Spiritual UnDirection

Happy Labor Day to all of our Spiritual Undies and laboring day anniversary to Jon’s mom! It’s a sweltering Thursday and the perfect time to enjoy the view of Wayne’s bleach-blonde-Lance-Bass hair while he sprays you down with some tanning oil. Discussion Starters: Weirdest jobs, Brittney fancast, Atheist recruitment, Haile Selassie, fish in a baptismal font, Jesus’ awareness of his deity, Jesus’...

Bienvenidos a nuestro comeback podcast in which Jon flexes his Spanish proficiency. Spit that gristle out of your mouth and join us as we creatively confront pesky prying parental eyes and get back to our gift of gab. Discussion Starters: Spanish words, cameras in your kid’s room, pranks, sports in the garden, disrobing in Dairy Queen, Saint Teresa’s bones, JBs Thanks for Punderstanding, saddest t...

Macho Man Randy Savage’s true identity is revealed in this stunning episode, filled with shocking slip-ups, and the origin story of Jonny B the Three. Find the Instagram post on @spiritualundirection and let us know if you have better biblical wrestling moves. Discussion Starters: Stealing Santa/Wrestler innocence, Bible wrestling moves, loneliness, Biblical support for bachelor Jesus, bridegroom...

Looking for God in Las Vegas? Well, the odds are not in your favor. But if you’re Tim Keller, you can at least rely on us to unflak you from all undue flak. And if you’re Rehoboam, take it easy on your father’s loins. Discussion Starters: Perfume, farts and axe, Chris’ shower frequency, holy craps table, sevens, Shakespeare or Scripture, Purity Culture and sex ed, Thanks for Punderstanding: Hollyw...

Get into our Spiritual D-Box and tune into some summer flicks while dodging bears, leopards, and the church of Scientology. Channel your inner Goonie and scare away that gorilla, who, sadly, isn’t Harambe. Discussion Starters: Favorite Maverick scenes, 80s movie remake, Cruise Gibson and Cameron, Hydrogen bombs on Godzilla, cults and Nikes, using the name of God, dealing with bears and Leopards.

Glimericks? Shimmericks? What rhymes with limericks? Probably nothing, but we have plenty of attempts at it on this episode. Because nothing validates spiritual insight like a good rhyme. Discussion Starters: Unplanned poetry, intelligent people dealing with the flood, “Dad let’s his children tell the story,” Thanks for Punderstanding: Restaurant Edition, Earth as Hell, being watched all the time,...

Cozy up on our doghouse couch and gnash your teeth at your shortcomings while catching up on your favorite shows… mostly this one. Crack open a cold one and be your authentic self with us while we DSMR into your ears. Discussion Starters: Jesus’ triumphal motorized entry and Rivian return, effect of unrepentance on relationships, just being yourself, the true self, talking people out of horoscopes...

Even if the Americas are devoured by an apocalyptic heaven-rock, we can still enjoy some peeps and a final eggmeal in these last days of holy week. Be sure to camp out in Djibouti for the fireworks at the end. Discussion Starters: Hot Tamale Peeps, the last egg meal, where will Jesus return, Gog and Magog, 99 bottles of beer before the Big Bang, Divine Cupid Shuffle, Biblical, Apocryphal, or Chris...

Just because we didn’t know that The Batman wasn’t in the running for this year’s Oscars doesn’t mean we’re unqualified to have an Oscars episode. Okay, maybe it does. But good news! Cinema expert Christopher Salazar joins us for this episode. Discussion Starters: Oscar fever, Verse of the Day: Movie Edition, King James Bible: the film, Uncle Oscar, second favorite film, Oscars qualifiers, the out...

Who would win in a saint fight, Saint Nick or Saint Patty? We aren’t sure either… but we are sure that God was in Jon’s bowels, dispensing grace on his casserole-based dysentery. Discussion Starters: Magic the Gathering card or Catholic Saint, the proper and improper uses of “by the grace of God,” taxing religious institutions, Thanks for Punderstanding, how to stop living in sin, holy cows and ho...

Look out Cupid! You’re in Wayne’s boycott crosshairs, so start shaking in your… well… you don’t wear boots, do you? Incarnational theology and bad dating advice are a sure cocktail to bring Saint Valentine’s love empire down. Discussion Starters: Good questions for your first date, midwestern Christian bases, [love]sick Jesus, fully human God gets Covid, the Christian Bachelor at Chick-Fil-A, New...

Bubbles were meant to pop, whether they be physical glycerol powered bubbles, or metaphysical crypto bubbles. Let Pharoah’s snake charmers put a technomantic spell on you as you listen to our musings. Discussion Starters: Everlasting bubbles, heaven and Florida, forbidden words, trailer park cosmology, can demons make life, Pharoah’s snake charmers, earthbound spirits, Biblical Apocryphal or Chris...

Name and claim that New Year’s momentum with our mantra: one more block! We are totally on top of our resolutions if our resolution was to get back to our core competencies… answering questions in a misguided way. Discussion Starters: The secret to finding money in the walls, the snake chose eve, hearing decline, how to start reading the Bible, thanks for Punderstanding, Jesus is an extra-dimensio...

The most uncomfortable feast day kicks off 2022, the year of Quetzalcoatl’s belated return. And you can count on the accuracy of our predictions based on our 2021 track record with crypto currency, and furbeez, impeachments and whatnot. Send your money in to save victims of the great Ohio quake and buy CHUX/FNF! Discussion Starters: Feast of the holy circumcision, Amanda Peach Falafel Quik in the...

A madlibbingly merry Christmas to all! Soak in all of this pre-Christmas cheer and wisdom to make your celebration of the Christ child the most beautifully undirected experience. 

Christmas season celebrates both the incarnation and NOW the redemption for turkey bacon. Coat your mushrooms in this greasy episode and hop on the magic school bus with cancer-fighting-waterbears and nanobots. Discussion Starters: Understanding Bobtails, turkey eschatology, speaking Turkish, surgery ethics, grownup Christmas wishlists, non-believers celebrating Christmas, MLA essays, war on Chris...

This advent we produce and tackle a lot of challenging ideas within the first 8 minutes Billy Ray Syphilis, Alexa Dystopian Hellscapes, and Kool-Aid Man Anime. Try your best not to get honkified by the Devil as you hone your proper yodel technique. Discussion Starters: Lightning deals on Black Friday, artificial intelligence, God and country music, genres of music in the Bible, non-Christians wear...

Welcome to your Midwestern Thanksgiving pregame where our dogs kill chickens, we like our green beans mushy, and we smother everything with mayo. Also, Chris makes himself cry with laughter for 5 minutes. Discussion Starters: Inflections of green bean casserole, hidden chicken carcasses, parenting children who doubt, two lost sons, parenting tv principals, Biblical-Apocryphal-Chris, a cure for dea...

The Spooktacular Cake-pop Express departs from the station now! Fold yourself up in a naked chicken taco and help us decipher denominational differences via tacos and desserts, with a special side of salacious scripture reading. Discussion Starters: Early spooky memories, Christian horror movies, differences between protestants and Catholics, tacos and cakes, dyslexics and heaven, Hebrew metal, a...

You know it’s our first podcast birthday because Jon’s wearing diapers, Wayne underwent a robotic/child voice change, and Chris tried something new for once. Discussion Starters: Favorite bits, DC Talk or Eazy E, Good Pope Bad Pope, Thanks for Punderstanding, Patron saint of what, Verse of the Day.

Dear Mrs. Bennett, this one’s for you. But if you’re not Jon’s wife and the recipient of his unnecessary gushing, you’ll have plenty of content that still is applicable for you, like Steve Hitler and Frankston Churchill. Discussion Starters: Devious Licks, morality of theft, Hitler’s descendants, male and/or female God, celestial jellyfish in your pants, good pope bad pope, Jezebel spirits and Deb...

Oh, you didn’t know that Jon was the sixth member of a 90’s pop band?! Maybe if you would have been on Wayne’s criminal trial, the Filipino witness would have filled you in. Or you can just listen to this episode for all the SPICY details. Discussion Starters: Autumn vibes, jury duty, late night gluttony, freedom to teleport, bosses in heaven, why God does unnecessary things, demon telemarketer zo...

Happy patriotic non-unionized Biblical Labor Day! Open ye, thine King James Bibles and watch Kiefer Sutherland’s 23 with us! Be sure to dress to the nines, or at least wear more than the Gerasene demoniac. Discussion Starters: Biblical occupations, best Bible versions, forced Bible reading, Catholic scripture reading, church dress code, chocolate covered random stuff, astrology and zodiac signs, S...

Given enough time, we all become Wayne’s descendants. Even in Tanzania! While we wait for the world to inherit Wayne’s genes, delight yourself with film references, geneticist citations, and Buzzfeedesque quizzes. Discussion Starters: Sandler flicks, processing school trauma, Adam and Eve’s salvation, innocence vs purity, Swamidass and 23&me, Wizards of the Catholic Church, spouses/sex in heav...

Our first trigger warning: if you have snake, worm, or bathroom related phobias, you may need to skip the opening and concluding bits. But don’t skip too far ahead and miss the speaking in tongues story! Discussion Starters: Simple pleasures, reverse popcorn hoodie, talking with and in tongues, single Christian women and ratios, good and bad altar calls, Lutheran demon issues, wisdom vs rulers, No...