Ep. 71 - 12 Step Misstep, Conspiracies Are Big Business, Roots of Our Political Parties
Release Date: 05/23/2020
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_outlineWe cover a lot of ground in these next three episodes, with a very general theme of Propaganda, fake news, gossip and conspiracy theories. The lines get greyer and greyer on where news becomes gossip becomes propaganda becomes conspiracy… but they’re all big business and they’re all vying for your eyes and ears. We talk about the rewards of bad behavior. It just occurred to me that maybe the difference between a personality spinning the news and a personality perpetuating conspiracy theories is a suit, a tie and a three letter Network behind you? Possible? Nah… if you’re wearing a suit you must be credible right?
At one point… The Senator commands me to look up some politician for him as if I’m his personal assistant and I have to remind him that he is actually sitting in front of a computer and is capable of doing his own research. THEN… We have two separate conversations about two separate republican candidates to run as Joe Biden's VP candidate and naturally neither of us is listening to the other. Nice work fellas, just like they do on the Political TV shows.
The Senator gives us a history lesson on the foundations of the Democratic and Republican parties, President Lyndon Johnson and the signing of the Civil Rights Act and the contribution of Gerrymandering on our polarized political parties. All through the eyes of a couple of morons. So don’t expect even a sliver of factual accuracy.
The recording you’re about to hear is at the end of an almost hour long recording session. We were wrapping up and I hit record one more time “just in case” so…
If you’ve been listening to this Podcast for a while you’ve probably heard me refer to addiction issues… my latest addiction is varied combinations of chocolate and caramel or any mix of sugar with some more sugar mixed in. I’ve had issues with other “substances” and I admit to not being very diligent with a twelve step program I have been a part of for a number of years. Listen as the Senator makes even my addiction issues all about him. It’s classic Senator on the Modern Moron…
CLOSE: I couldn’t even make a straight faced response to that… oh well, I’m not a very good actor. BUT
I’m telling you if Joe Biden had this moron advising him… and why wouldn’t he? I’m one of the smartest moron’s I know… I would tell him to make it public that he is considering a republican for his running mate and talk to a couple of them. Doesn’t mean he has to pick one. But to make it public creates the perception that he’s looking to reach across the isle. I think it would be great to actually do it, but to just announce it to shake things up?... I think its a win win. Hope you found something in that episode entertaining or informative… in the next two episodes we’ll continue to talk more about conspiracy theorists and their platforms, mostly podcasts, and how they are on the spectrum that starts with hopefully reporting the news, then spinning the news which isn’t nearly as bad as spreading propaganda about a subject or a person and then to conspiracy theories: how wild the conspiracy versus how well a particular individual or group can sell the conspiracy.