{"podcast":{"title":"Lions of Liberty Network","slug":"lions-of-liberty-network-169417","podcast_index_feed_id":169417,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/lionsofliberty","website_url":"https://LionsOfLiberty.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/264ccd56-3eaf-11ed-8984-23da9a3f9982/image/b1421f776ce81eeea6a8662b84e4ec7e.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Lions of Liberty","episode_count":1957,"summary":"Welcome to The Lions of Liberty Podcast Network - where culture, comedy, and capitalism collide. The true OG voice of liberty and freedom in the podcast space. We cut through the noise with razor-sharp takes on politics, free markets, and the cultural battles shaping our world. Whether you're a politically inclined free thinker or an entrepreneurial disruptor shaking up the status quo, the Lions of Liberty will deliver what you need. www.lionsofliberty.com","last_synced_at":"2026-09-26T20:20:25.072526+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417"},"episode":{"title":"TLPP: Jailed. Deported. 195 Countries. 499 Days. With Michael Zervos","slug":"tlpp-jailed-deported-195-countries-499-days-with-michael-zervos","published_at":"2026-07-23T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417/tlpp-jailed-deported-195-countries-499-days-with-michael-zervos","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417","url":"https://www.lionsofliberty.com/","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ENTSL8404425799.mp3","summary":"Michael Angelo Zervos is a Guinness World Record holder — he visited all 195 UN-recognized countries in 499 days. Along the way he interviewed people in every country about the happiest moment of their life. That project became a book, published by Penguin Random House, out February 23rd. We talked about: how the record works and what actually counts as \"visiting\" a country; a year and a half of planning vs. the Brazilian who claimed he did it by accident; getting jailed overnight in Liberia for taking a photo of a building; being deported from Nicaragua because they thought he was a journalist; how he got into North Korea during a two-week window that's since closed permanently; what North Korea is actually like (his answer: Plato's allegory of the cave, in real life); Cuba on the ground vs. what the left says about it; traveling through Ukraine, Palestine, Syria, and Sudan; asking people about happiness in active conflict zones; and what his grandfather being forced to fight for communist guerrillas in the Greek Civil War has to do with any of it. Get the book → The Happiest Moment of Your Life: True Stories from a Journey to Every Country in the World https://amzn.to/4pHdYav Follow Michael on Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/theprojectkosmos/ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 — Intro — who is Michael Angelo Zervos? 0:34 — Greeks in America — diners, Coney Islands, and the varsity jacket problem 5:05 — Christopher Nolan's Odyssey — not a single Greek in the cast 6:25 — 195 countries in 499 days — how the Guinness World Record works 8:04 — A year and a half of planning — and the Brazilian who claimed he did it by accident 9:33 — What counts as \"visiting\" a country? The Guinness rules 11:08 — Project Cosmos — interviewing people about the happiest moment of their life 13:13 —…","meta_description":"Michael Angelo Zervos is a Guinness World Record holder — he visited all 195 UN-recognized countries in 499 days. Along the way he interviewed people in e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3437,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lions-of-liberty-network-169417/episodes/tlpp-jailed-deported-195-countries-499-days-with-michael-zervos/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network-169417/tlpp-jailed-deported-195-countries-499-days-with-michael-zervos.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}