Daniel James

They can have this effectively free labor building the profile of someone who is also on the network.

So I think there's value and economic opportunity there, commercial opportunity there.

The problem with that is that there is, if you take that to its logical end and you say everyone should be by themselves and everyone should have a sub stack and everyone should have a podcast, we end up in like the cable or streaming market that we're in now where if you want to consume a selection of things that you'd like, you're paying a million different subscriptions, you're paying a million different fees and it's not economical for the consumer.

So there is a risk that that market gets saturated very, very quickly.

And then we come full circle and we go back to aggregated models and we have things like newsrooms and commercial television networks where we watch, we share content together.

So there is opportunity, but I imagine it will cap itself pretty quickly and we'll see that cap pretty quickly.

Danny, you're one of my favorite pod bros.

Thanks for coming on the show.

Thank you very much for having me.

One of my favorite podcast hosts, Daniel.

Also in the news, Channel 9 isn't the only network looking to distance itself from Carl Stefanovic.

His new radio show with Eddie McGuire is expected to go ahead without him today after Carl pulled out.

There have reportedly been conversations with ARN about Stefanovic's future with the radio network, which recently came to a settlement with Kyle Sanderland's.

And Zali Stegall and Allegra Spender say their new community-strong Australia party will provide a centrist alternative for voters.

After months of speculation, the Teals announced the party yesterday.

Denying the move was to skirt new spending and donation laws which disadvantage smaller players.

Fellow crossbencher Nicolette Buller is considering joining, but the rest of the so-called Teal independents have so far ruled it out.

I'm Daniel James.

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