Square Peg Podcast Takes Listeners Through The Twists & Turns Of Fate

Frank Racioppi
Ear Worthy
Published in
3 min readMay 9, 2022

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This is what David felt like when he slew Goliath. The Square Peg podcast, an indie production, has released an eight-episode narrative series that is comparable to — and in many ways — better than any production a large podcast network could create, develop, finance and produce.

This podcast is about a quirk of fate, the endless eddies of events that randomly define the path of our lives. It’s a true story that is lodged in the “truth is stranger than fiction” category.

The title of the podcast comes from a quote from a main character, Frank Carver, who says in an episode, “There is no such word as ‘can’t.’ When there’s a will, there’s a way. Yes, you can fit a square peg into a round hole.”

Square Peg is an eight-episode podcast that tells the following true story:

In 2017, Frank Carver, a one-eyed English septuagenarian and somewhat lovable provocateur, accidentally emailed someone he’d never met. That someone was Rob Collins, a kind and reliable 43-year-old suburban dad from Virginia.

That email would change both of their lives. The email was meant for a British blogger. But instead, Rob heard the story.

Frank said that when he was in the Army, over 50 years ago, he was viciously assaulted by a…

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Frank Racioppi
Ear Worthy

I am a South Jersey-based writer who manages Podcast Reports on Blogger and have a book available on Amazon about podcasts and podcasting called “Ear Worthy.”