The Colin McEnroe Show
Episodes
The Nose: Live From The 2015 Festival of Arts and Ideas
19 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We're taking The Nose, our weekly culture round table, to The Study at Yale in New Haven, joining the International Festival of Arts, Ideas, and Panca...
Song of the Summer 2015
18 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
How do you define “The Song of the Summer?” DJ Brendan Jay Sullivan likens it to a summer romance: Fresh faces only (no repeat artists), love at f...
Write the Future: Women in Speculative Fiction
17 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
For some readers, it's hard to imagine speculative fiction without female writers. After all, Margaret Cavendish and Mary Shelley practically created ...
Stage Fright Feels Awful
16 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Oh no! It's my turn to speak. My throat is tight, my mouth is pasty and the butterflies are eating at my stomach. My mind feels blank, what if my voic...
The Scramble Will RSVP "No" To Any Westeros Wedding
15 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
You get that Facebook invite. You think to yourself, "Yeah, that could be fun." You get reminders in the days leading up to the event. As the clock ti...
The Nose Has a Problem With Women
12 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Elinor Burkett, citing Summers' speech and asking if men and women have different brains.We'll talk about the controversy surrounding one of the Inlan...
Is Technology Getting Too Smart?
11 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Wendell Wallach predicts that crises in public health and our economy will increase dramatically in the next 20 years, likely a result of ou...
Esperanto In The Internet Age
10 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Esperanto was first published in 1887 by Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist L.L. Zamenhof. His goal was to create a neutral language; one that would foster...
What Makes a Word a Word?
09 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
If you know how to read, you're probably pretty good at recognizing words. But, new words like "egg corn," "crema" and "slendro" are challenging our c...
The Scramble: In New York, Tonys and Crowns
08 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of awards were handed out in New York this weekend. The annual Tony Awards were given to the best Broadway productions of the year. But no amount...
The Nose is Talking About Caitlyn Jenner Too
05 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Way back -- I don't know -- a week ago, the story of Caitlyn Jenner was pretty amazing.The gender transition of one of America's most acclaimed male a...
Dragons Rule!
03 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
She who controls the dragon controls the world.Drogon, Rhaegal and Viserion are the most recent dragons to capture our attention, thanks to "Game of T...
Order From Chaos: Why Patterns Prevail in the Physical World
03 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Patterns are everywhere: both in the wonders of nature and in the man-made world. They exist in the formations of crystals and clouds, in art and musi...
I'm Having a *$#%! Miserable Day
01 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
All of us know what it feels like to have a bad day - the pain, the regret, the sheer misery. We also know how one bad decision can spiral into a...
The Scramble: a Visit to the 2015 Berkshire International Film Festival
01 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, we went up to do our annual live show from Great Barrington, Massachusetts at the Berkshire International Film Festival. Our usual host, Th...
This Trailer Show is Rated G for Great
29 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, we talk about movie trailers. Maybe you wonder what a movie critic thinks of them. Actually, critics don't see as many as you do becau...
I'm So Tired! At Least, That's What My Head Is Telling Me
28 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In 1954, Roger Bannister did the previously unthinkable. He ran a mile in under four minutes. Six weeks later, his chief rival John Landy, did the sam...
Exploring What It Means To Be Jewish
27 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jews make up 2.2 percent of the population although it fluctuates depending on who gets counted. The U.S. Jewish population is roughly the same size, ...
The Many Moods of Hartford Stage's Darko Tresnjak
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Connecticut has been incredibly lucky in the directors who have made its regional theaters their basis of operations. Don't miss this full-length conv...
The Nose Goes Crazy Over Mad Max
22 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Setting into your movie theater seat for "Mad Max Fury Road" you are treated a series of trailers that remind you how many movie screens this year wil...
From Mozart to Radiohead: Sybarite5
21 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
From Mozart to Radiohead, Sybarite5’s eclectic repertoire and dynamic performance style is turning heads throughout the music world: “…that impa...
Understanding Hierarchies in Nature and Society
20 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Social structures, in almost all cases, are defined by some form of hierarchy. Whether in academics, sports, religion, business, or politics, there's ...
Transcending Gender Roles Across Cultures
18 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
As our culture continues to progress, one elephant in the room that seems to be growing harder to ignore is our views on human sexuality. The traditio...
A Serial Scramble: Podcast's Co-Creator Julie Snyder
18 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
If you listen to public radio, you probably know her name. If you don’t listen to public radio, then you probably know her name from the massively p...
The Nose Wonders Why Canned Hams Are Funny
15 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
David Letterman reinvented television. He's irreplaceable. He was a comedic revolution. According to President Obama, Letterman is "a part of all of u...
Was The American Revolution a Riot?
14 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Hartford is one of the poorest cities in America. While there is lots to love about this city, like the fact that poor minorities are not subject to t...
The Healing Power of Music: Colin McEnroe at Watkinson School
13 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of interconnected things were happening in the 1990s, an oncologist and hematologist named Mitchell Gaynor discovered through a Tibetan mo...
Nudism: No Shoes, No Shirt... No Problem!
12 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There are many kinds of nudism - or naturism. There are people who just like doing stuff while not wearing clothes. And there are those who believe th...
The Scramble: "Shoveling While Black" Leads Doug Glanville to State Capitol
11 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The discussion about race and police started long before the recent events in Baltimore, Ferguson, Staten Island, and many other communities. Last yea...
The Nose Gets All Dressed Up To Eat a Big Mac
08 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour on the nose: Sports! Did you know it’s a mistake to include content that makes light of domestic violence? Damn, why didn’t WE...
Practice of Forgiveness Shown to Help Victims Heal
06 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Think back to a time you felt wronged by someone. Does the memory of the injury still make you upset or cause you stress? Considering the amount ...
Think You Can Write a Broadway Song?
06 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
So, you think it's easy to write a Broadway song? I say not so fast. The four aspiring writing teams that attended Goodspeed's Festival of New Mu...
Living the Freelancer Life
05 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that the days of punching our clock for exactly forty hours is over. One of the alternatives that has risen in its place is what's called ...
The Psychology Behind Branding and the Changing Soda Industry
04 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When was the last time you enjoyed a sugary soft drink? If it's been a while, it may be because health movements have begun to turn consumers away fro...
The Nose Misses Howard K. Smith
01 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Which side are you on?In the mammoth PEN Awards kerfuffle, that is. Table captains have walked out over the award being given to the survivors fr...
Which Writers Get Museums?
30 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Twain has many literary sites; yet Henry James has none. You can visit Edith Wharton's house but not Shirley Jackson's. You can walk where Wallac...
Are We Predisposed to Believe in Religion More Than Science?
29 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
University of Kentucky Biology professor James Krupa is frustrated with the resistance of his non-biology students to accept the theory of evolution a...
Life, Death, Church, and ALS: a Conversation With Nancy Butler
28 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time Nancy Butler lived in the Beltway and used her MBA to secure a high paying job with a defense contractor. But Butler had consid...
A Tale of Two Leakers: Punishment Discrepancies in the Military
27 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Former general and CIA director David Petraeus will not go to jail for leaking classified information to his biographer and mistress. Last week, he wa...
The Nose: Ben Affleck Owned My Grandma
24 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
One of the unwritten rulers of a weekly culture show like The Nose is that, if you're willing to "go low," as they say, you could probably alternate b...
How Do We Even Know What Time It Is?
23 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There was a time when almost everyone wore a watch. There was a time when almost everyone had a mechanical clock in their home. There was a time when ...
The Science of Snake Oil
22 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We like to think of health care as an exact science: established guidelines, uniform practices, rigorously tested treatments vetted through extensive ...
A Conversation With Elizabeth Alexander
21 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ficre Ghebreyesus and Elizabeth Alexander were born two months apart in 1962, he in Eritrea, she in Harlem. They didn’t meet until 1996. He was an a...
The Scramble: America's Marathon Is Back in Boston
20 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Patriots' Day is a time for celebration in Boston and across the nation. The biggest event held on this day every year is the Boston Marathon, which h...
The Nose: Me and You and a Van Named Scooby
17 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We don't usually talk politics on The Nose, but that's OK, because Hillary Clinton isn't really talking politics (much) yet either. Instead...
Remembering the Black Panthers in New Haven
16 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Forty-five years ago, the attention of the nation and much of the world swung toward New Haven, where the murder trial of Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggi...
Live From Watkinson: A Conversation With David Edelstein
15 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody's a film critic, right? I mean, who walks out of a theater with no opinion about it? Also, nobody's a film critic. By that, I mean that most...
The Death of President Lincoln
14 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, we look back the event and how it changed America with two local histori...
Urban Violence: The People Behind the Statistics
13 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Governor Dannel Malloy last month announced he'll bring together a panel of community leaders and experts for the first time today to take a loo...
The Nose: Does This Fat Make Us Look Dressed?
10 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
“Let me just come right out and say it: I am fat.”We're not even sure when it started, but Candice Bergen, who was always perfect and who is still...
The Untold History Between the U.S. and Puerto Rico
09 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The United States has a long and complex relationship with Puerto Rico that changes dramatically depending on who is telling the tale. Support th...
Unraveling the Web of Deception
08 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We fool people all the time. Whether with bad intent or not, deception has become a common practice in today's society. While modern tools such as tex...
Anything to Get Ahead: How Cheating is Becoming a Standard Practice
07 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Cheating can be found everywhere these days. Whether in school, sports, business, politics or taxes, cheating it seems, is as much a part of our cultu...
The Scramble Hates Duke (But Isn't Sure Why)
06 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The stage is set for the national championship in men's Division I college basketball. Sure, your team might not be there, but you know who to root ag...
The Nose: Can You Be POTUS and Not Like Dogs? Can You Host TDS After a History of Rough Tweets?
03 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The only people who might have had a wilder roller coaster ride than Trevor Noah this week were the owners of Memories Pizza in Walkerton, India...
The Case Against Owning Exotic Pets
01 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's official: owning a dog or a cat is just not as cool as it used to be. Nowadays, anybody who's anybody owns a monkey, or a leopard, or a slow lori...
Smiling Will Get You Everywhere
31 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On the series "NewsRadio," the character played by Phil Hartman once said, "Experience once taught me that behind every toothy grin lies a second row...
Waking Up To The Morning Zoo
30 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
You're probably no stranger to the Morning Zoo if you were in your teens or twenties in the 1980's. Developed after the death of disco left Top ...
The Scramble Goes Clear
30 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend, HBO premiered a documentary about the Church of Scientology that has been generating headlines and controversy for months. What new info...
The Nose: "Footloose" in China; Sexy in South Windsor; Obsequious in Oklahoma
27 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Our topics today involve censorship, transgression, and reconciliation. Earlier in the week, The Nose panelists started talking about China's "da...
What's In a Name?
26 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Author Michael Erard is interested in how and why we name things - especially non-human objects and animals - and how naming affects our perceptions a...
Combating Corrosion: America's War on Rust
25 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Rust is all around us. It's in our cars, our homes, our infrastructure. It's also the subject of Jonathan Waldman's first book, Rust, which introduces...
The Scramble: Lewinsky Shames the Shamers; Art Gets Painted; and Lamar's On-Top of the Music World
23 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Before cyber-bullying was even a term, one person was experiencing it from the internet world mercilessly: Monica Lewinsky. Nearly 20 years after her ...
When Does a Medical Condition Become a Disease?
23 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Doctors have been treating the symptoms of their patients, often before they know the cause, for centuries. But as medicine has gained sophistication ...
The Nose Talks Race While Sipping Starbucks
20 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Starbucks is trying to start conversation about race relations in America, led by baristas across the nation. The effort has had mixed reviews. &...
Countering Extremism: Dismantling an Ideology Through the Power of Ideas
19 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Here in America we're taught to celebrate ideas, to think outside the box and to fan the flames of innovation whenever possible. But what do we do whe...
The Madness of the NCAA
17 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's that time of year again when productivity slides, sleep is lost and frustration runs high. No, there's not another financial crisis - just March ...
Connecticut Grown Tobacco
17 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Shade tobacco came to Connecticut in 1900 from the island of Sumatra, which was beginning to dominate the world of cigar wrappers. The leaf had a ligh...
What's It Like to Be a Pediatrician in the Internet Age?
16 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Sixty years ago, patients rarely questioned the authority of their doctors. Like the doctors portrayed on television, these older, wiser, and usually ...
A New Haven Nose: College Kids Behaving Badly
13 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Oppenheimer hosts an All-Star New-Haven Nose Panel from New Haven.For as long as fraternities have acted poorly, adults have quietly tolera...
Bring Back the Beaver
11 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we take a deeper look at the beaver.Beavers are sophisticated eco-engineers, one of few animals capable of broadening biodiversity and currentl...
The Plight of the Composeress
10 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, female composers have often found themselves overshadowed by their male counterparts. Take Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Anna Magdalena Bac...
Achieving Immortality: How Science Seeks to End Aging
09 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The dream to live forever has captivated mankind since the beginning. We see this in religion, literature, art, and present day pop-culture in a ...
The Scramble: Reopening "The Jinx"; Women on $20 Bills; Reaction From Selma
09 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A new HBO series raises new questions about murder suspect Robert Durst. He was found not guilty of one murder but remains on law enforcement's radar ...
The Nose Has Been Reading So Many Books
06 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In a couple of weeks the nation will be transfixed by a competition in which basketball teams advance through a tournament laid out as a series of bra...
The Romance of the North
05 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's cold, snowy winters like this that make us question why we choose to live in a place where snow, sleet, and wind define one-third of the year. &n...
What Will We Name It: The (Gulp) Hartford River Hogs?
04 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On Wednesday we find out the finalists for Hartford's new minor league baseball team. Will it be the Hartford Blue Frogs? How about the Hartford Honey...
Open Wide! The Story of Our Teeth
03 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour, we sink our teeth into, well, teeth! We find out why oral hygiene is so important to our health, and why Americans are so obsessed with str...
The Scramble: Our Past, Police, and Progressives
02 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Chu argues that Andrew Jackson is the worst president we've ever had, and his face should be removed from the $20 bill. For starters, Andr...
The Nose Tackles #llamas, the Robin Thicke Trial and the Dress That Broke the Internet
27 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What did we talk about before there was the dress? The dress was made for the Nose and vice versa. The Nose is our Friday session when we get sm...
Understanding the Human Microbiome
26 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We’re finally going to do a show about you! And when I say this, I’m not talking to the people listening, but to the microbes living in their armp...
Isn't It Time to (Really) Talk About Iraq?
25 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a newspaper column about the Brian Williams debacle, except it really wasn't about that. It's about the way a rela...
Who Killed the King?
24 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
One of the things you will learn this hour is how close New Haven came to being a possession of Spain. Even if you think you know the story of the New...
The Scramble: Oscars, Baseball and Coventry Market
23 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
I totally get the case against the Oscars and I look forward to hearing our friend Steve Almond make it on the show today. The case is that the creati...
The Nose: 2015 Oscar Edition!
20 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The Academy Awards are almost upon us! It's hard to focus on the best movies of 2014 when you're already looking forward to the next SpongeBob movie, ...
Unlocking the Mysteries of Alzheimer's Disease
18 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
My mother was an Alzheimer's patient. I think it's fair to say the disease killed her although like a lot of people in their 80's with serious illness...
Has Our View of Corruption Been Corrupted?
18 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There's a new anti-corruption task force in Connecticut replete with billboards asking the public to report the corrupt. This hour, we explore the his...
Innovation in the Arts: The Search Continues
17 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It's hard to imagine: the idea that the arts, the grand bastion of our creative genius, may soon be bankrupt. But are new ideas really an unlimited co...
The Nose Weeps at the Loss of Jon Stewart
13 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!On the next Nose, ...
Exploring What It Means To Be Jewish
12 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jews make up 2.2% of the population although it fluctuates depending on who gets counted. The U.S. Jewish population is roughly the same size, north o...
Gastromusicology: Exploring the Flavor of Sound
11 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In his book Classical Cooks, Hartt professor Ira Braus explores the link between musical and culinary taste. This hour, he joins us to explain the rel...
Visceral Voting: The Psychology Behind Picking a Politician
10 Feb 2015
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's Memory Betrays It
09 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
There is a lot of news about the fallibility of memory. Brian Williams is currently out of the NBC Nightly News anchor chair because of problems with ...
The Nose Remembers Broadcasting From the Alamo
06 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Our plan, from the beginning, for today’s episode of The Nose had been to ask the panelists to see “American Sniper” and then discuss this...
Eggstrordinary Eggs!
05 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Just about all of us eat eggs and when we say that, we mean chicken eggs. But, there are all kinds of other eggs you can eat. I cook occasionally with...
Beyond Mark Twain: A Conversation With Hal Holbrook
04 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
I get to talk to a lot of remarkable people and still I tell you that you're about to hear a conversation with one of the most remarkable people I've ...
Is the Television Sitcom Dead, Hurting, or Thriving?
03 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
People have been predicting the death of the sitcom since at least 1999, but the current TV season has been so toxic towards them that some observers ...
The M.B. Show: Mike Birbiglia and Mark Bittman
01 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
I know what you're asking yourself. You're thinking, I know the Colin McEnroe staff is amazing, but how do they manage to book two big celeb...
The Nose Only Watches the Super Bowl for the Commercials
30 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On the Nose this hour: pre-watching Super Bowl ads.Super Bowl advertisers have forced us (conned us?) to live in their world, not just for Sunday, but...
Giving Wings to Flight
29 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This hour: the story of Cameron Robertson and Todd Reichert's incredible journey to make "impossible flight" possible. Support the show: htt...