God or Fate or Corporate Perfidy or Simple Bad Luck can knock you right out of the box, pal. As for where Bob Hogue is, he's right here. Hasn't pulled an Amelia. Here's a picture to prove it. Nowadays, Joe's flying solo, looking grim on a TV set that appears vaguely Klingon, and Hogue's out.
Television is a harsh mistress.
Hogue is talking to TV stations and continues to host a KCCN radio show and write a column for a mass-mail tabloid that arrives in the middle of the week. So it's not as if he has vanished. Still plugging away. Now we'll figure out where Kilroy went. He was here, after all.