The Colin McEnroe Show
Episodes
COVID; Polarizing Politicians; And The Cloning Of Elizabeth Ann
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. is about to surpass 500,000 deaths from COVID-19. That said, new cases are declining, hospitalizations and deaths&nb...
The Nose Has Always Been Much More Than Content: 'Judas And The Black Messiah,' Scorsese, More
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a new essay for Harper's, filmmaker Martin Scorsese criticizes the current state of the movie business and all these new fangled streamin...
Finding Humanity At The Sideshow
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cartoonist Bill Griffith based his legendary character Zippy the Pinhead on Schlitzie, a real life sideshow 'pinhead' who appeared in T...
Our Show Today Is Really Five Short, Little Shows
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We live in an "Everything Should Take Twenty Minutes" world. Movies are too long. SundanceTV has a show that airs in 10-minute episodes. Tie...
Our Collective Post-Impeachment Hangover
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Senate voted to aquit Donald Trump Saturday after falling shy of the two-thirds majority required to convict him. Fifty-seven senators, including&...
Impeachment 2.0; Fox Under Fire; The Lightness Of This Year's Super Bowl Ads
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As of Monday morning, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are still working out the details for the Senate...
The Nose Was Filmed Before A Live Studio Audience: 'WandaVision,' More
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
WandaVision is a Disney+ miniseries that's part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and that's set, like, inside the history of television...
A Non-Threatening Conversation About Jazz
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who's afraid of the Bix bad Beiderbecke? Hartford has an amazing jazz history, and Colin has a lot of jazz musician friends. This hour, a little onsta...
Digging Into The Roots Of Our Food
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We have a complicated relationship with our food. We need food to live; yet, we've become removed from the food we eat and how it's grown and processe...
Beyond Mark Twain: A Conversation With Hal Holbrook
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Colin interviewed Hal Holbrook on February 3, 2015, in advance of Holbrook's performance of Mark Twain Tonight in Hartford on his 90th birth...
How To Report On The Behavior Of The GOP; Trump's Evolving Defense Team
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some say the press continues to portray the Republican Party as a "mainstream, center-right entity," long after their words and deeds reflec...
The Nose Drives Alone Past Your Street: 'Pretend It's A City' And 'How To With John Wilson'
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Olivia Rodrigo's "drivers license" is in its second week as the No. 1 song in the country, having debuted there last week. It is the first debut ...
Running Toward The Fire
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Applications to nursing schools spiked during the pandemic from those who wanted to help. They chose to be nurses at a time when the risk to...
Our Lunchtime With André
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
André Gregory has directed and acted in the theater for more than 50 years. He has appeared in a number of movies, including Martin Scorsese's&...
Coronavirus Variants; A Very Catholic Inauguration; An Ode
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Moderna announced today they were making new versions of their vaccine that can be used as boosters against variants seen in South Africa, B...
Pardon Me: Season 2, Episode 2 -- It's Been A Good Week
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The House will transmit its Article of Impeachment charging former President Trump with "incitement of insurrection" to the Senate on Monday...
It's Time To Talk About The Alphabet In The Room
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most of the Western world is organized by alphabetical order, which is so much more than the 26 letters that make up the alphabet. Alphabetical o...
The Legacy Of COVID-19
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yale University's Dr. Nicholas Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of pandemic. He looks at historical epidemics and current medi...
The Nose Can Cut, Soothe, Delight, Frighten, Insult, And Seduce: Tom Cruise's COVID Robots, 'History Of Swear Words,' And More
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Cruise's seventh Mission: Impossible installment has been one of the few huge Hollywood productions trying to to figure out how to film ...
Pardon Me's Season Two Premiere: We Love You. You're Very Special. Go Home.
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Previously on Pardon Me (Another Damn Impeachment Show?): House Democrats voted to impeach President Trump on two Articles of Impeachment: "abuse...
Go Ahead And Talk To Yourself. It's Good For You.
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you talk to yourself? Is it a silent inter-narrative or do you talk aloud? What form of address to you use to yourself? When I'm mad at myself I so...
Is This The End Of Trumpism Or The Beginning?
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Wednesday's insurrection by Trump supporters at the Capitol was the culmination of months of Trump perpetuating the lie that the election was stolen f...
The Nose Is Preparing To Divorce Kanye West (Plus: #BeanDad And 'Bridgerton')
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend, a little girl asked her father for help opening a can of beans. Rather than help her, Bean Dad left his daughter to figure it out f...
Insurrection At The U.S. Capitol
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has gotten away with bad behavior since long before he was elected to the presidency. When faced with an election loss that he couldn'...
Congress Counts The Electoral College Votes, And We Take Your Calls
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As our show starts today, the U.S. Congress will begin the process of officially tallying the Electoral College votes in the 2020 elections for presid...
The New Yorker's Alex Ross On 'Wagnerism'
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nietzsche called Richard Wagner "a volcanic eruption of the total undivided artistic capacity of nature itself," and Thomas Mann said he was "probably...
Finding The Soul Of The Republican Party; And, Politics In 2021
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump kept Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on the phone for an hour Saturday, using a combination of cajoling, lies, and threa...
The Best Jazz Of 2020
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To round out the year, we round up the best jazz of the year. We've done this every year for at least the last ...
The Nose Says Goodbye To 2020
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
2020 was … not great. But, from a pop culture point of view, it wasn't so bad either. I mean, we got the Hamilton movie, Th...
The Battle For Butter
27 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Our 2020 Holiday Spectacular With 'Big Al' Anderson, Jim Chapdelaine, And Friends
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
The Nose Hasn't Happened Yet: 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' And 'Tenet'
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Primary tabs View(active tab) Edit The Nose Hasn't Happened Yet: 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' And 'Tenet'By JONATHAN MCNICOL •&n...
Kurt Andersen On The Unmaking Of America
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kurt Andersen's last book, Fantasyland, looks at America's "centuries-old weakness for the untrue and irrational, and its spontaneous and dangero...
America's Defenses Are Being Tested By Cyberattacks and Electoral Dysfunction
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It could be months or years before the US government knows the full extent of last week's sophisticated cyberattack that targeted ...
We Like To Watch
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
(Un)Erasing Native American Culture
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Native Americans exerted their political power in the 2020 election. A record-breaking six Native-Americans were elected to Congress and Nat...
Considering Kubrick
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
2001: A Space Odyssey. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. A Clockwork Orange. The Shining. Full...
An Ode To Yodeling
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
President Trump's Failed Coup; The Voice Of America Is Under Siege
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
The Nose Has Never Not Been Fired
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mank is David Fincher's feature film portrayal of the writing of Citizen Kane. Gary Oldman plays the title character and Kane scre...
How Will We Know If Society Is On the Verge Of Collapse?
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 conside...
From Winner To Champion, From Champion To Dynasty
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Seventeen AFC East championships. Nine Super Bowl appearances. Six Lombardi trophies. Twenty seasons pairing maybe the greatest head coach in the hist...
A Look At Logic Puzzles (Like Sudoku!)
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In May, I discovered (along with the rest of the internet) a video on YouTube of a guy in his loft in Surrey, England ... sol...
The Return of Decency; Vaccine Caution; And, A Run On Christmas Trees
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Cohen, a former columnist and current Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, longs for a return to decency - a moral shift away fr...
The Nose Thinks Schenectady Sounds Terrible, Even Phonetically
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Fixing The Norms That President Trump Has Broken
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump presidency has exposed many vulnerabilities in the laws and norms that govern presidential behavior. His brazen disrespect demands action to...
America Loves Its Heroes
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Mmmm Donuts
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Almost everybody has a favorite donut - even if you don't eat a lot of donuts. It's not so much about the donut as it is about how donuts bring people...
Mmmm Donuts
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Almost everybody has a favorite donut - even if you don't eat a lot of donuts. It's not so much about the donut as it is about how donuts bring people...
Politics, Religion, and Football. (No Peanuts Or Beer)
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are still living in two different realities. President Trump lost the election but still can't concede or admit it, and a high percentage...
The Nose Is Ready For Thanksgiving
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, President Obama twittered a list of "memorable songs" from his administration. The list was, let's just say, not necessarily well...
A Long Look at Losing and Lovable (and Loathsome) Losers
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As we were preparing for our show on underdogs, I kept saying that we shouldn't overlook the fact that, often, to be an underdog in the first pla...
America's Escalating Post-Election Madness
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We're almost three weeks past Election Day. Yet, President Trump and his evolving legal team continue to spew conspiracy theories intended to delegiti...
It Was A Dark Night In The City. Death Hung In The Air Like...
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A hard-boiled private eye, a glamorous blond, and a hapless drifter all sit at a bar on the seamy side of town. It's night, the streets are wet, the s...
Polls Are Like A Bad Mate. They Keep Letting Us Down.
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many of the poll results that drove headlines this election season missed the mark, even after pollsters spent the previous four years corre...
This Is 'Jeopardy!'
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeopardy! has been part of the fabric of American TV, in a couple different forms and across a couple different breaks, since 1964. It is the lon...
America Has A Pandemic Problem. The President Has A Legal Problem.
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The number of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 is rising in almost every state. America averaged over 100,000 new cases every day over the la...
Is Election Day Over Yet?
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
t's been eight days since Election Day. It's been four days since Joe Biden was projected to become President-elect Joe Biden. But we've still got&nbs...
Benedict Arnold: Unscrupulous Traitor or Unsung Hero?
14 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Benedict Arnold's reputation as a traitor instead of a skilled warrior and confidante of George Washington has become accepted history in the minds of...
The Nose Got The Boot For Putting Boots In The Boot
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The world has an Alex Trebek-shaped hole in it. Which raises a question: Who should fill said hole? Billie Eilish has a new single...
The Flap Over Flags
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the surface, a flag is a piece of cloth with pretty colors and designs. That's the thing with flags. They're often judged on their aesthetics,...
So. How Was Your Weekend?
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On most Mondays, we scramble around trying to put together a show reacting to the weekend's news. But being that nothing much happ...
The Truth About Lies
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the Speculative Service. He lives in the Golden State, the only place left in what was once America. Lasz...
The Nose Has Been Watching Some Netflix. What Have You Guys Been Up To?
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since nothing has really been going on lately, we figured we'd do an hour about the week in pop culture, as usual. The Nose is sad to see Sean Co...
Waiting For A President
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump campaign threatened legal challenges Wednesday, to force four states to stop counting ballots after Joe Biden's wins in the battle...
Uh. Well. Election Day Is Over.
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The one thing we knew for sure was that by the time we got to today, yesterday would be over. And it is. And we don't quite know what actually ha...
"Citizen Observers" Share Their Voting Experiences
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Colin McEnroe Show has an Election Day tradition of celebrating voters by inviting "citizen observers" from around the state to share their experi...
The Election Is Finally Here. What Happens Now?
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us are approaching Election Day with a mix of excitement, hope, and fear, as we live with surging numbers of coronavirus cases, threats of civ...
The Nose For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (on Amazon Prime)...
Is It Time To "Pack" The Supreme Court?
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of people are wondering if it's time to look at "court packing," and other court reforms, to address judiciary dysfunction that w...
Not Necessarily The Nose: The Year In Horror, 2020
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's our annual Halloween special! For this year, the script kind of wrote itself. We look at the way our current, actual horror is likely to affect o...
In Pods We Trust: How The Pod Prevails In Consumer- And Pop-Culture
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We wake up to coffee from a pod, listen to music through our EarPods from our iPods, drive our Smart cars and Fiats and other increasingly pod-shaped ...
America In The Middle Of An Election During A Surge In The Pandemic
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Trump Administration continues to downplay the pandemic, Vice-President Mike Pence campaigns even as staff members in his inne...
The Nose Turns Like A Wheel Inside A Wheel
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It has come to The Nose's attention that you can rent an entire movie theater out for just $99 and have yourself a slightly less pandemic-pa...
How To Secede From Belgium Without Really Trying
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Secession is in the air. Britain withdrew from the European Union, Scotland wants out of the U.K., Catalonia from Spain, and, wait for it, California ...
You Can Keep Your Socks On
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990's, the Southport Sockmen, otherwise known as Steven Bain and Steven Gawthrop, paid drunk people in Liverpool bars and clubs to give t...
Awake In The Middle Of The Night
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our ancestors viewed sleep as a highly sensual and transcendent experience. Today, about a third of adults have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep...
Trump's Ghostwriter; And, A Covid Surge
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump asked journalist Tony Schwartz to ghostwrite his memoir, "The Art of the Deal," because Trump liked the unflattering story Schwartz wrote...
The Nose Watches 'The West Wing'
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Burr hosted Saturday Night Live last weekend, and his monologue -- which included bits about wearing masks, cancel culture, white women...
Right-Wing Extremism
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic, coupled with Black Lives Matter protests, and incendiary rhetoric from President Trump, has riled up anti-government militias across the...
The Nose Has A Fly In Its Hair
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Undoubtedly, the thing that will most be remembered from Wednesday night's vice presidential debate is the fly that landed on Mike Pence's hair...&nbs...
The Myth Of Meritocracy
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The populist backlash that led to the election of President Trump was decades in the making. Like other populist leaders around the wo...
We Like To Watch
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Republicans And COVID; The White House COVID Tracker
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump was quick to downplay the pandemic upon his return from Walter Reed in a tweeted video encouraging people not to let the virus dominat...
The Serious, Subversive (And Sometimes Shocking) History Of Cartoons
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's been over 100 years since the first cartoons were drawn by hand. Since then, the form has delved into everything from sex and drugs to racial ine...
The Nose Needs Loyalty; It Expects Loyalty
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Nose had planned to discuss The Danish Girl star Eddie Redmayne standing up for J.K. Rowling and Rolling Stone updating t...
Do You Believe In Ghosts?
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A 2019 YouGov survey says that 20 percent of American adults "definitely" believe in ghosts; another twenty-five percent believe they "...
The New Yorker's Alex Ross On 'Wagnerism'
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nietzsche called Richard Wagner "a volcanic eruption of the total undivided artistic capacity of nature itself," and Thomas Mann said he was "probably...
Sex And Intimacy When Fat
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to focus on the physical ailments that can arise from being fat more than how fat shaming can affect the mental health of people who...
The Latest Political Dysfunction To Emerge From The Weekend
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At a news briefing last week, President Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transition. Now, we're all talking about it. Atlantic&nbs...
The Nose Goes Up 'Schitt's Creek'
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen live Friday at 1 p.m. The Nose has been contemplating covering the controversy around the The Ellen DeGeneres Show literally for mont...
Motels and RVs Are Enjoying A Renaissance With Millennials
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 saf...
Kurt Andersen On The Unmaking Of America
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kurt Andersen's last book, Fantasyland, looks at America's "centuries-old weakness for the untrue and irrational, and its spontaneous and dangero...
What About Bill? Bill Murray At 70
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Murray has starred in some of our favorite movies of the last few decades: Caddyshack, Stripes, Tootsie, Ghostbusters, S...
The Supreme Court and COVID
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday evening, breaking the hearts of generations of women -- and men -- who have benefited from her work ...
The Nose Treats Its Grammys Better Than Kanye Treats His
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Kardashian and other celebrities "froze" their Facebook and Instagram accounts for one day this week "to protest the spread of hate speech and mis...
The Face Behind The Mask
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Some Fierce Thing Replete With Too Much 'Rage'
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Woodward is 77 years old. He's in his 50th year at The Washington Post. And he just yesterday published his 20th book. Rage is Woodward'...
The Politics Of Police Reform And COVID-19
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Black Americans are more likely to be infected from COVID-19, be incarcerated, live in poverty, and/or be killed by the polic...
The Nose Is Thinking Of Ending Things
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a week of ending things, really. Keeping Up with the Kardashians is ending after 20 seasons. Diana Rigg -- Emma Peel on The A...