PZ's Podcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
345 episodes of PZ's Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 4th, 2010.
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Podcast 126 - Amberley Wildbrooks
December 5th, 2012 | 33 mins 1 sec
Suffering, Transitoriness, Insubstantiality: three marks of being that seem to me beyond dispute. The last takes a little unpacking, which I try to do. Podcast 126 draws on Matthew's Southern Comfort, and The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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Episode 125 - Now What?
December 4th, 2012 | 33 mins 26 secs
In the spirit of the J. Geils Band, Sinuhe the Egyptian looked for it. A proto-hippie Pharaoh gave it to him. The result was a good result. And for you and me!
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Episode 124 - Done
November 29th, 2012 | 29 mins 17 secs
Here's a Sixth Sense! Galsworthy enlightens in the brightest way, and jump-starts us "Going Up The Country."
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Episode 123 - Saint's Progress
November 28th, 2012 | 37 mins 5 secs
John Galsworthy's play "A Bit O'Love" (1915) and his novel "Saints's Progress" (1919) diagnose the problem and also the possibility of Christian ministry. They diagnose it to the point of heartbreak. And yet there is hope. Goodbye, Columbus!
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Episode 122 - Worst That Could Happen
November 9th, 2012 | 34 mins 8 secs
It's being labelled a "Zwinglian"! And there's something even worse than that. This cast is a plea for the wheels to be put back on religion.
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Episode 121 - Hold That Ghost
November 7th, 2012 | 35 mins 26 secs
Freedom and Love: Love can't exist from anything but, and Freedom won't issue in anything but. This cast consults St. Augustine, on human nature; and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, on, well, intangibles. Maxim Gorky makes an appearance.
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Episode 120 - The Black Castle
November 2nd, 2012 | 28 mins 14 secs
Here's a short talk about creativity, "work stoppage", renewal, and a couple of wonderful movies. Also, it's a lesson in how to empty a room!
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Episode 119 - Over the River II
September 16th, 2012 | 27 mins 17 secs
"Trouble in my way" is the name of the game. This podcast tells how it came to me, and what I was forced to learn from it. This is part one of a two-part "swan song".
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Episode 118 - Les Elucubrations de PZ
September 13th, 2012 | 31 mins 2 secs
Not a rant, like Antoine's great one, but maybe some "Lightworks": a current reading list and even a movie, all in red.
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Episode 117 - Horror Hotel
September 11th, 2012 | 28 mins 30 secs
This tight expressionist movie is the real thing, about real (occult) egos willing to take any measures possible in order to prolong life. It's a sure fail, this prolongation. But so revealing. And the fog ... and the blocking.
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Episode 116 - Wing Thing
August 27th, 2012 | 22 mins 28 secs
Another meditation on hope (i.e., the Wing Thing) via death, but concrete death: death you can get your skull around. Akira Ifukube is here to help us, as is Diogenes the Cynic; as is, again, Raymond Scott. The cast is dedicated to Hewes Hull.
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Episode 115 - In the event of
August 25th, 2012 | 30 mins 12 secs
"What makes the melon ball bounce?" What makes you bounce? This is an undressed talk about death, real death; and its funny aftermath.
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Episode 114 - A Slight Shiver
August 13th, 2012 | 30 mins 46 secs
Sequel to "Return to Form", with a push from Serling and a lift from Dylan.
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Episode 113 - Return to Form
August 11th, 2012 | 27 mins 58 secs
This is podcast one in a new "story arc" -- a study in defeatedness, and a new hope I strangely feel. You could call it cross-notes of a theological psychologist.
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Episode 113 - The Two Geralds
June 28th, 2012 | 33 mins 25 secs
Gerald Fried (b.1928) and Gerald Heard (d. 1971): both were communicators of the non-rational, both exponents of the subterranean echo. Fried did it through B-movie (and other) musical scores; Heard, through fantastic mysteries. Jesus did it, too.
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Episode 112 - Kipling's Lightworks
June 21st, 2012 | 40 mins 6 secs
Kipling shed Light! From "Recessional" to "Children's Song", this podcast sings his praise. He was also a 'both-and' thinker, a rare eirenic gift. Episode 112 is dedicated to Stuart Gerson.