Jimmy Akin Podcast

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Monday · 47 min
Off-Hours (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek
A table tears loose in sickbay and cuts Dr. M'Benga nearly in half — and Nurse Chapel refuses to let him go. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler take on *Strange New Worlds* S4E6, the real-time hour that finally feels like *Trek*.
Friday · 1 hr 54 min
The 100-Foot Beast an Early Christian Saw in Visions (Shepherd of Hermas) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Early Christians read it in church beside the Gospels; a fourth-century Bible bound it in after Revelation. Then it vanished. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli open the Shepherd of Hermas — a tower, a beast, and a question about forgiveness.
August 24 · 49 min
Level-Five Transporter Accident (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek
Is Star Trek's puppet episode genius or a cop-out? Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler split over whether Strange New Worlds S4E5's dream-ending twist earns its plot holes, plus a hidden Lucille Ball reference few will catch.
August 21 · 1 hr 25 min
Are Auras Real? Aura Colors, Cameras, and the Tests - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Colored light around every living thing, readable by anyone with the right training — or by a camera at the mall. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow the aura from Mesmer to the selfie app, and weigh what happened under controlled testing.
August 17 · 47 min
A Case of Chiaroscuro (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek
In Strange New Worlds S4E4, Number One gets stranded on a Klingon-occupied world that's basically Casablanca in space. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler debate the shaky black-and-white science and cheer her overdue spotlight.
August 14 · 1 hr 17 min
Buck Nelson, the Ozark Spaceman - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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.
August 10 · 37 min
Human Best Friend (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek
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.
August 7 · 1 hr 45 min
Shared Death Experiences - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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.
August 3 · 46 min
The Griffin Incident (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek
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.
July 31 · 1 hr 56 min
The Devil's Bible, Jesus Was an Alien?, Psychic Powers in Heaven, and Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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.
July 28 · 2 min
Investigating the Paranormal for 2,000 Years - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
This August, I'm teaching a four-week course for the Rhine Education Center on Psi and Christianity. We'll look at telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, mind over matter, and the survival of the soul after death. For 2,000 years, Christians have been wrestling with the very phenomena that parapsychologists study today. Audit it or take it for a grade. Tuition $119 ($109 for Rhine members). Visit RhineEdu.org to register.
July 27 · 1 hr
Valles Marineris (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek
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.
July 24 · 1 hr 8 min
The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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.
July 20 · 38 min
Singularity (ENT) - The Secrets of Star Trek
Radiation from a black hole turns the crew into a shipful of obsessives in Enterprise S2E9, "Singularity." Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler ask whether you can really build a whole plot on a pun.
July 17 · 1 hr 17 min
Mark Twain Super-Psychic: His Shocking Telepathy & Death Dream - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
He spent his career debunking fake mesmerists and mediums — then dreamed his brother's funeral weeks before it happened. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace Mark Twain's strange turn toward telepathy and ask what the Catholic has to say about it.
July 13 · 52 min
Persistence of Vision (VOY) - The Secrets of Star Trek
A powerful alien telepath locks Voyager's crew in private hallucinations and then vanishes without explanation. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin on whether "Persistence of Vision" earns its mystery.
July 10 · 1 hr 18 min
EXPOSED: The Government's Patented Way to Put Voices in Your Head - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
The U.S. government holds real patents for putting voices in people's heads — and thousands say it's happening to them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli separate the real physics from psychiatry, internet lore, and outright fraud.
July 6 · 53 min
SST421: Return to Grace (DS9)
When Klingons destroy the conference she was headed to, Kira ends up teaching guerrilla tactics to a demoted Dukat. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin unpack DS9 S4E14's moral complexity, Damar's debut, and whether Dukat is tragic or just evil.
July 3 · 1 hr 4 min
Joseph Williamson's Tunnels - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
A Liverpool merchant spent 30 years tunneling beneath his own neighborhood and never said why. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh seven theories about Joseph Williamson and his mysterious underground labyrinth.
June 29 · 55 min
The High Ground (TNG) - The Secrets of Star Trek
A separatist leader kidnaps Beverly Crusher and makes arguments the Enterprise crew can't quite answer. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler on TNG's toughest terrorism episode: "The High Ground" (S3E12).

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