#12309 Could a Marriage Involving Conjoined Twins Be Valid and More - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Could a marriage involving conjoined twins be valid in the Church?” This intriguing question opens a discussion that also explores the origins of rock and roll, the phrases “up north” and “down south,” and the nature of baptismal water in relation to transubstantiation.

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Questions Covered:

00:50 – What are the origins of rock and roll?
03:53 – Could a marriage involving conjoined twins be valid in the Church?
16:37 – Where did the phrases “up north” and “down south” originate?
30:34 – If we believe in transubstantiation, why don’t we believe baptismal water becomes the Holy Spirit?
34:06 – Could God create a duplicate soul in Heaven for companionship?
46:04 – Why would God create earthquakes if they cause destruction?
52:35 – What would have happened to the papacy if the pope never returned from Avignon?

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0:32.5	That's not the usual music. No, that is our weird questions music. Two hours of weird questions with Jimmy
0:38.4	Aiken today. One of the most popular things on earth. I have no science behind that, but I'm
0:43.9	going by my feelings. One of the most popular things on earth, weird questions with Jimmy Aiken.
0:49.0	We've got all the questions in, and I can attest that as we go along, some of them are quite weird.
0:56.0	Jimmy Aiken, of course, the producer, what should I say, the maker of Jimmy Aiken's
1:01.6	mysterious world and the Jimmy Aiken podcast and senior apologist here at Catholic Answers.
1:08.9	Hello, Jimmy Aiken.
1:10.8	Hello, Cy Callet. How you doing? I'm good. I'm ready for
1:13.4	some weirdness. Do you feel ready for some weirdness? Oh, I'm always ready for weirdness.
1:17.7	All right. I did come up with an idea for Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world. It's not appropriate for the
1:23.6	show today, but have you ever thought of doing a show on who invented rock and roll?
1:30.1	I think Hank Williams did.
1:32.5	Hank Williams, Sr.
1:33.7	We settled that.
1:34.8	Okay.
1:35.2	Moving along.
1:35.7	Yeah, we were talking about that the other day because I had had one of my devices was
1:42.0	playing some music for me, and it happened to play Hank Williams seniors moving on over.
1:49.7	And I was struck by, wow, that's like the same melody line that Bill Haley and the Comets use in Rock Around the Clock, which is often considered the first
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