The Colin McEnroe Show
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We're reading fewer books. That's not good
50 mins; June 10, 2025
All calls: Sometimes the goo gets out
49 mins; June 09, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Dept. Q’ and ‘Pee-wee as Himself’
49 mins; June 06, 2025
This show isn’t waterproof, but your raincoat might be: The history of waterproofing our tech and everyday products
49 mins; June 05, 2025
From totes to Birkins, handbags hold the keys to the world (along with your wallet and phone)
49 mins; June 04, 2025
Two thumbs up: A show all about fingers
50 mins; June 03, 2025
This is your host on ketamine
49 mins; June 02, 2025
An hour with Griffin Dunne
50 mins; May 30, 2025
The humble fly
50 mins; May 29, 2025
How robots, and our attitudes toward them, have evolved
50 mins; May 28, 2025
Building utopia
50 mins; May 27, 2025
We can never escape The Rock: A look at Alcatraz
49 mins; May 23, 2025
The value of expertise in a world where everybody knows everything
49 mins; May 22, 2025
All calls: Just because you’re exhausted doesn’t mean you have to turn into a Ringwraith
49 mins; May 21, 2025
From zeppelins to dirigibles to the Goodyear Blimp, airships capture our imagination
49 mins; May 20, 2025
Why ticks are on the rise and how humans are fighting back
50 mins; May 19, 2025
Is this just the worst era of American pop culture … ever?
49 mins; May 16, 2025
A salute to accordions
50 mins; May 15, 2025
What Wikipedia can teach us about truth, information, and random trivia
49 mins; May 14, 2025
All calls: Which is worse, translating Cicero or laughing to death?
49 mins; May 12, 2025
Our tribute to Jill Sobule
50 mins; May 09, 2025
Fashion Critic Vanessa Friedman discusses Trump's (second) first hundred days in fashion, clothes and politics, and more
49 mins; May 08, 2025
Are you still the you that you used to be? And other questions of self-continuity
50 mins; May 07, 2025
O Romeo (and Juliet): The lasting appeal of Shakespeare’s tragedy
49 mins; May 06, 2025
Should I stay or should I go: Callers contemplate leaving the country
49 mins; May 05, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Sinners’ and our culture consumption in anxious times
42 mins; May 02, 2025
From boredom to handwriting: Christine Rosen on the embodied experiences we lose to technology
42 mins; May 01, 2025
There are rules for punctuation, but we don’t always agree on them
50 mins; April 30, 2025
We're still pushing the boulder on the meaning of Sisyphus
49 mins; April 29, 2025
All calls: Temporary tattoos, Americans emigrating, ‘MobLand,’ and more
49 mins; April 28, 2025
Cut for time: More from our Bacharach / Warwick show at Watkinson
21 mins; April 26, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Conclave’ and ‘MobLand’
49 mins; April 25, 2025
What the world needs now: The chemistry of Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick
50 mins; April 24, 2025
Nothing to see here: Erasure in history, art and more
49 mins; April 23, 2025
The fungus among us
49 mins; April 22, 2025
All calls: Remembering Pope Francis, grammar complaints, face touching, and more
49 mins; April 21, 2025
Long live the movie musical
50 mins; April 18, 2025
Why both the American dream and tragedy of 'The Great Gatsby' still resonate today
42 mins; April 17, 2025
Where have all the public toilets gone?
41 mins; April 16, 2025
The echoes of the Red Scare can be heard today
41 mins; April 15, 2025
All calls: Protests, comedy, universities, bees, and more
49 mins; April 14, 2025
Wild and crazy guys: A look at ’80s comedies
42 mins; April 11, 2025
‘The Good Place’ creator Michael Schur explains how to be a good person
41 mins; April 10, 2025
Why Jane Austen’s work endures, on the page and screen
41 mins; April 09, 2025
Damn the torpedo (bats): Baseball is back!
49 mins; April 08, 2025
All calls: Rhododendrons, the economy, pickleball, and more
54 mins; April 07, 2025
The joy of bad movies
50 mins; April 04, 2025
Shall we dance?
50 mins; April 03, 2025
We’re still bananas for The Monkees
49 mins; April 02, 2025
A look at cultural manias from Liszt and orchids to the Beatles and beyond
50 mins; April 01, 2025
All calls: Sen. Chris Murphy, John Donne, rooting for blowouts (or not), and more
55 mins; March 31, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Adolescence’ and ‘Long Bright River’
49 mins; March 28, 2025
A tribute to the proud and peaceful pigeon
50 mins; March 27, 2025
Historian Timothy Snyder helps us understand this current moment through the lessons of history
48 mins; March 26, 2025
From hot mics to mic drops, a celebration of the microphone
49 mins; March 25, 2025
All calls: The zipper merge, ‘American Pie,’ music streaming services, and more
48 mins; March 24, 2025
From The Bad Ideas Dept.: Today’s show is not about tapirs
50 mins; March 21, 2025
Live from a forest: Discussing hiking, archaeology, invasives, and Connecticut's trails
48 mins; March 20, 2025
March Madness 2025
49 mins; March 19, 2025
What the history of the McKinley era, tariffs, and the Gilded Age can teach us about the present
49 mins; March 18, 2025
All calls: Will we ever get back to The Shire? Is Colin ok? Is anyone? And more
49 mins; March 17, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘I’m Still Here’ and the dearth of old movies on Netflix
49 mins; March 14, 2025
An unusually strange event: Nikolai Gogol, ‘The Inspector,’ and ‘The Nose’
49 mins; March 13, 2025
Necks: More than just something we have a pain in
49 mins; March 12, 2025
Bring back the beaver!
48 mins; March 11, 2025
All calls: Dissent, Adam and Eve, therapy, and more
49 mins; March 10, 2025
How WWE got a chokehold on U.S. politics
49 mins; March 07, 2025
Turns out common sense isn’t all that common
48 mins; March 06, 2025
The secret lives of numbers
50 mins; March 05, 2025
All calls: Booing, showering, pinball (again), suits, and more
49 mins; March 04, 2025
The Noscars 2025
49 mins; March 03, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Severance’ and ‘Rosebud Baker: The Mother Lode’
49 mins; February 28, 2025
The romance of the north
49 mins; February 27, 2025
A show about how we pick the music for shows
50 mins; February 26, 2025
All calls: Pinball, voting with your dollars, winter, model trains, and more
49 mins; February 25, 2025
Beyond woods and roads: The life and poetry of Robert Frost
49 mins; February 24, 2025
‘Live from New York!’ A look at ‘Saturday Night’ and ‘SNL’
48 mins; February 21, 2025
One man’s bureaucracy is another’s “deep state”
49 mins; February 20, 2025
Shell we talk about eggs?
49 mins; February 19, 2025
All calls: Reacting to Trump's presidency, football, the genius of younger generations, and more
49 mins; February 18, 2025
A look at one of our most forgotten presidents: Chester A. Arthur
49 mins; February 17, 2025
Should theaters have to tell us the real movie start times?
50 mins; February 14, 2025
The secret language of animals and how we're learning to understand it
49 mins; February 13, 2025
An appreciation of squirrels
50 mins; February 12, 2025
Everyday Carry: Unpacking what we carry with us and why
49 mins; February 11, 2025
All calls: Talking with friends, the King of Haiti, worrying about the future, and more
49 mins; February 10, 2025
The Nose looks at ‘Sing Sing’ and ‘American Primeval’
49 mins; February 07, 2025
'I once had a dentist named Dr. Fillmore': Stories of nominative determinism
49 mins; February 06, 2025
It’s time to talk about the alphabet in the room
50 mins; February 05, 2025
Eventually the world will end. Why can't we stop imagining it?
49 mins; February 04, 2025
All calls: Connecticut’s Grammy winners, the ‘SNL’ music doc, and just a general searching for the way forward
49 mins; February 03, 2025
From ‘Ninotchka’ to ‘Love Actually’: A celebration of the romantic comedy
42 mins; January 31, 2025
Occam’s razor makes the case for simplicity in a complex world
41 mins; January 30, 2025
The weird and fundamental idea that is zero
49 mins; January 29, 2025
A big, hulking, concrete look at brutalism
49 mins; January 28, 2025
I'm having writer's block writing this headline about writer's block
49 mins; January 27, 2025
‘A kind of musical Mark Twain’: A look at Randy Newman
50 mins; January 24, 2025
How should we treat the dead?
50 mins; January 23, 2025
Socrates' lessons on life, death, and conversation with Agnes Callard
49 mins; January 22, 2025
All calls: The inauguration, ‘The Price Is Right,’ Van Gogh, Klaus Schulze, and more
49 mins; January 21, 2025