We’ve been doing these shows where we don’t book any guests, where we fill the hour with your calls, calls about anything, everything. These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we did another one.

This hour, the conversation winds around to a local landmark, stomping, poetry, firewood, music, sprickets, bibliographies. … Anything. (Seemingly) everything.

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Appalachian Morning – Paul Winter
• Perfect Fit – Van Morrison
• Salt Then Sour Then Sweet – Sara Bareilles, Brandi Carlile
• Conservative Christian Right Wing Republican Straight White American Males – Todd Snider
• Window To The World – Shawn Colvin
• CUT FOR TIME I’d Miss the Birds – Joy Oladokun, Sheryl Crow
• Keeper – Courtney Marie Andrews
• Certified Senior Citizen – Mose Allison

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This week’s Nose looks at the way Saturday Night Live is using its cold opens to deal with the never-ending firehose of news each week — and the way James Austin Johnson’s recurring impression of President Trump is central to that strategy.

Plus: Pope Leo XIV announced his four favorite movies this week ahead of a “World of Cinema” event at the Vatican this weekend.

And: Death by Lightning is a four-part Netflix limited series about the James A. Garfield presidency and assassination. Its ensemble cast includes Michael Shannon as Garfield, Nick Offerman as Vice President Chester A. Arthur, and Matthew Macfadyen as assassin Charles Guiteau.

GUESTS:

• David Edelstein: America’s Greatest Living Film Critic
• Tracy Wu Fastenberg: Associate vice president for development at Connecticut Children’s
• Bill Yousman: Professor of media studies at Sacred Heart University

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This hour, it’s our show on the relationship and chemistry between Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick (and the lyricist Hal David) recorded live onstage at Watkinson School in Hartford.

It’s an hour of music, conversation, and demonstrations of how GPS can help you find the way to San Jose.

GUESTS:

• Lou Bocciarelli: Bass
• Atla DeChamplain: Vocals, Atla & Matt
• Matt DeChamplain: Piano, Atla & Matt
• Latanya Farrell: Vocals
• Steve Metcalf: Piano
• Molly Sayles: Drums

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Colin McEnroe, Maegn Boone, Meg Dalton, Robyn Doyon-Aitken, Megan Fitzgerald, Dylan Reyes, and Lily Tyson contributed to this show, which originally aired April 24, 2025.

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In late October, thieves broke into the Louvre and stole priceless jewels. It’s a story that feels familiar in large part because of countless heist movies. This hour we look at heists, from real museums to our screens, and we discuss why they capture our attention.

GUESTS:

• Leila Amineddoleh: Teaches Art Crime at New York University and Cultural Heritage Law at Fordham Law School. She is the chair of the Art Law Group at Tarter, Krinsky, and Drogin
• John DeVore: A culture writer and author of Theater Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway
• Glen Weldon: A host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He reviews books, movies, comics and more for the NPR Arts Desk
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Journalist and Registered Professional Forester. He is author of Maple Syrup: A Short History of Canada’s Sweetest Obsession

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Theme from Lupin III (Paris) – Yuji Ohno
• It Takes a Thief – Coolio and Leshuan
• Cat Burglar – Mexican Gunfight
• Ocean’s 11 – Seeed
• Drive It Like You Stole It – Sing Street
• Pancake – Tori Amos

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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, calls about anything, everything. These shows are fun for us, and they seem to be fun for you, too. So we’re doing another one.

In other words: Give us a call during the 1 p.m. hour about whatever you want to talk about. 888-720-9677. Plus, now you can watch our calls shows YouTube! Come say (nice) things to us in the comments! Just search for Connecticut Public.

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Life During Wartime (Live) – Talking Heads
• Rainy Days and Mondays – Aimee Man (from Chair Company)
• Song for a Bygone Era – Jesca Hoop
• God’s a Different Sword – Folk Bitch Trio
• Boars - Haley Heynderickx, Max Garcia Conover
• Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot
• I’ve Enjoyed As Much of This As I Can Stand – Porter Wagoner

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Blue Moon is the ninth movie directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke. It is written by Robert Kaplow and “inspired by” the letters of Lorenz Hart and Elizabeth Weiland. Hawke plays Hart on the night that the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opens on Broadway.

And: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is written and directed by Scott Cooper based on the book Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zanes. It stars Jeremy Allen White in the title role, and it mostly tells the story of Springsteen writing and recording his 1982 album, Nebraska, and some of the material that appeared on his 1984 followup, Born in the U.S.A.

GUESTS:

• Rebecca Castellani: Co-founder of Quiet Corner Communications and director of marketing at Washington Montessori School
• Jim Chapdelaine: An Emmy-winning musician and a patient advocate for people with rare cancers
• Rich Hollant: Founder and principal of CO:LAB, a hall of fame designer, and a co-partner at CENTER
• Steve Metcalf: Founder and director of the Garmany concert series at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School
• Irene Papoulis: Taught writing for a long time at Trinity College

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Everything I’ve Got – Blossom Dearie
• Mountain Greenery – Shirley Horn
• Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered – Ella Fitzgerald
• Nebraska – Jeremy Allen White
• I’m on Fire – Jeremy Allen White
• I’ll See You on the Radio – Grayson Hugh

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Why do we dance? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Dancing has served a multitude of functions for various cultures throughout history, and there is even evidence to suggest that we, as a species, are biologically hard-wired to dance.

Whether it’s for social, spiritual, or even psychological reasons (yes, dance therapy is a thing), humans have been dancing since the very beginning.

This hour, a look at all things dance — from ancient history to modern, Hollywood dance movies.

GUESTS:

• Henry Alford: Author of And Then We Danced: A Voyage Into the Groove
• Christina Devereaux: Board-certified dance/movement therapist
• David Edelstein: America’s Greatest Living Film Critic
• Jonathan McNicol: Producer of The Colin McEnroe Show

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Colin McEnroe, Xandra Ellin, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired July 5, 2018.

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Revenge is as old as humanity itself. And new research shows that revenge functions in our brains like a type of addiction. This hour a look at revenge in politics, literature, and everyday life — and what it would mean if we treated revenge differently.

GUESTS:

• James Kimmel Jr.: Lawyer, author, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, and the Founder and Co-Director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies. His new book is The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction--and How to Overcome It
• Emily King: Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and English at Washington and Lee University. She is author of Civil Vengeance: Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Il Trovatore: Anvil Chorus – Giuseppe Verdi, Budapest Festival Orchestra & Chorus
• The Payback – James Brown
• The Mariner’s Revenge Song – The Decemberists
• These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ – Nancy Sinatra
• Smile – Lily Allen
• no body, no crime - Taylor Swift

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