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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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The Nose Got Bought Out By The Des Moines Register

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/31

ThisNeworSecondorThirdGolden Age of Television has been going on for 20 or 25 or 30 years now.Peak TVjust won't stop peaking. For decades,there's just been no way to keep up. But then…suddenly we've all got a lot more time on our hands in our houses. And instead of finally watchingThe WireandThe AmericansandHomelandand whatever else,we're all just rewatchingParks and Recfor the eleventeenth time. And, hey, whoa:The New York TimesboughtSerialproductions. And finally:I May Destroy Youis a BBC

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The Decimation Of The Osage Nation

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/31

Native Americans have been getting forced off their land for a long time. Although Thomas Jefferson promised they shall know the United States as only "friends and benefactors," he forced them from their ancestral home in 1804 after he signed the Louisiana Purchase. Assured by the government that Kansas territory would be theirs forever, they were soon forced from their new home by white settlers (including the Wilder family ofLittle Housefame) who plundered their burial sites and squatted on their

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You Didn’t Ask To Be Here: Adventures In Antinatalism

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/29

Colin McEnroe Showalum Chion Wolf has a new show:Audacious. Hear this guest episode from her series! Last year,a 28-year-old guy in Mumbai tried to sue his parents -- who are both lawyers -- for having brought him into the world. He claims his parents didn’t get his consent to live. In addition to being a very bold person, he is an anti-natalist. That is, he believes that it is morally wrong to bring sentient life into this world -- no matter how charmed or how troubled that life is -- and

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49:00

America Loves Its Heroes

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/28

How we define what it means to be a hero depends a lot on the values shared by the group that's in power at any given time. We're seeing it today in the push and pull over the statues of men whose values no longer reflect the values of a changing community. And time tends to wash away the nuance and complexity of heroes that stand as a symbol of a prior generation. Yet, America loves its heroes, even if only for a time. But we have a way of usingthe language of "heroism"to sacrifice the very heroes

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It's Hard To Be Black In America. Still.

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/27

Race is a myth; racism is not. I'm stealing this line from Gene Seymour, one of our guests on our show today. We're reairing a show with three people who discuss what it's like to be Black in America. The show was originally in 2017. We chose to reair it today to coincide with the memorials this week for Congressman John Lewis, who will be the first Black congressman to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda, after fighting his entire life for social justice. And because the recent police brutality,

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The Glory Of Everything: Reading Kids' Books As An Adult

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/24

My son, Simon, is a year old. His mother and his grandmother are both librarians. His father is, well, me. Simon is, predictably, obsessed with books. Back before everything changed, we'd gotten into a pretty good reading routine. Every morning before Simon went to his grandparents', we'd read a big pile of books. Every evening when I got home from work, we'd read a big pile of books. We'd readGoodnight Moon. We'd readLittle Blue Truck. We'd readPeek-a Who?andPeek-a Moo!andPeek-a Zoo!We'd readWho

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Do You Speak Corona?

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/23

It took two years for the word AIDS to get from coinage to dictionary. It took COVID-19 thirty-four days. The pandemic has inspired a thousand new or repurposed words, slang, nicknames, and neologisms. It has changed the way we speak. We made technical medical language part of everyday conversation. We created new words to describe emotions that had no words. We repurposed old words or combined two words to express a way of life we never expected. Lockdowns. WFH. Pancession. Doomscrolling. We made

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A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/22

Historian Christine Sismondo says that "America, as we know it, was born in a bar." Taverns were where the Boston Tea Party was planned. They were where court cases were carried out, where land was bought and sold, where immigrants came to congregate. Over the centuries since, bars have fostered so much social change. And today, they're where we go to meet people, to catch the game, to talk about our problems, to relax. Or at least they were. Back when bars were open, back when there were games to

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49:31

Does Religion Still Matter When We Need It Most?

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/20

Religious scholarElaine Pagelstrusted the Gospel of Thomas to get her through the almost unbearably painful years after the death of her six-year-old son -- born with a congenital heart defect -- followed one year later by the unexpected death of her husband. Thomas was one of many hidden texts discovered in a cave in Egypt in 1945, written around the time of Jesus but omitted from the New Testament. Pagels's exploration of the secret gospels revealed early Christianity to be a mix of traditions,

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Coronavirus Is Still Rising, Biden Is Still Leading,...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/20

The number of people testing positive for coronavirus continues to rise in many parts of the U.S., withsharp rises in places like Florida, Nevada, Alabama, Texas, and Puerto Rico. Yet, President Trump continues to attributethe rise to more testing -- despite the rise in hospitalizations and deaths -- andhe wants to reduce federal aidfor more testing, tracing, and for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Also this hour:The ABC News/Washington Postpollreleased Sunday shows former Vice

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The Nose Has Got A Lot Of Brains But No Polish

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/17

Four years ago, over the course of three days, film crews documented the musicalHamiltonas performed by nearly its entire original Broadway cast. Eventually, Disney bought the distribution rights to the movie and planned to release it in theaters next fall. But then there was a pandemic, and people were stuck in their houses, andthe film dropped on Disney+ earlier this month. And:Kanye West is running for president. Unlesshe isn't. Butmaybe he is. Some other stuff that happened this week, give or

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Awake In The Middle Of The Night

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/16

Our ancestors viewed sleep as a highly sensual and transcendent experience. Today, about a third of adults have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep or feeling rested. We're becoming a nation of insomniacs. We live in what Rubin Naiman calls, a "wake-centric era,” where sleeping and dreaming are viewed as less important than being awake and on the go. It's hard to come down from the hyperaroused state we whip ourselves into by the end of a day. It's not surprising that we can't

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We Like To Watch

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/15

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. And now...the president is a TV character. This hour: A serious appraisal of television withThe New Yorker's

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A Perfect Storm: A Surging Virus and An Election...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/14

The number of people being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus is rising in 48 states. We're testing more, butthe rate of positive tests,hospitalizations, and in some states, deaths, is also rising. On Sunday, Florida recorded15,300 new cases, the highest single-day total to date. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported60,000 new casesin the U.S.on Monday. And we're seeing the same delays in test results and shortages of protective gear that we experienced in the spring. Should we be

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Walking With Dante

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/13

"Dante's Inferno" is the most famous section of Dante Aligheri's14,000 line epic poem,The Divine Comedy. But it's only the first part of Dante's long pilgrimage through the afterlife. He first enters the circles of hell, filled with beasts and sinners doomed to the Inferno for crimes like gluttony, lust, and treason. Dante slowly recognizes a glimmer of each sinner's fault in his own character as he makes his way through hell. His recognition of his humanity led him up the steep mountain of

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A World In A Grain Of Sand

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/10

Sand is the most abundant material on Earth. And, other than water and air, sand is the natural resource we consume more than any other -- more, even, than oil. The pyramids are made of sand. Our roads and driveways and sidewalks are made of sand. Concrete buildings and their concrete foundations are made of sand. From computer chips to computer screens, window panes to lightbulbs, breast implants to the Hubble telescope, sand is basically the essential building block of civilization. Humans are

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Silenced Nights: Curfews And Fear Of The Night

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/09

Over the past weeks, cities across the country have implemented curfews in response to George Floyd protests and to enforce stay-at-home orders during COVID-19. This hour, we discuss whether emergency curfews really keep people safer or become another way to intimidate and discriminate. Also, the history and wisdom of juvenile curfews and what it's like to protest after curfew. And we learn about early curfews across the pond during the British Empire. GUESTS: Roger Ekirch- The author of five books

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Bankers For The Stars: Deutsche Bank, Trump, And...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/07

Is it safe to say that we're not yet ready to kiss and make up with the banks whose reckless behavior led to the 2008 financial crisis? A little contrition would go a long way to helping us forgive and forget. That's not happening, at least not with Deutsche Bank, the preferred bank of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Deutsche Bank lent money to rogue states that funded terrorist activities that hurt U.S. soldiers. They laundered money for Russian oligarchs, sold securities they knew were bad, gave

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The Evolution Revolution: Women Call The Shots

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/06

The Argus Pheasant is a lifelong bachelor. He mates with multiple females but has no further contact with his mates or the baby pheasants he sires. By human terms, not much of a feminist. Yet, he stages a chivalrous courtship on moonlit nights on a forest stage he clears with meticulous care. He sings and dances and pecks. He encompasses his 'date' in a cape of intricately-colored four-foot-long feathers. He ends with a bow. Evolutionarily, there's no purpose for the spectacular feathers on the

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You're Not Dying. But Panic Attacks Can Make You...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2020/07/06

You're Not Dying. But Panic Attacks Can Make You Think You Are." width="100%">You're shopping for groceries. Out of the blue your heart starts to race, your knees feel week, you feel like you can't breathe, like you might be having a heart attack. You wonder if you're losing your mind -- but you're not. You're having a panic attack. About 1 in 4 people have had at least one panic attack during their lives, yet few like to admit it. Because panic manifests through physical symptoms that can mimic

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