PZ's Podcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
359 episodes of PZ's Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 4th, 2010.
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Episode 206 - The Rich Man and Lazarus
November 9th, 2015 | 20 mins 49 secs
I keep getting requests for a sort of "early morning Bible study" -- giving the 'treatment', you might say, to a New Testament text that stings, and also helps. So that's what I'll do for a few episodes, beginning with this one.
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Episode 203 - Pope Francis and the Historical Jesus
October 1st, 2015 | 21 mins
The music is "Good Vibrations" at the start, by The Beach Boys; and "I Knew Jesus (Before He Was a Super Star)", at the end, by Glen Campbell.
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Episode 204 - Honest to God
October 1st, 2015 | 22 mins 2 secs
Pop songs about love are like a corkscrew for understanding the Bible. Songs like "Hooked on a Feeling" and "Don't Pull Your Love Out on Me, Baby," together with a zillion co-belligerants that are written and performed "In the Name of Love" (Thompson Twins), reveal the nature of love and loss, undoings and exaltings, and painful stasis and buoyed forward movement.
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Episode 202: Pope Francis
September 28th, 2015 | 21 mins 35 secs
Did you cry at any point as you watched Pope Francis in action during his visit? If you did, when was it? What made you cry?
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Episode 201: The Real Thing
September 16th, 2015 | 24 mins 33 secs
Is there anything to it? Is vertical religion -- not just calls to social justice, not just implied belief (system) -- but actual vertical religion rooted in anything resembling fact?
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Episode 200: Catatonia
August 12th, 2015 | 22 mins 43 secs
This is not the Who's Final Tour. (They always come back.) So maybe it is the Who's Final Tour. Whatever it is, it's Podcast 200, and that's a benchmark. Somehow.
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Episode 199: What Actually Happens
August 8th, 2015 | 22 mins 26 secs
If you don't factor in the element of romantic love -- or at least its possibility -- you'll surprise yourself when you start making decisions in life. Sometimes I wish I could give a college commencement address. (No one is ever going to ask.) But I should like to talk about romantic love, and its over-riding, over-reaching, superseding strength as an element -- the decisive element -- in personal decision-making.
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Episode 198: Mirage Fighter
August 8th, 2015 | 23 mins 11 secs
Talk about being misunderstood! Artur London was one of the 11 most misunderstood men in the world,
at least at the end of 1951. London was a defendant in the Slansky Trial, a "show trial" under Joseph Stalin. -
Episode 197: The Sacraments Rightly Understood
August 8th, 2015 | 21 mins 3 secs
The church is today so vastly over-eucharisted that you can barely pause to catch your breath. This cast offers an alternative view of the Holy Communion, as well as of Baptism. The original Prayer Book definition of a sacrament was that it is 'an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace'. What a refined and powerful expression. So now Let Smokey Sing (ABC) and find...The Face Behind the Mask (1941). This cast is dedicated to Nancy W. Hanna.
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Episode 196: Cimarron
July 31st, 2015 | 25 mins 4 secs
"The movie Cimarron, which was released in 1931, won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year. (Did you know this?) It's great blessing, Cimarron -- which was based on the novel Cimarron, written by Edna Ferber. But you'd never know it's a blessing if you relied on the critics.
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Episode 195: Shag (The Movie)
July 28th, 2015 | 20 mins 56 secs
Shag The Movie (1989) is a great little entertainment! It captures perfectly, and with high humor and enormous love and heart, the Beach Music phenomenon of the 1960s. Today, however, it touches a current issue -- right from the opening credits.
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Episode 194: Left Hand Path
July 24th, 2015 | 19 mins 45 secs
I think I'm supposed to understand why right-wing people are intolerant. But it's harder for me to understand why left-wing people are intolerant. Guess I thought they were supposed to be about freedom and diversity. Come to find out, they're not. So I had to go back to a source that's almost been "blacklisted" itself. It's the movie My Son John (1952), starring Helen Hayes and Robert Wagner.
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Episode 193: Cross Dressing
July 21st, 2015 | 22 mins 40 secs
The Gallant Hours (1959) is one heuristic movie. Not only does it teach the Church a thing or two about how to honor faithful service, but it depicts an entirely ideal instance of how to dress properly if you're a minister -- or, Heav'n forfend, a "priest."
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Episode 192: How to Save the Church (But Our Lips Are Sealed)
July 20th, 2015 | 23 mins 40 secs
The Church I have known all my life is in free fall numerically. I'm talking about Sunday attendance in everyday parishes.
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Episode 191: Shakin' All Over
July 20th, 2015 | 22 mins 1 sec
This talk concerns the indelibility of certain memories, and why they, and not other memories, are indelible. It also concerns a worrying vision I had in January. But it's all one!
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Episode 190 - PZ's Fabulous New Dating Tips for Gals
July 6th, 2015 | 18 mins 49 secs
This is a word to your future self. You probably can't hear it today. But I predict you'll hear it loud and clear in five years, or maybe ten. This is a word to your future self. It's a new fabulous dating tip, and carries almost no exceptions, tho' I wish it did!