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".
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710 episodes
#714 The High-Stakes Battle For The Next Generation: Who Forms Them Wins The War
If you feel like something has shifted in your child’s school and you can’t quite name it, you’re not alone. We’re watching a real fight over who forms a child’s imagination, shapes their desires, and defines their identity: parents or institut...
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Episode 714
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25:48
#713 The Claymore Battle Plan Introduction! Getting To The Heart of Things
The world is loud, confusing, and relentless and it is shaping men into spectators. We refuse that. We start with a sharper claim: the battle isn’t mainly political, personal, or psychological. It’s spiritual. Drawing from Ephesians 6, we talk ...
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Episode 713
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26:20
#712 Body and Soul Restoration In 2 Simple Steps: The 10-Minute Claymore Morning Ritual, And Meditate on One ACT Each Week
Temptation isn’t the end of the story and it isn’t even a sin. That one truth can crack open a path out of shame, especially for young men trying to live with integrity in a porn-saturated culture where the cycle of “try hard, cave, repeat” fee...
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Episode 712
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6:50
#711 The Claymore Battle Plan Explained: The Next “Luke” Is Waiting—Will You Step Forward?
You want a better life, a better marriage, a better country in which to raise your kids?Here is the truth of things: The world changes when we pass down what is true, good, and beautiful to the next generation.What does that mea...
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Episode 711
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15:02
#710 President Donald Trump, Prometheus, Fire, and the Battle Between Good and Evil
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and paid the price. That ancient story is the lens we use to talk about a very modern question: who gets to hold the “fire” today, and what happens to ordinary people when truth, energy, and freedom are locke...
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Episode 710
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21:56
#709 The Divine Mercy Image, Sister Faustina, and the Battle for Souls
A quiet chair facing the sunrise changed the way we see the battle that surrounds us. In the soft light before daybreak, we talk about the power of beauty to steady the heart, the reality of spiritual warfare hiding beneath cultural noise, and ...
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Episode 709
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26:57
#708 A Zombie Is a Wounded and Lost Brother or Sister: Be Willing to Proclaim the Gospel to Them
What if the “Zombies” you pass on the sidewalk aren’t monsters, but wounded brothers and sisters starved for truth and love? We open with a frank look at cultural fog—how propaganda, scandal fatigue, and the worship of power dulls the conscienc...
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Episode 708
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32:28
#707 Infertile But Fruitful: Finding Fulfillment When You Can’t Conceive
The dream was simple: marry young, welcome children, and let love grow. Then biology didn’t cooperate. Author and radio host Leigh Fitzpatrick Sneed joins us to unpack the hidden landscape of infertility—the grief, the pressure to “just do IVF,...
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Episode 707
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35:06
#706 Why I Pray; My Journey Into the Power and Purpose of Prayer
What if the first ten minutes of your day decided the shape of your soul? We open with a simple practice—knees before the phone—and follow it into the deeper question beneath every search for meaning: why pray at all? Along the way, we travel f...
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Episode 706
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24:20
#705 I Wonder What Sort of Tale We've Fallen Into?
Feeling whiplash from a culture that calls chaos freedom and opinion truth? We step back and ask the question that reframes the noise: what sort of tale have we fallen into? From the first lines of Genesis to the streets of our citi...
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Episode 705
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26:52
# 704 Scholar Daniel Gallagher: "A Coherent Response to Gender Ideology"
Start with this unsettling claim: You weren’t born in the wrong body—you were born in the wrong culture. From there we dig into why so many young people feel disoriented, how institutions amplify that confusion, and what it t...
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Episode 704
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45:38
#703 Inside Claymore: A Quiet Awakening of Young Men Seeking Faith, Purpose and Brotherhood
A quiet awakening is spreading among young men who were raised on screens, shaped by porn, and numbed by AI simulations. We’ve watched them navigate a world where fake often passes for real and language tries to make the unthinkable sound human...
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Episode 703
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23:21
#702 Claymore And The Call To Truth: Gen Z, Faith, Nation, And Fighting A Culture Of Lies
A new name, a sharper mission, and a bold claim: the path back to national sanity runs through a return to truth about the human person. We open by sharing why our show now carries the Claymore banner and how the apostolate is walking with Gen ...
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Episode 702
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47:33
#701 Understanding the Lord’s Ways: Saint Francis de Sales and Mental Prayer
The noise is relentless, the ground feels unstable, and desire gets treated like a problem to be numbed. We take a different route. Starting with a frank look at anxiety and public breakdown, we trace the deeper current beneath the headlines: a...
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Episode 701
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25:09
#700 Made Good! Overcoming the Lies that Keep Women at War with Their Bodies
Jack and Florencia Moynihan—Catholic nutritionist, FEMM instructor, and author of Made Good—discuss the challenges faced by young women in today's culture, particularly regarding relationships, health, and understanding the feminine heart. ...
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Episode 700
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41:17
#699 America is Under Attack--World War Three: "A War By Other Means"
The episode opens on the 50-yard line and quickly shifts to a harder field: a claim that America is weathering a quiet, coordinated attack that looks nothing like the wars we recognize. We bring on investigator and researcher Tom Hampson to unp...
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Episode 699
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34:09
#698 Feminism and Christianity: Autonomy, Power, and War on Marriage and the Family
Culture keeps telling women to chase autonomy and call it freedom, but the bill always arrives: isolation, fragile bonds, and a quiet ache that career can’t soothe. We sit down with scholar and author Carrie Gress to map the deeper story—how mo...
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Episode 698
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48:57
#697 Charity Without Illusion: Immigration, Prudence, and the Christian Memory
Headlines shout about border crises while our feeds trade compassion for outrage, but the deeper question remains: how do we love the stranger without surrendering the order that protects the weak? Jack takes a hard look at the imag...
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Episode 697
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34:57
#696 The Multi-Headed Hydra: It's Faith or Chaos "I Have Overcome the Evil One"
The year feels heavy, and not just because the headlines won’t let up. We name what so many feel but can’t quite articulate: mercy has been generous, but justice is near, and the gap between those two realities exposes where our hearts stand. F...
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Episode 696
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34:54
#695 Minnesota’s Welfare Fraud is a Sign of the States Darker and Deeper Moral Decay
What if the biggest leak in our public safety net isn’t a lack of funding, but a lack of scrutiny? We sit down with investigator and journalist Tom Hampson to unpack the alleged Minnesota welfare fraud and use it as a lens for a deeper look at ...
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Episode 695
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45:43
#694 2026: The Year of the Great Harvest
The air feels heavier this year, like we’ve reached a hinge in history. We name that tension and call it what it is: a harvest moment. Not a date prediction, but a sober read on where the seeds of our culture have grown—especially around life i...
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Episode 694
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27:29
#693 Faith, Borders, and Reality: Addressing Immigration with your Liberal Neighbors and Pastor
This conversation delves into the complex issues surrounding immigration, particularly through the lens of Christian teachings and historical context. Tom and Jack discuss the misuse of the Holy Family as a symbol for open borders, ...
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Episode 693
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45:26
#692 Inside The Hunger Industrial Complex: How America Manufactured a Food Insecurity Crisis
In this conversation, Jack and Tom Hampson discuss the paradox of food insecurity in America, despite its wealth. They explore the evolution of food banks into a multi-billion dollar industry that manages poverty rather than alleviating it. The...
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Episode 692
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47:57
#691 A Simple Nativity Scene and the War for the Family
Recently, while walking through my neighborhood and looking at Christmas decorations, I came upon a simple Nativity scene. Nothing extravagant. Just Mary. Joseph. A child lying in straw.And it stopped me.Because that scene reveals...
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Episode 691
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38:15
#690 Blessed Is The Day We "Got It Wrong": Marriage and Love With Costanza Miriano
Love isn’t a mood that lasts forever; it’s a mission that matures. We trace the arc from infatuation to mature love, explaining what happens when the early hormone rush fades and why that moment is the invitation to choose each othe...
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Episode 690
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39:07