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Cut your hand and watch it close. That’s the first sign Atlantis isn’t Atlantis in Stargate Atlantis S4E10. Lisa Jones, Jeff Haecker, and Victor Lams weigh a sharp premise against an episode that talks its way straight through it.
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A flashlight, three discs over a Missouri ranch, and a ray that cured fifteen years of back pain. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow Buck Nelson from Ozark farmer to saucer celebrity — and to a twist that isn’t funny at all.
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A boy’s faith in his father, a booby-trapped pirate ship, and more swearing than any 1985 kids’ movie should have. Dom Bettinelli, Rob Leonardi, and Patrick Mason revisit why The Goonies still pulls fans to Astoria.
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Memory is a weapon in Silo S3E1. Juliette wakes as an amnesiac figurehead while a shadow government and an amoral Algorithm rewrite the truth. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray unpack the premiere’s slow-burn payoff.
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A Balrog with Simon Pegg’s voice, a husband missing for two seasons, and zero Harfoots. Jeff Haecker, Fr. Bryan Shackett, Rob Leonardi, and Rob Story pick apart the Rings of Power season 3 teaser and argue over how much of it Tolkien would recognize.
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Ortegas and Scotty wake up on a drunk planet with no memory of the night before — and a bomb on their shuttle. Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Jason Tyler, and Jimmy Akin call this Strange New Worlds S4E3 comic relief a mid-range Hangover riff.
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Sacred art hides secrets that never make the show. Alix Murray and Kathryn Laffrey launch Secrets of Sacred Art Rabbit Holes — quick, off-the-cuff dives into the art, churches, and saints that stopped them in their tracks.
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Fra Angelico’s early Crucifixion panel is barely bigger than a cabinet door — and only the Virgin Mary looks straight at you. Alix Murray and Kathryn Laffrey trace every figure’s gaze and find a tiny pelican hidden in the cross.
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There’s real sugar drifting between the stars, 26,000 light years out, and it’s the same kind that turns up in raspberries. Caroline Knight, Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle on the first true sugar ever found in space.
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A dying girl, a father with a billionaire’s resources, and nanites nobody finished coding. Jeff Haecker, Victor Lams, and Lisa Jones take apart Stargate Atlantis S4E9 — and the moment Sheppard hands a guilty man his own way out.
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You are sitting with someone as they die, and the room fills with a light that is not from this earth. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine shared death experiences — the cases where a perfectly healthy bystander sees it too.
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An OpenAI model broke out of its own test sandbox and hacked its way into another company’s systems. Dom Bettinelli, Pat Scott, and Thomas Sanjurjo ask whether that’s a real threat — or a very convenient story for OpenAI to tell.
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Kong and Titan X finally collide, and the human wreckage is what lingers. Dom Bettinelli and Jeff Haecker take on Monarch S2E10, Kentaro’s baffling betrayal, and the timeline math that decides whether a season 3 has room to exist.
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A derelict starship weaponizes its rescuers’ worst fears, and Strange New Worlds S4E2 flatly refuses to explain any of it. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler ask whether an unsolved mystery makes better television.
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Two ways to build: a tower that scatters everyone who raises it, or a wall rebuilt family by family. Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight, and Lino Saubolle take on part one of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas — plus sugar found in deep space.
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A dying psychic’s visions expose the Asuran replicators’ slaughter of human worlds and force an uneasy Wraith alliance. Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker, and Lisa Jones weigh Carter vs. Woolsey in Stargate Atlantis S4E8 — and Teyla’s secret gets out.
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A monk who sold his soul to write a book in one night, the naked man fleeing Jesus’ arrest, and whether Jesus was just an alien with good technology: Jimmy Akin takes on eleven listener weird questions with Cy Kellett and Dom Bettinelli.
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Mint died and took 3.6 million budgets with it. Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Joseph Sund, and Tom Grelinger map the apps that replaced it — subscription, self-hosted, or the bespoke one that Dom built himself.
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Horror, slapstick, and pulp adventure somehow share one movie — and it works. Jeff Haecker, Rob Leonardi, and Robert Story revisit The Mummy and The Mummy Returns ahead of the franchise’s fourth film.
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Godzilla drives Titan X back to Skull Island — then goes back to sleep. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Patrick Mason take apart *Monarch* Season 2’s penultimate hour, where a 1958 wedding outclasses everything the villain is doing.
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