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FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Recently, I was asked how do I jot notes in my physical books that Im reading from? In this MM, we answer that listener question as well as we found a fantastic nugget of wisdom in Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi which we use one of our most recommended books, Aristotle's great classic work, Ni...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We live in a crazy world and often that confusion causes many Catholics to lose hope. Todays book--in our Catholic Corner--should restore hope that we can make sense out of this confusion with Father Gerald Murray's Calming The Storm:  Navigating The Crises Facing The Catholic Church and Society. Key points Fr. Murray shows us the...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message For two and half years, the COVID19 pandemic has ravaged the United States and the world.   In this Liberty Minute 🗽, we look to Scott Atlas on what should have been our National public health response, who broke that trust and who is to blame in his book, A Plague Upon Our House:  My Fight At The Trump White House To Stop COVID From D...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message The power of example is often underestimated.   Not so, in todays MM, where we watch a little league baseball player hug another competitor in an incredible show of compassion and sportsmanship. Key Points from the Episode: Kids are often our best teachers because of their purity of heart Be sure to get the tissues ready Other resources...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays MOJO Minute, we will talk about how to conquer our day from its first beginnings  and how to make it hard to have a bad day! To do so, we will enlist our help from Brian Tracy's great book,  Eat that Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time Key Points from the Episode: Develop a habit of...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message With millions of kids going back to school in the past couple weeks, let us in this Liberty 🗽 Minute, examine Critical Race Theory and the harm it is doing to our kids, parents, schools, educators and our nation as a whole. And to do so, let us turn to our book of the day, A Parent's Guide to Critical Race Theory: Fighting CRT in...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's MM it is  all about practicality! Checklists are often under utilized, but our book of the day is The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande will teach us why checklists should & ought to be used more often! Key Points from the Episode: My travel checklist over the last five years How to avoid comm...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message To celebrate the release of the Hillsdale Supply-Side FREE economics course and to keep our theme going from our Liberty Minute over the weekend, lets talk some economic wisdom today! You might ask, what is Supply-Side economics? here's a quote from the Gipper, "There were always those who told us that taxes couldn't be c...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty 🗽 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 in...

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 fr...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Sleep is one of the most biological functions of the human body.   In MM#153, we consult with Matthew Walker, the author of Why We Sleep:  Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Key Points from the Episode: What is baseline resetting in Sleep? Did you know almost every animal species sleeps? What's the likelihood you will have the...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message We are fired up to bring you another Liberty 🗽 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 f...

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 centur...

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....

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Folks this Liberty 🗽 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...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute #150!   Time to celebrate! 🎉🥳 Wow!   Looking all the way back at MM#1 seems so distant these days!  We will take  a small victory lap 💪 BUT more importantly we will applaud 👏 YOU the listener 🎧 😀 because you allow us to BRING you these powerful nuggets of wisdom 💡! and we LOVE ❤️ doing just that!  So thank you! Now ti...

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 th...

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 G...

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 🗽 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 in...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In 2015 Kelly McGonigal authored a fantastic book, The Upside of Stress:  Why Stress is Good For You and How To Get Good At It And in todays MOJO Minute, we are going to mine some excellent nuggets of wisdom out of that book Key Points from the Episode: Kelly offers us a great definition of stress The mindset change around stress How to...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message If you have ever done a Tony Horton home fitness video, then this MOJO Minute will get you excited!  Reason being, we dig into Tony’s 2014 book The Big Picture:  11 laws That Will Change your Life   to share this great nugget of wisdom Key Points from the Episode: The P90X craze of the 2010’s  Don Miguel Ruiz’s Four Agreements Other res...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this FREE Members ONLY --Liberty 🗽 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 citiz...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this MOJO Minute, we continue with Marci Shimoff’s excellent work, Happy For No Reason in combination with fmr Navy Seal Mark Divine’s third book,  Staring Down the Fear Wolf   for a fabulous nugget of wisdom to ponder today.    Key Points from the Episode: A fascinating Cherokee elder story shared by two great authors  How do you  t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message 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 t...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In this Liberty 🗽 Minute, we explore how to get the country moving again! 🏃‍♂️ 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 c...