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Ep. 51 Political Entertainment, World Series Garbage Bin Banging and A Chat About Documentaries

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Release Date: 02/05/2020

Ep. 121 Best 4th of July Ever; Miles Connor in Nashville show art 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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However, I do want to mention in the intro something you must already know about, that is more current and that’s the Iowa Caucus.  Or should we call it the Iowa kaka? Iowa cacophony of chaos? You know it’s bad when a news source that sides with you calls it a failure.  CNN calls it a meltdown. CNBC News calls it a debacle. The New York Times Calls it a holy mess. So naturally, every candidate is claiming victory to add to the confusion.

Also, the Republican Senator from Maine, Susan Collins said she will vote to acquit Trump although stating what he did was “improper and demonstrated very poor judgment,”.  She also said that he has “learned from this case” and that he will be “much more cautious in the future.”

We both know that is utter horse sh*t.  He’s never admitted any wrongdoing and has always said the call was perfect.

I finish up my conversation with my poli-sci screenwriter… we wrapped last episode talking about President Trump’s Rally speeches and how they resemble World Wrestling Entertainment with all the name calling and how Trump’s supporters LOVE it when he calls his opponents names and belittles them and it’s turned into a form of entertainment.  Political Entertainment. It’s an interesting point he makes and it’s how Trump taps into the emotional side of his base.

We also talk about the month old revelation of the Huston Astros’ cheating by garbage can beating.  Not just its effect on baseball as a whole, but on the millions of dollars it probably cost two particular pitchers who were victims of their cheating in the postseason.

And we wrap up with a little talk about documentaries.  Hard hitting, cutting edge, months old news. Political Entertainment, garbage can beating cheating and documentaries on the Modern Moron.

CLOSE: Maybe that’s what this podcast will become… a timed commentary to Netflix documentaries.  

So as of the this recording, our dear leader has given his state of the union address where half the room stands up and applauds for everything while the other half of the room sits in silence.  

Part of me felt bad for Nancy Pelosi having to sit behind Trump for the whole speech and pretend to shuffle papers as if she was reading something.  She did look so frustrated that it looked a little crazed. I know I’d be crazy if I had to do that.

I was very impressed when President Trump used the word reciprocity… I thought wow, that’s a big word for him and then… he tried it again and f***d it up.  Should have left it alone Donny.

And Rush Limbaugh getting the Medal of Freedom?  For a radio host? I guess Howard Stern and Joe Rogan are next?

I missed the democratic response, but I got a text from the Senator saying, “she was smokin’ hot and he would totally do her.”  Isn’t that great political commentary? He should seriously be on Fox News… he would be perfect don’t you think?

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