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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

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Former Senator Joe Lieberman believes the best seat...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/12/07

Former Senator Joe Lieberman believes the center of Congress is the best place from which to legislate. It’s the sweet spot for negotiation and compromise and making the deals that move the country forward. He thinks Congress would get more done if members would shift closer to the center and away from the fringe. But how do you bring legislators in today’s Congress together when they don’t all share one set of facts? And at what point does centrism become opportunism and the

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What we know about the omicron variant, cute cat...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/12/06

This hour, we talk about an assortment of topics. First, the omicron variant has been found in at least 16 states. We’ll learn about the latest with COVID-19 and this new variant. Then,we’ll get tips for how to think critically. Finally,why cute cat videos have been used to spread misinformation online. GUESTS: Dr. Leana Wen- An emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University. She is a CNN medical analyst and contributing columnist for The Washington

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The Nose looks at (all 468 minutes of) ‘The Beatles:...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/12/03

This week, The Nose was a frying pan. The Beatles: Get Backis a three-part Disney+ docuseries produced and directed by Peter Jackson. It’s made from material originally captured for a 1970 documentary of the making ofLet It Be. Jackson has called it “a documentary about a documentary.” Originally conceived as a feature film,The Beatles: Get Backwas ultimately released last weekend as three episodes totaling nearly eight hours. Some other stuff that happened this week, give or

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49:00

Don’t worry. We’ve got enough maple syrup. But beyond...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/12/02

From toilet paper shortages, to delayed shipping and low product inventories, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on our global supply chains. This hour we look at what’s going on, and how supply chain disruptions have impacted truck drivers and secondhand stores. Plus, why you don’t have to worry about maple syrup shortages any time soon, thanks to a Canadian maple syrup reserve. GUESTS: Terry Esper- Associate Professor of Logistics in the Department of Marketing and Logistics at

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49:00

We take your calls. Ask (or tell) us anything

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/12/01

We’ve been doing these shows most weeks where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. The last few times, we haven’t even started with the suggestion of a topic that your calls might, potentially, be about. And those shows have been fun. So we’re doing that again. In other words: Give us a call during the 1 p.m. EST hour about anything at all. 888-720-9677. Or join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to

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50:00

Sly like a (domesticated) fox

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/30

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, a look at the history and progress of this still-ongoing experiment: What can it tell us about our animal companions — and ourselves? Plus, we catch up with some domesticated fox owners and find out if

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A Monday in the park. Our tribute to Sondheim and his...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/29

Stephen Sondheim was, put simply, among the most important figures in the history of musical theater. His major works include West Side Story, Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods. Sondheim won eight Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, an Oscar, eight Grammy Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and the Presidential Medal of

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The Poet Laureate of Rock ’n’ Roll at 80

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/24

Bob Dylan turned 80 years old in May. His first album, 1962’s Bob Dylan, is in its 60th year on record store shelves. We’re at a point where, for most of us, there has simply never been a popular culture in which Dylan wasn’t a towering figure whose influence seems to touch, well, everything. This hour, a look at Bob Dylan at 80. GUESTS: Noah Baerman - A pianist, composer, and educator Fred Bals - Hosted theDreamtimepodcast, coveringTheme Time Radio Hour with Your Host, Bob

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The enduring appeal of boy bands, from ‘Bye Bye Bye’...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/23

From New Kids on the Block to *NSYNC to One Direction, boy bands have been a staple of popular music for decades. This hour, a look at the history — and future — of boy bands. GUESTS: Brad Fischetti- The surviving member of LFO Aja Romano - A culture staff writer for Vox Maria Sherman- Author of Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which

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Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ at 50

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2021/11/22

Joni Mitchell’s album Blue turned 50 this year. It may not have the artistic sophistication of her later albums, but Mitchell’s vulnerability endeared her to fans, if not early critics unused to such intimate storytelling. That was okay with Mitchell. She said her “music is not designed to grab instantly. It’s designed to wear for a lifetime, to hold up like a fine cloth.” She was right. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Blue the third-greatest album on its 2020 list of

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The Nose looks at Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well,’ ‘The...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/19

This week, The Nose is lightning with the blam blams. First: Taylor Swift’s new 15-minute film for the new 10-minute version of her old five-minute song “All Too Well.” Swift played all of “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” in front of some of the film live on Saturday night. It is now the longest song anyone has ever performed on SNL. And then: The Problem with Jon Stewart is a “late night” show that “airs” every other Thursday on AppleTV+. It

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Who’s running for president in 2024? Why isn’t there...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/18

It’s a smorgaspourri of disparate topics this hour. First: Who will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2024? President Biden says he’ll run, and being that he’s supposed to still be president in 2024, that would make sense. But not everyone believes him. So then you’d have to figure Vice President Harris, right? Well,there are some questions about that theory too. And then:Why isn’t there a COVID vaccine for pets?Dogs and cats both get COVID from people. Lots of

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49:57

Occam's razor makes the case for simplicity in a...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/17

Occam's razor states that "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.” This hour is all about Occam’s razor: where the principle came from, how it impacts science, its role in medicine, and how it shapes our daily lives. GUESTS: Johnjoe McFadden-Author of “Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe.” Kurt Andersen- Co-founder of Spy Magazine and he was the host and co-creator of Studio 360; his newest book is “Evil Geniuses: The

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Scientists confirm existence of woo-woo. Woo-woo...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/16

Between all we know to be true and all we know to be false lies a world of woo. “Woo-woo,” to use the full term, refers to ideas considered irrational or based on extremely flimsy evidence or that appeal to mysterious occult forces or powers. But who decides what’s woo-woo, and what gets accepted into the hallowed halls of scientific truth? The easy answer is that scientists decide. But the answer becomes harder when we remember that it was scientists who once deemed the world to

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49:00

We take your calls. Ask (or tell) us anything

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/15

We’ve been doing these shows most weeks where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. The last few times, we haven’t even started with the suggestion of a topic that your calls might, potentially, be about. And those shows have been fun. So we’re doing that again. In other words: Give us a call during the 1 p.m. EST hourabout anything at all. 888-720-9677. Or join the conversation onFacebookandTwitter.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee

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Here be dragons

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/12

Dragons have captured our imagination going back to the Greek and Roman Empires when the skeletal bones of dinosaurs fed the myths we still believe today. And those myths show up in our most popular popular culture today – in the Harry Potter books and movies, in Tolkien’s Middle-earth books and movies, in George R. R. Martin’s Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion. This hour, a look at dragons from the ancients through Game of Thrones. GUESTS: Cressida Cowell - Author of the How to Train

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Toad’s Place and the Shaboo Inn had a magic in the...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/11

Toad’s Place and The Shaboo Inn were part of a magical era for music in Connecticut in the 1970s and ’80s. It was a time when small music venues had a symbiotic relationship with fans and could lure thousands of rock, blues, and hip-hop superstars like Bruce Springsteen, Muddy Waters, and Cardi B to their stages. Local arts papers, FM radio, two huge coliseums, a less fragmented music industry, and plenty of college students from places like Yale and UConn who wanted cheap drinks and

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49:53

Operators are standing by! A show about infomercials

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/10

The inconic inventor and pitchman Ron Popeil died July 28. He was 86 years old. This hour, we listen back to the 2016 show we did with Popeil on the form he perfected: the infomercial. The Thighmaster, the Chop-O-Matic, the George Foreman Grill, and the Clapper… products which are all part of American consumer culture and which were all introduced through infomercials. But as online shopping increases and traditional television watching decreases, what will become of celebrity pitchmen like

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50:04

The Meta Formerly Known as Facebook. Rebranding in...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/09

Philip Morrisbecame Altria. Apple Computer became Apple. Radio Shack became The Shack (and then went bankrupt). The New Britain Rock Catsmoved to Hartford and became the Yard Goats. Tribune Publishing Co. became Tronc (and then became the Tribune Publishing Co. again). Dunkin’ Donutsbecame Dunkin’. The Washington Redskins became the Washington Football Team. Last month, Facebookbecame Meta. And next year, the Cleveland Indians will become the Cleveland Guardians and the Washington

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Architecture vs. humans. Why do architects sometimes...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/11/08

Over the past few weeks, there has been a debate surrounding Munger Hall, a dorm designed by billionaire Charles Munger to house over 4,000 students on the University of California, Santa Barbara’s campus. The design has been criticized because of the lack of windows in most rooms, and concerns over fire safety. This hour, inspired by that debate, we discuss architecture that makes humans feel bad, and the ethics of architecture. GUESTS: Mark Pasnik-Architect at OverUnder, Professor at

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