The Colin McEnroe Show
Episodes
The Scramble: Trump, Carson, and Standing Rock
05 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump will make an announcement on December 15 that he will leave his business "in total" to focus on the presidency. This will likely mea...
An Evening With Jon Meacham
02 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Many Americans were surprised by the results of the presidential election last month. During the early morning hours of November 9, half of America ce...
Beyond Words
01 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine if you couldn't speak and had no capacity for learning language as we know it. You couldn't choose words to communicate your feelings and desi...
Adventures in Solitude: Two Tales of Life in Isolation
30 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As social creatures we know that isolation can be emotionally difficult, but research shows that it can be psychologically damaging as well. So why th...
The Philosophy and Psychology of A-Holery
29 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jerks. Jackasses. A-holes. Some people are just... the worst. Aren't they? But so: Why? And what do we do about it?Support the show: http://www.wnpr.o...
The Scramble Wonders: How Can We Respond to Hate Speech?
28 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The charged language used by President-elect Donald Trump this election season may have emboldened people with open hostility toward blacks, gay peopl...
The Nose Starts to Come to Terms with a President Donald Trump
23 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For the last 18 months, we've kind of all seen Donald Trump's possible presidency as, well, implausible. As funny on its face. But guess what. It's a...
Visceral Voting: The Psychology Behind Picking a Politician
22 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we vote the way we do? The easy answer, of course, is that we pick the politician whose values, beliefs and opinions most closely resemble our ...
The Scramble Has Some Questions About Our New Trumpian Reality
21 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Colin is back, and we've got some questions, and we're guessing you do too.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener fo...
The Final Frontier or the Glass Ceiling: The Legacy of Women in NASA
18 Nov 2016
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...
Westerns: American Mythology or Cultural History?
17 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There are few genres of entertainment more American than the Western. But for a genre so steeped in the iconography of our past, its accuracy in portr...
An Ode to the Sun (Listen, Don't Stare!)
16 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What can you say about the sun? It sits not only at the center of our solar system but has, over time, been at the center of religions, scriptures, so...
The Art of the Audiobook
15 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a great audiobook? What makes a great audiobook narrator? (And, for that matter, what makes a not-so-great audiobook and audiobook narrator...
The Scramble: The Media and the Election, Chappelle Returns to TV, and R.I.P. Leon Russell
14 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
You may have heard there was an election last week. You may have heard that the outcome... surprised some people. You may have heard that the press m...
You Want Me to Eat What?! An Examination of Disgust
11 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Okay, this show comes with a trigger warning.We talk about things people eat, and some of those things are not for the squeamish. This is a conversat...
An Evening With Patti Smith
10 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Patti Smith wasn't seeking fame when she landed in Manhattan in 1969. She was a fan of the greats of the day - like Dylan, Mapplethorpe, Pollock...
Uh. Well. The Election Is Over.
09 Nov 2016
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 have a new President-elect.Support the s...
Election Day STILL Makes Me Happy
08 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We're all a little tired of this election. I vacillate between excitement, fear, anger, fatigue - sometimes all in the same hour. What will become of...
The Scramble: Can America Recover Her Reputation?
07 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
American democracy is limping to the finish line this election week, dehydrated and injured from many stumbles during this race. Can it recover before...
Richard Dreyfuss, Live from TheaterWorks
04 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
He's an Academy Award winner, a Golden Globe winner, a BAFTA Award winner.He's the star of American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kin...
To Catch a Burglar
02 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
George Leonidas Leslie robbed the Manhattan Savings Institution of $3 million in 1878. At the time, it was considered one of the safest buildings...
The North Korea You Don't Know
01 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Amidst the increasing concern over a nuclear armed North Korea, it's easy to forget the nearly 25 million citizens who live there. Their stories, whi...
The Scramble: The End (of This Election) Is Near
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
FBI Director James B. Comey wrote in a Friday memo to Congressional leaders that "the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be per...
The Nose on the New Leonard Cohen and The Run-Up's Trump Tapes
28 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Leonard Cohen's 14th studio album, You Want It Darker, dropped last Friday. Coupled with a new David Remnick profile of Cohen in The New Yorker, the r...
An Hour With Ira (Glass)
27 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ira Glass -- host of This American Life, creator of Serial, professional dancer -- used our show as his prime example in "a principled defense of fun ...
The Mystery and Legend of Gangsters
26 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Al Capone told everyone who asked him what he did for a living that he was a "property owner and taxpayer in Chicago." He was really a powerful multi...
Good Bulldozer, Bad Bulldozer
25 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody loves a bulldozer. In fact, we all grew up loving bulldozers, didn't we? From Benny the Bulldozer to Katy and her big snow, from all the Ton...
The Scramble: Why Do We Do the Things We Do?
24 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Against Everything is a book about self-improvement. Before you tune out, I ask you to challenge your notion of 'self-improvement.' Support ...
The Nose Is Glad It Wasn't Invited to the Al Smith Dinner
21 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's just by happenstance that we ran into three short films this week that are both remarkable and newly available online. One of them is really some...
The Debates Are Over!
20 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met in Las Vegas last night for their third and final debate before the November 8 election.&...
Little House Libertarians
19 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of you reading this are familiar with the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder because you watched the popular "Little House on the Prairi...
The Scramble: Trump's Conspiracy Theories Threaten Democracy
17 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump spent the recent days creating an alternate reality filled with 'global conspiracies' against him he claims are led by Hillary Clint...
Jesters and Fools: A History of Wit and Whimsey
17 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
History and literature are filled with their antics. From the Renaissance's Triboulet to Shakespeare's Feste from "Twelfth Night," jesters and fools h...
The Nose Goes to the Theater
14 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We've never sent a Nose panel to a play before. So this week, we figured we'd try it out. So we've all gone to see Steve Martin's world premiere at th...
Live From Watkinson: Honey, We Broke The Democracy
13 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I wasn't sure anyone would show up for a live, on-stage discussion about this year's election. I mean, no one's starving for content about this. We're...
Wonders and Curiosities of the Modern World
12 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
If Anthony Bourdain and Wes Anderson were to ever collaborate, chances are they'd end up creating something like Atlas Obscura. The founders of the&nb...
Trump Supporters Tell Us What We're Missing About Their Man
11 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The job of the media is to inform voters on views and behaviors that relay how a political candidate will behave once elected to office. Fair and hone...
The Scramble: Are Debates Still Relevant?
10 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone was wondering how Donald Trump would handle the 2005 tape of him talking with Billy Bush about sexually-assaulting women because "you can do ...
The Nose Goes to Kim and Kanye Westworld
07 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
HBO's new 10-episode western sci-fi thriller remake of the 1973 movie "Westworld" took an awfully long time and a big old pile of money to see th...
Neonaticide Is an Act of Desperation
06 Oct 2016
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...
Live (on Tape) From the Peabody!
05 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the more than six years that it's been on the air, we've never taken The Colin McEnroe Show to the Peabody Museum before. (Crazy, right?) And: In t...
It's the Breast Day of the Week!
04 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Marie Antoinette's breasts were believed to inspire the design of the shallow French champagne coupes we see on the shelves of the local Pottery Barn....
The Scramble Is Being Audited
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump's horrible, terrible week got worse after the New York Times released three pages of Trump's 1995 tax return this weekend. They ...
The Nose Can't Stop Talking About Cargo Shorts
30 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody hates cargo shorts. Except the people who don't. And more than that, everybody keeps talking about whether or not they hate cargo shorts. It...
David Ortiz Is Just the Worst Thing
29 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
So here's what happened. Lucy Nalpathanchil got a pitch from some PR person about covering David Ortiz's retirement at the end of this baseball season...
Twice-as-Nice Advice About Vice
28 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Three guests, Peter Sagal of WWDTM, Maria Konnikova of The New Yorker, and Robert Evans of Cracked, take you on a tour of vice. They talk everything f...
Satanism: Religion, Philosophy, Lifestyle
27 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Free will, individual responsibility, and the pursuit of happiness: Fundamental tenets of, wait for it... Satanism. While the word conjures up images ...
The Scramble Mourns Jose Fernandez
26 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, we mourn the loss of 24-year-old Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, who died in a boat accident over the weekend. Support the show:...
The New Haven Nose Doesn't Want to Talk About Brangelexit
23 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest surprise about Oliver Stone's Snowden is probably how controversial it isn't. Which isn't to say that it isn't somewhat controversial -- a...
We Predict That The Amazing Kreskin Will Be on This Show
22 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Colin's out today, and Julia Pistell returns as guest host. We devote the hour to two interesting guys and their interesting jobs.Support the show: ht...
The Greatest Show on Radio Looks at The Greatest Show on Earth!
21 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The modern circus has been thrilling audiences for over 250 years, but as times have changed, so has the circus. What began as little more than an equ...
Remembering H.M.: The Man Who Couldn't Remember
20 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
H.M. is one of the most important and studied human research subjects of all time. He revolutionized what we know about memory today because of the am...
The Scramble: Is That Really News?
18 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How we make decisions is a thread that runs through today's Scramble.First, Donald Trump called a press conference in his new Trump International Hote...
The Nose Just Needs Some Time to Find Itself, Okay?
16 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Normally by Friday morning we've got the first one or two topics for The Nose ironed out, and we maybe spend some time hashing out what the third and ...
Are You Smarter Than a Raccoon?
15 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Colin has a "pet" raccoon that visits his porch. The raccoon will press her tiny paw up against the outstretched palm of Colin's significant other, wh...
The Future Is Now: Mr. Robot and Our Cyberpunk Reality
14 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction emerged in the '70s and '80s with books like Neuromancer and movies like Blade Runner set in the early 21st ...
Women Warriors
13 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There is still a debate about whether women belong in combat. It's been more than a year since Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered all branches ...
The Scramble Has a Charitable Foundation
12 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have both been criticized in recent weeks for activities related to their respective foundations. Clinton is accused ...
The Nose Ponders Babs, 'Atlanta,' and Clowns
09 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Barbra Streisand's new album dropped two weeks ago. It's an album of duets with . . . actors. Babs and her famous friends sing . . . show tunes. To my...
50 Years of Boldly Going
08 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
At 8:30 pm on Thursday, September 8, 1966, NBC aired the premiere of a new series called "Star Trek". The episode was "The Man Trap." The star date wa...
The Scary Truth Behind Our Love for Horror
07 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Horror films have been scaring audiences for over a hundred years. And in all that time, some things have never changed: Year after year, the collecti...
The Scramble on Politics, Football and Immigration
06 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The presidential debates are scheduled to begin this month with the first scheduled for September 26 at Hofstra University in Long Island. Donald Trum...
U.S. Intelligence Dabbles in Forecasting the Future
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The participants are average citizens: school teachers, waiters, pharmacists, perhaps even your neighbor. By day they work and pay their bills, but wh...
What About Bill? Author Robert Schnakenberg Discusses Actor Bill Murray
01 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Murray has been involved with some of our favorite movies of all time: Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Moonrise Kingdom, and so many more. He doesn't l...
Endangered Language: How Technology May Replace Braille and Sign
31 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A transcript of this show is available here.It's hard to think about language as being endangered or replaceable. But as our culture and means of comm...
Obsolescence: Novelty Versus Nostalgia in the Age of Mass Production
30 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In an era awash in the rollout of brand new gadgets, gizmos, fashions, and fads, it's easy to think of obsolescence as part of the natural order -- re...
The Scramble Goes to War on Climate Change and Donald Trump
29 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We're losing about 22,000 square miles of Arctic ice every week, the Great Barrier Reef - which dates back to the start of civilization - is rapidly d...
Live From the Ivoryton Playhouse: All the Nose Wants Is Nikes, But the Real Ones
26 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
After a four-year gestation period, and more than a year's worth of delays, Frank Ocean's second studio album dropped last weekend. There are two diff...
The Microbiome: Friend, Foe, or Both
25 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For most of time, microbes ruled the planet alone. Microbes have been around for billions of years - long before people ever began to inhabit the...
A Look at Independent League Baseball
24 Aug 2016
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 is Scrambled Over This Election
23 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump canceled his big speech on immigration scheduled for Thursday. It could have something to do with the comments he made to his new Hispani...
Colin's Call-In Show: Election 2016
22 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There's lots to talk about in the news right now -- including the presidential election that just keeps giving. Giving stress, giving insults, giving ...
The Nose Bids Adieu to "The Nightly Show," Gawker, and NPR's Comments Sections
19 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Comedy Central's "The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore" came to its hasty conclusion last night, still more than two months before the election. Gawker...
An Hour With Dick Cavett
18 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Clive James considered Dick Cavett one of the great intellectuals who shaped the 20th century. He did it primarily as the host of The Dick Cavett...
Petula Clark Was 'A Sign of the Times'
17 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Petula Clark has been singing since 1942, when as a nine-year-old child, she answered a request from a BBC producer to sing to a British theater audie...
The Final Frontier or the Glass Ceiling: The Legacy of Women in NASA
16 Aug 2016
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...
The Scramble Checks in on Two Stories Out of Wisconsin
15 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The ten-part Netflix documentary "Making a Murderer" covers the 2007 conviction in Manitowoc County, Wisc., of Steven Avery for the murder of Teresa H...
The Nose Has Seen "Stranger Things"
12 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Start with four parts "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial." That's your base. Then you'll need two parts "The Goonies," two parts "Poltergeist," and two part...
An Ode to the Sun (Listen, Don't Stare!)
10 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What can you say about the sun? It sits not only at the center of our solar system but has, over time, been at the center of religions, scriptures, so...
The Art of the Audiobook
10 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a great audiobook? What makes a great audiobook narrator? (And, for that matter, what makes a not-so-great audiobook and audiobook narrator...
The Scramble Takes on Two Potential Disasters: Trump and the Olympics
09 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
You might think all is going well at the Olympics if you enjoyed the glossy opening ceremony or heard the inspirational stories of athletes, many...
Drew Magary Takes a Hike
08 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Drew Magary is an interesting guy.You might have one impression if you know him from his irreverent and wildly popular commentary in Deadspin, where h...
The Understudy Studies the Understudies
05 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Colin's out today. He got vocal nodes while moonlighting as Mariah Carey’s backup singer, and he's seeing his otolaryngologist. Or he sprained an an...
Pulling Back the Curtain on Political Stagecraft
04 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
During Connecticut's 2014 gubernatorial election, Republican candidate Tom Foley chose a failing paper mill in Sprague as the "stage" upon which ...
The 2016 Olympics From A to Zika
03 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
From Brazil's political unrest to its water pollution to the viral pandemic plaguing its streets, this year's Olympics in Rio De Janeiro are off to a ...
Joss Whedon: His Work, His Life, He's Here!
02 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Originally, we planned on doing a show about Joss Whedon -- without Joss Whedon. We invited a scholar of his work to talk about his television and fil...
A Long Look at Losing and Lovable (and Loathsome) Losers
01 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As we were preparing for our show on underdogs a few months ago, I kept saying that we shouldn't overlook the fact that, often, to be an underdog in t...
The Nose Scratches Itself with a Chopstick
29 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
HBO's new limited series "The Night Of" is, we're pretty sure, the first psoriasis noir masterpiece.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee om...
The Scramble Goes To Philly
27 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It's the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia - and the ride has been almost as wild as last week's Republican Nation...
A Nerding Out About Clouds
27 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
No one likes a cloudy sky. A cloud on the horizon is seen as a harbinger of doom. We feel like clouds need to have silver linings.But here's our thesi...
Live (on Tape) from Shakespeare and Company!
26 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When we did our show on Romeo and Juliet a few months ago, Tina Packer invited us to come up to Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, Mass., to see her new ...
Ralph Nader Weighs in on the Election
24 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph Nader is not happy with either the Republican or Democratic candidates for president. He says Republicans tolerating Donald Trump will look back...
The All-Girl Ghostbusters Nose Ain't Afraid of No Reboots
22 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In January 2015, when it was announced that a planned new Ghostbusters movie would feature four female leads, internet fanbros went crazy. And then, t...
The Republican War on Hillary Clinton
20 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Republican National Convention in Cleveland wraps up today following a speech by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.Support the show: ht...
Sepsis Is the Killer You Probably Don't Know About
20 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sepsis is always an emergency. But I bet many of you reading this don't know what it is. The CDC says there are over one million cases of sepsis ...
Alternative History as a Literary Genre With Author Ben Winters
18 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Author Ben Winter's latest work of alternative History, Underground Airlines, has been getting lots of attention in the short time since its release. ...
Ready, Set...We're Going to Cleveland
17 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Republican National Convention kicks off in Cleveland today after several days of pre-convention fireworks, including efforts by anti-Trump delega...
The New Haven Nose Catches, Well, a Few of Them, Honestly, We're Kind of Tired
15 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As you may have heard, Pokemon is back (are back?) with the release last week of a new game. Pokemon Go is an augmented reality app that, through the ...
We Did a Show About Circumcision
14 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Last fall, Colin saw The Bloodstained Men and Their Friends demonstrating in New Haven.They wear white coveralls with red stains on the crotches.Suppo...
Westerns: American Mythology or Cultural History?
13 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There are few genres of entertainment more American than the Western. But for a genre so steeped in the iconography of our past, its accuracy in portr...