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Over the weekend, I was scheduled to be a “guest host” on Staffcast, a podcast hosted by my friend, Richard Staff. Five years into our friendship, I really cannot believe how many jokes there are to be made about the name Richard Staff.

This was supposed to be a big episode of the Staffcast: Number 50, baby. I don’t know how many podcasts make it to 50 episodes, but Richard wanted to celebrate this milestone in a big, spectacular episode.

Then, he didn’t show up.

(Apple Podcast link here.)

Tom Hackimer, a former college and minor league pitcher who threw weird turned Brooklyn Guy who co-hosts Staffcast, wasn’t sure what we should do. I decided pretty quickly that we should storm on without the Staff of Staffcast — a recession indicator, I noted too many times for it to be funny.

As it turns out, after many hours of worrying, Richard revealed himself to be just fine. Circumstances had occurred, as circumstances often do. We surprised him by telling him that we’d simply recorded his podcast without him. There is nothing like a spontaneous prank to celebrate a podcast episode. (Try to explain that sentence to a Pilgrim, etc.)

Hack and I discussed revisiting the media of our youth (Catcher In The Rye, Napoleon Dynamite), taking feedback from coaches and people in positions of authority (haha… hahahah…), and some of our weirdest karaoke experiences. We rambled on for quite a while because we were both worried about our friend’s absence and amused by the idea of going rogue.

(On a previous episode1, on which the titular guest did bother to make an appearance, Rich, Hack and I discussed the Beatles for two hours. We just talked about the Beatles. You can really do anything you want on the internet.

Please enjoy the very special and very dumb 50th episode of Staffcast. I would describe it as… two people initiating a new friendship each other over Zoom.

Congrats on the milestone, Richard. Sorry that you couldn’t be there.

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