The Futon Report

The average shelf life of a Matt Sussman endeavor: four weeks. Anything that goes longer than that is bound to be some kind of a success. The BC Sports Treehouse Fort radio show began on November 26, 2007. One calendar year and 72 shows later, the show somehow exists and Tuffy, Charlie Doherty and I are still having fun doing it.

It was one of those things that Blogcritics actually asked me to do — usually it’s the other way around, with crying and kicking and screaming involved — and after the first jittery show, we learned how to do radio-related things like “segues,” “topics,” and “remember to call in on time.”

It’s something I wish I had time to do every night, and sometimes while lying awake in bed, staring at the ceiling, I sometimes think it might be worth it to try a 30-minute nightly podcast, then quickly remember that I enjoy the illusion of having a life and the idea is put to pasture in lieu of dreams where I show up to work three hours late and naked.

But for now, the show will continue to be done the only time everyone’s free, which is Sundays at 12 noon. A satchel of thanks go to Tuffy, who willed himself into the co-host chair by simply asking and not losing it by simply not sucking; and Charlie Doherty, who, when you get past the relentless Bostonian homerism, brought perhaps one of the most clever fun segments in Internet radio history with “What Were They Thinking?” wherein we make fun of the dumbest athletes, which is, honestly, the whole reason most of us began sports blogging in the first place.

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