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Claymore: Become Who You Are
What’s the meaning and purpose of my life? What is my true identity? Why were we created male and female? How do I find happiness, joy and peace? How do I find love that lasts, forever? These are the timeless questions of the human heart. Join Jack Rigert and his guests for lively insights, reading the signs of our times through the lens of Catholic Teaching and the insights of Saint John Paul ll to guide us.
Saint Catherine of Siena said "Become who you are and you would set the world on fire".
Episodes
- Claymore: Become Who You Are
#708 A Zombie Is a Wounded and Lost Brother or Sister: Be Willing to Proclaim the Gospel to Them
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the “Zombies” you pass on the sidewalk aren’t monsters, but wounded brothers and sisters starved for…
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#707 Infertile But Fruitful: Finding Fulfillment When You Can’t Conceive
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The dream was simple: marry young, welcome children, and let love grow. Then biology didn’t cooperate. Author…
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#706 Why I Pray; My Journey Into the Power and Purpose of Prayer
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the first ten minutes of your day decided the shape of your soul? We open with a simple practice—knees…
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#705 I Wonder What Sort of Tale We've Fallen Into?
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Feeling whiplash from a culture that calls chaos freedom and opinion truth? We step back and ask the question…
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# 704 Scholar Daniel Gallagher: "A Coherent Response to Gender Ideology"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Start with this unsettling claim: You weren’t born in the wrong body—you were born in the wrong culture. From…
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#703 Inside Claymore: A Quiet Awakening of Young Men Seeking Faith, Purpose and Brotherhood
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A quiet awakening is spreading among young men who were raised on screens, shaped by porn, and numbed by AI…
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#702 Claymore And The Call To Truth: Gen Z, Faith, Nation, And Fighting A Culture Of Lies
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A new name, a sharper mission, and a bold claim: the path back to national sanity runs through a return to…
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#701 Understanding the Lord’s Ways: Saint Francis de Sales and Mental Prayer
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The noise is relentless, the ground feels unstable, and desire gets treated like a problem to be numbed. We…
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#700 Made Good! Overcoming the Lies that Keep Women at War with Their Bodies
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jack and Florencia Moynihan—Catholic nutritionist, FEMM instructor, and author of Made Good—discuss the…
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#699 America is Under Attack--World War Three: "A War By Other Means"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The episode opens on the 50-yard line and quickly shifts to a harder field: a claim that America is weathering…
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#698 Feminism and Christianity: Autonomy, Power, and War on Marriage and the Family
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Culture keeps telling women to chase autonomy and call it freedom, but the bill always arrives: isolation…
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#697 Charity Without Illusion: Immigration, Prudence, and the Christian Memory
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Headlines shout about border crises while our feeds trade compassion for outrage, but the deeper question…
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#696 The Multi-Headed Hydra: It's Faith or Chaos "I Have Overcome the Evil One"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The year feels heavy, and not just because the headlines won’t let up. We name what so many feel but can’t…
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#695 Minnesota’s Welfare Fraud is a Sign of the States Darker and Deeper Moral Decay
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the biggest leak in our public safety net isn’t a lack of funding, but a lack of scrutiny? We sit down…
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#694 2026: The Year of the Great Harvest
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The air feels heavier this year, like we’ve reached a hinge in history. We name that tension and call it what…
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#693 Faith, Borders, and Reality: Addressing Immigration with your Liberal Neighbors and Pastor
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” This conversation delves into the complex issues surrounding immigration, particularly through the lens of…
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#692 Inside The Hunger Industrial Complex: How America Manufactured a Food Insecurity Crisis
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” In this conversation, Jack and Tom Hampson discuss the paradox of food insecurity in America, despite its…
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#691 A Simple Nativity Scene and the War for the Family
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Recently, while walking through my neighborhood and looking at Christmas decorations, I came upon a simple…
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#690 Blessed Is The Day We "Got It Wrong": Marriage and Love With Costanza Miriano
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Love isn’t a mood that lasts forever; it’s a mission that matures. We trace the arc from infatuation to mature…
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#689 The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Finding Hope and Light In An Unhinged World
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A late recording on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe turns into a fierce meditation on a world that feels…
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#688 Merry Christmas is Back! Thank You President Trump
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Advent sharpens our memory and our courage, and that’s where we start: gratitude for the return of public faith…
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#687 The Decline of Western Civilization: Young Men Take Heart, You Were Born For This Battle!!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jack discusses the decline of Western civilization, emphasizing the importance of faith, family, and cultural…
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#686 The Myth of “Gender-Affirming Care”: The HHS Just Exposed the Medical Scandal Against Our Children
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Tom Hampson is with Jack to dig into the newly released HHS review of youth gender medicine and what it asserts…
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#685 Electing Socialist Majors Across America Will Not Solve the Abuses of Unconstrained Capitalism: "The Third Way"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Feeling pressured to pick between Socialism and Capitalism? We challenge that trap and make a case for a third…
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#684 God Doesn't Hate Me After All; with Greg Willits
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the love you’ve been searching for has been quietly pursuing you all along? That’s the heartbeat of…
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#683 Are You An Accident of History? Does Life Have Meaning and Purpose? What is the Truth of Things?
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The root of the cultural chaos we are experiencing is a surrender of the Truth of things! Today Jack takes you…
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#682 Beauty Will Save the World! With Rocky Mountain Artist-Photographer and Author Erik Stensland
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Beauty isn’t a filter on life; it’s a way to understand it, and ourselves. Jack sits down with…
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(CM #9) The Battlefield of the Heart! Directing Passions and Desires to a Love that is Beautiful!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the ache you feel isn’t a flaw to fix but a fire to aim? We open with the shocking power of eros—the…
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#680 Break Free From Problematic Sexual Behavior For Good, with Steve O'Connor
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A hidden magazine in fifth grade. A dopamine hit. A secret that follows a boy into high school, dating, and…
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#679 Gen Z and the Latin Mass: Growing Numbers of Young Catholics Seeking Beauty, Silence, and Order
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A generation raised on endless noise is choosing silence, beauty, and order. We sit down with Catholic writer…
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#678 "What I Hope My Sons Will Learn From the Life of Charlie Kirk": with Carolyn McKinney
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Start with the unpopular truth: the surest privilege isn’t race, money or status, it’s growing up with a…
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#677 It Starts With Your Heart--And An Encounter With the Living God! Jack Speaks to Young People
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” If your heart feels restless and the world feels loud, you’re not broken—you’re being called. We dive into the…
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#676 Climate Summits, Immigration debates, and Confusion over Life: A Papal Headache w Phil Lawler
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Headlines say one thing, moral logic says another. We sat down with Phil Lawler to unpack the storm around a…
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#675 Triple Play Day: The Eucharist, Fatima, And Saint John Paul II: With John Preiss, director of the Fatima Family Apostolate
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A feast day, a friend, and a fight worth entering. We set the stage with Saint John Paul II, the Eucharist, and…
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#674 The Plan Of Life; To Love as God Loves...Plus Sergeant Columban Meets Padre Pio
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the question “What do I still lack?” is the doorway to your real vocation? We follow that question from…
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#673 From Hot Takes To Holy Habits: Why Formation And Prayer Must Shape Digital Evangelists with Podcast Host Bobby Fredericksen
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Let’s be honest: the internet rewards outrage, not holiness. We wanted to cut through the noise and ask a…
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#672 Act VI "Christ Appeals to the Resurrection": Christ, Marriage, And Our Final Destiny!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What if the ache you feel isn’t your enemy but a compass that points you to true north? We take a clear-eyed…
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#671 Spiritual Warfare: The Most Powerful Saints In Exorcisms--With Expert and Author Charles Fraune
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Charles Fraune—author, teacher, and founder of Slaying Dragons Press—joins us to unpack what exorcists and…
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#670 Claymore: Act V-- "Stepping Up to True Love": Fight for Marriage, Family, and the Human Heart
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A sword only matters if someone is willing to lift it. We gathered to name the real war for the modern male…
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#669 The Practical Side of Ignoring God: ICE as "Gestapo" and School Union Honors Violent Radicals
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Start with an unsettling premise: if law becomes optional and truth becomes personal, justice becomes…
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#668 From Goblins to Grace: Anthony DeStefano on "All Hallows Eve", Purgatory, and the Power of Story
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Candy might fuel the night, but what if Halloween could fuel a child’s hope? We sat down with bestselling…
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#667 Claymore Act Four: "Awe, Wonder, and the Battle for the Human Heart...and Body!"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The ground is shifting—and not just in the news cycle. We’re watching weak foundations give way in the Church…
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#665 Cooperating with Satan to Build his “Anti-Creation”: Cardinal Blase Cupich Honors Sen. Dick Durbin
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A Claymore Sword on the wall, sweat from a hard ride, and a straight look at the battlefield we all feel but…
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#664 Commissioned for Battle-The Importance of Spiritual Formation: Review the Claymore Battle Plan
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Ready for a battle plan to navigate today's spiritual warfare? This episode unveils Claymore, a discipleship…
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#663 Stolen Innocence is the Devil's Playground: When a Culture Normalizes the Exploitation of the Innocent
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The innocence of our children is under systematic attack. This eye-opening conversation exposes how predators…
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#662 Charlie Kirk and his Battle To Bring Love, Truth and Salvation to Young People: The Courage to Stand For Life in a Culture of Death
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The paradox is striking—in our modern culture, authentic love has become the greatest sin. When Charlie Kirk…
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#661 The Zombie Apocalypse: Are You Living or Just Breathing? Escaping Our Self-Made Prisons
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Have you ever observed people walking down a street completely absorbed in their phones, disconnected from one…
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#660 Catholic Faith Unbroken, The Importance of the Early Church Fathers: With Bishop Athanasius Schneider
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Bishop Athanasius Schneider delivers a powerful message of hope and clarity for Catholics navigating the…
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#659 Finding Truth in a World of Lies: Charlie Kirk's Legacy and the Path Forward
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The murder of Charlie Kirk and Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska reveals the fierce spiritual battle raging…
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#658 Pope Leo XIII's "Rerum Novarum": The Three Necessary Societies for Human Flourishing, With Veronica Burchard
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What happens when the three necessary societies, the foundational pillars for human flourishing, crumble…
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#657 Beyond Feelings: The Transformative Power of Reverence in an Age of Degradation
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Reverence feels like a relic from another time, yet its absence leaves us spiritually and relationally…
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#656 (CM 8) The Transhumanist Temptation: Can You Be Recreated? How Technology and Ideology Are Reshaping Humanity
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Grayson Quay is with Jack to discuss the implications of transhumanism and AI on modern manhood, freedom, and…
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#655 Porn in the Library, Marxism in the Classroom... Why Trump Matters For Families and The Nation
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Shocking parallels between today's educational landscape and the "45 Goals of Communism" entered into…
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#654 (Claymore 7) "Achieving Chastity in a Pornographic World" With Father T. G. Morrow
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What happens when our deepest desires for connection and love become twisted by a pornographic culture? Father…
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#653 The Epstein Files (3) With Investigator Tom Hampson: Dark Money, Deep Secrets, and A Two-Tiered Justice System
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” What happens when money and power collide with justice? Crime investigator Thomas Hampson takes us deep into…
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#652 (CM 6) How Our Government and NGOs Facilitated the Largest Child Sex Trafficking Operation In History.
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Former Border Patrol Deputy Agent JJ Carroll pulls back the curtain on America's darkest secret…
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#651 With Jason Jones: Justin Bieber’s Mom Pattie Mallete, The Israel-Palestine Conflict, AI, and The Faith!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Jason Jones' life reads like an unlikely hero's journey - from teenage soldier who lost his child to abortion…
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#650 (Claymore 5) "Romantic Challenges to True Love; The Fall and the Normalization of Sin"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The human heart is the first battlefield in the war between love and lust. As we navigate a culture that…
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#649 Finding Alex: A Russian Adoption Story, and the Relentless Love of God
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” The box had been gathering dust under the bed for years. Inside were the remnants of a journey to Russia that…
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#648 Inside the Jeffrey Epstein Web of Corruption: Dark Networks With No Moral Compass
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A dark web of money, power, and government complicity surrounds the Jeffrey Epstein case – arguably the largest…