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Yet another YT ONLY issue has been plaguing the broadcast with episodes be clipped short during my incredibly well written outros. It’s the hour + shows that are affected. The powers that be have been tinkering with that for a while and hopefully a solution will be attained and the closings can be heard in full!

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Whilst listening to a local talk show this week there was a first-time caller named Glenn. Didn’t think much of it except when he introduced himself as a, “70-year-old, blind, piano tuner!” That’s right people, it was Glenn from Brighton. He sounds great and is working at a music shop doing his tuning thing. If you know Glenn, please let him know what we’re doing here and have him reach out and get in touch! Or let me know and I will.

All right, house cleansed.

Today brings us a DBG from January, 27th, 1996 the title of which is Regurgitated Reminisces.

It starts with a ‘foo-nay’ impression of Robert from Everett by Norm. And then directly to the game.

Players:

Ed LeClair producing and playing in studio

Jack Harte in Traffic

Buzzie from Weymouth

Bob in Boston

Emily from Medway

Jeff in Leesburg, IN

Bdays:

The not dead Mikhail Baryshnikov

The philosophical Troy Donahue

Skitch Henderson

Bridgette Fonda

1/29

Tom Selleck

Oprah Winfrey

John Forsythe

Katherine Ross

Claudine Longet

Other things coming up on us:

Norm describes the outfit he wore when he was a Chippendale dancer and it happens to be the very same get-up Jack wears at his second job.

Kissing up to the spouse

Axing Norm’s father in-law for adwice

Froggy throat clearing

Dead colleagues from WESX

Setting your clock by the belch

Riveting conversation about the weather

Getting comfortable and staying limber

Borders Books carries all the DBGs on cassette

Nabisco’s new Cheesey Thespian

Batons and low-cut blouses

Boxford Snots

The Lawrence Eagle Tribune

Vinegar, honey, meat, potatoes, jelly and jam

Robot wives 

Feets too big for the bed

The Mojo Wire

Ski bunnies

And some excellent new phrases to embroider on our doilies:

“Keeping people awake and breathing hard and thinking of you, honey”

 “If ya can’t just be stupid, what can ya be?”

Ep 123, Regurgitated Reminisces, gurgles its way to your ears in 3,2 annnnnnnd 1.

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Today we have a DBG from January 19th, 1992. It’s a pretty, straight forward game so we shall title it:

It’s as Straight Forward as it Gets. Creative, I know.

Norm begins with an amazing TV host impression and gets right to introducing the players:

Mark from Townsend

Fernanda in Salem

Jimmy from Winthrop

Barb in Ontario calling from her hospital bed!

I’m producing and playing on the phone from MC

And Lou Ambrosino in Traffic

Bdays w/ALL the SFX:

Phil Everly

Dolly Parton

Desi Arnaz Jr.

Robert Palmer

Robert MacNeil (MacNeil/Lehrer Report)

Jean Stapleton

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (de quay R)

Post-Game we are treated to a romantic Accuwx forecast

accompanied by David Lanz on solo piano.

It was cold one that night, but the sound of the tinkling ivories warmed our souls.

And we close with a call from Paul in Malden.

Commercial content you ask?

Frugal Fannies!

A WBZ News Promo with all our friends from the Morning News

Career Tracks offering an audio tape program called, The Psychology of Self-Esteem. Please ask for Operator A.

Oh yes, and Norm offers a list of Dead Bdays.

Other lowlights:

The idea of combining Gold Bond and Eucalyptamint for therapeutic purposes or possibly creating a weaponized strength version is broached.

Norm sings!

The Square Dance of the Libertarians with David Brudnoy

Jack Benny is sick of Jack Benny

Chicken Fat

Paula Abdul

Babley, England

An historic moment was had the previous night as it is reported that Mike Epstein didn’t say, “Oh my!”

Joe Stapleton is NOT related to Jean Stapleton

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg and its meaning

Norm has a collection of sugar packets with scenic views that he shows on his overhead projector. He’s especially proud of his Shore Birds collection.

Lima, Peru

Lima Beans

Dr. Walter Lipschitz

Drama and The Essex Street off-ramp

Short pants and funny hats

Forgotten Casablanca dialog

And The Woodsmen’s Weather Stick

Ep 122, It’s as Straight Forward as it Gets, beats a path to your ear drums…now.

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Kia Ora (Key Orra) to our listeners in New Zealand! Thank you for checking out our little slice of fun here at the Vault of Silliness.

I give you Ep 121. It’s a NNS, the majority of which is from January 8th and maybe the 9th, 1994.

According to the notes on the cassette, there’s a taste of December 4th, 1993. Because of that this cassette was all over the place. I’ve pieced it together chronologically as best as I could. It appears that December show was the one affected by all the technical issues that Norm briefly discussed in a previous episode.

Our title will be: A Slushy Great Adventure of a Show

We begin with 12/4/93, The Night of Technical Difficulties with a Jack Harte traffic report that has a section of said trouble and you can hear the smile in Jack’s voice as he soldiers on.

Darrell Gould with an intro to another report from Jack

Jack and Norm then lament the cancelation of the DBG because of all the problems and glitches.

There’s Scott, a Bentley College student. He and Norm talk about working overnights and how to sleep during the day.

Another Scott, this time from Wayland, who was on a previous DBG (Ep 114) but had to leave because he got pulled over by the police. He gives us the rest of the story. Plus he asks about Larry Glick, Emperor Hudson and Ron Landry. Some old station call letters are bandied about too:

WITS – the I.T.S. standing for Info Talk and Sports, WMEX, WMRE and WSSH

We now jump to 1/8/94

The stars must have been aligned because Elvis Presley who’s was  ‘appearing’ on top of the dumpster at the Tedeschi’s in Weymouth. His main reason for calling was to request Norm sing Happy Birthday to him.

Norma from the N. End – the Old Howard Theater, candy hawkers selling naughty stuff with double entandrés and cats and dogs round out her call.

Chris in PA – Jason Robards is sexy and Norm looks just like him. She kindly inquires on the whereabouts of I. Norm gives her the lowdown and reveals just some of the things we do together off the air. Annnnd more cat talk with added raccoon fun.

Next caller had some Jazz questions about the Nat King Cole Trio but the call is cut short.

Now we hear from the lovely Helene from Belmont – They talk snow, sleet, windshield wiper issues and great adventures.

Joan talking Mac Davis, Elvis and more.

A great call with our good friend Rick from PA with more on Mac Davis, the TV production of ‘Gypsy’ and Tip O’Neill. His call is interrupted by  Lou Ambrosino with an icy traffic report but we do get back to him.

We move on to Vivian whom Norm left momentarily speechless.

Bob reads ‘Boston Shade of Green’ and a passage from ‘The Seagull’ for Tip O’Neill

Fred from NJ and his crazy cats Ritzy and Tiger. We also learn that Fred enjoys telephones and has multiple lines at his house.

Other schlunk:

Norm has learned special skills from his time in the Orient

Profound statements that make you want to throw up

Peals of Laughter

Engineers climbing all over the transmitter

Vitality!

Norm sings his High School Fight Song 

Years passing under the bridge

Looking your age

Historic Romances

Spending the Night with Helene and Norm bringing his jammies

Riding Phoebe Snow

Ringing phones

As for commercial content we get the first sentence of a few sponsors to what our appetite.

Ep 121, A Slushy Great Adventure of a Show, slides to your ears…now.

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Hello, Ni Hao, Namaste and Selamat siang (suh-lah-mat see-ahng), to our new listeners in Singapore!

The first episode of 2023 brings us a DBG from January 2nd, 1993. This one shall be titled: Punny New Year!

We're off to a bad start but Take 2 brings smooth sailing.

The Members of the Panel:

Mary in Somerville

Christopher in Boston

Addie

Lisa from Topsfield

Matt Phipps from Traffic, not working but on the phone

Jack Harte working in Traffic

And I’m producing and playing in studio

Norm has to reach into the Birthday Bag and pull-out names from the week:

‘Jailbird’ Jim Bakker – and boy, do we ‘cook up’ all sorts of jokes

Diahann Cannon and we have a ‘blast’ with this.

Jane Wyman

Tony Bennett

Woody Allen

Robert Duvall

Bonnie Franklin

Loretta Young – more pun with this one too!

And Kenny Loggins

Commercials:

Baby Gold Bond – Robin McEntire from Tracey CA and her now comfy, less irritated daughter

Lou Innis and his watch allergy for Gold Bond

Terrific Thursday’s with WBZ and the NE Aquarium

We’ve got a party package full of other silliness:

Mary, can you hear me?

Sensuous ear wax blowing and eye lash batting

Miss Downey, one of Norm’s teachers whom he had lust in his heart for. Realizing we have 12 yr old playing Norm apologizes but Chris doesn’t mind at all. 

Jack Harte’s School of Cockamamie

Touch the radio and be healed!

Diahann Cannon’s daughter, Jennifer, is in the Teen Canteen audience

There’s an interesting technique on how you can surmise a woman’s age.

Religious incantations

Liberries on toosday and get some noosepapers

An important question is posed: Caledonia, Caldeonia what makes your big head so hard?

Gasps and Lulls

Christopher woke up from a bad dream three minutes before he called in but will not reveal the details to spare the audience from being frightened.

We get a descriptive explanation of Addie’s Birthday Game outfit

Selling Plumbing Supplies and Indian Blankets just outside of Fond du Lac, WI

Phony affectionate laughs

Lisa selling her previous prizes on the black market

Norm filling requests for his picture by sending the one that appeared in a 1948 National Geographic.

Hanging up on the host

Lustful dreams

And Norm closes with a very serious article from the California Avocado Media Bureau. However, those in Kansas City and Pittsburgh are not going to be happy about it.

Ep 120, Punny New Year, drops to your ears in 3, 2 and 1.

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Forgive me for being a tad late with the upload. I’m clearly suffering from a post-Christmas daze. But we are here now and ready to close out 2022 with this DBG/NNS combo from December 27th and 28th, 1995 which I have titled: Ringing in the New Year with Some Ding-Dongs.

We begin with Norm describing where Jack does his traffic reports from as well as inquiring about what the dress code is or lack thereof.

Jack offers a belated Birthday wish to Norm. Norm, who was slighted by Jack’s lack of gifts/card, runs down a list of the celebrity birthday greetings he received. One with a very clever tag line.

Mike Epstein, on the other hand, has been sending Norm cards since last February.

In addition to Jack and Mike, the rest of the Panel includes:

Arlene in Philadelphia, PA

Kevin in ME

Val in Needham

Jean from Kingston

Slim pickings on Bdays and Events:

Tovah Feldshuh

Anna Russell

Bernard Lanvin

Dr. William Howell Masters

Norm takes it to the break, and we move onto the NNS

Callers:

Fred

Alice

Ruth from Buzzards Bay 

Cuts to Norm talking about Lou Gorman, then VP of the Red Sox, who would read a proclamation announcing Lizzie Murphy Day honoring a woman who played semi-pro baseball for 17 years. 

Here’s Irene talking about the old days in Lawrence and Haverhill.

Mike talking Norm’s chickens, big band leaders and music.

Mary asking about Norm’s cats.

Suddenly Norm is talking to guests. They are Lucy Johnson (aka Princess Cheyenne) and Montana, who were appearing at Matthew’s in Tyngsboro. They chat about pick-up lines, careers, teasers and more…or is it less?

At one point Lucy asks Montana to tell a story but…the tape was paused! However, we do pick up when I enter the studio and it gets a bit racy!

They took some calls:

Mark in Newton who’s made a terrible career choice

Neil from Lynn – looking for measurements

Dan in Littleton – The Origami Dropper?

John from Boston – who needs a ride to Matthew’s

Other fun:

Imagine if the traffic guy gets hit by a car?

Wretches

The Homely Father

Double your money back if you don’t like the onion soup. I’ll let Norm explain that get rich quick scheme.

Happy Chattanooga Day?

A Pittsburgh radio host from KDKA, (Bob Jones?) is ghosting Norm.

Norm’s Uncle Max was assassinated in 1953 for his sharp sense of humor

The new nation of Methuen

The other new nation of Swansea

The Birthday Game Handbook

Have some Madera, my dear.

Clenched jaws

Gregorian humor

A Jack Benny Cameo

Frolicking in the woods

The Mystery of the Inner Lobe: A little known Spielberg movie

Norm’s opinions on Dean Martin

Norm speaks sultry French

Witty repartee and the rebirth of radio

And Norm is very territorial. 

Ep 119, Ringing in the New Year with some Ding-Dongs, drops into your ears in 3, 2 annnnnnnnd 1.

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Christmas weekend’s 2022 cup overflow-ith with an EMC SWQ from Decemebr 23rd, 1994 titled: A Christmas Crossing of Musical Swords

We begin with a full-on Norm Open and the it’s showtime.

The Panel:

Norm, who’s done some homework and has prepared fresh questions.

Ed Mullen, whom always does his homework.

Steve Leveille – hanging with us after subbing for David Brudnoy and handling folk music.

I’m on the phone from a gas station because my car broke down again but I come bearing an armful of Christmas Music questions.

And Jack Harte – aspiring Broadway actor

The Categories:

Rock n Roll

Musical Comedy

Big band

Jazz

Folk Music

And Christmas Music

The Rules:

We ask, you ask, we ask again unless you’re wrong then you’re gone or we’re wrong or some facsimile thereof. But for the love…have a question ready for us in the same category AND it would be helpful if you knew the answer!

The Prize:

Cheap copy of the original, really nice certificate. This time on green paper.

The Callers:

Keith in the car

May in Boston

Jacque from Weymouth

Dave in Eastie

Don from Cambridge

John in Boston

Greg from Danvers

Joseph in Everett

Nicholas from Everett

Lou in Cambridge

Patty from Eastie

Brandon in Franklin

Norma from the North End which ends in a mystery…or does it?

Jack in Boston

Rich from Hyde Park

Rick in Boston

Karen

Debbie in Waltham

Fred from Yarmouth, ME

Janice in Arlington

Matt from RI

(Norma returns)

Tom in Indiana

Barry from Worcester

And Brian in Everett

Norm takes a break but the remainder of the show isn’t on the tape!

It ends with the very beginning of a Baby Gold Bond commercial.

Other tracks:

English is Norm’s third language

Michelle Pfeiffer started out in Traffic and even though she threw up all lover the copter pilot she rose to great fame.

Toast

Calling the neighbors

Jack attended the wrong convention

What time is lunch served?

Santa Claus

Grandma

And plowing westward making America great

Ep 118, A Christmas Crossing of Musical Swords, lunges towards your ears, now.

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Thank you to my new Patreon subscribers for supporting the effort to leave this world a little sillier than we found it. These days, a little silly is a lot of silly.

You can support the channel here for as little as a dollar a month. If just the 140 subscribers on YT gave that I would cover the costs of distribution in about 4 months. I know there are more of you out there who listen through Spotify, Apple, Google, Castos, and many other platforms. If more of you climb on board, we can start to build that percentage for the Norm Schloarship Fund at Berklee here in Boston.

Silly, supportive AND philanthropic? Talk about a triple threat!

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I am thinking of ways to provide supporter only content on Patreon to lure you into the cobwebs of my mind. Plus we can message there as well and you can reveal the dark secrets regarding the ways you listened to Norm as you pressed your radio to your ear.

I have been alerted to the fact that my outros are being cut off. Are they that bad? The authorities are looking into it.

Maybe that’s some subscriber only content for Patreon. The non-cut short outro? Yeah…I didn’t think so.

On to today’s feature presentation…Just a mere 9 days after last week’s episode, this one is from December 19th, 1993. A DBG to be exact and Norm’s Bday Eve!

Let’s call it, “A Pithy Bit of Fun.”

It begins with an odd snippet of a call: a threat to The Loverboy from NH from The Butcher in Salem, MA.

And then directly to the game.

Players:

Dave

Sherri from Flint, MI

Roger the Welshman in Southbridge, MA

Bert in Potts Grove, PA

John Kelly producing and playing in studio

I’m on the phone

And Aaron Sawyer in Traffic 

Bdays:

Cicely Tyson

Tim Reid

Al Kaline

Little Jimmy Dickens

Robert Urich

Alyssa Milano

Jennifer Beals

Kevin McHale

Other gifts:

Unwanted, NO reward posters of Norm at the post office.

Lionel Barrymore and Jack Benny cameos

Swell dancers, great dressers, with sandals, knee socks, plus-fours, a cape, a Spanish shirt with the green and white cummerbund, a pith helmet with a year’s supply of leechee nuts in the sweatband…and underneath it all? A loin cloth.

Ep 117, “A Pithy Bit of Fun” flirts with your ears in 3, 2 and 1.

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Here we are with a very special episode of NNVoS. It hails from December 10th, 1993 and is appropriately titled: It’s Shearing You’re Hearing

We begin with Carol Stein-Krauss, the PR manager from Parker Bros talking about the company and its games. There’s lots of cool info about Trivial Pursuit and Monopoly plus Company history, challenges and more.

Next is an absolutely, fantastic interview with George Shearing who was appearing at Sculler’s in the Guest Quarter Suite Hotel.

The talk is so varied. Everything from classical influences and relations to Jazz, sissy accents, great stories and lots of silliness from George. And it all gets even better when Ellie Shearing, George’s wife joins the fun.

They also take calls:

Bob in Boston

Janet from Arlington

Scott in Provincetown 

Hank

Pete in Lawrence

And Bob in NH

Other extras for your dining and dancing pleasure:

Norm reading the weather

Top and Bottom Hour News Sounders

Darrell Gould intros Jack Harte for traffic

And Norm is seriously thinking about the need to re-do shows 

We can’t leave out the commercials:

Norm does a read for: The National Credit Group. It’s ok to tell Norm about your bad credit because he’s a Dr. And if you’d like to remove all your clothes…

Frank and Shirley for the NEW Westborough Antique and Flea Market.

Marezine with the former, highly disoriented Linda Kern.

The Club (now available in designer colors!)

ADT Home Security

The red and chafed Jim Brown of Grand Prairie TX for Gold Bond

Classic Ovaltine with Paul Rossi drinking it live from Valley Stream NY!

And a brief sprinkle of Baby Gold Bond

Oh…make sure you listen closely to the end of the interview as George gets the last laugh.

Ep 116, It’s Shearing You’re Hearing, tickles its way to your auditory canals…now.

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As we begin the month of Norm’s birth we have what is truly a near perfect example of Norm’s excellence. His personality, the callers, the show and what it all meant to the listeners. When did this achievement in radio occur? December 4th & 5th, 1993.

Because the reports with Bruce ‘Don’t Call Me Brian’ Connolly are super-entertaining the title of this episode will be: Trafficking in Laughter!

Sid Whitaker was producing.

We begin with a story, in progress, about Uncle Louie and Guinness Stout from a caller that sounds familiar, but I cannot place a name to the voice. Norm then adds his own story about someone named Ethel.

Norm teases a guest who writes obituaries for a paper in the South and we jump to Accuweather with Paul Pastelok introduced by Newsman, Ed Donahue.

And now the fun begins, as Norm and Bruce Connolly begin their night of frivolity with the traffic reports.

We talk with 90-year-old Porter Harvey who owns a newspaper, The Advertiser-Gleam, in Guntersville, AL. It’s a folksy kind of paper. Strictly local news. He told stories about writing obits and adding a little more than the usual family, friends and arrangements stuff.

After that we get another report with Bruce sponsored by the Norm Nathan Orchestra and the Bruce Connolly Quintet

Now it’s time for lots of callers:

I believe the caller’s name was Dorothy – 1st time she’s ever called a station

Glen in Portsmouth, NH

Helene from Belmont – singing and thinking of lyrics to songs whilst driving the car is the subject. Norm mentions some of his favs and they discuss many tunes and recite lines from them to each other.

Charlie from Manassas,VA - he Norm singing a theme from a program that hadn’t been on the air for 50 years. Charlie has high praise for the show! He's trying to start a fan club in Manassas. 

Bruce with traffic and we switch to side B where Bruce and Norm continue with the silly. Norm moves to the back rows of the Teen Canteen with two pretty girls that just came in and asks Bruce to project so they can hear him. A comment about Joe Stapleton causes Norm to burst out laughing.

Dave from Uxbridge but really from Whitinsville. More high praise. He’s a bluegrass musician with the band Southern Rail. He has been loving the traffic reports and makes an awful third harbor tunnel joke that I thoroughly enjoyed. This led Norm to reveal that he subbed for Joe Green in the traffic copter?! Dave also objects to the stupid infomercials that had booted Norm off the air on Sunday nights.

Jim on a car phone –Gives his own foggy and rainy traffic report.

Glenn in Brighton – asking about the instrument called the Theremin.

Jim calling in about Dave and his band, Southern Rail. He’s a fan and says Dave’s a wicked good player. He was actually a former student! Informs us that when Dave was only 19 years old he scored a great achievement.

The most-brief call with Robert from Everett

Then it’s on to Pat! – a nutty caller with nutty questions that was always fun.

A woman named Timmie with information that refers to Pat’s call. Plus she mentioned the previous night’s disaster of a broadcast and more wonderful praise for Norm.

Norm with Bruce again and amazing segues.

Roland – recuperating from leg surgery. He was the instructor when Norm took a General Home Repair course!

And we close with Dennis from Billerica. He has all sorts of info on the Theremin!

Lastly, a bunch of commercials are edited out but not before we get the intro to the product or service and that creates its own humor.

The unabridged sponsors are as follows:

Hoover Wet/Dry Utility Vac with separate tanks for wet and dry messes!

VISA and the adventures you can have at the Madonna Inn

Bonkers Funhouse Pizza

Marezine – Linda Kern from Hawaii gets sick and dizzy just thinking about traveling until Marezine saved her!

Pilgrim Healthcare and their 9000 doctors stampeding to the podium, which seems to be a safety hazard.

And The Huntington Theater

Ep 115, Trafficking in Laughter, merges its way to your ears in 3,2 and 1.

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Sorry for the late posting but I was stuffed from Thanksgiving and just woke up from tryptophan coma.

Let’s begin:

Assalamualaikum to our new listener country of Bangladesh!

Ep 114 brings us a DBG/NNS combo from November 25th and maybe 26th, 1993. I’ve titled it: A Turkey Sandwich of Thanksgiving Wishes.

Players:

Joe from Revere

Rod the Security Guard from the front desk at WBZ

Scott in his car from Wayland

Anne from the Catskills area of NY

Greg ‘Doug, Jeff’ Ebben producing and playing in studio

And the affable Jack Harte in Traffic

Bdays:

Amy Grant

JFK Jr

Ricardo Montalbán

Joe DiMaggio

Bucky Dent

John Larroquette

Kathryn Crosby

And Christina Applegate

We now move to NNS time!

Callers with tons of Happy Thanksgiving wishes and other praise!

Carolyn in NC

Mike in Boston

Mike from Kingston

Jerry in Natick

Katie in beeyooteefull Cape Breton, Canada

The one and only, Generosa!

Peggy

Lavera in Charlottesville, VA

Jim from Manchester, NH 

Bill from Jaffrey, NH 

May in Boston 

Steve who wanted to thank Norm personally for something Norm helped him with back in February. I will let him tell the story so you just hang in there for it.

Pete in Roslindale

We close with a commercial for The Secret Garden at the Colonial Theater and then Norm teases SMQ and signs off.

Other leftovers:

Mixing metaphors and Old English sayings and speaking in dead languages

Bad Math 

Through the entire game, Anne, unintentionally, does a great Gabby Hayes impression.

Rod reveals that he has been tutoring Mike Epstein on bdays!

Sipping

Does Scott get hauled off to the ol’ Gray Bar Hotel? Is his one phone call used to return the DBG?

Scratchy tapes

Anne gives us some fantastic inside baseball observations.

Norm likes his floozies young.

Yula Grunes(Runes? Rooms? Grooms?) and Donald Lowzahn were married today on top of a wedding cake float at the Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade.

And cooking a special dinner for your pet?

Ep 114, A Turkey Sandwich of Thanksgiving Wishes, begins to baste your ears in wonderfulness…now.