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.

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.