> He didn’t have to take the deal that removed his podcast from open distribution and put it under corporate control. But he did

For 100Mi? I'd have a very long list of things I would do for that price. "Selling out?" For sure.

I wouldn't have a podcast with the guests he picked for the show on several topics, surely (but he wasn't made to have those guests).

"Open podcast" is hard if you have to pay for bandwidth, and also it's just one of the most time consuming ways of generating content.