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 218 - C'MON DAD

    March 23rd, 2021  |  19 mins 38 secs

    Rejection is decisive! Whether it comes in affairs of the heart, or at work, or in any relationship you want to name -- whether it comes in the form of cancer, self-sabotage, or an intrigue mounted against you -- rejection is impossible to swallow and assimilate, at least not in the initial instance. Yet there is a way.

  • Episode 317 - Odessey and Oracle

    March 4th, 2021  |  24 mins 22 secs

    We are all on an odyssey of sorts, as Odysseus/Ulysses was in Homer. And we need -- I mean need urgently -- an oracle. Which is to say, we require a Word/words from outside ourselves to orient us and re-orient us.

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    Episode 316 - The Ballad of John and Walter

    February 23rd, 2021  |  18 mins 40 secs

    What a load of uncharted material is out there for people who are looking for Grace! Here I have spent almost 60 years "trolling" for redemptive material, words and music, especially the Seventh Art, that would speak, and hopefully heal. And now I find, near the advent of my 70th birthday, literally TONS of main-line examples of transformative Christian art that I never even knew existed.

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    Episode 315 - Top of the World

    February 13th, 2021  |  20 mins 59 secs

    Today I want to "double down" on the anchoring necessity of romantic connection within our everyday lives. Flourishing won't occur without it, and that's an empirical fact whether one likes it or not.

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    Episode 314 - Heinz Agonistes

    January 13th, 2021  |  22 mins 44 secs

    How should we think about God when faced with massive, injuring disappointment?

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    Episode 313 - Reverse Chronology

    January 5th, 2021  |  15 mins 2 secs

    Today's brief cast is intended as a salutary instance of what often happens in life: Things start well and end badly. It doesn't have to happen. God is there, even as I write this and you read it, and... I have proof.

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    Episode 312 - Hope From Heinz

    January 5th, 2021  |  21 mins

    Take this irregular but prodigious instance of what can be done to transform an everyday mediocrity -- Heinz was a nice guy, to be sure -- and it can be seen what God can do for anyone -- like you and me, for example. I'm being completely serious.

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    Episode 311 - Crescendo

    November 19th, 2020  |  27 mins 22 secs

    This cast looks at the current drama/s unfolding in the aftermath of November 3rd in unseen rather than in seen terms. Not that I know personally what is happening -- but rather, what one sees is seldom what one gets.

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    Episode 310 - New Prince, New Pomp (c. 1605)

    October 28th, 2020  |  22 mins 49 secs

    I'm trying to understand, in Romans 7 and Mockingbird terms, a phenomenon I currently observe -- and feel -- all around me. It is as if the more control, medically and in terms of hospitalizations, that we are getting over COVID19, the more insistent and pressing are the visible measures a good citizen is supposed to be taking against it.

  • Episode 309 - Little Bit O'Soul

    October 22nd, 2020  |  23 mins 41 secs

    When you reach a certain age, say from 55 or so on, if you don't move forward, you move backward.

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    Episode 308 - Phosphorus

    September 5th, 2020  |  22 mins 59 secs

    If you want to find out the truth about yourself, follow the phosphorus!

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    Episode 307 - Sacred Space

    September 4th, 2020  |  21 mins 51 secs

    My and your emotional, heart experiences are connected not just to a person, but to a place where we were with that person.

  • Episode 306 - For Our Dear Margary

    August 27th, 2020  |  28 mins 8 secs

    This cast concerns Margery Lawrence (1889-1969), an English writer of supernatural short stories, as well as popular novels. She was also a committed spiritualist, who wrote within an explicitly Christian (tho' anti-clerical) world-view.

  • Episode 305 - 'Wear a Mask' (Los Straitjackets)

    August 24th, 2020  |  22 mins 29 secs

    I heard something very helpful recently in a sermon by John Zahl. He said that sometimes in life what seems like the end is really the middle. I think JAZ meant that when your situation feels like -- maybe is -- the end of the world, it may really be the hinge point to "A Whole New World" (Aladdin, 1992).

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    Episode 304 - Speed Bump

    July 6th, 2020  |  23 mins 33 secs

    A speed bump is when an obstacle or blockage on the road on which you are traveling causes you -- if you are going too fast or not looking where you're going -- to crash, or at least shock you out of yourself.

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    Episode 303 - Jimmy Loves Mary Anne

    July 1st, 2020  |  18 mins 42 secs

    This is a further thought on "narratives", tho' with a Biblical example (from Jeremiah) and a recent public incident that has me both "stunned and amazed" (Pretenders, 'My City Was Gone', 1984).