Merely Human

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.

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...

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!

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...

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 ma...

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...

The last of season one of Merely Human Things. We are finishing up the interview with Scott Klusendorf. The intro has some very specific ramblings from Jay concerning how easily he can get invested in silly things that would normally have little weight on greater world matters. We've got a comparison from Brooklyn Nine-Nine about just how deeply Jay feels about the misuse of language. After the in...

Summary Episode 9   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 an...

Life Training Institute’s Megan Almon joins the show to discuss Nobel Prize winning author Annie Ernaux’s Happening, a novelized telling of her experience with illegal abortion in Paris in 1963. Megan shares her Three Things in evaluating the story as a work of literature and political statement about contemporary abortion politics. More about Megan Almon https://prolifetraining.com/about-speaker/...

We asked people who disagree with us to tell us why. We received a long message; one our producer began to reference as the The Letter. I tried to answer as briefly as possible as a segment of an episode, but the objections are wide ranging and require some discussion in unpacking. We went back into the studio and addressed it in a longer form, ultimately deciding to let the segment stand alone. H...

Episode 6 is the first of three episodes originally recorded to be one single episode. Segment one features a discussion of creator verses organizer, inventor versus promoter, the underappreciated genius verses the public face of success. Jay explains why he takes sides with Jack Kirby and Nikolai Tesla versus Stan Lee and Thomas Edison with as much respect as he can muster. Segment two focuses on...

Episode 5 of Human Things 2.0 starts with a rousing defense of the work of Hall & Oats including slightly messing up the names of two of their songs. Segment 2 discusses a short clip from a 2018 Oxford Union Panel on Abortion Rights where pro-abortion activist Ilyse Hogue of NARAL makes the claim that most people believe in three exceptions to restricting abortion: life of the mother, rape, and me...

On this episode, Jay is going Eric Carmen style, all by himself. Bad Movie Night gets explained, Streets of Fire comes up (not for the last time), and midi-chlorians are identified as the bane of the Star Wars universe.   On a more serious note, segment two evaluates the actions of 19th century abortionists through the criteria of principled civil disobedience against unjust laws restricting abort...

On this episode, we discuss the idea of making a case for making a case for life. Why do those opposed to abortion engage this issue with such passion? Because the right or wrong of abortion centers on how we answer one question, “Is the unborn one of us?” People who agree that it is wrong to kill one of us share a common intuition, human life matters. All parties must address the question of the...

This episode addresses despair and community. We discuss how assessing human dignity through instrumental criteria or immediately practicable capacities leads to troubling issues in end of life care. The view that all human beings have value by virtue of what we are, intrinsic dignity grounded in our humanity, ought to lead to stronger community and better care for everyone. Then Jonathan Noyes fr...

Human Things C.S. Lewis Society by Jay Watts

Merely Human Moment Believe Them by Jay Watts

MHM Human Things #5 - Beautiful Things by Jay Watts

MHM Human Things #4 - Arguing and the Airing of Grievances by Jay Watts

The fear of pain and suffering is often used to justify terrible decisions. This episode explores experiencing pain with hope and whether a life without it is possible or even desirable.

MHM Human Things Podcast #2 - Am I My Brother's Keeper by Jay Watts

MHM Human Things #1 - Designed to Hurt by Jay Watts

Merely Human Moment #14 - Jameela the Evil Landlord by Jay Watts

Merely Human Moment 13 - There Can Be Only One - The Myth of Legal Neutrality on Abortion by Jay Watts

Merely Human Moment 12 - Control or Respect? by Jay Watts