StarQuest Media https://sqpn.com/ Leading the Way Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:17:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 SQPN, Inc. false episodic SQPN, Inc. info@sqpn.com SQPN Inc. - All Rights Reserved SQPN Inc. - All Rights Reserved podcast StarQuest Media https://sqpn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/sqpn_logo_600x600.png https://sqpn.com/episode-archive/ TV-G The Practical Joker (TAS) https://sqpn.com/2026/10/the-practical-joker-tas/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=163817 A charged particle cloud infects the Enterprise computer and it starts pranking the crew. In TAS S2E3, Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler weigh forced 1970s gags against Star Trek's very first holodeck.

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]]> full 34:53 Without Sacrifice, There Is No Love https://sqpn.com/2026/10/without-sacrifice-there-is-no-love/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=162961 Without sacrifice, there is no love. Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight and Lino Saubolle read the Australian bishops' call to heal social division through encounter, then meet the Tilcayo tiger cat, a new species from Bolivia.

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]]> full 1:33:01 The Kindred, Parts 1 & 2 (SGA) https://sqpn.com/2026/10/the-kindred-parts-1-2-sga/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=163691 A cloned Carson Beckett, a pregnant Teyla strapped down in Michael's lab, and a plague built from an old anti-Wraith drug. Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones and Victor Lams take on Stargate Atlantis S4E18 and E19, "The Kindred."

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]]> full 53:40 Time-Travel Mass Before Jesus? Jesus’s DNA, Psychic Conversion & More Weird Questions https://sqpn.com/2026/10/time-travel-mass-before-jesus-jesuss-dna-psychic-conversion-more-weird-questions/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=162785 Could a priest who traveled back in time say Mass before the Last Supper? Jimmy Akin takes listener questions on Catholic Answers Live with Cy Kellett, from Mary's DNA to Malachi Martin and the Michigan Melon Heads.

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]]> full 1:56:24 Local-First: Keep Working When the Cloud Doesn’t https://sqpn.com/2026/10/local-first-keep-working-when-the-cloud-doesnt/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=164742 When the cloud goes down, does your stuff still work? Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Sanjurjo, and Leo Devick put notes apps, ebooks, photos, smart homes, and password managers through the outage test and the shutdown test.

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]]> full 1:10:24 The Secrets of Masters of the Universe https://sqpn.com/2026/10/the-secrets-of-masters-of-the-universe/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=162872 It's a toy commercial pretending to be a movie — and somehow it works. Patrick Mason, Jeff Haecker, and Rob Story break down why Amazon's Masters of the Universe reboot earns its emotional beats, and why Idris Elba steals the whole film.

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]]> full 1:04:25 Silo, S3: Farewell https://sqpn.com/2026/10/silo-s3-farewell/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=161895 Who gave them the right to choose who lives? In Silo S3E9, "Farewell," Bernard trades his life for his friends and a nuclear blast seals the silos. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray on redemption and playing God.

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]]> full 50:42 St. Elizabeth Ann Seton https://sqpn.com/2026/10/st-elizabeth-ann-seton-2/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=159058 Locked in a freezing Italian quarantine house with a dying husband, a young widow named Elizabeth started asking questions about the Eucharist. Dom Bettinelli traces her path from teenage despair to America's first native-born saint.

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]]> full 23:19 Concerning Hobbits, Part 2 https://sqpn.com/2026/10/concerning-hobbits-part-2/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=161850 Why would Tolkien trust the fate of Middle-earth to people who mostly want second breakfast? Jeff Haecker, Rob Story, Patrick Mason, Fr. Bryan Shackett and Rob Leonardi on unlikely heroes, courage, and the Ring.

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]]> full 1:11:12 Amok Time (TOS) https://sqpn.com/2026/10/amok-time-tos/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=158010 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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]]> full 54:33 Nine Hundred Years in an Empty Field https://sqpn.com/2026/10/nine-hundred-years-in-an-empty-field/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:00:41 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=157922 The key to a twelfth-century chapel hangs on a signpost in an empty Shropshire field. Alix Murray walks Kathryn Laffrey through Heath Chapel's carved Norman arch, its Reformation-scarred wall paintings, and a saint named before reading a word.

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]]> full 17:46 Can Science Show the Soul Survives Death? Join My New Courses https://sqpn.com/2026/10/can-science-show-the-soul-survives-death-join-my-new-courses/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=160919 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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]]> full 4:44 Not All Roads Lead to Rome https://sqpn.com/2026/10/not-all-roads-lead-to-rome/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=150383 Not all roads led to Rome. Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle look at new research built on Itiner-e, the biggest map of Roman roads ever made, and the three myths it busts. Plus listeners share their citizen-science stories.

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]]> full 16:49 Midway (SGA) https://sqpn.com/2026/10/midway-sga/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=157070 Two warriors who can't stand each other, a station billed as unhackable, and the day the Wraith almost walked onto Earth. Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker and Lisa Jones take on Stargate Atlantis S4E17, "Midway."

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]]> full 34:16 When Does Holy Water Stop Being Holy? (& More Weird Questions) https://sqpn.com/2026/10/when-does-holy-water-stop-being-holy-more-weird-questions/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=157022 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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]]> full 1:54:16 Not Amused: Meta Wants Muse on Your Face https://sqpn.com/2026/10/not-amused-meta-wants-muse-on-your-face/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=156932 Would you let an AI agent buy a jacket just because you looked at it? Meta's Muse wants to. Dom Bettinelli, Pat Scott, and Fr. Andrew Kinstetter size up Meta's new VR and AI glasses and ask whether Meta deserves that trust.

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]]> full 1:05:24 Silo, S3: Gray Goo https://sqpn.com/2026/09/silo-s3-gray-goo/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=155997 The silos weren't built after the world ended — they were built by a trillionaire who decided it would. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray unpack Silo S3E8's gray goo reveal and the one thing its founders refused to save.

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]]> full 54:16 St. Ignatius of Loyola: The Cannonball Saint https://sqpn.com/2026/09/st-ignatius-of-loyola-the-cannonball-saint/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=151279 A cannonball ended his career at 30. Stuck in bed with a ruined leg, Iñigo López de Loyola noticed which daydreams left him empty and which left him happy. Dom Bettinelli traces how that one habit of attention built the Jesuits.

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]]> full 21:42 The Ninth Jedi, Episode 4: Nawaam Attacks https://sqpn.com/2026/09/the-ninth-jedi-episode-4-nawaam-attacks/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=155108 Juro is gone and Nawaam is unmasked. In Season 1, Episode 4 of The Ninth Jedi, Thomas Salerno, Jeff Haecker, and Kathryn Laffrey ask whether a man who uses the dark side for others can still be called a Jedi.

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]]> full 46:06 Tomorrow’s Enterprise (SNW) https://sqpn.com/2026/09/tomorrows-enterprise-snw/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://sqpn.com/?p=155022 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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