Jimmy Akin Podcast

It's a fifth Friday so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin more weird questions from listeners, including secret societies; binding demons; reenacting Catholic history; killing vampire-human hybrids; Neanderthals in the afterlife; and more.

Direct download: MYS226.mp3
Category:Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World -- posted at: 7:30am PDT

We're 300! Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha celebrate reaching the 300 episode milestone by discussing all the many Companions the Doctor has had over 6 decades and giving them tier rankings. Plus, who qualifies as a Companion?

Direct download: WHO300.mp3
Category:Secrets of Doctor Who -- posted at: 12:00pm PDT

Do AI have a soul? In this mysterious bonus episode, Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett discuss recent claims about artificial intelligence programs, including one at Google, that have a soul.

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In a mirror, funny. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the humorous variation on a Trek mirror episode, but this one has bigger series implications. Who is the sinister power behind it all. Plus, Starfleet recruiting booth!

Direct download: SST227.mp3
Category:Secrets of Star Trek -- posted at: 4:00pm PDT

Continuing their discussion of Edgar Cayce, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk about his startling claims to have genuine psychic abilities and what the evidence says about the famed "Sleeping Prophet."

Direct download: MYS225.mp3
Category:Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World -- posted at: 7:30am PDT

Dimensions! Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss this 12th Doctor story which imagines a unique species that exists in only two dimensions and sucks dimensionality out of the Tardis.

Direct download: WHO299.mp3
Category:Secrets of Doctor Who -- posted at: 12:00pm PDT

God had a wife? In this mysterious bonus episode, Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett discuss recent claims by some on social media that God originally had a wife, but that she was eventually removed from the Bible.

Direct download: MYS224a.mp3
Category:Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World -- posted at: 7:30am PDT

It's an old-fashioned room lottery! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the latest episode of Lower Decks in which our crew faces off with more rivals in a slapstick adventure reminiscent of Galaxy Quest and the captain forces the engineers to take a spa retreat.

Direct download: SST226.mp3
Category:Secrets of Star Trek -- posted at: 4:00pm PDT

In the mid-20th century, Edgar Cayce became known as the Sleeping Prophet for the psychic readings he gave while in hypnotic trances. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss Cayce, called the most famous pyshic of the 20th century and father of alternative medicine and of the New Age movement.

Direct download: MYS224.mp3
Category:Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World -- posted at: 7:30am PDT

Farewell Sarah Jane. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss this 4th Doctor story that sees the departure of popular companion, Sarah Jane Smith; and talk about this story that deals with nuclear power and rock-based super aliens.

Direct download: WHO298.mp3
Category:Secrets of Doctor Who -- posted at: 12:00pm PDT

When you think you've got a bad reputation, but it's the opposite! Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the latest Easter eggs and self-referential nods in Lower Decks, including what the crew thinks is a reputation for being screw-ups.

Direct download: SST225.mp3
Category:Secrets of Star Trek -- posted at: 1:00pm PDT

In 19th century London, residents reported a ghostly figure in outrageous costumes would accost them, sometimes bellowing blue flame in their faces, and then vanish in the night. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ask who was Spring-Heeled Jack and did he really exist.

Direct download: MYS223.mp3
Category:Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World -- posted at: 7:30am PDT

Throw the mummy from the train! Dom Bettinelli and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the 12th Doctor's turn in an Agatha Christie-like story as he contemplates the nature of certain impending death and how to make choices when all you have are bad ones.

Direct download: WHO297.mp3
Category:Secrets of Doctor Who -- posted at: 12:00pm PDT

Mysterious feedback! Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli answer your mysterious feedback on recent episodes, including the Green Children of Woolpit, Blue Panic Orbs, animal afterlife, Isdal Woman, How We Found the Universe, UFO/UAP Hearings, and more.

Direct download: MYS222a.mp3
Category:Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World -- posted at: 7:30am PDT

Boimler is the least dangerous game. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the latest episode of Lower Decks that has Mariner trying to prove she isn't insubordinate all the time and Boimler that he's willing to take risks.

Direct download: SST224.mp3
Category:Secrets of Star Trek -- posted at: 12:07pm PDT

We regularly give Patrons the opportunity to ask Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli their mysterious questions and make them available exclusively to Patrons first and then later to the whole audience.

Direct download: MYS222.mp3
Category:Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World -- posted at: 3:30am PDT

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