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Season 6, Episode 17: Exemptions for Small Hands

First, Tony and Kevin avoid the topic of “Exemptions for Small Hands” by considering what Sulu and Chekhov really kept in that locked cabinet between their stations on the Enterprise bridge. It’s what you’d expect, perhaps. But then, what chores should the Small-Handed be spared, given that the noise of their personalities is compensatory? Should the small hands be kept away from chainsaws and buttons that are too big? Do the small handed deserve an extra scoop of ice cream and someone to open their cans of Diet Coke? How special are the Small-Handed among us? Then, with another edition of “Complaints from Listeners,” Kevin and Tony chuckle at the listeners’ impotently bleated objections. That’s followed by an advertisement for Th”e New America Online University Overseer’s Certificate,”--your chance to abuse the economically vulnerable!--and the third in the series, “Trapped Like Rats!” Will Marnie Sutter, talk-show host and prisoner, finally escape her steel cylinder? Tune in for the definitively ambiguous answer… 

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