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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

Hang Tight. It's Almost Next Year.

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/31

Officials in the Trump Administration last week videotaped botha naturalization ceremonyheld at the White House and anHUD official's interviewwith four New York City tenants on housing conditions. They then played selected parts from each video at the Republican National Convention without the knowledge of the participants. The CDCupdated testing guidelineslast week to say that people who have been exposed to the virus but who don’t have symptoms or underlying risk factors, don't necessarily

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The Nose's Bookshelf Is Just A Bunch Of Copies Of...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/28

This week,the NBA, the WBNA, MLB, MLS,tennis, andeventually the NHLall postponed games and matches in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. And: A Tweet listing the "Top 7 Warning Signs In a Man's Bookshelf" -- including "Too Much Hemingway," you see -- caused a bit of a fuss on the Twitter. And finally:Atlanticsis the directorial debut of actress and writer Mati Diop. It premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it was the first movie directed by a Black woman ever

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48:58

The Placebo Effect

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/28

Placebo treatments have been making people feel better for a long time. They've been working since long beforeFranz Mesmerwas run out of 18th-century Vienna for "mesmerizing" a young pianist into regaining her eyesight, after all hope for a medical cure had been lost. Doctors have long dismissed the placebo effectas inferior to conventional medical treatments that sometimes fail where placebo works well,including insurgical procedures like arthroscopy, a popular procedure that relieves the pain of

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49:00

Trumpism Is The Loyal Child of McCarthyism

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/27

America has long been attracted tocharismatic demagogueswho master the media of their time to tap into America’s insecurities. Long before Donald Trumpdescended a golden escalator in 2015to announce he was running for president, anti-communist zealot Joseph McCarthy took America by storm. The parallels manywriters seebetween President Trump and Senator Joe McCarthy are not coincidental. There's a flesh-and-blood throughline that connects the two. President Trump's former attorneyRoy Cohntaught

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49:00

A Look At Logic Puzzles (Like Sudoku!)

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/26

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 rollercoaster 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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50:00

The Secret Lives Of Numbers

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/25

Numbers are so fundamental to our understanding of the world around us that we maybe tend to think of them as an intrinsicpartof the world around us. But they aren't. Humans invented numbers just as much as we invented all of language. This hour, we look at the anthropological, psychological, and linguistical ramifications of the concept of numbers. And we look at one philosophical question too: Are numbers even real in the first place? GUESTS: Brian Clegg- Author ofAre Numbers Real? The Uncanny

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49:00

Two Political Conventions And A Pandemic

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/24

The Food and Drug Administration on Sundayauthorized the emergency use of convalescent bloodto treat people hospitalized with Covid-19. Sunday's decision comes on the heels of apresidential tweetthat may have put pressure on the FDA to authorize it prematurely. We talk about this and more news on Covid. Also this hour: The Republican National Conventionbegins this week,a few days after former Vice-PresidentJoe Biden accepted the nominationto represent Democrats in November's election. We talk about

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49:00

Swipe The Nose Like A Credit Card

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/21

The No. 1 song in the country --"WAP" by Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion-- seems to make just one concession to commercial decorum: its acronym title, which I won't be spelling out for you here. It's being called the "gloriously filthy song of the summer" and subversive "in almost every way, even as it plays with the limits of explicit expression." Speaking of troublesome songs: Does The Band's classic "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"belong in the same category asbits of culture likeSong

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49:00

Can You Spare A Quarter?

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/20

The pandemic has led to national shortages in testing supplies, PPE, and now,coins. We've been predicting acashless societyand thedemise of the pennyfor so long that we may be underestimating how much people still use coins in places like laundromats and coffeeshops, and the occasional parking meter. And about eight million households are "unbanked," and rely on money orders, pawn shops, or payday loans, instead of banks. So, where are all the coins? Also this hour: The world's earliest coins date

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49:00

A New Saliva Test; Politics At The Postal Service

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/17

The FDA on Saturday authorized emergency use of a rapid and inexpensivesaliva testthat could increase testing capacity.It’s quick, less expensive, and doesn't need the chemical reagents that are in short supply. It's also less sensitive than PCR tests. But public health experts believe thetradeoffwill save lives. We talk about that and more Covid-related news. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from their appointed rounds," remainsthe mottoof the United

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The Nose Knows That It's Going To Be Tired Tomorrow,...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/14

The Nose is worried about movie theaters. The pandemic has done such damage to the industry thatHollywood has started treating the U.S. as a second-run market. And nowthe Paramount Consent Decrees have ended. (We're not exactly sure what that means, but it's not good.) Is the future of movie theaters...Walmart drive-ins? And:She Dies Tomorrowis a horror-comedy-thriller written and directed by Amy Seimetz. It was supposed to premiere at this year's South by Southwest, which was canceled.She Dies

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48:59

Swamps: The Past, Present, And (Endangered?) Future...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/13

As President Trump talks about draining the swamp in Washington D.C., we turn our attention to actual swamps. Associated with death and decay, while also celebrated for their beauty and biodiversity, few landscapes evoke such contradictory sentiments as swamps. This hour we speak with experts about the surprising history, culture, nature,and politics associated with America's wetlands. We'll also talk with a woman who spent eight years of her life living in these inhospitable environments on a

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50:00

The Sweatpants Maketh The Man (And Woman)

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/12

"It is the rare person who doesn't own a pair of sweatpants." I am, it turns out, that rare person. Sweatpants are just too warm, is my take. But I do own a number of pairs of cotton pajama pants. They're my sweatpants proxy. Back before the pandemic became the central preoccupation of our existence, back when we made our radio show in, ya know, a radio studio, I would always get a little dressed up on my show days. I'd wear a jacket. Or a tie. Or a jacket and a tie. Now that we're all working from

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50:00

Happy Little Trees: The Joy Of Bob Ross (And Thomas...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/11

It's been 25 years since Bob Ross died and 26 years since hisThe Joy of Paintingwent off the air. But there are 52 episodes of the show available to stream on Netflix.Bob Ross and Chillis a thing. The403 full episodes available on YouTubehave accumulated something approaching 250 million views. And last summer,The New York Timesdida big Bob Ross investigation. This hour: a look at the undying force for permed hair and puffy little clouds and happy little trees that isBob Ross. Plus: Could we do a

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COVID; And, The Assault On Liberalism

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/10

As of this weekend, the number of people in the U.S. infected with SARS-CoV-2 topped five million, just sixteen days after passing the four million mark on July 23. This weekend'smotorcycle rallyin Sturgis, South Dakota portends that those numbers will continue to rise. Threepotential vaccinesagainst the virus have entered phase III clinical trials, in which safety and effectiveness is tested on thousands of healthy people. This stage can take months or years depending on how quickly researchers can

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49:00

The Nose Won't Make Assumptions About Why You...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/07

The Federal Communications Commission requires that The Nose cover each and every new Taylor Swift release*.Folkloreis Swift's seventh number-one album, and it's become, in just two weeks, the highest-selling album of 2020 so far. But rather than just spending a segment talking about the album... We came across a term that's new to us:cottagecore.Folkloreis, apparently, cottagecore. We're not entirely convinced that cottagecore is a thing, but we're covering it anyway, and we'll get toFolklorethat

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49:00

Two Hours With Songwriter Jimmy Webb: Part Two

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/05

Jimmy Webb was possibly the most successful songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s. Classics like "Galveston," "Wichita Lineman," "Up, Up, and Away," and "MacArthur Park" were recorded by hundreds of artists from Glen Campbell to Donna Summer. Webb wrote the songs that others made famous. Our team made the trek to Glen Cove, New York, in the summer of 2019 to meet Jimmy Webb and his wife, Laura Savini, at a recording studio near their home. Our adventure was well worth the trip. What we took home from

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Laura Nyro Was The Emily Dickinson Of American Pop Music

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/04

Laura Nyro's most famous compositions -- "Stoned Soul Picnic," "Stoney End," "When I Die," "Wedding Bell Blues," "Eli's Coming" -- are jewels of mainstream music, and her covers of songs like "Jimmy Mack" and "Gonna Take a Miracle" are legendary. But she was uncomfortable under the spotlight and withdrew from it to become the Belle of Danbury. This hour: a night of singing, reflecting, and celebrating recorded in front of a live audience on January 29, 2020, as part of Colin'sFreshly Squeezedseries

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Two Hours With Songwriter Jimmy Webb: Part One

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/04

We're reairing this show from September, 2019, when our team traveled to Glen Cove, New York, to interview legendary songwriterJimmy Webb. We waited a long time for this interview and it was worth every minute of the wait. It was a special day. We broke bread together, met kind people, and enjoyed a day of music and stories from Jimmy Webb's decades of making music. The day was not without adversity.A flat tire forced us to miss our ferry back home to Connecticut (and our dinner). We were hungry and

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49:00

To Bubble Or Not To Bubble: The Sports, They Have...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/08/03

Sports! There are sports! Baseball's back.At least for now.With almost all of the teams playing games. And only, ya know,two of themhavingbig COVID outbreaks. The NBA exists in a Disney World "bubble,"and it hasn't had a single test come back positive yet. The NHL is doing two different kinds of tournaments at oncein two different "bubbles" in Canada. The arenas and stadiums are empty and quiet, but for thecardboard cutout fansand thepiped-in crowd sounds. And the whole thing may well be a bad idea

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