The Colin McEnroe Show

Geno Auriemma has been a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame since 2006, and he's coached the UConn Women's Basketball team since 1985. This hour, Coach Auriemma joins us to talk about anything and everything... Anything and everything except basketball. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Few things evoke such antipathy and condemnation from the western world than the idea of children toiling away for low pay in dangerous conditions. And while there are cases of child labor which truly warrant our concern, the broader truth is a bit more complicated. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harvey Weinstein was vanquished from atop his powerful perch just over two months ago after an investigation by the  New York Times uncovered allegations of sexual harassment and assault that lasted over three decades. The women were finally ready to talk - and they're still talking.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Patti Smith wasn't seeking fame when she landed in Manhattan in 1969.  She was a fan of the greats of the day - like Dylan, Mapplethorpe, Pollock, Ginsberg - who she followed and emulated, hoping to find her own creative space next to those she most admired.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My mom would take me and my brothers to the beach on summer days when I was a little kid. I couldn't yet swim but I could stand in Long Island Sound when the tide was low and my brothers were close enough to save me if I fell. I loved it. On the way home, we'd pile into the back of our station wagon, roll down the windows and stop at the donut shop for a dozen sugar-coated jelly donuts.  We'd...

Marie Antoinette's breasts were believed to inspire the design of the shallow French champagne coupes we see on the shelves of the local Pottery Barn. Mae West noted in her 1959 memoir, Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It , that she regularly rubbed cocoa butter on her breasts and spritzed them with cold water. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

Jaws , Jurassic Park , Indiana Jones. Schindler's List , Saving Private Ryan . Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial . And the list goes on. Steven Spielberg is very simply the most successful filmmaker in the history of filmmaking. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John McPhee is a writer's writer. He's thought of as one of the progenitors of the New Journalism, of creative nonfiction or narrative nonfiction, along with people like Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson. But his style is... quiter than those folks'. His writing is transparent. He tends to keep himself out of the narrative. He doesn't even, in fact, have an author photo. Support the...

Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is probably the funniest movie you'll ever see about a mother trying to avenge the rape and murder of her daughter. And... that's pretty much all I need to say about it, don't you think? The Nose, though, has much more to say about it. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

At President Trump's first full cabinet meeting in June 2017, we watched with some amusement while each member expressed over-the-top gratitude for the president's giving them the privilege to serve him and/or the American people.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Voodoo is more than just a misunderstood religion, its practice draws on age-old beliefs, cultural elements, and folk traditions from a multitude of nations and ethnic groups. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The bands Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Rush, Asia, and Styx have sold, literally, hundreds of millions of albums. And that's despite the fact that This Is Spinal Tap is a devastatingly accurate spoofing of, ya know... all those bands. This hour: a look at the rise and fall of progressive rock. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/list...

Today's Scramble will be another all-call show. We won't have any guests -  just you and your calls to Colin.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mistrust of the government's version of the facts... Paranoid conspiracy theories... Allegations of treason... Distrust of American institutions... Controversial governmental investigations... You might say that America's modern era started 54 years ago today in Dallas. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Radiation is everywhere. It's emitted by our sun, by cat litter, by bananas and occasionally by nuclear bombs. It's even emitted by you, and by me, and by every living (and dead) person in the world. So why are we so scared of something so prevalent in our everyday lives? Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The House of Representatives passed a 440-page tax bill Thursday that was introduced two short weeks ago. Among other things, the bill would remove deductions  important to people with big medical expenses and college tuitions and ultimately hit hardest those making $75,000 or less.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's been a crazy week. (Of course, they're all crazy weeks.) As such, this week's crazy Nose tries to rapid-fire its way through as many crazy topics as possible in its crazy 49 minutes. Some of the crazy possibilities: Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I have traveled to three foreign countries since President Trump was elected. While I have always been proud to be American, even as I criticize much in my country, I was humbled by what people thought of America in the countries I visited. They were puzzled by our health care system, and appalled by our guns and voter apathy.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/l...

There are an estimated 10 quintillion insects living on the planet right now-- That's 1.4 billion insects for each human. If they decided to take over, there's nothing we could do to stop them. Fortunately, they seem relatively content to share their planet with us. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1959, Soviet geneticist Dmitri Belyaev started an ambitious experiment to study the origins of domestication -- he would attempt to breed domesticated wild foxes by selecting on their behavior alone, a process he imagined our ancestors carried out with dogs thousands of years before. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ' Weinstein Ripple Effect' can be seen in the dozens of powerful men brought down by accusations of sexual misconduct in recent weeks by women who feel they put up and shut up for too long.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thor: Ragnarok came out last weekend, and so this week The Nose celebrates with an old-fashioned, star-studded holiday special. There will be the singing of Ragnarök carols, there will be the imbibing of Ragnarök punch, there will be the exchanging of Ragnarök gifts. ...Or something. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're going to die. It's OK, so will I. In fact, everyone will. And so with that said the conversation turns to how we wish to go. For over a century the answer to that question has usually involved your loved ones paying large sums for a box and a plot. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The veggie burger is  enjoying a renaissance! They've been in America since the Kellogg Brothers first fed their soy-based burger to guests at their Battle Creek Sanitarium in the 19th century, but they've never been as popular as with the newest iteration: a genetically engineered plant-based burger that tastes, smells, and looks just like - meat. It even drips blood.    Support th...

Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series. "Criminal Minds" on CBS. Just in the last few months there've been "Mindhunter" on Netflix and "Manhunt: Unabomber" on Discovery. It seems we're fascinated by forensic psychology, by criminal profiling, by... mindhunting. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.