Stardust City Rag (Picard)

It's a heist job! Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha talk about the latest episode of Picard, the revelations about 7 of 9's ... Read more

Mother Beasley

Mother Beasley was a free Black woman who married into wealth and then gave it all away as a widow in order to found one of the first Catholic ... Read more

Our Favorite Disney Memories

Walking down memory lane, Deborah Schaben, Lisa Hendey, and David Handlos recall their favorite Disney memories at the theme parks, and discuss ... Read more

America’s Dyatlov Pass? (The Boys from Yuba City)

Five men from Yuba City, California, disappeared in 1978 after a trip to a nearby town. Four of them died, perhaps months later, and 1 was ... Read more

Tech for the Seniors in Your Life

If you have older folks in your life who may not be comfortable with technology, Dom Bettinelli, Joanne Mercier, and Pat Scott discuss the ... Read more

Keeper of Your Brother’s Anger

Dom and Melanie Bettinelli discuss why some people always seem to get summonsed for jury duty; winter farmers market; Pinewood Derby; scallops, ... Read more

The Haunting of Villa Diodati

The Doctor visits Mary Shelley on the night she had the inspiration for Frankenstein. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the modern ... Read more

The Mandalore Episodes: Seeing the Humanity in Our Enemies

Continuing their look at Mandalorian culture in The Clone Wars, Fr. Andrew, Thomas, and Mike discuss how season 3, ep. 10 and season 4, ep. 14 ... Read more

Absolute Candor (Picard)

In Absolute Candor, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk about Picard's revisiting his past failings and having to reckon with them, reconnecting ... Read more

Pierre Toussaint

Pierre Toussaint was a slave brought from Haiti to New York City in the late 1700s, where he became a celebrated and in-demand hairdresser and ... Read more

Slave to Saint and Solar Wind

The whole band is back together! Caroline, Lindsay, and Gerry talk about St. Josephine Bakhita, who went from being trafficked as a slave to ... Read more

Visions, Prophecies, Private Revelations

God has made Himself known throughout history, but after the Bible something changed in the way He does that. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli ... Read more

Plugging Data Privacy Leaks

Our private data is leaking out of our technology in thousands of ways. Dom Bettinelli, Jack Baruzzini, and Thomas Sanjurjo discuss ways to ... Read more

The Secrets of Jurassic World

Jurassic World restarted the mega-franchise with a roar in 2015. Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Sanjurjo, and Fr. Michael Gossett discuss the movie's ... Read more

A Day at the MFA

The Betts visit the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and then come home to no power in the house. Melanie makes sure the power outage soup won't ... Read more

Can You Hear Me?

The Doctor and friends face their nightmares and some old foes from the Classic series. Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss ... Read more

The End is the Beginning (Picard)

Picard returns to space, fights Romulan ninjas, and deals with the aftermath of his own decisions that led to the collapse of a friends' life. ... Read more

Julia Greeley

Julia Greeley was a former slave and Catholic convert who lived much of her life after the Civil War. Tom and Noëlle Crowe relate her zealous ... Read more

The Case of the Missing Universe (Dark Matter, Dark Energy)

Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein revolutionized physics and our understanding of the universe with the fundamental laws of gravity. But in 1933 ... Read more

The Promises and Pitfalls of Tech in Elections

With the recent tech troubles in the Iowa caucus and fears of social media disinformation affecting the November vote, Dom Bettinelli, Fr. ... Read more