Ep. 121 Best 4th of July Ever; Miles Connor in Nashville
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Ep. 121 Best 4th of July Ever; Miles Connor in Nashville Welcome to this mid-summer episode of the Modern Moron. I’m so excited to share the conversation I had with a young musician named Miles Connor. He’s currently a student at Belmont University in Nashville Tennessee and was born and raised in the Dallas Texas area. H’s e’s a bit of an old soul in that he was brought up with a lot of classic rock artists from the 60’s and 70’s. I believe his first instrument was the guitar but his father was and is an accomplished musician and toured professionally back...
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Ep. 120 Larry Dorf and The Summer of Showbiz: Hollywood is Out on Two Strikes
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Hi… I have not been taking our relationship very seriously have I. I’m sorry… I haven’t called, haven’t written, you think I haven’t even been thinking about you probably. Well that’s not true. If fact this is the 4th attempt at episode number 120. I can’t tell why I haven’t been producing, creating, whatever this is and at the same time I have a few really important-ish reasons why I haven’t but we’ll talk about that later… maybe. My guest is my good friend Larry Dorf. I would consider him a “super friend” isn’t that in like the...
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Ep. 119 Art History in Edinburgh Scotland, Cultural Capital, What's in Your Cultural Wallet?
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Happy Holidays from The Modern Moron recorded this day, the 25th of November, 2022. It’s Black Friday and there’s no place I would rather NOT be than a mall, A Walmart, a Best Buy or an Amazon. Also, I literally got back from the grocery store and I thought I was going to have to take out a Home Equity Loan. I just paid over $5 for a dozen eggs. What the ever-loving- @##$%? At what point is it going to be …. That’ll b e a dollar…. Another dollar…. Okay, two for one. Thanks Grandpa Joe… for all the inflation. It’s your...
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Ep. 118 Larry Dorf Pt. 2 - Parenting a junior comedian, Auditioning post pandemic, HBO’s Winning Time, Unattractive NBA Players and Poor Batgirl
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Welcome to NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! I’m Bill Curtis… Today’s episode titled “Wait Wait Don't’ Tell me it’s not Wait Wait Don’t Tell but actually The Modern Moron…” I’m still Bill Curtis and here’s your host of the Modern Moron… who is neither straight form a Hemingway Novel nor from the Sea… please welcome, The Old Man… Thank you Bill Curtis for that lovely introduction of The Modern Moron and The Old Man dot Show. I know what you’re asking yourself right now and the answer is yes, you can now find The Modern Moron on NPR by simply...
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Ep. 117 Larry Dorf: Adnan Syed, Morally Dubious Podcasters, a Prison Sentence Game Show and 2 Documentaries
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Welcome to another episode of The Modern Moron… my guest is producer, writer, actor Larry Dorf, yes, that Larry Dorf. We have a very light early fall chat about a few subjects, namely: We talk a little about some of the Modern Moron’s more successful shows, one being on Phil Hendrie and his mastery of deception with his characters improvising with each other and his work on various animation projects from King of the Hill to Rick and Morty. I refer to a story Larry told about an audition he had where he was being asked to play NBA legend Larry Bird’s father, a...
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Ep. 116 Gas Prices, Immigrant Deliveries, Flavored Bourbon, Kanye West, Tucker Carlson and Sonny Barger
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Welcome to another episode of the Modern Moron dated October 10th 2022, which means we’ll be talking about events from at least two months ago. I’m going to try something new in that I’m not spending so much time on this episode. My guest is the Senator which is like Conan O’brien saying his guest is Andy Richter, but he brings up a couple of things with no real background or insight or explanation. He just saw a show for 30 seconds which is more than enough to have an opinion about, whereas I take the due diligence of watching for at least 5 minutes. We recorded on...
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Ep. 115 The Priest’s Triple A League: Getting ready for the Majors Pt. 2
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A lot more God talk in this one people, which you may or may not be into. A lot of Philosophical and theological perspectives on God, with a capital G. We continue our conversation with a very interesting Seminarian who has been studying not only theology but philosophy as well so he use big words, make brain thing hurtey. This recording dates back to August of 2022 and I’m just now getting to it… my friend the Seminarian was in a summer program of Chaplaincy at the hospital where I do some volunteer work, we’ve had some interesting conversations and I finally connected...
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Ep. 114 Father-to-be as in Priest, Nietzsche, Jedi Knights and Egoism
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Okay, the Moron doesn’t seem so moronic in this episode… well, I do, but we really have some divine inspirations in this episode. My guest is a real live Seminarian in the Catholic Church. Yes, THE Catholic church, not one of the knock offs. He’s been pursuing his coronation… that’s not right… ordination! That’s what I was looking for… This conversation is all over the place, and I have to take responsibility for that. If I get him back I really need to try and keep my questions more focused. And because we are so all over the place,...
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Ep. 113 Britney Griner; Psychiatric Psychedelics; to what Subculture do you subscribe?
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Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Modern Moron… I did say I have an episode coming with a seminarian in the Catholic church, and I do. This episode is the last half of my previous conversation with the Senator when I dropped out of it because I felt the need to address some science issues that we seem to be ignoring right now that place the economy as more important that the planet we live on and the resources that are becoming more rapidly scarce, namely water and oxygen. This conversation contains the beautiful faux paux from the Senator when he cannot...
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Ep. 112 Politics just makes me upset but that never stops me; The End of An Informed Democracy
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Half cocked, half informed, full moron. Seriously, the things we talk about and the half-cocked opinions we spout are really so misinformed that I would like to ask you a favor. My favor is that you half listen but don’t really pay attention. Is that possible? Listen for one of us to mispronounce something or to say something completely off base but I don’t want you to really pay attention. If you could… picture us both sitting on a front porch in a couple of rocking chairs. That’s the best setting for this conversation. Can you do that? ...
info_outlineMany years back, and I mean many years back in the late 80’s and early 90’s I worked in the radio broadcasting industry in Southern California: Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Santa Barbara and an area known as “The Inland Empire”... it’s sort of a “shadow market” of the Los Angeles area which we didn’t particularly love. It encompasses the San Bernardino/ Riverside areas of Southern California. It was there during the early 90’s that I was actually on a morning show for a couple-a-three years. It was a rock station that rocked a little bit harder than your average rock station.
We played the traditional hard rock and classic rock like AC/DC, Aerosmith, Rush, Van Halen, Zeppelin, Metallica etc. and all the hair bands from the 80’s like Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, White Snake, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister...
Specific to the early 90’s you had bands like:Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Radio Head, Alice In Chains, Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots… We even played Iron Maiden… yup. But not in the morning. Can you imagine waking up to Iron Maiden?
I bring up all these artists and bands to give you a flavor for the kind of rock station I worked for and the core of that audience which is pretty hard rockin’ head banging blue collar folks. We targeted Males 18 - 34 and 25 - 49 which shouldn’t really surprise you considering once again we’re dialing it all the way back to the early 90’s.
My guest is my former morning show partner who went on to host that morning show after I got fired for my big fat mouth for 25 years. That’s a pretty unusual achievement in radio back then as radio personalities tended to move from market to market either up the food chain or down depending on your ratings, etc.
We talk about how radio and the way we consume music and talk radio has changed so completely since then. I wanna say that the way we listen to music and talk radio has changed in that time as drastically as Uber and Lyft changed the transportation and taxi industry only the Uber phenomenon happened over a much shorter period of time that it seemed so much more revolutionary but the change is still pretty staggering .
We talk about the Portable People Meter or “PPM” which is device like a pager and a radio ratings system developed by Arbitron otherwise known as the Nielson Ratings… remember them? Maybe you were a “Nielson Family” at one point. Still around.
It’s not going all the way back to the days where we gathered around the radio and stared at it while voices came out of it nor is it George Lucas’ American Graffiti, but it is going back a little way as we reminisce about radio on the Modern Moron...
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