Rabbi Daniel Lapin's podcast

Won't ya let me take you on a sea cruise? Johnny Rivers 1974 and Rabbi Daniel Lapin 2020. The only 3 permanent principles you need to make sense of Robert Mueller's testimony on Capitol Hill. More news on Secularists Anonymous, my 12 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 religion? Okay, you asked for it. Another story about Llucky, the Llama belonging to the Llapins. Why you should pay as much attention to what people do NOT say as you pay to what they do. The titanic struggle between the G and the g.

Do 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? Clue: All three carry the same name. Your physical characteristics: height, skin color, hairstyle, body type. Your spiritual characteristics: integrity, resourcefulness, optimism, resilience, imagination, fluency & eloquence. Unless you are a swimsuit model, your spiritual attributes can make you far more money than your physical. So how do you improve them? Well, that's why you're listening to this show. Stand by to learn priceless strategies.

So 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 how 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 I came up with this one "Poor People Means Virtuous People". If you want to know why, in the end, I chose the title I did use, listen on. Now, for those of you who plan to write to me in righteous indignation howling in protest at this podcast, I will save you time and trouble. Just cut and paste from what follows: Doesn't your faith command you to care for the poor? How dare you deny their existence! You're such an ignoramus, you don't you even know that over 30 million Americans live below the poverty line. I suppose you think it's their fault. That's called blaming the victim you heartless human being. There, see how helpful I can be? Now if you invest the time to listen, you'll hear the answers to all those questions and many others you may not have yet thought of.

If 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. 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 under the delusion that we live in a secular age in a secular world. Nothing could be further from the truth. I explain why I feel nothing but compassion towards former secularists who are having their entire world views obliterated. Secularism is the tired expression of yesterday's cultural dinosaurs whose perception of reality is being pulverized. Only anti-scientific secular dinosaurs would believe dogmatically that a man can become a woman. Only tired and aging secularists would believe that it costs nothing if the government pays for it. Why the 1999 movie, The Matrix helps explain the quandary of secularism today. People used to think that the more educated and wealthy a society became, the more secular it would be. The growth of Islam, Christianity and Judaism thoroughly refutes that lie. My trip to Ghana last week where 70% of the population is Christian. Where over a billion Africans are headed. Why it is MUCH harder for women to find good men to marry than it is for men to find good women. The only four conditions of womanhood; hint: girlfriend is not one of them. Wise women seek security and all wives thrive in its cocoon. Men's failure since 1962 to be able to project power; not brutality, not tyranny, not bullying but calm competent benevolent good masculine power.

Never 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 little of it themselves. Boasting of your commitment to "Women's Rights" while betraying your wife. Caring less about those closest to you. The reprehensible evil of government taxing the legacy you bequeath to your children. Is it unseemly for me to care so much more about my children than I care about your children? Are you willing to pull the trigger on military reprisals? Why the state desires to educate your child. How political propaganda changes your mind. Why it is moral for any state to view its citizens as more valuable than any other people in the world. Would you like to hear about the guests who came to dinner and never left?

You'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 about a boat trip. Resolving a perplexing and prophetic Bible passage about…..batteries! Find spiritual joy and existential ecstasy by using energy.

Responding 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 we do just that! Secular Fundamentalism is a religion; it's a militant faith, a community of shared values, heresies and sacraments. Today's modern secular fundamentalism has its fanatics and its saints and we force millions of tomorrow's leaders into bowing down to its idols. The power of numbers over stories. Making important life decisions with our heads and never with our hearts. How to decide just who among us gets the rare and desirable resources we all covet.

Responding 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 US Missouri in September 1945, Japanese youths didn't form terror teams against America to avenge Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why for decades have Moslem youths been committing atrocities against western civilians for perceived wrongs going back to the 17th century? Why many so-called "accident-prone" children bring painful incidents upon themselves. Why most Germans allowed their government to import over a million young men bent on dominating Germany and destroying it. What Russian soldiers did to German women in 1944/1945. How men and women react differently to "pointless" telephone conversations. The scariest words any man will ever hear. Why belief trumps biology and feelings trump facts. Progressives' silly faith in electric transportation. Remember you heard it here first: No electric passenger planes in your travel future. Today's titanic struggle between Truth and Materialism. Which marriage model do you prefer? Progressives are wrong; not everything about yesterday is mistaken, ignorant or evil.

Why does liberalism and home shopping dominate television while conservatism mostly finds its home on radio? Why is liberalism the creed of emotionalism? Who has done more good for the world-Calcutta's Mother Theresa or Amazon's Jeff Bezos? Why is our balance mechanism found in our ears? Aggressive vs modesty-Why do men and women's biological structure reflect these differences? Newspapers never used to show pics of corpses; why do they now do so? Why was it okay for Planned Parenthood sell body parts of babies they killed but a fully grown adult may not sell one of his kidneys? Why do doctors not simply vote cancer out of existence just as they did with other disorders? Why is political liberalism often equated with moral virtue but conservatism never is? Why are limits on political campaign finance immoral? Why does government want to force people out of their cars and into buses and trains? Why the question of whether we evolved or were created is not a scientific question but a life decision. Why is charity important even if you don't have much money?

How adultery inflicts 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 know 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 play with firearms, we should teach them how to do it safely. Why this will never happen in your lifetime. When a policeman shoots a black man, without knowing anything else we instantly know that he did it because he was a racist. When a homosexual is attacked in a bar during a drug deal gone bad, everyone knows without doubt that those attacking him did so out of their hate for homosexuals. But when a fervent Moslem steeped in the theology of Jihad, murders a westerner while yelling Allahu Akbar, authorities spend months futilely trying to discover his motivation. Inevitably they give up or ascribe it to 'workplace violence'. Why can't the Left accept the flaws of followers of Islam at face value? Furthermore, the Left considers Bible believing Jews and Christians to be greater threats to peace and progress than murderous Moslems; why? Whatever two adults do sexually is not government's business but when two adults engage in a free, consensual, economic or business transaction, government regulates it, controls it, taxes it, maligns or prohibits it. The Left gives a free pass to adulterers who ruin lives while they focus their fury on business professionals who improve lives. Why is our appetite for sex so understandable while our appetite for money so demonized? The difference between the two repugnant revolutions, French and Russian, and the two benign revolutions, English and American, that still shape our century.

The 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 perpetrated by single males. What the name of Israel's national airline, El Al, means. Amazing story of the discovery of microbes. Why water is approximately 70% of people and also 70% of earth's surface. The world's most successful treatment for alcoholism. Why do some people risk their lives to save/help a stranger? How do placebos work? How a rabbi with the same last name as mine cured a war veteran with a paralyzed arm. A strange conversation with a cow. How to discover whether you are a consumer or a creator; a maker or a taker. Why the inheritance tax is immoral. When your children should betray you. The real source of the joy in physical intimacy between a man and woman.

A 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 didn't have to happen and it is almost impossible to repair. Young people are vulnerable to immoral professors spewing propaganda partially because they have no knowledge of the ages. If a 23 year-old techie tells me that super-injection is now possible in single material semiconductors, I am astounded at his knowledge and assume he's right. If that same individual tells me that men can become women or that the profit motive is obnoxious, I weep at his folly. If we lived for 1,000 years, by the time we reach middle age we'd all be quite smart. Tragically, many dreadful mistakes foisted upon us by a revolutionary and progressive culture only get debunked after we've ruined our lives following them. (Hope you're listening, young women!) Why talking to an old person could be the best afternoon you've spent in years. We used to be led by 'Elders"—today we praise some very stupid politicians because they're young and fresh-faced. New is a useful marketing word, but it has nothing to do with truth. The gift of ancient Jewish wisdom is living as if we all had 1,000 years of life experience.

Is everybody's work equally valuable and important? How you can 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. The key things to bear in mind when choosing a career path. What athlete Usain Bolt shares with an oil rig worker and a dentist. What a professor of race and gender shares with a graffiti artist. A surprising number of people think the moon landing in 1969 was a hoax but what actual benefits did it really yield? Do you know what a black hole is? Do you care? Do you know what a dental implant is? Do you care? Most things you care about came about because of microscopes, never telescopes. Why you probably respect mechanics and musicians more than astrophysicists and artists? Finding your connection to God through an ear rather than through a galaxy.

Many 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 produce sons but only produce male human beings is a doomed society. Sons come into existence only after years of fathers and mothers working together. Lessons from Passover… "When your son will ask you…". Discovering the name of the person most responsible for your failures and disappointments and turning things around. Who really enslaved the Israelites? Who enslaved you? Seeing the future is the only way to escape past.

Although 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 the Notre Dame fire, the news media ignored the many thousands of attacks, desecrations and vandalizations of European churches every year. Yes, thousands! Almost all perpetrated by Middle East North African immigrants or their children. There was even an attempt to blow up Notre Dame with a car bomb in 2016. The convicted Islamic terrorist, Inez Madani, was sentenced to 8 years in jail just 72 hours before the Notre Dame fire broke out. There was another big fire right in front of Notre Dame on June 17th, 1242. They burned about 25 wagon loads of irreplaceable Hebrew manuscripts. That fire burned for two days. A connection? Catholic-Jewish relations weren't what they are today. Happily times have changed. Airbus is almost part of European government. And Boeing isn't a part of American government? We explore reasons for price of Boeing stock, and it includes bribery and corruption. Try bribery and corruption using the Baltimore city government model. Why news media lean so far to the left and why journalism breeds envy and resentment. Enjoy!

The real reason that 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 a wildfire consuming Bible-based Judeo-Christian faiths in its insatiable lust for secularizing the world? I am surprised you even ask! But I have the answer for you. One thing that is definitely increasing is the number of young Americans taking anti-depressant drugs. Does secular liberalism make societies rot?

Men who marry a moneyed maiden 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 men in uniform fascinate females. Why in 1970 AMC paid $75M for little more than rights to the Jeep car name. Yin & Yang, Grand Coulee Dam, and why weddings happen after men propose to women not the reverse. The Beatles lied in 1967 when they sang "All You Need is Love". The real meaning of the Biblical jewelry when he gave her gold at that desert well where Rebecca was betrothed to Isaac, sight unseen, and the future of Israel was assured. When he says "I love you" does he mean it the same way as he says, "I love roast turkey"? A great Russian novelist accurately wrote "Money is coined liberty". A financially ambitious man is far more likely to love freedom than a community activist, a politician, or a government bureaucrat. A great American novelist accurately wrote "The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably but the man who respects it has earned it." Such a man is a far better bet for a good woman than a man who can do no more than express pretty feelings about her which in truth camouflage selfish intent.

Many in the Bush family, sorry I mean dynasty, with their long association with the Republican Party, admitted that they voted for Hillary 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 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 for America. Some have now admitted that they were wrong. Many haven't. My question: What explains how intelligent people can make really stupid decisions? I ask you to recall your own bad decisions and we analyze how they happen. In this show we allow ancient Jewish wisdom to explain how easily this can happen to you, how to recognize it in yourself and how to defend against it. Now for the most valuable part of this show: The Biblical secret for overcoming procrastination and how to use it in your life. You know that one thing you have been putting off doing? That one thing which would really enhance your life if you could just get around to doing it? But you procrastinate. Well, here's how to put procrastination behind you. Now!

I was wrong last week. The 737 MAX should have been promptly grounded 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 US Justice Dept launch an almost unprecedented criminal investigation of Boeing? The crashes of Lion flight 610 and Ethiopian flight 302 tragically killed 346 people. Could subsequent events prove even more costly? Were they really accidents or were they completely avoidable consequence of corrupt collaboration between corporate interests and government. Should it worry us that America's new Secretary of Defense worked for Boeing for 30 years. What Boeing's stock price should tell us. Like Europe's Airbus, China is waiting to scoop up world-wide twin engine single aisle passenger aircraft business. What if America's FAA has irreparably lost international prestige? Why did Boeing put two huge modern engines on a fifty-year old airframe? Why decide to omit information from instruction manuals about a computer system that can override the pilot? You wouldn't buy a car that did that. Is Western defense and American security being held hostage by "The Swamp"? My prediction about when the 737 MAX will again take to the skies. Why you will remember the first quarter of 2019 as history-making in American politics.

20 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 737 Max 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 the word "nationalist" into a curse. Why you risk your life if you identify as a patriotic American on a university campus. Let the Bible explain why international law is a farce and the United Nations a travesty. The New Zealand mosque massacre. The American university admission scandal. Fixing a few of the many fatal flaws in American university education. Song credit: "If Not for You" - Olivia Newton-John

How you answer the question that entitles this show will say a lot about whether you ever will have $5M. 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 accept advice about how many children to have, from a woman who has never had children? The crucial difference between data and wisdom. Will the arrival of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars put millions out of work? Could you find as much meaning in leisure as in work? Which is more important; what you know or what you are? The ten measures of human greatness.

A 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 Columbian family writes from Singapore to where they moved from Malaysia telling of how they overcame dark times and broke through to prosperity. That's it for reader feedback for this show and now on to the true story of how Bernie and Arthur got fired from a small hardware store in 1978 and started Home Depot. Wasn't that a great response to losing a job? How 120 million Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, and Portuguese are enjoying their siestas and retirements on the work of 80 million Germans; not to mention the 1.5 million Moslem immigrants they're also supporting. If you're trying to start a business or grow one, you have to think outside the box; you must escape the confinement of the conventional. But if you leap too far out of the box, if you're too unconventional, you might be stepping over the legal line. Yet, if all you do is repeat what others before you have done, your business will fail. What's one to do? Happily there is an answer that pops out of one little verse in Deuteronomy and which Jews have used for generations to achieve financial abundance. Now you can too.

Who cares what men musicians look like. We discuss only 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. Which ignited a firestorm of controversy in the Washington Post. Your rabbi found it all highly entertaining and he hopes you will too. And Yuja Wang really is an amazing pianist! A brief rabbinic lesson on zippers in ladies fashion. And now, from the performance to the penitentiary. You'll never guess what is shared in common by large numbers of men who are serving life sentences but by almost no incarcerated women. Why I would shut down every last prison and jail immediately even if it means releasing every convict. And I am tough on crime! Really.

Okay, for all those of you who've been eagerly awaiting the day I criticize President Donald Trump, today is your day! Listen to the phrase in the State of The Union Speech I revile and repudiate! "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% of construction industry jobs are held by women. Wives save their husbands from being hermits. Wives and moms build communities and neighborhoods. Huge numbers of wives whose husbands earn enough, do enthusiastically quit the work force. And this is good for everyone other than Democrat Party (Yes! Call it that) politicians who'd rather tax two incomes. Hear my interview of Tom Ziglar who just wrote a terrific new book, "Choose To Win". He is not only the son of the late great Zig Ziglar, but he is also a cherished friend. We cover his book, growing up as the son of Zig, and the marriage of his parents. Secular Fundamentalism, the flip side of the Judeo-Christian Bible faiths, loathes anything with Biblical roots and nothing more than marriage and family. Their message to women: "You don't need a husband, all you need is the government." Why are over 80% of women on welfare, single? Because that is exactly what radical socialists want. But there's hope.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin and his wife Susan take a lighthearted look at movies. Before World War 2, about 1/3% 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 date again. Could there be any meaningful correlation between the extirpation of Judeo-Christian Bible faith from everyday life and the rise of zombie horror taking its place? As religion's ability to help us cope with death declined, did we turn to "zombie escapism"? Michael Jackson, the boy who never got old, and his music video-Thriller. The arrival of ten-minute movies brought to you by Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg—for your phone! If you don't consciously "choose life" the automatic default is 'death'. From abortion to euthanasia, what a large crowd of people do does matter.

How 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? How has not eating pork helped Jews make better financial decisions? Can people of every religious background and no religious background also benefit from these timeless truths? Being engaged is not supposed to be fun. The difference between investing and gambling. The big question to ask guys who want to date your daughter. Develop passion for the work you do. Four categories that include everything on the planet. Why executing murderers is moral.

If 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 recipient'. Are companies now in the redistribution business? Must be why more and more companies boast of how much they 'give away'. The majority of students believe that corporations and businesses are under the moral obligation to fulfill the social promises rashly made by politicians. They believe that businesses have more important obligations than making money for their owners. They believe the equation Poverty = Virtue and wealth is, in itself, evidence of moral malfeasance. Where does this all end? Can we fix it?

Here'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 project it. That way you can tell them to cut it out. Otherwise you're nothing but a buffoon. Remember one president who told us that he told Mr. Putin to "just cut it out"? If you don't like China's progress to colonial power and world domination, well just make sure you have the power. International relations operate not on paper but on power. Spend all your political capital on imaginary climate problems, placating the whining gender/homeless/race/kindergartens and building windmills, and you can whistle while other less stupidly encumbered nations rule the world. Just a word to the wise, it's more fun being a citizen of a powerful nation than of a weak one. Did I always want to be a rabbi? Actually, no. What did I really want to be? How do I keep up my schedule without relaxation? What incident in history would I like to witness? What is the saddest thing I often see? These are some of the questions that Cornerstone Television asked me. To my shock, I discovered just how open and candid were my answers. You'll hear it all and more on this show. Enjoy!

Guess 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 seeing a pattern here because Our-Hate-America-Left does not. They are still myopically obsessed with Russia as the existential threat. Who has just built one of the longest bridges in Africa in the Congo? Hint: It wasn't the Russians. The Congo possesses huge reserves of both uranium and natural gas. Guess who gets that now. Both Congos are more concerned about election fraud than we are. In 1900 Joseph Conrad published his wonderful novel set in the Congo, Heart of Darkness. Francis Ford Coppola based his movie Apocalypse Now on Conrad's novel. Back then Africa was the 3rd-World. When I motorcycled through Africa in 1969, it was still the 3rd-World. It is no longer the 3rd-World. It is moving rapidly toward 1st-World conditions. The United States, however, is moving just as rapidly towards 3rd-World conditions. The New York Times in a rare burst of candor, called Los Angeles 'capital of the third world." I show you ten metrics including water, transportation, corruption, public hygiene, & tribalism that confirm that we are heading towards 3rd-World living. Acknowledging the problem is always the first step towards its solution.

If 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% 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 comedian? The only one in all the Bible? Why most jokes revolve around the bedroom, the bathroom, and the church/synagogue. Really terrible news for South Africa. 1 + 1 = 2 only according to the old, white, colonial way of thinking, claims the University of Cape Town. Why Wrestlemania took off so successfully in the 1980s. Why a shared sense of humor is vital for couples contemplating marriage. Enjoy!

What 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 collaborate. Not surprisingly, those weakest members of society, the least productive and most destructive, spend most time on this harmful thing. Do you really want to promote uniformity of thought? Do you really want to eliminate all individuality and all diversity of outlook? Well, just continue doing what you're already doing and encourage others to do the same. Is there a solution? Of course! Do you really think your rabbi would leave you dangling?

Why the Donna Reed Show helped marriages while The Gilmore Girls hurt it. How boys started reneging on the social contract to become men back during the 1960s. Till 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 relationships. They then renounced responsibility so, understandably, the women had to step in. Whether in politics, business, or male/female relationships, nature abhors a vacuum.

Culture 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. But what happens when we clip that flower off its roots? Why does it take so much more work and time to build a house than to demolish it? What does that have to do with the advantages that liberalism, progressivism, and socialism seem to possess among young voters in many countries? Why politicians and bureaucrats exempt themselves from the laws and regulations they religiously impose upon others.

Numbers 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 can effectively number something, you can effectively change it. Your weight, your bank balance, your number of friends, your charitable giving. Numbering everything is a key to success. Gradually grow in numerical literacy to the point you'll get to understand statistics, probability and calculus.

By 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 American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world." Isn't that true for you? The spiritual nature of money and why the week should be five days long but isn't. Why secular fundamentalists equate economic prosperity with moral depravity. Why atheists usually see profit as plunder. Why no atheistic society has ever created a vibrant economy. How this can help you in your work.

Men are hardwired to want to make their wives happy. We genuinely are happier when our wives are happy. And we are miserable when our wives cry. The problem is that most of us men are pretty clueless as to how to make wives happy. And what makes it even harder is that wives never want to tell husbands how to make them happy. While not disparaging gifts, remembering important dates, and breakfast in bed, in this show we explore the other really important things that make wives happy. For maximum happiness, a newly married man should strive every day to be worthy of his wife's admiration. When can he finally relax and just be himself? When he dies! How building a beautiful bridge resembles building a beautiful marriage—and how it differs. A man's body will always follow the logic of his deepest convictions; he will be attracted to the woman who reflects his noblest vision of himself. Website: www.aajc.org

Conservatives frequently misunderstand the battleground. They try to refute beliefs with facts. Won't work! Never has; never will. Crusaders will always defeat accountants. Believers will always defeat policy wonks. The committed will always defeat the complacent. Remember when the Moors invaded Spain? Well, one afternoon in the year 720, a brave Catholic priest bravely confronted the Moslem mob saying, "We should get together and hold a big symposium about the future of religious pluralism on the Iberian peninsula." The Moslems removed his head, desecrated his church and converted it into a mosque. They then moved on to the next town where the same scenario was repeated. The religious believer doesn't engage in discussion and debate with heretics. The religious believer silences, suppresses, and if necessary, does away with the heretic. Nothing but unconditional surrender is acceptable in religious warfare. Compromise is anathema. In this show I prove all the above and clearly demonstrate that at the present time, America is not torn by political incivility but it is torn by a war between two opposing and incompatible (religious) belief systems. Which side wins will determine the future of your family, your community, your country, and possibly the world. And there is a way for conservatism to win; it's all about putting the severed flower back on the rose bush.

I always thought that the fashion industry was just decadent, but apparently not. Clothing possesses a profoundly spiritual aspect. Most male birds like peacocks and cardinals are strikingly colorful while the female looks dull. However, last time I was at a charity banquet, the men were all bland and drab in black suits and white shirts while the women were resplendent in every color of the rainbow. Does the difference suggest something useful about male/female relationships? Is the Bible, man's book about God, or God's book about mankind? How to make a squirrel hibernate in July. The most effective way to wake up in the morning. Making your subconscious work for you. Why last week's podcast was withdrawn. Why the euphemism of 'sleeping' with someone makes sense. What happens when we don't get enough sleep. Why God just hates unisex clothing.

Welcome to the church of Secular Fundamentalism. Many, and probably most American cities dump their carefully collected "recyclables" into the local landfill! That's right! After you laboriously separate your pizza boxes and beer cans from your papaya skins and T-Bone steak left-overs, after you arduously rinse out spaghetti sauce jars and baked bean cans, and after you religiously do all this and place each in its designated container, your city picks it up and dumps it all into exactly the same landfill into which they put your baby's dirty diapers and the avocado pits from yesterday's guacamole. China is tired of being the trash dump for North America. "Recycling" is impossibly expensive and hopelessly uneconomical, in other words, if you did manufacture plastic or glass bottles out of trash produced by your city, nobody would purchase your products as they'd cost so much more than freshly manufactured equivalents. How companies lie when they tell you their products contain 30% recycled material. The religion of Secular Fundamentalism has its saints and its sinners like most other religions. It should cost no more than $5/month to get rid of your household trash; check your city bill now! Meanwhile, continue being forced to participate in the sacred sacraments of the official government religion of Secular Fundamentalism and genuflect in your kitchen before the blue cylindrical shaped idol that you piously feed with carefully selected tidbits.

If Americans in favor of abortion knew some truths about the abortion industry, would they change their minds? Is that fear causing suppression of the new Gosnell movie, "Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer"? Kermit Gosnell was a cruel and callous murderer operating an abortion mill staffed by unqualified teenagers. Why wasn't he subject to the health inspections that even dentists and nail salons endure? How could he kill babies and adults in disgustingly filthy surroundings for so long? Susan joins me to discuss the movie and why, even if you don't want to, you should see it. We also talk about why women who starve themselves because they wrongly think they are fat, are appropriately treated medically, but men who think they are women are indulged. What does "therefore choose life" actually mean in the Bible. Does revoking Roe v. Wade make abortion illegal?

We're all fallible outside our areas of expertise, even famous heart-surgeons and billionaires. Why many bright celebrities who predict that tech will make work obsolete are foolish. Why many clever pundits who predict that men will come to prefer robots to women are foolish. The only way the government can give some people money is by first taking it from others. It does so by imposing confiscatory rates of taxation and by printing money. Why both activities leave you with less of your own money. Many intelligent and accomplished people who lack all wisdom have been predicting the end of work since 1801; tech advances will put millions out of work. Why they always have been wrong and always will be wrong.

Virtually all political debate, conflict, and hostility today is between the state religion of the American government and ruling classes, namely Secular Progressive Fundamentalism and the more conservative outlook springing from the Bible-based Judeo-Christian tradition. This religion, SPF, has also been embraced by the European Economic Union and by almost all universities and educational systems. They worship the small 'g' of government. On the other side is arrayed a loose alliance of citizens ranging from those who do not subscribe to any religion but resent the way that the Left forces its faith down their throats all the way to fervent Christian and Jewish Bible believers who turn to the big 'G' of God. The passage of time and events is making almost everyone become more fervent devotees of whatever side of the great cultural divide on which they have placed themselves. Secular Progressive Fundamentalism views the Biblically-based Judeo-Christian system as a terrible obstacle to progressive hegemony. I view it as quite vital for the survival of civilization. One of the most significant differences is that the SPF religion treats feelings as far more important than facts and the heart far more important than the head. Find out what I discover when asking people I meet, "Where in the Bible do we find the verse, 'And you shall surely follow your hearts!'? How SPF and its listen-to-your-heart doctrine can really harm your life.

Don't be overwhelmed by today's events in your business, family, or our politics. Seek understanding of the original causes. A tyrannical state, through hysterically emotional courtrooms, ruthlessly ambitious and corrupt prosecutors, and political-wind-sniffing judges, frequently destroys the lives of law-abiding American citizens. Sarah Good and 4 other innocent women were executed in Massachusetts 1692 for being witches! With no conviction ever, Ray Buckey spent 5 years of his life in jail in the McMartin preschool case in Southern California during the 1980s. Members of the Amirault family of Massachusetts spent even longer in jail for crimes they never committed in the shamefully notorious Fells Acres Day Care Center case in the same decade. In 1987, Judge Robert Bork had his career and reputation severely damaged by U.S. senators led by Ted Kennedy preaching sanctimoniously to Judge Bork and denouncing him for imperiling the lives of women. This, less than 20 years after Kennedy had killed Mary Jo Kopechne. In 1991 Judge Clarence Thomas was subjected to what he called a 'high tech lynching' with senators destroying his reputation on the unsubstantiated accusations of one woman. What happened to Brett Kavanaugh on September 27th, 2018 was not unprecedented. The trampling of the constitution by very bad people in power has been going on for a very long time. Whether in business, families, or politics, watch the trend rather than just the event. A Powerful Permanent Principle: Seek out original causes of today's disturbing events and above all, reduce the size and power of government.

"I do want to get married. I just haven't found the right girl yet" he said to me. In this show you'll hear what I said to him. You will probably never guess when the right time is to start your child's moral education. These are two of the questions I discuss in this show which is a speech I delivered in Dallas last Sunday. I speculate on why I sound different when I speak to a live audience from how I usually sound on this show. Some of the other questions I answer are these: why God chose Abraham. The surprising reason that Hitler and his Nazi war machine invaded Russia in summer 1941 instead of finishing off England. Did Hitler really never hear about Napoleon's ill-fated attempt to do the same thing in 1812? Can a multi-divorced person become a good marriage therapist? The surprising four areas of human development that enable us to become fully integrated people. How Bible study resembles landing a jet fighter on the deck of an aircraft carrier.

Isn't technology wonderful? Sure; it's given us marvelous medicines, instantaneous communication & spectacular entertainment. But it's also given us hackers who can steal our identities, bosses who expect responses from us at midnight, and a cornucopia of pornography. In other words, technology increases the possibility of good but it also amplifies the bad. Good societies use it to spread information and participation while rogue regimes use it to repress and control. Technology can assist good educators while it allows bad educators to distract their students. When did technology begin? What word in the Bible provides tech's moral edict? Have there been periods of faster and also slower technological transformation? What you need to know about the next ten years.

Why you could have once watched me demolishing a huge ants nest. Why an utterly chaste nun in Florida contracts an STD while hedonistic people in California seem to cavort concupiscently with impunity? How even untrue ideas spread across groups of people and through entire societies with almost virus-like effectiveness. How a Belgian rogue plagiarized a brilliant South African scholar. If the Internet and telephone systems are the country's nervous system, what is its digestive system?

Why a large white llama wandered around the Lapin family's dinner table. Why movements and organizations with no attractive young women involved are doomed. Does the animal rights movement attract young women? Are circuses, dolphin shows and even zoos unethical? Who caused the changes in packaging for animal crackers? You don't own your pet; you are a guardian to your animal companion. Admittedly it's a sad choice but would you kill six bunny rabbits (or chimpanzees) in order to save the life of one child? Not everyone agrees. You do not have to accept my definition of ethics. The very real political peril caused by the animal rights movement. Toilet paper is unethical, really!

The powerful attractions that most of us feel towards both physical intimacy and money are really no more than the two components of the force of attraction. Both the pleasure of sensual fulfillment and the pleasure of acquiring money are attained only with the participation of another person. Do you know anyone who doesn't want to have more money? Do you know anyone who doesn't want to have a joyous marriage and fulfilling family life? There may be one or two outliers, but almost everyone we know, and we bet this is true for you as well, would like more income and great relationships. Just like making delicious omelets or performing delicate brain surgery, knowing exactly what you're doing makes a successful outcome more likely. And key to that is wrapping yourself around the shocking idea that male-female relationships and money are really just two sides of the same coin. How the Obama years indoctrinated millions of good people with bad ideas and infected them with destructive life strategies from which escape is almost impossible. But there is one trapdoor. In seeking marriage and money, most of us tend to separate the searches. We might go to the business section of the bookstore for one and the relationship section for the other. When the two do intersect, they are often at odds with each other. Will getting married interfere with my work? Will my work make my spouse resentful? Unify, resolve and connect. Song clips - "Think" and "Respect" by Aretha Franklin

Never mind Harry Potter, but is making money 'stinking sorcery'? Hey Kids! It's easy to describe the hard work your dad does if he's a bus driver, a fireman, or a pilot. But what if he's a mortgage broker, a recruiter, or an investment banker? Does he make money by just talking on the phone all day? Sounds like fun. LeBron James plays basketball and Ron Johnson built the Apple stores in all the malls. Each made about $30M a year. Why did so many people say Ron Jonson was overpaid at Apple while everybody thought LeBron James earned every penny of his pay? The spirituality of money. Why did Los Angelinos destroy Jewish-owned stores in the Watts Riots of 1965 and then Korean-owned stores in the Rodney King riots of 1992? What did Boeing's Alan Mulally have that Ford so desperately needed? 3 effective spiritual strategies for increasing your financial revenue.

I've spoken about the kinds of men that women should seek and avoid but now, the reverse. Which women should men seek and which should they avoid? Do you know why, in the romance department, Cinderella is a little more true-to-life than Aladdin? Guys, should you worry if your wife's boss is rich and good-looking? How about if he's just rich? What do you do if your wife decides she doesn't want to work but would rather stay home with your babies? What about if she does want to work but wants you to stay home with the babies? Are her looks important? Matrimonial misery versus connubial contentment.