Will The Rest Is Politics and Political Currency do a joint podcast episode in 2024?
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The Rest Is Politics is a podcast hosted by Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart. It is (I believe) the number one politics podcast in the UK, occupying a centrist perspective with one Labour host and one Tory host.

Political Currency is a podcast hosted by Ed Balls and George Osborne. It also occupies a centrist perspective with one Labour host and one Tory host. I think it's fair to say that without TRIP it wouldn't have been born?

All four hosts have in their own way been very close to the exercising of power in Westminster.

This resolves YES if all four individuals appear in the same podcast in 2024. A fifth person acting as some sort of moderator would not affect the resolution, but if it was the four of them plus other entities* this would not count.

It resolves NO if the above condition is not met.

*The spirit of this question is clear from the title. Whether such a joint episode would be hosted by TRIP or PE or somehow by a third party is not too important, as long as the third party is there mainly to facilitate the interaction rather than to bring their own contribution. The 'other entities' clause is intended to eliminate a circumstance where the four of them somehow end up on a charity special or something with lots of other podcasters.

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I'm inclined towards no because I don't see what TRIP has to gain from promoting a podcast that it directly competes with for listeners. Seems like a fairly clear-cut strategic blunder.

@Kurgan argument against it being a blunder would be that podcast listenership isn't zero sum, and building up a sort of ecosphere of like-minded voices has its own advantages. But I'm certainly not convinced it's going to happen