Jimmy Akin Podcast

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  Amok Time (TOS) - Secets of Star Trek 05.10.2026 54min

  Vulcan biology gets its first real explanation, and it nearly kills Spock. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler break down TOS S2E1 "Amok Time" — the salute, the fight music, and two plot holes nobody ever patched.
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  Can Science Show the Soul Survives Death? Join My New Courses - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 04.10.2026 4min

  Can science show the soul survives death? Jimmy Akin announces two fall courses for the Rhine Education Center: one on near-death experiences and reincarnation-type cases, and Introduction to Parapsychology.
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  When Does Holy Water Stop Being Holy? (& More Weird Questions) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 02.10.2026 1t 54min

  Does a blessing survive the water cycle? Could uplifted animals have souls? Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett take on tickling, Hitler's parents, Revelation's scorpion-tailed locusts and baptism before birth, with Dom Bettinelli.
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  Tomorrow's Enterprise (SNW) 28.09.2026 59min

  Two Uhuras, a year apart, and a Scotty who died in one timeline: the Strange New Worlds Season 4 finale (Episode 10) plays like a pilot for Kirk's Year One. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin weigh its heart against its physics.
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  Could You Possess Another Human? (And More Weird Questions) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 25.09.2026 1t 57min

  Can one human being possess another? MKUltra tried. Jimmy Akin answers that and seven more listener questions — purgatory when the world ends, fallen guardian angels, brain swaps, and whether lizards were once dragons.
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  Once La'an A Time (SNW) - The Secrets of Star Trek 21.09.2026 49min

  A shadow self is the part you hide, not the evil twin, which gives Season 4, Episode 9 away a mile off. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler on the fairy tale, the Rukiya payoff that never lands, and whether Pike commands like a captain.
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  Veridical NDEs - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World 18.09.2026 1t 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 1t 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 1t 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 1t 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 1t 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 1t 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 1t 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 1t 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.