Ep. 37 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Cleanup, Climate Change Protest Morons, Sleep Apnea, Rudy, Judy And Ginger (Giuliani, Garland & Baker)
Release Date: 10/09/2019
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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...
info_outline Ep. 120 Larry Dorf and The Summer of Showbiz: Hollywood is Out on Two StrikesTheModernMoron podcast
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...
info_outline Ep. 119 Art History in Edinburgh Scotland, Cultural Capital, What's in Your Cultural Wallet?TheModernMoron podcast
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...
info_outline Ep. 118 Larry Dorf Pt. 2 - Parenting a junior comedian, Auditioning post pandemic, HBO’s Winning Time, Unattractive NBA Players and Poor BatgirlTheModernMoron podcast
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...
info_outline Ep. 117 Larry Dorf: Adnan Syed, Morally Dubious Podcasters, a Prison Sentence Game Show and 2 DocumentariesTheModernMoron podcast
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...
info_outline Ep. 116 Gas Prices, Immigrant Deliveries, Flavored Bourbon, Kanye West, Tucker Carlson and Sonny BargerTheModernMoron podcast
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...
info_outline Ep. 115 The Priest’s Triple A League: Getting ready for the Majors Pt. 2TheModernMoron podcast
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...
info_outline Ep. 114 Father-to-be as in Priest, Nietzsche, Jedi Knights and EgoismTheModernMoron podcast
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,...
info_outline Ep. 113 Britney Griner; Psychiatric Psychedelics; to what Subculture do you subscribe?TheModernMoron podcast
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...
info_outline Ep. 112 Politics just makes me upset but that never stops me; The End of An Informed DemocracyTheModernMoron podcast
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_outlineWelcome to another episode of the Modern Moron… flying solo this week so I’m gonna cram a bunch of stuff in and and NO POLITICS, because I just can’t. It’s just too much… I hope they all impeach each other and we all have to come up with someone new. That’s it for politics.
Item #1 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - They are finally picking up some trash in the Pacific Garbage patch! They being a non profit called The Ocean Cleanup dot com founded by Dutch inventor and entrepreneur Boyan Slat… I guarantee I pronounced that incorrectly. This kid is only 25 years old and he and they are doing it!
Item #2 - My Favorite Moron Award - Taking a break from Rudy Giuliani, this week’s award goes to London climate change protesters called “Extinction Rebellion”. These Moron’s for Mother Nature had a fire truck with “fake blood” and were going to spray the side of the Government Treasury building. In one story the red stuff was referred to as paint. Another called if red food dye and another called it organic liquid beetroot. Was it paint? Was it food coloring? Either way isn’t that pollution or at least wasteful? Nice work Extinction Idiots.
Item #3 Sleep Apnea - I have been diagnosed with mild to moderate sleep apnea which is like a version of snoring but you stop breathing which is generally not a good thing. So I have been given some options and I’m currently trying out a really sexy contraption called a CPAP device. I put it on, covering my nose and I look like a jet fighter pilot about to fly a tiny model airplane.
Item #4 Rudy I Can't Quit You - I thought I could go an episode without a Rudy Giuliani story… but, I can’t. Someone in New York, let’s say a genius, posted an ad on a subway with the main caption, “ "Need A Lawyer? Call Crazy Rudy". The subway ad includes Rudy’s selling points such as “Back Channel Deals, Cable News Appearances, Has NO Shame and Will Work for Free!”
Item #5 Judy Garland - The feminine side of me aka my gay alter ego simply must talk about the new Judy Garland film “Judy”. Looking at the trailer it took me more than a second to realize it was Renee Zelwegger playing Judy Garland and the way she physically captures Judy Garland’s frailness in some of her postures and strength in her singing performances is pretty cool. Not knowing all that much about the tragic details of her life I think I’ll be able to suspend my disbelief but if you know Judy from the top of her brunette head to the tips of her ruby slippers you might be a little more critical.
Item #6 RIP Ginger Baker - Finally, last weekend the world of rock and roll lost one of it’s greatest drummers of all time and unless you’re into music and music history you probably will not recognize his name. Ginger Baker passed away at the age of 80. He was originally a jazz drummer who was also interested in African beats and rhythms. When he put the two together he became one of the most sought after recording session drummers in England. There were two other musicians of the same proficiency at their respective instruments and their names were Jack Bruce who played bass and Eric Clapton on guitar. I get it if you don’t recognize Jack Bruce as well but if you don’t know Eric Clapton then you’re not allowed to listen any further or any more to this podcast. These three were considered the cream of the crop in the London music scene in the 60’s and when they formed a band they called themselves Cream. They put out only four albums and it was their second album “Disraeli Gears” that put them at their peak of mixing blues with rock and psychedelia. A writer for the BBC said the album was, “a perfect encapsulation of the point where the blues got psychedelic and in turn got heavy.”
Sources:
Ocean cleanup device successfully collects plastic for first time - The Guardian, a british publication that leans pretty hard to the left.
How the oceans can clean themselves: Boyan Slat at TEDx - YouTube
Climate change activists hose 'fake blood' at UK Treasury from fire engine - Reuters
Do Sleep Trackers Really Work? - Hopkinsmedicine.org
Ginger Baker: 10 Tracks That Show His Drumming Genius - Rolling Stone
Report: 250 Million Americans Still Need Guests On Their Podcasts This Week - The Onion