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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!

society & culture

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16:39

Rhetorical Racism

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2024/08/19

When an individual intentionally mispronounces a person name, they are doing so in a attempt to dehumanize that person and have them treated as an object. This is a tactic as old as time in the history of racism, using name calling, questioning intelligence, based on race or gender, couched in innocent tones and ignorance. No matter how brightly the glow from the gas light shines, the intent in clear. It is past time to accept this behavior and the dangerous intentions. ...

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12:52

America Has Awakened

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2024/08/14

Like two old uncles after Thanksgiving dinner sitting in their chairs, one all fat with with pants unbuckled spewing baloney as he glorifies his unglorified past, the other half asleep periodically jumping out of his chair screaming, BINGO! That was the sad state of our presidential election, until one man realized times have changed and put his country first. A truly selfless act! He listened to the people.I wish they both did it. Now an energy has been infused as this elec...

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16:20

RIP News Media

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2024/07/19

I grew up, well if I ever actually did grow up, loving the news, especially broadcast. At one point I even worked teleprompter on the local news. That news is gone on to a better place. Instead, we now have 24/7 news right, left, up and down, panel after panel full of experts screaming at us! Why do they all scream!! All opinions and projections and not news. The news is lost, fact is fiction and audiences are being entertained and believing it, because it must b...

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11:04

Stuck In Space

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2024/07/17

Fifty years ago a Saturn V rocket launched three astronauts into space and off to the moon. Two of them walked on the surface of the moon while the other orbited, then they returned safely to earth. It was one small step for man, what happened to the giant leap for mankind??I am really a simple guy, and not the brightest bulb in the pack, but for the life of me I cannot fathom why we are having such issues going back? Now we have two astronauts stuck at the International Space Sta...

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15:13

Time to Pass the Torch

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2024/07/11

In this election year where most of the country is tired of both candidates. Two old men playing checkers on a porch. One cannot remember his moves, and the other just keeps cheating. This is not Mick and Keith! As JFK stated in his 1961 inaugural speech, "the torch has been passed on to a new generation....." The Democrats have the opportunity to shake it up and pass the torch, the Republicans do not. It is time to sideline the "Y" chromosome and put a woman in the Wh...

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17:19

School Bus #34. The Magical Ride.

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2024/06/30

From September, 1964 to June of 1977 I was transported to and from school on the magical bus #34,( it later became bus #62, but I always called it #34) driven by our captain Eddie the bus driver. Eddie was not just a bus driver he was everyone's uncle, the bus decked out with speakers listening to top 40 radio spanning the British invasion to Disco. The bus was our cocoon and Eddie the Captain of our journey, that took us from childhood through puberty. From the assass...

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15:06

America Needs A Bubble Bath

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2024/06/29

As a kid at the end of a long summer's day when all bruised sweaty, and dirty I was sent to the tub with Mr. Bubble for a hot bubble bath, (I know that just sounds wrong) to wash off the dirt, check out the bruises and cuts from a day of play, and then to go bed, all clean to do it again.Well, I'm thinking America may need a bubble bath to wash off the dirt, lies, hateful rhetoric, hidden beneath organizations, so called leaders and religious groups and look at our real cuts and b...

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16:13

Old Fart Syndrome

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2024/06/14

Well, I had an extremely disturbing revelations this morning. In the middle of having morning coffee sitting in my comfy chair, in my robe feeding nuts to the chipmunks and squirrels, I realized I am an old fart! The old dude who waves to the neighbors in his robe and loafers! Next I will be wearing slippers to the store!! Snap out of it old boy!!timothymahar.org

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12:12

Gluttony of News

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2024/06/09

In our current day, the news is ever present and in our faces 24/7. It's every where all the time! On our phones, televisions, social media, it follows us, and it is loud and in your face! Most of it really is not even news, just a bunch of pundits screaming at each other to make a buck. It's all reality TV, and that has seeped into our nations conscious and new norms. timothymahar.org

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12:01

The Rest Stop A Highway Spa

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2024/06/04

Summer travel is here and we are off on the highways. There is no place more comforting on a road trip then the rest stop. With the much needed bathrooms, a chance to stretch, a selection of the finest fast foods, chips coffee. These pit stops much like those at the Indy 500 have vehicles coming in and out nonstop. There is no worse feeling then when you think you can make it to the next stop, only to realize that it is 40 miles away. Urgency even gets urgent! I ...

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16:41

Hate is Man Made

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2024/05/29

Hate is not natural. It has been taught for centuries. I know this is not some great revelation on my part, but it takes a while to for things to hit me. Actually, love is natural and unlike hate love takes work. Hate is a reaction, a tool for manipulation, it takes no thought. It serves an ugly purpose for few, but costs many lives.timothymahar.org

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16:23

Rhetorical Wreckage

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2024/05/25

When leaders lying has become the accepted norm. When it is being fostered through various outlets for individual and corporate gain, we are in the danger zone. Lying has become accepted a means to recapture power. It is a tool of individual survival for politicians decimating what is left of the Republican Party. When individual's follow and gain value through leadership that lies, their self value is threatened by the truth. This cultivates, hate and violence.&...

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13:40

Stupid Is Dangerous

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2024/05/13

We live in a time when stupidity has risen to the top. Lying is the norm and the truth is fake. Name calling and reckless mocking is celebrated. It's like a spreading rash on our culture and democracy. The scary thing about the stupid constituency is they are motived through emotion, they respond through emotion which leads to violence. They support their leader when they can't even support themselves. How do you debate with a group that has ignorance...

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19:31

Deja vu 1968

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2024/05/04

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16:36

The Kids Can Hear You!

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2024/04/21

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14:30

This is Not a Spectator Sport

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2024/04/15

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12:59

Blinded By The Light

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2024/04/07

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13:27

Trump's Holy Week

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2024/03/31

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14:57

The Repubican Party of Trump

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2024/03/24

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21:43

America's Saint Patrick's Day Caricature vs Character

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2024/03/10

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