Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
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.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
Join Jimmy Akin this August for a four-week course on Psi and Christianity.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
Sixty-five million years in the past, Pike can save a planet or keep his own future — not both. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler take on Strange New Worlds S4E1: dinosaurs, Martians, and the ethics of time travel.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
A black fungus that eats radiation? Found in the ruins of Chernobyl, it could shield astronauts headed to Mars. Caroline Knight, Lindsay Sant, and Dom Bettinelli unpack radiosynthesis and the living space shield it inspired.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
A routine checkup on New Athos becomes a run-for-your-life survival story when the cannibal Bola Kai overrun the village. In Atlantis S4E7 “Missing,” Jeff Haecker, Victor Lams, and Lisa Jones weigh Teyla and Keller’s brutal two-hander.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
Dozens of unrelated children said shining, winged figures stood over them as an EF5 tornado destroyed Joplin. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh cryptids, trauma, folklore, and guardian angels behind the butterfly people.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
The box of photos and VHS tapes in your basement is decaying right now. Dom Bettinelli and Joanne Mercier map out how to rescue family memories before the media rots — and why recording who’s in the photo outlasts the photo.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
A nesting mother, a tactical nuke on the table, and a stolen egg. Dom Bettinelli and Jeff Haecker break down Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2E8, where Shaw calls in Godzilla and Apex walks off with the prize.
Listen Now
Podcast: Download
Despair isn’t sadness — it’s the choice to stop hoping, and it destroys Denethor. Patrick Mason, Rob Leonardi, Robert Story, and Fr. Bryan Shackett on the palantír, Sauron’s algorithm of doom, and the Gandalf line Pope Leo just quoted.
Listen Now