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Pat Sajak & The Odd Couple

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(Before we go any further,this will explain why Pat Sajak is in Connecticut and, for that matter, on The Colin McEnroe Show.) Click on the audio to hear Pat Sajak and two of his friends talk about their lives, Hawaii Five-O and other pressing topics. 

One of the most heavily read articles on Slate.com right now is by our friend Dahlia Lithwick, who is trying to explain that Supreme Court and for that matter Everything through the difference between Order muppets, like Bert, Sam the Eagle and Kermit, and Chaos muppets like the Cookie Monster, Grover and Gonzo.

Lithwick says you need an ideal balance of each kind in order to accomplish anything. 
Some of you will recognize this -- even though Lithwick doesn't cite it -- as the essential argument made by Nietzsche in discussing the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses in art. Nietzsche too believes a fusion is essential. 
 
This is also the fundamental tension in the classic play "The Odd Couple." Oscar is Dionysian. Felix is Apollonian. 
 
Pat Sajak is here in studio and is preparing now to play Felix in a Connecticut production of the play. And, of course, a game show host is the ultimate Apollonian figure. We'll explain it all on today's show. He also tells us why he feels he should never complain about being indelibly typecast and about his relationship with Alex Trebek, toward the end of the conversation.
 
Leave your comments below, e-mail colin@wnpr.org or Tweet us @wnprcolin.

Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.

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