The Colin McEnroe Show

As compared to two weeks ago, new COVID case counts are up 112%, hospitalizations are up 90%, and deaths are up 92%. This would seem to be driven by the extra-contagious delta variant and a population that’s just 50% fully vaccinated. And so: What do we need to change about ourselves? And what do we want government to change for us? Do we need to get off the honor system? Give us a call during the 1 p.m. EDT hour: 860-275-7266, or join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Cat Pastor contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have publicly admitted that they rarely bathe. Kutcher, in fact, went as far as to say he washes his “armpits and my crotch daily and nothing else ever.” This all makes me incredibly uncomfortable, but it turns out that maybe not everyone feels that way. And: A look at the etiquette of the text tapback, as saluted in this week’s New York Times Magazine. And finally: The White Lotus is a six-part miniseries currently running on HBO. It follows the staff and guests at a Hawaiian resort over the course of a week, and while it starts off as a sort of drama/thriller, it evolves into more of a satire as it goes. Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso Disney, WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal wrestle with balancing the value of cable networks and streaming services DaBaby Was Dropped From Two More Music Festivals For His Anti-Gay Comments Silver Linings Meet the Dommes Who Are Demanding Their Submissives Get Vaxxed Light detected behind a black hole for the first time Coen Bros. Split Because ‘Ethan Didn’t Want to Make Movies Anymore,’ Says Carter Burwell Lorne Michaels Can’t Quit SNL, So He Hopes Nobody Else Will, Either Lionel Messi is Not Renewing His Contract with FC Barcelona Mike Richards in Advanced Negotiations to Become Permanent Host of ‘Jeopardy!’ Who Owns My Name? by Amanda Knox The Washington Football Team Has Banned Native American Headdresses From Its Stadium The Rolling Stones to perform private concert for Robert Kraft and friends GUESTS: Theresa Cramer - A freelance writer and editor and the co-founder of Quiet Corner Communications Carolyn Paine - An actress, comedian, and dancer; she is founder, director, and choreographer of CONNetic Dance Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Three Music Musketeers return! Are you bored with your playlist? We’ve reunited our trio of music mavens — novelist Wally Lamb, critic Eric Danton, and not-killed-by-video radio star Joan Holliday — to freshen up your music choices with great recommendations. Warning: This program includes banter. The songs in this show include some or all of these ones: “I NEED YOU” by Jon Batiste “Pigeons” by Bill Callahan “Brando” by Lucy Dacus “Jazz on the Autobahn” by The Felice Brothers “Northsiders” by Christian Lee Hutson “Waxahachie” by Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall “Hard Drive” by Cassandra Jenkins “Sometimes” by Bessie Jones “Washing Machine” by Kings of Convenience “The King of All Birds” by Aoife O’Donovan “Trap Life” by SAULT “Chaise Longue” by Wet Leg GUESTS: Eric Danton - A reporter and critic Joan Holliday - Host of The Riversound Café with Joan Holliday weekday afternoons on 93.9 and 101.5 The River Wally Lamb - The author of nine books; his most recent novel is I’ll Take You There Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Cat Pastor contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Treasure hunts are prolific across literature, film, and history. This hour we talk about treasure hunts, including what happens when you drop one in the present day. GUESTS: Dan Barbarisi - Author of Chasing The Thrill: Obsession, Death and Glory In America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt Marcellus Cadd - Writes the blog Geocaching While Black Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

humor = tragedy + time OK, but then the logical next question is: How much time? If it’s OK, at this point, to joke about, say, The Spanish Inquisition… what about, for instance, the Holocaust? Or AIDS? September 11th? The MeToo movement? …The delta variant? There’s a line there somewhere, right? Or are some topics just never going to be funny? GUESTS: Mike Bent - Teaches writing in the Comedic Arts program at Emerson College, and he’s a performing comedian and magician Shawn Murray - Shawn Murray is a comedian, writer, and the host of Nobody Asked Shawn Carolyn Paine - An actress, comedian, and dancer Ferne Pearlstein - A documentary filmmaker who directed The Last Laugh Caleb Warren - Assistant professor of marketing at the University of Arizona Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Catie Talarski, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired February 21, 2018.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This hour, a conversation not exactly about the recent anti-CRT hysteria on the right and not exactly about extreme wokeness on the left, but about how we talk and write and think and teach so that we acknowledge the wrongs of the past and how they show up in the present. Without driving each other nuts. Give us a call during the 1 p.m. EDT hour: 860-275-7266, or join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Schmigadoon! is a musical comedy series on Apple TV+ starring Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key. In it, the couple gets stuck in a musical town, and can’t leave until they find true love. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s documentary Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), on Hulu, is about The Harlem Cultural Festival, which occurred over six weeks in the summer of 1969, and featured artists like Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone. GUESTS: Taneisha Duggan - Artistic Producer at Theater Works Steve Metcalf - Director Emeritus of the University of Hartford’s Presidents’ College Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This hour, we take your calls about Olympian Simone Biles. She withdrew from competition on Tuesday to focus on her mental health, just weeks after tennis star Naomi Osaka also stepped back due to mental health struggles. And we want your reaction to the House selection committee hearing on the January 6th Capitol attack, happening this week.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Criminal Minds. Mindhunter and Manhunt. Cracker and Profiler. Nearly the whole of the Hannibal Lecter universe: Manhunter, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal (the movie and the TV series), Red Dragon… It goes on. It seems we’re fascinated by forensic psychology, by mindhunting, by criminal profiling. This hour, we look at three different criminal profilers: James Brussel, the psychologist who helped catch the Mad Bomber of New York in 1957; James Fitzgerald, the forensic linguist who caught the Unabomber; and Bill James, the father of sabermetrics, turns his data analysis on a century-old serial killer mystery that no one had even realized was a serial killer mystery before he and his daughter figured it out. GUESTS: Michael Cannell - Author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling James Fitzgerald - Retired FBI agent, criminal profiler, and forensic linguist; he’s the author of a series of memoirs, A Journey to the Center of the Mind Bill James - Former Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox; co-author of The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery Rachel McCarthy James - Co-author of The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Cat Pastor, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired November 7, 2017.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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. This hour, a look at the art of obituaries and obituarists. GUESTS: Kate Cimini - A reporter for The Salinas Californian and CalMatters Vanessa Gould - Produced and directed the documentary Obit. Heather Lende - Obituarist for the Chilkat Valley News in Alaska and the author of Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer Bruce Weber - Retired New York Times obituarist Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Cat Pastor, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired August 24, 2017.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.