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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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49:00

Do You Believe In Ghosts?

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/10/01

A 2019YouGov surveysays that20 percent of American adults "definitely" believe in ghosts; another twenty-five percent believe they "probably exist." And, while no data yet proves it, there's a good chance thatquarantining at homeduring the pandemic has led more people to wonder where those nighttime creaks and groans are coming from. Some skepticssaythat seeing ghosts is part of the human experience and far too common an occurrence for everyone who thinks they see a ghost to be crazy. But there are

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49:00

The New Yorker's Alex Ross On 'Wagnerism'

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/30

Nietzsche called Richard Wagner "a volcanic eruption of the total undivided artistic capacity of nature itself," and Thomas Mann said he was "probably the greatest talent in the entire history of art." More than a thousand movies have Wagner on their soundtracks, including classic scenes fromApocalypse Now,The Blues Brothers,Bugs Bunny cartoons, andCharlie Chaplin. But, there's a reason Woody Allen says too much of Wagner's music gives him "the urge to conquer Poland." Wagner is nothing if not a

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48:00

Sex And Intimacy When Fat

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/29

We tend to focus on the physical ailments that can arise from being fat more than howfat shamingcan affect the mental health of people who are fat. Nor do we think of how our culture (and the media) perpetuate the notion that fat people aren't desirable enough for love and intimacy. That's flat-out wrong. Sex is a physical act that is deeply influenced by how our mind perceives desire. We first aired this show in 2014, so you'll hear some outdated references to Lena Dunham and Louis C.K. The

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49:00

The Latest Political Dysfunction To Emerge From The...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/28

At a news briefing last week, President Trumprefusedto commit to a peaceful transition. Now, we're all talking about it.Atlanticwriter Barton Gellman, gamed outworst case scenarios, the military discussedhow they would dealwith his refusal, and Republican colleaguespushed backon his comments. Has anyone told the President thatit's not his choice? Today, we talk about presidential dysfunction, Amy Coney Barrett and the Supreme Court, and Tuesday's presidential debate. Also this hour: Matt Lieberman

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49:00

The Nose Goes Up 'Schitt's Creek'

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/25

Listen live Friday at 1 p.m. The Nose has been contemplating covering the controversy around theThe Ellen DeGeneres Showliterally for months now. The show returned with a new season of new episodes this week, andEllen addressed allegations of a toxic work environment in her monologue. And: The CBC seriesSchitt's Creekhas been endorsed on any number of Noses over the years, but we've never actually covered it. But then, after itwon literally ever Emmy in the comedy categoryon Sunday (a feat no show

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49:00

Motels and RVs Are Enjoying A Renaissance With...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/24

One of the few silver linings of the pandemic has been a resurgence of interest in motels and RV life from a diverse group of millennials who want safe and less expensive options to travel and work during a pandemic. And motels and RV companies are trying to meet the demand with upgrades and amenities like flat-screen TVs, memory-foam mattresses, and free Wi-Fi. Some are turning to RV life permanently to travel, live, and work from where they want instead of being tethered to a desk and real estate

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49:00

Kurt Andersen On The Unmaking Of America

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/23

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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50:00

What About Bill? Bill Murray At 70

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/22

Bill Murray has starred in some of our favorite movies of the last few decades:Caddyshack,Stripes,Tootsie,Ghostbusters,Scrooged,What About Bob?,Groundhog Day,Ed Wood,Space Jam,Lost in Translation, all the Wes Anderson films, and so many more. He doesn't like managers or agents, and, rumor has it, he once agreed to play Garfield because he thought it was a Coen brothers film. (It wasn't.) And now, Bill Murray is 70 (!) years old. This hour, we talk with Robert Schnakenberg, author ofThe Big Bad Book

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49:00

The Supreme Court and COVID

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/21

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday evening,breaking the heartsof generations of women -- and men -- who have benefited from her work guaranteeing our rights toequal treatmentunder the law. That same evening, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that a Trump nominee to replace Ginsburgwould receive a voteon the floor of the Senate. By Saturday, President Trump was claiming he had an "obligation" to replace her, "without delay." The loss is larger than either man could understand. We

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49:00

The Nose Treats Its Grammys Better Than Kanye Treats His

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/18

Kim Kardashian and other celebrities "froze" their Facebook and Instagram accounts for one day this week "to protest the spread of hate speech and misinformation on those platforms." Meanwhile, Kardashian's husband had the strange sort of week that we've maybe grown to expect from him, but seemingly withmore public peeing in it than we're maybe used to. And:Cuties(Mignonnesin the original French) is the feature film debut of Senegalese-French writer and director Maïmouna Doucouré. The

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49:00

The Face Behind The Mask

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/17

We produced our first show on masks in the spring of 2020. It was when most of us were isolated at home to sidestep the life-threatening illness we've come to call "COVID." The show was about how rapidly masks had become a statement of political identity. The intensity of the mask battles has begun to calm as we've acclimated to the pervasiveness of masks in our lives. Like them or not, they're here to stay, and they've begun to leave a lasting imprint on our culture. This hour, we take a longer

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49:00

Some Fierce Thing Replete With Too Much 'Rage'

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/16

Bob Woodward is 77 years old. He's in his 50th year atThe Washington Post. And he just yesterday published his 20th book. Rageis Woodward's second book about the Trump presidency. Two years ago, on the day after the first one came out,we did a show about it. So we've gotten that band mostly back together again, and we've spent the last 30 or so hours cramming. This hour, a look atRageas a chronicling of our current history and as a publishing phenomenon. GUESTS: David Adams- Reviews editor

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The Politics Of Police Reform And COVID-19

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/14

Black Americans are more likely tobe infectedfrom COVID-19,be incarcerated,live in poverty, and/orbe killed by the policethan white Americans. It took a pandemic and the killing of George Floyd to crystallize those facts. Historian andNew Yorkerwriter Jelani Cobb looks at race, policing, and the difficulty of holding police departments accountable inFrontline's "Policing the Police 2020," a documentary that will air on CPTV on Tuesday, Sept. 15. It follows Cobb's 2016Frontline, "Policing the

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The Nose Is Thinking Of Ending Things

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/11

It's been a week of ending things, really.Keeping Up with the Kardashiansis ending after 20 seasons. Diana Rigg -- Emma Peel onThe Avengersand Lady Olenna onGame of Thrones, among many other things --died at 82. And, of course, people are trying to end the whole worldwith their gender reveal parties. And then there'sI'm Thinking of Ending Things. It's Charlie Kaufman's first movie for Netflix, and it stars Jesse Plemons and Jessie Buckley. It's based on Iain Reid's novel of the same name, which

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Racism In The Small Towns And Suburbs Of Connecticut

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/10

In the wake of resistance to Black Lives Matter protests against racial injustice in cities likePortland, Oregon;Kenosha, Wisconsin; and others, we decided to take a look at race relations in the small towns and suburbs of Connecticut. What we found was disturbing. In some ways, the show feels inadequate. I wish we could have included more of the many people who have experienced racist behavior in our small towns of Connecticut. We won't get to talk to a woman from Farmington who received

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50:00

VHS Will Not Die

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/09

Tracking, rewinding, ejecting, collecting -- VHS broke ground in home entertainment like never before. The culture of VHS and its enormous best friend, the VCR, were kings of consumer media for decades. Despite the last VCR and VHS being manufactured justfour years ago, videotapes are stillconsumed,collected, and in some cases,sold(!) across the country. But why? With streaming service giants like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney, giving us on-demand content with the push of a button and with Blu-ray

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50:00

The Philosophy And Psychology (And Physics And...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/08

In November, 2016, we did a show about all the problems presented by, well,a-holes. And so it seems only logical to expand our scope a bit and do a show about all the problems presented by, well,a hole. For instance:How many holes are there in a straw?Did you say one? Okay, cool. Then how many holes are there in a sock? (A relatively new sock, I mean.) You said one again, right? But how can both of those things be true at the same time? Or, put another way: What happens tothe hole in the donutas you

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49:00

The Nose Parties On, Dudes

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/04

Carole Baskin is going to appear onDancing with the Stars.And with that, I've typed the least surprising opening sentence in the history of Nose posts. And: WhenBill & Ted's Excellent Adventurecame out in 1989, Alex Winter (Bill) was 23 and Keanu Reeves (Ted) was 24. Winter and Reeves are now 55 and 56, respectively, but that seems to be no reason not to put out a third Bill & Ted movie, 29 years after the second one.Bill & Ted Face the Musicis now available on all your video-on-demand

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Imagining Hillary's Clinton Life If She Never Married...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/03

Hillary Clinton has spent a lot of time in the spotlight. We know her as a First Lady, a U.S. Senator from New York, President Obama's Secretary of State, a candidate in the 2016 presidential election, and as the wife of former President Bill Clinton. Yet most everything we know about Hillary as an individual separate from Billhas been filteredthrough the media, through PresidentTrump's Twitter feed, and through the manyconspiracy theorieslinked to her name. But after all the years of Hillary at

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Considering Kubrick

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/09/02

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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