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 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 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How 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 accept advice about how many children to have, from a woman who has never had children? There is a 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? Finally, there exist ten measures of human greatness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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 1978 and started Home Depot. Wasn’t that a great response to losing a job? Also, how 120 million Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, and Portuguese are enjoying their siestas and retirements on the work of 80 million Germans. And that is not to mention the 1.5 million Muslim 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who 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, 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! Also, 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. Finally, learn 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For 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% 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 workforce. And these things are good for everyone other than Democrat Party (Yes! Call it that) politicians who’d rather tax two incomes. Also, hear my interview with 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 is: “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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rabbi 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 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-porn”? Michael Jackson, the boy who never grew old, and his music video 'Thriller'. The arrival of ten-minute movies - for your phone! - brought to you by Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg. If you don’t consciously “choose life”, the automatic default is death. From abortion to euthanasia, what a large crowd of people does matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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’.  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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 3rdWorld.  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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices