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The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Ep 6 | A Short Voyage from 'It’s a Wonderful Life' to 'Zombie Apocalypse'

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

Religion, Philosophy, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8842 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0

The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

0:06.8

This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

0:14.7

Welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show.

0:20.1

Thank you so much for tuning in and for being part of the show.

0:24.5

We greatly appreciate you telling folks about the show.

0:30.1

And as I've often mentioned, you're doing a fabulous job on this because I take an absolutely unreasonable and childlike thrill in watching the

0:42.5

download numbers grow as they have been doing. So I'm indebted to you, much appreciation.

0:48.3

And I'm joined in the studio by none other than one of the most exciting women in the world, in my world.

0:59.2

In your life.

1:00.1

In my world.

1:01.3

And that would be Mrs. Lapin, Susan Lapin.

1:05.0

And one of the great things about being married to Susan Lapin is that there's never a dull moment.

1:11.8

Even when we are just sitting and chatting casually, I never know what she's going to think of.

1:20.6

She has a fertile and unusual unconventional mind.

1:26.4

And so I thought that it would be fun to do a show together

1:31.8

with her where we were just going to explore a couple of things that are on my mind and some

1:39.9

of the things that are on her mind. I said joining me in the studio, but the crazy thing is that nowadays, when podcasting is

1:48.3

beating out terrestrial radio, and the truth is that we now, you probably know this,

1:55.5

we now have considerably higher listenerships to this show than we had when we were on one of the most

2:03.5

powerful West Coast radio stations, KSFO in San Francisco.

2:07.3

It is incredible, isn't it?

2:09.2

And you know that I stick pins in my world map for every country in which I know we have

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