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Men in Charge Season 11, Episode 16: Chronicles of the Schmalkaldic League: The Neptunians!

The year is 1541 in a world much different from ours. Join an intrepid band of inventors, spies and scapegraces as something watery this way comes! In this story that was simply too big for one episode and yet too small for four, the Schmalkaldic League faces off against two factions of renegade geologists: the Neptunians and the Vulcanists, with the fate of Europe hanging in the balance! In part one, Aldo Krasplasian, Hungary's King of Puppets, goes into deep cover, Margaret of Parma seems to finally have gotten her revenge on Countess von Uexküll, and the terrifying Matterhorn Twins begin a reign of terror that will take them from Utrecht to the Gordian Knot in Anatolia. Don't worry, it all makes sense after days of reflection and writing in your journal!

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Kevin Decker, Professor of Philosophy, was left holding the bag when Tony Flinn recently retired from Eastern Washington University. That bag was full of cats. At first, he thought they were cute, but then they woke up and started mauling him. It turned out that the cats were mountain lion cubs, often referred to incorrectly as “cougars.” One had rabies. From his now-permanent hospital bed, Kevin writes for and co-produces “Men in Charge,” the title of which may or may not be ironic
Tony Flinn, known around the model railroad track in his basement as “Professor of English, Emeritus,” recently retired from Eastern Washington University to age in place, like an old car up on blocks in the barn, convenient for climbing behind the wheel and saying “Vroom! Vroom!” He and his co-host and co-producer, Kevin Decker, have been writing and performing in “Men in Charge” since probably 2014, or even earlier, depending on whether you’re using the Julian or Gregorian calendar.
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