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Sometimes, as Bella reached her teens, Alastor would offer her a chance to be a guest on his show. She always declined, politely, though it still irked him. He just wanted her to take part of something more sophisticated than those inane podcasts she listened to. The hosts in those podcasts always chatted too much, took too long to get to the point. A good host must be concise, so as not to bore their audience.
A couple of Bella's history podcasts were actually about Alastor: one about how he was a pioneering biracial radio host in the Jim Crow South, and a true crime podcast of unsolved murders, about his alter ego The Bayou Boogeyman.
Alastor probably would have liked hearing that he never got caught in life or death, and that both he and his serial killer alter ego were both believed to have just “mysteriously disappeared”. No-one ever suspecting the radio host and the serial killer were the same man.
Bella decided to keep this to herself. She also knew how Alastor had died, from Uncle Husk, but Uncle Husk sternly warned not to repeat what he had told her. And Bella avoided blabbing other people's secrets.