Theory 2 Action Podcast
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636 episodes
LM#77--The Fight for the Soul of America is HERE
Something snapped in American life and it didn’t start yesterday. We rewind to a question so many of us have asked at kitchen tables, over beers, and at our kids’ games: what happened to our country? Then we walk back through three books that, ...
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MM#486--When Is A Compromise With Power A Betrayal
A signature can look like safety, right up until the day it becomes worthless ink. We take you back to 1933 Germany to watch a deal get made with Adolf Hitler and then dismantled piece by piece, revealing why legal guarantees cannot protect any...
LM#76--Hong Kong's Thomas More - Jimmy Lai
A 78-year-old man sits in solitary confinement in Hong Kong with a 20-year sentence hanging over him. He could have left. He could have said the words that would have set him free. Jimmy Lai refused to lie, and that single act of conscience exp...
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LM#75--America 250, pt 4: the Closing Argument for America
America just hit a milestone that should make all of us pause: 250 years of self-government. We’re not doing a victory lap or a doom spiral. We’re making a case. Do the principles that built the United States still hold up, and if they do, why ...
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LM#74--America 250, pt 3 - Divine Providence
Where do your rights come from, and what happens to a country when it gets that answer wrong? We tackle the most radical political claim baked into the American founding: unalienable rights don’t come from the state, they come from God, and gov...
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LM#73--America 250, pt 2: The Blueprint Behind America’s Wealth
America starts as a broke, debt-soaked upstart with a near-worthless currency and almost no industrial muscle, then turns into a nation that produces a massive share of what the world makes. That’s not a trivia fact to us. It’s a question worth...
MM#485--The Umpire Who Joined The Game
He told America judges are umpires, not lawmakers. Two decades later, Chief Justice John Roberts is still calling balls and strikes, but sometimes it sounds like he’s redrawing the strike zone.We dig into the irony and the real-world co...
The Mojo Book Academy: Building a Flourishing Life--Let Us Begin
A name can hide your mission or it can tell the truth. We’re choosing truth, which is why Team Mojo Academy becomes the Mojo Book Academy. This is not a logo swap. It’s us saying out loud that books are not a hobby on the side, they’re the meth...
LM#72--America 250: America Stays Strong When It Fights Only When It Must
“These are the times that try men’s souls” still lands like a hammer and we use it as a mirror for the hardest civic question a free country faces: when is war truly necessary? As America nears 250 years, we go back to December 1776, when Washi...
MM#484--Trumps Second Fauci Moment?
A leader can denounce the system all day and still end up defending it with their decisions. We take a sharp look at what we call Donald Trump’s “Fauci moment” during COVID: elevating Dr. Anthony Fauci as the public face of “the science,” then ...
MM#483--Venezuela After Maduro
This is a video and audio podcast: click here for videoMaduro in a New York City jail cell makes for a clean headline, but we can’t rebuild a country with headlines. We zoom out from the d...
MM#482--China U.S. Summit---3 nuggets of wisdom from the 100 hundred year marathon
This is a video and audio podcast: video hereThe loudest take on the U.S. China summit was that it went nowhere. We see something else: a negotiation structure being built in real ti...
MM#481--Local News Saw $180K While Records Pointed To $1B
A billion dollars a year. Hundreds of shell companies. And a program designed to help people stay at home that can be exploited with little more than an NPI number and an LLC. That’s the allegation at the heart of today’s Mojo Minute, sparked b...
MM#480--What the Media Got Wrong about The First American Pope
This is a video and audio podcast. here's the video: The headline said “The First American Pope,” and within hours the storyline hardened into something neat, politi...
MM#479--When Policy Becomes A Weapon Against A Nation
this is a video and audio podcast. the video is here https://youtu.be/VWaZzR9zlJ8A mass invasion doesn’t have to look like soldiers crossing a line. Sometimes it looks like paperwork, pol...
MM#478--Trump, Reagan and Two Popes
This is a video and audio podcast. for the video click hereA President calls the Pope weak, the Pope fires back, and the internet lights up with memes, clickbait, and an AI Christ image th...
LM#71--Applying Catholic Just War Teaching To The U.S. Fight With Iran
Iran’s nuclear clock isn’t measured in election cycles or think-tank white papers. It’s measured in days. That’s the premise driving this Liberty Minute as I respond to Cardinal Robert McElroy’s homily calling U.S. action in the U.S.-Iran war “...
MM#477--I read Dan Hurleys Book After He Lost the National Title---here's what i found
Dan Hurley is famous for sideline fire, technical fouls, and an all-consuming drive to win, but *Never Stop* reveals a different story underneath the noise. We walk through the moments that make his memoir so much bigger than college basketball...
MM#466--Fulton Sheen Asks in Three Books "What Will You Do With This Christ, This Holy Week?"
A lot of us meet Fulton Sheen in fragments: a quote card, a grainy clip, a meme. But when you actually sit with his work, something steadier happens. During Holy Week, I reflect on three books that quietly re-ordered my interior life: Peace of ...
MM#465--Following A Legend: Duke Success, part 2
Replacing a legend usually breaks a program, not because the new leader is “bad,” but because the old standard was built on rare chemistry, authority, and time. That’s why John Scheyer's rise at Duke basketball feels so unusual: he’s stacking w...
MM#464--Hiring The 9 And 17 Guy Worked Out: Duke Basketball Success, part 1
A coaching legend leaves and the program is supposed to wobble. Duke doesn’t. We dig into the story behind Duke basketball’s stubborn ability to stay on top, from the risky decision that once brought Coach K to Durham to the new reality of John...
MM#463--The NCAA Upset Blueprint: the Anatomy of the Upset Updated
March Madness doesn’t just create upsets, it exposes pressure. When a Blue Blood full of NBA-bound freshmen meets an older underdog with nothing to lose, the scoreboard can lie and the clock tells the truth. I’m David Kaiser, and this Mojo Minu...
Theory 2 Action podcast: Why War? Why Now? and What's Going on with the Strait of Hormuz
A Berlin classroom TV in 1989 flickers back to life as we open with a personal “Liberty Line” on what happens when people lose their fear—and why that matters for the courage we see across Iran today. From that human spark, we move straight int...
MM#462--All the Shahs Men: Iran's 1953 Trade-Off
What if a single covert operation rewired the modern Middle East? We revisit the 1953 CIA–MI6 coup that toppled Mohammad Mossadegh and restored the Shah, then follow the consequences forward: repression, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and a forei...
LM#70--Liberty is on the March: From Abraham Accords To A Fallen Supreme Leader
A map doesn’t just change with borders; it changes when the rules do. We trace a straight line from the Abraham Accords through October 7, the region-wide June escalation, and the strike that removed Iran’s Supreme Leader to explain why the Mid...
