Karate Soul: From Black Belt to Fourth Degree | Ben Budia | Episode #361
Eight seasons in, and Ben Budia is the first guest to arrive at the Tiny Table by motorcycle, in a tie and a jacket, in 110-degree Texas heat, on the theory that if it is 120 out you simply must go 120 or faster. That is roughly the energy of the whole conversation. Ben is the General Agent for t...
God Was Sitting Next to Me | Ben Budia | Episode #362
Ben Budia is back in the studio, and this time the Knights of Columbus policies stay in the drawer while he tells the guys how a kid from Alicante ended up in Texas with eight children. He grew up watching his father start jeans brands, a construction company, a pavement company, and a toothpick ...
Almost No One Takes This Advice | Johann D’Souza, PhD | Episode #363
Dr. Johann D'Souza has a one-sentence solution to the biggest problem facing young people, and he will tell you upfront that almost nobody listening will actually do it. Never give your child a smartphone. He spent years assuming the answer had to be more complicated than that, researching apps, ...
Your Dreams are Too Small | Johann D’Souza, PhD | Episode #364
Johann D'Souza, PhD, has one stated goal for his approach to friendship: find the most magnanimous people alive. He means the rare ones who combine serious professional competence with an actual pursuit of virtue, and he says they are almost always lonely, because everyone around them wants to kn...
Life Is a Gym - Don't Skip Virtue Day | Andrew V. Abela, PhD | Episode #365
"It's just business" is a line we borrowed from The Godfather, and Andrew Abela, PhD, would like to know why we let the mob define it. As founding dean of the Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America, he built a school from the ground up on faith, natural law, and virtue, be...
Bringing Beauty Back to the Big Screen | Lorenzo Henrie | Episode #366
The priest who brought Lorenzo Henrie back to the Church wasn't standing in a parish. He was on a Kevin James movie set, and Lorenzo, a Hollywood kid with no interest in getting serious about God, almost didn't show up. What happened next turned a former child actor into a man hosting a hundred i...
Coffee Beans and Heartbeats – The Seven Weeks Coffee Story | Anton Krecic | Episode #367
At seven weeks, a baby is the size of a coffee bean, and its heartbeat can already be seen on ultrasound. Anton Krecic built a company on that fact two weeks after his wedding, when he Googled "pro-life coffee" and got zero results. Seven Weeks Coffee gives 10% of every sale to pregnancy centers,...
Arm Wrestling with God | Fr. John Anthony, CFR | Episode #368
Fr. John Anthony tried to arm wrestle God into letting him become a doctor, and the only prayer that finally brought him peace was the craziest one he could think of. A Highland Park kid turned Virginia Military Institute graduate, Navy officer, and printing equipment salesman who fired his own b...
Litigation with Salt & Light | Cliff Riley, Esq. | Episode #369
Cliff Riley argues for a living, which makes it strange that his biggest career move came the moment he stopped trying to control the outcome. Six months ago, he left a litigation partnership at a large national firm for a small boutique called SL Law (strategic litigation, though everyone calls ...
Viral Videos & Viral Grace | George Jacobson | Episode #371
George Jacobson never won a single catechism bee. As a kid, he memorized the Baltimore Catechism word for word, qualified every time, and still lost.
Now, at 20, he teaches the faith to more than 200,000 people on Instagram. It started when basketball season ended his senior year and left him 4...
