PZ's Podcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
365 episodes of PZ's Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 4th, 2010.
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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.
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Episode 110 - Color Him Father
June 4th, 2012 | 32 mins 49 secs
John Betjeman listed five masters of the English ghost story, or supernatural tale. Each of them was the son of a Protestant minister. What was going on with these sons and their fathers? Let 'The Winstons' , from 1969, fill out the picture.
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Episode 108 - J.C. Ryle Considered
May 25th, 2012 | 27 mins 56 secs
Bishop Ryle made a least three big mistakes during his long ministry. If he were able to speak now—he died in 1900—I believe he would admit them. To me they are revealing mistakes, from which there is something to learn.
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Episode 107 - Bishop Ryle
May 25th, 2012 | 35 mins 15 secs
John Charles Ryle, who lived from 1816 to 1900, was "a giant of a man with the heart of a child." He was a Christian warrior in the Church of England, who contended against High Churchmen and Liberals for 60 years, including his ministry as the first Bishop of Liverpool. J.C. Ryle is a fascinating character, a hero-type with some interesting weaknesses.
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Episode 106 - Requiem
May 21st, 2012 | 27 mins 24 secs
Alternate Title: I Feel Like I Lose When I Win.
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Episode 104 - What does it take (to win your love)?
May 16th, 2012 | 29 mins 8 secs
A meditation on defense: that's what this is. Someone wrote that the inner being of a human being is "covered by thirty or forty skins or hides, like an ox's or a bear's, so thick and hard." Too true!
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Episode 103 - Flowers for Algernon I
April 24th, 2012 | 35 mins 59 secs
How does the ego actually die? Or rather, what does a person look like when their ego died, or is dying?
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Episode 102 - Flowers for Algernon I
April 24th, 2012 | 38 mins 6 secs
Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) knew a lot. In reaction to his Sandemanian childhood, he still remained a religious person, all his life.
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Episode 100 - Eternity
April 14th, 2012 | 35 mins 22 secs
What dies when we die, and what continues to live? What should we fear in relation to physical death, and what can we affirm? Philip Larkin gives a little assist here, but so does St. Francis.
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Episode 101 - I feel like I win when I lose
April 12th, 2012 | 35 mins 55 secs
Between "Waterloo" and "Lay All Your Love on Me," I don't see how you could achieve a purer pop moment. Or just a purer moment period!
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Previously Unreleased: Heinz
April 10th, 2012 | 30 mins 30 secs
Heinz Burt, known as Heinz," the Wild Boy of Pop, was, you could say, Joe Meek's muse. Meek did everything possible to make his "Heinz" into a star. Although Meek failed to do that, he produced a large body of fabulous music around his Golden Child.
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Previously Unreleased: Joe Meek
March 23rd, 2012 | 48 mins 49 secs
"The Nazareth Principle" (Simeon Zahl) and Joe Meek: they're synonymous. Joe Meek was an improbable genius, who Hear(d) a New World. His wondrous work, achieved under conditions so unusual as to make the mind boggle, is a pure example of Christ's being labelled by the question, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?"
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Episode 99 9/10 - Twisterella
March 16th, 2012 | 32 mins 22 secs
When reality comes crashing in to call, you've got to be prepared for a re-think. It's what happens to 'Billy Liar,' in another dazzling English rose, the movie "Billy Liar" from 1963.