Post 4th of July, Women's World Cup Soccer, Marriage Retreats and Senior Care
Release Date: 07/09/2019
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_outlinePlease forgive this lengthy intro as we really cover some ground in this show. We talk about how great local neighborhood 4th of July parades are and how the Senator really brought a nice afternoon party to a screeching halt by reading the declaration of independence aloud… some nice work there…
We quickly talk about your FRA… or Full retirement age. You can start claiming at 62 but you’ll get 25 to 30% less for the rest of your life, so you might want to wait until 67 and get the full amount.
The Senator then confesses he is going on a retreat for married couples and we all support and commend him for doing that… it’s definitely outside his comfort zone and that is where the growth lies.
And we wrap up by talking about his dad who is in his mid 80’s and the difficulties in caring for and dealing with that situation. It’s a subject that’s perfect for our demographic as we have parents who are in need of additional care in their waning years but may not want it. Tough subject but we’ll be talking about it today and in the future.
Democrats, Republicans, Feminists and Sexists Unite… as we start this episode by celebrating the U.S. Women’s World Cup and their second consecutive championship and their 4th overall. What an achievement. We also get super sexist in talking about how much prettier The U.S. team is versus their opponents.
While the senator mentioned women’s cup champion Alex Morgan as being SMART as well … he did not mention why: she attended Cal Berkeley which is a pretty elite university academically and she graduated a semester early with a degree in political economy. She has also partnered with Simon & Shuster publishers to author a series of middle-grade books about four teen soccer players called “The Kicks.” She is also quite savvy with the endorsements and back in 2015 she was ranked by Time magazine as the top-paid American women's soccer player. AND last year she was in a movie called Alex & Me where she plays a fictitious version of herself. It was on Nickelodeon and is now on dvd or probably streaming so….yeah, Alex Morgan is definitely paying the bills.
When talking about familiarity with the U.S. Men’s World Cup team this moron remembers “That guy on Seattle’s MLS Team” that I thought I knew was Clint Dempsey and he retired from soccer last year. I remembered him from the 2010 men’s world cup team… that’s how far back I have to go to even recall a face of a Men’s U.S. World cup player. Is that a statement about the U.S. men’s team or about me as a moron?... Probably the latter.