t align’.
‘I booked [into a podcasting] space, I paid five weeks in advance,’ he said on the latest episode of the Game Changers Radio podcast.
‘After the first week, someone at that podcasting space had 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 [a podcast].’
Elsewhere, Sheargold insisted that his dramatic exit from commercial radio was a ‘blessing in disguise’ and claimed he was ready to walk two years before the scandal.
Marty Sheargold has revealed that his plans to start his own podcast suffered a major setback following his shocking comments about the Matildas last year
The radio host, 54, was axed from Triple M in February 2025 for making sexist remarks about the Aussie women’s soccer team
‘What I should have done is leave that [Triple M] job two years earlier,’ he told host Craig Bruce.
‘I’d say there were a couple of years there where I was rolling through the business.
‘I don’t know that I was fully invested in the day-to-day of the show. I was always across the show obviously.’
He said his comments about the popular soccer team were not how he wanted to be remembered and he didn’t want to be known as the guy who made ‘the Matildas blunder’.
‘But look, really, I don’t give a f**k about that … in terms of caring what strangers think,’ he added.
The former Triple M drive host was cancelled for comments about the Matildas that were branded un-Australian, sexist and disgusting.
Sheargold made the remarks on his radio show in February 2025 after the Matildas suffered a string of losses in major matches.
He told listeners ‘there’s something wrong with the Matildas’ before comparing the team to ‘Year 10 girls’ and asking if superstar striker Sam Kerr and her fiancée Kristie Mewis ‘play the same position’.
Sheargold said he lost time on his new project when management at a podcast studio showed him the door, telling him that ‘their values didn’t align’
He also commented: ‘Oh god. The Asian Cup,’ in reference to a major event on the Matildas calendar.
‘I’d rather hammer a nail through the head of my penis than watch that. Got any men’s sport?’
His outburst was described as ‘outrageous’ by interim Matildas coach Tom Sermanni, who was part of a chorus of criticism.
Sheargold was also slammed by Federal Sports Minister Anika Wells, Matildas midfielder Clare Wheeler and the players’ union, Professional Footballers Australia.
PFA chief executive Beau Busch described the remarks as ‘disgusting, pathetic and deeply misogynistic’, while Football Australia lashed out at Sheargold’s comments in a statement on Wednesday.
Australia’s radio industry watchdog slammed Triple M over the derogatory comments following Sheargold’s axing.
In September 2025 the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found four Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) stations – including Triple M Sydney – breached decency rules due to Sheargold’s now infamous comments about the nation’s most popular sporting team.
Sheargold is currently taking a lap around Australia on his The Red Card Tour. The title of the stand-up show is a reference to the most serious penalty a referee can serve a player during a match.
