The Colin McEnroe Show

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Aug 8, 2017 • 50min

The Electric Guitar Is Dead. Long Live The Electric Guitar.

Where have all the guitar heroes gone? Where has all the guitar music gone? Where have all the guitar sales gone?Are rumors of the electric guitar's death exaggerated or no?Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 7, 2017 • 49min

The Scramble Tries To Understand All Those Leaks

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday the Justice Department will aggressively pursue the leaking of classified information that undermines national security. This announcement was made following the release by the Washington Post of transcripts between Trump and leaders from Mexico and Australia. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 4, 2017 • 50min

The Nose On 'Ozark' And Sam Shepard

Netflix has marketed its new series "Ozark" as " 'Breaking Bad' plus Jason Bateman," which might make you picture... a funnier version of "Breaking Bad"? "Ozark" is not a funnier version of "Breaking Bad." If anything, it's a bleaker version of "Breaking Bad." And maybe even a more bingeable version of "Breaking Bad"? The Nose might just have an answer to that question.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 3, 2017 • 50min

The Final Frontier Or The Glass Ceiling: The Legacy Of Women In NASA

As the men of Apollo 11 returned home to ticker tape parades, the women who made their journey possible worked quietly behind the scenes. Since its founding in 1958, NASA has been heavily reliant on the skills of such women, many of whom have gone unrecognized for their bravery and hard work.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 2, 2017 • 49min

Neonaticide Is An Act Of Desperation

Neonaticide is a hard concept for most of us to wrap our heads around. Yet, the CDC estimates that "a baby born in the United States is ten times more likely to be killed during its first day than at any other time of life. And for the first week, a baby's killer is likely to be its mother."Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 1, 2017 • 49min

A Look At Independent League Baseball

Matt Iannazzo was a baseball star at Norwalk High School, pitching them to an FCIAC title in 2007. At the University of Pittsburgh, he was an All-Conference pitcher. Out of college, Iannazzo signed with the Chicago Cubs and played two seasons near the bottom of their organization. Then he pitched for the Bridgeport Bluefish in the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jul 31, 2017 • 50min

The Scramble On The Chief Of Staff's Role, And The Sportsification Of American Policy

Last week, the "skinny" repeal of the Affordable Care Act died a buzzer-beating (and perhaps temporary) death on the Senate floor. The Ringer's Bryan Curtis notes that, "Minus the life-and-death part, it had the feel of an unexpectedly competitive Pac-12 football game that the country noticed in installments."Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jul 28, 2017 • 50min

The Nose Goes To 'Dunkirk'

It's quite a trick Christopher Nolan has played on us over the course of a career that includes movies like Memento and Inception. His latest, Dunkirk, weaves together three storylines: One takes place on land over a week. One takes place on the sea over a day. And one takes place in the air over an hour. I walked out of the theater thinking, "That was a pretty straightforward narrative for a Christopher Nolan movie." The Nose has a lot to say about this new epic.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jul 27, 2017 • 50min

The Trump Era: A Retrospective At Six Months

You might say that we’ve done a lot of coverage of The Trump Era.It began with a show sixteen months ago that imagined a Trumpian future. We didn't take it terribly seriously then. We do now.This hour, we've gathered a number of the people we've talked to along the way for a retrospective: Where have we been since last March, since Election Day, since Inauguration Day?Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jul 26, 2017 • 49min

Teaching An Old Fox New Tricks

In 1959, Soviet geneticist Dmitri Belyaev started an ambitious experiment to study the origins of domestication -- he would attempt to breed domesticated wild foxes by selecting on their behavior alone, a process he imagined our ancestors carried out with dogs thousands of years before.This hour, we look at the history and progress of this more-than-50-year experiment: What can it tell us about our animal companions -- and ourselves?Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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