Ep. 98 The Journalist

Welcome to another episode of the MM…Wow… long time no pod.  I have not posted an episode in over a month.  I hit a wall or definitely I had issues with an episode and I went into hibernation.  Or I got chicken to publish it so I moved on.  Maybe I’ll get back to it, maybe  not.  But for this episode...Going to do something a little different and that is...we’re going to try a guest who actually has some credentials.  He is a journalist, a publicist and a published author and yes, you’re still listening to the Modern Moron.  As a journalist he wrote for the St. Petersburg times, now known as the Tampa Bay Times, the second largest newspaper as well as a staff writer for the Washington Post.  He has also been the press secretary for one of California’s Lieutenant Governors.  My name is not Charlie Rose and this is not The Charlie Rose Show.  If I were, I would probably be making inappropriate sexual advances to this music… 

Now we know why he chose that theme song.  But I digress… my guest has integrity even if I do not and we talk a little about working at California’s state capital and politicians in general.  You’re going to be surprised to find that most politicians have issues with their ego’s… remind you of anyone?

This session was recorded in early July.  And he brings up the fact that the corona virus is starting to spread in areas of the country with low vaccination rates and we’ve seen how that played out.  It is also way before the second mask mandate put in effect by the Governor on July 26th.

He (our guest) talks a bit about his travels in Germany just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and what his overall impression was of that time during his freelance correspondence work and for the book he would later write.  

Also, at one point I try to recall a saying which is, “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” however I completely botch it and make it difficult for either of us to remember.  So, I’m basically letting you know in advance that I already know I’m a moron… see how woke I am?

We’re jamming with a journalist on this episode of the Modern Moron and thank you for listening.

CLOSE - Wowwww… what do you think of that!?!  Ending on a hard line position like that?  Is this what’s going to propel the Modern Moron Podcast into the upper echelons of double digit listeners?  Was that powerful enough for you?  Do you really agree with that and say hell yeah, get vax’d or move to the back.  That’s catchy right?

Or do you strongly oppose that view like this gentleman being interviewed on the streets of Alabama...  Okay, thank you that was great.  

Our guest mentioned a book title about the closing of the American mind.  The full title of the book is called “The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students”... sounds relevant doesn't’ it?  It was written in 1987! 

Okay, that’s it for now, … please forward it to someone you think might find it interesting or if you just want to annoy someone, forward it to them and tell them they get mentioned by name in the middle of the episode.  We would greatly appreciate it.  Thank you for listening to the Modern Moron.