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Ep. 105 Larry Dorf, Netflix, The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window, Norm MacDonald, This Podcast IS A NEWS Source

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Release Date: 03/20/2022

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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INTRO - Welcome to another episode of the Modern Moron.  I’m pretty excited about my guest for a number of reasons, number one being that I find Larry Dorf to be an extremely entertaining person that I’ve known more than 20 years.  Did you hear that Larry?  That’s a long time.  He’s a funny guy and I’m not completely sure that most of the time he’s not really trying to be funny.

A second reason, probably the main reason, is that Larry is one of the creators, writers and producers of the Netflix hit, “The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window”.  I feel pretty sure you’ve at least heard of it and I’m going to insist that you watch it.  It’s a great title and a really, really bad hashtag.

“The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window” is a parody… a satire of the suspense thriller novel genre like, “The Woman in The Window”, “The Woman in Cabin 10”, “The Other Woman” and on and on.

We talk about the fine line of walking between making fun of the genre and dropping in jokes and still honor the genre of a suspense thriller.  For example, this series is not like the movie Airplane with gag after gag.  In an interesting way, a suspense thriller or even a horror movie is not unlike comedy.  You have to have a setup where you get the audience to think you’re going in one direction and then the surprising reveal is the punchline of a joke or the scare of a thriller.  How do you honor both?

I found it to be a very interesting conversation and I hope you do too.  

Finally, Larry was on this podcast once before, our most listened to episode by the way… and I tell him this fact.  It was when he and his partners were writing and producing “Mike Tyson Mysteries” for Adult Swim’s Cartoon Network.  

On that episode Larry claimed to “break the news” that the show was not being picked up after it’s 4th season.  We recorded that episode at the end of May, 2020 and that information came out in January, so this wasn’t exactly a cutting edge news exclusive, at least we didn’t think so.  However, apparently it had not been officially announced and somehow, there were a few nerdy news websites that actually sited this podcast, yes, THIS podcast to announce it’s cancellation, thereby explaining the mystery of why that episode had more downloads than any of our other episodes.

I don’t believe him at first, so Larry proves this to me by sending me a link from his phone to a site called screenrant.com that sites The Modern Moron as it’s news source.  How ridiculous is that?  This podcast is a news source? Please… I’m just a journalist trying to be true to my craft.

But the reason I bring this up is because of how pee in my pants giddy I become over this when I actually read it in disbelief.  You can almost hear my ego expanding… 

So, yes we were sited in the publication screenrant.com but it also appeared in The U.S. Sun. Their about page states: “The Sun.com is a US online edition of The Sun, Britain’s largest newspaper.”  We also appeared in a website called comicbook.com 

How about this…. A little publication called “NEWSWEEK”!!! EVER HEARD OF IT?  It has the same quote from larry and sites “The Modern Moron Podcast”  however Newsweek did not create a hyperlink where the name is, so hey, Newsweek?  Lawsuit is forthcoming.  You’re gonna want to put your best people on this case.

By the way, Mike Tyson Mysteries, which you can still catch streaming on Hulu, has a 97% positigve fan rating on rottentomatoes.com.   Can we please not gloss over that?  That is a huge rating, from fans.

Also, One of the voices of Mike Tyson Mysteries, was that of comedian Norm MacDonald who passed away in September of last year.  I ask Larry about working with Norm and he talks about how the producers of that show valued Norm’s opinion on what was funny and how much they wanted Norm to have been able to see their Netflix hit.  From all the appearances and interviews of Norm after he passed, it seemed like across the board, not only did people love him for how genuine he was but how they valued his unique perspective on comedy and how hearing his laugh was the best compliment of all. 

So, please enjoy this part 1 episode where I get a little too excited about being mentioned in a website.  It’s THE Larry Dorf from the Netflix hit, and terrible hashtag, “The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window” and thank you for listening.

Close - You know how movies many times have product placement in them and the production company can make a little money?  Well, this production had to have Corning Ware as a major donor because there was shitload of casserole dishes in this production.  

Also, you’re the first to hear the bombshell that  “The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window” is done.  It was a limited series with no season two.  I wonder if part of the allure they were going for included calling it season ONE?  Hmmm mysterious.

How cool was the Amy Schumer story?  I wonder if she would do this podcast just to talk about Larry’s show?  I mean this podcast is a news source now so she bound to listen to it.

In part 2 we talk about what the promotions process was like in terms of doing interviews before the show was released.  They actually had to be coached on how to handle certain questions like a politician.  What it was like shooting a production on location during the Covid Pandemic.

We talk about one of the executive producers for the series which was Will Farrell and there’s an interesting story there.  So many reasons to tune in to part 2 with Larry Dorf and  “The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window” and thank you for listening.  

The Woman in The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window - Netflix 

Mike Tyson Mysteries Cancelled After Four Seasons | Screen Rant - The Modern Moron sited as an actual news source!!! 

From 'Venture Bros' to 'Metalocalypse'—The Most Controversial Adult Swim Cancellations - Newsweek