The Colin McEnroe Show
Episodes
A Journey To The International Space Station
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The International Space Station is the most expensive thing ever built. It's about the size of a football field, it weighs a million pounds, and it's ...
A Look Back At 200 Years Of Frankenstein (And His Monster)
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There are few monsters more iconic or enduring than Frankenstein's. From Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, to the 1931 Hollywood film, to the countless plays...
The Scramble: Russia Probe; World Series; Your Calls
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates surrendered Monday morning to special counsel Robert Mueller after he asked them to do so. ...
The Nose Is Ready For Another Janet Jackson Halftime Show
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix's new 10-episode series "Mindhunter" tells the story of the beginnings of criminal psychology and criminal profiling at the FBI. As such, at i...
An Hour Of Reason With Richard Dawkins
26 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Dawkins is probably the best-known ethologist and evolutionary biologist in the world. And he's maybe the best-known atheist and secularist --...
It's Just Another Dam Show!
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 1955, Connecticut experienced catastrophic flooding that killed more than eighty people. Two back-to-back hurricanes - Connie and Diane - dro...
A Conversation With Stephen Schwartz
24 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
From his work on Wicked, to Pippin, to Godspell, to The Magic Show and more, few people have had such a hand in shaping the music of Broadway theater ...
The Scramble: Stories From Puerto Rico; The Final Files On The Assassination Of JFK
23 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The devastation left by Hurricane Maria on September 20 is overwhelming the millions of Americans who are still without power and unable to meet basic...
The Nose Suffers Through 'Gerald's Game'
20 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I mean that verb a couple different ways. Some of The Nose suffered through Gerald's Game because they didn't like it. Some of The Nose suffered throu...
An Hour With Kurt Andersen
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kurt Andersen's new book is Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire. It's a 500-year history "of America jumping the shark." The idea, largely, is that...
Hurricanes, Wildfires, Flooding -- Is The Apocalypse Upon Us?
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Novelists have been writing for decades about worlds in which the climate is in crisis. Those stories are becoming increasingly realistic -- in a sens...
Live From Watkinson: The Great Democracy Suggestion Box
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody has this feeling that American Democracy isn't what we want it to be right now. It doesn't feel right, it doesn't feel like we're unified ev...
The Scramble: Voter Data; Iran; NFL
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump decertified the internationally-supported Iran nuclear deal Friday but didn't walk away from it. Instead, he kicked it to Congress to ...
The Nose Went To 'Blade Runner 2049' (Even Though No One Else Did)
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
That's not really true. LOTS of other people went to see Denis Villeneuve's "Blade Runner" sequel. It grossed almost $82 million in its opening weeken...
The Secret Lives Of Numbers
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Numbers are so fundamental to our understanding of the world around us that we maybe tend to think of them as an intrinsic part of the world around us...
An Atheist Quaker, A Jewish Christian, And A Christian Buddhist All Walked Into A Bar...
11 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Until about 150 years ago, most people were born into a religion that carried them to adulthood. That's no longer the case. Support the sho...
An Ode To Yodeling
10 Oct 2017
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 ...
The Scramble: Contraception; Abortion; Harvey Weinstein
09 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins about the Department of Health and Human Services decision Friday to give employers and corpora...
The Nose Boldly Goes
06 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's a good time to be a Star Trek fan... inasmuch as there's a bunch of new Star Trek-related content, anyway. CBS has a real-live, brand-new Star Tr...
October Baseball Is Here!
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The American League Division Series start today. This afternoon, the lowly Boston Red Sox play in Houston, and then tonight, the 27-time world champio...
Deconstructing "Deconstructing 'Sgt. Pepper's'"
04 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It was 50 years ago that The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It's been called the beginning of the album era. In 2003, Ro...
Fairies And Fairy Tales From Shakespeare, To Grimm's, To The Modern Age
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mischief and mirth abound in the magical realm of fairies. Whether it's Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream or J.M Barrie's Tinkerbell, ...
The Scramble: Las Vegas; U.S. Missteps In Puerto Rico
01 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A gunman opened fire on a crowd assembled for an outdoor concert festival Sunday night, killing more than 50 people and wounding hundreds, from a high...
What's Your Problem? With Chion Wolf
29 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I’m Chion Wolf and this is What’s Your Problem?!Since Colin McEnroe is away, I’m taking over with a radio version of my live advice show, What’...
An Hour With John McPhee
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
John McPhee is a writer's writer. He's thought of as one of the progenitors of the New Journalism, of creative nonfiction or narrative nonfiction, alo...
Nutmeg May Seem Pretty Harmless...
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1800s, Connecticut peddlers would travel south to peddle goods made in small factories around the state. The best way to increase their profit ...
The Movies Get "Split Personalities" All Wrong
26 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The movie "Split," by director M. Night Shyamalan, is the latest in a long line of movies that portray people with "split personalities" as either vio...
A Conversation With Sam Waterston
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Waterston says he's been been lucky to have good fortune in his career and personal life. He's been nominated multiple times for Emmy, Academ...
Cash Culture: The History (And Future?) Of Our Love For Paper Currency
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As our society moves further away from paper currency, we pause to look back at the once predominant form of payment. Its look, its feel and its smell...
Cannibalism: History Of A Taboo, From The Bible To The Box Office
21 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Of the many strange behaviors we humans have engaged in, few seem more abhorrent than cannibalism. But the act of feasting on another human's flesh ca...
A Poet, A Limo Driver, And A Pastor Walk Into A Talk Show...
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Colin McEnroe is taking a couple weeks off, so today Chion Wolf introduces you to three Connecticut residents who have careers in very different field...
The Spirit Is In The Music
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, I hopped into my car to go home after a long and grinding first day back to work. I had just returned the day before from a two-week vacatio...
The Cost Of Health Care Is Killing Us
18 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We spend over three trillion dollars on health care every year and we have worse outcomes than any other developed country - all of which spend on ave...
The Nose Has A Close Encounter With 'Close Encounters'
15 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was originally released on December 14, 1977. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards and has gone on to gross ...
The Furries Among Us
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Like just about anything else one delves into, the subculture known as furries is more nuanced, more varied and less sensational than mass media depic...
The Mysterious (And Misunderstood?) Melania Trump
13 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Melania Trump is in many ways a first: The first First Lady to have arrived as an immigrant, the first to have been born in a communist country, and t...
The Amazons: Myth, Reality, And Modern Relevance
12 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the Amazons of ancient Greek mythology is that they were not entirely mythical. While many of the deeds and de...
The Scramble: Trumpocalypse, Amazon, Sloane Stephens
11 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
John Nichols, author of Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to The Most Dangerous People in America believes Donald Trump has put together th...
The Nose Went To 'Wind River'
08 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Taylor Sheridan's "Wind River" has been called "a thrilling, violent finale to the 'Hell or High Water' and 'Sicario' trilogy" (Sheridan wrote the fir...
One Leg At A Time: The History Of Women And Pants
07 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
According to mytho-historical accounts, the ancient Amazons wore pants while riding into battle. But the trend this tribe of warrior women set was sho...
Why Do We Commemorate And Who Does It Serve?
06 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The violence in Charlottesville last month over whether or not to remove a statue of Confederate soldier Robert E. Lee rekindled a heated debate that'...
The Scramble: Connecticut's Fiscal Crisis, North Korea, Walter Becker
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Connecticut has become overconfident that money would always be found to pay the bills. For the first time, the state is realizing we can't pay the bi...
The Women Who Served In America's Fields
04 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Herbert Hoover realized early in the 20th century that food was as important as bullets to win a war. After witnessing Belgians starve under the harsh...
The Nose Doesn't Want To Quit Louis CK
01 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For years, there have been rumors about things Louis CK may or may not have done to women. And for years, women have been saying that CK should addres...
The Ultimate Glory Of Ultimate Frisbee
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's been called a "glorified game of toss" and "World of Warcraft for extroverts." But has Ultimate Frisbee quietly become a real sport?It is, appare...
What's On The Other Side? What A World Without Walls Would Look Like
30 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As the Department of Homeland Security collects plans for the US-Mexico border, the conversation is turning more towards how border walls don't work i...
You Can Tell A Lot By A Superhero's Costume
29 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If it's the clothes that make the man, then it's the costume that makes the superhero. But for as much as these brightly colored onesies reveal about ...
The Scramble: Joe Arpaio; Houston Preparedness; Melting Alaskan Permafrost
28 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump pardoned former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio Friday. Arpaio was not going to jail for his documented brutality against...
The Nose Has Seen The Superhero Supergroup Series 'The Defenders'
25 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix's newest series is the first season of Marvel's "The Defenders." But the series is the culmination of a number of series, a sort of crossover ...
An Ode To Obituaries And Obituarists
24 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On the one hand, obituaries are an amalgam of a bunch of different kinds of journalism: they're feature stories, they're profile pieces, they cover hi...
Human-Vehicle Hybrids, Robo-Cars, Jetpacks And The Future Of Transportation
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
At some point in the near future we will all drive our last drive. We will get into our normal car, drive to a dealership and ride out in our first se...
An Ode to the Sun (Listen, Don't Stare!)
22 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We originally aired this show last August, a full year before the excitement over the solar eclipse. Enjoy!What can you say about the sun? It sits not...
The Scramble: Cultural Leaders Are Retreating From Trump. Why Now?
20 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cultural leaders are beating a hasty retreat from President Trump. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for pr...
The Nose Wonders If Smartphones Have Destroyed A Generation
18 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Actually, it's The Atlantic that wonders "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?" And, of course, the answer is, in a word: No. But then, high schoo...
Solar Eclipse 2017: A 49-Minute Show About Two Minutes Of Darkness
17 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Since the earliest humans gazed up at the sky, eclipses have been a common occurrence. But only in recent centuries have we come to understood the sci...
How Much Do You Know About Guam?
16 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Guam came into America's consciousness this past week as the war of words between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...
Are You Cracking Under The Weight Of Your Political Stress?
15 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The American Psychological Association says the 2016 presidential election was a major source of stress for a majority of Americans regardless of poli...
The Scramble: Terror In Charlottesville
14 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hundreds of followers of the white nationalist movement came to Charlottesville over the weekend to protest the planned removal of a statue of Robert ...
The New Haven Nose Goes To 'Detroit'
11 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Boal is a journalist who has written for Rolling Stone and Playboy and who partnered with Serial on the podcast's second season. Kathryn Bigelow ...
The Decimation Of The Osage Nation
10 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Native Americans have been getting forced off their land for a long time. Thomas Jefferson forced them from their ancestral home in 1804 after he sign...
An Ode To Ink
09 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
From ancient scrolls to modern toner cartridges, ink (in one form or another) has been around for millennia. And while we may take it for granted now,...
The Electric Guitar Is Dead. Long Live The Electric Guitar.
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Where have all the guitar heroes gone? Where has all the guitar music gone? Where have all the guitar sales gone?Are rumors of the electric guitar's d...
The Scramble Tries To Understand All Those Leaks
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday the Justice Department will aggressively pursue the leaking of classified information that undermines natio...
The Nose On 'Ozark' And Sam Shepard
04 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix has marketed its new series "Ozark" as " 'Breaking Bad' plus Jason Bateman," which might make you picture... a funnier version of "Breaking Ba...
The Final Frontier Or The Glass Ceiling: The Legacy Of Women In NASA
03 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As the men of Apollo 11 returned home to ticker tape parades, the women who made their journey possible worked quietly behind the scenes. Since its fo...
Neonaticide Is An Act Of Desperation
02 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Neonaticide is a hard concept for most of us to wrap our heads around. Yet, the CDC estimates that "a baby born in the United States is ten times more...
A Look At Independent League Baseball
01 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Iannazzo was a baseball star at Norwalk High School, pitching them to an FCIAC title in 2007. At the University of Pittsburgh, he was an All-Conf...
The Scramble On The Chief Of Staff's Role, And The Sportsification Of American Policy
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the "skinny" repeal of the Affordable Care Act died a buzzer-beating (and perhaps temporary) death on the Senate floor. The Ringer's Bryan ...
The Nose Goes To 'Dunkirk'
28 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's quite a trick Christopher Nolan has played on us over the course of a career that includes movies like Memento and Inception. His latest, Dunkirk...
The Trump Era: A Retrospective At Six Months
27 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
You might say that we’ve done a lot of coverage of The Trump Era.It began with a show sixteen months ago that imagined a Trumpian future. We didn't ...
Teaching An Old Fox New Tricks
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 1959, Soviet geneticist Dmitri Belyaev started an ambitious experiment to study the origins of domestication -- he would attempt to breed domestica...
The Dire (And Sometimes Deadly) Consequences Of Video Game Addiction
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It should be no surprise that video games have the potential to become addictive. But a spate of recent events has shown they can also be deadly: From...
The Scramble: How The Alt-Right Influenced The 2016 Election
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Almost nine months after the 2016 election, there still isn’t one generally agreed-upon theory of what happened.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.or...
The New Haven Nose Won't Hate On Ed Sheeran
21 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Big Sick, written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani (who you know from "Silicon Valley"), tells the "awkward true story" of their courtship a...
Who Owns Antiquity?
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hobby Lobby recently paid a $3 million fee for illegally buying smuggled ancient Iraqi artifacts.This hour: What is the relationship between collectin...
A Look At Late Night
19 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump is the most ridiculed president in the history of late night comedy.That's not hyperbole, and it's not just common sense either. There's ...
Bastards! A Look At Illegitimacy From Game Of Thrones To Hamilton And Beyond
18 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The word bastard hasn't always been meant to offend. Used simply as an indication of illegitimate birth at first, the label bastard didn't bring ...
The Scramble: Donald Trump Jr.; Connecticut Prison Reform; Doctor Who
17 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump Jr. thinks it's no big deal that he met with an emissary of the Russian government because the meeting didn't provide him with useful mat...
Your Friendly Neighborhood Nose Went To 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'
14 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Spider-Man: Homecoming is the sixth American Spider-Man feature film, and it's the 16th title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But it's the first mov...
The President In Paris
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump is in France today, and he plans to hold a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris during the noon easte...
It's Hard To Be Black In America. Still.
12 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Race is a myth; racism is not. I'm stealing this line from Gene Seymour, one of our guests on our show today. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.o...
What Would Rorschach Tell You About You?
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Rorschach inkblots are ubiquitous throughout culture. They've inspired visual artists from Warhol to Alan Moore, from Gnarls Barkley to Jay Z, to ...
The Scramble: G-20 Summit; Donald Trump Jr.; Diaperless Infants
10 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump left a trail of confusion when he left the G-20 Summit this weekend. While the president thinks he gained concessions favorable t...
The Nose Takes A Ride With Baby Driver
07 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Baby, played by Ansel Elgort, is a reluctant getaway driver in the latest Edgar Wright film, "Baby Driver." He's a good guy who's had some bad luck, l...
Argumentation Nation: America's Love Of War With Words
06 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Americans like to argue, a lot. In politics, in media, and in society at large, arguing has (arguably) become the default means by which we handle dis...
The Scramble: Voter Data; Climate Denial; Geoff Fox Is Back!
05 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, President Donald Trump's "Commission on Election Integrity," under the leadership of Vice-President Mike Pence and Kansas Attorney General ...
Benedict Arnold: Unscrupulous Traitor Or Unsung Hero?
03 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When you "pull a Benedict Arnold," you sell out your side to join the stronger side of a situation out of fear, not honor. Needless to say, that...
From Hartford, Almost Live, It's The Nose
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a post-"The Gong Show" world. Any TV that you've ever heard anyone use the word "Dada" to describe -- David Letterman's entire career, for ...
What Can Hannah Arendt Teach Us About This Moment?
29 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah Arendt's 576-page magnum opus, The Origins of Totalitarianism, is a densely-written book about the rise of anti-Semitism up to the ou...
A Show About Psychics! But You Already Knew That
28 Jun 2017
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...
An Hour With U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro
27 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Colin has been covering politics in Connecticut since... well, since shortly before the development of the steam engine.And one thing he’s never do...
The Scramble: Obama's Struggle With Russia; Amazon; Campus Speech
26 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
President Obama has been criticized in recent days for his response to Russian intervention in the 2016 election as reported in this big Washington Po...
The Nose Live From The International Festival Of Arts And Ideas And Pancakes And Pumpkins
23 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
"What do festivals do?"Whether it's a film festival or Edinburgh or the Venice Biennale or New Haven, we wonder what happens when you get a lot of cre...
Mmmm, Donuts
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
My mom would take me and my brothers to the beach on summer days when I was a little kid. I couldn't yet swim but I could stand in Long Island Sound w...
Is Beauty In The Eye Of The Beholder?
21 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I find great joy in walking in the dead of winter along the river trail near my house. Everything leaves my mind as I watch the Canadian geese take fl...
What Happens When Autism And The Law Collide
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Autism Spectrum Disorder is a social disability that leaves the autistic isolated and confused in a world in which they can't understand the social c...
The Scramble: Bill Cosby, Russian Cyberwarfare, Cuba
19 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Cosby's trial for alleged sexual assault of Andrea Constand in 2004 ended in a mistrial Saturday due to a hung jury. Despite the judge saying thi...
The Nose's Nobel Lecture Is Cribbed From CliffsNotes
16 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week in pop culture: Delta and Bank of America decide Shakespeare is in poor taste. Megan Kelly decides Alex Jones is worthy of a platform. Senat...
All Cults Are Not Created Equal
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
All cults are not created equal. From the wide array of beliefs they teach, to the variety of people who are involved, cults are as different from eac...
The 2017 Song Of The Summer Is...
14 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, we do a Song of the Summer show. It always makes people angry. There is no evidence that it has ever made people happy. A lot of it has to...