PZ's Podcast

About the show

From "Telstar" to "Vault of Horror," from Rattigan to Kerouac, from the Village of Bray to the Village of Midwich, help PZ link old ancient news and pop culture. I think I can see him, "Crawling from the Wreckage." Will he find his way? This show is brought to you by Mockingbird! www.mbird.com

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Episodes

  • Episode 254 - Tupper

    July 30th, 2018  |  20 mins 18 secs

    Life's a wholly engaged existential search for God, and it's quite dangerous, because "in the dark", which is life in the world, you can think you've found it but you haven't.

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    Episode 253 - Facing the Cannons (NOT!)

    July 23rd, 2018  |  20 mins 53 secs

    Shibboleth's are often true in part. Maxims are true in part. But they are never, or at least rarely, wholly true. One such maxim is a current fashionable imperative, Face the Cannons.

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    Episode 252 - Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life

    July 19th, 2018  |  25 mins 22 secs

    "When we encounter the words of Jesus in history, we do not judge them by a philosophical system with reference to their rational validity; they meet us with the question of how we are to interpret our own mode of existence. That we ourselves be deeply disturbed by the problem of our own life is the indispensable condition of our inquiry."

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    Episode 251 - The Spider and the Fly

    July 4th, 2018  |  22 mins 50 secs

    There is little in 20th Century theater to rival the third redemptive act of "Johnson over Jordan", except maybe "A Christmas Carol" from the century before.

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    Episode 250 - Bells Are Ringing

    June 21st, 2018  |  22 mins 57 secs

    This is a short riposte to the politicization of basically everything just now; but not in the way of taking sides, but rather in the way of digging deeper.

  • Episode 249 - Sanctification (Is Making Me Late)

    June 3rd, 2018  |  22 mins 50 secs

    The moment we begin to think we have it, or have made it, it is completely nullified. In other words, the only actual sanctification at which one ever arrives is un-self-conscious.

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    Episode 248 - Dead Reckoning

    May 25th, 2018  |  24 mins 10 secs

    Pastoral experience in hospital pre-op units provides abundant evidence for the existence of the soul.

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    Episode 247 - Shoe Horn

    May 11th, 2018  |  22 mins 54 secs

    People are constantly trying to shoe horn their search for God into containers too tight for the Object of the search.

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    Episode 246 - Welcome to the Club

    May 2nd, 2018  |  24 mins 38 secs

    One of the best things about the recent Mockingbird conference in NYC was its unerring focus on universals and primary factors in human destiny and identity, rather than on contingencies and elements in life that do not endure, but pass away.

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    Episode 245 - How U Break a Soul-Tie

    April 22nd, 2018  |  23 mins 29 secs

    Well, the short answer, tho' not the whole answer, is: you can't. But one thing I can say. And mean it! "Once I was blind, now I see."

  • Episode 244 - Soul-Tie

    April 9th, 2018  |  25 mins 11 secs

    This cast is a kind of summation of my thinking about romantic love in its relation to one's soul's salvation.

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    Episode 243 - Hitchcock Railway

    March 23rd, 2018  |  21 mins 24 secs

    Have you been struck by the comments concerning the Austin bomber in which people near and dear to the young man say they saw no signs or external evidence of any kind that he was thinking about doing this, or about anything, for that matter, out of the ordinary, let alone murderous?

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    Episode 242 - Bay of Angels

    March 15th, 2018  |  18 mins 57 secs

    I'm always surprised when proponents of One Way Love fail to apply it in concrete cases.

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    Episode 241 - Urgent

    January 30th, 2018  |  25 mins 16 secs

    It's not that the human condition is hopeless. With God it is never hopeless. But without God, yes, the human condition is hopeless.

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    Episode 240 - 8 Days a Week

    January 25th, 2018  |  22 mins 39 secs

    I don't talk about romantic love because it is worshipful in its own right. I talk about romantic love because it is the closest signpost we have to God.

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    Episode 239 – A Disease I Do Not Have the Courage to Name

    December 12th, 2017  |  23 mins 58 secs

    This Christmas cast is about communication between people, and God. Moreover, it's about the cost of poor communication, which can be suicide, let alone habitual alienation.