Carolyn McCusker

For NautiWeek, we’re talking about sea chanteys on The Colin McEnroe Show! Let’s learn some of the complex history behind these songs sung in pubs. Featuring Connecticut’s own The Jovial Crew!

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: the loneliness epidemic. What does loneliness look like in the brain? How can public policy address it? And how can adults make more friends?

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: reading out loud. We look at the history of the practice and talk to people who make reading expressive, communal, and loud.

This hour, The Colin McEnroe Show is all about things that are “so bad, they’re good” — we’re talking about bad writing, bad smells, and bad dates. Plus: a chance to vote on what "bad" show idea we should produce next!

This hour we're tackling three topics, strap in! A failed bill from the 1900s that proposed hippopotamus ranching in the U.S., an initiative to save humanity by storing poop in a vault, and a pod of orcas teaching each other to sink boats.

This hour on the Colin McEnroe Show, we're talking about de-extinction. Once something's gone, can we bring it back? And should we? We'll talk about animals, plants, and more that are past or approaching extinction, and hear from the scientists trying to create the "undo" button

This hour on the Colin McEnroe Show, we’re talking about hotlines. From a line for advice from kindergarteners to an automated phone service that will call you: why do people pick up the phone to talk to strangers?

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: bedtime stories. What can we learn from people who write and tell them? How can we all be more intentional and magical about the last things we think about before sleeping?

This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a look at the fact that facts have a half-life, that pretty much everything we know is either wrong now or will be one day.