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
689 episodes
#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
#689 The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Finding Hope and Light In An Unhinged World
A late recording on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe turns into a fierce meditation on a world that feels unhinged and the mother who leads us to her Son. We trace a throughline from John’s Gospel and the order of creation to Juan Diego’s ros...
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Episode 689
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39:47
#688 Merry Christmas is Back! Thank You President Trump
Advent sharpens our memory and our courage, and that’s where we start: gratitude for the return of public faith and a renewed freedom to say Merry Christmas without apology. From there we move straight into the central question young people are...
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Episode 688
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46:37
#687 The Decline of Western Civilization: Young Men Take Heart, You Were Born For This Battle!!
Jack discusses the decline of Western civilization, emphasizing the importance of faith, family, and cultural identity. He highlights the spiritual battle against ideologies that threaten individual identity and moral values. He the...
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Episode 687
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32:08
#686 The Myth of “Gender-Affirming Care”: The HHS Just Exposed the Medical Scandal Against Our Children
Tom Hampson is with Jack to dig into the newly released HHS review of youth gender medicine and what it asserts about puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery for minors. You’ll hear why many countries are recalibrating toward psychoth...
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Episode 686
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38:31
#685 Electing Socialist Majors Across America Will Not Solve the Abuses of Unconstrained Capitalism: "The Third Way"
Feeling pressured to pick between Socialism and Capitalism? We challenge that trap and make a case for a third way that takes human dignity seriously, starts in the heart, and rebuilds culture from the ground up. We walk through why many young ...
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Episode 685
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43:09
#684 God Doesn't Hate Me After All; with Greg Willits
What if the love you’ve been searching for has been quietly pursuing you all along? That’s the heartbeat of this conversation with Greg Willits—author, award-winning media producer, and co-founder of Rosary Arm...
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Episode 684
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43:03
#683 Are You An Accident of History? Does Life Have Meaning and Purpose? What is the Truth of Things?
The root of the cultural chaos we are experiencing is a surrender of the Truth of things! Today Jack takes you inside a viral confrontation over women’s locker rooms, presses into why definitions matter for safety and law, and asks...
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Episode 683
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26:38
#682 Beauty Will Save the World! With Rocky Mountain Artist-Photographer and Author Erik Stensland
Beauty isn’t a filter on life; it’s a way to understand it, and ourselves. Jack sits down with Artist-photographer and author Erik Stensland to explore how a season of crushing burnout in the Balkans led him toward solitude, quiet a...
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Episode 683
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51:22
(CM #9) The Battlefield of the Heart! Directing Passions and Desires to a Love that is Beautiful!
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 sudden arrest of beauty, the pulse of attraction—and follow it to its true end: a life of self-gift that can heal hearts, families, and...
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Episode 681
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44:40
#680 Break Free From Problematic Sexual Behavior For Good, with Steve O'Connor
A hidden magazine in fifth grade. A dopamine hit. A secret that follows a boy into high school, dating, and marriage. That’s how our conversation starts, and from there we get honest about why porn isn’t just a bad habit—it’s a widespread, tech...
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Episode 680
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50:26
#679 Gen Z and the Latin Mass: Growing Numbers of Young Catholics Seeking Beauty, Silence, and Order
A generation raised on endless noise is choosing silence, beauty, and order. We sit down with Catholic writer and Latin Mass altar server Jacob Plante to explore why Gen Z is showing up at the traditional Latin Mass in growing numbersJac...
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Episode 679
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55:23
#678 "What I Hope My Sons Will Learn From the Life of Charlie Kirk": with Carolyn McKinney
Start with the unpopular truth: the surest privilege isn’t race, money or status, it’s growing up with a married mom and dad who stay together. Then the shock of Charlie Kirk’s assassination... but it’s the two sided response that s...
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Episode 678
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40:52
#677 It Starts With Your Heart--And An Encounter With the Living God! Jack Speaks to Young People
If your heart feels restless and the world feels loud, you’re not broken—you’re being called. We dive into the ache beneath anxiety and distraction and show how that desire is the starting line of a meaningful life. First the heart stirs, then ...
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Episode 677
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31:36
#676 Climate Summits, Immigration debates, and Confusion over Life: A Papal Headache w Phil Lawler
Headlines say one thing, moral logic says another. We sat down with Phil Lawler to unpack the storm around a lifetime award for Senator Dick Durbin, the so-called “consistent ethic of life,” climate pageantry, and immigration debates—and to dra...
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Episode 676
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32:21
#675 Triple Play Day: The Eucharist, Fatima, And Saint John Paul II: With John Preiss, director of the Fatima Family Apostolate
A feast day, a friend, and a fight worth entering. We set the stage with Saint John Paul II, the Eucharist, and Our Lady of Fatima, then welcome John Preiss, a Catholic convert and director of the Fatima Family Apostolate, to share how a quiet ...
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Episode 675
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39:45
#674 The Plan Of Life; To Love as God Loves...Plus Sergeant Columban Meets Padre Pio
What if the question “What do I still lack?” is the doorway to your real vocation? We follow that question from the Gospel of the rich young man into the very real struggles of modern life—noise, distraction, and the hunger to be seen—and then ...
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Episode 674
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32:45
#673 From Hot Takes To Holy Habits: Why Formation And Prayer Must Shape Digital Evangelists with Podcast Host Bobby Fredericksen
Let’s be honest: the internet rewards outrage, not holiness. We wanted to cut through the noise and ask a harder question—what does it take to share the faith without losing your soul? With Bobby Frederickson (The Catholic Couple,
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Episode 673
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48:31
#672 Act VI "Christ Appeals to the Resurrection": Christ, Marriage, And Our Final Destiny!
What if the ache you feel isn’t your enemy but a compass that points you to true north? We take a clear-eyed look at desire, identity, and destiny through the lens of Scripture and John Paul II’s theology of the body, asking how eros can be lif...
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Episode 672
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28:24
#671 Spiritual Warfare: The Most Powerful Saints In Exorcisms--With Expert and Author Charles Fraune
Charles Fraune—author, teacher, and founder of Slaying Dragons Press—joins us to unpack what exorcists and former occultists are seeing now, and why ordinary believers need extraordinary clarity. For young adults discerning marriage...
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Episode 671
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43:42
#670 Claymore: Act V-- "Stepping Up to True Love": Fight for Marriage, Family, and the Human Heart
A sword only matters if someone is willing to lift it. We gathered to name the real war for the modern male heart and to chart a path back to love that doesn’t flinch from truth. Not a lecture, a battle plan: see the enemy, recover your purpose...
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Episode 670
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25:18
#669 The Practical Side of Ignoring God: ICE as "Gestapo" and School Union Honors Violent Radicals
Start with an unsettling premise: if law becomes optional and truth becomes personal, justice becomes impossible. That’s the thread we follow with veteran crime investigator Thomas Hampson, who connects the unrest of the 60s–70s to today’s cult...
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Episode 669
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44:13