The wide range of things being written by the small team of people crafting lyrics for our three channels is pretty remarkable, considering that all of these Wizard Academy Alumni have obligations to full-time jobs. But yet they continue to post anywhere from 1 to 6 new pieces per day. Go figure. And yes, this […]

    I only have two songs for you today. This one is a marvelous country song written by Waterboy Tom of Amarillo.The next one – believe it or not – isabout how Ad Writing is similar to Songwriting.

    When people talk about the Chicago Cubs and their historic 2016 World Series victory — ending a 108-year drought — Joshua Lifrak is a name you rarely hear. But he wears a Cubs World Series ring. Joshua Lifrak’s job was to help players perform under extraordinary pressure. Today Joshua works with business leaders […]

Of the 200+ videos that we have been creating with the help of four Wizard Academy alumni, this one has been the most fruitful at producing subscribers. If you watch the video below, it will help you understand how thirstily the people of our world are looking for encouragement right now. “Jesus Arm-Wrestled Death and […]

Martin “Marty” Strong is a former Navy SEAL, business leader, and author who challenges conventional thinking about how companies — and the people who oversee them — should operate. Blending lessons from the battlefield and the executive suite, Lieutenant Strong argues that too many of today’s leaders cling to outdated methods, failing to recognize that […]

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  @Absurdocrats is our smallest channel. This is where we put colorful parodies and overblown performances and other odds-and-ends that we’re not sure what to do with. Strangely, more than 100,000 people have subscribed in the past 6 weeks. Go figure.

This perfect poem about The Muse, written by the remarkable Tim Storm, has a couple of homophones that make it difficult for people who speak other languages to fully appreciate, but we posted it nonetheless. The first homophone happens when you see “pain” and were expecting “pane.” This is your clue to reinterpret “female deer,” […]

  Effective workplace mentoring isn’t a ‘sometimes’ thing. It’s a habit. That’s a leadership lesson that Kim Lee has learned after more than two decades of hands-on experience in human resources, and helping businesses embrace what she dubs “a coaching culture.” As Kim tells roving reporter Rotbart, employees who feel supported and invested in are […]

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  This 25-foot-wide painting is a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper painted by Giampietrino and possibly Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio – both pupils of Leonardo da Vinci. It’s believed to be the most accurate record of the original and has been used to help with its conservation. This version is oil paint on canvas, whereas Leonardo’s version was painted […]

  The Artemis II mission to the moon is underway! Mark L. Fox was a chief engineer for the Space Shuttle program. He was also a board member and an instructor at Wizard Academy for 18 years. Today our roving reporter Rotbart probes Mark’s thoughts on America’s return to that great, ruined rock in the […]

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Ellen Wright has a scrumptious recipe for Basque chicken with sausage and tomato pinto sauce. That’s no surprise for a five-time cookbook author who trained under Julia Child and James Beard. What is unexpected is that many of the techniques Ellen has used throughout her career to create mouthwatering dishes can be readily translated into […]

Click these links to see current subscriber counts on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@GreatWritersSeries/shorts https://www.youtube.com/@TribalGospel/shorts https://www.youtube.com/@Absurdocrats/shorts The graph below is a screenshot from March 25th. On the morning of the 26th, the channel had grown to 1,009,318due to subscriber activity in India, Bangladesh, and Iraq. 

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  Fauzia Burke generates visibility for her literary clients and their books. Her authors include Ken Blanchard, Daniel Silva, Jeffrey Archer, Alan Alda, Dean Koontz, S.C. Gwynne, and Brian Tracy. Fauzia could undoubtedly rest on her laurels, but ever since she launched her firm in 1995, she has continually updated and reinvented her methods. This […]

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  Most people believe that business success is the product of talent, hard work, and persistence. But what if success could be analyzed — and improved — using the laws of probability? Kyle Austin Young maintains that most goals can be analyzed and improved by understanding their underlying odds. This is true of whatever you […]

  If I counted correctly, there are 109 nations listed in the image below. Youtube does not serve video content into any nation that is not on that list. Consequently, the wizard and I “targeted” the whole list. Rolling through 109 nations in 24 time zones every day is a lot of fun. And guess […]

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Here is a link to the details page @GreatWritersSeries if you are curious about the updated subscriber count.

When today’s Monday Morning Memo was completed last Thursday night, March 12, @Tribal Gospel had grown from zero to more than 105,000 subscribers in just 30 days. It you want to take a look at today’s subscriber count, click over to @TribalGospel.

Yep. Another short video, then we’ve got MondayMorningRadio.

    Courtney De Ronde is a financial decoder. She studies the same financial data that business owners and their accountants review, but she uncovers opportunities and risks within those numbers that are almost always overlooked. This is why Courtney De Ronde has evolved as a scaling expert. She helps businesses grow by avoiding the […]

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    America’s top CEOs pay Doug C. Brown to teach them how to rethink their approach to sales. Doug has consulted Procter & Gamble, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Embassy Suites. Doug C. Brown is not a lightweight. Doug tells roving reporter Rotbart, “most companies can quickly realize a 20-30% improvement in operating profits” when they […]

  Regular viewers of cable news will instantly recognize Arthur Lih and his ubiquitous commercials for LifeVac, the non-invasive rescue device he invented to save choking victims when the Heimlich maneuver and other traditional methods fail. To date, his invention is credited with saving 5,450-plus lives. As Arthur shares with roving reporter Rotbart and his deputy, […]

  I described Amanda as “a bright young woman” in the MMMemo two weeks ago because I had heard the story, but didn’t know her name. I did know, however, (and still do) the name of her employer. But I didn’t want him and her to be buried with 10,000 phone calls asking what they […]

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Hey Roy, I’m Amanda, the “bright young woman” you mentioned in the Monday Morning Memo. I have to tell you, you absolutely made my day! It’s been an honor to work with Stephen and Gary, and to learn from them. I admire your marketing wisdom and have seen how well it works for my employer. Thank […]

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This is one of two video shorts the wizard and I posted @GreatWriterSeries  yesterday. I dug it out of the long-ago archives at MondayMorningMemo.com and the wizard convinced one of his performers to read it to you. – Indy B.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s, “The Song of Hiawatha” (1855) is an epic poem written in trochaic tetrameter, which gives the poem the rhythm of tribal drumbeats. Our selection contains 53 lines, just 1 percent of the 5300 lines that comprise Longfellow’s epic masterpiece. We hope you enjoy these few moments with Hiawatha, Nokomis, and Henry Wadsworth […]

Bestselling author Michael Lewis has spent decades practicing what the sharpest business thinkers do: questioning assumptions, navigating past blind spots, and revealing why conventional wisdom so often leads smart people astray. Lewis is the author of a remarkable run of business-themed classics, including* two that have been turned into Oscar-nominated Best Pictures.In this exclusive episode of […]

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Lots of people know how to make money. But far fewer understand how to protect it, manage it, and plan for the long arc of life once the hard work of earning is done. Jeffrey Panik brings clarity to complex financial decisions. Listen and learn as Jeffrey shares with roving reporter Rotbart his emphasis on […]

Gordon Atkinson at Wizard Academy on a Friday in January, 2026. This is a truly remarkable passage from Tom Miller’s strange and wonderful book, “Revenge of the Saguaro.” Fifteen years ago, an assembled crowd at Wizard Academy had the pleasure of Tom Miller reading this to us. We were mesmerized. The passage below was written […]

Monica Ballard “Self-Portrait in a Christmas Ornament” “Rose Pogonias” by Robert Frost

Now that “Way Back in the Long Ago” is completed and available at tribalgospel.com I am working on the completion of “The Great Writer’s Series.” This series will be launched with 10 albums of 1-hour each, featuring passages from the great novels, philosophers, poems, and songs of the world. The passage below is from “East […]

Monica Ballard knows why marketing campaigns fail. It’s not for lack of clever slogans, talented spokespeople, or catchy jingles. Monica says ad people fail when they try to project “perfection” rather than authenticity, which requires that you acknowledge the struggles and risks inherent in running a business. Monica is a veteran marketing strategist, storyteller, and one of […]

Nine distinctly different performances create “Three Passions: a Chant for a Journey”Let it play in the background while you are doing something else. Happy New Year! from the Tiny Tribe in the Rabbit Hole.

People have always worked, but they have only held jobs – with wages and employers and vacations and pink slips – for a very short time. And now, with the proliferation of cybernetics and robotics and automation of all types and degrees, jobs are on the way out again. In the context of history, jobs […]

“Noel” by J.R.R. Tolkien (1936) Lost for 80 years! Recently discovered by scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull in the archives of the annual magazine of Our Lady’s Abingdon, in Oxfordshire. Grim was the world and grey last night:The moon and stars were fled,The hall was dark without song or light,The fires were fallen […]

Only 1 person in 50,000 knows the whole story… The theme song “Linus and Lucy” was written by Vince Guaraldi, Copyright Lee Mendelson Film Prod., Inc. Two CBS Television Executives is from “Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography” by David Michael.

When Princess Pennie heard this Dorothy Parker collection of quotes, she exclaimed, “She wrote those things 100 years ago? I assumed that people were polite and proper and less colorful back then. But I guess we Americans have always been the way we are.”

  Four-time Olympian and bestselling author Ruben Gonzalez joins roving reporter Rotbart today for a conversation about perseverance, belief, and the wisdom of following leaders who have proven themselves to be worthy of your trust. Ruben Gonzalez is unusual among Olympians. He didn’t begin competing at an elite level until his mid-20s, and he never […]

Want to hear the ORIGINAL version of The 12 Days of Christmas? WARNING: There are no “Five Gold-en Riiings!” It’s song #17 on my Ancient Christmas Songs album.(There are two more albums at TribalGospel.com along with “Way Back in the Long Ago”) Likewise, the original line was NOT “Hark the Herald, Angels Sing!”when Charles Wesley […]

This week, roving reporter Rotbart and his deputy, Maxwell, offer their third annual holiday encore of their inspirational Yuletide tale, A Christmas Day Miracle, by Dean and Talya Rotbart. First published in 2021, A Christmas Day Miracle has become a holiday favorite. It is the true story of a man, Riyaz Adat, on death’s doorstep; […]

. . The soft blanket of summer wrapped them all in her warm embrace.Around the swimming beagles, bright stars danced on rippling waters like a thousand little fishes of light scurrying in a sea of darkness.Night is a time of reflection.Not of stars in water only, but of times past and times to come.And such […]

  David Ackert is making his list and checking it twice — but he’s no Santa Claus. The gifts David brings are powerful insights for professionals who want to grow. David Ackert challenges the long-held belief that success depends on building a massive network of connections. In his view, quantity is a distraction. The thing to do is cultivate a […]

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  Five years ago, Pennie saw that I was having a hard time staying warm, so she insisted on some medical tests. During my treadmill test, they realized that my maximum heart rate was slower than a normal person’s heart rate when they are asleep. When Dr. Abrams read my EKG, he was shocked. “Complete […]

Ken Lain’s father-in-law, Harold Watters, opened a garden center in semi-arid, mountainous Prescott, Arizona, in 1962. Six decades later, the average garden center isn’t giving the e-commerce companies and Big Box stores any real competition. But Ken, his wife, Lisa, and their daughter, McKenzie, have continued to make their third-generation garden center BLOOM! Today, the […]

“I’ve found that when a talented writer is operating with such wild poetic energy, such freedom from academic rules, social pressures, and normal expectations, that he or she is on the verge of losing control and crashing like a daring downhill skier, the resulting prose can be very nearly hallucinatory and absolutely exhilarating.”

A jazzman wails about the rain of Tom Robbins in thispassage from his novel, “Another Roadside Attraction”

Big Bob Bigelow reads from “Eve Goes to Hollywood” in Amor Towles’ novel, “Table for Two.”

Wild Willie Washington reads from “Skinny Legs and All” by Tom Robbins

“The Bearer of Evil Tidings” by Robert Frost

Steve Wunker believes that business owners and CEOs who harness AI to transform their companies into super-high-performing organizations are like octopuses. They are functioning with nine brains, eight arms, three hearts. They adapt rapidly and possesses exceptional intelligence. Steve advises companies like Microsoft, Meta, Nike, and the World Bank, on innovation strategy. He sees the […]