Episodes

With the current emphasis being on it is all about the guns, this episode will add a strong pitch for tough gun crime penalties. That is the subject of today’s short-form episode. It is always dangerous and wrong to ascribe r...

If we are going to get the politicians the nation needs, we must be the voters the nation needs. Politicians reflect the electorate. That is the subject of today's short-form episode. Question: How do we get a government of t...

Post WWII in Berlin, Russia engaged in one of its many and continuing attempts to expand its land, power and influence by harming millions of others. The US responded with the heroic and surprisingly successful Berlin Airlift...

Independence Day, AKA the Fourth of July, and Juneteenth both represent relentlessly continuing progress and freedom for all. That is the subject of today's short-form episode. Of the usual 11 Federal Holidays, 4 of them, ove...

"Believe all women," hurts MeToo. Fair trials with competent attorneys on both sides support both justice and MeToo. No coincidence. That is the subject of today's short-form episode. The Johnny Depp/Amber Heard celebrity abu...

"Enough is Enough" is an empty phrase, right up there with “Do Something!” We need implementable specifics, or it is all just posturing. That is the subject of today's short-form episode. An empty phrase, right up there with ...

Financial literacy for our kids and for us. Simple rules, hard to follow. I often learn, including learning financial literacy, by teaching my children. The rules for understanding financial literacy, and financial success, l...

This is a combination of what I call Everyday Wisdom and political oddities. Get back to me with a few of yours. That is the subject of today's 15 minute episode. =========================== CONNECT WITH ME: =================...

The two critical questions in the abortion debate are: 1. When does human life begin? and 2. When is it permissible for the state to sanction the taking of that human life? My answer to question 1. At the time of conception. ...

Once, Disney nurtured, delighted and educated the young, and gays were fags. Neither is true today. One change is bad, the other is good. That is the subject of today's 10-minute episode. What's the resolution? How do we go f...

As our country grew, the places that we were able to gather and speak freely were many, and changed over time--all while preserving the ability to speak freely. That is no longer true. Declaring support for free speech means ...

Telling the truth in love is always a winner. And it leads directly to the core goal of Revolution 2.0™ of creating better lives for ourselves, our communities and our nation. What are some similarities between truth and love...

Focus on two differences: 1. Unlike God, government has nothing to “give away” until it first takes it away. 2. No matter what we give to God, we get more in return. With government, it grabs a slice of what it takes before g...

Being "dissed" verbally does not justify a violent response. We must learn to control our emotions, and not blame them as the root cause. That's the subject of today's 10-minute episode. =========================== CONNECT WI...

The alternative title of this episode might be, “My feelings make it true.” In today’s Take Ten With Will Luden, we go over why unless we–you and I–get over this feelings based approach to everything important in our lives, w...

Not delivering the needed, behavior-changing consequences to Putin and Russia is the international equivalent of defunding the police. And will have similar results. This 10 minute episode will help us in our lives, and help ...

As Russian bombs rain down on Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine in Putin’s effort to expand his rule, let’s remember when another Russian President, Joseph Stalin, tried to freeze and starve out most of divided Berlin in 1948 ...

In our time together today, our “Take Ten” with Will Luden, we will compare Putin and Hitler, Biden and Chamberlain–and look for today’s Churchill. I normally resist parallels to WWII Germany, but there are too many now to ig...

I n our time together today, our “Take Ten” with Will Luden, we will separate the causes people are protesting or supporting from the tactics used; they are most often incorrectly blurred to favor the person or group making t...

The Sound of Ignorance. In our ten minutes together today, our “Take Ten” with Will Luden, we are focusing on the jarring sound of ignorance in political, economic and other discussions in our country. From the very top with ...

The 7% Supreme Court Justice. President Biden promised that he would pick his VP candidate from a pool of only black women. From that pool, representing 7% of the United States, he chose Kamala Harris. The same thinking that...

Passing as a POC. Rewarding people and groups because they are slightly or completely non-white is just as unacceptable as the previous wrong of punishing people and groups for having exactly that physical trait. Both are bla...

Gratitude: Does The Left Have Any? Does The Right Demand It? We are busy politicizing everything, including science, law enforcement, religion, sports, medicine, history and education. Now we are doing the same thing with gra...

Victims and shared responsibility: There are many reasons that we take precautions even if we would be legally in the right had we not taken those steps. These reasons can be centered around personal safety, money, or legal o...