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 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.