The Colin McEnroe Show

HBO's new 10-episode western sci-fi thriller remake of the 1973 movie "Westworld"  took an awfully long time and a big old pile of money to see the light of day. But it looks like it might've been worth it . Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Neonaticide is a hard concept for most of us to wrap our heads around. Yet, the CDC estimates that "a baby born in the United States is ten times more likely to be killed during its first day than at any other time of life. And for the first week, a baby's killer is likely to be its mother." Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the more than six years that it's been on the air, we've never taken The Colin McEnroe Show to the Peabody Museum before. (Crazy, right?) And: In the more than six years that it's been on the air, we've never done a Colin McEnroe Show about dinosaurs before. (Crazy! Right!?) Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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...

Donald Trump's horrible, terrible week got worse after the New York Times released three pages of Trump's 1995 tax return this weekend.  They show he lost nearly $916 million in a year when the economy was thriving. But, that's another story. He may have used legal loopholes in the tax code to make more money off his loss and avoid paying federal income taxes for the next 18 years. Did h...

Everybody hates cargo shorts. Except the people who don't. And more than that, everybody keeps talking about whether or not they hate cargo shorts . It's even come up on our show in the past. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So here's what happened. Lucy Nalpathanchil got a pitch from some PR person about covering David Ortiz's retirement at the end of this baseball season. And she forwarded it to Colin and me and said it sounded like our kind of show. And Colin (a Red Sox fan) said that I (a Yankees fan) "would [expletive] hate that." And he's right. I would [expletive] hate that. And so here we are doing that show....

Three guests, Peter Sagal of WWDTM, Maria Konnikova of The New Yorker , and Robert Evans of Cracked , take you on a tour of vice. They talk everything from casual sex to marijuana to greed and ostentation to coffee to beer to pornography. Peter and Colin also discuss what the next declared vice will be. Possibly sitting. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Free will, individual responsibility, and the pursuit of happiness: Fundamental tenets of, wait for it... Satanism. While the word conjures up images of fire and brimstone, the truth is a bit more complicated. So why does a religion which celebrates so much what Americans profess to hold dear get such a bad rap? Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...

This hour, we mourn the loss of 24-year-old Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, who died in a boat accident over the weekend.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The biggest surprise about Oliver Stone's Snowden is probably how controversial it isn't . Which isn't to say that it isn't somewhat controversial -- anything about Edward Snowden is bound to be somewhat controversial. But for an Oliver Stone conspiracy thriller, The Nose finds Snowden to be pretty tame. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informati...

Colin's out today, and Julia Pistell returns as guest host. We devote the hour to two interesting guys and their interesting jobs. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The modern circus has been thrilling audiences for over 250 years, but as times have changed, so has the circus. What began as little more than an equestrian performance has come to include clowns, trapeze artists and even lion tamers. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

H.M. is one of the most important and studied human research subjects of all time. He revolutionized what we know about memory today because of the amnesia he developed after a lobotomy in 1953 to treat the severe epilepsy he developed after a head injury sustained earlier in life.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How we make decisions is a thread that runs through today's Scramble. First, Donald Trump called a press conference in his new Trump International Hotel in D.C. this past Friday to announce, "President Obama was born in the United States. Period.” He was late to the press conference and used it to promote both a new lie about Hillary Clinton and his new hotel - which ‘coincidentally’ opened last w...

Normally by Friday morning we've got the first one or two topics for The Nose ironed out, and we maybe spend some time hashing out what the third and fourth might be. Not this week. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Colin has a "pet" raccoon that visits his porch. The raccoon will press her tiny paw up against the outstretched palm of Colin's significant other, which rests on the indoor side of the glass. Eventually, the raccoon gets a bit of food because "she" is too cute to resist. The pleased raccoon now visits on a regular basis.  Colin fears this cannot end well. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.or...

The cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction emerged in the '70s and '80s with books like Neuromancer and movies like Blade Runner set in the early 21st century in a world full of high tech and lowlifes, in a society divided and unequal, dominated by mega corporations, where the lines between actual reality and virtual reality have started to blur. Sound familiar? Support the show: http://www.wnpr.or...

There is still a debate about whether women belong in combat . It's been more than a year since  Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered all branches of the military in 2015 to allow women on to the front lines of combat and generations since women silently fought alongside men in the Civil War. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have both been criticized in recent weeks for activities related to their respective foundations. Clinton is accused of using her position as a way to give special treatment to foundation donors. Trump used foundation money to support the re-election of Florida Attorny General Pam Biondi  to allegedly stop her from investigating Trump University. As it tu...

Barbra Streisand's new album dropped two weeks ago. It's an album of duets with . . . actors. Babs and her famous friends sing . . . show tunes. To my mind, that's the makings of a pretty huge disaster (or even a completely ignored disaster). Instead, Streisand's Encore: Movie Friends Sing Broadway is the number one album in the country . Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio...

At 8:30 pm on Thursday, September 8, 1966, NBC aired the premiere of a new series called "Star Trek". The episode was "The Man Trap." The star date was 1513.1, in case you're interested in that kind of thing. I am not interested in that kind of thing. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Horror films have been scaring audiences for over a hundred years. And in all that time, some things have never changed: Year after year, the collective fears of society have been reflected in gruesome detail on the big screen and women -- usually blond women -- scream bloody murder as their knife-wielding killers approach. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener f...

The presidential debates are scheduled to begin this month with the first scheduled for September 26 at Hofstra University in Long Island. Donald Trump announced this weekend that yes, he would participate  -now that he approves of the moderators chosen to referee the debates.  Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The participants are average citizens: school teachers, waiters, pharmacists, perhaps even your neighbor. By day they work and pay their bills, but when they return home, things change. These elite individuals go to work forecasting the outcomes of global events (sometimes years into the future), all at the direction of a little-known government intelligence agency called IARPA. Support the show:...