{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 98 The Journalist","description":"Welcome to another episode of the MM\u2026Wow\u2026 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\u2019ll get back to it, maybe  not.  But for this episode...Going to do something a little different and that is...we\u2019re going to try a guest who actually has some credentials.  He is a journalist, a publicist and a published author and yes, you\u2019re 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\u2019s 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\u2026  Now we know why he chose that theme song.  But I digress\u2026 my guest has integrity even if I do not and we talk a little about working at California\u2019s state capital and politicians in general.  You\u2019re going to be surprised to find that most politicians have issues with their ego\u2019s\u2026 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\u2019ve 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, \u201cthere\u2019s no such thing as bad publicity\u201d however I completely botch it and make it difficult for either of us to remember.  So, I\u2019m basically letting you know in advance that I already know I\u2019m a moron\u2026 see how woke I am? We\u2019re jamming with a journalist on this episode of the Modern Moron and thank you for listening. CLOSE - Wowwww\u2026 what do you think of that!?!  Ending on a hard line position like that?  Is this what\u2019s 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\u2019d or move to the back.  That\u2019s 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 \u201cThe Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students\u201d... sounds relevant doesn't\u2019 it?  It was written in 1987!  Okay, that\u2019s it for now, \u2026 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. ","author_name":"TheModernMoron podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/themodernmoron.libsyn.com\/website","html":"