TMU0029: StarQuest Headlines for April 23, 2018

  • 'Jurassic World 2' Trailer Features Big Dennis Nedry Easter Egg
  • Star Wars 9 Is Casting a Major Legends Expanded Universe Character?
  • NASA Scientists Think ‘Gravity’ Is the Worst, Most Inaccurate Space Movie Ever Made
  • The Netflix Film About a Baby-Toting Dad Fighting Zombies is Apparently Good
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TMU0027: StarQuest Headlines for April 19, 2018

  • Pope Francis praises “very good bourbon” gift
  • Tim Cook Insists Merging Mac and iPad Would Result in Compromises
  • Look Up! You Could See the Lyrid Meteor Shower from Your Backyard This Weekend
  • Who is Tammie Jo Shults? Pilot of Southwest flight called a “hero” with “nerves of steel”
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SCR013: The Secrets of The Good Place, Season 2

Join Jimmy Akin, Mac Barron, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha for the second part of their discussion of The Good Place, a groundbreaking network sitcom that cleverly and comedically deals with life, death, the afterlife and philosophy. This episode contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale and Season 2.

If you haven’t watched The Good Place, then we encourage you to listen to the previous episode first and wait on this episode until you’ve seen the first season finale. If you have watched The Good Place, then you know this sort of thing is right up our alley and we have a great discussion of the implications of the story and its comedic vision of the afterlife.

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SCR012: The Secrets of The Good Place, Season 1

A sitcom about the afterlife that takes philsophy and ethics seriously? Yes, please! Jimmy Akin, Mac Barron, Dom Bettinelli, and Fr. Cory Sticha talk about the premise of the show and what happens in the first season, not including the finale. We cover that and season 2 in our next episode.

If you haven’t watched The Good Place, then we encourage you to listen to this episode first and wait on the next episode until you’ve seen the first season finale. If you have watched The Good Place, then you know this sort of thing is right up our alley and we have a great discussion of the implications of the story and its comedic vision of the afterlife.

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WHO068: Power of the Daleks

Jimmy Akin, Dom Bettinelli and Fr. Cory Sticha are reviewing all the post-regeneration Doctor Who stories, starting with the 2nd Doctor, who set the precedent. Power of the Daleks was also a lost episode whose original soundtrack has been matched with new animation. Is it as good as the original?

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