StarQuest Podcasts

A man with no heartbeat knew where the nurse put his dentures. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at near-death experiences that came back with facts the patient had no way to know, and ask how they got them.

Is waving your card at a register riskier than swiping it? Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Sanjurjo, and Jack Baruzzini explain how NFC and RFID work, where the real weak spots are, and which fears to drop.

Grounded spycraft, a booby-trapped briefcase, and a villain plan too clever for its own good. Dom Bettinelli, Patrick Mason, and Jeff Haecker argue 1963's From Russia with Love is the truest spy movie of the Connery Bond era.

Juliette's bold "I remember everything" gambit sets up a rescue that's really a race against a countdown clock. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray break down Silo S3E6, "The Drive," and its cold-algorithm-vs-human-love divide.

He walked out of Rome at 17 and hid in a cave for three years. Dom Bettinelli traces Benedict of Nursia from Subiaco to Monte Cassino, where he wrote 73 chapters that have outlived the empire, the Lombards, the Saracens, and Allied bombs.

A holo recording flips the story: Reno Tsutara drew first. In Episode 3 of The Ninth Jedi, Thomas Salerno, Jeff Haecker, and Kathryn Laffrey weigh a Jedi master who froze his rivals in carbonite.

A grieving admiral wants 5,000 people killed to be sure of one cloaked ship, and only Kirk objects. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler take on Strange New Worlds S4E8, and ask why nobody calls it an illegal order.

AI can imitate empathy, but it can't love you back. Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight, and Lino Saubolle unpack Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas, then find out what happens in a dog's brain when you smile.

A 13-year-old heir, a day's hike, and a forest full of Genii assassins. Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker, and Lisa Jones take on Atlantis S4E14 "Harmony" — the bottle episode that gave the franchise its funniest painting.

An EgyptAir 767 fell out of a clear sky off Nantucket in 1999, and two governments read the same black boxes and reached opposite verdicts. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh four theories and one Arabic prayer.

Can revenge ever be justice? Kara Zor-El hunts the brigand who murdered a girl's family, and Rob Leonardi, Jeff Haecker, and Patrick Mason argue over mercy, Lobo, Krypto, and a soundtrack trying too hard to be James Gunn.

A $1,999 phone that unfolds into a tablet-sized screen — Apple's foldable is real, and it's the iPhone Duo. Dom Bettinelli and Joanne Mercier react to Apple's September event, from the Duo's three screens to the Watch's new Health Age.

Silo finally starts answering: Bernard's alive, Sims spares him, and Camille becomes the Algorithm's new voice. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray break down "Memory" (S3E5) and its Pez-dispenser gut-punch.

Announcing Holy Troublemakers, a new podcast from StarQuest. In this weekly podcast host Dom Bettinelli will introduce you to the difficult people who built the Catholic Church. From mystics who argued with popes to missionaries who walked into places nobody sane would go, every episode tells one of their stories.

Trelane turns the Enterprise into a soap opera for a school project, and only Pike notices. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler ask whether *Strange New Worlds* S4E7 survives a five-minute bit stretched to an hour.

A roofless, wall-less church of white metal tubes stands in a Chinese lavender field, praised by architects for how completely it disappears. Kathryn Laffrey and Alix Murray ask what a building says when it is built to vanish.

Every door in Atlantis seals at once — and the one man who could fix it is trapped in the botany lab with an engagement ring and no computer. Lisa Jones, Jeff Haecker, and Victor Lams take on Stargate Atlantis S4E13, "Quarantine."

Could Jesus have incarnated on a Klingon world while he walked in Galilee? Jimmy Akin takes that question and eleven more from patrons — telekinesis, the Mary Celeste, Salem, ley lines — with Dom Bettinelli.

Deleting photos first is a mistake. Dom Bettinelli, Pat Scott, and Fr. Andrew Kinstetter reveal the real storage hogs on your phone, from message attachments to Siri voices, and the safest order to clear them out.

A married fisherman walks off his boat, denies his Lord three times, and dies upside-down in Rome. Dom Bettinelli traces Simon Peter from the Sea of Galilee to the bones beneath St. Peter's high altar. The saint who broke and was put back together.

Silo S3E4 reveals a flashback the series already showed us was a lie — and that's the point. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray on Bernard's return, a nurse who flips, and whether you're anything more than your memories.

Sting, a hobbit's barrow-knife, one black arrow: the smallest weapons in Middle-earth carry the heaviest freight. Thomas Salerno, Jeff Haecker, and Fr. Bryan Shackett rank Tolkien's heroic blades — with Andúril barred from competing.

A blade's color reads the heart of whoever ignites it — so why is Nawaam's blue? Thomas Salerno, Jeff Haecker, Kathryn Laffrey, and Robert King take on The Ninth Jedi S1E2, where a father's choices become his daughter's crisis.

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*.

The Wraith don't breed. They're grown. Season 4's "Spoils of War" (S4E12) finally shows how, and Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams weigh a cloning facility, a pregnant Teyla, and the episode where Sheppard names Todd.