Season 7, Episode 21: Underneath the Wheel

Kevin and Tony are very much underneath the wheel in this episode, which was almost all written by “Ann Porter,” artist from “Sandpoint.” Our so-called “Men” in “Charge” feel very much thrust aside and urge the Listener to at least feign sympathy.  The first segment, “Contemporary Naming Practice,” is a hard-hitting piece of Lower Heights journalism, featuring an Onomastic professor who wants contemporary names to reflect our jobs, the way Cooper, Smith, and Zimmerman used to.  But why are there electrodes and restraints? Next, another commercial from Vichy America Labs, where spokesperson Jared Kushner promotes the antidote to the failures of white male masculinity.  Yes, it’s the “Power Implant”: with only moderately painful surgery, you can bring out the little Stalin, the little Pol Pot in each of us. After that, there’s a visit with “Madame Vladoma,” a mysterious soothsayer to the White House with an odd volume of five o’clock shadow on cheeks and chin… Finally, we return to “Pox & Phlegm,” with a real Lady Scientist dragged in to talk about “climate change.” Perhaps we could settle all this climate business by buying smaller SUVs? Probably, but listen just in case!