An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven with Tim Bedore Episode 136
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
Release Date: 11/26/2025
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven with Tim Bedore Episode 136
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
Travelling for the holidays? Are the kids asleep in the back of the van? Then, check out this new episode. In past episodes I have made fun of modern country music and its fans are mad. They dared me to make fun of music that "you liberals like." I have taken up their challenge. Does my new song "Sick Folk" capture the essence of early 1960's folk made by Uber liberal middle class kids wearing turtleneck sweaters and singing about lives they've never led? You be the judge! A new client has had a change of heart and no longer wants their "Satan...
info_outline
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven with Tim Bedore Episode 135
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
A new client was certain he was going to be called to Heaven during the Rapture (Sept.23, 2025) and wonders why he is still here. I try to help. If Speaker of the House Mike Johnson goes to confession how long are those sessions? And what would they sound like? I give an example. What would life on Earth be like if we got Raptured? Someone asks if the road to heaven could also be paved with good intentions. I respond with a story about the nicest thing that my Mom ever did for me that was also a really bad idea. What happens after a puppy eats a pound...
info_outline
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven with Tim Bedore Episode 134
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
Is it moral to pray for RFK JR. to die from a disease after refusing to get the vaccine that could have saved him? You have questions, I have answers. If sex for fun is a sin what will Heaven look like? I have an audio answer. If the internet told you you can fix your own lawn mower and you lost two fingers and a toe can you sue? If you give someone the finger in traffic before they can even beep at you have you cloaked yourself in a shield of invulnerability which precludes your being guilty of anything? Has Donald trump ruined golf? I describe the...
info_outline
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven with Tim Bedore Episode 133
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
Is catch and release fishing barbaric or moderately considerate? A client has concerns and I have suggestions to make catch and release less stressful for the fish. Who is the immoral clown to blame for having to endure Trump as President? I name names. Or, actually, name. Could some of the negative attitudes towards transgender people by men be a fear of the "Lola" scenario? Were the Kinks onto something? Is King Ethelread the Unready the exception to my rule that leaders who act tough and sound tough (Vlad the Impaler) have a leg up with...
info_outline
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven with Tim Bedore Episode 132
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
Should transgender athletes be a big issue? How many transgender people have you ever even talked to? Will you ever see one in the locker room at the gym? What would you say? Did you know there are not only XX and XY chromosome people but XXY, XYY, XXX? And what is XXXX? How fragile is the male ego? I saw proof it can be very delicate at my local golf course. A client who lives on a course took my advice and loudly laughed at golfers from her patio after they teed off and swore a blue streak. Let's see how that turned out. Another...
info_outline
Unsolicited Commencement Address from 2005
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
We're through 2025's commencement address season. I don't mind lofty ideals and encouraging words but isn't a dose of realism also needed? And that's where I come in. My first attempts at Life Coaching might be in this unsolicited commencement address to our nation's grads as heard in my weekly feature Vague But True on the the Bob and Tom Show in 2005. 20 years later, was I right? On tattoos I'll admit I was probably wrong.
info_outline
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven with Tim Bedore Episode 131
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
A frustrated client lives on a golf course and has had it with hearing angry golfers outside his windows all day. I help him understand why golfers sound so unhappy and what he might be able to do about it. Someone wants to hear my impersonation of Pee Wee Herman singing the National Anthem and I oblige. Is there any justification to deny a U.S. citizen the right to vote? I think I have one. What should people do on a cruise ship vacation instead of buying art? Would Percival the Merciful ever beat Vlad the Impaler in a free and fair election? What's...
info_outline
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven with Tim Bedore Episode 130
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
Would you believe a Christian gospel musical group has recorded a song called "Tim Bedore is Going to Hell?" They are trying to smite thine enemy through song. Well, not only do I play their song in this episode but encourage all of you to call Christian music radio stations and request they play it. Someone has taken issue with my getting a daily dose of fantasy from religion or Trump concept and this time their rejection of me really stings. Are Uber liberals capable of clinging to absurd fantasy rationalization? Can you be a moral person if you like the work of...
info_outline
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven with Tim Bedore Episode 129
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
Some of you loved my song "We Thank God For Being An American" from the last episode while others were incensed. I try to apologize. Did you know the Biblical context for "virgin" just meant a young woman? Should you always go along with a crowd giving a standing ovation even if you were not that impressed? Are Nazi analogies fair or overused? Has politics become another form of entertainment and what to do about it? If a biological male self-identifies as a female whose pregnant should HR grant maternity leave? If I swung at a throw over to first base...
info_outline
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven with Tim Bedore Episode 128
An Agnostic's Guide to Heaven by Tim Bedore
Can an aging senior with memory issues navigate the digital world? I offer a solution. A new client had an affair with a married man. Now her religious parents are furious, her lover is over the top mad she let her parents find out, his wife hates my client and has sunk into depression and this client wants to know what to do. My path forward is an outside the box approach that just might thread the needle. Have you ever seen a sentence with three cliches? In episode 127 I infuriated some political conservatives and country music fans and to make up for that unintended slight I...
info_outlineTravelling for the holidays? Are the kids asleep in the back of the van? Then, check out this new episode. In past episodes I have made fun of modern country music and its fans are mad. They dared me to make fun of music that "you liberals like." I have taken up their challenge. Does my new song "Sick Folk" capture the essence of early 1960's folk made by Uber liberal middle class kids wearing turtleneck sweaters and singing about lives they've never led? You be the judge! A new client has had a change of heart and no longer wants their "Satan Lives" tattoo to define who they are but can't afford laser removal. I have suggestions. Ever throw an M-80 in a Porta-Potty on the Fourth of July and then regret it? I help a client try to clear their conscience. You have problems, I have solutions. Just Subscribe and THRIVE! All you have to lose is about 19 minutes.