StarQuest Podcasts

SQPN produces programs at the intersection of faith and modern culture for an international audience, including Secrets of Star Trek, Secrets of Doctor Who, Secrets of Movies and TV, Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World, Secrets of Technology, Catholics of Oz, Secrets of Stargate, Secrets of Star Wars, Secrets of Sacred Art, Secrets of Middle Earth, and Let's Science.

SST426: Human Best Friend (SNW) 08/10/2026

SST426: Human Best Friend (SNW) 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42377890

SSA056a: Rabbit Holes 08/10/2026

SSA056a: Rabbit Holes 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42346370

SSA057: The Painting That Looks Back: Fra Angelico's Crucifixion 08/10/2026

SSA057: The Painting That Looks Back: Fra Angelico's Crucifixion 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42347720

SCI105: Sugar Between the Stars 08/08/2026

SCI105: Sugar Between the Stars 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42269845

SSG272: Miller's Crossing (SGA) 08/07/2026

SSG272: Miller's Crossing (SGA) 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42330190

MYS429: Shared Death Experiences 08/07/2026

MYS429: Shared Death Experiences 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42329260

TEC356: AI Broke Its Own Cage: What OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack Really Means 08/06/2026

TEC356: AI Broke Its Own Cage: What OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack Really Means 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42344945

STV020: Monarch, S2: Where We Belong 08/05/2026

STV020: Monarch, S2: Where We Belong 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42316885

SST425: The Griffin Incident (SNW) 08/03/2026

SST425: The Griffin Incident (SNW) 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42304065

COZ159: Babel or the City of God 08/01/2026

COZ159: Babel or the City of God 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42269085

MYS428: The Devil's Bible, Jesus Was an Alien?, Psychic Powers in Heaven, and Weird Questions 07/31/2026

MYS428: The Devil's Bible, Jesus Was an Alien?, Psychic Powers in Heaven, and Weird Questions 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42257985

SSG271: The Seer (SGA) 07/31/2026

SSG271: The Seer (SGA) 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42266515

TEC355: What's in My Pocket? Picking a Personal Finance App 07/30/2026

TEC355: What's in My Pocket? Picking a Personal Finance App 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42265240

SCR198: The Secrets of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns 07/30/2026

SCR198: The Secrets of The Mummy and The Mummy Returns 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42255235

STV019: Monarch, S2: Ends of the Earth 07/29/2026

STV019: Monarch, S2: Ends of the Earth 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42244735

MYS427a: Investigating the Paranormal for 2,000 Years 07/28/2026

MYS427a: Investigating the Paranormal for 2,000 Years 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42242055

SST424: Valles Marineris (SNW) 07/27/2026

SST424: Valles Marineris (SNW) 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42232945

SCI104: The Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation 07/25/2026

SCI104: The Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42120060

SSG270: Missing (SGA) 07/24/2026

SSG270: Missing (SGA) 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42186470

MYS427: The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri 07/24/2026

MYS427: The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42186015

TEC354: Digitize Your Family Memories Before They're Gone 07/23/2026

TEC354: Digitize Your Family Memories Before They're Gone 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42184660

STV018: Monarch, S2: Separate Ways 07/22/2026

STV018: Monarch, S2: Separate Ways 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42170180

SME114: The Sin of Denethor 07/21/2026

SME114: The Sin of Denethor 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42155885

SST423: Singularity (ENT) 07/20/2026

SST423: Singularity (ENT) 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42121805

COZ158: Keeping Humanity at the Center of the AI Age 07/18/2026

COZ158: Keeping Humanity at the Center of the AI Age Can the Church keep humanity at the center of the AI age? Dom Bettinelli joins Lindsay Sant and Caroline Knight on Pope Leo's encyclical Magnifica humanitas, a radiation-eating Chernobyl fungus, and StarQuest's 20th year. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42113620

SSG269: Tabula Rasa (SGA) 07/17/2026

SSG269: Tabula Rasa (SGA) Everyone on Atlantis wakes up with no memory and a deadly clock ticking. In Stargate Atlantis S4E6, "Tabula Rasa," Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker, and Lisa Jones unpack the amnesia mystery, Major Lorne's villain turn, and one very effective Polaroid. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42105655

MYS426: Mark Twain Super-Psychic: His Shocking Telepathy & Death Dream 07/17/2026

MYS426: Mark Twain Super-Psychic: His Shocking Telepathy & Death Dream 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. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42103845

TEC353: Your Lawn Just Went High-Tech 07/16/2026

TEC353: Your Lawn Just Went High-Tech The lawn has gone high-tech. Dom Bettinelli and Thomas Sanjurjo weigh battery mowers against gas, robot mowers against your Saturday, and smart irrigation against a soggy guess — plus the gardening gear that actually earns its keep. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42112705

SCR197: The Secrets of One Last Monster 07/16/2026

SCR197: The Secrets of One Last Monster A widowed empress must choose between killing a monster or trusting its warning. Filmmaker Gene Kim talks with Angela Sealana and Jeff Haecker about One Last Monster — his Korean-history sci-fi short on the comfort zone, grief, and faith. /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42093790

STV017: Monarch, S2: String Theory 07/15/2026

STV017: Monarch, S2: String Theory Two Lee Shaws meet across the decades through a rift — and Monarch finally lets its humans outshine its monsters. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Patrick Mason unpack the time-travel paradoxes of S2E7, "String Theory." /episode/index/show/sqpn01/id/42087950

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