#37 Season 4 Episode 5
Discussions about Daredevil, United States Presidents, The Beatles, and the Image Bearers of God.
May 28, 2025•58 min
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#36 Season 4 Episode 4
Be strong enough to be hated
May 08, 2025•52 min
#35 Season 4 Episode 3
Jay Watts tackles Essays, accountability, and answering questions about biblical justifications for abortion.
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 38 min
#34 Season 4 Episode 2
Jay Watts on Treasure Planet and arguments for and against abortion.
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 24 min
Season 4 Episode 1
Here is the first episode from Season 4 of Merely Human Things. Starting out with Gene Hackman and then moving onto the general distrust in institutions in the US, Jay ends up critiquing and praising George Orwell and his philosophy. We should never trust power and those who yield it. Whether it's your guy or the other guys, we need to be careful in our assessments and trust of those who hold power.
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Merely Human Minsitries Christmas Episode 2024
Jay’s second annual Christmas Special.
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Thanksgiving Special
Season 3 Episode 11 Welcome to our Thanksgiving special and our intro to the Christmas Holidays! Jay offers up some post-election thoughts and Thanksgiving thoughts. What does it mean to have a separation of church and state?
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Halloween Special Episode 10 Season 3
Jay talks about Halloween and the political season. A reminder of the lesser of two evils principal and how we need to constantly be reminded that we did vote for the lesser of two evils
Oct 31, 2024•55 min
#29 Season 3 Episode 9
Intro with the latest news about the Pro-Life community with a statement by Trump. What are the ideas that drive the current discussions about abortion and why ad hominem never works. Also we are in the dumbest election cycle in history, no matter which side you're on and no one trusts media sources. We are in a low information news cycle. As a caveat this was filmed before the first debate with Trump and Harris. Final segment about how pro-life policies are supposedly unpopular right now, and i...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 15 min
#28 Season 3 Episode 6ish...
The infamous missing podcast! This podcast is actually chronologically earlier than episode 27. Loving animals and the natural world fighting back against humanity! Elephants have names and the language of abortion.
Aug 23, 2024•44 min
#27 Gaslighting and VP Kamala
#27 Gaslighting and VP Kamala by Jay Watts
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 2 min
#26 The Reality of Party Platforms
Season 3 Episode 7 00:00:00 Introductory remarks include all the crazy political ramblings. 00:15:42 Animals, specifically crows 00:20:25 Republican Party Platform and backing off of the Pro-Life Position
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 2 min
#25 Book Banning and Just War Theory
Hall & Oates, Orcas named Gladis, and book banning. Then Jay discusses Just War Theory and why it's important to think about and the full ramifications of that theory. Support Jay and his ministry HERE: https://give.cornerstone.cc/merelyhum... See more from Jay and Merely Human Ministries HERE: https://merelyhumanministries.org
May 31, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Cannibals, The French Revolution and Arizona
On this episode, Jay begins the show trying to discuss the President of the United States accusing the people of Papua New Guinea of eating his uncle in World War II, but fails miserably to hold it together.
Apr 29, 2024•2 hr 4 min
#23 The Development View
Season 3 Episode 3 This episode starts out with a discussion of the diabolical behavior of roosters as highlighted in an old Scientific American article. Segment two disucsses Herman Melville, his posthumously published book Billy Budd the Sailor, and the attraction of art produced by people in spiritual crisis or flux. Segment three focuses on Vice-President Kamala Harris visiting an abortion facility, and asks the question, “If abortion is so great, why didn’t we get a complete tour of the fac...
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 37 min
S3E2 Chimp's and the Unborn
After discussing his deep dislike for chimpanzees, this episode focuses on the recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court determining that under Alabama law the human embryo in vitro (in glass) is considered a child just as a human embryo in vivo (in the living) is under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. The ruling is addressed with a focus on three main points: 1) The Supreme Court of Alabama did not declare the embryo is a child. Alabama law already does that. It declared in vitro emb...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Season 3 Episode 1
Season 3 kicks off with Jay speaking about Taylor Swift and The Godfather.
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 25 min
2023 Christmas Special
2023 Christmas Special by Jay Watts
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 21 min
#20 Despair in our World | Interview with Jim Trotti
The Final Episode of Season 2: Despair in our World Jim Trotti, a professional counselor for young people, joins the show to discuss despair and the roots of despair in young people. His insight is surprisingly practical. In segment one, Jay makes the claim Roy Orbison’s vocal performance in the song Crying is possibly the greatest vocal performance in contemporary. If you know a better one, please make your case. Segment two explores the idea that musicians and many of the people who create cul...
Nov 21, 2023•2 hr 21 min
#19 Book Review of Tearing us Apart
Introduction to Opposite Day, the day we discuss issues surrounding abortion and not the moral case against abortion. I usually stick to a disciplined approach to defending the dignity of human life, keep the main thing the main thing. Today we venture out from those things to discuss the book Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing by Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis. Before that I discuss a very particular aspect of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, some...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 36 min
#18 Interview with MJ Watts
I asked my daughter if’s he could get challenges and questions from her peers at Kennesaw State University, and she delivered in person. MJ Watts joins us to discuss questions surrounding life of the mother, the foster care system, abortion in cases of rape, and many others.
Nov 03, 2023•1 hr 54 min
#17 The Weird Abortion Analogies Episode
This Episode was lost between the cracks of editing and starts off declaring itself a Barbie free zone, an announcement that made more sense when it was recorded. Otters are predators revisited. The jokes about them stealing surf boards and paddleboards is updated with a serious story about women attacked by otters on a river in Montana. A reminder that is needed that wild animals are exactly that; wild. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/12/us/woman-otter-attack-jefferson-river-montana-trnd/index.html...
Sep 16, 2023•1 hr 30 min
Human Things Season 2 Episode 6 | Interview with Dr. Christopher Tollefsen
The Way of Medicine 00:00 Intro 01:50 Joe Versus the Volcano and How God Can Use Crisis to Focus Us After embarrassingly forgetting that Joe Banks had a brain cloud, this segment focuses on Joe Versus the Volcano and how it offers a wonderful reminder of how God can take someone consumed with trivial worries and fears and wake them up through true crisis. 10:22 Claim: If brain death is the end of life, then brain function is the beginning of life. We discuss this issue and clarify that early hum...
Aug 26, 2023•2 hr 1 min
#15 MHT Advocating for Life on Campus
Guest is Tina Whittington, Executive VP Students for Life of America 00:01:30 | Episode 5 of Season 2 begins with more of the animal revolution. Elephants are stealing sugar cane, Orcas are attacking sailboat rudders, and now…an otter is stealing paddle boards! A multi-agency effort has been launched by fish and Wildlife to capture a rogue otter who steals surfboards and paddle boards. 00:07:13 | Segment two consider Harold Ramis’s masterpiece Groundhog Day as an examination of a man coming to g...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 39 min
#14 Jay's Mixed Tape Monologue
Season 2 Episode 4 Jay’s first monologue with this new format. Reminiscing on how much has changed since we were kids. Boom boxes, cassette tapes and figuring out lyrics as a child of the 80’s and 90’s.
Jul 26, 2023•1 hr 39 min
#13 Merely Human Things with Dr. Jeff Bilbro
Season 2 Episode 3 Interviewed in this episode is Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro. Bilbro is the associate professor of English at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. Bilbro comes on to talk directly about "Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News". Why is this important for Christians and pro-lifers to understand the dynamic of main stream news networks. But in the first segment Jay addresses an interesting new behavior by Orcas in the Straits of Gibraltar and a little about crows...
Jul 10, 2023•2 hr 1 min
Interview with Leah Savas
Reposting of Episode 5 of Human Things 2.0 starts with author and journalist Leah Savas of World News Group to discuss the book she co-authored with Marvin Olasky, The Story of Abortion in America starting in 1652!
Jul 01, 2023•46 min
#12 Merely Human Things with Dr. C. Ben Mitchell
This episode open with consideration of how poor arguments are on the internet. It is difficult to find anything on social media serious enough to discuss. In the future, serious academic arguments will be considered more thoroughly including revisiting bodily autonomy arguments. The second segment sets the stage for the interview with Ben Mitchell. Three broadly defined ideas of what it means to be human are in conflict in our world. Are we purely physical beings residing in a physical universe...
Jun 21, 2023•2 hr 7 min
Merely Human Things with Scott Klusendorf (Full Interview)
This episode begins with an explanation of the long form podcast as our mothership. The vision is to produce longer content that takes it time to consider points of view. From this longer format, we will excerpt shorter segments and videos to offer more concise material. The first segment discusses the idea that peak Star Wars requires both Han Solo played by Harrison Ford and Darth Vader. They make Star Wars work better in every way. Segment two discusses the Burning Research Lab as an argument...
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 37 min
#11 Merely Human Things with Seth Drayer
Season 2 begins with a little recap of the goals of the Human Things 2.0 long form podcast project. Jay shares his commencement speech advice including: 1) Mark special occasions and celebrate every victory, big or small. 2) Every day offers new opportunities and challenges, new opportunities to mess up or a challenge to begin again. 3) Bet on yourself and don’t be afraid to lose. 4) The people we meet along the way are the most important thing in our lives. In the 3 Things segment, Seth Drayer,...
Jun 07, 2023•2 hr 11 min
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