Life & Style INFLUENCER
By Sascha Roberts
Meet Chuck Staton When he’s not home in Warren steaming broccoli, this rising star can be found working with Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith, yukking it up on stage, and podcasting shows and albums. Those videos essentially became full episodes of a sitcom, around 25 minutes long with multiple storylines revolving around six or seven cast members. As time went on, we kept getting more professional, so the videos took longer and longer to produce. We wanted to work on a project that was
easier to make consistently, that could bring people back to the Senior Discount website. Brad and I both also had blogs at the time where we talked about movies, comedy, television, music, gaming, etc., plus podcasts were gaining traction, and I was just getting into Clerks filmmaker Kevin Smith’s Smodcast. Brad and
Photo courtesy of Chuck Staton
How did the hilarious Chuck and Brad Podcast come to be? Brad Rohrer and I started a podcast in 2009 for a couple of reasons. The biggest one was that my band (Senior Discount) was involved in a lot of video production at the time. We were putting together comedy videos to promote our live
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