The Colin McEnroe Show
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A look back at more than 200 years of Frankenstein (and his monster)
50 mins; October 30, 2025
Mysteries, hoaxes, and magic: Decoding mystifying manuscripts
49 mins; October 29, 2025
The road to sainthood: Who’s on it and how did they get there?
50 mins; October 28, 2025
All Calls: Not everyone involved in this episode went to the bathroom beforehand
49 mins; October 27, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Mr. Scorsese’ and ‘No Other Land’
50 mins; October 24, 2025
A tribute to the proud and peaceful pigeon
50 mins; October 23, 2025
The ‘father of history’ would have some thoughts about our present
49 mins; October 22, 2025
From hot mics to mic drops, a celebration of the microphone
49 mins; October 21, 2025
All Calls: Trump’s AI video is so Skibidi Toilet
49 mins; October 20, 2025
It can be an art, too: On murder and more in Hitchcock’s close quarters
58 mins; October 17, 2025
A look at the women buried in the footnotes of scientific discovery
42 mins; October 16, 2025
Rope has been knotting humanity together for centuries
42 mins; October 15, 2025
Today: Did episode on notebooks & diaries, bought kiwi fruit, had teeth cleaning
41 mins; October 14, 2025
Chion Wolf takes your calls (again)!
40 mins; October 13, 2025
From chorus lines to emus: A look at the stage musical
41 mins; October 10, 2025
A look at the next pandemic with Michael T. Osterholm
50 mins; October 09, 2025
Words, words, words: A look at style guides and Britishisms in American English
41 mins; October 08, 2025
A tribute to cereal: Kid tested, mother approved
49 mins; October 07, 2025
All calls: Be who you want to be. Not who the midges want you to
49 mins; October 06, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘The Lowdown’
48 mins; October 03, 2025
The secret lives of numbers
50 mins; October 02, 2025
Multiple wars rage on. Does the Nobel Peace Prize still matter?
49 mins; October 01, 2025
It’s time to talk about the alphabet in the room
50 mins; September 30, 2025
All calls: In a world of Gumby folk, I’m a Pokey
49 mins; September 29, 2025
The music and mystery of Nick and Molly Drake
48 mins; September 26, 2025
What can we learn from the myth of Antigone? For one, it’s so 2025
49 mins; September 25, 2025
Shark fever: The lore of the great white
50 mins; September 24, 2025
Necks: More than just something we have a pain in
49 mins; September 23, 2025
All Calls: If you give a mouse a vasectomy, can you keep your Hulu subscription?
49 mins; September 22, 2025
The Nose looks at Jimmy Kimmel, ‘The Paper’ and ‘The Naked Gun’
49 mins; September 19, 2025
A show about psychics! (But they already knew that)
50 mins; September 18, 2025
Fly with us to Neverland: Why we're forever hooked on Peter Pan
49 mins; September 17, 2025
Turns out common sense isn’t all that common
50 mins; September 16, 2025
Chion Wolf takes your calls!
49 mins; September 15, 2025
Laura Nyro was the Emily Dickinson of American pop music
50 mins; September 12, 2025
‘Never be the same’: 24 years in the shadow of 9/11
50 mins; September 11, 2025
Sugar highs (and lows): A history of "white gold"
50 mins; September 10, 2025
Neither snow nor rain nor heat... A history of the U.S. Postal Service
48 mins; September 09, 2025
All calls: What's the name of the zip line at the Robert Frost Fantasy Camp?
49 mins; September 08, 2025
How Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman can help us break the spell of technology on our lives
49 mins; September 05, 2025
Beyond woods and roads: The life and poetry of Robert Frost
50 mins; September 04, 2025
An ode to the sun
50 mins; September 03, 2025
Rum raisin, Ryan Reynolds, flies grooming themselves … the acid is starting to kick in
49 mins; September 02, 2025
What’s wrong with men: A look at Michael Douglas movies with Jessa Crispin
49 mins; August 29, 2025
Colin and Dylan tell you what the song of the summer should have been
50 mins; August 28, 2025
Tangle's Isaac Saul has us look at both sides and beyond
49 mins; August 27, 2025
The battle for butter
50 mins; August 26, 2025
First Colin takes your calls and then Senator Chris Murphy does
49 mins; August 25, 2025
Senator Chris Murphy takes your calls and reflects on the fight to save democracy
30 mins; August 25, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ and ‘Alien: Earth’
50 mins; August 22, 2025
What is culture without the guidance of critics?
49 mins; August 21, 2025
Why does "like" bother us so much?
49 mins; August 20, 2025
The unfolding evolution of origami
50 mins; August 19, 2025
All calls: Why ABBA will never win the Nobel Peace Prize
49 mins; August 18, 2025
What the golden age of Condé Nast can tell us about the future of magazines
48 mins; August 15, 2025
190 years after his birth, Mark Twain is as relevant (and funny) as ever
49 mins; August 14, 2025
One leg at a time: The history of women and pants
50 mins; August 13, 2025
Smiling will get you everywhere
50 mins; August 12, 2025
All calls: If you try to talk on the radio with your radio on your head will explode
48 mins; August 11, 2025
You may be wrong, but you may be right: A look at Billy Joel
50 mins; August 08, 2025
This show is the cat’s pajamas
49 mins; August 07, 2025
The intangibility of ‘good taste,' from literature to food
49 mins; August 06, 2025
Combating corrosion: The war on rust
50 mins; August 05, 2025
All calls: Mordor is no longer theoretical
48 mins; August 04, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Eddington’ and ‘Sunday Best’
48 mins; August 01, 2025
Monsters: A look at the real, the fake, and the friendly
49 mins; July 31, 2025
‘A most confounding affliction’: A look at headaches
49 mins; July 30, 2025
'Tis a show about castles, me Lord
50 mins; July 29, 2025
All calls: You probably bought a Joni Mitchell Toaster
49 mins; July 28, 2025
What if tug of war were still an Olympic sport? And other questions with Mike Pesca
50 mins; July 25, 2025
How reality TV shapes our politics
49 mins; July 24, 2025
‘Sing, O muse!’ A look at muses and how we evoke them
49 mins; July 23, 2025
The wonder of termites
50 mins; July 22, 2025
All calls: Do you mind if I borrow your linen closet?
49 mins; July 21, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Superman’ and Stephen Colbert
49 mins; July 18, 2025
‘Murder in the Dollhouse’: Jennifer Dulos and our fascination with true crime
49 mins; July 17, 2025
The secret language of animals and how we're learning to understand it
50 mins; July 17, 2025
Eventually the world will end. Why can't we stop imagining it?
50 mins; July 15, 2025
The first rule about invisible rabbits is you do not talk about invisible rabbits
49 mins; July 14, 2025
Alive and well in our imaginations: Dinosaurs in pop culture
49 mins; July 11, 2025
Alissa Wilkinson on Joan Didion, Hollywood, and American mythmaking
49 mins; July 10, 2025
Nothing lasts forever, except maybe Stoicism
49 mins; July 09, 2025
An appreciation of squirrels
50 mins; July 08, 2025
All calls: Bug poop and happy elks hold the world together
49 mins; July 07, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Ironheart’ and The New York Times’ best 100 movies of the century list
49 mins; July 03, 2025
The story of book chapters, one page at a time
50 mins; July 02, 2025
All calls: Are you car shopping in an animated movie?
49 mins; July 01, 2025
Socrates' lessons on life, death, and conversation with Agnes Callard
49 mins; June 30, 2025
‘A kind of musical Mark Twain’: A look at Randy Newman
50 mins; June 27, 2025
The real lives of the Vikings
49 mins; June 26, 2025
Our relationship with rest is changing, and it’s about time
49 mins; June 25, 2025
Who are epigraphs for?
50 mins; June 24, 2025
Why don’t people say ‘you’re welcome’ anymore? Good question
48 mins; June 23, 2025
Live from Watkinson: The legacy of Brian Wilson
42 mins; June 20, 2025
Exploring astrology: Do stars really impact us?
42 mins; June 18, 2025
You want me to eat what?! An examination of disgust
42 mins; June 17, 2025
The toll of perfectionism
42 mins; June 16, 2025
The Nose says goodbye to Brian Wilson and looks at ‘The Phoenician Scheme’
48 mins; June 13, 2025
Song of the summer, 2025
48 mins; June 12, 2025
The animating power of rivers with writer Robert Macfarlane
49 mins; June 11, 2025