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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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A Radio Show About Mimes? You Bet.

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/09/10

Mimes have been gesticulating their way into our hearts (or nightmares) nearly for forever. It may be that the legendary Marcel Marceau popularized the mime, but people have been communicating through movement since the very beginning. Today, characters in big-budget Hollywood movies and television shows routinely rely on pantomime techniques to create the on-screen characters we love. This hour, the past, present, and future of mimes. GUESTS: Doug Jones- A trained mime, contortionist, and

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A Tribute To The Proud And Peaceful Pigeon

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/09/09

B. F. Skinner thought pigeons were so smart they could be used to guide missiles during World War II. Heproposed a system in which pigeons would essentially pilot a missile. Skinner said pigeons could be trained to peck at a screen to adjust the trajectory of the missile toward its target. Project Pigeon was funded but never used. In 2013, New York conceptual artist Duke Reillytrained half his flock of pigeons to carry contraband cigars from Cuba to Florida and the other half to carry tiny video

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Star Trek: 55 Years Of Boldly Going

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/09/08

At 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 8, 1966, NBC aired the premiere of a new series calledStar Trek. The episode was “The Man Trap.” The star date was 1513.1, in case you’re interested in that kind of thing. I am not interested in that kind of thing. TheStar Trekcanon encompasses 10 television shows — 811 episodes, so far — and 13 movies. I’ve just never been into it. I tried to get into it for this show, but it didn’t work. But here’s the thing: It

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Bastards! A Look At Illegitimacy From ‘Game Of...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/09/07

The word “bastard” hasn’t always been meant to offend. Used simply as an indication of illegitimate birth at first, the label “bastard” didn’t bring with it shame or stigma until long after it first appeared in the Middle Ages. Today, while its original meaning has not been forgotten, its use is largely reserved for insult. Yet, ironically, the underdog status once associated with a person of illegitimate birth is now something our modern culture celebrates. From

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The Nose Is Important For The Health Of The...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/09/03

According to Vulture,TV’s white guys are in crisis, and specifically on a bunch of shows The Nose has covered:Kevin Can F**k Himself,The White Lotus,The Chair,Ted Lasso… Oh, andJeopardy! And speaking of TV’s white guys,Seinfeldis coming to Netflixnext month. Eric Deggans wonderswhy it hasn’t caught on with young peoplethe way shows likeThe OfficeandFriendshave. And finally:The Chairis a Netflix miniseries about the English department at fictional Pembroke University. It

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The Movies, Mysteries, And Marvels Of Christopher Nolan

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/09/02

In the 20 years since Christopher Nolan’sMementohit theaters, his movies have grossed more than $5 billion, earned 36 Academy Award nominations, and won 11 Oscars. His Dark Knight films helped spark the comic book movie renaissance we’re still experiencing, and his seventh feature,Inception, is the highest-grossing totally standalone live action movie ever made. This hour, a look at the filmmaker behindBatman Begins,Dunkirk,Interstellar,Tenet, and more: Christopher

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From ‘Bye Bye Bye’ To ‘Butter’: The Enduring Appeal...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/09/01

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 back at the history —and future — of boy bands. GUESTS: Maria Sherman- Author ofLarger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS Aja Romano- A culture staff writer forVox Brad Fischetti- The surviving member of LFO Join the conversation onFacebookandTwitter. Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.Support the

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The Search For What It Means To Be Alive (And Human)

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/31

“Life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution.” That’s the so-called “NASA definition of life.” Or there’s Russian-born geneticist Edward Trifonov’s take: Life is “self-reproduction with variations.” Or there’s “Life is an expected, collectively self-organized property of catalytic polymers.” Or “Life is a metabolic network within a boundary.” It’s said that, “There

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We Take Your Calls: Ask (Or Tell) Us Anything

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/30

We’ve been doing these weekly shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. The last couple weeks, 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 it again this week. In other words: Give us a call during the 1 p.m. EDT hour aboutanything at all. 888–720–9677. Or join the conversation onFacebookandTwitter. Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor

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The Nose Never Wears Shoes: Pumpkin Spice Lattes,...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/27

There is a longstanding tendency among tech CEOs to besort of performatively photographed with bare feet. Also: It’s gross. And: Washington Post humorist Gene Weingartengot himself into a bit of troublethis weekfor saying that Indian cuisine is based entirely on one spice. And and:Pumpkin spice lattes are back. Already. (Also: It’s 90 degrees outside.) And finally: Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain is, well, a documentary film about Anthony Bourdain. It’s available as a $20

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Exploring Climate Solutions

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/26

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a report detailing the latest scientific understanding about climate change. This hour, we learn about what’s included in that report. And, we’ll discuss some climate solutions, including carbon capture, oysters, and granting rights to rivers and lakes. GUESTS: Rebecca Leber- Climate reporter atVox David Bercovici- The co-director of the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture and a professor in

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Words That Shall Not Be Said

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/25

Profanity used to be about someone swearing insincerely to God. Then the Reformation came along and made profanity about sex and the body. Today, our most unspeakable words are areslurs against other groupsat a time when Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and cancel culture are driving our cultural narrative. This hour: the past, present, and future of profanity. GUEST: John McWhorter- Author ofNine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Foreverand host ofSlate’sLexicon

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New Thinking About Cavities, Smokey Bear Needs A...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/24

This hour, a potpourri of topics. First, some new thinking around dental cavities —are they really an oral microbiome problem? And, as we endure another record-setting fire season, scientists are wondering,does Smokey Bear need a makeover? Finally,what happens if we look at Earth as an exoplanet? GUESTS: Jaime Green- Associate editor ofFuture Tense Maggie Koerth- Senior science writer forFiveThirtyEight Jennifer Oldham- Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Support the show:

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We Take Your Calls: Ask (Or Tell) Us Anything

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/23

We’ve been doing these weekly shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. This week, we aren’t even starting with the suggestion of a topic that your calls might, potentially, be about. In other words: Give us a call during the 1 p.m. EDT hourabout anything at all. 888-720-9677. Or join the conversation on FacebookandTwitter. Colin McEnroe and Gene Amatruda contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee

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The Nose Won’t Be The New Host OfThe Nose Won’t Be...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/20

The Nose had planned to discussall the scandalsaroundJeopardy!executive-producer-turned-incoming-host Mike Richards. But thenhe quit this morning, so The Nose discusses that instead. And: Larry David (the real guy, not the TV character — as much as those are two different things)went off on Alan Dershowitzin a Martha’s Vineyard grocery store. And finally:FBOY Islandis HBO Max’s first reality TV dating show. It’s not the sort of thing The Nose would normally cover, which is

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The Humble Fly

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/19

There are thought to be about 17 quadrillion flies alive on Earth at any one time. That’s 17 million for every living human. They’re predators and parasites and pests, but they’re pollinators too. They help us solve crimes, heal wounds, and understand genetics and evolution. And they literally helpat least one artistpaint his paintings. Also this hour: A look at David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake ofThe Flyon the week of its 35th anniversary. GUESTS: Jonathan Balcombe- Author

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Building Utopia

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/18

Over 500 years ago, Sir Thomas More wrote about utopia. Since then, countless communities around the world have worked to create their own versions of a perfect world. This hour on the Colin McEnroe Show, we look at examples of utopian communities from around the world. GUESTS: Avery Trufelman- Host of the podcastNice Try! Akash Kapur- Author ofBetter to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville Samir Patel- Editor-in-chief ofAtlas Obscura Support the show:

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We Take Your Calls

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/17

We’ve been doing these weekly shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. This week, our plan was to forgo even starting with the suggestion of a topic that your calls might, potentially, be about. Just to see what would happen. But the situation in Afghanistan has drawn focus, and we should probably at least vaguely start there. But still: Give us a call during the 1 p.m. EDT hourabout anything at all. 888-720-9677. Or join the conversation

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Sly Like A (Domesticated) Fox

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/16

This show originally aired July 26, 2017. 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

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The Nose Wants 2 B Released Posthumously: Prince’s...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/08/13

Welcome 2 Americais a brand new, never-before-released full studio album of Prince material. And it’s the first one of those released after his death. That factseems to complicate things a bit. And: It’s not often that The Nose reads a book, but it has happened before, and it is happening again. T.J. Newman’s debut novel,Falling, has been a bit of a publishing phenomenon, having instantly entered the New York Times best sellers list at No. 2. The book is an airplane thriller, and

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