Liberty EPISODES

Explore the principles of freedom and democracy, delving into how liberty shapes societies and empowers individuals. Perfect for those passionate about personal and political freedom.
Aug. 20, 2022

LM#7--The Golden Yardstick

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty πŸ—½ Minute, let's examine money and inflation. And to do so, let us turn to our book of the day, Inflation: What It is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It by Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis and Elizabeth Ames. Key Points from the Episode: Why are we poorer in the last 50 years?Sound money requires a sound measuring instrument, like a ruler, a scale or yardstick.A return to the gold standard would conquer inflation and ...
Aug. 18, 2022

MM#154--Hard To Do But Not Impossible

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The 1952 Summer Olympic games were not a disappointment for Roger Bannister, why? In Joe Manganiello's book Evolution: The Cutting-Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You Have Always Wanted. we learn from Joe, how Roger Bannister trained mentally and physically to break the 4 minute mile! Key Points from the Episode: Bannister's training regimeHow do you break down your impossible goal?Put t...
Aug. 13, 2022

LM#6--Fossil Fuels = Human Flourishing

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We are fired up to bring you another Liberty πŸ—½ Minute! In our last episode, we covered Alex Epstein's two books, first The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels and second,Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal and Natural Gas--Not Less. This episode is part two of covering Epstein powerful books! Key Points from the Episode: Why Fossil Fuels are our FutureTo be against Fossil Fuels is frankly to be anti-...
Aug. 11, 2022

MM#152--Where Property Is Insecure, Countries Will Not Flourish

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Rodney Stark has written a sweeping and tour de force with his work The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism and Western Success and so we had to cover him especially with this nugget of wisdom today. Enjoy! Key Points from the Episode: Northern China should have had an industrial revolution in the 11th century but didnt!Who stopped it?Why was the fall of the Roman Empire good for progress?Four of...
Aug. 9, 2022

MM#151--(In A Whiny Voice) "I Dont Feel Like It"

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MM#151 we discuss what happens to all of us. Procrastination! For help, we enlist Timothy Pyschyl's Solving the Procrastination Puzzle: A Concise Guide To Strategies For Change Key Points from the Episode: We cover the sad breaking news: The beloved American historian David McCullough passed away. We offer a quick tribute. Time to eat our own dog food and set the good example to end (or lim...
Aug. 6, 2022

LM#5--The Seeds Of Liberty Are Being Planted

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Folks this Liberty πŸ—½ Minute is SPECIAL! We are super excited to share some exciting news with everyone! In our book of the day, we cover two of Alex Epstein's books, first The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels and second,Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal and Natural Gas--Not Less. Key Points from the Episode: Hillsdale's fascinating Supply Side Economic course coming August 23rd.Why ...
Aug. 2, 2022

MM#149--Miracle-Gro For Your Brain

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute #149 brings us one of the most powerful insights we have covered from these books. In 2008, Dr. John Ratey wrote Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. Thank you Dr. Ratey for sharing these nuggets with us! It's pretty cool!! Key Points from the Episode: Recap of our earlier MM#54 on this very subject and book, Balancing of the brain is important and ...
July 31, 2022

CC#12--Mozart of Theology

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Catholic Corner #12 features Joseph Pearce's Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith as we discuss this brilliant priest, theologian, philosopher and Pope as he approaches his 96th birthday. Key points Ratzinger's writings are breathtakingly vast, deep and wide with original thoughts throughout.His life of growing up in Nazi Germany, then Rome for the Second Vatican Council and then at the side of Saint John Paul II, foll...
July 30, 2022

LM#4--There Cannot Be Two Suns In The Sky

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Confucius over 2500 years ago said, "There cannot be two suns in the sky, nor two emperors on the earth." Strap yourselves in for this Liberty πŸ—½ Minute as it will be quite depressing. In 2015, Michael Pillsbury had the intellectual honesty to admit as a "China expert" he was completely wrong about China's intentions and direction and so he wrote, our MOJO book of the day, The Hundred-Year Marathon: China'...
July 24, 2022

LM#3--The Antidote To Tyranny (FREE MEMBERS PREVIEW)

In this FREE Members ONLY--Liberty πŸ—½ Minute, we learn from the great one, Mark Levin in his epic yet quite small and very readable 2009 book, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.
Key Points from the Episode:
The founders principles of our country are conservative principles

Representative republics require an educated citizenry stepped in the learning of its country's values, traditions and knowledge of its history

Our 40th president, Ronald Reagan said in 1961, "Freedom is never mor...
July 19, 2022

MM#145--The Pursuit and Practice of Happiness

In MM#145, we read from Happy For No Reason by Marci Shimoff and her nugget of wisdom from one of our founding documents.

Key Points from the Episode:
Occasionally when you read a book a second time it makes a much stronger impression on you

How to achieve happiness >>> good habits

Aristotle provides us the roadmap on how to achieve good habits

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July 17, 2022

LM#2 - Lets Get The Country Moving Again

In this Liberty πŸ—½ Minute, we explore how to get the country moving again! πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ

We are inspired by Larry Kudlow's and Brian Domitrovic's little known economic history book, JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity.
Key Points from the Episode:
In the last 100 years only four presidents had the courage to choose supply side economics as a policy mix YET it is successful each time it has been tried

JFK and The Reagan models are the economic roadmaps to get the countr...
July 9, 2022

Liberty Minute #1--The American Majority Among Us

In this first Liberty πŸ—½ Minute, we find there is an AMERICAN majority among us. πŸ™Œ

With the help of Newt Gingrich's fantastic book, Beyond Biden: Rebuilding the America We Love, let us dive in.

Key Points from the Episode:
A top ten list of statements - a SUPER majority of Americans agree on

Don't let the media or Washington elites tell you otherwise

Let us create and build the America we love with ALL Americans who share our good will & common interests! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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July 4, 2022

MM#140--Happy Independence Day πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

In this episode, we celebrate our National birthday. Happy Independence Day America.

Our book is the Collected works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 4, "Lincoln Fragment of the Constitution and Union"
Key points:
Lincolns metaphor of using Proverbs 25:11

His use of "the apple of Gold" being the Declaration of Independence

And "the picture of Silver" to illustrate and describe the Constitution and its relationship to the Declaration.

Declaration of Independence

Constitution of the United States
Othe...
June 30, 2022

MM#138--The Impending Crisis--Liberty in the Balance

Recent events has caused us to devote this weeks two episodes to topics involving Liberty in the Balance - meaning those areas in our country, where Liberty was and is threatened.

In this second episode of this week, we review the key points leading up to the Civil War with David Potter’s excellent work, The Impending Crisis: America before the Civil War 1848 - 1861.

Key points:
The National political parties changing into sectional factions in the years leading up to the Civil War and virtual...
June 28, 2022

MM#137--Saving Nine--Liberty in the Balance

Recent events has caused us to devote this weeks two episodes to topics involving Liberty in the Balance - meaning those areas in our country, where Liberty is threatened.

One such horrifically bad idea is calling the Supreme Court "illegitimate" and calling for the "packing of the court."

To help us shine a bright light on this extremely bad idea of Court packing, is Utah's GOP Senator Mike Lee's newest book, Saving Nine: The Fight Against the Left's Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court a...
June 27, 2022

CC#11--A Major Victory For Liberty

In this Catholic Corner we give thanks to God for a major victory for liberty with the overturning of Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood.

We highlight Justice Samual Alito's exceptionally written opinion in several paragraphs in this Catholic Corner segment.

You can read the full opinion here.

Key points
Ending of Roe and Casey

The Democratic process begins again after being paused in 1973

Immense gratitude for the millions of millions of Americans who marched, peacefully protested, ...
June 5, 2022

CC#10--Those Nine Days In June

In nine days of June 1979, the course of human history pivoted and we will examine those nine days in this double episode of the Catholic Corner.

In fact, we will double dip today with two Catholic Corner's separated by the "Chapter 2" tab to help you navigate easier between each of todays deep nuggets of wisdom.

To help with both our nuggets today, is George Weigel's book The End and The Beginning: Pope John Paul II--The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy which is the second volum...
June 2, 2022

MM#129--Debunking The Lies Of History

In this 3rd episode of our Liberty Week celebration-- we peel the layers of the metaphorical onion on one of the most harmful and truly disingenuous US History books ever written, The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

To shine a light and expose this fraud of work we get a great deal of help from Mary Grabar in her excellent work, Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against American.
Key points:
Howard Zinns complete falsehoods in writin...
May 31, 2022

MM#128--The Gray Lady Winked

In this 2nd episode of Liberty Week here at the MOJO Academy-- we explore and take a dive deep into the New York Times Newspaper and their many distortions & fabrications over the last 100 years. To help us, we turn to Ashley Rindsberg and his book, The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Key points:
The New York Times lies covering up for Nazi Germany in the led up to WWII.

Walter Durante lies while covering for the Sovi...
May 30, 2022

MM#127--SPECIAL--Happy Memorial Day

In this episode--we kick off Liberty Week here at the MOJO Academy--and so we thank all those who gave their lives defending our country. As a fitting tribute, we cover an excellent book written by Sean Parnell titled, Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
Key points:
1/2 of a FULL book review of Outlaw PlatoonThe Outlaws

Greesons Grit

The Brotherhood and a 'Good Dude'

Heartfelt thanks & gratitude for the members of the armed services who have ...
May 12, 2022

MM#122--The Last Of The Human Freedoms

Todays MOJO Minute is perhaps the most powerful nugget of wisdom we have ever shared!

In it, we discover through Stephen Covey's book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People & relating the story of Viktor Frankl's--The Last of the Human Freedoms!

Key Points from the Episode:
Frankl's incredible life

Frankl's self awareness between stimulus and response

Despite all the horror and tragedy that Frankl lived through, his gift to the world was his founding science of Logotherapy.

Other reso...
April 12, 2022

MM#113--Gardener's of Authentic Freedom

Happy Holy Week, in this MOJO Minute, we explore America's meaning of Freedom. To help us, we pull George Weigel's book Letters to a Young Catholic
Key Points from the Episode:
A Roman Catholic view of Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address

How should we live?

What is authentic Freedom?

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April 5, 2022

MM#111--Perhaps...The Most Vital Law in Business

What is, perhaps, the most vital law in business? Especially business planning?

We will discover this vital law, from Jocko Willink's and Leif Babins companion workbook to their super popular book Extreme Ownership in this MOJO Minute.

This workbooks title is The Official Companion Workbook to Extreme Ownership by Echelon Front.
Key Points from the Episode:
The best leaders build plans that everyone can understand all the way down to the lowest level in the organization

The most simple plans ...