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    #12900 Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin

    19/09/2026
    Questions Covered:

    04:14 – Like in the movie Surrogate. Imagine you’re at home controlling a flesh and blood robot. If you were to go to confession, would it be valid or would it be like confessing over the phone to a priest and if you were to attend Mass and receive Holy communion would the grace transfer to your spirit, would this flesh and blood robot be considered an extension of your body or need baptism to make it eligible for the sacraments if it was engineered from human DNA because of Adam and Eves original sin.

    17:36 – I don’t remember if you answered this during your show, but in ep. 330 of Jimmy’s Mysterious World you went over Lyn Buchanan’s remote viewing experience for the military project Stargate. Lyn recounts that when remote viewing Jesus, He turned and looked at Lyn. My question is, what did Jesus look at? Was it Lyn’s “mind”?

    23:27 – Can I wear a cowboy hat and cowboy boots if I don’t own a horse??

    31:14 – How does time work in purgatory? Will we have to “revisit” all the moments where we’ve fallen short in order to right those wrongs? Or are we “frozen” in time until our final judgment? Or does time continue to flow linearly like it does on Earth? Or is there some other theory that I haven’t mentioned/thought of myself?

    43:32 – If a vampire is a cop and I don’t invite him or her in, would he or she be able to serve a search warrant on my home?

    51:46 – I’ve heard geologists say that all “dirt” is fossilized dinosaurs and or dinosaurs’ “matter”, meaning their waste and such. If this is true, when God made Adam, would the “dirt” have been this dino matter or was he made with pre-dino dirt?
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    #12899 Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin

    18/09/2026
    Questions Covered:

    03:38 – Did the Virgin Mary invent chili? I first heard of this on an episode of Tasting History with Max Miller. He talked about Sister Mary of Agreda who was reported to be bilocating from her convent in Spain to the Jumanos Indians in New Spain. All I’ve been able to learn about her is from Wikipedia where it says she is a venerable of the Church from the 1600s. Apparently the Jumanos Indians reached out to friars in the area that they had been visited by a “lady in blue” to seek help, and according to Max Miller the lady in blue also gave them the recipe for chili. According to Wikipedia Sister Mary also wrote books about the Virgin Mary, so I was thinking maybe the Virgin Mary gave Sister Mary the recipe for chili to give to the Indians. It makes my heart warm thinking that the Virgin Mary gave us chili.

    12:00 – Mentalese

    22:12 – What evidence do you find that UAP’s or UFO’s are not from outer space, but from earthly beings that are far advanced compared to us?

    28:50 – Do animals praise God in their own way?

    44:47 – Are sightings of cryptids, ufos, ghosts, etc all thought projections, or real?
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    #12898 Fulton Sheen on the Demonic - Tom Nash

    18/09/2026
    Questions Covered:

    03:40 – Archbishop Fulton Sheen is remembered so fondly by so many people, but what might be forgotten is that he took the demonic very seriously. What, in general, was his view of the demonic and of our struggle against demons?

    06:30 – His teaching on demons is closely connected to his teaching on the cross. What did he mean  when he described the devil’s temptations of Christ in the desert as “shortcuts from the Cross.”, and where do we see those same shortcuts being offered today?

    15:25 – Why does the modern world find belief in the devil embarrassing or primitive, and what do Catholics risk losing when they reduce evil to psychology, politics, or social conditions?

    20:58 – Sheen believed that the Mass and Eucharistic adoration are powerful weapons in spiritual warfare. What is happening spiritually at the Mass, and why does the Eucharist provoke such particular hatred from the demonic?

    24:11 – Sheen called the Cross “the greatest basis of unity in the world.” In an increasingly fractured society, how can the Cross unite people when it is also such a demanding and controversial sign?

    32:45 – Sheen warned that souls may be lost not only through deliberate evil but through simple neglect. How does spiritual complacency—neglecting confession, Mass, prayer, or the fight against sin—give the devil room to operate?

    36:20 – What is a Holy Hour?

    43:35 – How did Sheen seen the cultural crisis of the sexual revolution?

    50:12 – How did Sheen connect faith and reason?
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    #12897 The Legacy of Fulton Sheen - Monsignor Jason Gray

    17/09/2026
    Questions Covered:

    02:25 – Who was Fulton Sheen?

    04:15 – How did Sheen become a radio and tv star?

    09:30 – How did Sheen’s protestant audience view and think of him?

    13:20 – The beautification process for Sheen

    15:27 – Sheen and the Missions

    17:25 – Sheen’s view of politics

    21:50 – What would Sheen think of Catholic media today?

    24:58 – How did Sheen get into media?

    31:57 – What was Sheen’s process of creating episodes of “Life is Worth Living.”

    33:49 – How does the Pope figure out who can be beautified?

    36:50 – What is the difference between Servant of God, venerable, and Blessed

    37:50 – How decide if something is a miracle or not?

    43:40 – What was the particular miracle performed by Sheen and what is the evidence for it?

    49:50 – What does Sheen’s beautification mean to the United States and the world?

    52:25 – Where can I go to know more about Fulton Sheen?
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    #12896 What We Get Wrong About Prayer - Joe Heschmeyer

    17/09/2026
    Questions Covered:

    01:42 – What is the point of prayer if God can’t change?

    15:31 – Can I say the wrong thing to God, get prayer wrong, maybe by being angry or selfish?

    21:34 – What if I am upset with God?

    28:38 – Is there a danger of praying too much or over spiritualizing my problems?

    35:42 – What about fasting? Is it necessary?

    45:40 – What about prosperity gospel? Manifesting, putting it out into the universe, naming it and claiming it…
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