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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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Finding The Soul Of The Republican Party; And,...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2021/01/04

President Trump kept Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on the phone for an hour Saturday, using a combination of cajoling, lies, and threats to encourage him to“find” enough votesto overturn the election. All 10 living former defense secretaries stressed in anop-ed for the Washington Postpublished yesterday that: “The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and

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50:00

The Best Jazz Of 2020

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/31

To round out the year, we round up the best jazzofthe year. We've done this every yearforatleastthelastsevenyears. Here are our 2020 picks: "Kurinji" by Jen Allen featuring Kris Allen, Marty Jaffe, and Kush Abadey, fromSifting Grace "The Sidewinder" by Artemis, fromArtemis "Dream Without Me" by Noah Baerman & Friends, fromLove Right "Inner Child" by Chris Dingman featuring Linda May Han Oh and Tim Keiper, fromEmbrace "The Well" by Endless Field, fromAlive in the Wilderness "AKA Reggie" by Wayne

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49:00

The Nose Says Goodbye To 2020

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/30

2020 was … not great. But, from a pop culture point of view, it wasn't so bad either. I mean, we gottheHamiltonmovie,The Queen's Gambit, the final season ofSchitt's Creek,David Byrne's American Utopia, theBorat sequel, "WAP,"I May Destroy You,Tiger King, two newTaylor Swiftalbums,Ma Rainey's Black Bottom… The list goes on. This hour, The Nose looks back at the year in pop culture that was 2020. Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: French designer Pierre Cardin,

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48:30

The Battle For Butter

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/27

We tend not to think much about that pat of butter we put on our morning toast, including how the store-bought sweet cream butter we're eating likely pales in comparison to the rich, nutty flavor of the cultured butter not found in many stores. Nor, do we think about butter sculpture, butter bogs, pleasure dairies, or the dairymaids, those once respected and well-paid artisans and economic powerhouses of our nations earliest days. We definitely don't think about the nationwide 'war'between

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50:00

Our 2020 Holiday Spectacular With 'Big Al' Anderson,...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/24

Toward the end of every year since 2014, we've picked a day and put "Big Al" Anderson, Jim Chapdelaine, and Colin in a room together, sung some songs, told some stories, and wound up with some sort of a holiday special. The "in a room together" part of that is essential…and just not going to happen in 2020. So, in lieu of doing a new show with Al and Jim, this year we've gone through all six of the previous shows we've done and pulled out some of the best songs -- 11 of them, no less -- and

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49:00

The Nose Hasn't Happened Yet: 'Ma Rainey's Black...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/23

Primary tabs View(active tab) Edit The Nose Hasn't Happened Yet: 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' And 'Tenet'ByJONATHAN MCNICOL•1 HOUR AGOThe Colin McEnroe ShowShareTweetEmail Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Viola Davis, Michael Potts, and Glynn Turman in 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.'NETFLIX, INC. Ma Rainey's Black Bottomis George C. Wolfe's film adaptation of the August Wilson play. It stars Viola Davis in the title role and Chadwick Boseman in his final film performance, and it's available to

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50:00

Kurt Andersen On The Unmaking Of America

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/22

Kurt Andersen's last book,Fantasyland, looks at America's "centuries-old weakness for the untrue and irrational, and its spontaneous and dangerous flowering since the 1960s" and how it got us where we are today. His new book,Evil Geniuses, is a kind of sequel, a companion. It's a parallel history, really, that looks more closely at "the quite deliberate reengineering of our economy and society since the 1960s." This hour, public radio great Kurt Andersen on "the unmaking of America." GUEST: Kurt

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49:00

America's Defenses Are Being Tested By Cyberattacks...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/21

It could be months or years before the US government knows the full extent oflast week'ssophisticatedcyberattackthat targeted private tech and security companies andfederal agenciesliketheEnergy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration. President Trump dismissed the significance of the attack, tweeting that "everything was under control." He refused to criticize Russia for the attack, claimed without evidence that it could be China, andcontradictedSecretary of State Mike Pompeo's

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42:00

We Like To Watch

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/18

For decades, we didn't take television seriously. We saw it as ephemeral, as "chewing gum for the eyes," as, literally, furniture. And then, around the turn of the century, things started to change. There wasThe Sopranos.The Wire. And, at the same time, shows likeBig BrotherandThe Amazing Race. For Emily Nussbaum, it wasBuffy the Vampire Slayerthat forever changed her take on television. This hour: A serious appraisal of television withThe New Yorker's television critic. GUEST: Emily Nussbaum-

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49:00

(Un)Erasing Native American Culture

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/17

Native Americans exerted theirpolitical powerin the 2020 election. A record-breaking six Native-Americans were elected to Congress and Native American votestipped the scalesin Arizona - which went blue for only the second time in seventy years. And U.S. RepresentativeDeb Haaland(D-NM) is on President-elect Biden's short list to be Secretary of the Interior. Native Americans made big gains in the 2020 election. Yet, Native Peoples are still largely invisible in American culture. Centuries of

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42:00

Considering Kubrick

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/16

2001: A Space Odyssey.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.A Clockwork Orange.The Shining.Full Metal Jacket.Spartacus.Eyes Wide Shut. This hour, a careful consideration of the filmmaker Steven Spielberg called "the best in history": Stanley Kubrick. GUESTS: James Hanley- Co-founder of Cinestudio at Trinity College David Mikics- Author ofStanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker Lila Shapiro- Senior reporter atNew Yorkmagazine andVulture, where she published "What I Learned

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47:56

An Ode To Yodeling

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/15

What is yodeling, anyway? Some consider it singing, some say it's an ululation, and still others consider it merely a means to herd animals. Whatever yodeling is, one's thing clear: Yodeling has been around for thousands of years and shows no signs of disappearing. This hour we speak with a musicologist, a DJ, and a professional singer about this age-old vocal practice. We'll trace yodeling's history from its humble, utilitarian roots to its place in modern day pop music and beyond. GUESTS: Bart

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49:03

President Trump's Failed Coup; The Voice Of America...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/14

Each state's slate of electors will cast their votes for president and vice-president today. President Trump won't win today. Nor will he win in the final Congressional certification on January 6, despite talk among some Republican legislators about plans for some type ofelectoral coupduring the final vote count. Trump and his supporters are retreating deeper and deeper into an alternate reality where they can collectively will things to be the way they want them to be. At some point, Americans will

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The Nose Has Never Not Been Fired

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/11

Mankis David Fincher's feature film portrayal of the writing ofCitizen Kane. Gary Oldman plays the title character andKanescreenwriter, Herman J. Mankiewicz.Mankhit Netflix last Friday, and it's already got lots of Oscar buzz. The Godfather: Part IIIis a movie that was actually nominated for seven Oscars 30 years ago (it didn't win any), and it's the third film in a series that had already won nine Academy Awards, including two Best Pictures.Part III, though, has always been thought of relatively

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49:00

How Will We Know If Society Is On the Verge Of Collapse?

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/10

Are we on the verge of societal collapse? We tend to worry about the big explosive stuff like nuclear war, asteroids, and solar flares when we consider end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenarios. The reality is that most "fallen" civilizations gradually decline over many decades with a banality that can barely register. We often remember the decline of civilizations as the fault of poor leaders or natural disasters but it's more like death from a thousand cuts from conditions like inequality,

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From Winner To Champion, From Champion To Dynasty

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/09

Seventeen AFC East championships. Nine Super Bowl appearances. Six Lombardi trophies. Twenty seasons pairing maybe the greatest head coach in the history of the NFL with maybe the greatest quarterback in the history of the NFL. At the same time, there are words like "spygate." "Deflategate." And even "solicitation in Florida." This hour, a look at one of the all-time great (and all-time most divisive) sports dynasties: the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick/Robert Kraft New England Patriots. GUEST: Jeff

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A Look At Logic Puzzles (Like Sudoku!)

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/08

In May, I discovered (along withthe restoftheinternet) a video on YouTube of a guy in his loft in Surrey, England ...solving a Sudoku puzzle. It was intense, a roller-coaster ride, and, ultimately, sublime. Those are not words you might expect someone to use to describe watching a stranger solve a little number puzzle, but here we are. Since I found that video, I've watched that YouTube channel,Cracking the Cryptic, practically every day. Sometimes the videos are riveting. The rest of the time,

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The Return of Decency; Vaccine Caution; And, A Run On...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/07

Roger Cohen, a former columnist and current Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, longs fora return to decency- a moral shift away from a Trump Presidency characterized by retreat, self-obsession, and a lack of respect for truth or decency. He welcomes the tenor he anticipates President-elect Biden will bring to the White House, but cautions against a return to the status quo. Too much has changed that still threatens liberalism and the Western alliance. Also this hour: The Trump Administration

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The Nose Thinks Schenectady Sounds Terrible, Even...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/04

Warner Bros. announced Thursday that all of its movies for all of 2021 will be available to stream on HBO Max the same day they debut in cinemas.The movie theater chains see this as "doomsday for the theatrical experience." And:Three strange, metal monoliths having been discovered in recent weeks, one each in Utah, Romania, and California. The ones in Utah and Romania have since disappeared, and the one in Utah had stood undiscovered for at least four years before it was found. Finally:The Undoingis

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Fixing The Norms That President Trump Has Broken

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/12/03

The Trump presidency has exposed many vulnerabilities in the laws and norms that govern presidential behavior. His brazen disrespect demands action to protect against a future president who might build on Trump's playbook. President Trump has flouted norms against conflicts-of-interest and courting foreign interference, abused his pardon power, threatened nuclear war, used the office to attack political foes, the press, and the judiciary, and refused to concede an election that he lost. He's not the

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