Men In Charge: CHAOS
For those collecting the entire set of “Men in Charge” episodes, this is the first full-episode-length sketch, CHAOS. Science Expert and host Anders Lurkawhile takes over the airwaves to talk over how...
View ArticleRocket to the Future! Part 1
For those collecting the entire set of “Men in Charge” episodes, this is the second full-episode-length sketch, Rocket to the Future! Part 1. Had we thought more closely about the thematic arcs of the...
View ArticlePleasures Not Available to the Rest of You
This Day in the History of Churlishness; Erin Maxwell, Rogue Podiatrist, hunts shoe-mutilating footwear with a vengeance; Evil Lord Max preaches to the choir; the virtues of the New Critical Idiom are...
View ArticleThe All-Banter Episode
Tony and Kevin discover that the whole “Men in Charge" cast has failed to show up to record. Happily, they later find that they were mistaken, and that the cast has been imprisoned by their...
View ArticleMen in Charge! The Movie
This Day in the History of Pettifoggery; our new advertiser is revealed as Cardigan Music, letting cat-loving, piano-playing men down gently each night before the trauma of sleep; intending to help...
View ArticleStupid Upgrade!
Kevin and Tony glower their way into Season 2 of Men in Charge, annoyed at being called back to service by Astrid Smythe-Meriweather, the woman in charge of Men in Charge.
View ArticleMens-merized
Hello, this is Anders Lurkawhile, the only public radio villain you hate to love. There was another one, the so-called “Gill Man of Lake Woebegone,” but I had him put in a pair of cement flippers and...
View ArticleRocket to the Future! Part 1, Chapter 2: Detour to Mercury!
Yes, it’s a return to Earth’s previous future (1991!), the popular and vivacious Rocket to the Future! Part One for a “Detour to Mercury!” Join the crew of the Earth Space Force rocket Vanguard and...
View ArticleMen In Charge: Bones in Ice Cream
Tony and Kevin discuss the faint charms of finding bones in one’s ice cream, but refuse to reveal what kind of creature the bones came from. One thing is clear: this is no cartilage! In the beginning...
View ArticleRevenge of the Co-Pilot
“Revenge is my co-pilot,” said no one ever, and Kevin and Tony avoid the topic entirely in this episode. Instead, they talk about the faint charms of receiving postcards from beautiful destinations...
View ArticleSeason 3, Episode 6: Trepanning for Raclette
“Old Man Boxing” pits the inventor of the telescope against the inventor of the microscope; Amber Westlake, once a budding investment advisor, is now a waitress at the House of Fries (and no, you can’t...
View ArticleSeason 3, Episode 7: Larry’s Cognitive Overload
Tony and Kevin try to reduce listener Larry’s cognitive overload, but probably make it worse (they usually do); Oswald Spellman’s “Life Lesson” on cruelty reveals more uses for handy and flexible PVC...
View ArticleSeason 3, Episode 8: Pork Sushi
The virtues of uncooked meats are considered; two aged funeral directors go at it in “Old Man Boxing”; Tony and Kevin try to learning the calming practice of “Origami for Men” with Angela Moonhair—but...
View ArticleSeason 3, Episode 9: National Sausage Month!
This episode’s celebratory title asserts that every month, even every day, is national sausage month if America declares it to be so. Old Man Boxing starts us off, between George Nestlerode and Verne...
View ArticleSeason 3, Episode 10: Diagnostic Tusk
“How are tusks diagnostic?” you may ask. “How are they not?” we might reply. As you dwell on that question, we start off with Old Man Boxing, with two embittered veterans of the recently concluded...
View ArticleSeason 3, Episode 11: The Family Bra Drawer
Who knows what mysteries lurk in the Family Bra Drawer? Well, just bras, actually, and for the whole family! And so we start with an Old Man Boxing bout between two eternally running Presidential...
View ArticleSeason 3, Episode 12: Simulation Emulator
Old Man Boxing in New America: Mitch “Turtle” McConnell vs. Mike Pence box and hand money to each other cooperatively; a message from our new sponsor, Gottle’s Hairdressing and Basement Gun Sales, a...
View ArticleSeason 3, Episode 13: Professional Condescension
Old Man Boxing in New America: Jeff and Joe Conklin, both failed business owners in the grating industry, duke it out to find out which organization America will withdraw from first: NATO or NAFTA? In...
View ArticleSeason 3, Episode 14: CHAOS Episode One
Guest host Anders Lurkawhile introduces CHAOS, the science program that shows us how insignificant our lives are, why art and philosophy are merely flukes of nature, and how many of us will probably...
View ArticleSeason 3, Episode 15: Licking the Ashtray!
For this tastily entitled episode, Tony and Kevin take us to 1926 Saskatchewan for a new segment called “Emily Wellingtonford: Canadian Mine Owner and Usurer.” Emily, a widow pining for the husband she...
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