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Theory 2 Action Podcast
by David Kaiser
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.
Episodes
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LM#84--The Cost Of Sitting Out
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message You can feel justified skipping an election. You can tell yourself it is a protest, a message, a lesson. We challenge that story by walking through a stark thought experiment set in 2031: what happens when frustrated conservatives sit...
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LM#83--How Democracies Confront A Death Cult
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A young man murders a woman, takes her phone, and calls his parents to brag about how many Jews he killed. That single, sickening detail forces a question most people try to dodge: what do you call an ideology that doesn’t just commit...
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LM#82--The RAF Fairford Scare And What It Means For US Security
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Three vans. Five men. Two in the morning. And a road that points toward RAF Fairford, one of the most important bomber operating locations tied to US power projection in Europe. When British counterterrorism police make arrests that...
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MM#489--A History Comparison: Two Mornings That Changed America
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A normal morning can be the most dangerous setup in history. We look back at two dates that still define American memory December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001 and ask why they feel so similar at first, yet lead to very different…
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LM#81--Sept 11th--25 years later: A Western Civilization Defense
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A Harvard professor made a prediction in the 1990s that sounded almost rude at the time: the Cold War didn’t end history, it just cleared the stage. Twenty five years after 9/11, we take that prediction seriously and ask what Samuel P....
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LM#80--Youtube Channel Banned
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Somebody flipped a switch and more than a hundred hours of work disappeared. That’s not a metaphor. Our Mojo Academy YouTube channel gets terminated with a single email citing “impersonation,” no warning, no specific video, and no…
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MM#488--The Five Year Anniversary of Abbey Gate And The Cost Of Hesitation
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A single moment at Abbey Gate still captures a whole era of American foreign policy: a Marine identifies a threat, asks for permission to act, and is told no until the danger disappears into the crowd. Hours later, the Kabul evacuation...
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CC#47--When The Shepherd Stays Silent
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A 94-year-old cardinal walking into a Hong Kong courtroom might be the clearest sermon you’ll hear all week. Cardinal Joseph Zen sits beside Jimmy Lai’s wife as Lai, a 78-year-old Catholic and pro-democracy publisher, is sentenced to…
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LM#79--What If Liberation Was Never Inevitable
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Ninety hours of World War II history sounds like a stunt until you realize what it does to your perspective. I just finished Rick Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy on Audible, spread across six years, and I can’t stop thinking about what…
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LM#78--Crazy vs Common Sense
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Seventy percent is not a fringe. If you have ever swallowed your words while someone called basic common sense “radical,” this Liberty Minute is for you. We start with a blunt claim: you are being sold a fake 50-50 story, and it is...
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MM#487--Voters Decide Who Gets Counted Out
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message They told Richard Nixon his career was over. Then they told him again. He proved them wrong twice and, for a moment, he looked unstoppable. I walk through Nixon’s political exile after 1960 and 1962, then his return to win the…
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LM#77--The Fight for the Soul of America is HERE
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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…
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MM#486--When Is A Compromise With Power A Betrayal
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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LM#76--Hong Kong's Thomas More - Jimmy Lai
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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LM#75--America 250, pt 4: the Closing Argument for America
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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LM#74--America 250, pt 3 - Divine Providence
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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…
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LM#73--America 250, pt 2: The Blueprint Behind America’s Wealth
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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MM#485--The Umpire Who Joined The Game
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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The Mojo Book Academy: Building a Flourishing Life--Let Us Begin
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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LM#72--America 250: America Stays Strong When It Fights Only When It Must
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message “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,...
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MM#484--Trumps Second Fauci Moment?
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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MM#483--Venezuela After Maduro
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This is a video and audio podcast: click here for video Maduro 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 drama and ask the harder question: what comes...
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MM#482--China U.S. Summit---3 nuggets of wisdom from the 100 hundred year marathon
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This is a video and audio podcast: video here The loudest take on the U.S. China summit was that it went nowhere. We see something else: a negotiation structure being built in real time, with the next high-stakes round already…
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MM#481--Local News Saw $180K While Records Pointed To $1B
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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,...
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MM#480--What the Media Got Wrong about The First American Pope
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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, political, and overly confident. I didn’t buy it, so I went to the source…
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MM#479--When Policy Becomes A Weapon Against A Nation
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message this is a video and audio podcast. the video is here https://youtu.be/VWaZzR9zlJ8 A mass invasion doesn’t have to look like soldiers crossing a line. Sometimes it looks like paperwork, policy, and perfectly legal pathways that can be...
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MM#478--Trump, Reagan and Two Popes
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This is a video and audio podcast. for the video click here A President calls the Pope weak, the Pope fires back, and the internet lights up with memes, clickbait, and an AI Christ image that somehow makes the whole moment feel even…
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LM#71--Applying Catholic Just War Teaching To The U.S. Fight With Iran
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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MM#477--I read Dan Hurleys Book After He Lost the National Title---here's what i found
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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MM#466--Fulton Sheen Asks in Three Books "What Will You Do With This Christ, This Holy Week?"
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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:...
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MM#465--Following A Legend: Duke Success, part 2
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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MM#464--Hiring The 9 And 17 Guy Worked Out: Duke Basketball Success, part 1
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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…
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MM#463--The NCAA Upset Blueprint: the Anatomy of the Upset Updated
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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Theory 2 Action podcast: Why War? Why Now? and What's Going on with the Strait of Hormuz
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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...
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MM#462--All the Shahs Men: Iran's 1953 Trade-Off
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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…
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LM#70--Liberty is on the March: From Abraham Accords To A Fallen Supreme Leader
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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…
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MM#461--the Power of Sport
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A single game can change the national mood. From the Miracle on Ice to overtime golds and record-shattering routines, we unpack how sports moments break through cynicism, quiet the noise, and remind us we’re still capable of feeling…
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LM#69--Why Defending Western Civilization Still Matters Today
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A speech in Munich rattled the furniture of polite consensus, and we had to unpack it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t just talk policy; he drew a bright line around what the West is and why it’s worth defending—faith, history,...
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CC#46--A Lenten Roadmap: Dante, De Sales, And a Kempis
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Lent doesn’t open with a pep talk; it starts with ashes and the hard grace of honesty. We map a clear, three-step journey that trades vague resolutions for substance: Dante’s Inferno to see sin in sharp relief, Father John Burns’ Lift…
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America's Story: John Quincy Adams And The Fight For The American Soul
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A frail voice shouts “Nay,” an old man falls, and the House of Representatives freezes. That image of John Quincy Adams collapsing at his desk in 1848 isn’t just a dramatic opening—it’s a window into a life spent turning dry procedure...
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MM#460--Rebuild Resilience: Free Speech, Real Play, And The End Of Emotional Vetoes
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Feeling overwhelmed isn’t a personal flaw; it’s often the predictable outcome of how we’ve redesigned childhood and campus life. We trace the surge in teen anxiety and sadness to safetyism—the belief that emotional safety should trump...
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MM#459--Finding Your Role When The Dream Changes: From a Buckeye Legacy to the Voice of College Football
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A secret code to the Hall of Justice, only the hall is the Ohio State facility and the heroes wear scarlet and gray—that’s the childhood doorway that sets this story in motion. We unpack Kirk Herbstreit’s memoir to explore how a life...
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MM#458--Let ER ROAR, Mr President!
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message When the numbers are this strong—near four percent growth across three straight quarters, inflation easing, wages outpacing prices—it’s tempting for Washington to claim credit and start tinkering. We make a different case: the smartest...
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MM#457--What's your One Thing?
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Your reading list shouldn’t be a source of guilt. It should be a lever for real change. We explore how to stop juggling half‑finished titles and start using one book to solve concrete problems in your work and life. Guided by Gary…
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MM#456--Steelers Stability, Tomlin’s Legacy
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A coach you could count on. That’s the rarest currency in a league built on chaos, and it’s exactly what Mike Tomlin delivered for nineteen seasons in Pittsburgh. We break down how standards, not slogans, powered a run with no losing...
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MM#455--R.I.P. Scott Adams
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The cubicle jokes were the hook, but the accuracy was the engine. We look at Scott Adams’ life and ideas with fresh eyes—how Dilbert named the dysfunction so many of us felt, how The Dilbert Principle exposed bad incentives, and why…
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MM#454--Peace Through Strength in Venezuela, Part 2
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Tyranny spreads by force, and so must the resolve to stop it. We take a clear-eyed look at what comes after a dictator falls in Caracas and argue for a blueprint that restores Venezuelan sovereignty without sliding into a quagmire. Our...
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MM#453--Peace Through Strength In Venezuela-- Part 1
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A nighttime city goes dark, rotors whisper over rooftops, and a regime built on crime loses its center of gravity. That image anchors a frank, fast-moving breakdown of Operation Absolute Resolve—the surgical extraction that removed...
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MM#451--Reading Goals, Real Growth
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Ready to swap doomscrolling for thinking that actually changes your mind? David closes out the year with a 34-book reading journey and the five standout titles that forged a stronger, more coherent worldview—spanning Civil War history,...
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America's story--Washington's Christmas Miracle of 1776
FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message A nation doesn’t survive on slogans; it survives on choices made when every option looks bad. We step into December 1776, when Washington’s army bled across New Jersey, Congress fled, and the British believed the rebellion would expire...
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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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