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The Colin McEnroe Show is public radio’s most eclectic, eccentric weekday program. The best way to understand us is through the subjects we tackle: Neanderthals, tambourines, handshakes, the Iliad, snacks, ringtones, punk rock, Occam’s razor, Rasputin, houseflies, zippers.
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The Nose looks at ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ and ‘Lanterns’ (opens the original)
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This special edition of The Nose — guest hosted and co-hosted (!) by comedian and writer Shawn Murray and journalist and noted bat expert Lindsay Lee Wallace — looks at: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a satirical surrealist psychological romance slasher film with a film-within-a-film narrative. It’s the third feature film written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun and their followup to I Saw the TV Glow . Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. And
Exploring the myth and metaphor of Cassandra and the price of foresight (opens the original)
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You’ve likely heard the Greek myth of Cassandra, a woman given the gift of prophecy who was cursed never to be believed. This hour, a look at the Cassandra story and its relevance today, including some real-life Cassandras, like the diplomat who tried to stop World War II and the public health official who tried to warn us about the COVID-19 pandemic. GUESTS: Joel Christensen: Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center; author of The Many-Minded Man: The O
Eventually the world will end. Why can't we stop imagining it? (opens the original)
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People have been preoccupied with the end of the world for a very long time. And that preoccupation isn’t going anywhere. As AI experts warn about potential catastrophic scenarios and the Doomsday Clock continues to move closer to midnight, a look at how we imagine the world ending and what that says about us. GUESTS: Dorian Lynskey: Journalist and author of multiple books, most recently Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World . He is also co-host of the Origin Story p
25 years after 9/11, what our response teaches us about trauma and identity (opens the original)
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How has our national discourse and our perception of national identity shifted in the 25 years after 9/11? And how can we heal from those traumatizing events? This hour, we talk about what we can learn from our response to 9/11 with a local psychiatrist who helped shape New York City's mental health response for its children. Plus, we look at how journalists coped with covering that day. GUESTS: John Woodall : Psychiatrist whose clinic is in Newtown. He is a former Harvard Medical School faculty
Chion Wolf takes your calls! (opens the original)
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We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls. And your calls have been interesting and surprising and amusing. This hour, the conversation — helmed by our old pal Chion Wolf! — winds around to “ Crossing Muddy Waters ” by I’m With Her, Phoebe Bridgers, The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, follow ups, paper routes and summer jobs for kids, loss … Anything. (Seemingly) everything. These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too.
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