What do you get when you combine a senseless murder, a shack, a lapsed Christian and the three or four wacky personalities of God? Hilarity!  Or more accurately, mind-numbing conversations where nothing happens.

Mack is dealing with the murder of his young daughter when he gets a note from God (who goes by Papa for no reason) recommending a weekend getaway in a shack. Mack thinks this is a good idea. Mack is a moron.

There are surely books out there that make a compelling case for the existence of God and that go to great lengths to illuminate why bad things happen to good (or in this case, annoying) people. The Shack is not one of them. In fact, unless you’re dying to know what it’s like to have God talk to you about pancakes and diarrhea-causing side dishes, I’d recommend looking elsewhere.

But we have a celebrity-studded Audible sketch for you featuring a Smurf, cantankerously dead writer Ernest Hemingway, and the owner of a decently successful pizza chain. What’s the common thread? Tune in to find out.

There’s a also a press conference with alcoholism and racist deities. All of your questions will be answered, assuming they’re the same questions we asked when we recorded. And they’re probably not.

In conclusion, this is the worst thing to happen to shacks since NBA star Shaquille O’Neal made the movies Kazaam and Steel. And since his rap album. Man, it’s tough to be a shack.

Our guest, Destinee, recommends the public library. And also this video of a kid rapping about god.