If by "cast-offs" you include the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Joshua Topolsky; Managing Editor Nilay Patel; several other editors and the other personalities who made the Engadget Show: Paul Miller and Joanna Stern (who now primarily works for ABC network); etc.

I think people are judging prawks a bit harshly here with all the downvotes.. doesn't seem like he mean 'cast-off' with a negative connotation to me. More like a 'previously-associated-with'.

Perhaps it was a bit mis-worded. I meant that they cast themselves off from Engadget. A bit like I might cast-off my boat in search of adventure.

I think extremely highly of Topolsky et. al.