Show overview
Merely Human has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 68 episodes. That works out to roughly 65 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 25 min and 1h 26m — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Education show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 months ago, with 5 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 23 episodes published.
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Podcast by Jay Watts
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Being a local voice for Jesus
Restricting evil and loving everything local. Family, church and community. This was recorded on August the 14th.

#37 Season 4 Episode 5
Discussions about Daredevil, United States Presidents, The Beatles, and the Image Bearers of God.

#36 Season 4 Episode 4
Be strong enough to be hated

#35 Season 4 Episode 3
Jay Watts tackles Essays, accountability, and answering questions about biblical justifications for abortion.

#34 Season 4 Episode 2
Jay Watts on Treasure Planet and arguments for and against abortion.

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.

Merely Human Minsitries Christmas Episode 2024
Jay’s second annual Christmas Special.

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?

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

#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 if they are, how do we deal with that. What about the idea that abortion has always been here and always will be. How do we deal with that objection.

#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.

#27 Gaslighting and VP Kamala
#27 Gaslighting and VP Kamala by Jay Watts

#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

#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

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.