“The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately.” — Thomas Paine
The Colin McEnroe Show endeavors to prove Paine correct, every weekday. While the topics are unpredictable from one day to the next (previous show topics include whistling, placebos, politics, the nature of divinity, Barbra Streisand, bedbugs, human hydration, dinosaurs, unreliable narrators, ugliness, and raccoons), what is always assured is that a thoughtful, smart, and interesting exploration and conversation with amazing guests will take place about something.
Colin McEnroe is an author, playwright, professor, columnist, and blogger, who is allergic to penicillin and enjoys photographing his dog wearing hats and publishing those photos to the internet.
Contact The Colin McEnroe Show:
- Producer: Jonathan McNicol
- Senior Director: Catie Talarski
- Technical Producer: Cat Pastor
When we're on the air and taking calls, reach us at 888-720-9677.
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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. -
Treasure hunts are prolific across literature, film and history. This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we talk about treasure hunts, including what happens when you drop one in the present day.
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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's weekly pop culture roundtable, The Nose, a look at Schmigadoon! and Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised).
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This hour on the Colin McEnroe Show, we take your calls about Olympian Simone Biles. She withdrew from competition on Tuesday to focus on her mental health. And the House selection committee hearing on the January 6th Capitol attack, happening this week.
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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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The Colin McEnroe ShowThe 2020 Olympics began late last week in Tokyo, Japan. This hour: we look back at the opening weekend, and ahead at the rest of the games.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, our pop culture roundtable, The Nose, tackles the week's newest nonsense news.
