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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

How Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman can help us...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/09/05

If you listen toThe Colin McEnroe Showregularly, you likely know that Colin has been influenced by two media theorists: Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman. Postman wroteAmusing Ourselves to Death, among other books, and McLuhan is probably most famous for the phrase "The medium is the message," in addition to other influential ideas. This hour, we look at the ideas of McLuhan and Postman, and discuss why they still resonate so much today. GUESTS: Bill Yousman:Professor of Media Studies at Sacred

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50:00

Beyond woods and roads: The life and poetry of Robert...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/09/04

You have probably encountered Robert Frost through his poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” or “The Road Not Taken.” But how much do you know about the man behind the poetry and the rest of his work? This hour, we learn about the life and poetry of Robert Frost and discover how he’s helped to inspire other poets. GUESTS: Sydney Lea: Former poet laureate of Vermont and the author of 16 poetry collections, seven collections of personal essays, and two novels Adam

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50:00

An ode to the sun

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/09/03

What can you say about the sun? It sits at the center of our solar system and has, over time, been at the center of religions, scriptures, songs, art, and countless other aspects of our culture. We’ve relied on its light, heat, and gravity for as long as we’ve been around, and we continue to find ways to harness its energy for our daily needs. This hour, we look at the place our sun holds kind of literally at the center of all of human history and ask what the future holds for our

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49:00

Rum raisin, Ryan Reynolds, flies grooming themselves...

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2025/09/02

We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing. This hour, the conversation winds around to Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Swift’s upcoming nuptials and the state of her relationship with Blake Lively, motives for murder, the grooming of flies, rum raisin ice cream, inside jokes and nicknames and things, quieting the monkey mind … Anything. (Seemingly) everything

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49:00

What’s wrong with men: A look at Michael Douglas...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/29

You hear a lot about the ongoing American crisis among men, among boys, around masculinity, right? You see lots of headlines about how we got here, what caused all this, where the crisis came from. Well, the cultural critic Jessa Crispin thinks we can all learn a lot about all of this by looking at … Michael Douglas movies. And I mean, that sounds like a show we’d do, doesn’t it? And so here we are. Crispin joins us for the hour. GUEST: Jessa Crispin: The author ofWhat Is Wrong

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50:00

Colin and Dylan tell you what the Song of the Summer...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/28

As the you sit contemplating the end of long summer days, you might wonder what might have been. What might have been if there was a song of the summer! The consensus is that there wasno Song of the Summer for 2025. To help fill that void in your life, Colin sits down with technical producer Dylan Reyes to form the public radio supergroup CG/WLM (cranky guys who like music) and talk about what they're listening to, and what song they think should have won the season. GUEST: Dylan Reyes:Technical

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49:00

Tangle's Isaac Saul has us look at both sides and beyond

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/27

The political newsletter Tangle approaches things differently than most news organizations. Each day they do a deep-dive on one topic where they lay out the facts, then give a glimpse of "What the left is saying," "What the right is saying," and then "My take," where an editor explains their opinions on an issue. The newsletter is the brainchild of politics reporter Isaac Saul, who joins us for an hour to talk through the latest news, his approach to reporting, and how we move forward in these

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50:00

The battle for butter

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/26

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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49:00

First Colin takes your calls and then Senator Chris...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/25

For the first half of today's show, Colin will take your calls about whatever you want to talk about. Then, it’s been a minute since Senator Chris Murphy joined Colin for a check-in on state matters and a chat about the weather in Washington. And we don’t think the senator has ever pulled up a chair to The World’s Most Important Table (™).Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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30:24

Senator Chris Murphy takes your calls and reflects on...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/25

It’s been a minute since Senator Chris Murphy joined Colin for a check-in on state matters and a chat about the weather in Washington. And we don’t think the senator has ever pulled up a chair to The World’s Most Important Table (™). Around 1:30, Senator Murphy joins us in studio.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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50:00

The Nose looks at ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ and ‘Alien: Earth’

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/22

This week’s Nose, guest hosted by comedian Shawn Murray, looks at: Highest 2 Lowest is the fifth collaboration between director Spike Lee and actor Denzel Washington and their first in 19 years, since Inside Man in 2006. It is an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural, High and Low, which is, itself, an adaptation of the Ed McBain novel King’s Ransom. It also stars Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky, Ice Spice, Dean Winters, John Douglas Thompson, Wendell

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49:00

What is culture without the guidance of critics?

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/21

This hour, we take a critical look at the role of art critics in our world. What is the status of criticism, and is it under threat? GUESTS: Naveen Kumar:Theater critic forThe Washington Post. He is associate director of the National Critics Institute, the leading arts-writing workshop for professional journalists. He has twice served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama Kathryn VanArendonk:Critic atVultureandNew York Magazine Matt Singer:Editor and Critic atScreenCrushand a member of the

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49:00

Why does "like" bother us so much?

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/20

The word "like" has been around for centuries, but it reached a new cultural prominence in the 1980s, partially thanks to Frank Zappa's song "Valley Girl." Since then, "like" has taken on a life of its own, inspiring strong emotions. This hour, we look at the meaning and evolution of "like." Plus, how movies like the now 30-year-oldCluelesshave impacted our language. GUESTS: Megan C. Reynolds:An editor atDwelland author ofLike: A History of the English Language’s Most Hated (and

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50:00

The unfolding evolution of origami

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/19

How do you make a 100-meter telescope that folds down to three meters so you can tuck it inside a space vehicle? How do you make a heart stent that folds out inside the human body? In each case, researchers have turned to masters of origami, the thousand-year-old art of paper folding. This hour, a look at how paper folding went from a quaint, simple hobby to an extensive form of art that can achieve hundreds of intricate folds. Plus: the ways origami is used beyond the art world, in mathematics,

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49:00

All calls: Why ABBA will never win the Nobel Peace Prize

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/18

We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing. This hour, the conversation winds around to the bilateral meeting in Alaska between Presidents Trump and Putin, the bilateral and multilateral meetings in Washington DC with Presidents Trump and Zelenskyy, our Mark Twain show, President Trump possibly one day getting the Nobel Peace Prize, ABBA possibly one day getting the

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48:59

What the golden age of Condé Nast can tell us about...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/15

Michael M. Grynbaum's new bookEmpire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America, traces the rise of Condé Nast's magazines. This hour Grynbaum joins us to explain how Condé Nast magazines and their editors achieved their status as cultural tastemakers, and where these magazines, and that industry, stand today. Plus, we hear from an editor atThe Weekabout how that magazine is approaching this moment. GUESTS: Michael M. Grynbaum:A media correspondent

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49:00

190 years after his birth, Mark Twain is as relevant...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/14

Chances are, you know Richard Thomas as John-Boy on The Waltons. Or maybe you saw him more recently in his many-episode arcs on shows like The Americans and Ozark. You might’ve even seen him on Broadway in Our Town or as Atticus Finch in the tour of To Kill a Mockingbird. He’s in town doing the very first authorized production of Mark Twain Tonight! since Hal Holbrook died. And John Jeremiah Sullivan has won the Pushcart Prize, two National Magazine Awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship

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50:00

One leg at a time: The history of women and pants

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/13

According to mytho-historical accounts, the ancient Amazons wore pants while riding into battle. But the trend this tribe of warrior women set was short lived. For nearly two millennia after their demise, the notion of women wearing pants was steeped in controversy. And while this controversy has diminished, it is by no means over. From the fuss over politician's pant suits to the unofficial dress codes which still pervade corporate America, there are indications that we've yet to move past old

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50:00

Smiling will get you everywhere

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/12

Smiling is a universal way to show happiness. But not all smiles are happy. In reality, we smile less for happiness than for social reasons that have nothing to do with happiness. That said, few things are more ingratiating and calming as another person's genuinely warm smile. But, maybe it's because a genuine smile is such a great thing that we're always looking for the false one. But we shouldn't assume that a smile that reflects something other than unadulterated joy is always a bad thing

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48:59

All calls: If you try to talk on the radio with your...

The Colin McEnroe Show ·

2025/08/11

We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing. These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we did another one. This weeks’ topics include the Statue of Liberty, comedy in New Haven and New York, what's going on in DC, state pension funds, NPR federal funding cuts, and more.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee

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