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 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.

  • Episode 238 – Motivate!

    December 12th, 2017  |  21 mins 41 secs

    This is a short talk on motivation and love. What motivates a person to do something; to REALLY do something. As opposed to remaining endlessly exhausted and trapped, within a cycle of inner conflict and desuetude.

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    Episode 237 – One Monkey

    October 15th, 2017  |  20 mins 37 secs

    You listen to the group Honey Cone, described today as early feminists, and they are talking about a universal truth and in memorable pop terms.

  • Episode 236 – Psychosis

    September 27th, 2017  |  22 mins 53 secs

    Psychosis is a very strong word for a cultural phenomenon. But it allows us to speak of a fissure over against reality, when groups of people see things around them in a way that is divorced from the facts.

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    Episode 235 – The Year We Make Contact

    September 12th, 2017  |  24 mins 9 secs

    I'm talking about pastoral contact, which is just another way of talking about personal contact. How do you get through to somebody? How do they get through to you? What establishes direct contact with the person that you really are?

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    Episode 234 – Turning Point

    September 11th, 2017  |  21 mins 41 secs

    This theme of the insuperability of at least one problem in your life continues to absorb me, and in the light of hope and hopefulness. I tell the story of a woman who recently attended a meeting of church executives, almost all of whom are absorbed by current issues and questions of identity in political terms.

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    Episode 233 – The Story in Your Eyes

    September 11th, 2017  |  19 mins 58 secs

    We've all got a story in our eyes! The Moody Blues, and in particular their inspired songwriter Justin Hayward, caught that "Silent-Running"; fact in the 1971 single that starts this podcast. We've all got a story in our eyes.

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    Episode 232 – Easier Said Than Done

    September 4th, 2017  |  23 mins 36 secs

    Sometimes when I hear a sermon or address that stresses the presence of God in catastrophic situations, let alone God's presence in the midst of sin and sinners, I want to stand up and ask (tho' I never do): "Do you really believe what you are saying?"

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    Episode 230 – Question (LIVE)

    August 28th, 2017  |  23 mins 45 secs

    The fact that the mainstream churches are hiding their Light under a bushel is the primary reason for their atrophy. The fact that most of our churches are "missing in action" when it comes to the seemingly insuperable pain of living that we bring to them and to their representatives; well, that, I believe, is the main cause of their numerical decline.

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    Episode 231 – On the Road to Love

    August 28th, 2017  |  24 mins 48 secs

    One more on the paucity of mainstream church to the hungry and hurt visitor, let alone the hungry and hurt regular; but with hope: Justin Hayward is sometimes accused of sentimental romanticism. I don't agree.

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    Episode 228 - Eternal Return

    February 13th, 2017  |  20 mins 48 secs

    I keep trying to make sense of the divisions we are almost all feeling currently. How can one get "under" them, i.e., in hopes of lessening them a little? Does anyone who is reading this enjoy feeling estranged from others, especially old friends, for example, because of political opinions? Very few, I'll bet. But it's happening.