The Colin McEnroe Show

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.

The Colin McEnroe Show is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 1,000 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  We’re lonelier than ever. Being “a regular” could help.

  Sep 30, 202650 min

  Do you have a place where everybody knows your coffee order? Your cat's name? How you like your eggs? Then congrats! You're a regular! This hour, we explore the value of becoming a regular (and how to do so) in our ever disconnected society. Plus, we hear about the regulars of Claire's Corner Copia in New Haven. GUESTS: Gillian Sandstrom:  Associate Professor in the Psychology of Kindness at the University of Sussex. Mark Alan Burger:  Social Media Editor at  Esquire , and the author of “The Lost Art of Being a Regular”. Claire Criscuolo:  Owner of Claire’s Corner Copia in New Haven. Music featured (in order): Feelin’ Good Again  – Robert Earl Kleen Where Everybody Knows Your Name (Cheers Theme)  – Gary Portnoy Here Comes a Regular  – The Replacements Violetta’s  – Dave’s True Story Bobo’s – Liza Minnelli Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)  – Tom Waits Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Radical or relevant? How the Luddites can help us relate to today’s technology

  Sep 29, 202650 min

  Today “Luddite” is used as a derogatory term for someone who doesn’t understand technology. But the original Luddites weren’t behind. They were technical workers who were concerned about the impact that technology would have on people. This hour, we look at the history of Luddites, how their philosophy applies today, and ask what our present would look like if they had won. Could we all gain something from thinking more like a Luddite? GUESTS: Miriam A. Cherry: Professor of law at St. John’s University and the author of  Work in the Digital Age: A Coursebook on Labor, Technology, and Regulation Brian Merchant: Author of  Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech Gavin Mueller: Assistant professor of new media and digital culture at the University of Amsterdam and the author of  Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job 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, Eugene Amatruda, and Jonathan McNicol contributed to this show, which originally aired August 21, 2023. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  All calls: 'Quiltin' with Paris Hilton' could never be a thing

  Sep 28, 202649 min

  We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing. This hour, the conversation winds around to  Lonesome Dove , the public intellectual, how to talk in more complex sentences, tragedy and tragic figures today, quilting, the music of 1976… Anything. (Seemingly) everything. These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we did another one. Music featured (in order): Pizza  – Eitan Kenner, Natalie Tenenbaum Bite Your Tongue  – Duncan Sheik Hudson  – Henry Jamison (feat. Lady Lamb) A car wash and a new pair of pants  – Lizzy McAlpine I Will Be Blowing More Jazz in the Future  – Dan Reeder Waters of March  – Cassandra Wilson Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  The Nose looks at ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ and ‘Lanterns’

  Sep 25, 202650 min

  This special edition of The Nose — guest hosted and co-hosted (!) by comedian and writer Shawn Murray and journalist and noted bat expert Lindsay Lee Wallace — looks at: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a satirical surrealist psychological romance slasher film with a film-within-a-film narrative. It’s the third feature film written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun and their followup to I Saw the TV Glow . Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. And: Lanterns is the third TV series and fifth entry overall in Chapter One: Gods and Monsters of the DC Universe. It is created by Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof, and Tom King, and it’s meant to tell a Green Lantern story kind of in the style of TV shows like True Detective and Slow Horses . Lanterns stars Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan and Aaron Pierre as John Stewart. 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 . Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Exploring the myth and metaphor of Cassandra and the price of foresight

  Sep 24, 202650 min

  You’ve likely heard the Greek myth of Cassandra, a woman given the gift of prophecy who was cursed never to be believed. This hour, a look at the Cassandra story and its relevance today, including some real-life Cassandras, like the diplomat who tried to stop World War II and the public health official who tried to warn us about the COVID-19 pandemic. GUESTS: Joel Christensen: Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center; author of  The Many-Minded Man: The Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic Charity Dean: CEO, founder, and chairman of the Public Health Company Steve Kemper: Author of  Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor Amanda Rees: Historian of science at the University of York and the author of  Human The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Google Podcasts , 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, Jonathan McNicol, and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired January 25, 2023. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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