PZ's Podcast

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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 ... more

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June 21, 2012 Episode 112 - Kipling's Lightworks
Kipling shed light!
From "Recessional" to "Children's Song",
this podcast sings his praise.
Kipling was also a 'both-and' thinker,
a rare eirenic gift, and
a Gift for Today.
Episode 112 is dedicated to Stuart Gerson.
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41min
June 04, 2012 Episode 110 - Color Him Father
John Betjeman listed five masters of the English ghost story, or supernatural tale. All five of them were the sons of Protestant ministers.
What was going on with these sons, and their fathers.
'The Winstons' can tell us the answer,
in their 1969 45 that we loved so,
we sons of our fathers.
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33min
May 25, 2012 Episode 108 - J.C. Ryle Considered
Bishop Ryle made at 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.
J.C. Ryle also had a core strength:
He had been saved in his youth, when his world fell apart.
He was a Christian, in other words, for the right reason.
Yet like many spiritual people, there were still
"unevangelized dark continents" inside him.
Had these been "colonized" by the great Word that saved the young man, Ryle might have avoided the mistakes he made as an older man.
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28min
May 25, 2012 Episode 107 - Bishop Ryle
John Charles Ryle, who lived from l816 to 1900,
was "a giant of a man with the heart of a child".
He was a Christian warrior in the Church of England,
who contended against High Churchmen and Liberals
for 60 years, concluding his ministry as the first Bishop of Liverpool.
J.C. Ryle is a fascinating character, a hero-type with some
interesting weaknesses.
This podcast tells the story of his life.
It is dedicated to my friend Fred Rogers.
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36min
May 21, 2012 Episode 106 - Requiem
Alternate Title:
I Feel Like I Lose When I Win.
Also, there's a correction:
It was 'Fraulein Doktor', not the actress who played her (Suzy Kendall),
who died young, at age 52, in 1940.
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28min
May 16, 2012 Episode 104 - What does it take (to win your love)?
A meditation on defense:
that's what this is.
Someone wrote that the inner being of a human being
is "covered by thirty or forty skins or hides, like an ox's or a bear's,
so thick and hard".
Too true!
What's to get through?
Is there an antipode, a blessed antipode,
to such a coverage from hope?
I honestly think there is.
(Even if you've only got a toe on the Road.)
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30min
April 24, 2012 Episode 103 - Flowers for Algernon I
How does the ego actually die?
Or rather, what does a person look like when their ego has died,
or is dying?
Can we see this -- the "seed falling into the ground"?
Algernon Blackwood wrote about the dying.
He wrote about it vividly and concretely, not just symbolically.
This podcast quotes from two of Blackwood's "Eternity" stories:
"The Centaur" (1911) and "A Descent into Egypt" (1914).
The theme is healing, at the end of the day;
and even,
priesthood.
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36min
April 24, 2012 Episode 102 - Flowers for Algernon I
Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) knew a lot.
In reaction to his Sandemanian childhood, he still remained a religious person, all his life.
In his "weird tales" Blackwood tried to map a religious way
forward -- through an inspired imagination.
I used to put Arthur Machen at the top of the list
of writers of supernatural horror.
Because of a change in me, Blackwood is now number one.
This podcast, together with Episode 103, which comes next,
follows directly from "Eternity".
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39min
April 14, 2012 Episode 100 - Eternity
What dies when we die, and what continues to live?
What should we fear in relation to physical death,
and what can we affirm?
Philip Larkin gives a little assist here,
but so does St. Francis.
This is Episode 100.
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36min
April 12, 2012 Episode 101 - I feel like I win when I lose
Between "Waterloo" and "Lay all your love on me",
I don't see how you could achieve a purer pop moment.
Or just a purer moment period!
The insight within these two 45s is communicated to perfection.
What is that insight?
Well, two things:
first, "all I've learned has overturned" (note the 'Euro' English).
I thought I knew myself. Then LUV came knocking,
and "everything is new and everything is you."
That's the way people really are.
Second, "now it seems my only chance is giving up the fight...
I feel like I win when I lose."
This is good religion's word to the ego.
I feel like I win when I lose.
This is also the 101st (Airborne) Podcast.
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36min

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