The Colin McEnroe Show

President Obama has consistently refused to be a panelist on The Nose, but his appearance this week on "Between Two Ferns" with Zach Galifianakis has given us new hope!Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the second season of the Netflix series, House of Cards, the protagonist Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey, pulls out an old family typewriter, an Underwood of course, to write a pseudo-heartfelt letter to the President.Frank's father gave him the typewriter saying this Underwood built an empire. Now you go build another.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amanda Hess is one of our favorite social critics. She writes for Slate and lately, well always, she's thinking about the depiction of women in mass media, including a statistical disparity between the performances of men and women on Jeopardy. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Can great television be as satisfying as great literature? On today's Nose, we'll apply that question to HBO's True Detective. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the space of a lifetime, the status of gay and lesbian people in the United States and Western Europe has been transformed. So to watch a play like "A Song at Twilight," written by Noel Coward in 1966, is to journey back in time and then wonder how far, really one has traveled.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Minimum wage in Connecticut is higher than the federal minimum, $8.70 an hour instead of $7.25. In fact, the federal minimum is so ridiculously low that not many people are earning it. Maybe as few as 1.5 million, according to one study. So, what happens if it goes up to $10.10 an hour here, or less likely, nationally. Some minimum wage workers will tell you that is still ridiculously low, $15 an hour is more like it. And, there are movements to help fast food workers bargain collectively for that kind of raise.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's National Grammar Day, a time to take stock of the current status of the English language, and possibly get into bitter fights.I'm old school. I'm the kind of person who will only use "not only" if I intend to follow it with "but also." That's probably a convention that died the quiet death of a feverish sloth many years ago. But I know what's right, and sometimes it feels like I'm helping to hold the language together even as it drifts into chaos.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on The Scramble, one of our favorite writers, A.J. Jacobs takes us deep inside the world of modern ancestry research where websites are all  too happy to tell you that you're distantly related to Gwynyth Paltrow, Michael Bloomberg, Quincy Jones, and King David.  Those are all actual examples of people A.J. was told are his relatives. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have a question: Where does Adam Sandler watch the Oscars? Does he sit there with all the people who are actually up for awards, or is he home alone, with his baseball cap on backwards? Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Somehow, kale has become trendy in the last few years, although its moment in the sun seems to be almost over. How did a thing like that happen? Would it be possible to infuse an old standby like broccoli with a similar hip panache? Broccoli is the warmest vegetable, and the coolest.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.