“Men in Charge" is an uncertainly ironic sketch comedy show, written and performed by Kevin Decker and Tony Flinn, along with a cast of the talented willing.
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Realist Morning Show 3--the Mayoral candidate interview continues!
Career American Dutch Mayoral candidate continues to embarrass himself as the interview persists.
9/29/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Realist Morning Show 2
Realist Morning Show hosts, Emily and Virgil, roll their eyes through a further interview with Mayoral candidate and "career American" Haff Kokt, who finds fresh ways to lose votes.
9/22/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Usury Radio!
Emily Wellingtonford, Canadian mine owner and usurer, has bought a radio station to promote her usurious practices, but Gertrude the Loon interviews an unemployed miner. Just imagine!
9/14/2024 • 6 minutes, 25 seconds
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Realist Morning Show 1
Do you hate Morning Show perkiness? So do/does Men in Charge. Enjoy our dour, irritable hosts!
9/9/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Peace Officer Scam!
What happens if the sign says "Click it and Ticket"? What then, eh? What then?
8/31/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Movie Mongol 2
Little Timmy's film making assignment with the Movie Mongol takes a terrifying new direction!
8/25/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Exciting New Quiz Show!
Join our benighted contestant as he listens to three scenarios to determine whether their outcomes were caused by Coincidence, Correlation, or Climate Change!
8/18/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Pork Clocks!
Think of the opportunities that arise when your clocks are made of pork!
8/11/2024 • 5 minutes
The Empty Office, part 3!
Elizabeth Hempworthy, office felon, is caught by a janitor and burglar in the midst of framing a colleague!
8/5/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s):
Old Man Fester, having escaped from Big Nell's Manly Pedicure shop without his shoes, socks, or car, must engage in delicate negotiations with a bus driver to get himself home.
7/27/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Movie Mongol 1
Little Timmy forgoes his career in Family Dentistry to work on his 4th grade film project—in collaboration with a Movie Mongol!
7/21/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Discount Appraisals!
Storing a lot of heirlooms/junk in your garage? Discount Appraisals will tell you what it's worth and take it off your hands.
7/14/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Mutzi's Bakery
At Mutzi's Bakery, none of the baked goods are for you. Or for anyone. So steer clear if you know what's good for you.
7/6/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Modern Day Dowries, part 2!
Mrs. Nurch visits the jail to find just the right husband for her daughter, Gwendolyn.
6/29/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "Creg Bellowes, Oblivious Receptionist 3"
Do you know how to respond in a Soccer Emergency? Neither does Creg Bellowes!
6/22/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "Supermarine!"
What do you call a submarine that stays on top of the water? A boat? Wrong.
6/17/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "Tough Guy Cheese!"
Try the cheese favored by all aspiring Mafiosos, handy for both lunches and weapons!
6/9/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "Tough Guy Cheese!"
Try the cheese favored by all aspiring Mafiosos, handy for both lunches and weapons!
6/9/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): All Listeners Are on Report!
The Listener(s) is/are upbraided for insufficiently cringing loyalty to the show.
6/9/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "Tough Guy Cheese!"
Try the cheese favored by all aspiring Mafiosos, handy for both lunches and weapons!
6/9/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): What Really Matters!
"What Really Matters": Are you afraid of scientists and eager to hear more commercials? Then you know what really matters!
6/2/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Spinoza Spoils Everything 3
Trying to spoil Arbor Day, Spinoza is at last unmasked! Or is he? Yes, he is—but only by a percentage.
5/25/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Drunk on Efficiencies!
Make college more efficient? Purge it of non-essentials, like...
5/18/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Old Man Fester's Manly Pedicure!
Old Man Fester gets a free, manly pedicure from Big Nell. And yes, there is lye soap, and there are Guards!
5/12/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Non-Grad Alumni Magazine
Even though you never graduated from college, you can still receive an alumni magazine meant just for you!
5/5/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): One Man's Meatloaf!
On "What's New with You?" host Roger Basement learns terrifying truths about a meatloaf recipe.
4/21/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Creg Bellowes 2--the unpaid intern!
Creg Bellowes, Oblivious Receptionist, remains oblivious to the paid interns' mistreatment of the unpaid intern.
4/14/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The College Auction!
Lower Heights Community College is auctioning off academic departments to help fund the football team—and not just to pay for the concussion tent!
4/6/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Modern Day Dowries
Mrs. Shambles wants to unload her useless son Jack in an arranged marriage, but Mrs. Nurch insists on a dowry for her daughter Gwendolyn!
4/2/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Modern Day Dowries
Mrs. Shambles wants to unload her useless son Jack in an arranged marriage, but Mrs. Nurch insists on a dowry for her daughter Gwendolyn!
3/31/2024 • 0
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Empty Office 2
Elizabeth Hempworthy continues to pillage resources from the office while her colleagues work remotely, but during a Zoom call her treachery reaches amazing new heights!
3/23/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The New Calendar!
The U.S. Department of Scheduling has an exciting new solution to America's burden of too many holidays!
3/17/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Johnny Hambone Mysteries, Part 8
Johnny Hambone and sidekick Rollo work county-wide to solve the mystery of parachute pants. But do they...?
3/9/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): All Listeners Are on Report!
The Listener(s) is/are upbraided for insufficiently cringing loyalty to the show.
2/17/2024 • 0
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Johnny Hambone Mysteries 7
Can a dog walk on two legs? Can our listeners? Perhaps Johnny Hambone can explain!
2/11/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Creg Bellowes, Oblivious Receptionist, Part 1
Is obliviousness a higher state of being that transcends mere consciousness? Creg Bellowes couldn't say either way.
2/4/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Commissariat of Time--episode 2C!
Ex-Commissar of Time, Maupertuis, goes back in time to July 20, 1974, where she faces the Catholic school science fair project that destroyed/began everything!
1/28/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "The Commissariat of Time - Episode 2b"
Thanks to technology whose potential for abuse is well beyond the moral capabilities of humankind, Maupertuis finds her adult mind sent back in time to inhabit her child body!
1/21/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Commissariat of Time 2A!
Time travel, retribution, and foreign accents!
1/6/2024 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Golem Chasers!
A film by Roger Corman: Lauren Starbuck and Stumpy Greene travel to Prague to chase golems!
12/31/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Emily Wellingtonford's Usury Commercial
Emily Wellingtonford, Canadian mine owner and usurer, falters in the face of an adamant usuree!
12/24/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge: Top Secret Hotel Christmas Getaway!
At Top Secret Hotel, everything is as it seems: robot jackals, surly maid service, and people living inside the walls!
12/24/2023 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Extra-Crispy Coconut Shrimp of Remorse, Part Two
Edgar Allan Poe V returns to the Baja Beach Club in Norway, Sweden, Wisconsin to embarrass and destroy it.
12/17/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Norma the Mail Carrier Bad Nancy Drew Bad Hardy Boys Crossover!
Norma the Mail Carrier and Old Man Fester have a run-in with Bad Nancy Drew and Bad Hardy Boys!
12/10/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Left Bank Puppet Theatre
Who knew a Jean Paul Sartre puppet would be such a jerk?
12/3/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Disappointment National Park
Opening soon! America's most disappointing and properly under-appreciated national park.
11/25/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Extra Crispy Coconut Shrimp of Remorse, Part 1
Edgar Allan Poe's great great great granddaughter reviews restaurant, and you know what that means!
11/19/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Scott Herrick Tells a Scuba Story!
Scott Herrick, writer and raconteur, charms the Listener with his scuba disasters.
11/11/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Spinoza Spoils Everything 2!
17th Century philosopher Baruch Spinoza spoils Earth Day for everyone!
11/5/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Johnny Hambone Mysteries 6: The Lost Episode 5!
Johnny Hambone, library bouncer and detective, worries with sidekick Rollo about the ontology of episode 5, so they call upon Novalis—again!
10/25/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Bad Nancy Drew Bad Hardy Boys Crossover!
Bad Nancy Drew (Bitsy and Francine) meet Bad Hardy Boys (Tanner) and commit jolly beach crimes together!
10/15/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s)
Maybe you're in the wrong cult? Find out why!
10/7/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "Norma the Mail Carrier"
Norma the Mail Carrier is annoyed on her postal route by Old Man Fester, who wants to talk about all his physical problems.
9/24/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Welcome to the Harpsicord Closet!
Once you enter the Harpsicord Closet, it's hard to move around because of all the harpsicords!
9/13/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Johnny Hambone Mysteries 4
Johnny Hambone's sidekick becomes a villain. Or does he...? Yes, he does!
9/12/2023 • 0
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Empty Office
When you're tired of working remotely and flee back alone to the office, what treasures—and dangers—await?
9/11/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Axolotls!
Who needs a fresh axolotl? Listener, perhaps you'd like to buy one...
9/11/2023 • 0
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Addictium
Let former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee keep you in a stupor all day long!
9/10/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Axolotls!
Who needs a fresh axolotl? Listener, perhaps you'd like to buy one...
9/10/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Johnny Hambone Mysteries (3)—An ATM Anti-Robbery!
Johnny Hambone uses German Romanticism to solve the mystery of an attempted return of cash to an ATM.
9/6/2023 • 0
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Johnny Hambone Mysteries 2
In a classic instance of the "locked cubicle" mystery, Johnny channels F.W.J. Schelling.
8/23/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Spinoza Spoils Everything 1
It's Valentine's Day, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza is ready to dispel all the illusions of love.
7/22/2023 • 5 minutes, 1 second
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Social Medea
Anyone can be a social influencer. Telling the future online by reading goat intestines—that takes guts.
7/22/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Greatest Pledge Breaks 2
A special presentation from some of the last Neanderthals to support ancient public radio.,
6/25/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Honk for Lard!
Laissez les bons temps roulez as you honk for more lard!
6/23/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): SkyHighMan 7
Wendy Henderson continues to have trouble balancing "beauty" and "beast" in his new costume.
6/23/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Johnny Hambone Mysteries 1
Called out of Library Bouncer retirement, Johnny Hambone solves crimes.
6/23/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Supermarket Deli Dining Reviews
Any old critic can review a restaurant ... do you have what it takes to survive a supermarket deli dining room?
5/20/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Murder by Podcast Murder Podcast
True crime podcasters Darlene, Tessa and Willie contemplate pulling off a true crime.
5/20/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Crowning from Below
Dentist Dr. Mia Heffernan's got your back ... if you've got hers.
4/22/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): College Home Schooling
Since now everyone's an expert on everything, why not earn your higher degree from home?
4/22/2023 • 0
Men in Charge in Brief(s): What's New With You? Whatever Happened...
Roger Basement considers, "Whatever happened to What's-his-name?"
4/22/2023 • 0
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Bolsonaro in Fantasyland
The great Brazilian dictator-wannabe discovers himself on "Mister Toad's Wild Ride."
4/22/2023 • 0
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Nicholas Rowe's "Spy Friends"
America's bitterest talk show host discusses his next television project.
4/22/2023 • 4 minutes, 58 seconds
Men in Charge in Brief(s): Scott Herrick Tells a Story
See scenic Ireland! Get measured for your coffin!
3/30/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "The Commissariat of Time" 1
A flim-flam man invents the most accurate clock in the known universe.
3/29/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "Jack Shambles" 4
Jack, who's spent most of his time in his mother's basement, now spends it in prison.
3/29/2023 • 7 minutes, 54 seconds
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "The Greatest Pledge Breaks of All Time" 1
The occasional series takes a look at an extraordinary pledge break from the Dawn of Time.
3/29/2023 • 5 minutes, 2 seconds
Men in Charge in Brief(s): "SkyHighMan!" 6
Wendell "Wendy" Henderson debates with influencers about his new superhero outfit.
3/29/2023 • 5 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 26: Tony & Kevin Decide to Quit!
In this episode we discover that to our relief it’s the last one, ever, until the series is somehow resumed at some point.
12/25/2022 • 40 minutes, 33 seconds
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 25: Tony & Kevin's One-Man Show!
"It's a really, really big shew"—totally unscripted, from the subconsciouses of Tony and Kevin!
12/18/2022 • 29 minutes, 13 seconds
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 24: Why Kevin, Not Tony, Comes Up with the Best Titles!
Yes, Kevin thinks up the best episode titles, but he confesses to a being a life-long liar and tries to throw the blame for these best titles onto Tony.
12/11/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 23: The Powdered Milk of Human Kindness
Lady MacBeth speaks to the 21st century, now in powdered form!
12/4/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 22: Let's Flee in Panic, Soon!
This episode’s relaxed sense of emergency carries us soon to an account of how Kevin was wedged between sandbags during a flood as a 9-year-old, while Tony, unaccountably, wasn’t.
11/27/2022 • 29 minutes, 1 second
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 21: Nous Accusons Men in Charge!
In the tradition of great and powerful critiques of timid thinking, Jacques d'Temps-en-temps and Hans Fluker return one last time to lament Men in Charge's portrayal of them as well as to lambast Tony and Kevin for their decision not to include more KISS and hovercrafts in their sketches.
11/20/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 18: Chronicles of the Schmalkaldic League: In Hot Water!
The year is 1541 in a world much different from ours. Join an intrepid band of inventors, spies and scapegraces in an adventure that puts the hole Schmalkaldic saga in context!
11/16/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 20: A Handful of Cubits!
This episode gets Biblical through unwieldy, unconvincing inference.
11/13/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 19: Room for You on the Lord's Sofa
There’s room for you on the Lord’s sofa because Tony and Kevin have come to the end (that is, they’ve “put down”) two long-running series.
11/6/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 17: Chronicles of the Schmalkaldic League: The Vulcanists!
The year is 1541 in a world much different from ours. Join an intrepid band of inventors, spies and scapegraces in an adventure that'll get you fired up!
10/26/2022 • 28 minutes, 21 seconds
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 15: We're Not Assassin Material!
In this episode, we learn why Assassin School is like summer camp but with even more blood and humiliation.
10/17/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 16: Chronicles of the Schmalkaldic League: The Neptunians!
The year is 1541 in a world much different from ours. Join an intrepid band of inventors, spies and scapegraces as something watery this way comes!
10/17/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 14: Why Tony and Kevin are Above the Law
Why are they above the Law? Because the Law sets a low Bar—look how many people pass it every year—and Tony and Kevin stride the world like a couple of tall people.
10/17/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 13: Cheerleaders for Coroners' Office Reform
We quickly learn why Coroner’s office reform, long sought by Coroner’s Office reformers like Kevin, is best performed by cheerleaders: young men in skirts, even if Tony and Kevin get laughed out of the Coroner’s office yet again.
8/14/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 12: Like Walking on Really Bad Water
The meaning of this title is self-evident, right? Isn’t our Christian Nation walking on Really Bad Water right now? On Earth, only the well-armed shall be forgiven.
8/7/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 11: Climb into the Happiness Chimney!
This episode is all about the paradox of the “happiness chimney,” where, as you’ll recall, you were put during sleep-away camp when you got out of hand. Remember?
7/31/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 10: We're Living Your Best Life!
In this episode, Kevin and Tony explain why your life feels so much like a big cheat. Why? Because they’re living your best life, sitting in the dark in their underwear drinking RC Cola, which is what you wish you could do, but you can’t, because you don’t have a radio show or podcast.
7/25/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 9: The Dogs Per Pound Pound
Our hosts address the semi-bi-annual question of how many pounds of dogs should dog pounds impound? As few as possible, they decide, so that as many as possible can go to dogless homes.
7/18/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 8: The Scales of Justice--the First Finale!
Welcome to the year 457 million BCE and another episode of "The Scales of Justice," the courtroom drama adventures of Balthasar Q. Esterhazy, Trilobite-at-Law. Esterhazy fights to prosecute the worst bottom-feeders in the Paleo-Tethys Ocean and put them behind bars of iron-hard coral for good—and does so one last time.
7/10/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 7: We're Perfect to a Fault!
In this episode, Tony and Kevin explain the basis of their perfection, which is mainly that their self-regard is an affront to regular, more generic people, who themselves have failed to fully articulate the nature of our hosts’ excellence.
7/4/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 7: We're Perfect to a Fault!
In this episode, Tony and Kevin explain the basis of their perfection, which is mainly that their self-regard is an affront to regular, more generic people, who themselves have failed to fully articulate the nature of our hosts’ excellence.
7/3/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, episode 6: Bus Pass or Donner Pass?
Kevin and Tony open with an intense discussion of the bus pass (good) versus the Donner Pass (less good unless traversed using a bus pass).
6/26/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 5: One Man's Coffee is Another Man's Virus
In this episode (only 21 more to go in Season 11), Tony and Kevin make the usual linkages between coffee and viruses, leaving no random thought unuttered.
6/19/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 4: A Small Child's Go-to Swear Words
In this episode, Kevin and Tony explore early use of swear words, and Kevin relates a traumatic event from his past.
6/12/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 3: Getting Back to the Entrails
For this gutsy little episode, Tony and Kevin try to overcome 11th-season lassitude by following the trail back to their entrails, and then getting lost.
6/5/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 2: Fifty-five Nostrils
In this episode, Kevin and Tony lay out strong arguments for why CGI creatures—to be realistic—need many more nostrils than are currently afforded them, especially knuckle nostrils.
5/29/2022 • 28 minutes, 59 seconds
Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 1: Nobody Knows the Trouble We've Caused!
With this new season, the eleventh, Tony and Kevin cheerfully declare their indifference both to the title and to the occasion by declaring this the “vestigial” season of Men in Charge.
5/24/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 26: Pox & Phlegm's Conference on Men
Jeff White, Blanche Whitney, Bobby Van Illa and Ash Ivory pontificate on the inherent greatness of men...mostly white men.
5/16/2022 • 29 minutes, 4 seconds
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 25: Gazpacho Police--Cold, Silky Power!
Yes, for this episode, Marjorie Taylor Greene makes another laughable appearance, but more about that in a moment.
5/8/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 24: Our Kids Think We're Virgins!
Faced with implacable offspring, Tony and Kevin wonder if indeed they are virgins, or whether they even have kids, or if their kids adopted them, or whether anything has ever actually happened.
5/1/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 23: "Men in Charge: Below the Music"
Everyone loves the "Below the Music" podcast with Dr. Elinor Galworthy, the real life show about your favorite bands. But this week they forgot to schedule a band to documentarily spy on, so they're doing "Men in Charge" instead.
4/24/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 22: We Have All Your Old Report Cards!
The Men in Charge surveillance team reaches the nadir of its zenith opportunities as Kevin and Tony read from your old report cards!
4/17/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 21: It's Good We're not Livestock!
In this episode, Tony and Kevin take just enough time to explain why it’s good we’re not livestock, if indeed we’re not, which we probably are. Sigh.
4/11/2022 • 28 minutes, 59 seconds
Men in Charge Season 10 Episode 20: Rocket to the Future! Part One, Chapter 12 "SPACE WA--!"
The valiant crews of the Earth Space Force rockets Vanguard and Knausgaard start a Martin-Earth Space War, an event too big for the font we chose for the title of this episode!
4/4/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 19: Rocket to the Future! Part One, Chapter 11
The crews of the Earth Space Force rockets Vanguard and Knausgaard confront "Administrative Evil"!
3/28/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 18: The 200th Episode Episode!
Yes, it's the 200th episode of Men in Charge (collect them all and trade with your friends!)
3/7/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 17: Surprised by Ham
In this episode, Kevin at last tells his shoplifting stories—when his father tackled a man trying to leave the store with several hams wedged into his clothes, and when Kevin himself tackled a very sad chap with a Stephen Sondheim book concealed similarly.
3/3/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 16: Inside the Krofft Dynasty
n this bumper edition of "What's New with You?" award-winning baritone host Roger Basement interviews Seymour Krofft, adopted son of Sid and Marty Krofft—of the Amazing World of Sid and Marty Krofft.
2/22/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 15: A Stranger's Jelly
2/22/2022 • 29 minutes
Men in Charge Season 10, Episode 14: How to Pet any Animal
This episode continues the “animal” theme from the previous episode and then immediately drops it.
2/22/2022 • 29 minutes
Season 10, Episode 13: A Long and Distinguished Line of Bastards
Bastardy as genealogy is an ill-understood topic that Kevin and Tony make murkier. But as they forget to quote Edmund in King Lear, “Now, gods, stand up for bastards!” But they tie the title nimbly into the succession of segments. First, Mr. Skids returns in his usual early morning comatose state to “save the congregation.” As he dozes alcoholically on the church steps of a Sunday morning, the Army of the Faithful stands ready to trample him to death on their way to worship. Will he hold them back by force of lassitude? We’ll see… Next, there’s a commercial/exposé on “The Invermectin Roundup,” because who needs a vaccine when you can get a dangerous and ineffective deworming substitute? Plus, Ivermectin brings our people’s inner bovinity. Finally, a return of the underemployed mafioso, in “Aidan and Largo Seek Counseling.” Our hairy-knuckled heroes find themselves with a free morning and les âmes malheureuses, and so seek a single session of free counseling to feel good about arson again. Bastards? Yes, because they learned their trade in the Orphanage.
11/8/2021 • 29 minutes
Season 10, Episode 12: When a Groin Sprain Used to Mean Something!
Tony and Kevin fret about how people today, especially Kevin’s family, just don’t care about groin sprains, especially Kevin’s, the way folks used to back in the day and ought to now, consarn it! But then, excitement builds with part deux of Emily Wellingtonford’s encounter with the “Edmonton Chanteuse,” Betty Ann Rutherfordford (if that is her real name), whose voice includes something uncannily canny. Next, a work by a new writer (listen to the credits for who it is), “The Noble Gases Committee.” What happens when inert gases get together to discuss new members? The usual sniping and clubby shunning, of course. Finally, we go to Hog Bristle, Texas, for “Hogs of Justice.” And yes, it’s about That Topic. Be assured, though, that this North Korea style surveillance & bounty law gets a good dope slapping. Of course, what it really needs is a good old-fashioned groin sprain.
11/1/2021 • 29 minutes, 2 seconds
Season 10, Episode 11: You Go to War with the Pants You Have
In this long-awaited “pants” episode, Kevin and Tony use the late Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s dim-witted remark to a soldier as way of addressing the similarly dim-witted remarks of those who are against pants mandates in this country. Matching that foolishness are this weeks segments. First, Emily Wellingtonford (chapter 9!) wishes to bring Edmonton nightlife to Coronach, while Archie, her lover/captive, flees into November night. Next, Roger Basement interviews Father Blemish, an unfrocked priest, who reviews (harshly) his clerical colleagues' pulpitry, and finally, on Pox & Phlegm, Marjorie Taylor Greene reappears to upbraid former V.P. Mike Pence for his failure to be hanged on January 6th. Well, you go to an insurrection with the V.P. you have, right?
10/25/2021 • 29 minutes
Season 10, Episode 10: One Day We'll be Self-Published!
In this episode, Tony and Kevin discuss the need to cover themselves with glory, because no one else will. To forward that effort, the show starts with “The Men in Charge Talent Search,” a shabby effort to lure the local populace into working for Men in Charge for free, after they’ve paid their “audition fees” into the MiC vanity press account. Next, our hosts give us a sort of homage to film director Roger Corman, who may be alive (or not (check your Schrödinger’s box to be sure!)) in a radio drama called “Strike, Cassowary! Kill! Kill!,” about an avian/human love affair and white guys who like to shoot things. After that, we have a visit with Nana June, a farmer who cooks up devastating sound effects to punish her irritating engineer. Finally, Kevin and Tony are musically audited by “Moragh van der Werff, Professional Radio Comedy Sketch Show Music Consultant,” who wants to set our hosts straight on how pathetically injudicious their interstitial music choices have been for years now. A talent search is clearly in order…
10/18/2021 • 29 minutes
Season 10, Episode 9 You've Smelled Our T-shirts, Now Buy Our Cologne!
In this episode we learn that by winning the minority vote, writer Ann Porter imposed that terrible title upon us. (But Kevin and Tony still want you to buy Men in Charge cologne…) They soon leave this lamentable topic and move on to “European Complainers Society 2,” in which the absent virtues of pork products are discussed in a complaining tone, as is Teddy Roosevelt. After that, we move to the fifth (5th) segment of the series, “A Man Called Bamby.” Our heroes voice-over characters Michael and Amber remain trapped in the bar (they’re only voice overs, after all), and Mr. Giuliani, mob boss and hair-dye fetishist, threateningly appears. Finally, the show introduces a new, prequel series: “Bruno Calamari, Norwegian Political Operative!” How did Sheriff Coors become Sheriff Coors? And why are zip ties so darned hard to use? This new series begins to partially answer those questions…