Dr. Rich Roberts: The Gvir of Lakewood
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
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🗓️ 9 July 2022
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
Rich grew up as a reformed Jew and today he lives in...Lakewood. Today he is famous for running free chol hamoid carnivals, philanthropic donations and running campaigns for the political parties he believes in.
In this episode, Rich discusses how he found God, saved his business from bankruptcy and turned it into a multi-million dollar company and the challenges he had along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | I think I gave three checks of a million dollars each to different |
| 0:04.8 | to duckers one of them was b.m g and you know I didn't tell them not to tell anybody |
| 0:10.9 | but I just assume like if we would land Walgreens or Rite Aid or CVS to sell a product to them, |
| 0:19.1 | we're not going to tell our competition. So I figure if I give a million dollars to each of these |
| 0:24.0 | places they're not going to tell anybody because they don't want other people to |
| 0:27.2 | come in and take and you know try to get money from me because there'll be less for them in |
| 0:30.9 | the future. And my F friends, they laugh at that. |
| 0:34.0 | That's not what it is. |
| 0:35.0 | It's like the shark, you get the chunk of that whale. |
| 0:39.0 | And they say, all the sharks come on in. |
| 0:41.0 | When I did that, our lives were torn apart. |
| 0:45.0 | It's that time of week again. I don't know if you're listening this while you're sitting, |
| 0:50.3 | standing, running, swimming. |
| 0:53.0 | That's right, inspiration for the nation with me, Yakov Langer, |
| 0:56.0 | and this week's episode is one of the most unique people I've ever met in my life. |
| 1:00.0 | Rich or Kossrillo-Rahberts is someone who is a Balchova living in Lakewood, super successful in the finance world, |
| 1:08.5 | big asking, very involved in politics and someone who's not afraid to speak his mind and he's also |
| 1:15.7 | my uncle yes my mother and his wife are sisters Rittermans and he's someone I've |
| 1:21.3 | known my whole life and I've always heard things about him, |
| 1:24.0 | but I know him on a personal level and that's why I think this conversation is very unique. |
| 1:30.0 | And he's someone who's not afraid to share what's on his mind. |
| 1:35.0 | And I think that's a quality that more of us should have about sticking up for the things that we believe in. |
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