Jonathan McNicol
Producer, The Colin McEnroe Show / Host, The Second First SeasonJonathan started at WNPR in 2010. He is as likely to produce a show on America’s jury system as he is a story on all the grossest parts of the human body. He's as likely to host a podcast on minor league baseball as he is to cover a presidential debate almost by accident. His work has been heard nationally on NPR and locally on WNPR’s talk shows and news magazines.
He lives in Hamden with his wife, two kids, and an idiot dog.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: The Three Music Musketeers return! Are you bored with your playlist? We’ve reunited our trio of music mavens — novelist Wally Lamb, critic Eric Danton, and not-killed-by-video radio star Joan Holliday — to freshen up your music choices with great recommendations. Warning: This program includes banter. -
This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: Humor equals tragedy plus time. OK, but then the logical next question is: How much time? There’s a line there somewhere, right? Or are some topics just never going to be funny?
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a conversation not exactly about the recent anti-CRT hysteria on the right and not exactly about extreme wokeness on the left, but about how we talk and write and think and teach so that we acknowledge the wrongs of the past and how they show up in the present. Without driving each other nuts.
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On The Colin McEnroe Show: It seems we’re fascinated by forensic psychology, by mindhunting, by criminal profiling.This hour, we look at three different criminal profilers.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a look at the art of obituaries and obituarists.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, our pop culture roundtable, The Nose, tackles the week's newest nonsense news.
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On The Colin McEnroe Show: There’s a theory that ours isn’t the only universe. That there are, actually, infinitely many universes.That there are, then, infinitely many yous. So, this hour, in this universe, a show about all that. Or (at least) one version of a show about all that.
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On The Colin McEnroe Show: How far would you go? How far would you go, for instance, to convince people to get vaccinated? Vaccination is, in a way, a test run. It’s a test run for some of the other big challenges we face. Like, for instance, climate change. How far would you go?
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This hour, on The Colin McEnroe Show: For decades, Christian evangelicals were the fastest-growing religious group in this country. Now, young evangelicals are abandoning the faith. And: A new competitive edge in pro sports — the COVID vaccines. And finally: our conversation with Wally Funk. Tomorrow, at age 82, she'll become the oldest person ever to fly to space.
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The Colin McEnroe Show's weekly pop culture roundtable, The Nose, tackles the week’s newest nonsense news. This hour, a look at Marvel’s Black Widow and Tim Robinson’s Netflix sketch comedy show, I Think You Should Leave.
