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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May 12, 2017 • 50min
The Nose Goes To 'Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2' Obviously
Look. I don't like Guardians of the Galaxy, okay? I get it. I'm the only nerd on the face of the planet who isn't charmed by these movies. I know I have a cold stone where my heart should be. I understand that I'm totally devoid of a soul. It's fine. I've come to terms with it. You still get to love these movies. The Nose still gets to love these movies. And The Nose does love these movies.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 11, 2017 • 50min
Humanity's Golden Age: Long Gone Or Yet To Come?
Has the golden age of humanity passed? Can we, as a species, survive the next few centuries? As our climate warms, population grows, resources shrink, and means of self destruction become more deadly, these questions move from the realm of dystopian fiction to real world relevance.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 10, 2017 • 49min
Trump Fires Comey: Are We In Constitutional Crisis Yet?
President Trump fired FBI director James Comey on Tuesday in the midst of the FBI investigation into whether Russia influenced the 2016 election. The story from the White House is that the firing has little to do with Russia, and more to do with Comey's handling of Hillary Clinton's emails. One must ask: why now? Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 9, 2017 • 50min
It's A Sportsing Show!
We've been feeling like maybe all the serious politics coverage we've been doing has crowded out some of the nonsense sports coverage we like to do.So this hour: sports nonsense and nothing else.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 8, 2017 • 50min
The Scramble Welcomes Adam Gopnik
The Most Beautiful Room in New York is a new play by The New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik. It's about home and food and family, and is influenced by Gopnik's five years as a Paris correspondent discovering the meaning of food in his own life.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 5, 2017 • 50min
Praise Be -- The Nose Is Live At The Connecticut Library Association Conference
Margaret Atwood started writing her classic dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale in 1984. She set it in an imagined future America where the toxic environment has limited human fertility, a theocratic dictatorship has taken control, and women have been stripped of their rights. Atwood said the novel isn't a prediction, but the internet thinks Hulu's new TV version is.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 4, 2017 • 50min
Nutmeg May Seem Pretty Harmless...
In the 1800s, Connecticut peddlers would travel south to peddle goods made in small factories around the state. The best way to increase their profit margin was to slip a few pieces of prized nutmeg -- and a few fake wooden ones to match -- in their bag. It didn't take long to expose the fraud, earning us the nickname of the Nutmeg State, known by all as clever, if ethically challenged, people. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 3, 2017 • 50min
Life After Death: Science, Speculation And Skepticism
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.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 2, 2017 • 50min
Our Year Of Unexpected Outcomes
On May 2, 2016, with a 2-2 draw between Tottenham and Chelsea, Leicester City clinched the league title for the first time in their 132-year history. The BBC called it "one of the greatest sporting stories of all time." Leicester were 5,000-to-1 underdogs before the Premier League season started.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 30, 2017 • 49min
The Scramble: Climate Change Reporting, Gail Sheehy, Wax Worms
This weekend's Peoples Climate March against the Trump Administration's rollback of Obama era environmental policies coincided with more alarming news about arctic melt, rising oceans, and the EPA's removal of climate science information.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
