# Mockingbird — RSS Amplifier Everything Mockingbird publishes, across 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory. Page: Feed: --- ## [Pentecost 13 (A): Chip off the Old Rock](https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/441) _2026-08-18 · Same Old Song_ Jacob and Aaron take a look at the readings for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, which are Isaiah 51:1-6, Romans 12:1-8, and Matthew 16:13-20. [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/91f7a885-f12a-4fde-afb2-4fb3380bac4f/7a875bb9-0fe1-4ccd-a1e8-67acd3a0b7d9.mp3) ## [Pentecost 12 (A): What Is Up With Your Dog?](https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/440) _2026-08-11 · Same Old Song_ Jacob and Aaron take a look at the readings for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, which are Isaiah 56:1,6-8, Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32, and Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28. [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/91f7a885-f12a-4fde-afb2-4fb3380bac4f/e85627d1-8fc8-4300-bd6a-fd13bb9afaaa.mp3) ## [Pentecost 11 (A): Jesus Always Gives a Hand](https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/439) _2026-08-05 · Same Old Song_ Jacob and Aaron take a look at the readings for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, which are 1 Kings 19:9-18, Psalm 85:8-13, Romans 10:5-15, and Matthew 14:22-33. [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/91f7a885-f12a-4fde-afb2-4fb3380bac4f/e2b8c351-6e92-49fe-a684-a284e7cf60b7.mp3) ## [Pentecost 10 (A): Morrisey, Loaves & Fishes](https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/438) _2026-07-28 · Same Old Song_ Jacob and Aaron take a look at the readings for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, which are Isaiah 55:1-5, Psalm 145: 8-9, 15-22, Romans 9:1-5, and Matthew 14:13-21. [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/91f7a885-f12a-4fde-afb2-4fb3380bac4f/95c52fc6-190a-4560-a14e-1cb9e885233d.mp3) ## [Pentecost 9 (A): What If You Had One Wish...](https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/437) _2026-07-20 · Same Old Song_ Jacob and Aaron take a look at the readings for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, which are 1 Kings 3:5-12, Psalm 119:129-136, Romans 8:26-39, and Matthew 13:31-33,44-52. [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/91f7a885-f12a-4fde-afb2-4fb3380bac4f/3d8fceb0-f89f-4df1-877b-0bebfcd22b29.mp3) ## [Pentecost 8 (A): Resting on the Rock When Life is Hard](https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/436) _2026-07-14 · Same Old Song_ Jacob and Aaron take a look at the readings for the eighth Sunday after Pentecost, which are Isaiah 44:6-8, Psalm 86:11-17, Romans 8:12-25, and Matthew 13:24-30,36-43. [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/91f7a885-f12a-4fde-afb2-4fb3380bac4f/689478c1-9ced-4a09-b120-5aa32c66cade.mp3) ## [Pentecost 7 (A): The Power of Greyskull](https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/435) _2026-07-07 · Same Old Song_ Jacob and Aaron take a look at the readings for the seventh Sunday after Pentecost, which are Isaiah 55:10-13, Psalm 65: (1-8), 9-14, Romans 8:1-11, and Matthew 13:1-9,18-23. [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/91f7a885-f12a-4fde-afb2-4fb3380bac4f/fc5c0780-1b0a-4a9d-bfd4-70c6c7b472f1.mp3) ## [Pentecost 6 (A): A Noble Steed and an Easy Yoke](https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/434) _2026-06-30 · Same Old Song_ Jacob and Aaron take a look at the readings for the sixth Sunday after Pentecost, which are Zechariah 9:9-12, Psalm 145:8-15, Romans 7:15-25a, and Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30. [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/91f7a885-f12a-4fde-afb2-4fb3380bac4f/ef2ffba0-cc3f-4d88-a0fc-9675b5e83e9d.mp3) ## [Pentecost 5 (A): The Bachelor's Rose](https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/433) _2026-06-22 · Same Old Song_ Jacob and Aaron look at the readings for the fifth Sunday after Pentecost, which are Jeremiah 28:5-9, Romans 6:12-23, and Matthew 10:40-42. [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/91f7a885-f12a-4fde-afb2-4fb3380bac4f/6cea8a2d-15d0-48a9-bba2-62e077275ecc.mp3) ## [Pentecost 4 (A): Jake's Spicy Bible Study](https://thesameoldsong.fireside.fm/432) _2026-06-16 · Same Old Song_ Jacob and Aaron discuss the readings for the fourth Sunday of Pentecost, which are Jeremiah 20:7-13, Romans 6:1b-11, and Matthew 10:24-39. [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/91f7a885-f12a-4fde-afb2-4fb3380bac4f/d85feedc-c2da-4d4d-b554-fc081ffb30e4.mp3) ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/R4wSdf8W37no) _2026-06-16 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [Episode 411 - Lorna Doone? Brigadoon!](https://pzspodcast.fireside.fm/375) _2026-06-05 · PZ's Podcast_ Here is the first time back after several months,and I couldn't be happier! It took a new computer (and system), acute in-person IT aid from Mockingbird's own Will McDavid; and the moral support of Mockingbirder and friend Hewes Hull. But "I'm Flyin'" ('Peter Pan', 1952) -- again. This brand new episode concerns personal belovedness (i.e., Grace) and its fruit (i.e., Christian compassion and all… [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/158723f8-fa5f-43e8-a57b-ac03cadea000/9a8e37e2-5647-4336-af19-4020bc96d3b4.mp3) ## [Episode 410 - HELLO (H E L L O) E L O](https://pzspodcast.fireside.fm/374) _2026-01-08 · PZ's Podcast_ Why does one love rock 'n roll so dearly? Well, of course, the quality of a given favorite song -- its bass line, the vocals, the guitar solo, etc. -- connects with you(r ears) and makes you love it. But there's more to it than that: The real ground of one's love for a particular song is \* Where you were when you first heard it. \* And by that I mean: Where you were emotionally when you first heard… [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/158723f8-fa5f-43e8-a57b-ac03cadea000/4f3597f0-c226-4682-a6a8-05882aac21e0.mp3) ## [Episode 409 - Agent Double-O Soul](https://pzspodcast.fireside.fm/373) _2026-01-05 · PZ's Podcast_ Always searching for the words to describe breakthrough -- opening doors -- divine intervention in our 'safe-rooms' of pain and loss. Always searching for words, and also actions. How can you and I, dear listener, become like Edwin Starr in 1965: our own "Agent Double-O-Soul" for the sake of ... the world? Well, first, you need to be an object of love. Not the subject of love -- i.e., the lover.… [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/158723f8-fa5f-43e8-a57b-ac03cadea000/96e053b2-f0a6-4db3-91b7-b756dfb2a50a.mp3) ## [Episode 408 - Christmas in the Twilight Zone](https://pzspodcast.fireside.fm/372) _2025-12-02 · PZ's Podcast_ Rod Serling was born on Christmas Day (Squeeze, 1996) and that fact forever touched him. He wrote three scripts for the original 'Twilight Zone' that have a Christmas context, as well as the mother of all Christmas screenplays (of his genre) entitled "The Messiah of Mott Street". The latter he wrote for the 1969 anthology 'Night Gallery'. During the next two weeks I will be showing the two best of… [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/158723f8-fa5f-43e8-a57b-ac03cadea000/937bc795-665c-45e9-8ca3-726a1eef8ed1.mp3) ## [Episode 407 - Magic Cancellation](https://pzspodcast.fireside.fm/371) _2025-11-10 · PZ's Podcast_ How do you help someone who is being pummeled by a persisting circumstantial or psychodynamic problem? Do you "advise" them? (Don't Do It - The Band, '72) Do you try to talk them out of it? (Again, don't -- Talk Talk, '82-'84) Do you avoid them? (Again, don't -- Animotion, '84. They won't let you, anyway.) What do you do? How do you actually help someone you love -- maybe it's you ("Baby It's You"… [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/158723f8-fa5f-43e8-a57b-ac03cadea000/088d7223-8615-4469-b473-ae09b862f753.mp3) ## [Episode 406 - Sail On, Sailor](https://pzspodcast.fireside.fm/370) _2025-10-07 · PZ's Podcast_ I feel like I see more acutely than ever into the backing track of human experience. There is the "outside" of how our lives are going within givens and events, but then there is the "backing track" -- the enabling part, the staying part, the... well, the (kind of) Eternal Part. The two parts, the outside and the backing track, are separate. "Phosphorus" is a word one sometimes uses for this, but… [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/158723f8-fa5f-43e8-a57b-ac03cadea000/7e4f138c-f345-43f6-8afa-141d0fc13820.mp3) ## [Episode 405 - Into the Mystic](https://pzspodcast.fireside.fm/369) _2025-07-09 · PZ's Podcast_ One has been thinking all week about those precious little girls from Camp Mystic. There's also a pastoral situation or two in which sharp suffering seems to have been "imposed" on people I love. Why and How and ... What ? I had a kind of visitation late one night this week. It came initially from ... Van Morrison. His song "Into the Mystic", from 1970, started to play inside my mind. Then a… [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/158723f8-fa5f-43e8-a57b-ac03cadea000/c2f71708-f24b-4b81-988a-115a871c1908.mp3) ## [Episode 404 - A New Demographic? (Pt. 2)](https://pzspodcast.fireside.fm/368) _2025-04-16 · PZ's Podcast_ How does someone who is living, like it or not, in the last third of life, address everybody else who is living in the second third? It's an important question, cuz most of the time it's like two ships passing in the night. An older Episcopal priest used to come up to me about once a week -- he was assisting in a busy parish where I was rector -- and say, "Hey, Paul, relax. You're working too… [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/158723f8-fa5f-43e8-a57b-ac03cadea000/54e1eb57-a46a-4fbd-938a-1878c7cffc14.mp3) ## [Episode 403 - A New Demographic? (Pt. 1)](https://pzspodcast.fireside.fm/367) _2025-04-09 · PZ's Podcast_ While one was within the second third of one's life, one had all these goals in view, of happy marriage, happy fathering, and (most of all, sadly) successful careering. That was the way it was -- and probably the way it is, at least for some who may be reading this. And in that (now) embarrassing order, too. But at this point it's beginning to look a little bankrupt -- at least the order of… [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/158723f8-fa5f-43e8-a57b-ac03cadea000/b7583524-3c9b-46ff-b95d-71bad170aa1a.mp3) ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WKWeaS5b6N7g) _2025-04-09 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Episode 402 - Pixie Dust (Essential)](https://pzspodcast.fireside.fm/366) _2025-04-07 · PZ's Podcast_ Every version or tradition of the Christian Faith offers an objective or corporealized dimension within a person's (longed for) relationship with God. For Roman Catholicism, it is the Real Presence of the Lord within the Elements of Bread and Wine. For pentecostalism, it is the embodied Gifts of the Spirit in miracles of healing and divine intervention, and often an accompanying gift of speaking… [Listen](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/158723f8-fa5f-43e8-a57b-ac03cadea000/d9e142a1-6c6a-4573-80b9-3bc585beb843.mp3)