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The StarQuest community podcast, Let’s Talk, is back during the current crisis on a daily basis as both a livestream on our Facebook page and an audio podcast. Join us each day about 10:30am ET (unless announced otherwise) for conversation, connection, and ideas for how to spend all our newfound free-time. On Monday, March 16, 2020, Dom Bettinelli and Fr. Cory Sticha got us started.
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The Betts deal with the current crisis using a blend of humor and level-headedness; discuss the unprecedented restrictions due to the coronavirus; how they’re praying without going to Mass; having solidarity with Catholics who’ve historically been without Mass; and express the value of obedience to our bishops.
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This time, Lindsay, Gerry, and Caroline discuss the Catholic origins of the Filet-O-Fish sandwich; the science behind coronavirus, panic buying, and what the Archdiocese of Melbourne is doing; plus Lindsay and Caroline share how personal family crises at the beginning of Lent brought their families together in prayer.
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Does our solar system contain a dramatic secret object, a hidden second star that has caused the destruction of countless life forms on Earth? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the Nemesis death star theory and whether it’s responsible for a regular cycle of mass extinction on Earth.
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As both fear and skepticism around the coronavirus spread, Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Cory Sticha, and Joanne Mercier discuss some of the tech aspects, including avoiding scams and fake news, keeping your personal hardware clean, using tech to ease the effects of isolation, and the Catholic aspects of dealing with the pandemic, and more.
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The Betts this week deal with a cascade of kitchen plumbing messes; enroll in Merit Badge U; race in the Pinewood Derby; review Spenser: Confidential and Knives Out as well Eifelheim and The British Are Coming; and have some more great recipes that are good for Lent.
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It’s a TNG reunion! Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the latest episode of Picard, which includes the return of Riker and Troi, now retired and living on an idyllic world. The episode explores identity, especially as a child becomes an adult, as the bonds of trust and seeking healing in tragedy.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Polish Catholics in Milwaukee planned to build a massive new church for their community. Tom and Noëlle Crowe tell us construction was set to begin when they discovered Chicago’s federal building was for sale. They just had to move it from one city to another.
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Warning: Don’t listen while hungry! Deborah Schaben, Lisa Hendey, and David Handlos talk about their favorite Disney snacks and iconic food, including how to eat at Disney with and without kids, vegetarian and not, fine dining and fast food, and even your own food you can bring into the parks.
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Genesis 6 mentions a group called the Nephilim and their identity has puzzled scholars for thousands of years. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the theories that they are angels or aliens or even something else, then ask what Genesis 6 is trying to say.
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The Vatican working with Big Tech has put forth a set of principles for ethical artificial intelligence. Dom Bettinelli, Jack Baruzzini, and Thomas Sanjurjo agree that the Church should be at the forefront of this issue and that the real danger isn’t Skynet, but something much more present today.
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The popular sitcom The Good Place met its end and Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Mike Denz talk about this sitcom about philosophy and the afterlife in two parts. In part two of their discussion, they discuss the fourth season and how it shows the limits of a heaven without God or the beatific vision.
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The popular sitcom The Good Place met its end and Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Mike Denz talk about this sitcom about philosophy and the afterlife in two parts. In part one of their discussion, they discuss the third season and the implications and limits of a merit-based system for getting to heaven.
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This week, the Betts are handwashing dishes for Lent (for now), ranting about the clock change, doing a Polar Challenge, discussing their favorite Lenten Friday recipes (best tuna salad and their naan pizza), making fasting bread, and talk about dragons in the garden and hungry Jesus in the desert.
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For the season finale, Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the big reveals, twists, and revelations from the Doctor’s confrontation with the Master and the new cybermen, plus the roots of the new mythos in classic Who and the implications for the future.
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The Clones are back! Fr. Andrew, Thomas, Mike, Angela, and Andrew H. dive into the first two episodes, discussing how the Bad Batch show how differences are gifts to be treasured and valued. Also, the driving force of belief and how it drives us to seek Truth.
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Is the Impossible Box of the title, the Romulan puzzle box? Is it Soji? Is it the Borg cube Artifact? Maybe all three? Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha discuss the latest episode including the great acting by Patrick Stewart to show Picard’s tortured psyche when encountering the Borg again.
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Two Catholics–a priest and a layman–were instrumental to the American victory over the British in the Northwest campaign of the Revolutionary War. Tom & Noelle Crowe tell the stories of how Fr. Pierre Gibault and Francis Vigo rallied Catholic settlers and helped Gen. George Rogers Clark to victory in the Illinois campaign.
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As Lent begins, Lindsay, Caroline, and Gerry talk about forgiveness, especially times when our most recent 3 popes have publicly forgiven or asked forgiveness. They also discuss new science that’s saving bees and interesting TV shows they’ve been watching lately.
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In 1977, two Air Force medics had a frightening encounter while camping in an Arkansas state park named Devil’s Den. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli consider their dramatic account and physical symptoms and discuss whether this was an authentic UFO encounter and what the government might know.
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