Young podcaster Brandan Muhtari has grown the popularity of his podcast, ‘Banter with Brandan’ to the point where he has a waitlist for the St Albans footballers wanting to be interviewed.
“A few boys have been coming up to me and saying, When am I going to be able to podcast? It’s a pretty huge wait list,” Brandan said.
The 12-year-old, who is in his second season at St Albans, began his podcast in 2021 through the club’s Facebook page.
The podcast has since featured club senior players including former AFL footballers Josh Hill and Sam Butler.
Brandan’s podcast has featured interviews as well as a post-match ‘Roaming Brandan’ segment inspired by AFL commentator Brian Taylor.
He put down his impressive communication skills to his personality.
“I think it’s just because I’m a big talker. A lot of people say that I’ve swallowed a radio most of the time,” he said.
“So I think it’s just come naturally for me.”
Brandan said he had a desire to begin and grow a podcast after listening to others.
“I have been listening to podcasts for a while. And I just thought oh well, ‘I kind of want to do a podcast now. Can we make something happen?’,” he said.
Brandan’s next step for the podcast is to grow it league-wide and interview players from other clubs.
“I want to be one of the best, hopefully I can be, hopefully grow my account, grow my followers, and maybe even move on to different platforms like Spotify, Apple Music and the podcast app.
“And I hope to one day get some AFL players on or some big big people on.”
Max Hatzoglou
