Ep. 48 Genius Drums & Vile Bums; Neil Peart of Rush, Jeffrey Epstein's "Suicide" and Harvey Weinstein can't get a jury together

A bit of a lengthy moron today but worth it.  We start off with my OP… old radio partner… or should that be my OG?  Anyway my guest drops the news on me of the passing of Neil Peart last week, drumming virtuoso and lyricist of the band Rush.  Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 4 of rock’s greatest drummers behind only John Bonham of Led Zeppelin, The Who’s Keith Moon and Ginger Baker who died just this past October and played with the supergroup Cream and Blind Faith.  So we reminisce about Neil Peart for a bit and I mispronounce his name as Neil Peart, so nice going.

We then hit upon the fiasco of the Jeffrey Epstein case and the lost recordings of his suicide, I do a quick recap of my jury duty which leads to a chat about the jury selection for the Harvey Weinstein rape trial in New York.  So, we’re really covering some wonderful individuals here in the second half of the show.

We’ll call this episode “Genius Drums and Vile Bums” on this episode of the Modern Moron.

Regarding the Uma Thurman discussion on Harvey Weinstein there’s this from a New York Times Article from February 2018:

“The complicated feeling I have about Harvey is how bad I feel about all the women that were attacked after I was...” 

“...I am one of the reasons that a young girl would walk into his room alone, the way I did. Quentin used Harvey as the executive producer of ‘Kill Bill', a movie that symbolizes female empowerment. And all these lambs walked into slaughter because they were convinced nobody rises to such a position who would do something illegal to you, but they do.”

Thurman stresses that Creative Artists Agency, her former agency, was connected to Weinstein’s predatory behavior. It has since issued a public apology. “I stand as both a person who was subjected to it and a person who was then also part of the cloud cover, so that’s a super weird split to have,” she says.

I also just read that model Gigi Hadid, I’ve never heard of her either, was called in for jury duty on the Weinstein case despite the fact that she has met Weinstein and Salma Hayek who could be a witness but said she could remain impartial.  Unlike over 40 other potential jurors as the Associated Press reported that one-third of the first 120 prospective jurors summoned for the case were promptly sent home after the judge asked if there was anyone who could not be impartial and about 40 hands went up.

There is also another lawsuit filed in Los Angeles against Harvey the Larvae and I think it’s safe to say that while the trial will take a long time, Mr. Weinstein will probably still need his walker but in prison, and it won’t be for back surgery.

Next episode we’ll continue my conversation with my OP and we’ll discuss The Witcher on Netflix and how it stacks up for you Game Of Thrones junkies.  Thanks again for listening to the Modern Moron, we’ll see you soon!  Links to resources below.

Neil Peart Drum Solo Letterman, June 9, 2011 - YouTube 

Top Ten Rush Songs - YouTube

Beware of Mr. Baker - Full Movie | Snagfilms 

 Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy: A closer look - 60 Minutes | CBS