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Failing Up

Life is improvisation! Observations from a regular guy on how with world around us impacts who we are and what we perceive. I explore how life is more about asking questions than accepting what is presented. In addition to my own reflections and experiences, I interview guests from the art, literary, music, cultural and political fields to gain insight as to how we all impact the world we share and our joint realities. We are all failing up!

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11:10

Fresh Cut Grass

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2025/04/30

After a long cold snowy winter in the Northeastern part of the United States, there is nothing better than the aroma of fresh cut grass to let you know spring has arrived. This magical fragrance transforms me into a different time, memories of my youth in the yard, summer approaching, about to break free from the shackles of the classroom. Just a whiff of this grass brings loved ones long gone back to life as their memories embrace me. A bouquet of warmth, peace, love and en...

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12:51

Faith no Fear

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2025/04/27

As a week of celebration for an extraordinary leader and pastor, Pope Francis, the peoples Pope comes to an end, I am once again overwhelmed with the power and peace for faith. Not faith defined by a certain denomination or particular religion but just faith. When faith it truly lived and taught by those that live it, then there is not fear, well except if you are being chased by a grizzly bear. All the power of faith and love, over shadows ego and its by product fear....

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13:15

Scary Easter Bunny

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2025/04/20

Unlike Santa Clause the Easter Bunny is an animal. While growing up and still to this day when I see Santa in the mall, at brunch, or ringing a bell on the street I can make the connection, he is a nice plump man with a beard. The Easter Bunny however is a completely different animal. First of all, he is an animal! So when I'm at the mall or Easter Brunch and some dude in a bunny costume with eyes and a mouth that do not move starts waving, I get freaked out.&nbs...

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9:45

Convenience vs. Community

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2025/04/15

In our current day, I can run errands, go to work, and visit the doctor without any real interpersonal interaction. I get gas with my card at the pump, bank at the ATM, groceries at the self checkout line, telemedicine with the doctor, Zoom my ass off! There was a time where a day like that I would find myself interacting with people, who I had come to know. The guy at Hess gas pumping my gas, the bank teller, the check-out person, the doctor in person, and the sounds and sm...

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11:28

Fifteen Items or Less!

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2025/04/13

Well, let me tell you back in my younger days if there was a rule to be broken, I broke it. Tell me to go right and I go left. Now that I am in the Autumn of my life, (ok early autumn like Labor Day) I find myself obsessed with certain rules. Fifteen items or less the check-out sign reads a that grocery store. Yet people cruise through with 20, 30, 35 items. I find myself counting the items of the people in front of me. Parking! what is it with this p...

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11:49

GOAT Obsession

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2025/03/29

Our society seems to be obsessed with who or what is the GOAT, greatest of all time, in what ever category you want to pick. Greatest, band, basketball player, quarterback, late night host, it goes on and on. These discussions transcend into arguments in the blink of an eye. My stance is, there are not GOATS. There is greatness in any category you select and there can me multiple greats. I just don't go down the GOAT path. timothymahar.org

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13:23

The Drive-Thru

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2025/03/22

As I find myself rushing from point A to point B, there are times I think I'll just stop at a drive-thru and grab something to eat. As I approach the drive-thru I see a long line of car just waiting and herding through. It then dawned on me that the drive-thru for fast food, is slow! People just do not want to get out of their cars. Our car, the communication, center, racing machine, information palace and restaurant. We don't have time to get out, even when wait...

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11:27

Essential Workers, Always Essential

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2025/03/17

Five years ago we went into lock down. All except for the "essential workers". Those selfless heroes at times taken for granted until a crisis occurs and they rise to the occasion. In this case, nurses, doctors, truck drivers, grocery store employees and first responders, police, and on and on... Individuals' who make our lives possible. I just found the term "essential worker" so powerful. They are essential, yet at times just a part of the fabric.&nb...

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10:34

The Fish Fry

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2025/03/08

One sure sign that spring is around the corner and winter is melting away is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. This is season where the "Fish Fry" rules! I love going to the local fish fry's in church basements or cafeteria's. There is such sense of community and warmth. Even at the take-out fried fish stores that are packed every Friday up unit Good Friday there is a sense of community, no one in a rush everyone there getting fish, and fish sandwiches.&nb...

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12:48

Green Beer

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2025/02/27

Pennsylvania has Punxsutawney Phil, to forecast when spring will arrive, New Orleans has Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, heck we even have lent, all to let us know that spring is on the way. In the central part of New York State, USA, in city named Syracuse, in a wonderful Irish section named Tipperary Hill, full of history, legacy names, families, and the only traffic light with green on top, we know spring is around the corner when the green beer arrives. Now mind you, I have not had a...

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13:36

Snowy, Cozy Comfort Food, Sunday

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2025/02/16

Unlike the "Dog Days" of summer we are now in the "Dead of Winter" here in the northeastern portion of the United State. February in Upstate, NY, cold and snowy, dark and cozy. Yes, cozy. Nothing liked a grey snowy Sunday to put on an extra pot of coffee, grab a book, watch a movie or just be a peace. You can hear the silence as the snow falls and blankets the ground. Past memories come to life! Memories of family, friends, comfort food. A nice pot p...

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14:03

Valentine's Day Massacre

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2025/02/14

I despise Valentine's Day! It's a holiday of pressure, stress, forced love, and embarrassment. Designed to kick start sales and post holiday spending in the dead of winter. Ok, I have a few issues that have never been resolved! This goes back to elementary school when all the children in our classes had to make an envelope to stick on the wall in the front of the classroom, for all to put Valentine's cards in. Those little cheap cards with a clown, balloons, and elepha...

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10:37

1000 "Likes" And All Alone

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2025/02/06

The United States Surgeon General reported earlier this year that loneness is at a all time high. How can the be in a world that is so connected by technology. A world that is connected yet disconnected. Where communications on platforms such as Facebook are one way a post validated through "Likes'. Arguments with "friends" over sports, who's the GOAT, politics, you name it. The other 90% of the communication process interaction is lost on the keyboard. People are portfolio ...

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13:38

Reality TV Our New Reality

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2025/01/26

Reality TV has crossed over into the real world. Values are based on entertainment, voting is a ratings war, and fantasy valued over facts. Of course it is not a reality program, and it is not my intend to demean the genre by comparison to what is currently playing out in our word. We are in a period where being entertaining, creating a persona is valued over the truth, law, integrity and values. In the real world the reality TV we see play out daily has consequences....

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11:02

Sample Saturday

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2025/01/25

I was on my way into the grocery store, (which are now little communities that go way beyond just groceries) to pick-up my prep prescription for an upcoming colonoscopy. The procedure no one wants to admit they get. "The procedure is not bad, but the prep will kill you!!!" That's all you hear! So as I entered the store I am greeted by two lovely ladies who asked me if I would like a free sample of grapes, cheese and salami, of course I replied! They then directed...

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14:50

The Truth Hurts

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2025/01/20

In a day and age when there is a constant bombardment of messaging through vast channels of communication, the casualty has been the truth. Those who grasped this new reality have been able to motivate and persuade by delivering messages their audience wants to hear regardless of accuracy. A message that aligns with the values of the intended audience. If the message is questioned for truthfulness, the values are attacked. Hence, a time where the lines of ...

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10:57

The Kitchen Table Heartbeat Of The Home

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2025/01/14

In the home, whether it be a mansion, house, apartment, flat, log cabin or a small shack, the kitchen table was the place where the pulse was. It was at the table where debates occurred, homework was done, sorrow and joy shared, the day debriefed with family and friends. There was comfort in routine; Sunday dinner, roast beef, and gravy, Monday meatloaf, Tuesday casserole, Thursday spaghetti, Friday pizza, and Saturday a surprise. Of course, some meals were seasonal and they would...

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9:32

Fear is Man Made

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2025/01/06

2025 a new year with many changes ahead. As in most cases uncertainty can fuel fear. Most fear is created to motivate, manipulate, and control. Now, this will sound cliché, but the way to overcome fear is through love. Love of your community, family, friends, those less fortunate, the arts, individuals' who may have different views and values. As President Franklin D Roosevelt stated in his first inaugural address: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Let's...

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12:07

Christmas Eve Special

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2024/12/25

In this podcast we are celebrating Christmas Eve in the studio. Merry Christmas!timothymahar.org

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13:29

In The Holiday Zone

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2024/12/23

As I entered the parking lot to the grocery store what did I see, a mass of zoned out shoppers in a frenzy. All in a hurry to get in the store, in hopes their special items were not there no more. Items required for the traditional dish, past down for generations and never missed. So charge to the store in 14 degrees, people get out of my way if you please. Tall and short, coats and hats, some in shorts , what's up with that. Merry Christmas to all, get the Hell out of...

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