We’re at the beginning of Thanksgiving Week, and what better way to celebrate than by recycling old Radio Free Charleston content from the blog?

“Duh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh Nuh BATMAN Shirt,” henceforth known simply as “Batman Shirt,” was episode nine of Radio Free Charleston Volume Two and originally appeared November 14, 2006, and was our first and only Thanksgiving video show.

This is one of our most-watched and least-watched RFC video shows. Since being remastered and posted to YouTube over a decade ago, it has been viewed more than nine-thousand times. However, most viewers bail out after about ten seconds, probably disappointed that it isn’t the theme song sequence from the Batman TV show.

It is, however, a great local music showcase that features songs from Stephen Beckner and Mother Nang, a Pentagram Flowerbox cartoon, the short film, Hell for Turkeys and funny host segments from the pre-demolition food court at The Kanawha Mall. End credit music is by Greg Wegmann.

Still recovering from our first big Halloween shows, we took a low-key approach to this episode of RFC. Stephen Beckner returned with a second song recorded at the second-ever RFC recording session at LiveMix Studio, which also gave us his song for episode two. “Olive Or Twist” was on his “Apples” CD.

We also bring you archival footage of Mother Nang from 1992 performing “Knee Deep In Wine.” After this show was originally posted to The Charleston Gazette in 2006, Mother Nang reunited and appeared in more modern times on the show. Their frontman, Spencer Elliott, has gone on to become a big-shot amazing fingerstyle guitar recording artist for CandyRat Records.

There is an epic-length Pentagram Flowerbox Thanksgiving cartoon on hand, as Timmy and his grandma go hunting for a giant turkey and pay tribute to the late Iron Eyes Cody.

There’s much more in this edition of Radio Free Charleston: a glimpse of turkey hell, a brief visit by the Talking Adventure Team Commander, and end credit footage of The State Capitol Grounds, including the now-extinct fountain.

It’s hard to believe this was over eighteen years ago. Time flies when you’re having fun!

If you didn’t get enough RFC from the above show, here’s a “DVD extra,” the trailer I made to promote the show, back when we could only post trailers to YouTube because of their time constraints…

And on top of that, we have an audio bonus of sorts. At the bottom of this post you can hear a compliation special that combines the 2019 Radio Free Charleston International Thanksgiving Special, which is 90 minutes of yours truly and his lovely wife, Mel Larch, playing music and joking around…and then the rest of this show contains the 2019 Paul And Spike’s Too Grumpy Critics Thanksgiving Special, which is half an hour of holiday humor, and the final hour of this show is The Relax Radio Show, created and hosted by George Daughtery, the beloved and much-missed, Earl of Elkview.  This is a compilation from 2021 that ran in the regular RFC Volume 5 timeslot during the holiday week.

This is all to get you in the mood for what the French call, “Journée de la Dinde.”  The plan is to wrap up The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide, with the Master List being published Friday, and also bring you all-new music specialty programs on The AIR this week.