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Season 6, Episode 11: The All OSHA Fourth of July Episode

As the title indicates, this is Men in Charge’s first 4th of July holiday-themed episode, celebrating the New America’s corporate-owned Occupational Health and Safety Agency (OSHA), or whatever those letters stand for. What’s important is that we can all feel a little safer, or at least more obedient, knowing that Monsanto is smiling benignly/predatorily down on all of us now. Kevin and Tony ask such questions as “which Presidents embraced the most safety talk?” And as the segments proceed, we learn all about the background and function of OSHA and are finally reminded that Men in Charge is/are totally unreliable on the concept of “facts.” We join an OSHA inspection of the Lower Heights Child Labor Force camp, where Kevin is still being held as if he were a legitimate child laborer in spite of what his driver’s license says. Next, on another edition of Animal Adversions, Annabeth Miserabel interviews Dr. Andy Osgood, OSHA-sponsored marmot scientist/taxidermist. After that comes the “OSHA Brownout” segment, we learn why some “outs” are brown while others are white, black, and offensively orange. It will all make sense if you listen with your hands where we can see them.

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