I Can't Believe It Myself -- Presenting the First of the Fabled "Lost" Podcasts!

I've been running this blog for over two years. And few things I've done have gotten a better response than the Podcasts I recorded with two of my best friends -- Josh Shurtleff and Ian Friedman. If you've never listened to the Podcasts, please do so now, using the link provided to the left of the page, or here.

There really is some magic in those tapes. It's the kind of comedic sizzle you can only get from hung over conversations between three friends in a dank one bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens.

I still get comments from readers asking why we stopped recording the Podcasts, and how they can hear more. It's a complicated answer...

Ian and I now live in Los Angeles, California. Josh, sadly, still lives in New York City, New York. We are nowhere near computer savvy enough to link the three of us up. If you know how to do such a thing, please let me know.

"Why don't you just replace Josh?" people love to ask. I've had volunteers. But what these people don't realize is that you can't replace Josh. If they made a Three Amigos! sequel today, wouldn't you be a little upset if they replaced Martin Short with say, Alex Trebek? Sure, Trebek might be hilarious in his own way, but...come on. The magical, other-worldly chemistry that Josh, Ian, and I have is not something you can duplicate.

Oh, and even if we wanted to try and duplicate that chemistry, we couldn't. Because...

Ian lost several hundred dollars worth of our recording equipment. He just...lost it. He has no recollection of where it all went! I'm dead serious. Ian was doing a lot of boozing near the end of his New York stay, and this is one of those areas we're just...not supposed to question. I'd imagine he sold them to "get out of a jam," but that's just a hypothesis. 

Believe me, I'm just as big a fan of the podcasts as you guys. I still listen to them, which is kind of sad and creepy in a Sunset Boulevard way. It's just like hanging out with my friends again. Since we can't talk for hours on end like we used to, it's all I have. A single tear.

But wait!

I was cleaning up some files on my computer last night (masturbating to internet pornography) and, to my amazement, discovered a fairly large collection of "Lost" Podcasts that have never been posted before! These aren't recordings I've been sitting on, I genuinely didn't know I still had them. But I listened to them all last night and I realized these should be shared.

I know, kind of like finding out the Bible has another chapter, right? I don't want to blow my wad all at once, so I'll be posting these lost 'casts over the next few weeks. Just a warning, there are highs and lows. Consider these B-sides, okay?

This first mini-Podcast I'm presenting comes from May 7th, 2006, and I believe it was the wrap-up of the "Q&A Podcasts -- [here's (Part I) and (Part 2)] which were our final recordings. There's no intro, so I'll tell you the first voice you hear is Ian's, the second is mine, the third is Josh's. You may be confused for a second when it starts, but it's not like coherence was ever a strong suit of these things.

Oh, and I think it should go without saying at this point, but from literally the first second, this is NOT safe for work. And some homes. 

Now, without further ado, please click on the icon below and be swept back into a world of laughter and love, tears and dick jokes. But mainly dick jokes.

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