Rabbi Daniel Lapin
500 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 811 ratingsRabbi Daniel Lapin reveals how the world REALLY works and reminds us that the more things change, the more we need to depend upon those things that never change.
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Ep 45 | Live With Love & More Money by Never Saying (Or Believing) “I Am What I Am”
November 26, 2019 00:42 - 1 hourHow long would it take before a visitor to your home saw a shelf of books? Why this really matters. Want to change your actions? Simple! Change your beliefs. Your soul abhors a vacuum. Absent good beliefs, it will readily embrace bad beliefs and bad beliefs stimulate self-destructive actions. The real reason that certain courts no longer punish certain people for certain crimes. Being depraved is not the same as being deprived. True companionship comes from shared beliefs, not shared skin col...
Ep 44 | The 3-Stranded Cord That Will Not Easily Break: Money, Marriage, & ???
November 16, 2019 17:00 - 59 minutesWhy almost every airplane built flies reliably, almost every ship built floats, almost all skyscrapers erected stand, but many marriages and business start-ups fail. What is going on? The five reliable rules that govern both financial transactions and marital relations. Did you know that brands and franchises depend upon spiritual factors? What are they? The secret ingredient needed for effective partnerships that many mistakenly ignore. What do you teach the 20 year-old amnesiac who knocked ...
Ep 43 | Improve Your Friendships, Finances, & Family By Syncing Your Body and Soul
November 02, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourIf boys and girls are so interchangeable that boys can run, bike, and wrestle against girls, why does alcohol cause so much more havoc on girls’ brains than on boys’ brains? Why do far more girls deliberately cut their flesh than boys? Why does anyone cut themselves? Why do people pierce their tongues and bellybuttons? The connection between the bloody observance of the Muslim cutting festival of Ashura and high school girls cutting their skins. Does the Bible prohibit suicide? Where? Old Lat...
Ep 42 | Do You Know The Most Dangerous Place in America for Little Children?
October 26, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourThe government itself, no friend of the traditional family, admits that the most dangerous place for an American child, statistically speaking, is in a home with a single mother and her boyfriend. Notwithstanding the heroic achievements of certain rare and dedicated single moms who live heroic and self-sacrificing lives. Here’s a shocker: it’s just about as dangerous for a child to live with his mom and his dad, who are not married to one another. This is not a priest, pastor, or rabbi tellin...
Ep 41 | How Government Exploits “Climate Change” & Promotes Envy To Gain Power Over You
October 19, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourIt's the Great Greta Thunberg hoax. Inability to function in a modern economy is a far bigger threat to happy and successful living for today’s 16 year-olds than is the hoax of global warming. When today’s 16 year-olds are 21, 27, and 35, their problems will be finding and keeping a job, paying exorbitant taxes, and affording decent housing, not being swept away by rising ocean levels. Yet, government obsesses over climate change—Why? Let me explain why promoting climate change hysteria helps...
Ep 40 | Fathers Don’t Create Babies. No, Babies Create Fathers & Peace & Prosperity
October 12, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourMy guest, the brave and beautiful young Helga Lunenburg from Denmark came to America to warn us about politicians who tax us more and more in order to spend ever greater slices of our money on their wasteful, utopian & self-serving schemes. This bold, young 16 year-old Scandinavian schoolgirl wisely warns us that our economic future is imperiled unless we lower the national deficit. She courageously proclaims how her generation’s future is at risk because California’s liberal government creat...
Ep 39 | Men Praise Modern Masculinized Women And Secretly Crave Sweetness & Femininity
October 05, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourMeet the luckiest husband in all of Oregon. Food tastes better to a man when it is served by an apron-wearing woman they desire. A rabbinic request for more romance in the workplace. Women suffer depression at twice the rate of men. Really? Perhaps men just don’t share their pain. Is male depression under-reported? Didn’t you know that depressed men tend to be prone to violence? To be happy is to embrace your gender. My own encounter with racism and what going bald really means. In what way a...
Ep 38 | Why So Many Smart People Believe in Climate Change
September 28, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourWe all change our behavior on the basis of our beliefs, not the facts we learn. Beliefs lead to feelings which are emotional—facts are intellectual. We do things because we feel like it much more often than because we know we should. Recycling is the sacred sacrament of the religion of urban atheists, Secular Fundamentalism. It is based entirely on false beliefs and not on facts. The real reason why America’s temples of Secular Fundamentalism, the universities, hate Christianity but love I...
Ep 37 | Marrying a Woman and Making Money Both Turn Men Into Better People
September 21, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourHelp your children find a job or start a business and thereby make your home a nicer place. I might not have been as entertaining as President Trump or as brilliant as Bill Gates, but here’s why I was a better choice as a speaker for this event. Profit is not just important, it’s crucial. Learn why finding your anchor liberates you, and how you are bribed by your emotions and how they try to subvert your best judgment. Embrace change—don’t fear it. Remember the Leica camera? The magic of move...
Ep 36 | One Lens to Reality Makes You Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise. The Other Lens Does the Opposite.
September 14, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourWhy you should never take notes while listening to a lecture. Why Jewish last names usually advertised their owners’ occupations. Yes, a man may be somewhat more than his work, but surprisingly, not as much more as you’d have thought. The activity of work and money-making influences women’s personalities and identities far less than these things shape men. The real reason that unemployable people are not working: (Hint) It’s not because they don’t know how to fix computers or write software. ...
Ep 35 | How to Master the Curiously Complicated Machinery of Marriage
September 07, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourMost women want to give themselves to men they consider worthy of their surrender. What if the man of your dreams turns out to lack ambition, masculine mastery, and money sense? Let's revisit the time I took a strange woman dress-shopping. Is the man you’re married to now the product of your behavior over the past few years? Most women would like to be married to a man taller, smarter, and richer than they are. Think about boys who grow up with weak fathers and the spiritual power of divorce....
Ep 34 | The Ten Myths, Lies, and Delusions of Dating
August 31, 2019 16:00 - 2 hours1) We broke up weeks ago, so she'll be okay with me dating her roommate now. 2) My GF/BF is having dinner with her/his ex but it's nothing, they're just friends. 3) Everyone has one true soulmate somewhere and my purpose in dating is to find him/her. 4) You'll always recognize true love. 5) No, he doesn't have a job, but he can get one anytime he wants. 6) I know he says he's not interested in marriage, but he'll change his mind. 7) Hooking up is no big deal these days, right? 8) My in...
Ep 33 | If You’re Not a Politician, Judge, or Bureaucrat, You’re a Business Professional!
August 24, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourTry to make a movie or write a book in which the terrorists are Muslims and you’ll have CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) to deal with. Just try depicting a money-loving character in your movie as a Jew and you’ll feel the weight of the ADL (Anti Defamation League of Bnai Brith) drop on you like a bag of cement. Depict African-Americans or Italian-Americans badly and you’ll instantly incur the wrath of the NAACP or the Italian American Civil Rights League, respectively. So, aren’t ...
Ep 32 | Dealing With Death & How to Build Your Own Culture of Life
August 13, 2019 22:41 - 2 hoursWhy does the number of mentally ill individuals in America just keep climbing? Who said, “If you will not have God, you should pay your respects to Hitler and Stalin."? Let’s talk truthfully about mass shootings. First of all, unlike familicides or felony-related homicides, the perpetrators are almost always suicidal. Why are they also nearly always white men? Yes, they mostly involve firearms, but let’s seriously explore all the other commonalities they possess which are so very politically...
Ep 31 | Join Susan Lapin & Me Over Breakfast As We Make Our Way Through Today's Big Issues
August 03, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourRabbi Daniel and Susan Lapin converse over breakfast about the General Patton Principle. This explains why the most effective person to solve a particular problem may not be the most gentle, refined and polite person. General Patton and his 3rd Army beat back the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945, but his tirades were often vulgar and profane. Yet, not only did the men under his command love him but so did their mothers because they knew that he really cared about their sons...
Ep 30 | Read the Book, Don’t Worry About the Movie!
July 27, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourWon’t ya let me take you on a sea cruise? Johnny Rivers 1974 and Rabbi Daniel Lapin 2020. You need only three permanent principles in order to make sense of Robert Mueller’s testimony on Capitol Hill. Also, more news on Secularists Anonymous - my twelve-step program for recovering secularists. Seriously, guys, it’s no longer 1859 or even 1972. It’s time to get over it. A secular world view is just a failure. For instance, can you explain the Middle East without using words like "God" and "rel...
Ep 29 | Spiritual Strategies for Income Increase
July 20, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourDo you know the name of your most valuable employee? Do you know the name of the person most to blame for your problems and predicaments? Do you know the name of the person you are most responsible for educating and improving? Here's a clue: All three people carry the same name. Your physical characteristics are things like: height, skin color, hairstyle, and body type. Your spiritual characteristics are things like: integrity, resourcefulness, optimism, resilience, imagination, fluency and e...
Ep 28 | There Really Are No Poor People In America! Really!
July 13, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourSo, there was your Rabbi struggling with what to name this episode. At first, I thought of calling it “Even Poor People Deserve Compassion”. Then, I thought we’ll call it “Especially, Poor People Deserve Compassion”. Then, I thought about “We Love Poor People”. As you can see, the ideas were flowing fast and furious, but I was worried about appearing to lack compassion—one of the very worst sins in today’s secular theology. So, then I came up with “Poor People Means Virtuous People”. If you w...
Ep 27 | Hey Girl! Do You Really Want To Be Some Boy’s Girlfriend?
July 06, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourIf you liked being a happy warrior, well, I’ve upped the ante. It’s now a little harder. It’s easy to laugh when I speak about your rabbi (that would be me) revealing how the world REALLY works, but the truth is that learning how the world REALLY works and adapting to it is immensely painful. Having our illusions shattered is always painful; the slogan is easier than the reality. How the world REALLY works is quite different from the ways in which many of us wish it worked. Many fondly labor ...
Ep 26 | Why Keeping Illegal (or Legal) Immigrants Out of Your Country Is The Perfectly Moral Choice
June 30, 2019 15:50 - 1 hourNever use the word “fair”. The political landscape of many countries is changing because citizens are asking their governments, “What have you done to our country?” Please allow me to teach you the hierarchy of moral obligations. What does the Biblical dictum “Love your neighbor like yourself” actually mean? I tell you about two important books; but for your own health, tell nobody, not even your closest friends about them. Many secular liberals speak of compassion but practice very lit...
Ep 25 | Terrible Ideas Will Nearly Always Produce Terrifying Times
June 22, 2019 13:50 - 45 minutesYou’ll love taking this boat trip with your rabbi. The one big lie that, if you fall for it, will utterly distort your vision of your own life. Do you know the one colossal difference that forever distinguishes humans from animals? Clue: Progressives hate it. A few fun fire facts especially for happy warriors. Why do so many feel guilty about using a lot of energy? The difference that fire made to Adam and Einstein and why your electricity bill has skyrocketed. You’ll love this poem abo...
Ep 24 | Perhaps I Am No Cuddlier Than a Cactus But I Do Tell You The Truth!
June 15, 2019 11:00 - 1 hourResponding to a thoughtful listener’s letter attacking my views on marriage as “ridiculous”. Would we stand for a system that forces young people to undergo at least four years of religious indoctrination before getting on with their lives? Would we cruelly withhold jobs and employment from anyone brave enough to try and evade this brutal system of compulsory madrassas? Would we allow imams, clerics, and priests to impose their destructive dogmas on young minds? Of course not, right? But ...
Ep 23 | Why Progressives Hate The Wife Who Preaches “Look Nice For Your Husband"
June 08, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourI respond to a thoughtful listener’s letter charging me with ‘bias’ against Islam. After the Nazi surrender in May 1945, German youths didn’t inflict terror on London and New York to avenge the destruction of Dresden and the bombing of Berlin. After the surrender on the battleship USS Missouri in September 1945, Japanese youths didn’t form terror teams against America to avenge Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So why, for decades, have Muslim youths been committing atrocities against western civilians...
Ep 22 | Your Rabbi Answers Life’s Most Perplexing Puzzles, Problems, Predicaments & Paradoxes
June 01, 2019 16:00 - 2 hoursWhy does liberalism and home shopping dominate television while conservatism mostly finds its home on radio? Why is liberalism the creed of emotionalism? Who had done more good for the world - Calcutta’s Mother Theresa or Amazon’s Jeff Bezos? Why is our balance mechanism found in our ears? Aggressiveness vs modesty - Why do men and women’s biological structures reflect these differences? Newspapers never used to show pictures of corpses - why do they now do so? Why was it okay for Planned Par...
Ep 21 | We Bond Powerfully Through Both Marital & Financial Relationships: How They Differ
May 25, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourWhy does adultery inflict greater pain and suffering than corporate closures and job loss? In Governmental Indoctrination Centers (GIC’s), formerly known as public schools, little children are prematurely sexualized through a propaganda campaign known as Sex Education or Sex Ed. The argument is that children are “going to do it anyway” so we should teach them how to do it safely. Now, your Rabbi asks, let’s also have 'Gun Ed' since we know that children are “going to do it anyway”, that is pl...
Ep 20 | For Sale! Your Own Roadmap to Reality. Priceless But Free
May 20, 2019 00:46 - 2 hoursThe first time in human history that children knew more than their parents and how parents evade their responsibility to their children. The 25th word in the Bible, religious holidays and modern science. Surprising secrets of the casino’s roulette wheel. How humans got to planet earth. If you tell me your answer to this one question, I would know how you feel about wealth & poverty, marriage, taxation, public education and mental health. Why most societal destruction and violence is perpet...
Ep 19 | The Terrible Tragedy of Discovering the Truth Too Late
May 11, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourA tragedy is something that causes suffering, distress and destruction. A terrible tragedy is a tragedy that could have easily been prevented. Ancient Jewish wisdom can prevent those tragedies. When people marry without knowledge of how the world REALLY works, it’s usually just as tragic as when a pilot takes off in an airplane type for which he’s had inadequate training. When people choose careers or start families without any knowledge of the ages, it is nearly always a terrible tragedy. It...
Ep 18 | Find Your Way to God, Gold & Greatness Using a Microscope, Never a Telescope
May 04, 2019 16:10 - 44 minutesIs everybody’s work equally valuable and important? How can you tell the difference? I respect all humans who behave consistently with being created in the image of God, but do I respect all career choices, occupations, and professions equally? No, of course not, and neither do you. There are several key things to bear in mind when choosing a career path. What attributes does sprinter Usain Bolt share with an oil rig worker and a dentist? What does a professor of race and gender studies share...
Ep 17 | How You Can Identify Your Personal Egypt & How You Can Escape It
April 27, 2019 16:00 - 47 minutesMany of today’s problems are the result of bad choices you made yesterday. They put you in your own Egypt. Want to see the mugshot of your worst enemy? Easy — look on your driver’s license. It’s relatively easy to conceive a male baby: It only takes a minute or two. It’s a little harder to give birth to a male baby: it can take several hours. But it is a whole lot harder to turn a male baby into a son. That takes years. It takes years of knowing what to do and doing it. Societies that fail to...
Ep 16 | Untold Stories Surrounding the Notre Dame Fire: Muslims? An Ancient Curse?
April 20, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourAlthough riots slightly damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in the 16th century and the infamous French Revolution inflicted a little damage in the 18th, this fire was the worst damage the beautiful cathedral has ever sustained. In reporting on the Notre Dame fire, the news media ignored the many thousands of attacks, desecrations and vandalizations of European churches every year. Yes, thousands! And almost all perpetrated by Middle Eastern or North African immigrants or their children. There was e...
Ep 15 | How to be Happy: Form Strong Family Bonds and Make Money
April 13, 2019 16:00 - 1 hourThere is a real reason why airlines have become so much more punctual in keeping to their schedules than they used to be. Has global warming expanded the American continent, pushing Los Angeles and New York further apart? Amazon and the internet are not the only culprits killing off suburban shopping malls; a far more destructive force is imperiling the very existence of your local shopping mall. Is it true that atheism is growing and spreading like wildfire, consuming Bible-based Judeo-Chris...
Ep 14 | Hey Brides! Both is Best, but if You Must Choose, Money Beats Love
April 06, 2019 15:53 - 1 hourMen who marry moneyed maidens hoping to get their hands on her wealth deserve what they get, which most times won’t be good. But girls marrying guys with gold is quite different. Men who make money reveal much of their positive masculine desirability whereas a lady’s bank balance reveals nothing of her feminine desirability. Why do men in uniform fascinate females? Also, learn why, in 1970, AMC paid $75 Million for little more than rights to the Jeep car name. Other topics include: Yin & Yang...
Ep 13 | My Two Great Gifts to You: No More Bad Decisions & No More Procrastination
March 30, 2019 16:29 - 1 hourMany in the Bush family (sorry, I mean dynasty) with their long association with the Republican Party, admitted that they voted for Hillary Clinton in November 2016. So did dozens of other well-known journalists, pundits, policy-wonks, and political-hangers-on who had long been famous as conservative Republicans. All these intelligent people decided that Donald Trump was so terrible that Hillary and the four more years of Obamaville that she’d bring to the country would be a preferable fate...
Ep 12 | Does “The Swamp” Include Defense Contractors Endangering American Security?
March 23, 2019 16:17 - 1 hourI was wrong last week. The 737 MAX should have been promptly grounded on March 11th, 2019. Was history being written in the Ethiopian desert and off the coast of Indonesia? Sometimes history is written in just a few days. Are we witnessing the opening moves of America’s slide from #1 to #2 in commercial aviation? Why would the U.S. Justice Department launch an almost unprecedented criminal investigation of Boeing? The crashes of Lion Flight 610 and Ethiopian Flight 302 tragically killed 346 p...
Ep 11 | Don’t Get Grounded! – Keeping Your Family & Your Work Airborne
March 16, 2019 16:41 - 1 hour20 Questions that will help you discover if you truly know how the world REALLY works. Letters from listeners. Two Boeing airliners tragically crash; the real reason the 737Max was grounded. Are we willing and eager to end the more than 30,000 traffic fatalities a year in the United States? It can be done, you know. How would you vote? Don’t you care about people’s lives? The machinery of human society is infinitely more complex than a nuclear power plant. How, and why the left turned...
Ep 10 | Happiness Secrets: With Five Million Dollars, Would You Quit Working?
March 09, 2019 14:00 - 1 hourHow you answer the question that entitles this show will say a lot about whether you ever will have $5 Million. What produces more happiness, fun or work? Would you accept marital advice from a man who has never lived with a woman? But you might well accept car maintenance advice from a mechanic who has never owned a car. Would you take career advice from a man who has never held a job? But you might accept investment advice from an accountant who has much less money than you. Would any mom a...
Ep 9 | If Reckless Ruins Your Venture & Caution Causes Collapse, What to Do?
March 02, 2019 13:30 - 1 hourA guard at the notorious San Quentin Penitentiary near San Francisco takes issue with my overly broad characterization last week. Another California corrections officer comments on my preference for fines, flogging and execution over incarceration. A Colombian family writes from Singapore, to where they moved from Malaysia, telling of how they overcame dark times and broke through to prosperity. Then, it's on to the true story of how Bernie and Arthur got fired from a small hardware store in ...
Ep 8 | From Piano Performances To Prisons & Penitentiaries
February 23, 2019 17:00 - 53 minutesWho cares what men musicians look like? We only discuss their music. But when lady musicians are dressed a little provocatively, even a little sexily, we’ll comment on their music and also on their appearance. Is this wrong? Is this “sexism” (whatever that means)? There’s a growing group of attractive young female concert pianists who no longer perform in long gowns in muted colors. Few are more noticeable than Yuja Wang, and the music critic of the Los Angeles Times certainly did notice her,...
Ep 7 | The Worst Sixty Seconds of the 2019 State of the Union Speech
February 16, 2019 15:34 - 1 hourFor those of you who’ve been eagerly awaiting the day I criticize President Donald Trump, today is your day! Listen as I revile and repudiate the following phrase from the State of the Union: “All Americans can be proud that we have more women in the workforce than ever before.” Well, I am not at all proud of that. And neither should you be. The President and his speechwriters were pandering to the high priests of Secular Fundamentalism. 98% of speech therapists are women, but well under 1% o...
Ep 6 | A Short Voyage from 'It’s a Wonderful Life' to 'Zombie Apocalypse'
February 09, 2019 17:01 - 1 hourRabbi Daniel Lapin and his wife, Susan, take a lighthearted look at movies. Before World War II, about 0.3% of movies released were what we would call “horror movies”. By 1968, over 2% of movies were horror movies, by 2000 it was 4%, and by 2015 it was 12%. By then, zombies were taking over the (entertainment) world. To date, Hollywood has produced 1,000 more zombie movies than cowboy movies. The Walking Dead? Really? When did the zombie craze really take off? It was 1962. Yes, there’s that d...
Ep 5 | Since We All Know What to Do & What to Avoid—Why Do We Fail?
February 05, 2019 16:28 - 1 hourHow to prepare your children to be able to say “No!” What are our three main appetites, & how do they differ from one other? Why do so many smart, accomplished, powerful men who know better, act so badly towards women? The Torah prohibits Jews from eating pork, yet it is just as healthy as beef. So why are pigs, and other delicious dishes like crabs, lobsters, oysters, rabbits and snails prohibited to the people of Israel? What does this have to do with self-destructive sexual promiscuity?...
Ep 4 | The Question That Divides A Nation: Do Entrepreneurs & Employees Make Money Or Take Money?
January 27, 2019 02:38 - 58 minutesIf you have a few dollars, well, you didn’t MAKE that money—you TOOK it. This according to the economics professors who teach your children and help them form their worldviews. Do you patronize companies that give some of their profit to charity? I explain why they would be acting more morally by reducing the price of the goods you purchase. After all, why is it the company’s job to take additional money from you, the customer, to give to someone who is arbitrarily defined as a ‘charity...
Ep 3 | How Many Army Divisions Does the Pope in Rome Have?
January 19, 2019 12:00 - 45 minutesHere’s a tough one to swallow: Morality as we know it applies to individuals, not to nations! The United Nations is nothing but an illusion. An illusion promoted by some pretty horrid people, to be sure; but an illusion nonetheless. The International Court in The Hague? Puhleez, it’s a joke. You can ignore it. Everyone else does. If you don’t like what Russia is doing (whatever that is supposed to be), then stop whining. Just make sure we have the necessary military power and the will to...
Ep 2 | Let’s Face the Truth: The Left Is Turning America Into a Third World Nation
January 12, 2019 14:12 - 1 hourGuess who’s building the Argentina-Chile tunnel in order to lock up the world’s supply of Lithium (ion batteries). Yes, I’m talking about your mobile phone—the one you love so much! It was in 1956 that we saw one of the first movies to depict a Christian missionary negatively. Guess who owns Kenya’s new railway. And Kenya’s port of Mombasa (which like Somalia and Yemen, was also named in Hebrew). Guess who owns Zambia’s international airport and its electrical power grid. I hope you’re seei...
Ep 1 | The Real Reason Why There Have Always Been So Many Jews in Comedy
January 05, 2019 15:56 - 1 hourIf you’ve read my book, Thou Shall Prosper-The Ten Commandments for Making Money, then you already know why Jews are disproportionately good with money. You’ve probably already adopted those timeless truths into your own financial life to good effect, but none of that explains why over 80 percent of American comedians of the past 80 years are Jewish. While we’re talking laughter, why are the wicked villains of television and movies characterized by their evil laugh? Was Samson really a comedi...
Ep. 52 | One Of The Dumbest Things That Smart People Like Us Do All The Time.
December 29, 2018 23:18 - 51 minutesWhat is the semi-addictive behavior in which most of us engage to our own detriment? To what activity do most of us devote a shockingly high number of hours each week for which we get zero benefit? What is worse, this activity not only brings no benefit but it actually causes damage to us. If evil enemies wanted to harm the United States of America and render it weak both economically and militarily, they couldn’t have come up with a better plot than this one in which we willingly collabor...
Ep. 51 | Feminism was Caused by Boys Who Never Matured into Men
December 22, 2018 17:00 - 1 hourWhy did The Donna Reed Show help marriages while The Gilmore Girls hurt them? And how did boys start reneging on the social contract to become men back during the 1960s? Until then, boys sought to grow into men who would marry and who would cherish and protect their wives. Then, in what will turn out to be history’s most remarkable case of mass arrested development, little boys grew into big boys and big boys became 40 year-old adolescents. Men surrendered their natural authority in relations...
Ep. 50 | Never Say “Happy Holidays” | No! Save Civilization by Saying “Merry Christmas”
December 15, 2018 17:00 - 1 hourCulture is not the same as civilization. There are thousands of cultures but only one civilization. Banks & bathrooms in Beijing, Bombay, and Bangkok grew to resemble such institutions in Boston, Birmingham, and Berlin; not the other way around. Along with millions of others who voted with their feet, you and I also prefer civilization to any of the countless cultures we could have lived in. The problem is that civilization is a frighteningly fragile flower. What happens when we clip that flo...
Ep. 49 | Don’t Be a Digital Dunce: Know Your Numbers & Achieve!
December 08, 2018 13:00 - 47 minutesNumbers are your portal to progress. What happened to England when all Jews were expelled? What happened to England when they returned? Start devoting a few hours every week to improving your numerical literacy. Stop telling yourself you can’t do math. Nothing too complicated, just start on becoming more familiar with numbers than you are. In Hebrew all five verbs for counting each also mean aristocrat (count) or prominence, power, and prestige. Amazing Biblical coincidences. When you...
Ep. 48 | Making Money Means Mastering Money: Here’s How
December 01, 2018 17:00 - 56 minutesBy far, the majority of people around you understand money as well as they understand magnetic resonance imaging. Which is to say, not much! As a not-very-successful fisherman in the cool, deep waters of British Columbia, I learned that you can’t possibly put salmon on your grill without understanding salmon. Similarly, you can’t put money in your bank without understanding money. And putting money in your bank is important. In 1925, President Calvin Coolidge said, “The chief business of the ...