Ep 64 | Simplistic Solutions or Sophomoric Slogans Never Solve Problems of Money, Health, or Faith

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

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

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Good news is bad news for The New York Times, CBS, CNBC, USA Today, and the Washington Post. They just love publishing terrifying and dire predictions based on days-old model projections and refuse to tell us how much better we’re doing than it appeared two weeks ago. What explains their irrational love affair with bad news? No American hospital has yet needed a ventilator that they lack. There is a troubling reason for why the American Center for Disease Control (CDC) directs doctors and hospitals to list cause of death as Covid-19 even in the absence of any test or other evidence. Do you agree with Toyota’s 5 business principles, and Panasonic’s 7, and General Electric’s 8? How the Passover Seder can instill ambition in participants of every background. https://rabbidaniellapin.com/product/seder-set/ 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.
0:06.0	This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.
0:13.9	Welcome, oh happy warrior. I am your rabbi. I'm Rabbi Daniel Lapin, reminding you that the more that things change,
0:23.6	the more we have to depend on those things that never change. And one of the things that never changes
0:33.6	is that you must always beware of experts, particularly experts who have a financial interest in a
0:45.4	certain outcome. Let us imagine, let's just imagine, if you would, that you are a governor of one of the states of the United States. Now, is it in your
0:58.4	interests to use the highest figures imaginable for the coronavirus, or is it in your interest
1:06.0	to say, hey, everybody, things are actually looking better? It's obvious if you're trying to get money from the
1:13.9	federal government, then we know what you're going to do. If you are a newspaper or media outlet
1:20.1	on television or on the internet, are you going to attract eyeballs which relates to your
1:26.9	advertising revenue by saying, hey, good news.
1:31.1	Or you're going to get it by saying new horrifying figures emerge from the latest expert's predictions.
1:41.5	You see, there really is a very strong force pushing towards the worst of the worst
1:50.6	case scenario. That's what's going on, all of which is by way of introduction to tell you that
1:57.5	I've got good news. I really do. I've got good news for you. I'm going to try and
2:03.7	break it out for you so as that it's easy to see that this just is not your rabbi being
2:11.5	Pollyanna and seeing the good in everything. No, this is the reality. And here today, this show is yet another
2:21.7	reason today to go ahead and banish fear, panic and hysteria. I'm also going to want to today
2:31.8	talk a little bit about business advice. And we're going to take a look at simplifying
2:40.9	some of the things you read and some of the things you hear. You are in business, right? If you do
2:48.0	not work for the United States Post Office, if you are not a judge on the
2:53.5	United States Supreme Court, and you are not a tenured university professor, well, in that case,
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