PZ's Podcast

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

365 episodes of PZ's Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 4th, 2010.

  • Episode 162 - Rain Dance

    February 5th, 2014  |  27 mins 55 secs

    Thinking about Obamacare, the circular argument of the century, got me onto this. But it's not about Obamacare! It's about Reality. And Guess What?

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    Episode 161 - PBS

    January 9th, 2014  |  33 mins 51 secs

    That's Percy Bysshe Shelley, with a little help from Eric Burdon, and from B.T.O., and from John Harris Harper. And MAY this meditation on termination not be half-baked.

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    Episode 160 - Who Is Going To Love Me?

    December 20th, 2013  |  27 mins 14 secs

    How can we know God? Where is God locatable? With a little help from Dionne Warwick and a little from St. John, I want to answer. Podcast 160 is dedicated to Jono Linebaugh.

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    Episode 159 - The Happiest Actual Life

    November 17th, 2013  |  28 mins 58 secs

    It's really possible. To have "the happiest actual life", I mean. The phrase is from Booth Tarkington, who portrays something like that life in his novel "Alice Adams" (1921).

  • Episode 158 - Changing Social Conditions in Indianapolis

    November 11th, 2013  |  34 mins 28 secs

    Boy, we need a miracle. And such things really happen: as in Tarkington, as in Galsworthy. As in me and you. And as in: The Buckinghams.

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    Episode 157 - Every Mother's Son

    October 19th, 2013  |  29 mins 32 secs

    Taking a break now for a few weeks, but wanted to leave a white-pebble trail, not of tears but of hope. "Come on down to my boat, baby" -- and I'm talking about you, Miss Wyckoff; and you, Mr. Rutherford; and you, Mr. Zahl.

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    Episode 156 - I Am Curious (Orange)

    October 16th, 2013  |  26 mins 20 secs

    A Protestant spin on a Copper Oldie, and a warning, a a very personal warning, against categorization.

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    Episode 155 - Mandy

    October 6th, 2013  |  39 mins 13 secs

    Alternate title: Mandy and The Episcopals. Irving Berlin sets the stage, Sandra Dee plays the lead (with Troy Donohue), and James Gould Cozzens, like Sister Mary Ignatius, explains it all for you.

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    Episode 154 - Kramer

    October 2nd, 2013  |  30 mins 11 secs

    Kramer is my word for transmitted family dis-function and disease. It needs acute attention. With the help of The Contraption, Kramer can be reduced. Richard Egan steps in to help us here.

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    Episode 153 - Love in the 40s

    September 30th, 2013  |  30 mins 28 secs

    When you're 'mature', you're sometimes not mature. I learned this in my 40s. Partly I was taught by "Miami Vice" and Jan Hammer. Life felt SO serious, like Tubbs and Valerie, and Crockett and Theresa. So full of dread. Or not.

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    Episode 152 - Groovy Kind of Love

    September 29th, 2013  |  31 mins 58 secs

    The text is Isherwood's diary entry for August 3, 1967. The topic: How can you grow in love for the people around you? Lesley Gore is going to help us, plus William Hale White, as usual; plus Gerald Heard; plus, of course, Wayne Fontana.

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    Episode 151 - Girl Talk

    September 27th, 2013  |  34 mins 52 secs

    I've just written a book. It's not about gender differences. Nor is it about ideology. It is about near death and dying; and what the world religions have to offer a person in extremis. This podcast id dedicated to Ray Ortlund.

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    Episode 150 - Early Roman Kings

    August 28th, 2013  |  50 mins 24 secs

    This is about the Ancient Romans: their psychic position, their reliance on augury, and the coming of Christ. With help from Bob Dylan. Two corrections, too: the Wilder book is "The Woman of Andros"; and 'Camulodunum' was the Roman name for Colchester.

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    Episode 149 - A Heartache, A Shadow, A Lifetime

    August 25th, 2013  |  47 mins 10 secs

    This is my reflection on 45 years of New Testament scholarship. Forty-five years in 45 minutes. That's one minute for every year.

  • Episode 148 - INGSOC

    August 4th, 2013  |  28 mins 4 secs

    "A little trick with Dick" (The Name Game). This is about language, control, and Purr-FECtion.

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    Episode 147 - Transcendence

    August 3rd, 2013  |  22 mins 25 secs

    What can you do when you're face to face with The Antagonist? Well, I'll tell you this much: no one gets out of here alive. Unless, however, there are Martians. This talk is about suffering and it's about transcendence.