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Men in Charge in Brief(s)

Men in Charge in Brief(s)

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Men in Charge in Brief(s): Everybody Out of the Pool Furniture!

Jun 7, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Commemorative Air Force!

May 31, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Is It Really a Bagel?

May 24, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): KitchenSoft

May 19, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Sign my Ebook!

May 4, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Trapped Like Rats! 5

May 4, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): New Trapped Like Rats! 3

Apr 28, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Trapped Like Rats! 3

Apr 20, 20265 min

Men in Charge: Urgent Private Service Announcement!

Apr 14, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Russian Parking Attendant versus MICE!

Yakov has tussled with overdue meters and flat tires, but now he’s meeting his match: the agents of MICE!

Apr 8, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Supervillain Interview

Roger Basement sits down with Ernst Stavro Blofeld to talk about pesky Secret Service agents and lucky luge escapes.

Mar 30, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Russian Parking Attendant for Good!

His name: Yakov Alexandrovich Turgenev. He's a Russian Parking Attendant, czar of all the parking slots, the man who decides where, and if, you can park in his lot. And he is a force for Good in today's United States of Parking.

Mar 23, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The International Headache Society

Proclaim it from the heights of the world and from all mobile helipads and pool decks! (but just keep your voice down, please) The International Headache Society is meeting in a dim room near you!

Mar 15, 20265 min

The Capoblanco Family at the White House Holiday Special!

During the holiday season, we're all asking the same question: "Where does the mafia-style corruption end and the winning begin?" MPR reporter Charlene "Charlie" Heavers penetrates the White House to get answers and another helping of crusty bread and giardiniera.

Mar 13, 202629 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Sabbath Mode!

It's Sabbath Mode—for everything! The possibilities for technically violating your religion's commandments are limitless!

Mar 9, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Minor Prophets

Not all Old Testament prophets are lucky enough to see that wheel in the sky that keeps on turnin’!

Mar 2, 20265 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): New Pain Scale!

Remember Uncle Typhoid? He's a real pain in the neck when he comes over for the holidays and wants to talk about how the government is making frogs gay and other idiotic topics. But how much, precisely, of a pain in the neck is your uncle? Now you will find out.

Dec 21, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Fateful Parfaits!

"Ice cream of the future": the ultimate scam! The Men in Charge team of cosmic question-posers-slash-Dippin' Dots critics take on the question of our generation.

Dec 18, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): How Well do you Know Your Friends-in-Law? 2

Your friends are constantly telling you stories about non-mutual friends. Now’s the time to cash in on that!

Dec 15, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Senior Discount, Junior Jackass

"Clutch" and his grandpa had a pretty good scam going—they'd hit the Lower Heights senior eateries, Clutch would insult the table staff, and his grandpa would fake a heart attack before the bill came.

Dec 5, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Senior Discount, Junior Jackass

"Clutch" and his grandpa had a pretty good scam going—they'd hit the Lower Heights senior eateries, Clutch would insult the table staff, and his grandpa would fake a heart attack before the bill came.

Dec 1, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Agents of Mice!

"Bob" is a man like me or you (unless you're not a man). His pathetic little life now means something because he can wear camo, hide his face, and deport people he doesn't like the look of. "Bob's" and Agent of MICE!

Nov 24, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Gorillas in Our Midst

Men in Charge commemorates the passing of Jane Goodall in the only way she would have found acceptable: through loving parody.

Nov 16, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Quality Captain 4

Viewers will be sick, by now, of our ongoing true-crime story of how temps tried to make Men in Charge better. But this is really all we've got at this point.

Nov 9, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Quality Captain 3

Tony and Kevin are caught in the crossfire during a clash of temps—both vying to be Quality Captain of Men in Charge in Brief(s)!

Nov 3, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Quality Captain 2

Tony and Kevin bristle under the new productivity regime emphasized by Gina, the show's Quality Captain.

Oct 27, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Quality Captain 1

"Call me Ishmael." Thus begins a multi-part saga of how Tony and Kevin risked too much with the implicit question quiz, and so were ruled over by ... a temp.

Oct 20, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): How Well Do You Know Your Friends-in-Law?

It's the new game show that ask all kinds of incisive social questions about the friends of your friends—whom you may have no relationship with at all!

Oct 13, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Deputized! with SkyHighMan

In a new tradition of airing episodes in the reverse order from which they were written, Sheriff Coors and Deputy Gertrude the Loon are assisted (heh) by SkyHighMan. Hope you listened to the last three Deputized! stories, listener!

Oct 6, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Real New 51st State

Think of today's public service announcement as a kind of game show in which our isolationist leaders choose the new 51st state: Greenland? Canada? All we know is, it better damn well not be Belgium.

Sep 29, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The Magic of Radio Magic!

Who says you can't enjoy illusions and close-up magic on a radio show?

Sep 22, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): New Spam Filter--Pain Molecules!

In cleaning out the latest bit of cultural detritus from the show's spam filter, Tony and Kevin face an existential dilemma.

Sep 15, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): GOP Acquisitions Tour!

Now that the USA is winning, winning, winning by simply re-naming geographical features like Gulfs and Buttes, the GOP shares their latest acquisitions!

Sep 7, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The New Trapped Like Rats! 2

The harm ptarmigan is gone, but the hosts/prisoners of today’s #1 talk show recorded in an impenetrable jail aren’t out of peril yet!

Aug 31, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Restroom Renaissance

Holy Jacob Burckhardt, Batman! It’s a real Restroom Renaissance at the Shops at Plimsoles Hills!

Aug 24, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The New Trapped Like Rats!

Like rats shiftly aimlessly through an endless, imponderable labyrinth, the cast of the rebooted Talk Show/Inescapable, Real Prison explore their need for Being.

Aug 18, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Deputized! 10 with Jack Shambles

Ungrateful little incel Jack Shambles joins Deputy Thorn Withers and Gertrude the Loon to investigate Old Man Withers' Surplus Store.

Aug 4, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Deputized! 9

Sheriff Coors and Deputy Maisie rope in Creg Bellowes from Lower Heights Public Radio to investigate their latest case.

Jul 27, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Medi-melange 2, with Dr. Orville Preacher!

Dr. Orville Preacher listens to a caller who... pauses.... when she... is speaking. (This is, by the way, our all-time funniest episode)!

Jul 26, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Street Scenes 5!

Our local public radio reporter is flung from the transdimensional subway into... what?

Jul 19, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Dr. Orville's Medi-Melange 1

Dr. Orville Preacher is back. And so is heart-healthy cheescake!

Jul 12, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The New George Washington Cookbook

An old traditional Yankee cookbook has a new twist...we dare not tell a lie!

Jul 6, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The New Geography!

In which we show that pesky things like foreign, hard-to-pronounce names (like "Mexico") ought not to stand in the way of naming progress.

Jun 2, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Streets Scenes #4

The newly-gelatinized announcer searches for sentience beyond the portal.

May 25, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Deputized 7—Bad Nancy Drew Return(s)!

Bad Nancy Drew—Bitsy and Francine—are deputized to solve/commit a crime: the pirating of the worst video game in history.

May 17, 20255 min

Deputized! with Bad Nancy Drew

Sheriff Coors and Deputy Maisie the Loon welcome Bad Nancy Drew into the squad car!

May 11, 20255 min

Street Scenes 3

Grifters, Wizards, Bandits and other Denizens lure the announcer into a trans-dimensional portal!

May 3, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): The "100th Episode" Episode!

Kevin and Tony review the upside of American fascism. It goes about as you'd expect.

Apr 28, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): Locked Out, Part 2!

Kevin and Tony fight back against the thuggish takeover of the Men in Charge studios by agents from the Department Of Radio Efficiency and Eliminating Public Radio (DREEPR).

Apr 20, 20255 min

Men in Charge in Brief(s): "Lockout! Part 1"

Agents from the new Department Of Radio Efficiency & Eliminating Public Radio (DORE&EPR) lock Kevin and Tony out of their MiC studio to rifle through their files and go into full confiscation mode (FCM).

Apr 12, 20255 min