The Colin McEnroe Show
Connecticut Public Radio
The Colin McEnroe Show is public radio’s most eclectic, eccentric weekday program. The best way to understand us is through the subjects we tackle: Neanderthals, tambourines, handshakes, the Iliad, snacks, ringtones, punk rock, Occam’s razor, Rasputin, houseflies, zippers. Are you sensing a pattern? If so, you should probably be in treatment. On Fridays, we try to stop thinking about what kind of ringtones Neanderthals would want to have and convene a panel called The Nose for an informal roundtable about the week in culture.
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Mar 1, 2018 • 49min
An Ode To Obituaries And Obituarists
On the one hand, obituaries are an amalgam of a bunch of different kinds of journalism: they're feature stories, they're profile pieces, they cover history, and they're hard news too.On the other hand, the subject is always... dead.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 28, 2018 • 50min
Slime: From Spontaneous Generation To Internet Sensation
Slime is not something we often think about. But there are plenty of reasons why that should probably change: From the theory that life on Earth may have have first emerged from a primordial ooze, to the current slime-making craze that's sweeping the internet.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 27, 2018 • 49min
An Hour With David Gelernter
Consciousness has been an elusive enigma for philosophers and scientists alike for about as long as there've been philosophers and scientists.And, while it's long been thought that artificial intelligence would bring us the next big breakthroughs in our understanding of consciousness, A.I. authority David Gelernter has a different idea entirely.He looks for answers to these fundamental questions in, instead... literature.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 26, 2018 • 50min
The Scramble: Mueller And Parkland Developments, Plus: Your Calls
Grading on the post-2016 scale, it was a relatively earth shattering revelation-free weekend. And so we have some time to regroup and take a look at more iterative developments in Mueller investigation- and Parkland-adjacent news.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 23, 2018 • 50min
The Nose Goes To 'Black Panther'
Ryan Coogler's Black Panther is the eighteenth feature film entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is the sixth movie in Phase Three, and it's most directly a sequel to Captain America: Civil War, the first film of the phase.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 22, 2018 • 50min
The Rise And Fall Of The Hat
Take a look at at any early 20th century photograph and you'll see them: Hats! From Beavers and Bowlers to bonnets and baseball caps, for hundreds of years hats were the essential accessory for any fashionable and upstanding citizen.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 21, 2018 • 50min
How Soon Is Too Soon? (And Other Classic Questions And Conundrums About Comedy)
humor = tragedy + timeOkay, but then the logical next question is: How much time?If it's okay, at this point, to joke about, say, The Spanish Inquisition... what about, for instance, the Holocaust? Or AIDS? September 11th? The #MeToo movement?...Parkland?Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 20, 2018 • 50min
The Scramble: Russia; Parkland; "The Greatest Showman"
Robert Mueller on Friday indicted 13 Russian nationals and three organizations on charges related to interference in the 2016 U.S. electoral process. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 19, 2018 • 49min
Hartford Convention: 200 Years Since We Started the Fight Over States' Rights
Legend holds that years after the the Hartford Convention, a visitor from the South was touring the Old State House and asked to be shown the room where the Convention met. Ushered into the Senate chamber, the southerner looked at the crimson in the face of George Washington in the Gilbert Stuart portrait hanging here and said, "I'll be damned if he's got the blush off yet." Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 16, 2018 • 50min
It's Expensive To Die In America
It's expensive to die in America. We spend upwards of $3 trillion on medical care, a large percentage of those dollars concentrated in the last year of a person's life.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
