The Colin McEnroe Show

As we were preparing for our show on underdogs a few months ago, I kept saying that we shouldn't overlook the fact that, often, to be an underdog in the first place, you have to be really bad at the thing you're an underdog about.The more we talked about it, the more I found myself making the case that losers and losing are fascinating.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HBO's new limited series "The Night Of" is, we're pretty sure, the first psoriasis noir masterpiece.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No one likes a cloudy sky. A cloud on the horizon is seen as a harbinger of doom. We feel like clouds need to have silver linings.But here's our thesis: Clouds are unfairly maligned.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia -  and the ride has been almost as wild as last week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When we did our show on Romeo and Juliet a few months ago, Tina Packer invited us to come up to Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, Mass., to see her new production of The Merchant of Venice this summer. Colin said we'd love to; we'll come up there and do a show!It seemed like the sort of niceties that people often toss off on the radio.But it turns out they meant it. And so, so did we! So we went up and taped a show in the Berkshires with Tina and her Shylock, Jonathan Epstein.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ralph Nader is not happy with either the Republican or Democratic candidates for president. He says Republicans tolerating Donald Trump will look back and be ashamed and that Democrats chose a "deeply-rooted corporatist" and "militarist." In fact, he thinks the "two party tyranny" reduces the "voices and choices" of the people and we should all consider a third-party.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In January 2015, when it was announced that a planned new Ghostbusters movie would feature four female leads, internet fanbros went crazy. And then, this March, when the first Ghostbusters trailer came out, the internet fanbros went crazy all over again.And now the movie is finally out. (And guess what the internet fanbros did.)Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sepsis is always an emergency. But I bet many of you reading this don't know what it is. The CDC says there are over one million cases of sepsis in America annually -- many more globally -- and about 258,000 of those people die from it. It's the ninth leading cause of disease-related deaths and more people are hospitalized for sepsis every year than for heart disease and stroke combined. It's a major driver behind higher health costs.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Republican National Convention in Cleveland wraps up today following a speech by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author Ben Winter's latest work of alternative History, Underground Airlines, has been getting lots of attention in the short time since its release. Taking on themes such as institutional racism, social responsibility and personal redemption, the novel's relevance to today's top issues can't be denied.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.