Episodes

Introduction Where does the practice of diversity and inclusion add to the desired results in any endeavor e.g., business, sports, education, etc.? In choosing the players for your favorite NFL team? What about in choosing the doctor for your grandmother who just tested positive for COVID? Should you include residents from the very different neighborhood three city blocks away from you in your block party? That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing There is a lot of talk these ...

Introduction Life is 10% what happens to us, and 90% how we react to it. That’s the principle; we are going to talk about specifics, illustrating the delights that can be had in the simplest things, and the peace that comes from overlooking idiocy, errors and insults. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing In the 70s, after the Army and graduating college in Boulder, I set out to start my first business. By today’s standards, I was broke, but since I was not aware of that d...

Producing Revolution 2.0 is an absolute labor of love for me to do. But it is in fact a labor. So as we prepare to celebrate the holidays I thought it might be good to unplug and share with you some episodes from the archives. Stay well, stay healthy, and have a very Happy Thanksgiving. Introduction This is an open letter to anyone who has ever asked questions like “What am I supposed to do?” Or, “Do I matter?” Or, “Is this all there is?” That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Contin...

Introduction The scariest part of our increasingly regulated society are the people who implement those regulations. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing When regulators regulate, bureaucrats are used to implement those regulations. Years ago, in 1998 to be exact, my wife and I were in the process of adopting a 10-year-old boy, who eventually became our much loved son. No thanks to our assigned clipboard holder. One of the myriad rules, hurdles mostly, that we had to comp...

Introduction Cheap Grace is the selling of or wanting forgiveness and salvation from God without discipline or responsibility. A thought from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Cheap Citizenship is the selling of or wanting freedoms and benefits from government without discipline or responsibility. A thought from Will Luden. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing All con games, where a grifter, a con artist, cheats a mark rely in no small part on the mark’s desire to get something for no...

Introduction As governments become bigger, they become disproportionately less accountable. “ The intensity of the sound is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the signal source.” -My Junior year high school physics teacher. (He stole it from Newton.) “Government accountability to the people is inversely proportional to the square of the increasing size of that government.” -Will Luden That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing Newton’s inverse square law ...

Introduction Much of what is being sold to us by the media, and taught to us by politicians at all levels, is that we are deeply divided because the people on the other side are idiots at best, and evil at worst. Don’t believe a syllable. The “Divide and Conquer” approach to defeating your enemies is as old as politics and war. Win by getting your enemies to fight each other. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing The Latin phrase “Divide et impera” is as old as politics an...

Introduction In 2016, the Mainstream Media/Pollsters cabal predicted a Clinton landslide. In 2020, the same pairing predicted an even bigger landslide for Biden. With their thousands of professionals, powerful analytic tools and decades of experience, are they that bad at their jobs, or is there something else going on? And do they have partners? That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing Let’s hear from Meghan McCain, anti-Trump Republican and daughter of the late Republican S...

Introduction Politics is downstream of culture, and culture is downstream of religion. If we want to understand what is happening in our nation–in our world–work this “equation” backwards. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing Running this observation backwards, religion influences culture, and culture influences politics. This seems so simple and clear, but very few people are talking about it, and this truth gets no play at all in the media. And here we are fixing that. ...

Introduction If we want to get our country back on track, and keep it there, the best possible education, starting early, is vital. That makes school choice my No. 1 political issue in 2020. Real school choice means that the national average of $15+K per year per student spent on public school K-12 education would follow the student, to be spent as the parents see fit. Parents would choose amongst freely available and equally funded traditional public, public charter and private schools. Only on...

Introduction The world long ago lost hope for a lasting peace in the Middle East. The frequent wars often had a religious basis, starting with the Romans in Judea, dramatically escalating the bitterness of the conflicts. Donald Trump is on his way to establishing peace in that deeply dangerous hotspot, where three of the world’s most influential religions confront each other face-to-face. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing Modern history in the Middle East began with th...

Introduction This is an open letter to anyone who has ever asked questions like “What am I supposed to do?” Or, “Do I matter?” Or, “Is this all there is?” That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing Life is hard. Let’s start with a foundational truth: Life is hard, as it must be. And once you latch onto that truth, life instantly starts getting better and better. You grow and stretch, and you can teach and be a model for others to do the same, so that they too can grow and stret...

Introduction Employees of two downtown Colorado Springs restaurants recently protested tip sharing, the required dispersal of their tips among the whole staff. Both restaurants display liberal political signs, and have invited liberal groups to hold events at those restaurants. Not surprising in that the city itself is liberal. My money says that a good number of the employees who are protesting to keep their tips to themselves are in full support of the Democratic Socialist agenda which include...

Introduction Senate Democrats are aggressively interviewing Judge Barrett as if she is a candidate for Congress. But even they know that is silly, because legislators are elected by the people, not approved by the Senate. Why are they doing this? A. 1. They want the US Supreme court to violate its Constitutional charter and be a second Legislature and 2. They are grandstanding, playing to the voters who do not understand the elegant balance of power our Constitution set up with the Executive, Le...

Introduction Few of us fall for the overt and outrageous lies, e. g., “Trump is a Nazi” or “Obama is a citizen of Kenya.” The most dangerous lies are the subtle ones, the ones disguised as honest reporting. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing Here are two immediate examples of those dangerously subtle lies from the front page of Sunday’s Colorado Springs Gazette , my home newspaper on 11 October 2020; tell me if you see what the authors are up to in these multi-page arti...

Introduction “If people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s gonna stop ’em.” -Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Fame catcher. “If people do not want to change, nobody’s going to stop ‘em.” -Will Luden, Host, Revolution 2.0™ That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing In the 1960s in Boulder, Colorado, I was peripherally involved in a group that opened a “Free Store” in downtown Boulder. The noble, naive and unstudied motive was to provide free clothing, and eventually, m...

Introduction Christopher Columbus: Hero, brutal conqueror, or both? Today we look at Columbus, and a lot more; statues, movies, and teaching American History. This is an exercise in seeing ourselves and others as we and they really are. Isn’t that kind of honesty fundamental to any kind of development; individual, societal, financial, physical or spiritual? That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing The 1969 movie “Goodbye Columbus”, adapted from a Philip Roth novel of the same...

Introduction As the most powerful person on the planet, the President of the United States is often referred to as the leader of the Free World. Either Donald Trump will continue in that role, or Joe Biden will step into the role. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing Neither candidate came across as anything like Presidential, much less like the leader of the Free World. I have heard reactions ranging from “Clownshow” to “World Wrestling Entertainment”, including “Embarra...

Introduction We have not seen anything close to the truth with the vast majority of the Breonna Taylor agenda-driven images, soundbites and analyses that wash over us multiple times a day. Truth is the most marginalized voice of all. The vast majority of us want true justice, and a permanent, united peace. In order to know that peace, we need to have the facts–all the facts and nothing but the facts–facts will lead us to the truth. Only the truth can lead us to true justice. That is the subject ...

Introduction Is the Supreme Court’s function to, “Do the right thing,” as dictated by the nine individual Justice’s consciences, or is it to determine if a law or other enforceable rule is constitutional? That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing A key part of the genius of the founding documents is the separation of powers amongst the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches. The checks and balances with the three branches of government were put in place to avoid having o...

Introduction This voting guide will concentrate on issues, not personalities, and help you to understand how the issues influence your vote. There will be no commentary about things like dementia or narcissism. Feel free to contribute your own thoughts on those subjects in the comments. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing If you believe that the Republic form of government laid out in the Constitution is the right choice, vote for Trump. If you believe that we should aba...

Introduction When I was young, the milkman would deliver his product in glass half gallon jugs, left by the backdoor in portable metal wire carriers that would hold, if memory serves me, a total of 2 gallons. This was before homogenization, meaning that the cream would rise to the top, and the milk jug had to be shaken by hand each time you poured if you wanted it blended. Alternatively, if you wanted just cream, you could pour it off the top for cooking, coffee, etc. It greatly benefits all of ...

Introduction “Who is La’Ron Singletary?” Chief Singletary is the suddenly retiring Black Police Chief in Rochester, NY. Announcing his retirement in the wake of the firestorm following the death of Daniel Prude while in police custody, the Chief, only 40, said, “As a man of integrity, I will not sit idly by while outside entities attempt to destroy my character. The members of the Rochester Police Department and the Greater Rochester Community know my reputation and know what I stand for.” Polic...

Introduction These two Martians, prompted by our probes on and around their planet, landed here in the US. They were looking for signs of intelligent life. That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode. Continuing Revolution 2.0™ stumbled into an exclusive interview with two self-professed Martians, Gog and Magog. I took them at their word about their planetary ethnicity because they were thoughtful enough to be small and green, arriving in a flying saucer; some stereotypes are downright help...