The Colin McEnroe Show
Episodes
Memories of Watergate
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It's been over 40 years since former President Richard Nixon resigned the presidency over Watergate. But, the story of Watergate is almost impossible ...
How Creating A Color Created A Controversy
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nyctophiliacs rejoice! The color you know and love (black) is now blacker than ever before. And nevermind that black is not technically a color....
Pardon Me: Episode 11 -- Hang On A Minute, Lads. I've Got A Great Idea.
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On December 13, 2019, the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend two articles of impeachment against President Trump, and the full House of Repr...
The Nose On Valentighting, Snoop v. Gayle, And HBO's 'The Outsider'
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Outsider is a planned 10-episode HBO miniseries based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. It airs on Sundays nights, and we're six ep...
Fake News Feels Good (And Other Reasons Why Truth Is In Trouble)
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is real is no longer a question for philosophers alone. In today's world, it's a question we all contend with on a daily basis. Online, on televi...
New Hampshire Is Just The Warm Up. Are You Still Excited?
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Democratic primary season is just getting started. How have the results from the New Hampshire primary affected how you might vote? Bernie h...
Pardon Me: Episode 10 -- Acquitted! Or: Heading Down A Very, Very Dark Corridor
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Note: This episode contains strong language. This hour, we air an updated version of the most recent episode of our weekly impeachment show, Pard...
President Trump's Massive Disinformation Campaign; The Rise Of Michael Bloomberg
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Atlantic writer McKay Coppins says President Trump's reelection team is waging a massive disinformation campaign that uses the same...
It's The Somethingth Annual Noscars!
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We've done this show every year around this time for some number of years now. Unless we missed a year or two in there somewhere. But we've probably&n...
From Poverty To Incarceration To Redemption
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
William Outlaw is a natural leader. He's been a key figure in helping to lower New Haven's homicide rate over the last decade. He's a strategist and a...
A Tribute To The Proud And Peaceful Pigeon
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
B.F. Skinner thought pigeons were so smart they could be used to guide missiles during WWII. He proposed a system in which pigeons would essentially p...
Colin Is Taking Your Calls. We Miss You.
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Iowa caucuses descended into chaos after problems with a new app led to delays, mistrust, and renewed questions over whether Iowa should remain fi...
Colingram #4 — Monday, February 3, 2020: The Night They Drove Old Missouri Down
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a Colingram, a brief encounter with the host of The Colin McEnroe Show. We’re getting ready for an all-call-in show at 1 p.m. Tuesday di...
Colingram #3 — Friday, January 24, 2020: Requiem for a Legume and a Legend
24 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a Colingram, a brief encounter with the host of The Colin McEnroe Show, recorded on Friday while we all tried to figure out whether our stealt...
Colingram #2 — Wednesday, January 22, 2020
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hello again! And by “Again,” we mean that this is the second in a possibly infinite chain of Colingrams, a new concept in which the host o...
Colingram #1 — Tuesday, January 21, 2020
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Behold the first-ever Colingram, in which host Colin McEnroe chats briefly and possibly even engagingly about something of interest (to him anyway). C...
The Nose On Brad and Jen Together Again (Maybe) And Sam Mendes's '1917'
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Mendes's World War I drama, 1917, is currently the #1 movie in America. It won Golden Globe Awards for Best Director and Best Picture -- Dram...
Secret Government Mind Control Experiments (And Other Things Your Tax Dollars Paid For)
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Over the years, our government has been involved in some pretty shady affairs. After eugenics and internment camps but before Watergate and Iran-Contr...
Life After Death: Science, Speculation And Skepticism
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Life after death, in one form or another, has been examined by multiple disciplines for centuries: From theology, to physics, to philosophy, to ...
Pardon Me: Episode 6 -- One Nation, Under Insomnia
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, we air an updated version of the most recent episode of our weekly impeachment show, Pardon Me, which normally airs Saturdays at noon....
It's An All-Call Monday
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We like to open the phones and hear what's on your minds. We never know what you're going to say but we love that you call us to say it. Colin w...
The Nose On Megxit, The Joys (Or Agonies) Of Winter, And 'The Rise of Skywalker'
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Rise of Skywalker is the third and final movie in the third (and final?) trilogy -- the sequel trilogy in the trilogy of trilogies -- in the main,...
Ram Dass: We're All Just Walking Each Other Home
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ram Dass' 1971 book, "Be Here Now," was the gateway drug into spirituality for a lot of young people seeking answers in the era of Vietnam. Dass first...
Getting to Know Our Iranian-American Neighbors
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
America and Iran have not had an easy relationship since 1979, when 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days by students supporting the Iranian Rev...
'Tis A Show About Castles, Me Lord
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
They're in the books we read, the shows we watch, and the art we hang on our walls. They conjure notions of might, magic, romance, and more. Castles, ...
Pardon Me Episode 5: Jim Jordan -- The Vice Principal Who Haunts Your Nightmares
05 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Last month, we launched a whole other show. It's a weekly show airing on Saturdays at noon and hitting your podcast feeds on Fridays most weeks hopefu...
The Nose On President Obama's Year-End Lists And Greta Gerwig's 'Little Women'
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
President Obama's lists of his favorite books, movies, and TV shows of 2019 are out. They include a number of titles that are showing up on prope...
The Reality, Controversy, And Efficacy Of Modern Homeschooling
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The stereotypes around homeschooling have existed for decades. Since the modern homeschooling movement began in the late 20th century, those who favor...
Celebrate The Best Jazz Of 2019!
31 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2014, we've gathered some of our heaviest hitters in the jazz world to talk about the year in jazz. From concept albums to masked musicians to t...
We Take Your Calls
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
During this perineum week in-between Christmas and the New Year, we decided to take your calls. We thought about a lot of asking you to weigh in...
The Last Nose Of 2019 Is A Total 'Cats' astrophe (Not Unlike This Headline)
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cats -- the new feature film based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring James Cordon, Judi Dench, Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, an...
In Pods We Trust: How The Pod Prevails In Consumer- And Pop-Culture
27 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We wake up to coffee from a pod, listen to music on our pod devices, drive to work in our Smart cars, Fiats, or other increasingly pod-shaped vehicles...
Our 2019 Yuletide Celebration With "Big Al" Anderson, Jim Chapdelaine, and Nekita Waller
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Don't miss -- for what might just be the seventh year we've done this (though it might also be some other number too) -- a very badly planned Christma...
Christianity Today Calls For Trump's Impeachment; Purity Tests and Wine Caves; Origins of Christmas
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Christianity Today, an evangelical Christian publication founded by Billy Graham in 1956, published an editorial Thursday by editor-in-chief Mark Gall...
The Serious, Subversive (And Sometimes Shocking) History Of Cartoons
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's been over 100 years since the first cartoons were drawn by hand. Since then, the genre has delved into everything from sex and drugs to racial in...
Live From Watkinson School: It's A Very Exciting Time To Be A Word!
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When this forum was originally scheduled, it was intended as a conversation about how our language is changing. Example, the idiom "woke" or "#woke" h...
Why Are We So Fascinated By Scams?
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fyre Festival, Theranos, Anna Delvey, the college admissions scandal... the list goes on. And whether explored on the news or as a book, podcast, docu...
Concerns Over Boris Johnson's Landslide Victory And Trump's Order Against Anti-Semitism
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Voters in favor of Brexit handed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson an electoral victory on Thursday in a landslide not seen since Margaret Thatcher...
America's Greatest Living Film Critic On The Year In Movies
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Nose is off this week (because, on any given day, it's entirely possible that our whole show will be off with all this impeachment nonsense&n...
Our Interview With Dave Eggers For Our New Impeachment Show, 'Pardon Me'
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're preempted (again) today as the House Judiciary Committee debates its Articles of Impeachment. So, in lieu of a new episode of The Coli...
George Takei Discusses His Graphic Memoir And How America Must Learn From Its Past
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today we speak with actor and human-rights activist George Takei, not about his role as Lieutenant Sulu on the original Star Trek, but about a fa...
Articles Of Impeachment And Your Calls
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We had intended to run the debut episode of our new other show, Pardon Me (Another Damn Impeachment Show?), in our hour today. But then the ...
'The Plot's The Thing With Character Actor Harris Yulin And Playwright Will Eno
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The New York Times has called Harris Yulin "something of the character actor's character actor." You know him from, well... pretty much ever...
The Fine Art Of Taxidermy
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When you think of taxidermy, you may imagine a trophy room in which mostly male hunters have mounted the heads of 12-point stags along wood-...
A Show About Psychics! But You Already Knew That
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There is perhaps no figure more emblematic of the paranormal than the psychic. Able to predict the future, see into the past, and even communicate wit...
Privatizing Weather Data; Canada's Bagel Wars; The Apostrophe
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Private weather companies are cropping up to produce weather and climate models that has historically been provided by the government at taxpayer expe...
The Thanksgiving Eve Nose On Sacha Baron Cohen, Tesla's Cybertruck, And Disney+'s 'The Mandalorian'
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last Thursday, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's Cybertruck and Sacha Baron Cohen gave the keynote address at an Anti-Defamation League summit. Both performa...
America Loves Roadside Attractions. So We Talked To One.
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you ever drive across the country, you’ll notice there is a surprising amount of World’s Largest attractions. West Virginia has th...
The Navy Versus President Trump; Yale-Harvard Protest; Student Impeachment
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Defense Secretary Mark Esper demanded the resignation of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer on Sunday. Esper said he had lost confidence in Spencer. Esper...
The Nose On Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman' And Canceling Gauguin
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Irishman is Martin Scorsese's first gangster movie in thirteen years. It's his first feature-length film with Robert De Niro in 24 years and his f...
The Case Against Boeing; Myles Garrett Is Suspended Indefinitely; Return Of A Stradivarius
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph Nader's niece died when Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 max 8 jet crashed in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, in March 2019. Since that...
From Poverty To Incarceration To Redemption
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
William Outlaw is a natural leader. He's been a key figure in helping to lower New Haven's homicide rate over the last decade. He's a strategist and a...
Live From A Forest: Discussing Hiking, Archaeology, Invasives & Connecticut's Trails
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There are more than 800 miles of Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails in Connecticut. Today we're doing our show from one of them. Hiking those trails, you...
Former NSA John Bolton, Late Hartford Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry, And ESPN's 'The Spy Who Signed Me'
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton is a pretty interesting figure in the whole impeachment inquiry, right? On the one hand...
The Nose On Our Current Cancel Culture, Jane Fonda's Arrests, And 'Parasite'
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The news comes fast in the world of the canceled these days. Louis CK is back out on tour. President Obama has a "very boomer view" of ...
Eugene O'Neill Deserves A Closer Look
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen Wednesday at 1:00 pm Eugene O'Neill doesn't get enough credit. His plays are a form of therapy. O'Neill forces us to watch the raw pain of our ...
Harmonica Heroes Take Over WNPR
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are there countries where harmonica players are BIG stars? Why don't more women play it? How many different musical styles can you squeeze out of one ...
The President Was Booed; Deadspin Staff Resigns; Obama And Cancel Culture
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump changed his primary address from New York to Florida. He says he'd been treated badly by political leaders. He was also&nbs...
The Nose Watches The 'Watchmen' And Says Goodbye To Mr. Dankosky
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Watchmen is a limited series of comic books that became a graphic novel in 1987 and a feature film in 2009. And now it's an HBO series from Damon...
Not Necessarily The Nose: The Year In Horror, 2019
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Every year around this time, we like to take a look at just what's frightening us in the present moment. This year, we start with our present take on ...
The Gaps In Connecticut's Second Chance Prison Reform
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Connecticut's "Second Chance Society" has reduced the number of people going into prison and better prepared offenders for a meaningful life when...
Predictions Of A Paperless Future
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Predictions of a paperless future go back to the 1800s. Yet, despite a dizzying array of technological alternatives to paper, those prediction have no...
President Trump's Press Conference; The Future Of ISIS
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump held a Sunday morning press conference to announce that the U.S. military conducted a targeted operation to kill ISIS leader Abu Bakr ...
The Nose On The 20 Defining Comedy Sketches Of The 2000s And Stephen King's 'The Institute'
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, The Washington Post published "The 20 defining comedy sketches of the past 20 years" covering television sketch comedy of the 200...
Without TV, There's No Trump
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
That headline is just a direct quote from James Poniewozik's Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America. I was torn betw...
The Weird, Whimsical World Of Ventriloquism
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Love it or hate it, ventriloquism is hot these days. From Jeff Dunham's superstardom to three recent America's Got Talent winners, 'vents' are seeing ...
It Was A Dark Night In The City. Death Hung In The Air Like...
22 Oct 2019
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...
The Legal Side Of Impeachment; And We Take Your Calls
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today, a two-part show. The first part is with an impeachment expert on the House inquiry into whether President Trump abused his power for personal g...
The New Haven Nose On Grumpy Marty Scorsese And 'Dolemite Is My Name'
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Scorsese is a grump. He doesn't like Marvel movies. He says they aren't "cinema." He says they aren't even narrative films, and "we shouldn't b...
The Normalization Of Hate
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Hate" is the imprecise word we use to describe a group of ideas that have moved out of the shadows of American public life and into its center ring. ...
The Shocking Truth Behind Tabloids Finally Revealed!!!
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From the penny press, to yellow journalism, to supermarket tabloids and beyond, sensationalized news has been around for centuries. But while this sty...
You're Such An Annoying Know-It-All!
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In January of 2018, a seemingly racist incident occurred on the National Mall. Photos and videos were posted to social media showing a group of MAGA h...
Turkey Invades Syria; Your Calls On The Unfolding Impeachment Inquiry
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump leaves chaos in his wake. There is chaos in Syria. Turkish artillery fire is targeting the Kurdish-led militia that has been alli...
The Nose On 'Joker' And 'Toy Story 4'
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joker is director Todd Phillips's modern take on movies like Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. It stars Joaquin Phoenix in the title role in what ha...
Kristin And Mike Song Made 'Ethan's Law' Happen Against All Odds
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On January 31, 2018, Kristin and Mike Song's 15-year-old son Ethan Song, accidentally shot and killed himself at his friend's house. They were handlin...
Two Hours With Songwriter Jimmy Webb: Part Two
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen Wednesday at 1:00 pm. Jimmy Webb was possibly the most successful songwriter of the 1960's and 1970's. Classics like "Galveston," "Wichit...
We're Broadcasting In Four-Part Harmony
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re exploring the world of Barbershop Harmony; from its roots in the African American community to its influence in other genres, Barbershop i...
SCOTUS Begins A New Term; A Second Whistle-Blower Steps Forth
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Supreme Court begins a new session Monday. It will be the first full term since the more conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh replaced the retirin...
The Nose On Netflix's 'Unbelievable' And More
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Netflix limited series Unbelievable stars Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever. It tells the true story of a serial rapist and the inve...
It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The (Sportsing) Year
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
October is upon us. Pumpkin spice everything is here. Leaf peeping is just around the corner. Your one slightly odd neighbor has put out his 37 hand-c...
Two Hours With Songwriter Jimmy Webb Part One
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen Tuesday at 1:00 pm. On September 5, our team traveled to Glen Cove, New York to interview legendary songwriter, Jimmy Webb. The inte...
It's All Fun And Board Games On This Show!
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today's show might get a bit dicey. In fact, it's almost certainly headed for Trouble. And all we can say is Sorry, that's Life! Okay,...
The Impeachment Inquiry Into President Trump
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A lot has happened since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiated an impeachment inquiry against President Trump last week after learning that Trump asked...
The New Haven Nose On 'Ad Astra' And 'Downton Abbey'
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Nose couldn't decide which of last weekend's two big new movies to go see, so it went to both. Downton Abbey, the feature film continuation of the...
Happy Little Trees: The Joy Of Bob Ross (And Thomas Kinkade)
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's been 25 years since Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting went off the air (and 24 years since Ross died). But there are 52 episodes of the show availab...
Surviving The Anthropocene May Mean Thinking Outside The Box
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An epoch of our own making is one way to describe it. And as the Anthropocene is set to be formally recognized as a chrono-stratigraphic unit in the n...
Women In America Are Dying From Childbirth. Are Midwives And Doulas The Answer?
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Women in America die more frequently from complications of childbirth than in any other industrialized nation in the world. In addition, women of colo...
Is The House Ready To Impeach?
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
House Democrats are moving closer to initiating impeachment proceedings against President Trump after he confirmed that he discussed 2020 presidential...
The Nose On The 533 New Words In The Dictionary And The Historic Bomb That Is 'The Goldfinch'
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Merriam-Webster has added 533 new words to its dictionary. Words like "deep state," "pickleball," "escape room," and "Bechdel test." My favorite is pr...
'Everything But Country': The Politics Of A Polarizing Genre
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Though country music is considered the most popular genre of music in America, its influence is profoundly regional. The style is known for appealing ...
Wednesday Is Soylent Day!
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What if you just don't really enjoy food very much? What if you're totally fine eating the same thing every single day? What if you think food is an i...
A Conversation With Ocean Vuong
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ocean Vuong emigrated to Hartford from Vietnam when he was two years old. His family brought with them the trauma of an American-led war that ravaged ...
Shark Fever: The Lore Of The Great White
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fear of sharks spiked last summer after a great white fatally bit a 26-year-old surfer off the coast of Cape Cod. The fever still runs high as reports...
Wild And Crazy Guys
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, John Belushi, John Candy, Rick Moranis. Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Beverly Hills Cop, Cad...
Dying For A Photo
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A photo of people inching their way up a snaking line to the peak of Mount Everest last month has drawn attention to a number of problems, one of whic...
You're Not Dying. But Panic Attacks Can Make You Think You Are.
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 hav...
Are We Ready To Accept That UFOs Are Real?
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In early 2017, The New York Times uncovered a program at the Defense Department which investigated unidentified flying objects. Then, at the end ...
Alabama And Dorian: Never The Twain Shall Meet
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We want to hear your thoughts on what it's like to be "living in a Trump salad," on this all-call Monday. (Colin coined the term.) First, there's #sha...
Your Mind Makes It Real: 'The Matrix' 20 Years On
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to believe, but The Matrix is 20 years old this year. And its influence is all over the culture with bullet time and red pills and the "woah...
From the Bad Ideas Dept.: Today's Show Is Not About Tapirs
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we've started our second decade on the air. Over the first ten years, we did some number north of 2,000 shows. And every one of those shows...