This show is about the magical ten years in a man’s life; ages 13—23 years-old. These are the years in which subsequent success in life is rooted and, sadly, the years in which the origin of future failure can be found.  Here are the step-by-step success strategies that a young man should follow for positioning himself for everything good in life.  The show is not about the importance of being cool.  It is not about learning how to rap or tap dance and it is not about social media. But it is about sex and money; the two areas in which most men have the most regrets.  Here are the things you wish you knew when you were between 13 and 23 years-old.  The show starts with Shakespeare and ends with Kipling; those two dead white guys knew a thing or two! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America’s bizarre distinctions in how two human appetites are treated—sex and money.  With sex, anything that two consenting adults chose to do is viewed as nobody else’s business. Anything at all!  With money, even if two consenting adults agree to a certain job at a specific hourly rate, the government steps in to insist that employer must pay employee a minimum amount.  With sex, if one party decides not to deliver to another, not only is that fine but the other, the ‘buying’ party can be destroyed for even suggesting the deal to the reluctant ‘seller’.  With money, if one party, say, a baker, decides not to deliver to another party, the government steps in and punishes the reluctant seller.  Why hotel rooms in liberal cities are so expensive. What did Frank Sinatra/Ava Gardner, Clark Gable/Carole Lombard & Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn have in common? School sex-ed, yes but gun-ed, no? Four revolutions that changed our world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your spouse asks you to stop doing something. Your boss at work asks you to start doing something. You kid asks you why you’re doing something. Wouldn’t it be great to come back with the right answer every time? The answer that, a day later you still admire rather than the answer you think of a day later and wish you’d given. How do you react wisely off the cuff? By arming yourself with the right basic beliefs. But when you start off with a wrong basic belief you end up making bad intuitive decisions in all the many daily circumstance. Your rabbi equips you with an invaluable tool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A reasoned analysis of the Florida school shooting.  Yes, there is a way to stop these tragedies, but, no, it has nothing to do with guns.  What percentage of the hundreds of people you encounter every day are really crazy?  How many so-called “homeless” are mentally imbalanced?  Do you know why they are not being cared for in medical facilities where they would be safe—and so would we?  Do you know any families being torn apart by having to struggle with a deeply troubled teenager all alone?  Is the SCOTUS ruling of Roe v. Wade in 1973 connected  in any way to the Parkland, Florida school shooting?  Why did Hitler use precious resources killing 3 million Jews in Poland in 1942 while his eastern front was crumbling at Leningrad?  Could you protect your family from a violent home invader? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why does Socialism exercise an almost irresistible appeal to secular people?  Why are intellectuals, academics, bureaucrats, career-politicians and others drawn so powerfully to, liberalism, progressivism, well, actually to Socialism?  We cannot combat what we don’t understand.  We cannot defeat what we cannot get a hold of.  Let’s probe the real roots of the problem.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grand Coulee Dam.  Air-conditioning.   Hoover Dam.  Empire State Building.  Over 3 million miles of highway.  Golden Gate Bridge.  Verrazano Bridge.  Holland Tunnel.  George Washington Bridge.  Automatic transmissions.  Commercial jet travel. Electric refrigerators.  That and more took place 1900-1960.   Since then…?  Almost nothing!  What! Why? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is there a scientific test for honesty?  The most important organ for making money (If you’re not a swimsuit model!)  Do identical twins have same or different fingerprints?  The power of optimism in financial interactions.  Do you know what medical school your doctor attended; do you know if he attended medical school at all?  The danger of fear and how to get rid of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything we think we know about Mutiny on the Bounty is a lie!  3 Hollywood movies distorted the truth.  The 1850 novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a great work of art nourishing our higher selves with serious thoughts about good and evil, marriage and morality, hypocrisy and nobility, the inevitability of consequences and yes, adultery.  The 1995 movie The Scarlet Letter starring Demi Moore has as much to do with the book as the movie Free Willy has to do with Moby Dick, another great American novel written by Herman Melville at the same time as The Scarlet Letter.  And while we’re on the topic of books and animals, I tell you something you don’t know about The Life of Pi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Communicating effectively produces wonderful results in romantic, business & social interactions.  Only in politics is the reverse tolerated. Here’s what a politician would call a spade: “It’s a one person operated, foot-powered implement of ligno metallic composition designated primarily though by no means exclusively for use in agricultural, horticultural, & constructional activities for purposes of carrying out such excavational tasks as may  be designated by supervisory grades.”  Why I would eliminate and ban the use of these meaningless slurs: Anti-Semite, Homophobe, Racist, Sexist, & Capitalist. My answer to a young friend’s worry that “Trump will get us into a war.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Masturbation, the art of selfishness.   Why is the smallest room in the house, the bathroom, so over decorated?    Monogrammed towels?  Soap shaped like seashells?  Really?  Why are we so embarrassed about a perfectly natural bodily function like emptying our bowels?  What does relieving oneself have to do with masturbation?   Why did Onan in the Bible have to die?  If a woman never marries, is she better off with a child or without?  Why are welfare recipients not the most patriotic and appreciative citizens?  How to avoid all awkwardness in the masturbation conversation with teenagers.  Why did the great, great, grandmother of King David dress up as a prostitute?  Why did her former father-in-law not recognize her?  No it won’t grow hair on your hands or make you blind, but it will……. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices