There are more mattress stores in America than McDonald’s franchises. They’re almost always empty. They cluster suspiciously close together — sometimes within 22 seconds of each other by car. And when **Mattress Firm** filed for bankruptcy in 2018 amid actual financial crimes, conspiracy theories about the entire industry exploded.

**Jimmy Akin** and **Dom Bettinelli** investigate the three leading theories about what mattress stores are really up to. The first, and most dramatic, is that they’re fronts for **money laundering** — a surprisingly compelling theory. Jimmy traces the history from Al Capone’s tax evasion downfall to **Meyer Lansky’s** innovations in laundering dirty cash, then applies the model to ask whether a mattress store would actually work as a placement vehicle for criminal money.

The second theory is more sophisticated: mattress stores aren’t in the mattress business at all — they’re quietly exploiting **real estate arbitrage**, using long-term leases in developing areas to profit when property values rise. Jimmy explains the sublease, lease-assignment, and kill-fee strategies that would make this work.

The third theory is that mattress stores are exactly what they look like. But if that’s true, how do you explain the clustering, the empty showrooms, and the remarkably low foot traffic? Jimmy digs into profit margins, industry-to-industry comparisons, and market saturation strategies — and looks hard at what Mattress Firm’s forensic accountants actually found during the bankruptcy proceedings.

The episode also covers how to save 30–60% on a mattress by skipping the traditional showroom entirely, and a faith perspective on the ethics of “showrooming” — using a store’s try-before-you-buy service when you have no intention of buying from them.

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• Freakonomics Radio on Mattress stores

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Chapters:

• 0:00 – MYS415
• 0:13 – Intro
• 2:10 – A surprising number of stores
• 8:08 – The Mattress Firm element
• 9:42 – Thank you to Patrons
• 10:13 – Sponsor: The Secret of the Goldfish
• 11:07 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
• 11:23 – Theories
• 12:13 – Reason Perspective
• 12:28 – Money laundering?
• 27:16 – Real estate arbitrage?
• 38:59 – They are what they say?
• 47:03 – How to get a mattress for less
• 55:48 – Faith Perspective
• 57:57 – Bottom Line
• 59:04 – Further Resources
• 59:30 – Mysterious Feedback: #404 The Ghosts of the Banta Inn
• 1:05:02 – Your mysterious feedback
• 1:05:39 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 1:05:45 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
• 1:06:18 – Next Time: The Olivet Discourse
• 1:06:38 – Mysterious World store
• 1:06:46 – Get your Mysterious merch
• 1:06:55 – Show notes
• 1:07:02 – Become a Patron
• 1:07:11 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
• 1:07:34 – Sponsor: The Lord Is A Warrior
• 1:08:22 – Outro

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The Secret of the Goldfish, by Mark Guiney, a new book for middle schoolers and inquisitive minds of all ages. What if Nancy Drew went to Catholic school? 

This new mystery series presents 10-year-old Gloria Treddle, a bloodhound with glasses and sneakers who’s always getting the bottom of the latest mystery at St. Anthony School. Faith and family lie at the center of Gloria’s world and the adults in her life, though imperfect, strive to pass on their values. Each Gloria Treadle Mystery is centered on one of the eight beatitudes.

Dive into the first engrossing story with The Secret of the Goldfish, by Mark Guiney, now available from Our Sunday Visitor wherever books are sold. To find out more and download free Free Mini-Mysteries that you and your kids can solve at home, visit GloriaBook.com/Mysterious

The Lord is A Warrior, by Michael Regal. If you enjoy exploring the intersection of faith and history, you will be be interested in “The Lord is a Warrior: True Accounts of Divine Intervention in War” by Michael Regal. 

Through dramatized retellings of biblical and historical battles alongside reflections drawn from Catholic tradition, it blends storytelling with spiritual themes like divine providence, trust in God, and the role of prayer in times of crisis.   If you’ve ever wondered what happened at Lepanto, what really drove the Crusaders at Las Navas de Tolosa, or why the Japanese Catholic community responded to the bomb the way they did, this is the book for you. Available now on Amazon in ebook and paperback.

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This version of The Weekly Leo covers material released in the last week, from 22 April 2026 to 29 April 2026.

General Audiences

• 29 April 2026 – General Audience – The Apostolic Journey in Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea

Homilies

• 23 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Equatorial Guinea’ Holy Mass in Malabo Stadium
• 26 April 2026 – Holy Mass with Priestly Ordinations

Messages

• 24 April 2026 – Video Message of the Holy Father to the Participants in the Commemorative Event marking the 15th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Death Penalty in the State of Illinois [DePaul University (Chicago)]

Regina Caeli

• 26 April 2026 – Regina Caeli

Speeches

• 22 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Equatorial Guinea’ Meeting with Young People and Families (Bata Stadium)
• 25 April 2026 – To Participants in the National Meeting of Catholic Religion Teachers, promoted by the Italian Bishop’s Conference
• 25 April 2026 – To Members of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament
• 27 April 2026 – Visit to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
• 27 April 2026 – Blessing of the foundation stone of the ‘Heart Center – Pope Francis’ at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome
• 27 April 2026 – To Her Grace Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury

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Spock is dying — and the cure is in enemy hands.

**Choriocytosis** encases copper-based blood cells so they can’t carry oxygen, and it’s 100% fatal to Vulcans. The medicine is en route aboard the **USS Huron**, a Starfleet freighter — until Orion pirates hijack it. What makes the situation worse: the Orions are a neutral power, and they’d rather blow themselves up than let the Federation prove they’ve gone rogue.

**Dom Bettinelli**, **Jimmy Akin**, and **Fr. Jason Tyler** dig into “The Pirates of Orion,” widely regarded as the best episode of *Star Trek: The Animated Series* — and the one written by **Howard Weinstein** at age 19, in a submission that almost never got read.

The discussion covers a lot of ground. McCoy finally gets to be the hero, devising the rendezvous plan before Kirk can even open his mouth. Lt. **Arex** gets real things to do for once. **James Doohan** voices the Orion captain and most of the Huron crew, demonstrating the vocal range that made him indispensable to TAS. And the Orion ship design — a pouncing, crab-like silhouette — effectively sells the menace before the mystery is revealed.

The panel also interrogates the episode’s central premise: can a neutral planet really disclaim its own pirates? A look at Somali pirates, letters of marque, and Larry Niven’s Kzinti subplot from another TAS episode all come to bear. And the transporter-defuses-the-bomb ending gets scrutinized — “molecular chain reaction” only goes so far as an explanation.

Feedback from the previous episode rounds out the show, including a listener’s detailed correction on dinosaur genus nomenclature and what it reveals about Neelix’s insult to Tom Paris.

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The apostles twice mistook Jesus for a ghost — and he corrected them without saying ghosts don’t exist. That single observation opens **Jimmy Akin** and **Dom Bettinelli’s** survey of ancient Christian ghost encounters, tracing what early believers reported across four centuries and how they made sense of it.

This is the first episode in what Jimmy describes as an occasional historical series — part of his ongoing academic research into historic ghost reports. The striking finding: accounts from the 2nd through 5th centuries display the same features documented by modern parapsychology.

**Acts of Paul and Thecla (c. AD 150)** — A deceased non-Christian woman, Falconilla, appears in a dream to her mother Queen Tryphena, asking that the martyr Thecla pray for her soul’s transfer from suffering to happiness. The text reflects early church openness to the salvation of those who died outside the faith — a view the Church has since recovered.

**Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicity (AD 203)** — Perpetua’s prison diary, one of the oldest surviving texts written by a woman, records two visions of her unbaptized younger brother Dinocrates: first in suffering, then in joyful refreshment after Perpetua prays for him. Augustine himself praised Perpetua and Felicity to the heavens.

**St. Martin of Tours (late 4th century)** — Martin investigates a site venerated as a martyr’s grave but with no verified historical record. He prays and a ghost appears — confessing he was an executed robber, not a martyr. Martin’s companions heard the ghost’s voice but couldn’t see the apparition. Martin removes the altar.

**Bishop Evodius of Uzalis (c. AD 415)** — A complex cluster of incidents surrounds the death of a young secretary: a shared death experience at the moment he died, an after-death communication to a widow preparing his heavenly welcome, a deathbed vision of a deceased friend who came to escort him, a shared apparition witnessed by an elderly bystander, and the young man’s ghost announcing his father would soon follow — which came true within seven days.

**St. Augustine** — The early church’s notable skeptic. In *On the Care to Be Had for the Dead*, Augustine proposed that apparitions with verified information could be explained by imagination or angels impersonating the dead. Jimmy works through Augustine’s arguments — including the famous Monica argument — and finds them unconvincing. Even Augustine acknowledged that some of the dead, like the confessor Felix of Nola, can appear by God’s permission.

Across nearly five centuries, these encounters share a consistent fingerprint — verified information, psychokinetic activity, requests for prayer, confirmed predictions — aligning with what parapsychology documents today.

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• Penguin Book of the Undead
• Acts of Paul and Thecla
• The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity
• On the Life of St. Martin
• Evodius’s Letter
• Augustine’s Reply
• Augustine’s On the Care to Be Had for the Dead

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Chapters:

• 0:00 – MYS414
• 0:12 – Intro
• 7:15 – Christian belief in ghosts in the Bible
• 10:41 – 2nd century: Thecla
• 18:20 – 3rd century: St. Perpetua
• 25:30 – 4th century: St. Martin of Tours
• 29:31 – Thank you to Patrons
• 30:05 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
• 30:25 – 5th century: Evodius
• 43:55 – St. Augustine
• 1:02:47 – St. Germanus
• 1:08:46 – Bottom Line
• 1:10:35 – Further Resources
• 1:11:11 – Mysterious Feedback from #403 Kentucky Goblins
• 1:20:39 – Your mysterious feedback
• 1:21:16 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 1:21:22 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
• 1:22:00 – Next Time: The Mattress Store Conspiracy?
• 1:22:17 – Share the show
• 1:22:27 – Get your Mysterious merch
• 1:22:35 – Show notes
• 1:22:42 – Become a Patron
• 1:22:50 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
• 1:23:15 – Outro

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This version of The Weekly Leo covers material released in the last week, from 10 April 2026 to 22 April 2026.

Homilies

• 16 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Camerun’ Holy Mass at Bamenda International Airport
• 17 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Camerun’ Holy Mass in the ‘Japoma Stadium’ (Douala)
• 18 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Camerun’ Holy Mass at Yaoundé-Ville Airport
• 19 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Angola’ Holy Mass in Kilamba
• 20 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Angola’ Holy Mass in the Saurimo esplanade
• 22 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Equatorial Guinea’ Holy Mass in the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Mongomo)

Messages

• 10 April 2026 – Message of the Holy Father Leo XIV, signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, on the occasion of the 2nd National Meeting of Territorial Representatives for the Protection of Minors and Vulnerable Adults
• 12 April 2026 – Message from His Holiness Pope Leo XIV to His Eminence Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Dean of the College of Cardinals, on the 1st Anniversary of the death of Pope Francis
• 12 April 2026 – Message of the Holy Father, signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, to mark the 102nd ‘Catholic University Day’
• 18 April 2026 – Message of the Holy Father to mark the Meeting of the Toniolo Young Professional Association

Regina Caeli

• 19 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Angola’ Regina Caeli

Speeches

• 10 April 2026 – To Members of the Synod of Bishops of the Chaldean Church of Baghdad
• 16 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Camerun’ Meeting for Peace with the Community of Bamenda in the Cathedral of Saint Joseph (Bamenda)
• 17 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Camerun’ Meeting with University Students and Professors at the Catholic University of Central Africa (Yaoundé)
• 18 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Angola’ Greeting of the Holy Father to journalists during the flight to Luanda (Papal Flight)
• 18 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Angola’ Meeting with the Authorities, Civil Society and the Diplomatic Corps (Luanda)
• 19 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Angola’ Holy Rosary Prayer on the Esplanade in front of the ‘Mama Muxima’ Shrine (Muxima)
• 20 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Angola’ Meeting with Bishops, Priests, Consecrated Men and Women and Pastoral Workers in the Parish of Our Lady of Fatima (Luanda)
• 20 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Angola’ Visit to a Nursing Home (Saurimo)
• 21 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Equatorial Guinea’ Meeting with the Authorities, Civil Society and the Diplomatic Corps (Malabo)
• 21 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Equatorial Guinea’ Press Conference during the Flight to Malabo (Papal Flight)
• 21 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Equatorial Guinea’ Visit to the Staff and Patients of the ‘Jean Pierre Olie’ psychiatric hospital (Malabo)
• 21 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Equatorial Guinea’ Meeting with the World of Culture at the ‘León XIV’ Campus of the National University (Malabo)
• 22 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Equatorial Guinea’ Visit to Bata Prison

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A woman who hates her unborn child. A scheming Klingon. A Prime Directive that’s barely an idea yet. Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Jason Tyler, and Jimmy Akin unpack D.C. Fontana’s bold “Friday’s Child.”

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In 1934, a secret manuscript was written by Fr. J. Bunza, based on Father Theophilus Reisinger’s own German account. It was never meant for public circulation. And what it reveals about the Earling case goes far beyond anything in the published account.

According to the manuscript, “Emma’s” (aka “Anna”) possessions didn’t end in 1928. They continued for years. During those years, Emma reportedly received visions of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and heavenly figures — and those visions escalated into sweeping apocalyptic claims.

The manuscript asserts that St. Michael the Archangel himself confirmed the Earling exorcisms were the cosmic battle described in Revelation 12: the war in heaven between Michael and the dragon. Billions upon billions of demons were cast into the abyss. The Pope’s very freedom was secured because of them.

But that was only the beginning. The manuscript goes further, claiming that Jesus himself gave Father Reisinger a specific mission — to warn the world about the Antichrist, who had already been born in Palestine, possessed by the spirit of Judas Iscariot from conception. The Antichrist would reign during three days of literal darkness. A figure known as the Great Monarch would lead Christendom during this final conflict. The manuscript even named a candidate: Otto von Habsburg, young heir to one of Europe’s most storied Catholic dynasties.

Every one of those prophecies failed. The Antichrist never reigned. Otto never became king. The Three Days of Darkness never came.

Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli work through the manuscript’s claims systematically — evaluating the hoax theory, examining mental illness frameworks, and scrutinizing each preternatural element (xenoglossy, detection of relics, Father Steiger’s car accident, the reported vomiting, possible levitation) in detail. Then they examine what the failure of every specific prophecy tells us about the manuscript’s authenticity.

Whatever happened in Earling, the secret manuscript’s predictions didn’t match reality. That failure may be the most revealing thing in the entire case.

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Links for this episode:

• Begone Satan! (annotated & illustrated)
• The Social Science Study of Exorcism in Christianity
• Joseph Laycock’s book The Penguin Book of Exorcisms
• Joseph Laycock’s book The Exorcist Effect
• Fr. Vincent Lampert interview
• Jimmy Akin on the “three days of darkness”
• Otto von Habsburg

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Chapter Markers

• 0:00 – MYS413
• 0:11 – Previously …
• 1:21 – Intro
• 3:30 – Recap
• 5:56 – The Secret Manuscript
• 9:04 – Difference from Begone Satan
• 12:40 – Visions of Apocalypse
• 22:10 – Antichrist
• 26:58 – Three days darkness
• 28:26 – The Great Monarch
• 33:09 – Signs in the sky and judgment
• 42:10 – After the judgment
• 46:05 – Thank you to Patrons
• 46:34 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
• 46:55 – Theories
• 48:11 – Reason Perspective: Hoax?
• 54:00 – Mental illness?
• 59:14 – Arguments for an against
• 1:09:31 – Preternatural events?
• 1:11:51 – Unconscioous awareness of things
• 1:13:56 – Xenoglossy
• 1:17:18 – Sensing blessed items
• 1:23:12 – Knowing about the car accident
• 1:27:55 – Speaking without mouth movements
• 1:28:57 – Copious vomiting
• 1:32:10 – Levitating
• 1:38:22 – Faith Perspective
• 1:41:01 – Possessed by human spirits?
• 1:43:20 – Demons and angels?
• 1:46:46 – Bottom Line
• 1:47:51 – Further Resources
• 1:48:33 – Mysterious Feedback from #402 Hitler’s Marriage and More Weird Questions
• 1:54:10 – Your mysterious feedback
• 1:54:48 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 1:55:31 – Next Time: Ancient Christian Ghosts
• 1:55:55 – Follow the show
• 1:56:06 – Show notes
• 1:56:13 – Become a Patron
• 1:56:21 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
• 1:56:46 – Outro

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This version of The Weekly Leo covers material released in the last week, from 27 March 2026 to 15 April 2026.

Homilies

• 11 April 2026 – Holy Rosary for Peace
• 14 April 2026 – Apostolic journey to Algeria’ Holy Mass in the Basilica of Saint Augustine (Annaba 14 April 2026)

Letters

• 12 April 2026 – Letter of the Holy Father to the Cardinals

Messages

• 27 March 2026 – Message of the Holy Father to the Pontifical Biblical Commission on the Occasion of the Plenary Session [13–17 April 2026]
• 1 April 2026 – Message of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV to Participants in the Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
• 6 April 2026 – Message of the Holy Father, signed by the Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, to the inhabitants of the village of Debel (Lebanon)

Regina Caeli

• 12 April 2026 – Regina Caeli

Speeches

• 9 April 2026 – To Athletes of the Milan–Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games
• 13 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey of the Holy Father to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea’ Greeting to Journalists during the Rome–Algiers flight (Papal Flight)
• 13 April 2026 – Apostolic journey to Algeria’ Meeting with the Algerian Community Basilica of Our Lady of Africa (Algiers 13 April 2026)
• 13 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Algeria’ Visit to the Great Mosque of Algiers
• 13 April 2026 – Apostolic journey to Algeria’ Meeting with the Authorities, Civil Society and the Diplomatic Corps Djamaa el Djazair Conference Center (Algiers)
• 13 April 2026 – Apostolic journey to Algeria’ Visit to the Maqam Echahid martyrs’ monument (Algiers)
• 14 April 2026 – Apostolic journey to Algeria’ Meeting at the ‘Ma Maison’ Care Home for the Elderly (Annaba)
• 15 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Camerun’ Visit to the Ngul Zamba Orphanage (Yaoundé)
• 15 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Cameroon’ Greeting of the Holy Father to Journalists During the Flight to Yaoundé (Papal Flight)
• 15 April 2026 – Apostolic Journey to Camerun’ Meeting with the Authorities, Civil Society and the Diplomatic Corps (Yaoundé)

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She erased the memory. The guilt came back anyway. T’Pol hunts a Vulcan fugitive on an icy moon — and relives a killing she’d had ritually purged from her mind. Dom Bettinelli and Jimmy Akin on memory, guilt, and trust.

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In 1928, an exorcism unfolded in a tiny Iowa convent. It inspired a 2016 movie. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the public account and a never-published secret manuscript of the Earling Exorcism. Part 1 of 2.

Help us continue to offer Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. Won’t you make a pledge at SQPN.com/give today?

Links for this episode:

• Begone Satan! (annotated & illustrated)
• The Social Science Study of Exorcism in Christianity
• The Penguin Book of Exorcisms
• The Exorcist Effect
• Fr. Vincent Lampert interview

• Please spread the word about the podcast. Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
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• You can also leave a voice message on the Mysterious Feedback Line at (619) 738-4515

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Photo used with permission of St. Joseph Parish, Earling, Iowa.