There’s always something to howl about.

Would you trust this man with your most precious investment?

Four hundred families a year do. Believe it or not, that’s our own Russell Shaw in his salad days as a radio comedian in Phoenix in the mid-seventies.

Derrick Bostrom, of the band The Meat Puppets, maintains a virtual shrine to a radio show called Love Workshop:

“Love Workshop” was a fifteen-minute comedy program that ran on KDKB-FM radio in Phoenix, Arizona for most of 1976. The show was always somewhat of a mystery to me. During its brief life, “Love Workshop’s” hosts, Vern & Craig (Todd Carroll and “Wonderful” Russ Shaw) were my heroes, They just seemed to appear out of nowhere all of a sudden, offering the kind of savage humor I idolized in the “National Lampoon,” only they were right in my own backyard. And then it disappeared just as quickly.

The site is a weblog, of course, and today Bostrom reprints an old interview with Russ. Bostrom has also managed to collect recordings of Love Workshop episodes, which you can use to spice up your Russell Shaw MP3 collection.

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