In this best of, Mick and Titus dive deep into the world of man's best friend.

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Titus discusses black widow spiders while Mick defames someone before reflecting on the Jackass' involvement with animals.

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Mick and Titus go way off-topic early on before getting things back on track and covering the Asian Giant Hornet and a butcher who had a very bad day at work.

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In the final episode of our Phar Lap series, the great horse finds himself challenged at home. Australian racing authorities are determined to stop him, so he heads to the United States.

There, tragedy will befall the champion and the mystery of what killed Phar Lap will become a question that has echoed down the ages.

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With Phar Lap now the favourite for the Melbourne Cup, Harry Telford started to turn his eye to his expiring contract with David Davis, resulting in the men engaging in more political manoeuvring than you see in Parliament.

None of this mattered to Phar Lap, who was about to deliver the greatest Melbourne Cup Carnival ever, despite an assassination attempt.

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As the Great Depression began to bite in Australia, Phar Lap would bounce from his third-place finish in the 1929 Melbourne Cup and begin to establish his legend.

With a display of front running that would shock the racing industry, Phar Lap would conquer the AJC Plate, before Harry Telford took him to South Australia on a cash grab, a move that did not go down well with the public.

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After announcing himself as a horse worth watching, Phar Lap would unleash on the Sydney and Melbourne Spring Carnivals, only for the intrigue to build around him.

Some of the biggest punters in Australia started to make plans around the horse, resulting in a match-up against his half-brother in the 1929 Melbourne Cup.

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Mick schools Titus on the difference between venomous and poisonous, and Titus does a deep dive into Robert F. Kennedy Jr's strange relationship with animals.

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After four starts, Phar Lap had come last and his best finish was seventh. He needed a win badly, as did his trainer Harry Telford who was deeply in debt to everyone.

As Phar Lap's three-year-old season started, no one could have predicted what the unfancied horse was about to unleash on the Sydney spring carnival. 

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Mick is certain a snake will bite him, while Titus tells the story of a robot whale shark passed off as a real one at a Chinese zoo.

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On the 4 of October 1926, late in the season, a horse was born in Timaru, New Zealand.

The horse's arrival couldn't have been less interesting to almost everyone, except for an Australian trainer Harry Telford. Broke and perpetually down on his luck, Telford saw something in the horse's bloodline. 

Yet even he, upon seeing the awkward, gangly horse thought he had made the biggest mistake of his life. 

That horse's name was Phar Lap.

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