As of EOFY 2026, every episode of The Kyle and Jackie O radio catch up podcast is freely available for you to still listen to, wherever you get your podcasts.
I’ve randomly checked in since the show wrapped in early March, sometimes for a specific bit of audio, other times to check if it is still there, especially after Kyle settled with ARN.
The show is the copyright of iHeart Podcasts Australia and KIIS, so they presumably can do what they like with it, but if Jackie Henderson‘s court case with ARN progresses, surely some of this audio in the ether will become evidence?
Now that It’s a Lot with Abbie Chatfield has well and truly shifted to Acast, she has been able to bring all her LiSTNR episodes with her. They have a tag at the bottom now that says:
Find more great podcasts like this at www.listnr.com/
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It will be interesting to see what happens to old KICpod and KICBump episodes when they leave LiSTNR for Shameless Media in September too.
Then there’s the podcasts that launch then, months later, the host will pop up in a story somewhere and I’ll wonder whatever happened to it?
A case recently was journalist and presenter Joe Hildebrand. He launched The Real Story with Joe Hildebrand with Nova podcasts in May 2024. A year later, things were going so well that he added Four the Record alongside Tim Blackwell to the mix. It was to be part of then Nova Network drive show’s Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel catch up podcast, but released every Thursday morning. The premise was Tim would fire four probing questions at Joe, on a hot topic dominating the headlines. It continued to the end of 2025. The Real Story with Joe Hildebrand stopped on October 9, with Joe saying that he was delighted to be able to continue alongside great mate Tim and do what he was currently doing, but just with a co-host.
Four the Record stopped at the same time as Tim and Ricki-Lee shifted to host Nova 969 breakfast. Tim continues his dependent podcast though, through Acast, that is heading towards 200 episodes.
All episodes, of all of the above, are still available wherever you get your podcasts.
If a network has taken the time and energy to work with someone towards what becomes a success story, then it probably matters little in the scheme of things if that podcast lingers after all involved have moved on to other things. But it’s rather like last season’s fashion still cluttering your store.
There is just so much audio, everywhere, that eventually I think a trend for the future will be limited windows of release. Make people have to listen when a series comes out and once it’s done, it’s gone. Perhaps premium subscribers can access old shows, on request, but the whole podcast industry house needs a good Swedish death clean.
This thinking on the future of a podcast once it has ‘died’ comes from seeing, on social media, that Domenica Calarco and Ella Ding have reconnected. Dom and Ella are two of the biggest brands to have emerged from the Married at First Sight TV series. Neither ended up with their beaus on the show, but developed a friendship that extended to a podcast called Sit With Us that launched four years ago, on Acast.
They were the ones podcast covering each series of MAFS, but a controversial episode with a MAFS groom Jack Dunkley in May 2024 led to Ella briefly hosting solo and then a ‘joint decision’ from the pair to call it quits at the end of July.
The friendship publicly faltered too. It was the first major podcast major falling out we’d really witnessed. None the less, Sit With Us can still be found, wherever you get your podcasts.
In October 2024 Domenica, with Acast, started Mad Woman which had 25 episodes into the start 2025. That would have been when Dom discovered she was pregnant. She announced that in March and that podcast, like all the above, sit dormant but still can be found, wherever you get your podcasts.
In May 2025 Ella announced her new solo podcast, The Ella Era, with Nine Entertainment. It coincided with her own pregnancy announcement, and while Ella did take time off to have her baby, that podcast continues to this very day, but of note Nine podcasts have not kept it, it is now part of Tapt Media.
You can find it, yada yada yada.
At the end of last year, Domenica sat down with Clare Stephens, the former Editor-in-Chief of Mamamia but now with Acast, for her podcast The Pile-On which delves into the emotional realities of public backlash when the internet turns on you. That whole concept would have sounded like gobbledy gook two decades ago!
Dom talked about after the controversial interview Sit with Us episode with Jack aired and the headlines, comment sections and brand partners that turned against her, unravelling her life and career.
This perhaps was an olive branch, but it was weird to read the description that said:
“In early 2024, Married at First Sight alumni Domenica Calarco and her co-host were at the height of their podcasting success. Their show Sit With Us had built a loyal audience and strong partnerships, but one episode changed everything.”
Someone cancelled Ella’s name.
But now the two have reconnected with Ella’s response to the pic of their two little girls getting nearly 2000 likes and a lot of love in the comments.
I wonder if they recorded a Ella Era podcast episode together?
So where do podcasts go when they die? Some, many actually, linger in the cemetery of deceased audio where people sometimes stumble over the headstone and think, “oh I remember them!”
Others get removed from all platforms, like cutting or photoshopping your ex-boyfriend out of all photos you have together.
And then there’s some, like the 250 corpses cryogenically preserved in the U.S, that are waiting, and hoping, to be revived. Inspired Unemployed did it with LiSTNR earlier this year, next up Sit With Us?
Or the Kyle and Jackie O Show?
One thing, in all of my trawling, is that this Kyle Daily platform is about to get a lot more hits, if Kyle Sandilands continues with his show idea in its current format, so he might just need to look to avenues elsewhere.
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.