What if you just don’t really enjoy food very much? What if you’re totally fine eating the same thing every single day? What if you think food is an inefficient way to get what you need to survive?

What if, rather than eating “food,” you just mixed a white powder (that is definitely not made of peoplebecause it’s made of soy protein isolate instead) with water and drank that in food’s place?

This hour: a look at what you might call the non-foodie movement and the “powdered food” meal replacement product that is Soylent.

GUESTS:

• Carmen Baskauf: Former producer for Where We Live on Connecticut Public Radio
• Chris Prosperi: Co-owner and chef of Metro Bis in Simsbury, Connecticut
• Maryam Siddiqi: Lifestyle editor at The Globe and Mail
• Christina Troitino: A Forbes contributor who covers the business and future of food and agriculture

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Colin McEnroe, Carlos Mejia, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired June 5, 2019.

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This hour: recipes.

We talk with someone who makes recipes found on gravestones, and we consider what makes an effective recipe, the history of the modern recipe, and the art of the recipe introduction.

Plus, a look at the phenomenon of pop culture cookbooks.

GUESTS:

• Dinah Bucholz: Author of The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook and The Unofficial Narnia Cookbook

• Rosie Grant: Posts gravestone recipes and cemetery stories on her TikTok and Instagram

• Francis Lam: Host of The Splendid Table and Editor-in-chief at Clarkson Potter

• Chandra Ram: Cookbook author and food writer

• Helen Zoe Veit: Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University

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Colin McEnroe, Eugene Amatruda, and Jonathan McNicol contributed to this show, which originally aired November 22, 2022.

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Snacking on snacks, savory or sweet, has become a way of life.

This hour, we sink our teeth into our snack-food obsessions.

GUESTS:

• Andrea Hernández: Founder of Snaxshot

• Julia Pistell: Freelance writer and co-founder of SeaTea Improv

• Chris Prosperi: Chef and owner of Metro Bis

• Mark Schatzker: Author of The Dorito Effect

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Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, Cat Pastor, and Lily Tyson contributed to this show, which originally aired July 25, 2022.

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This hour, we’re joined in studio by seven-time Grammy Award-winning local musician Paul Winter. His new album, Horn of Plenty, is out today.

Winter is known for his annual solstice concerts and his “earth music," which features music from around the world, as well as the sounds of animals like wolves, whales, or wood thrushes.

You can find details about his Winter Solstice Celebrations around New England here.

GUEST:

• Paul Winter: Saxophonist, composer, and bandleader of the Paul Winter Consort

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Should people use the Oxford comma? Is there a correct number of exclamation points per email? If someone ends a casual text with a period, does that mean they’re mad at you?

This hour: punctuation and how we use it. We talk about the history of punctuation marks, timeless punctuation debates, and how writing for texts and emails has changed the way we use punctuation.

GUESTS:

• RS Benedict: A writer and bureaucrat whose fiction and non-fiction has been published in the New Haven Review, Fangoria, Current Affairs, and a bunch of other places
• Claire Cock-Starkey: Author of Hyphens and Hashtags: The Stories Behind the Symbols on Our Keyboard
• Julia Pistell: Founding member of Sea Tea Improv and one of the hosts of the Literary Disco podcast

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Colin McEnroe, Jonathan McNicol, and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired November 3, 2021.

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What's it like being a nun in 2025? Sister Monica Clare joins us to explain her path to the Community of St. John Baptist and why she is sharing her story on TikTok and in a new memoir.

Plus, scholars Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita explore the lessons about friendship, money, work, and more that we can learn from Sixteenth-century nuns in their podcast and their new book. They join us to explain that "anything you are going through right now has probably already happened to a nun living several hundred years ago.”

GUESTS:

• Sister Monica Clare: Sister superior at the Community of St. John Baptist, an Episcopal convent based in New Jersey. She is also a spiritual counselor specializing in religious trauma, mental illness, and addiction. She is the author of A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun
• Ana Garriga: Co-host of the 'Las Hijas de Felipe' podcast, and co-author of Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First Century Life. Ana received her PhD from Brown University in 2024
• Carmen Urbita: Co-host of the 'Las Hijas de Felipe' podcast, and co-author of Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First Century Life. Carmen will be receiving her PhD from Brown University later this year

MUSIC FEATURED (in order):

• Organ Symphony No 5 in F Minor Op. 42, No. 1 (V. Toccata) – Joseph Nolan, Charles-Marie Widor
• Dominique – Soeur Sourire (The Singing Nun)
• Calling All Angels – k.d. lang (ft. Jane Siberry)
• Maria – Sound of Music
• Let the Mystery Be – Iris DeMent
• Song of Bernadette – Jennifer Warnes

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It's been over 30 years since Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting went off the air, but the painter is still a household name.

This hour: a look at the undying force for permed hair and puffy little clouds and happy little trees that is Bob Ross.

Plus: Could we do a show about Bob Ross without also talking Thomas Kinkade? No we could not. And so no we do not.

GUESTS:

• Nathan Badley: Cohost of the Nothing But a Bob Thang podcast

• Alexis Boylan: Professor of Art History at UConn and the editor of Thomas Kinkade, The Artist in the Mall

• Justin Croft: Cohost of the Nothing But a Bob Thang podcast

• Emily Rhyne: Cinematographer at The New York Times

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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired September 26, 2019.

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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 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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