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The Colin McEnroe Show Connecticut Public
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4.5 • 178 Ratings
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The Colin McEnroe Show is public radio’s most eclectic, eccentric weekday program. The best way to understand us is through the subjects we tackle: Neanderthals, tambourines, handshakes, the Iliad, snacks, ringtones, punk rock, Occam’s razor, Rasputin, houseflies, zippers. Are you sensing a pattern? If so, you should probably be in treatment. On Fridays, we try to stop thinking about what kind of ringtones Neanderthals would want to have and convene a panel called The Nose for an informal roundtable about the week in culture.
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'Our President is not a King': Examining the January 6 and presidential immunity cases in the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently started hearing oral arguments about whether the January 6 attacks constitute obstruction of an official proceeding. Tomorrow, they'll hear arguments on Trump's claim of presidential immunity. This hour, a status update on the confusing, monumental, and democracy-defining goings-on in the Supreme Court.
GUESTS:
Melissa Murray: Professor of Law at NYU, a host of the podcast “Strict Scrutiny,” and co-author of the book, “The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary.”
Holly Brewer: Burke Chair of American Cultural and Intellectual History and Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland.
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The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode!
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Colin McEnroe and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.
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The late Daniel Dennett on consciousness, faith, and more
Daniel Dennett was one of the most famous philosophers in the world, one of the so-called “Four Horsemen of the New Atheism.”
Dennett died April 19 at age 82.
This hour, our 2015 conversation with Daniel Dennett, as recorded onstage at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford.
GUEST:
Daniel Dennett: Was a philosopher, writer and and the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University
The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode!
Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show.
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Colin McEnroe, Betsy Kaplan, Dylan Reyes, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired January 21, 2016, in a different form.
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A look at juries, from '12 Angry Men' to the Trump trial
It took almost a week to select the jurors and alternates for the Manhattan trial of former President Donald Trump. This hour is all about juries. We'll talk about jury selection, how to root out potential bias, and the process of choosing an impartial jury in this day and age. Plus, we'll look at depictions of juries in popular culture. And, some of the jury selection questions have to do with what media a person consumes, so we'll look at what the media we consume can say about us, and discuss media bias.
GUESTS:
Renato Mariotti: Trial attorney and partner at the law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. He is a former federal prosecutor, and host of the “It’s Complicated” podcast
Nancy Marder: Professor of Law, Director of the Justice John Paul Stevens Jury Center and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and the Humanities at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Tech. She is author of The Power of the Jury: Transforming Citizens Into Jurors
Vanessa Otero: Creator of the Media Bias Chart and the Founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media
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Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show.
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Colin McEnroe and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.
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An hour with Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes won two Tony Awards for his musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. His single “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. His dramedy Remember WENN was AMC’s first original scripted series. And his newest novel, Murder Your Employer, was a New York Times bestseller.
This hour: Rupert Holmes.
GUEST:
Rupert Holmes: Playwright, composer, singer-songwriter, and author
The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode!
Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show.
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Colin McEnroe and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.
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The Nose looks at ‘Civil War’ and ‘Manhunt’
In January, we did a show that wondered both how much the American Civil War speaks to the present American moment and how likely a new American Civil War might be. Well, movies and television have now, finally caught up with us.
Civil War is the fourth film written and directed by Alex Garland. It tells the story of the end of a future second American Civil War as four journalists — played by Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, and Stephen McKinley Henderson — move through it. Civil War is currently the No. 1 movie in the country.
And: Manhunt is a seven-episode limited series on Apple TV+. It is based on the book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson. It’s a conspiracy thriller that focuses on War Secretary Edwin Stanton (as played by Tobias Menzies) leading the chase and on John Wilkes Booth (Anthony Boyle) as he’s being chased.
GUESTS:
Taneisha Duggan: Associate producer at Octopus Theatricals
Xandra Ellin: A producer at Pineapple Street Studios
Frankie Graziano: Host of The Wheelhouse on Connecticut Public
Matthew Warshauer: Professor of history at Central Connecticut State University, and he’s the author of the forthcoming book Creating and Failing the 9/11 Generation: The Real Story of September 11
The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode!
Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show.
Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter.
Colin McEnroe and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.
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A look at Trump’s hush money trial, the Golden Divorce, and slouching
This hour, we've got one show with three topics. First, the Trump 'hush money' trial; next, the history of slouch-shaming; and finally, the Golden Bachelor's divorce news.
GUESTS:
Mark Joseph Stern: Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law
Beth Linker: Professor and Chair of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her recently-released book is called “Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America.”
Kay Brown: Host of the Bachelor recap podcast, “The Betchelor”
Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter.
The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode!
Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show.
Colin McEnroe and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show.
Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Customer Reviews
One of a Kind
Hyper verbose…but…host displays a vast intellectual curiosity…some excellent programs…some silly (pajamas?)…overall prefer Colin’s show to:
Fresh Air -which has come to rely way too much on streaming series that I DON’T HAVE AND CANT AFFORD. (Why does she feel compelled to go for the dirty laundry…or as Keith Richards said regarding intimate Mick Jagger details he wouldn’t reveal: “nice try, Terry”.)
Musical interludes and introductions from jokey sidekick (think Ed McMann’s nightly “here’s Johnny”…sometimes almost funny but more often lame…nevertheless give the show a certain flavor/identity I suppose.
He can be presumptuous…(what ya expect from a Yalie)…and opinionated but not afraid of the off beat or prosaic…well read, probing, questioning, blazing verbal gymnastics, and a solid grasp of too many aspects of western culture to be aired on any radio network outside an Ivy League university.
Bottom line: Tune in or miss out. You never know what’s coming next.
Great Fun
Any one who awarded less than five stars is a liar.
Episode 7?! Surprise!
I was just about to re-listen to series & #7 dropped. Serendipitous even if it is an interview with the cell-of-origin. While not a fan, always believed Newt to be highly intelligent & agreed with a few of his insights early in interview. But his arrogance & lack of humility bleed through & am reminded, imo, his perennial emergence from behind scenes to spotlight isn’t driven by altruistic compulsion to serve, but ambition for power, relevance, & control how history will be inaccurately recorded. Pretty rich for him to point at “elite media” (he’s apparently looking at you, Steve) for inciting rage in “fascist left” when he introduced this, literally “wrote the playbook” & handed out study guides. The OG of gaslighters, Gingrich disdainfully refers to “woke culture” like Hannity & Tucker do, as if they feel like they’re using the N-word & getting away with it. Kornacki is so respectful & diplomatic (& NG was gracious/egotistical enough to sit down post-production to give his perspective/“make corrections”) but I wished he had pushed back a little when Newt was trying to heat-up rhetoric & false narrative under “how liberals ruining education” & “teaching gender selection in grade school” pots. I can’t with the hypocrisy that democratIC party will ram their partisan agenda through and “destroy everyone in their way” to get there. Kinda cute, coming from the newt who, as Speaker, SAID he would torch the place, SET the bonfire, & even now can’t help gloating a little admitting he did it. PLEASE, Steve Kornacki, drop Episode 8, “Director’s Cut”, it can’t end like that…. Oh I know, you won’t see this TLDR rant…