Lily Tyson
Senior Producer, The Colin McEnroe ShowLily is the senior producer for The Colin McEnroe Show. She's also a producer of the narrative podcasts 'Generation Barney' and 'Generation Gilmore Girls.' She first worked at Connecticut Public as an intern in 2014. She has previously worked for WBUR, KUNC and as a producer for the New England News Collaborative's weekly show Next. Lily can be reached at ltyson@ctpublic.org.
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This hour, we look at why so many people love the color blue, and what blue means in art and culture and our lexicon. Plus: Why are Democrats blue and Republicans red? And, the universe is getting less blue? -
This hour, we take a look at sycophants in literature and in politics. And we talk about sycophancy and artificial intelligence. -
This hour, the conversation winds around to elections, the gym, obituaries, Guillain-Barré syndrome… Anything. (Seemingly) everything. -
This hour: we take a look at our Constitution's Fifth Amendment to learn why it exists and what it means for all of us. -
Typos and misprints are as old as writing and printing. This hour, we take a look at them from the "Wicked Bible" to National Park signs and your email inbox. And: the changing status of human typos in the age of AI. -
This hour, a look at the No. 1 movie in the world, Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ and Homer’s 12,000-line, nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem that it’s based on. -
What would it mean if nothing matters? This hour, a look at the philosophy of nihilism, and how it shows up online and in children's books. -
This hour, we discuss stories of undoing: domestic and global politics in the Trump-era, a project that transformed a river’s ecology, and whether Pluto really deserved that demotion. -
We all love an underdog story. But why? This hour, we take a look at underdogs from David and Goliath to Rocky to The World Cup. -
This hour we take a look at the psychology of boredom to learn what's happening in our minds when we're bored, and if there's any benefit to it. Plus, a look at boredom through history and literature. And, what makes a movie boring?
