Ep. 92 Dr. Fauci Derek Chauvin and memmo.me - what is a celebrity anymore?
Release Date: 05/15/2021
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_outlineWelcome to another episode of the Modern Moron… I sit and listen to the opinions coming out of our mouths and I just think where the hell do either of us think we are coming off with these grand opinions about shit neither of us has a fucking clue about. I’ve never been to Europe, I know nothing… noth-thing about any culture even in this country and yet I truly think my analysis is infallible. For realzies. The humility gene… literally fell off our DNA strand.
We start our conversation in grand style as the Senator inquires about the location of the Oscars a few months ago at Los Angeles’ Union Station. From this, the Senator works his way to Dr. Anthony Fauci and implies the senior medical advisor to numerous presidents graduated last in his class in medical school. So, I take the bait as I usually do, as if the Senator has any room to talk about academic achievements. This is from a site called biography.com…
Dr. Fauci graduated from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts as a pre-med. After graduating first in his class from New York City's Cornell Medical College in 1966, he completed his internship and residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
So basically, the exact opposite of what my idiot first partner claimed. Complete opposite… solidifying his seat at the head of the Moron’s table. At least you’re number one at something Senator. Good for you. Again… he set me up and its my fault for taking the bait. Of all people to criticize how another person speaks. (senator) Need I say more?
Finally we hit upon a topic that is more our speed, which is an app?... called memmo. Memmo with two m’s. You can go there and have celebrities, send a video or audio message to a friend or family member. And this site’s idea of a celebrity is VERY broad. I don’t know most of them which is partially due to my age and not being in touch with society, but a good portion is due to what constitutes a celebrity these days, which is not much.
So I hope you find something in this episode that is informative, educational (probably not) or entertaining. Thanks for listening...
CLOSE - While we're on the subject of sports, Running back Ricky Williams who was mentioned earlier went to the University of Texas and then played three years for the New Orleans Saints, eight years for the Miami Dolphins, and his final season in 2011 for the Baltimore Ravens. He also played one year in the Canadian football league and four years in the Philadelphia Phillies minor league system. So, there’s more information about Ricky Williams than you probably wanted.
Chocolate Rain is a song recorded, put on YouTube and went viral back in 2007. This kid was a professor’s assistant at a university in Minnesota and he “blew up” as they say. The dang video currently has over 130 million views… how about that?
And the theme song from the movie Brian’s Song that you heard a snippet of was composed by Henry Mancini. You can always come here for you daily dose of trivia.
Covered a lot of ground on this episode… I wouldn’t necessarily say fertile ground but it was covered none the less. Hope you have a great week and we’ll see you next time on the Modern Moron. Thanks for listening.