The Colin McEnroe Show

This is a Colingram, a brief encounter with the host of The Colin McEnroe Show. We’re getting ready for an all-call-in show at 1 p.m. Tuesday discussing the results of the Monday caucuses which Colin claims are in Idaho, followed by primaries in New Vermont and South Kentucky. And even if that’s not strictly correct, it doesn’t matter, because geography in 2020 is like playing horseshoes or bocce. If you’re close, sometimes that’s good enough. President Trump was very close to identifying the home state of this year’s winner of the Super Bowl which, we are pretty sure, is a croquet tournament. Listen to Colin’s take here.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a Colingram, a brief encounter with the host of The Colin McEnroe Show, recorded on Friday while we all tried to figure out whether our stealth-brand show, Pardon Me (Another Damn Impeachment Show?), would be preempted from its usual Saturday noon time slot. (Connecticut Public Radio will air it at noon on Sunday.) Colin is distraught over the news that Mr. Peanut, who is even older than Colin, will die on television during the Super Bowl instead of living out his final days in peace at an assisted snacking facility. This is especially hard for Colin who was the one who found Speedy, the Alka Seltzer kid, in an alley outside a club in Minneapolis. Even today, the words “Plop Plop Fizz Fizz” are painful for him to hear. The music played here is Ravel’s “Pavane for a Dead Peanut.”Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hello again! And by “Again,” we mean that this is the second in a possibly infinite chain of Colingrams, a new concept in which the host of The Colin McEnroe Show (whose name, confusingly, is Bart Murfreesboro) shares some small insight, while urging you to subscribe (if you haven’t) to our new stealth brand podcast Pardon Me (Another Damn Impeachment Show?), which is available on every reputable podcast platform and also on certain disreputable ones. Today, “Did Somebody Say ‘Lawyer’?” Tomorrow on Colingrams, we say goodbye, reluctantly, to Mr. Peanut, who gave his life so that we could snack.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Behold the first-ever Colingram, in which host Colin McEnroe chats briefly and possibly even engagingly about something of interest (to him anyway). Colingrams will continue through the impeachment process and slightly beyond it. Until after the aftermath, one might say. And then life will resume its normal rhythms except that the United States will be ruled by Lindsey Graham and a large robot, the two functioning as Roman-style consuls. But we will go back to doing lots of Colin McEnroe Show episodes, if it’s OK with the robot. Anyway, in today’s Colingram, a woman finds something he wrote in 1983 inside the walls of a lake house. Seriously.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sam Mendes's World War I drama, 1917, is currently the #1 movie in America. It won Golden Globe Awards for Best Director and Best Picture -- Drama, and it's nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, and Cinematography. The cinematography nomination is probably the least surprising one, as the entire movie is shot to look as though it was one long, unbroken take. Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt could be about to become 'more than just friends' 'Very Male, Very White': Let's Talk About Those Oscar Nominations This playboy tortoise had so much sex he saved his entire species. Now he's going home Universal & Warner Bros. Form Home Entertainment Joint Venture Whitney Houston, The Notorious B.I.G. Among 2020's Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees The Treatment for Sign Stealing Isn't a Cure for MLB's Disease Cooler on the Other Side: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Stuart Scott New York Mayor Scorned Over His Favorite Bagel Order Irish Island Looking for Two People To Manage Its Coffee Shop Missouri could jail librarians for lending 'age-inappropriate' books GUESTS: Taneisha Duggan - Producing associate at TheaterWorks James Hanley - Co-founder of Cinestudio at Trinity College Irene Papoulis - Teaches writing at Trinity College Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Over the years, our government has been involved in some pretty shady affairs. After eugenics and internment camps but before Watergate and Iran-Contra, came mind control. And just like the other ethically dubious projects mentioned, your tax dollars paid for it. Beginning in the 1940s, multiple U.S. intelligence agencies became interested in studying how they might control people's minds to the extent that they'd be willing divulge secret information or even act in a manner contrary to their own free will. The experiments were code named MKULTRA and involved the use of psychedelic drugs, radiation, isolation, and other forms of psychological harassment or torture. This hour, we'll speak with experts on the history of these experiments and ask how their results filtered down into the world we live in today.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Life after death, in one form or another,  has been examined by multiple disciplines for centuries: From theology, to physics, to philosophy, to medicine and more. But while the topic is taken seriously by some, it remains a focus of ridicule and skepticism by others. Recently however, tests have been designed to unequivocally either prove or disprove this phenomenon once thought to be contestable. And the incredible stories of those claiming to have glimpsed what lies beyond continue to seduce and amaze. This hour we speak with an investigative journalist and medical doctors--believers and skeptics alike-- about the latest theories and evidence of life after death. This show is the fifth part of a new experiment: Radio for the Deaf. Watch a simulcast of signers from Source Interpreting interpreting our radio broadcast in American Sign Language via Facebook Live.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This hour, we air an updated version of the most recent episode of our weekly impeachment show, Pardon Me, which normally airs Saturdays at noon. Law professor Bruce Ackerman argues that President Trump's order to kill Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani is a far graver offense than his efforts to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden. Think about it: He's bragging about his decision to kill a high-ranking official of another country. Will Chief Justice John Roberts save us? And that's the positive view on the show this week. Sarah Kendzior studies autocratic governments. She thinks we'd be foolish to believe there are limits to what the Trump administration would do -- whether jailing witnesses and whistleblowers, threatening protesters, or using nuclear weapons. GUESTS: Bruce Ackerman- The Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale and the author of nineteen books, including We the People, his three-volume work on American constitutional development Frankie Graziano - Reporter at Connecticut Public Radio Sarah Kendzior - A writer, researcher, and co-host of the podcast Gaslit Nation Chion Wolf - Producer, photographer, and announcer at Connecticut Public Radio Email us your questions at pardonme@ctpublic.org. Pardon Me is a production of The Colin McEnroe Show on Connecticut Public Radio.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We like to open the phones and hear what's on your minds. We never know what you're going to say but we love that you call us to say it.  Colin would like to start with the Oscar nominations. You let us know where you want to go from there. Maybe you want to stay there.  Call us at (888) 720-9677, which is also (888) 720-WNPR. You can also tweet us @wnprcolin or leave us a message on Facebook. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Rise of Skywalker is the third and final movie in the third (and final?) trilogy -- the sequel trilogy in the trilogy of trilogies -- in the main, so-called "Skywalker Saga" of the Star Wars narrative. It's the eleventh Star Wars movie overall, the fifth since Disney bought Lucasfilm and took over the franchise, and the second directed by JJ Abrams (after The Force Awakens, the first of the Disney Star Wars films and the highest-grossing movie in the history of the United States). It is... somewhat divisive. The Nose weighs in. And: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have announced that they're backing away from their role as royals. Plus: Winter. You either hate it, or you love it. Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: People are seeing 'Cats' while high out of their minds. These are their stories. Good Riddance to Ricky Gervais, the Sneering, Purposefully Intolerable Golden Globes Host The Golden Globes Sends a Message With Its Snub of The Irishman Witness the birth of the year's first meme with Tom Hanks' Golden Globes grimace Elizabeth Wurtzel, 'Prozac Nation' author who spurred a memoir boom, dies at 52 Report: Red Sox used replay room to steal signs in 2018 season John Mulaney Is Not So Square There are 2,373 squirrels in Central Park. I know because I helped count them. The Oscars Will Skip the Whole To-Do and Just Go Hostless Once Again Buck Henry Dies: 'The Graduate' Writer, 'Get Smart' Co-Creator & Early 'SNL' Favorite Was 89 Jupiter Is Flinging Comets Toward Earth Warner Bros. Will Use Artificial Intelligence to Help Decide Which Movies to Greenlight GOOP Has a Candle Called 'This Smells Like My Vagina' GUESTS: Rich Hollant - Principal at CO:LAB, founder of Free Center, and commissioner on cultural affairs for the city of Hartford Edwin Krakowiak - A navy vet going to school to become a middle school algebra teacher Helder Mira - Multimedia producer at Trinity College and a Cinestudio board member Carolyn Paine - An actress, comedian, and dancer, and she is founder, director, and choreographer of CONNetic Dance Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.