Theory 2 Action Podcast

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 scaled by governments who think in decades, not news cycles. We pick up Peter Schweizer’s The Invisibl...

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 more unreal. But the real question we wrestle with isn’t who landed the better punch. It’s what happens...

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 U.S.-Iran war “immoral” and “needless.” I take the claim seriously and do the one thing our public arguments...

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 basketball: the burned-out Seton Hall chapter where he admits how dark things got, the counseling that h...

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: Peace of Soul, The World’s First Love, and Life of Christ. They feel like three doors into one home, le...

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 stacking wins, stacking trophies, and doing it while resisting the easiest trap of all, trying to b...

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 reality of John Scheyer taking the keys and winning right away. We talk honestly about why so many college ba...

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 Mojo Minute breaks down the anatomy of the NCAA Tournament upset so you can see Cinderella coming befor...

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 straight into the hard edges of policy: why the United States chose to act, why the timeline narrowed, and...

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, and a foreign policy defined by proxies and confrontation. Drawing on Stephen Kinzer’s research, we explo...

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 why the Middle East just entered a new era. The thread is simple but profound: normalization unsettled th...

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 like one country. We talk about the power of unscripted drama, why visible excellence cuts across lines,...

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, art, science, and a shared way of life. We dig into that message, the reaction it sparked, and the pract...

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 Up Your Heart to walk into repentance with trust, and Thomas à Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ to pract...

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 into a living defense of liberty. We trace Adams from child witness to revolution and master diplomat t...

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 all other goods—and show how that lens reshaped parenting, schooling, and university culture. When we t...

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 steeped in Buckeye lore can shape a dream, test an identity, and ultimately reveal a role you never knew...

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 move is restraint. Let a running economy keep its stride by preserving the incentives that sparked it—...

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 Keller and Jay Papasan’s focusing question—What’s the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything e...

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 years, a locker room that believed, and a city that saw its own identity reflected in the man on the sid...

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 his most lasting gift may be a set of practical tools for everyday progress. We share how systems beat go...

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 approach blends moral clarity with practical steps: empower a transitional council, reform and retrain...

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 Nicolás Maduro without a single U.S. casualty or aircraft loss. We open with first principles from Liberty...

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, economic systems, political ideology, and Christian public life. Along the way, David shares a practic...

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 by New Year’s. What followed wasn’t a miracle of myth so much as a masterpiece of grit: a night crossi...