TheModernMoron podcast

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 classi...

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...

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...

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...

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 pro...

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 explanati...

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...

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 ta...

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 plane...

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...

Welcome to another episode of TMM…where you can also find us at "The Old Man-dot-show"... try it!  Also,  happy post 4th of July.  I have WAY too many tabs open in my browser most of the time.  It's as cluttered and messy as the rest of my house.  I leave these tabs open because I think they contain something I want ot share with you, which is another way of saying something I want to complain, ra...

My guest has been on the show once before along with the senator and we refer to him as Templeton, as in form Charlotte's Web. We've been besties since high school where we were both relatively scrawny, neither of us was on any sports teams but we hung out with a couple of the jocks.  We took a bunch of the same college classes together and always talked about our own business partnership firm bei...

Welcome to another episode of TMM… In this episode we finish my chat with my friend and comedian Christine Lederman, but as usual I want to cover a couple of things first. One is from an article in the Wall Street Journal from Sunday June 12th.  I have to recommend the Wall Street Journal.  You should at least get the online version plus the Sunday/weekend edition and here's why: 1) it's a very cr...

Welcome to another episode of the MM… this was supposed to be an easy-peazy light episode with my friend and stand up comedian Christine Lederman.  Until… I decided to include something that I felt looked at both sides of the 2nd amendment-slash-gun violence issue that,  along with some other issues, you can throw on the pile of burning tires that divides this country right now.  And it has taken...

Open - So I have begun to  volunteer at a local Hospital which is also a trauma center.  What separates a  trauma center from a regular hospital?  I look at it the same way you might look at the difference between a four star and a five star hotel.  A five star hotel needs two dining rooms, one formal, and I believe 24 hour room service and concierge service… probably some other stuff. According t...

OPEN - Welcome to another episode of the Modern Moron and another very… long… intro.  We all could use a little respite from Russia's violent invasion of Ukraine, not as much as the people of Ukraine could use it, but you get the idea.  So why not turn to the entertainment industry?  How about the Oscars?  Let's watch Hollywood celebrate itself.  Of course you know where I'm going with this and th...

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, p...

Oh my god, I have so many elderly meandering things to ask you and tell you… so many things I don't understand. A couple of items I found interesting in the past couple of weeks regarding some minor events we've experienced, mainly what I'm hearing is the first war in Europe since WWII.  A couple of things: On the day Russia invaded Ukraine I heard a story on NPR, one of my main news sources along...

Welcome to an… episode of the Modern Moron.  Wow.  Long, long time since we've done an episode.  A lot of water under the bridge, a lot of swabs up noses, needles in arms and a lot of masks being worn and NOT being worn.  So… why?  Why do an episode and why did we quit? Why I quit… seemed like it was getting stale, I was told it was getting stale, listening to the Senator and me bickering over the...

Ep. 103 Ted Lasso the Christmas Episode, Old Men Fawning Over Younger Women is So Gross and The Fear of Getting Old Welcome to the Modern Moron where we take a brief break from the shitstorm that is our civilization and spend some time taling about the hugely popular Ted Lasso, some of the characters and it's co-creator Jason Sudeikis.  Part of the show's attraction is that despite the aforementio...

Welcome to a very full episode of the modern moron, a bit longer than usual.  We cover a lot of ground so I'm mostly going to just give you some bullet points… mostly, so you can either be prepared, be in on the joke, or decide to skip this episode entirely.  Sort of a spoiler alert without too much spoilage. Item #1 - The Senator peed his pants… again.  If you're a guy and you're listening, you'r...

Welcome to episode 100 of the Modern Moron!  We do have a special guest for this landmark episode depending on how you define the word special.  Our guest is special to me as I've known this guy as my bff since junior year in high school.  We were both undersized, red-headed umm what?  Misfits?   Class clowns?  Maybe.  Outcasts?  No, he certainly wasn't an outcast.  In fact he was smart enough to...

Welcome to episode 99 of the Modern Moron.  In this episode we welcome back the Senator not that he was gone that long.  I mostly berate and harass him which is no surprise, but I really do give him a hard time, downright mean.  All because he has trouble pronouncing certain words, in this case the city of Corinth.  There is so much moronoscity happening on so many levels in this episode. First of...

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...

Welcome to another episode of the Modern Moron and in this episode we turn the way back machine on to go all the way back to college.  Specifically… actually it's not specific at all, as my guest is my old college roommate. We reminisce about being college freshman away from home, the freedom we had and how much we would cut up and laugh like a couple of 12 years old's having a sleepover… no offen...