Theory 2 Action Podcast
We examine and explore the great books, to extract their nuggets of wisdom helping to save you time, and ultimately to take action to FLOURISH in life. Powered by The MOJO Academy.
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594 episodes
MM#449--Tie The Knot Of Memory: Make it a Rosary of Retrieval
Your brain doesn’t need more highlighter ink; it needs a knot that keeps memories from slipping. We unpack the testing effect—why retrieval practice beats rereading—and show how spacing transforms effortful recall into durable knowledge you can...
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MM#448--Learning That Sticks
If studying feels smooth, you might be doing it wrong. We dig into the science behind durable learning and show why the methods that feel effortful—retrieval, spacing, and interleaving—produce knowledge that holds up under pressure. Drawing on ...
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CC#44--How Close We Came To Nuclear War
What if the closest brush with nuclear war didn’t happen in 1962, but in the 1980s—and what if a prayerful act in Rome influenced events that rewired the calculus of the Cold War? We follow that thread from a field in Portugal to a tense global...
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America's Story -- Longstreet Reconsidered
A funeral that halted a Southern town sets the stage for one of the most misunderstood lives in American history. We follow James Longstreet from West Point camaraderie with Ulysses S. Grant to the smoke-choked battlefield of Gettysburg, ...
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MM#447--Grant Versus The Klan: America's First Domestic War on Terror
A ballot can be as fragile as a night’s sleep when terror rules the streets. We dig into the hard edge of Reconstruction and follow Ulysses S. Grant as he turns constitutional promises into enforceable rights, taking on the Ku Klux Klan with la...
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LM#68--When Losers Win The Textbook: Memory, Power, And Truth
A battlefield victory does not guarantee control of the story. We trace how the Confederacy lost the war but captured American memory through textbooks, monuments, and movies, turning slavery into “states’ rights,” treason into tragic romance, ...
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MM#446--From Harlem To Hoover: Thomas Sowell’s Ideas That Cut Through Noise
Headlines can heat the blood; evidence steadies the mind. We step back from election drama to explore Thomas Sowell’s lifetime of clear thinking on prices, incentives, culture, and the hard truth that there are no solutions—only trade-offs. Fro...
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MM#445--A Socialist Mayor, A Capitalist City: New York’s Stress Test
New York just elected a 34-year-old democratic socialist as mayor, and the city’s political ground shifted underfoot. We unpack the upset—how small donors, social media savvy, and an affordability-first platform overcame long odds—and then stre...
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MM#444--From Tammany Hall To Today: The Long Shadow Over New York’s Mayor’s Race
New York stands at a crossroads where history hums beneath every headline. We open the archive on the city’s most contentious mayors—Boss Tweed’s machine, Fernando Wood’s secession gambit, Oakey Hall’s complicity, and Jimmy Walker’s glamour-soa...
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MM#443--Christian Nationalism? No, Christian Patriotism!
Debates over “Christian nationalism” are loud, confusing, and often heated. We cut through the noise by defining the term, tracing its historical footprints, and then asking a better question: what kind of political love do Christians owe their...
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America's Story- The Rise and Fall of the Fire-eaters
Gaslight flickers over polished wood, a packed hall hums with dread and ambition, and a single voice promises safety through rupture. We take you inside Charleston’s Hibernian Hall in 1859, where Robert Barnwell Rhett—“the father of secession”—...
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MM#442--The House Dividing, pt 3--The Debate
The temperature of American politics keeps rising, and the comparisons to the 1850s are getting louder. We step into the heat with a focused debate: do today’s progressive radicals echo the antebellum fire eaters in their tactics, or is that a ...
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MM#442--pt 3, The preamble to our debate in the House Dividing Series
Politics feels hotter than ever, but the real danger is how quickly heated words become guiding rules. We unpack what a “cold civil war” looks like, why it resonates right now, and how the United States has navigated similar standoffs before. F...
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MM#441--A House Dividing Again, pt 2---The Road to Disunion of 1860: The Fire Eaters and The Rhetoric of Ruin
Words can move nations—and sometimes they move them off a cliff. We dive into the antebellum South to examine the Fire Eaters, the radical pro‑slavery leaders whose speeches, platforms, and media campaigns turned sectional tension into a secess...
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MM#440--A House Dividing, Again, part 1: A Cold Civil War
A nation does not tumble into crisis overnight; it drifts, argues, hardens—and then stumbles. We open the pages of David Potter’s A House Dividing to read the 1850s not as distant history but as a mirror for today’s tensions. Fr...
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MM#439--Watergate & Woodward Rewritten
The Watergate story most of us learned feels cinematic: fearless reporters, shadowy parking garages, and a presidency brought to heel by truth-tellers. We take a different path—back through court records, publishing timelines, and the motives o...
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MM#438--Fifty Years After Watergate: Crime, Lawfare, and the Battle for Due Process
Forget the tidy Watergate script. We dive into a sharp, good‑faith debate that tests whether Nixon’s fall was inevitable because of crimes and a collapsing cover‑up—or whether a biased legal apparatus and quiet coordination with the bench turne...
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MM#437--Inside the Crumbling January 6 Narrative & The Comey Indictment
The story we were handed about January 6 sounded complete—until the paperwork started talking. We unpack a newly surfaced FBI after-action report, why it arrived on Capitol Hill years late, and what rank-and-file agents say about a lopsided res...
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MM#436--Reason and Revelation = Become a life long learner
What does it take to create a truly flourishing life in today's distraction-filled world? Charlie Kirk's powerful challenge to read 50 books yearly and eliminate "soul-depraving" content offers a compelling answer that few of us want to hear bu...
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MM#435--Erika Kirk's Divine Act of Grace: Forgiving the Unforgivable
The stunning power of forgiveness takes center stage as we explore three extraordinary stories that changed the course of history. Through vivid storytelling, we journey back to other pivotal moments of forgiveness that transformed...
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MM#434--The Radical Threat: How Antifa's Violence Undermines American Democracy
Former President Donald Trump's recent designation of Antifa as a "major terrorist organization" has sent shockwaves through political circles. Speaking from Truth Social during his UK visit, Trump announced plans to investigate Antifa's fundin...
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LM#67--The Battle Cry of a Widow Echoes Across a Nation in Crisis
Three devastating weeks of violence have left America reeling. From the senseless murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte train to the horrific mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis to the shocking assas...
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MM#433--The Forgotten Toll: Civilian Deaths in WWII
The staggering scale of World War II's devastation remains difficult to comprehend even decades later. In just six years and one day, humanity's deadliest conflict claimed between 60-65 million lives—roughly 3% of the world's 1939 population an...
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MM#432--From Blitzkrieg to Defeat: How Nazi Germany Lost World War II
Germany's defeat in World War II wasn't merely a matter of battlefield losses but rather a predictable outcome rooted in fundamental strategic, economic, and leadership failures. Drawing from Victor Davis Hanson's masterful analysis in "...
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CC#43--What Tertullian Knew: Modern Martyrdom in Minneapolis
The wisdom of Tertullian echoes through centuries: "The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church." These words, penned around 200 AD, have found tragic relevance in our modern world where Christian persecution continues unabated.Start...
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