Claymore: Become Who You Are
Religion & Spirituality
About
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
- #732 Exposing the Deep State and the Deep Church: "See No Evil"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” 330,000 missing kids is not a talking point. It’s a flashing red warning that something is broken in how the U.S. Deep State handles unaccompanied migrant children, child welfare, and immigra…
- To Pope Leo: Sexual Matters Matter; The Integrated Vision of Chastity and Justice
This episode discusses the false separation between sexual morality and justice, asserting that Catholic tradition, particularly the teachings of John Paul II, views chastity and justice as arising from the same truth about the human perso…
- #730 Sean's Same-Sex Attraction, Marriage in the Beginning and Where Christ Points Us: We Discuss ACT Six
This episode of Claymore delves into same-sex attraction, marriage, and spiritual direction, referencing Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body and Jesus' teachings on the resurrection. It covers practical aspects like morning rituals an…
- #729 When Science Hits The Wall: Piety, Father Georges Lemaitre, and the Big Bang
This episode features historian Russell Lawson discussing the historical view of science as a pious act and the impact of modernization on meaning and purpose. It also examines Father Georges Lemaitre, the Big Bang theory, and the boundary…
- #728 Christ Appeals to the Resurrection: ACT Six
This episode examines the concept of desire through the lens of Acts Six of the Claymore Battle Plan and Jesus' teachings on the resurrection. It addresses personal anxieties about identity and belonging within the Church, drawing on John…
- #728 The Border and More: A Battle For The Soul of a Nation
This episode of Claymore addresses the border crisis, focusing on the human cost and cartel exploitation. It critiques cultural shifts towards slogans over truth and proposes the Claymore three-step battle plan, emphasizing personal renewa…
- #727 Discussing ACT Five: "The Fall and the Call to Be a Man of God" Marriage and the Family under attack
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A child can be treated like a purchase, and a pregnancy can be treated like a contract dispute. When that happens, we are not just arguing policy, we are watching the meaning of human dignity…
- #726 The Fall and the Call to Be a Man of God...ACT Five
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” You can feel it, even if you can’t always name it: the pressure, the drift, the sense that something essential about love and manhood is under attack. We step into Act Five of the Claymore Ba…
- #725 Discussion ACT Four: "In the Beginning: Awe, Wonder, and a Cosmic Explosion of Love"
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A teenage girl gets told her body is the problem, gets put on powerful drugs, and loses her breasts before she can even vote. That story isn’t just shocking. It forces a harder question: what…
- #724 Weak Men Create Hard Times: Tom Undercover, Nick Shirley Attacked, Predators Free, Kids Abused
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Unveiling the Hidden Attacks on Family, Faith, and Free Speech In this episode, Jack sits down with seasoned investigator and commentator Thomas Hampson to explore the deep-rooted threats to…
- #723 In the Beginning: Awe, Wonder, and a Cosmic Explosion of Love. ACT Four
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A 16-year-old girl receives a double mastectomy, later detransitions, and a jury awards $2 million in damages. That headline isn’t just a news cycle to us, it’s a flare shot into the night th…
- #722 The Claymore Battle Plan, Discussing ACT Three: Commissioned for Battle! The Importance of Spiritual Formation
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Evil rarely announces itself. More often it blends in, turns the temperature up one degree at a time, and convinces good people that numbness to sin is normal. Jack is with Claymore leader Da…
- #721 Implementing the Claymore 3-Step Battle Plan: Answering Your Questions!
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Your first 10 minutes each morning are already shaping you. The only question is whether they belong to your phone or to God. Jack sits down with Jeff to answer your questions. We hear from p…
- #720 Commissioned For Battle! The Importance of Spiritual Formation...ACT Three
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Evil doesn’t usually kick down the door. It slips in while we’re busy, distracted, and telling ourselves we’ll think about the big questions later. We talk about why so many men don’t choose…
- #719 Discussing ACT Two: Awakened By Beauty, The Opening Scene
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Beauty can save a man’s life, or at least wake his heart up enough to fight for it. We sit down with Claymore Milites Christi Leaders, Dan McSweeney and David Avignone, to open the discussion…
- #718 ACT Two: Awakened by Beauty: The Opening Scene
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Most men don’t fall apart all at once, they slowly wilt. When we live disconnected from God’s life, we chase quick fixes, stay anxious, and wonder why nothing feels solid. We use a blunt imag…
- #717 The Supreme Court (8-1) Stands for Children Against the Talk Therapy Ban Movement
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” A single unverified story can change a generation if nobody is allowed to ask questions. We sit down with investigator Tom Hampson to unpack a Supreme Court decision that cracks open the “con…
- #716 Discussing ACT One! Seeking Truth and Authentic Love in a Toxic Culture
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” Act One Discussion with Steve Thomas: I Wonder What Sort of Tale We’ve Fallen Into? “ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and…
- #715 ACT One: I Wonder What Sort of Tale We’ve Fallen Into?
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” “ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discove…
- #714 The High-Stakes Battle For The Next Generation: Who Forms Them Wins The War
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” 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 des…
- #713 The Claymore Battle Plan Introduction! Getting To The Heart of Things
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” 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 psychologica…
- #712 Body and Soul Restoration In 2 Simple Steps: The 10-Minute Claymore Morning Ritual, And Meditate on One ACT Each Week
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” 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 cu…
- #711 The Claymore Battle Plan Explained: The Next “Luke” Is Waiting—Will You Step Forward?
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” 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…
- #710 President Donald Trump, Prometheus, Fire, and the Battle Between Good and Evil
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” 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 ordi…
- #709 The Divine Mercy Image, Sister Faustina, and the Battle for Souls
Love to hear from you; “Send us a Text Message” 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…
- #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 truth and love? We open with a frank look at cultural fog—how propaganda, scandal…
- #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 and radio host Leigh Fitzpatrick Sneed joins us to unpack the hidden landscape of…
- #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 before the phone—and follow it into the deeper question beneath every search for…
- #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 that reframes the noise: what sort of tale have we fallen into? From the first li…
- # 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 there we dig into why so many young people feel disoriented, how institutions amp…
- #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 simulations. We’ve watched them navigate a world where fake often passes for real a…
- #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 truth about the human person. We open by sharing why our show now carries the Claymo…
- #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 take a different route. Starting with a frank look at anxiety and public breakdown,…
- #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 challenges faced by young women in today's culture, particularly regarding relationship…
- #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 a quiet, coordinated attack that looks nothing like the wars we recognize. We br…
- #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, fragile bonds, and a quiet ache that career can’t soothe. We sit down with scholar a…
- #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 remains: how do we love the stranger without surrendering the order that protects the…
- #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 quite articulate: mercy has been generous, but justice is near, and the gap between…
- #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 with investigator and journalist Tom Hampson to unpack the alleged Minnesota wel…
- #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 it is: a harvest moment. Not a date prediction, but a sober read on where the see…
- #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 Christian teachings and historical context. Tom and Jack discuss the misuse of the H…
- #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 wealth. They explore the evolution of food banks into a multi-billion dollar industry…
- #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 Nativity scene. Nothing extravagant. Just Mary. Joseph. A child lying in straw. And…
- #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 love, explaining what happens when the early hormone rush fades and why that mom…
- #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 unhinged and the mother who leads us to her Son. We trace a throughline from John’s…
- #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 and a renewed freedom to say Merry Christmas without apology. From there we mov…
- #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 identity. He highlights the spiritual battle against ideologies that threaten ind…
- #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 about puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery for minors. You’ll hear…
- #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 way that takes human dignity seriously, starts in the heart, and rebuilds cultur…
- #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 this conversation with Greg Willits—author, award-winning media producer, and co-fo…