A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece for Radioinfo called ‘what happens to a podcast when it dies?’ Many linger in the cemetery of deceased audio, where you can still visit the link, and hear the past, despite no new episodes in years.
It came about because, despite it now being the subject of a court case, the Kyle and Jackie O show radio catch up podcast is still available to listen to. That same week Karl Stefanovic took down a controversial episode of his independent podcast only to have the full video episode reappear hours later on One Nation leader Pauline Hanson‘s Please Explain YouTube channel, where it’s still available too.
The result of that was that Karl lost his job with Nine, as well as a new role, on radio, with ARN.
Over the last couple of days a new story featuring another former radio fellow, Dave ‘Hughesy’ Hughes has emerged.
Mel Bracewell, the New Zealand comedian who also hosts The Cheap Seats on Network 10, shared the below post:
Hughesy reponded, as did Mel:
And in the comments of the above TikTok, Mel went on to share what happened the first time she ever met Hughesy, when they performing on the same bill at a comedy show:
This sounded so far-fetched, and awful, that surely it couldn’t be true.
But then Mel backed it up with the below. Hughesy contacted her to see if she would come on the Hughesy, Ed and Erin radio show, then on Sydney’s 2Day FM, to talk about the details, to make it into joke content.
We are seeing at present not a ‘me too’ event, but rather a putting of certain moments on air and in podcasts to the pub test. Things that people said, did and got away with in the past are not landing any longer.
As it happens, and despite Hughesy, Ed and Erin not being on air together for two years now, the audio of Hughesy discussing that night backstage, and afterwards, was also languishing in the cemetery of deceased audio.
You can make up your own minds.
Jen Seyderhelm is a writer, editor and podcaster for Radioinfo. Email: [email protected]. You can subscribe to this publication for just $199 per annum (less for community stations, students and pensioners) and support local media. Celebrate Radioinfo in its 30th year.
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