Men 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 of a disturbing trend for a public radio program, pledging is on the mind of Oswald Spellman, who describes how to succeed at your own payday loan operation. We (or rather you) hear from our new sponsor, “Figurines,” factory-made porcelain cherubs and fawns of faint charm all by themselves, but crying out for the kiss of a ball-peen hammer. We’re godfathering in another Sherpa Tenzing sketch, as he introduces us to the intriguingly tepid threat of the Buddhist Mafia. Guy Burley, Principled Budget Steward and Public Bartender, “cards” the general citizenry. Reggie Forge and those dreadful existentialists get on the radio pledge bandwagon, with much scorn and European-style snickering. Another peek inside the Men in Charge spam filter, then a new sketch: Animaladversions with Annabeth Myserabel. Finally, with “The Continuing Adventures of Dan Blanche, Lower Heights Community College’s Longest Serving Adjunct Writing Instructor,” we run out of space in the episode descr