In this episode, Tony and Kevin at last address the dilemma of suet vs. lard: which one is generally preferable, and why the British prefer suet, much to Kevin’s dismay. Tonight’s segments are obliquely related to this topic, perhaps. First, Stephanie Gardenplaster interviews a man who conducts pet blessings in his van. Theological quandaries abound, such as, must the pet be a believer for the blessing to “take”? Next, Salesdog Spot returns, this time for a job interview! Listen and learn from

What do bottle-brush mustachioed, all-around scientist J.B.S. Haldane; musician and composer, swingin' Artie Shaw; science-fictioneer Arthur C. Clarke; and blurred-visionary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick all have in common? Well, nothing, unless you believe the premise of this episode: that these four mighty minds formed a "Public Investigations Agency" in the 1960s. So let's do that, shall we? We'll follow the mystery to learn whether it's possible for a dog to be turned into a dog biscuit, how the

The Listener will be delighted to learn that at last Men in Charge has begun siding with North Korea. Why should the Chinese government have all the fun? A cold bath in the river is surely a more refreshing way to bathe rather than standing in a shower, right? The Listener will learn to agree even more obediently in this week’s segments. First, Disgruntled Belgian Talk Radio host Didier Vendage takes another call from Jared Kushner, who offers up Ivanka in exchange for ideas on how to meddle in

Who ruins everything? The blogging listeners do, with their oppressive inquiries about Tony and Kevin’s personal lives, which they don’t even have, by the way. Instead, the listeners should ask themselves why Kevin and Tony wear masks as they record the show. And what a show: first, Roger Basement has a a baffling interview with the runner-up for Michigan Man of the Year. Like the rest of us, he’s never heard of this award or what it means to win it. Next, we about The New America Portable

Once again we return to the space-age future--the year 1992 and the exploits of the crew of the Earth Space Force rocket Vanguard . Towed into space by their sister ship, the Knausgaard , Captain Major and his band of intrepid space explorers face a new threat: SPACE PLAGUE! But saboteurs tainted the rocket's supply of anti-space vaccine quite a few episodes ago, so there's no way out! Tune in for spills and chills as Lt. Lindley of the Knausgaard and Ex-Ensign Nemesis of the Vanguard are cast

All the history-related segments for this episode remind us how long ago History was. First, in the tenth segment of the series, "Heaving Bosoms," we go back to the windy moors of England's 19th century--before Brexit, but during the height of the British Empire (when it was fine to colonize but not let the colonized into England) on the windy moors. Lord Grantley Ridgely is abandoning Ridgely Manor to join a monastery. Is younger son Bentley up to the task of managing the estate, even under the

In a good-natured shredding of idiocy, Tony and Kevin do a little slicing and dicing through the “We’re not a scientist” bleating of climate-change deniers. Stitches will be required. As for the partially related segments of this episode, first, in the 8th installment of “Heaving Bosoms,” Grantley Ridgely’s insufferable virtue puts the Ridgely estate in jeopardy, and the Crone’s pregnancy seems to have become a perpetual condition. Then we have a return to “Scales of Justice,” the prehistoric

In this full-length radio play, we meet a blue-skinned alien on a New Jersey Transit train who’s trying to escape from Earth through a portal that has something to do with clocks. Why does he need to escape? And is there a portal, really? This terrifying romp offers up nosy passengers, near invisibility, an angry sibling, smoke and lightning, and possibly lethal salad forks. Don’t jump to the end for the surprise ending. Don’t. Really, don’t. Instead, buy the Men in Charge merch we’re planning

To explain the title, this episode digs deeply into the sodden, oil-soaked ground of international commerce. The new, Vichy America’s current plan to seize Greenland has been temporarily thwarted, keeping us all from the oil derricks and golf courses our President needs. Who’s standing in the way, besides Denmark and Greenland? The French, that’s who. What can we, as loyal servants of Vichy America do? Well, we can refuse to use French paint, which runs and clogs our pores when we paint

To explain the title, this episode digs deeply into the sodden, oil-soaked ground of international commerce. The new, Vichy America’s current plan to seize Greenland has been temporarily thwarted, keeping us all from the oil derricks and golf courses our President needs. Who’s standing in the way, besides Denmark and Greenland? The French, that’s who. What can we, as loyal servants of Vichy America do? Well, we can refuse to use French paint, which runs and clogs our pores when we paint