Free Your Box

One old wooden box. A faded Mets pennant. Five Shacks. And more than 50 years of stories. Before Rich Baumert could ask anyone else what was in their box, he had to open his own.

The wooden box followed him from childhood on Long Island through college and adulthood, until marriage and life sent it to the attic.

Inside: a faded Mets pennant from his first game with his dad in 1972 and decades of memories that eventually inspired five spaces called The Shack.

Peg joins to share her side of 32 years of Shacks, compromises and Christmas-decoration trips that became two-hour journeys down memory lane. Her advice? Embrace the Shack.

The passions we never outgrew. The memories we couldn’t throw away. The people, places and moments that made us who we are.

It’s time to open them up.

Free Your Box, a podcast hosted by Rich Baumert, shares the stories behind the things we hold onto, and why they still matter.

🎙️ The pilot episode drops September 28.

The website is officially live at FreeUrBox.com. Take a look around, meet this season’s guests, and get a glimpse of the stories waiting inside their boxes.