Jimmy Akin Podcast

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  Veridical NDEs - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 18.09.2026 1h 52min

  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.
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  Orders of Magnitude (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek 14.09.2026 1h 1min

  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.
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  EgyptAir 990: The Crash That Gave Bin Laden the Idea for 9/11 - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 11.09.2026 1h 3min

  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.
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  Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek 07.09.2026 47min

  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.
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  Klingon or Time Lord Jesus? Mary Celeste? Salem Witch Trials? And More Patron Questions - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 04.09.2026 1h 10min

  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.
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  Off-Hours (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek 31.08.2026 47min

  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*.
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  The 100-Foot Beast an Early Christian Saw in Visions (Shepherd of Hermas) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 28.08.2026 1h 54min

  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.
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  Level-Five Transporter Accident (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek 24.08.2026 49min

  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.
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  Are Auras Real? Aura Colors, Cameras, and the Tests - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 21.08.2026 1h 25min

  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.
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  A Case of Chiaroscuro (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek 17.08.2026 47min

  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.
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  Buck Nelson, the Ozark Spaceman - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 14.08.2026 1h 17min

  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.
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  Human Best Friend (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek 10.08.2026 37min

  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.
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  Shared Death Experiences - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 07.08.2026 1h 45min

  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.
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  The Griffin Incident (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek 03.08.2026 46min

  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.
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  The Devil's Bible, Jesus Was an Alien?, Psychic Powers in Heaven, and Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 31.07.2026 1h 56min

  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.
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  Investigating the Paranormal for 2,000 Years - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 28.07.2026 2min

  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.
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  Valles Marineris (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek 27.07.2026 1h

  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.
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  The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 24.07.2026 1h 8min

  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.
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  Singularity (ENT) - The Secrets of Star Trek 20.07.2026 38min

  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.
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  Mark Twain Super-Psychic: His Shocking Telepathy & Death Dream - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 17.07.2026 1h 17min

  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.