Failing Up
Life is improvisation! Observations from a regular guy who always turned left when told to go right and has spent his life with improvisation, his safe place. Exploring the relationships between crisis and creativity. Life is improv. We are all failing up!
Episodes
209 episodes
Unwrapping Christmas Music
The holiday season is upon, and Christmas is at the forefront with decorations, the tree, cookies, drinks, shopping Santa, Christmas programs, and specials, it goes on and on. There is one thing that holds the season together like a bow o...
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Season 4
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Episode 207
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13:25
Thanksgiving Everyone's Holiday
Thanksgiving is a holiday that belongs to everyone. There are no specific religious, themes, it is not just a "red" or "blue" holiday, it is inclusive. It was a holiday founded on gratitude. There is no crazy commercialization...
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Season 4
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Episode 206
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15:25
Information Pollution
Just like with the environment, when unregulated garbage, toxins and exhausts are dumped into our oceans, omitted into the air, and just tossed anywhere, the effects to the environment, and those that occupy this planet have unhealthy and life ...
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Season 4
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Episode 205
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20:04
Crack Communication
Our great addiction to the phone, (which is not really a phone) is stronger than crack and I would argue would be just as difficult to kick. Our phone, (which is really not a phone), this device is our photo gallery, weather system, medic...
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Season 4
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Episode 204
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13:09
America Look In The Mirror
During this time in our history where emotions are running the gamut. The common questions are how, why? Or, in some cases yes, half the electorate is celebrating. Just like when a person is in despair or in the grasps o...
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Season 4
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Episode 203
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13:24
Blue Collar
I grew up in a "blue collar family. One grandfather was a firefighter, the other work at a plant. My father worked at large plant then the power company, my mother was a nurse. I have always looked at those people, nurses, plu...
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Season 4
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Episode 202
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16:10
Ketchup the Vegetable
In 1981 due to cutbacks in the school lunch program, then President Ronald Reagan attempted to have ketchup declared a vegetable. Well, congress went crazy and said no way. Now, for the purpose of replacing vegetables on school lunc...
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Season 4
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Episode 201
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16:11
My Therapy
This is the 200th episode of Failing Up. As we celebrate this milestone I want to thank all of you who continue to download this podcast, which is really a form of self therapy. I appreciate being able to share my fragmented ramblin...
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Season 4
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Episode 200
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14:50
'I Got A Rock"
There are the classic Halloween candies that continue to rise to the top of all goblin lists. These are Halloween Hall of Fame (HOF) candies. The Milky Way Bar, Three Musketeers, Snickers, Milk Duds, Butterfingers to name a few.&nbs...
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Season 4
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Episode 199
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11:26
Trick or Treat, Cut Off Age
Show me some ID! If you are old enough to drive a car or get a Learner's Permit or Driver's License, you are too old to Trick or Treat! No candy for you 16yrs with just a hat on and a ...
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Season 4
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Episode 198
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8:00
Whac-A-Poll
As this important election is about to reach its climax. I find myself overwhelmed with all the polls. For the last 90 days is seems a different poll comes out daily with different percentages. The Emerson College Poll, the Siena College ...
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Season 4
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Episode 197
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14:00
America Needs A Woman
I read and hear political pundits constantly repeat, " we are not ready for a woman President." My response and question is why not? Who says when we are ready?? I believe we are long over due. Leadership is not about size or ...
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Season 4
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Episode 196
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13:18
"The Winter Rat"
Growing up in the Northeastern United States presented unique cultural occurrences back, "in the day". One of them being the purchase of some type of car that was on life support that would be driven throughout the wi...
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Season 4
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Episode 195
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24:31
Still Catholic After All These Years
First of all up front and out of the gate, I am pro-choice, believe women should be on the altar, any sexual abuser should be punished to the extremes of the law, and I go to confession when I am lonely. Having stated all this, I am still...
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Season 4
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Episode 194
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18:09
Fall Flannel
Just like that Labor Day ends, and in the northeast you wake up the next morning to autumn. The trees start to change color overnight. Every apple orchard and pumpkin patch comes to life. The air is crisp, and the apple fritte...
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Season 4
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Episode 193
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16:05
Fair Fried
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of the summer, and for this region of the world the last ritual of the season is the New York State Fair. I have attended the Fair on a regular basis since I was a child, and just like when we grow those...
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Season 4
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Episode 192
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17:13
Thank You Gus!!
Gus Walz, son of Democratic Vice President Tim Walz, showed America what love looks like as his father gave his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. When Gus stood up tears streaming from his eyes telling the wor...
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Season 4
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Episode 191
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13:13
Rhetorical Racism
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, quest...
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Season 4
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Episode 190
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16:39
America Has Awakened
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!&nbs...
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Season 4
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Episode 189
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12:52
RIP News Media
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 188
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16:20
Stuck In Space
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 hap...
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Season 4
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Episode 189
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11:04
Time to Pass the Torch
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 ...
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Season 4
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Episode 188
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15:13
School Bus #34. The Magical Ride.
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 eve...
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Season 4
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Episode 187
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17:19