TheModernMoron podcast

Welcome to a program where if you hear the phrase tick-tock you can rest assured we are talking about either a clock or the time of day… it's the Modern Moron Little bit of a long episode for you  and in it we spend a great deal of time talking about exclusivity.  That's a good thing right?  You hear about something being exclusive that means not everyone can get it, or experience it.  And not onl...

I have some good news for you.  The majority of this episode doesn't involve politics!  I know, right?  A breath of fresh air.  Also, my guest is NOT the Senator!  How about that?  My guest is my OP from my radio days and like you she is coming out of  quarantine/ hibernation and like most of you… probably… she's watched a little more television, I'm sorry, streaming content in the last year and c...

In this outdated installment we banter about a number of things including my great idea that  Caitlin Jenner should be on a box of Wheaties and we mention some athletes who have been on Wheaties boxes, yes they still make Wheaties, including Kyrie Irving, who the Senator doesn't know and I say he plays for the Celtics when in fact Kyrie Irving is currently with the Brooklyn Nets who are one step a...

Welcome to another Episode… So the Senator is back from his whirlwind trip to the Grand Canyon to hike from the South Rim to the North rim and I know he can't wait to talk about it.  So naturally I give him a laundry list of other topics to discuss to keep him from talking about his true love… himself.  However... The Senator jumps on Kamala Harris, noting her last press conference was over two mo...

Welcome 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.  F...

Welcome to another month-old episode of the modern moron.  Not because you're just getting around to it, but because I'm just getting around to it.  So by the time you get around to it, this episode with be months old rather than just one month old.  See there?  Leading of with some really valuable information.   Speaking of pointless, In this episode the Senator talks about his desire to go to th...

Hello!  Yes, this is an episode of The Modern Moron… and like an aging Snow Leopard, increasingly rare to find.  Does that increase the value of a Modern Moron episode… I'm gonna say no, we're not like a snow leopard or a bitcoin. In this rambling episode, the senator is not in a good place… the news has him down.  But when does the news, by and large, ever have you up?  It always leads with the l...

My guest is my friend and stand up comedian Christine Lederman who has been on the program a couple of times. Christine talks about her recent experience doing live standup again… in Texas.  Keep in mind she had this gig in Houston in February...  just before the horrible freezing temperatures hit Texas.  We talk about getting out of Houston just in time before the freeze hit  and what it was like...

Welcome to another episode…  Man have I put off publishing this episode and I'm not sure why… maybe it's that there's nothing particularly topical but since when has this program ever been topical?   Do you ever go to YouTube with the intention of looking something up and get side-tracked by another video that looked interesting.  Meeeee too!  That doesn't happen by accident.  YouTube knows you, k...

OPEN:  Kind of a hodgepodge for you today, including the etymology of the word hodgepodge which is "a kind of stew, especially "one made with goose, herbs, spices, wine, and other ingredients." Earlier it was an Anglo-French legal term meaning "collection of property in a common 'pot' before dividing it equally" (late 13c.). Immediately that doesn't make sense to me.  So… first it was a legal term...

Welcome to The Modern Moron and we're going to get straight to it as we take somewhat of a deep dive into the Beatles.  My guest is our college student who, due to the pandemic, was plucked from her liberal arts college in New York where she had access to not only the college life and professors teaching art, but also the museums of Manhattan that contain a good deal of the art she is studying.  A...

I don't think "Welcome" is the right word for this episode in that it is a mess.  We're unfocused and all over the place… kind of like our country right now.  We're post riot and pre inauguration or ig-nauguration if you're the Senator and it really doesn't feel great right now being an American, at least for me.  No one seems happy.  I supposed democrats are relatively happy because Mao Tse Trump...

OPEN Hey Morons!  How are you?  Wanna talk politics?  Me neither.  You know, I had weaned myself of off politics for most of the summer and into the fall but I got sucked back in, or rather, I allowed myself to get re-addicted to it on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021.  I'm sure you have been inundated with it so this will be a break from that!  We reminisce briefly about a couple of  comedy albums we...

The Modern Moron is very excited to have a high school senior as a guest on this episode.  We talk about how it sucks to be a senior in a pandemic.  How about that word… "sucks"?  Expressions for what is cool or hip or "bad"... remember when if something was "bad" that meant it was good?  But the term "sucks" seems to have remained a constant in the vernacular of teens everywhere.  Doesn't that ma...

Welcome to what is probably the last episode of The Modern Moron… for 2020.  Maybe the best thing about this episode is that it's short!  So why include it?  I have a couple of reasons, one being that it's short.  This episode covers the tail end of our conversation where the Senator is getting weepy about people who have died this year in the music entertainment industry and he mentions Eddie Van...

Welcome to part two of the Modern Moron's Holiday Special name that Christmas artist Extravaganzapalooza! Our first song is by Ertha Kitt, which the senator gets without even hearing her iconic song "Santa Baby" even being played.  Now, I have to down a rabbit hole before we even get to the episode. I mention in this episode that we could do a whole show on Ertha Kitt.  While in pop culture she is...

Welcome to a Modern Moron Holiday Treat Classic Extravaganzapalooza.  In this episode and in this Holiday season of giving, the Senator returns!  And in that spirit of giving he denies any wrong doing in our breakup and even demands an apology.  Remind you of anyone? We really do try to make this episode about Christmas songs and the iconic vocalists who we immediately recognize.  But as I said, t...

Welcome to another Episode of the Modern Moron which I spend with my OP… my old radio partner down in Southern California.  We hit on the expected post Thanksgiving / Pandemic chat about how things have changed and how they are the same, and how our kids are doing with distance learning or hybrid learning and "special ed" learning all new terms to me in the past 6 months… and some of it has been f...

Welcome to another episode of the laziest podcast in America.. Aka the Modern Moron.  I have lost all desire to meet a self imposed weekly deadline, I again do not have a guest and I plan on putting as little effort as possible into this episode.  In fact I'm basically going to read to you in this election week episode… or is it election month?  I'm going with election month, because we sure as he...

Welcome Morons or rather followers of a moron.  I do have a real guest for this episode but I want to get to a couple of things first. First of all… this is the first episode since the passing of supreme supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.  Relative to what there is to know about her, I don't know much, but I do want to share with you two things about her and her passing that I found to be...

Welcome to another episode of The Modern Moron!  I have a very, VERY special guest lined up for you in this edition.  Someone I've known my entire life, we've been through a lot together.  My guest is… me.  Sorry, I couldn't get someone lined up for this week.  Whatever.  Don't judge me. Okay, we're going to start off light and breezy and work towards dead serious.  In my return to this podcast, n...

Welcome to the Modern Moron!  Where I finish catching up with my friend Mike Schwartz.  We reminisce about old comedians still around like Mel Brooks and other comics who have passed away, specifically Fred Willard.  I don't know about you but I have sort of a bucket list of musicians I want to see while they're still performing and Mike and I have that same sentimentality with some of the comedia...

Welcome Back? To an episode of the modern moron!  It feels strange to say that after saying it once a week for about a year and a half.  I stopped doing this podcast in March and, I can't remember why… did something happen around March that I'm missing?  Actually I did have a reason to stop doing this program and I will get into that another time.  Because my guest on this episode is an old and ve...

Welcome again to TMM… you know since there is so much love and unity in this country right now, both socially and politically, I think we'll take a break from politics and news headlines.  Don't worry… all of the toxic chaotic issues going on will be right there and waiting for you in less than half an hour… I promise.  They will not go away. I should never have waited a month to get to this inter...

Welcome to another episode of TMM… A sort of multi-episode portion on spin doctors, "Analysts", talking heads and Conspiracy theorists.  How they're different and how they're basically the same only some wear fancy suits, have hair and makeup and have a cable news show, while others are conspiracy theorist's that get banned from social media from the idiot Alex Jones all the way to the Conspiracy...