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Ep. 70 Will Forte Pt. 2: Last Man On Earth vs. MacGruber, Letting Go and Bill Murray

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Release Date: 05/19/2020

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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Ep. 120 Larry Dorf and The Summer of Showbiz: Hollywood is Out on Two Strikes show art 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? show art 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  show art 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 show art 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 show art 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 show art 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 show art 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? show art 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 show art 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?  ...

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Welcome to part 2 with Will Forte on the Modern Moron!  We talk about what it’s like to Create, produce, write and star in your own TV show.  I can’t even tell you the hours that are put in to just one of those roles and to do all of them is just plain crazy.  We talk a lot about that experience of having your dream come true and having that dream be overwhelming.  He’s facing that challenge and opportunity again with MacGruber which is going to be a limited series on a streaming network.

We also talk about the new Scooby Doo movie that is now available to stream and that while the producers weren’t looking for an imitation of Shaggy, Will felt obliged on his own to uphold the tradition of the character originally voiced by Casey Kasem. Remember that name?  That’s is right in our demographic.  

At one point Will is talking about the approach to doing a known cartoon voice and bringing your own take to a character while maintaining the integrity of what people know as a character and I begin telling him how to approach his own successful work.  Only a Moron would even attempt such audacity.  It comes so easy to me.  

Then we talk about a Netflix documentary you should check out called “The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man".  It’s a real feel good documentary about Bill Murray showing up at random times in random people’s lives and really connecting with them.  Bill Murray is one of my all time favorites and I just can’t say enough about how this documentary makes me happy that I held the right person in such reverence.  Will has had the opportunity to meet him during his time on SNL and even HE could muster up the nerve to say hello.  It was a really great way to wrap up a conversation with an equally great person in Will Forte.

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One of the nicest people you will ever meet.  I know I sound prejudice because they’re my friends but anyone who knows Will would say the same thing and that goes for Cheryl Hines as well who was on the show about a month ago and we all knew each other and performed together way back when before any of us had careers in front of the camera?  Let’s change that to before they had careers in front of the camera.

Thank you again to Will Forte… his new movie “Scoob” is available as Video on Demand or Streaming on Demand, I loved it, my daughter loved it, Will made Casey Kasem proud.  Be looking for a limited series return of MacGruber, will that include Kristen Wiig?  Hmm great question.  You would think I would have asked that right.  We both know better than to expect that...   see you next time.