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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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42:00

Ted Williams: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived?

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/04/13

During his remarkable career with the Boston Red Sox, Ted Williams earned many nicknames: The Kid, The Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame... but the only nickname that he ever wanted was "the greatest hitter who ever lived." And maybe he really was?He's baseball's all-time leader in on-base percentage, and he's second behind only Babe Ruth in bothsluggingandon-base plus sluggingpercentages. He'sthe last guy to hit .400, and that was 80 years ago. And on top of all that, he lost close to five full

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41:00

Politics Is No Laughing Matter

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/04/12

Fox News broadcast the first episode of Greg Gutfeld's new late-night show,Gutfeld!, earlier this month. They're betting that Gutfeld can turn his talk show format into a successful late-night comedy show for conservatives. The problem is that conservatives don't do political satire any better than liberals do opinion talk radio. Dannagal Youngbelievesthat opinion talk is political satire for the right and political satire is opinion programming for the left. They serve the same purpose; both

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49:00

The Nose Misses The Office: 'Hemingway' And More

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2021/04/09

At Connecticut Public, there's a smallish corner conference room thing that we think of as The Crying Room. I, personally, haven't ever seen anyone cry in there, but I've had my suspicions. In any case, where people go to cry is part ofthe essential geography of the modern office. On the other hand,do we even have offices anymore? And:Hemingwayis a three-part PBS documentary directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. It premiered this week, andall 5½ hours are streamable now. Some other stuff

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49:00

Joni Mitchell: 'Blue' Turns 50

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/04/08

Joni Mitchell's albumBlueturns 50this 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. Shesaidher "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 Stonemagazine rankedBluethe third-greatest album on its 2020 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time," a

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50:00

The King: Before There Was Lebron, There Was Elvis

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/04/07

Elvis left two legacies. Musically, he pulled several American musical traditions out of the shadows, braided them together, and made them mainstream. Personally, he created a far darker template for the way a musical celebrity could be devoured by the very fame he avidly sought. Recorded live in front of an audience -- long before the pandemic hit -- as part of Colin'sFreshly Squeezed seriesat Watkinson School, an hour about the artist who defined the birth of rock and roll and was the genre's

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50:00

How Soon Is Too Soon? (And Other Classic Questions...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/04/06

humor = tragedy + time OK, but then the logical next question is: How much time? If it's OK, at this point, to joke about, say, The Spanish Inquisition... what about, for instance,the Holocaust? OrAIDS?September 11th? The#MeToo movement? ...Derek Chauvin? There's a line there somewhere, right? Or are some topics just never going to be funny? GUESTS: Mike Bent- Teaches writing in the Comedic Arts program at Emerson College, and he’s a performing comedian and magician Shawn Murray- A stand up

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49:00

We Want To Hear From You. Give Us A Call.

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/04/05

We'll be taking your calls during this hour -- and during more of our Monday shows moving forward. We'll still invite guests when we think it's important. Otherwise, we want to talk to you. Call us today at 888-720-9677 between 1 and 2 p.m. EDT. I'm not sure what you want to talk about today, but consider this: Nicholas Kristof, opinion writer forThe New York Times, complained that "America Is Not Made for People Who Pee." It's great that President Biden wants to rebuild highways, fix aging schools,

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49:00

The Nose Vs. 'Godzilla Vs. Kong' (Plus Other Stuff)

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/04/02

So celebrities and their giant water bottles:It's a thing, I guess. And then there'sthe ABC Carpet couches email thread. Plus:Netflix's dwindling, dying DVD library. And then:Godzilla vs. Kongis the fourth movie in Legendary's MonsterVerse. It's a direct sequel to bothKong: Skull IslandandGodzilla: King of the Monsters(2019), and it's the 12th King Kong movie and the 36th Godzilla movie, overall.Godzilla vs. Kong's theatrical opening (bothinternationallyanddomestically) has been the largest of any

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49:00

The Allure Of Advice

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/04/01

John Dunton started the first advice column in 1690. He called it theAthenian Mercury. John, a bookseller, and his four "experts" wanted to answer "all the most Nice and Curious Questions proposed by the Ingenious of Either Sex." One person wondered why they would trouble themselves "and the world with answering so many silly questions." But it was a hit. People have always beendrawn to advicecolumns. They're a public forum for private thoughts; they're communal, yet anonymous; they reveal human

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47:30

They Say The City Never Sleeps. Neither Do We.

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/31

Did you get enough sleep last night? If you're like most Americans,probably not. You might feel pretty good after six hours of sleep and a strong cup of coffee, but the physical and mental toll of sleep deprivation is high. We become more impulsive and less mentally agile, and we make more mistakes. Long term, lack of sleep (six hours or less per night) can mess with mood, hormones, and immune systems, and it can increase our risk for diabetes andcardiovascular disease. There arelots of thingswe

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49:00

Connecticut's Cartoon County

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/30

For a period of about 50 years, many of America's top cartoonists and illustrators lived within a stone's throw of one another in the southwestern corner of Connecticut. Comic strips and gag cartoons read by hundreds of millions were created in this tight-knit group --Prince Valiant,Superman,Beetle Bailey,Hägar the Horrible,Hi and Lois,Nancy,The Wizard of Id,Family Circus... I could keep going. This hour, a look at the funny pages, and at Connecticut's cartoon county. GUESTS: Bill Griffith-

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49:00

The First Dogs Are Home; And Other News

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/29

A number of media critics gavepoor gradesto reporters questioning President Biden at his first formal press conference last week. Is there a disconnect between what the media cares about, such as the filibuster and the 2024 election, and what people care about? Also this hour: An Amazon executive set off a firestorm after boasting on Twitter that Amazon was the "Bernie Sanders of employers." Workersweighed inon whether a company was progressive if workers felt they had tourinate in a bottlein order

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49:00

The Nose Is Stuck In A Canal: Cinnamon Toast Crunch...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/26

As with all weeks, it's been a strange week. First there werethe Cinnamon Toast Crunch shrimp tails. And then an enormous container shipgot stuck in the Suez Canal. And now there might beanother toilet paper shortage. Which would be bad for the Amazon driverswho have to poop in their trucks. Maybe it's been an especially strange week. Separate from all that:For All Mankindis Ronald D. Moore's alternate history of a world where the space race never ended. It's six episodes into Season Two on

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49:00

Pressing Rewind On Cassettes

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/24

On March 6,Lou Ottens diedin Duizel in the Netherlands. He was 94. I don't think I had ever heard of Ottens before, but the news of his death quickly filled my social media feeds. Ottens, you see, invented the compact cassette in the 1960s. There's a certain romance to the cassette tape, right? They'remore fun than mp3s, for sure. And it turns out they'rehaving a little mini resurgenceright now. Last year, cassette saleshit their highest mark since 2003. Some old, hard to find tapessell for crazy

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49:00

Forget Google Maps. There's Still Lots To Explore

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/23

After a year of pandemic, we're all itching to break from the restrictions of the pandemic. We want to travel and explore. It makes sense; we're hard-wired to explore. Our ancestors would not have survived absent the drive to seek food and safety from the dangers of the day. Safe and satiated, they later sought new lands to conquer and later still, to escape the constraints and cruelties of rapid industrialization. If the recent pandemic left you yearning to explore, you might be inspired by this

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49:00

Anti-Asian Racism, Religion, and 'Sex Addiction'

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/22

Last week'sviolenceat three spas in Georgia, followed a year ofescalating violenceagainst Asian Americans, some of it captured on videos that went viral. Despite visual evidence, New Yorker writerHua Hsu, writes that this current moment stresses the "in-between space Asian Americans inhabit." It's hard to prove bias when we lack a historical understanding of what Asian American racism looks like. The 21-year-old man who killed eight people last week, six of whom were Asian women, told investigators

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49:00

The Nose Needs To Go Home: 'Promising Young Woman'...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/19

It might just be that the pandemic is starting to wind down. Advertisers areanxious to act like it is. We're all maybeanxious to get some hugs back into our lives, or maybe we'll all just always be anxious about hugs. And: How does this all work forhalf-vaccinated couples? Plus: The Nose sees some parallels in thesexlessness of superheroes. And:Promising Young Womanis Emerald Fennell's feature-film debut as a writer, director, and producer, and it's made her an Academy Award-nominated writer,

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49:00

Our Hour With Lauren Oyler

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/18

Writer and essayist Lauren Oyler, joins Colin to talk aboutFake Accounts, her new novel on internet culture. They'll also talk about literary fiction, cultural criticism, ghostwriting, and her staunchdefense of semicolons, among other things. Lauren Oyler will be at the Mark Twain House & Museum, Tuesday, March 23, 7-8 pm. The event is free. You can register atmarktwainhouse.org GUEST: Lauren Oyler’sessays have appeared in theLondon Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times

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49:00

Our 11th* (Almost) Annual March Madness Show

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/17

Every year around this time, there's a big-old college basketball tournament. So every* year around this time, for every* year that this show has been on the air, we've put together a big-old hour of radio about said big-old college basketball tournament. Until last year, of course. Last year, we were right in the middle of getting this show together when quarantines started, when we closed our building to the outside world, when sports seasons were suspended and canceled, when we all suddenly

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50:00

An Ode To Obituaries And Obituarists

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/03/16

On the one hand, obituaries are an amalgam of a bunch of different kinds of journalism: they're feature stories, they're profile pieces, they cover history, and they're hard news too. On the other hand, the subject is always... dead. This hour, a look at the art of obituaries and obituarists. GUESTS: Kate Cimini- A reporter forThe Salinas CalifornianandCalMatters Vanessa Gould- Produced and directed the documentaryObit. Heather Lende- Obituarist for theChilkat Valley Newsin Alaska and the author

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