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

PZ's Podcast on social media

Episodes

  • 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."

  •

    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!

  •

    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.

  •

    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.

  •

    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!

  •

    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".

  •

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  •

    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.

  •

    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.

  • 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.

  •

    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.

  •

    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.

  •

    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.

  •

    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.