PZ's Podcast

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PZ's Podcast episodes

November 29, 2012 Episode 124 - Done
Here's a Sixth Sense!
Galsworthy sheds light -- but where did it come from? -- and
jump-starts us "Going Up The Country".
30 min
November 28, 2012 Episode 123 - Saint's Progress
John Galsworthy's play "A Bit O'Love" (1915) and his novel "Saint's Progress" (1919) diagnose the problem and also the possibility inherent in parish ministry, and especially within parish clergy. Galsworthy gives his readers a shattering exercise but also a hopeful one.
So we just want to say: Goodbye, Columbus !
38 min
November 09, 2012 Episode 122 - Worst That Could Happen
It's being labelled a "Zwinglian"!
And there's something even worse than that.
This podcast is a plea for the wheels to be put back on
religion.
35 min
November 07, 2012 Episode 121 - Hold That Ghost
Freedom and Love:
Love can't exist from anything but, and
Freedom can't result in anything but.
This cast wants to consult St. Augustine, concerning human nature;
and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, concerning
intangibles.
Maxim Gorky makes an appearance, too.
I hope you'll like what he says.
36 min
November 02, 2012 Episode 120 - The Black Castle
Here's a short talk about creativity, renewal, "work stoppage", and a couple of terrific movies. It's also a lesson in How to Empty a Room!
29 min
September 16, 2012 Episode 119 - Over the River II
"Trouble in my way" is the name of the game. This podcast tells the story of how it came to me, and what it forced me to learn. Episode 119 of PZ's Podcast is a two part swan song.
28 min
September 13, 2012 Episode 118 - Les Elucubrations de PZ
This is intended to be the opposite of a rant.
Even if I wanted to, I could not come a thousand light years close to
Antoine's great one, which once so delighed the French.
What I can try to give you instead is a little reading list, plus a little movie, a profound one, even a study in scarlet.
32 min
September 11, 2012 Episode 117 - Horror Hotel
This tight expressionist outing is a study in egos prepared to take any measures in order to prolong (ego-) life. It's a sure fail, but most instructive. Then there's the fog, and the blocking of the characters in the fog. It endures in the memory.
There is also an outstanding note of psychotronic Episcopal haberdashery and service schedules. 'Mr. Russell' is a wonderful minister!
29 min
August 28, 2012 Episode 116 - Wing Thing
Another meditation on hope (i.e., the Wing Thing), via death; yet
death concretely and in the now, death you can get your skull around
today and not tomorrow.
Akira Ifukube is here to help undress us, as is Diogenes the Cynic, and Ludger Tom Ring; and, wouldn't you know, Raymond Scott.
Podcast 116 is dedicated to Hewes Hull.
23 min
August 25, 2012 Episode 115 - In the event of
"What makes the melon ball bounce?"
What makes you bounce?
This is an undressed talk about death,
and death's funny aftermath.
31 min

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