The writing on the wall: Playboy Magazine in 1966. "Friends" sitcom in 1996. "Two and a Half Men" sitcom in 2006. What really happened during those 40 years. "Find a husband on campus before you graduate" wrote Princeton alumna Susan Patton in 2014 to her daughter, a Princeton coed. She generated fanatical fury. Ten years later, In 2024,  Grazie Sophia Christie writes "The Case for Marrying an Older Man" though, she really means "a richer man". She has also infuriated feminist fanatics. All...

Though far smaller than the failed economies of Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Somalia, or Haiti, success stories like Singapore, Dubai, and Malta stand out as bright beacons of peace and prosperity. Why, since 2005, has Gaza resembled the former? We learn the main reasons why some countries thrive financially while others fail miserably? We explore whether these explanations can also apply to you and me in our own personal finances. Can we all learn something from the ethnic minorities who thrive...

Unlike alpacas, antelopes, & alligators, we humans are capable of dramatically changing the landscape of our lives. Unlike beavers, buffaloes, and bears, we don't need many generations to adapt to changing environments. No, we humans can recognize the devastation that inflation is wreaking on our lives -- and adapt! First, recognize the true extent of inflation. At least 20% since April 2020. That is like someone stealing a $100 bill from you and replacing it with four $20 bills. This...

The single most important thing that couples contemplating divorce need to know.  The ten reasons for divorce most often given by couples who are ending their marriage. Hear about how couples stay married while living off the grid on small boats. Discover blue roles and pink roles. Does your marriage have a mission? More on abuse. When Susan Lapin drives the Lapin boat and why. Bet you don't know exactly what sort of clothing Adam and Eve wore. Everything you need to know about masculine...

Men used to tend toward jobs in which they work with things (farming, construction, factories, etc) while women tended towards home and family or jobs in which they work with people (teaching, nursing, stewardess, etc) . A few people worked with ideas (lawyers, philosophy professors, clergy). Today it's less evident than it used to be. But maybe men still yearn to make, manipulate, or fix things so they have hobbies. Men working in agriculture: 1900 = 38%; 2000 = 10%.  Does having things in...

Lighting oneself on fire to make a political point; heroism or immorality? How we decide will impact the streets of your city. As for your rabbi, not so interested in talking to someone who brings a can of gasoline and a lighter to the discussion. Suicide = Murder; true or false? Single people can be happy. Anyone can be happy--it's a decision. Women generally want to be married. Men learn, often too late, how much they need marriage. Temporary intimate relationships between men and women...

Back in 1950 Yemenite Jews arriving in Israel saw water faucets and thought they create water. They knew nothing of the invisible infrastructure of pipes and pumps that made water gush out of the faucet. Similarly there is invisible spiritual infrastructure that makes modern commerce possible. Finding food in the supermarket reliably every day; assuming the light will come on when you flick the wall switch; reaching someone on the other side of the world from your mobile phone; knowing that...

The definition of a happy warrior and how to join our international community of Happy Warriors. Oscar Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Do you know the cost of everything but the value of nothing? Avoid the one activity that makes your face age. The three ways in which your children can help you make more money. No, it's nothing to do with renting them out. Know the 5 things that are vital for a happy life. We reveal useful tips, tools, and techniques that we have published in our new...

Not sure whether Equality or Freedom is the better value? Simple; use the Reality Test. Not sure whether women should take responsibility for their own safety? Use the Reality Test. Not sure whether every man needs a woman and every woman needs a man? Use the Reality Test. Is feminism a helpful and desirable doctrine or a destructive pathology? Simple; use the Reality Test. Read the details in this book https://a.co/d/2RKFOZ2 Children do just fine raised by single moms? Use the Reality...

Co-hosted with Susan Lapin. If you cannot play tennis, your life can still be good. If you can't sing, play a musical instrument, or tell jokes, your life can still be wonderful. But there are five distinct things that are vital for every successful and happy life. What is more, you cannot have 3 out of the 5. It's all five or nothing. In a way, these five things make up an indivisible totality of good living. A good way of thinking of them is as your life's operating system. Everything you...

Why hate the Jews? The honest, true, and deeply uncomfortable explanation for anti-Semitism. Two nations on one island: Haiti is desperate and hopeless. The Dominican Republic is vibrant and successful. What is the difference? Whenever you hear concern about "The Children" know that you are being powerfully and emotionally manipulated for political purposes. More Jews had to leave Arab lands than Arabs had to leave Israel in 1948. Why are Arab refugees treated differently from all other...

Hey, women, stay away from universities! How to ruin your life in 3 easy steps. The most ignored problem in all of scientific research and nobody knows the answer. Where are you on the Flamboyant Life Force--Darkest Death spectrum line? How to improve every important aspect of your life by deploying the fact that we are all attracted to vibrant life and a little repelled by death. Get the hang of all this by reading https://a.co/d/0og0ubg  Why wives feel happier if they do not feel that they...

Here is today's life-changing principle: How you view tomorrow impacts your life today. The difference between selling coffins and selling cradles. Let the destructive patterns of your background end with you. Deploying the positive feedback loop of Optimism, Money, and Marriage. Tell me what you wish you knew when you were twenty years old. The book that makes it all happen  https://a.co/d/izqtfxy  Become a Happy Warrior and inspire others  https://www.wehappywarriors.com/ Onwards and...

One bad idea can sabotage all the solid achievements for which you've worked so hard. A solid resolution for 2024 is to identify and eliminate the bad ideas that are threatening your success in all your 5Fs. Read about this useful tool for making the new year a better year than last year. It's called Chart Your Course  https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/chart-your-course-book-video-bundle/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I prefer a sacred Christmas to a secular Christmas. Secularism is not just a fair way to organize a pluralistic society. It exerts a malign influence on civilization. In ways you can't imagine.  A guy is really unhappy because his wife lunches with a male colleague a couple of times a week. Is his bank account relevant to this story?  Why platonic friendships between men and women between the ages of 15 and 70 never work. Is an emotional affair a thing? What should the unhappy guy...

Do you know the really unpopular message of Chanuka? That's right, it has something to do with burning oil. Why the Fossil Fuel vision seems to drag along a vision of shortage, limits, and ultimately poverty. Predictions of running out of coal and oil go back to the 19th century and they've all been wrong. Why do they keep making them? It's almost as if they WANT to run out of energy. What's going on? Is it time for you to start making only wise decisions in the important areas of your life?...

Many mistakenly believe that the proliferation of regulations and laws are evidence of a society's sophistication and advance. In reality, that is like saying that all the medications in an old man's medicine chest are evidence of his good health. Preserving a functioning family or a successful society is hard and mostly depends on a rare array of tools. In this show, your rabbi provides a guide to those tools. Are you thinking about making next year different from last year? Here is a very...

Do you want a good life? Do you know what a good life means? What do you have to do in order to achieve a good life? How Germany defeated France in only six weeks in early 1940. Why Mercedes and BMW are more reliable cars than Peugot and Citroën. What this teaches us about making our lives good. Especially connection between money and marriage. What is purpose of physical intimacy: pleasure or procreation? Both? Why must the life-enhancing energy we call family derive from this elemental male...

Your rabbi confesses that there are aspects of the Islamic struggle for world domination that he admires; not likes, not values, not commends and not approves, but admires. You willl learn why considering this a stuggle between Islam and Democracy is childish. Why Moslems fight among themselves. Why the Palestinian issue will never be solved by a bureaucrat with a map and a pencil. Why the hideous savagry of October 7th. Why they die in Gaza. What happened to the Red Cross and the kidnapped...

In war, whether economic or military, masculine countries tend to beat feminine countries. What is gender with countries and societies? Why do some societies become feminized? Why is this dangerously destructive? Is there a way to "have it all"? Read about how to integrate the different areas of your life in our new book The Holistic You. Available at your favorite bookseller now.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this show we answer the puzzling paradoxes in the previous show. Even the most baffling behavioral enigmas surrender to a coherent moral matrix. A moral matrix answers questions in four main areas: Family, Finance, Friendships, and Fitness. A moral matrix is not time dependent; what was moral years ago will still be moral in years to come. Could a moral matrix emerge by itself in an isolated society? Why do secular/socialistic regimes never endure for very long? Read about Scrolling...

Much of what you say flows subconsciously from your morality matrix. Many of your decisions are made based on your morality matrix. If you don’t have one, you are making a whole bunch of damaging mistakes in your life. With a proper functioning morality matrix you make far fewer mistakes and life is more joyful. With no morality matrix, or worse, a broken one, you are making decisions in finance, romance, and socially that will come back and bite you—if they haven’t already done so. Morality...

A young man says goodbye to his father and goes off to war. Why is this war different from every other ethnic conflict? Why can this one not be resolved by dividing the territory down the middle? Your rabbi is still in Israel. Why is the notorious Two State Solution, beloved by silly politicians, never going to be? Does Islam hate Christianity more than Christians love it? How many times has Islam tried to conquer Europe and turn it into part of the Moslem world? Why did Gazans in 2005...

The real purpose behind the Hamas mini-missiles. What is the atmosphere like right now on Israel’s streets? What happened in my synagogue just outside Jerusalem when the sirens went off on Saturday morning. Comparing civilian mortality rates in Israel’s Yom Kippur war fifty years ago with what happened on Saturday. The titanic struggle between civilization and barbarism. How long can Israel’s economy withstand a mobilization of over a quarter million reservists? The Israel Defense Force in...

Exactly fifty years ago Israel’s General Moshe Dayan tried to call a press conference to announce the defeat of Israel and the end of its 25-year existence. Hear what happened. The four steps to finding your financial feet. Job. Excel. Save. Fitness.  It’s as simple as that, but as always, the details matter. Follow the program laid out for you in this show and your financial future will be meteoric. Susan Lapin and I are exuberantly thrilled with our new book, The Holistic You. We’ve been...