The Podcast Nobody Likes
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“I listened to this podcast throughout the year Melbourne’s Angus Brayshaw was featured. In spite of his co-hosts, Brayshaw made the show interesting by offering a rare insight into the the highs and lows of an AFL season from a players’ perspective. It made for great listening.
In the years since then I have returned to the show on occasion when I’m feeling starved for content and am craving anything footy-related to consume. Each time I return I am reminded why I unsubscribed many years ago. The show has dropped the AFL player host format. It now features three, giggly, dull, young, utterly indistinguishable male journalists.
Why this show continues to exist is a question which perplexes me.
It is surely not because it is funny. The hosts do giggle amongst themselves throughout but this is usually the result of non-humour. They laugh because they fail to successfully execute a segment concept, or because a cohost loses their train of thought, or because they lightly rib each other. While endlessly amusing the hosts themselves, none of this does much for the listener. Being funny is a skill. The show is not funny for its nonsense like Two Guys One Cup, nor is it capable of satirical humour like the Titus O’Reily podcast.
It surely does not exist for the unique perspective on football offered by the hosts. As journalists for AFL.com.au, the hosts’ perspective on football are limited to the dull and procedural job tasks of producing post-match reports and reporting on preseason drafts and player trading. They are experts in these aspects of the game. But these are the absolute least interesting aspects of AFL. If you want a podcast about the media itself you can listen to The Sounding Board. The only time anyone cares about drafts and trades is during the preseason when you can listen to Trade Radio until your brain bleeds out your ears.
And it doesn’t exist for detailed analysis of games. If you want that there’s Footyology. The hosts of AFL Exchange are only capable of endless insufferable hot-takes that have little to no explanation or credibility, or potshot predictions that almost always fail to materialise.
So why does this podcast exist? Maybe it is because it is one of the first podcasts to come up when you search “AFL” after having now been on the air for 8 years. And how is it that even when the clubs were forced to cut 30% of their soft-cap spend, the AFL still found the money to pay for AFL Exchange? I would not be surprised if many of the people who subscribe to the show actually don’t listen to it anymore.
How can it be fixed? I have some ideas:
- Get a current player back on the show
- Get an ex-player on the show
- Get a comedian on the show
- Get one of the many talented women AFL journalists to host the show
- Put the show as it currently exists into a rocket and fire it into the sun”
methghbanalsexaustralia via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
04/04/21
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“Good analysis... Not too many headlining grabbing faff or wanky inside jokes.”
Elliot Duke via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
06/10/15
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“This is a good AFL podcast, without reaching its full potential.
They need to make less inside jokes about themselves at AFL media house and spend more time asking player opinions on issues. They have an AFL player on most weeks and this saves the show. Matt Thompson can get a little too carried...”Read full review »
Elliot Duke via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
10/24/17
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“Fabulous entertaining podcast !
Loved the insight from Angus gave us such a great insight into an AFL footballer !! Go Dee’s!”
Kell Rob 68 via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
09/27/18
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