PZ's Podcast

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PZ's Podcast episodes

June 22, 2013 Episode 144 - Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Here we journey to the outer limits of compassion.
Will that suffice?
Or do we need a little help from our friends --
like Jeff Beck, maybe.
31 min
May 16, 2013 Episode 143 - Old Man River
And now a word from our sponsor -- George!
23 min
May 15, 2013 Episode 142 - Girl Can't Help It
In which I talk about George, my new hero.
34 min
March 21, 2013 Episode 141 - Easter with Los Straitjackets
Here's the Gospel as I would put it this Easter.
It's never not been the Have Mercy on Me (Cannonball Adderley/
The Buckinghams) of God in relation to the Outta Gear (Los Straitjackets) of us. But it needs to not become a mental exercise.
It needs to be hooked into us, the whole being of our compounded selves.
If it's not making the connection, then it will fail.
(And it often does.)
30 min
March 17, 2013 Episode 140 - Make It Easy on Yourself
This is a meditation on self-forgiveness.
I used to think that was a lame phrase,
an exercise in twaddle.
Not so!
Here we have The Walker Brothers,
Los Straitjackets, even Frankie (Goes to Hollywood).
The Lesson This Morning is from Isherwood's journal entry of
July 14, 1940, which is to say,
the Second of the Two Great Commandments.
34 min
February 15, 2013 Episode 139 - Journey with Boo (Me and You)
It's here: that surgical song by Lobo, the balladeer's portrait of an ordinary, heart-rending tragedy. Because the picture's true to life, however, there may be room for hope.
Roll up for a magical mystery tour, -- with a Dog Named Boo.
32 min
February 14, 2013 Episode 138 - Lobo's Dating Tips for Christian Guys
He has much to teach us!
This podcast, for me, is Camp.
23 min
February 02, 2013 Episode 137 - Hero of the War
A short exegesis of personal pacifism.
Scott Walker's song "Hero of the War" made me do it!
Oh, and it's John Lennon in "Oh! What a Lovely War".
That's a correction.
24 min
January 31, 2013 Episode 136 - Peaches La Verne
The La Verne Seminar, which took place in the Summer of 1941,
is the second most desired destination for PZ the Time Traveler.
If only one could have been there. It was the ultimate religious retreat!
But still, I think I'd choose, for first place, if I had to choose,
a trip to Universal Studios during the Great Depression,
to witness the filming of that most desired of all works of cinema art:
The Bride of Frankenstein.
29 min
January 30, 2013 Episode 135 - Elevator
That's Where the Happy People Go!
Here is "a new way of talking, a new way of walking" --
about praying, about grace, about One Love and the
Underground River.
Jerry Lewis (but you won't like this) has a walk-on, too.
36 min

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