• 2 hours 1 minute
    FlyDubai; Iran; Diesel: Economy; Rent; More | Yaron Brook Show
    FlyDubai; Iran; Diesel: Economy; Rent; More | Yaron Brook Show


    #IranWar #TradeWar #AIRisk #economicfreedom #InterestRates #IranNuclear #AIRegulation #TrumpNews #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #Anarchism #EconomicsExplained

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    2 October 2026, 9:04 pm
  • 1 hour 37 minutes
    Live from Madrid 2 (Sept 29, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
    Live from Madrid 2 (Sept 29, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
    (Season 12, Episode 156)
    Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/Anji2QvT0QU

    "Iran's currency just hit 2.5 million rials to the dollar — so why is Trump still afraid to win this war?"

    Iran is losing. Its currency just crashed to a record 2.5 million rials per dollar, inflation is spiraling, and its regime is so desperate it's now threatening to bomb the Saudis and the UAE — because it's too scared to touch Israel. So why is the Trump administration still refusing to finish the job?

    Live from Madrid, Yaron Brook tears into the week's biggest contradictions: Trump's threatened diesel export ban and his midnight tariff war on Canadian whiskey — both textbook cases of a president making policy by whim instead of principle. Then Yaron pulls the actual CBO data to demolish the "hollowed-out middle class" myth once and for all — real incomes are up across every income group since 1979, and the rich are shouldering more of the tax burden than ever. He rips apart Anthropic's jaw-dropping $2 trillion IPO filing that openly admits its own product "may pose existential risk to humanity" — and asks who invests in that. And he closes with the 46th anniversary of the Simon-Ehrlich bet, the wager that permanently settled whether the world is running out of anything.

    Plus: Spain's eviction ban chaos, the Senate capping what college athletes can earn, and why so many young Americans have started blaming the opposite sex for their problems.

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    Main Topics:
    0:00 – Intro from Madrid, 46 years of the Simon-Ehrlich bet teased
    2:14 – Iran threatens regional infrastructure if its demands aren't met
    5:15 – Iran's rial collapses to 2.5 million to the dollar
    7:32 – Is the Strait of Hormuz really open? The tanker-tracking numbers
    10:32 – Why there's no point going to war unless you're committed to winning it
    ~14:00 – Trump's diesel export ban: another price-control disaster in the making
    ~19:00 – Midnight tariffs on Canadian whiskey, dairy, and motorcycles — pure whim
    ~26:00 – Consumer confidence is falling even though Americans are getting richer
    ~31:00 – The CBO data that kills the "hollowed-out middle class" myth
    ~37:00 – The rich are paying more taxes than ever — the opposite of the narrative
    ~42:00 – Anthropic's $2 trillion S-1 admits its product could be an existential risk
    ~50:00 – Spain's eviction ban and the Senate's college athlete pay cap
    ~55:00 – Young Americans blaming the opposite sex
    ~58:00 – The Simon-Ehrlich bet, 46 years later: scarcity vs. human ingenuity

    Live Audience Q&A:
    ~1:02:00 – "If tariffs are just a tax, why does Trump keep calling them leverage?"
    ~1:06:00 – "Is regime change in Iran actually still possible at this point?"
    ~1:10:00 – "If the middle class isn't hollowed out, why does everyone feel poorer?"
    ~1:14:00 – "Should an AI company be allowed to IPO while admitting it might end humanity?"
    ~1:18:00 – "Is rent control ever justified in a housing crisis?"
    ~1:22:00 – "Why do young men and women suddenly hate each other online?"

    #IranWar #TradeWar #AIRisk #economicfreedom #InterestRates #IranNuclear #AIRegulation #TrumpNews #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #Anarchism #EconomicsExplained

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    29 September 2026, 8:41 pm
  • 1 hour 50 minutes
    Live from Madrid (Sept 28, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
    Live from Madrid (Sept 28, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
    (Season 12, Episode 155)
    Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/sLrPRT7SZaA

    If markets are pricing in "no adults in the room" on U.S. debt, mortgage rates are back above 7%, and Iran just got its president a seat at the UN mid-war — does anyone in Washington actually have a plan, or is everyone just improvising in public?

    Yaron Brook finally makes it to a webcam after a week bouncing between Tbilisi, Florence, and Madrid — and he's not easing back in gently. He opens with the story most people are ignoring: 10-year Treasury yields above 5.2%, 30-year above 5.5%, mortgages back over 7%, and a bond market that's stopped pretending anyone in Washington has a debt plan. Then he tears into Iran's latest fake offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, calls out Trump's red-carpet groveling to Xi, and makes the case that NVIDIA and a scrappy biotech startup — not government regulation — are the real answer to AI risk. Starship reached orbit. A Hamas operative got asylum in the UK. And somehow Netanyahu, for all his faults, still looks like the last adult in a room full of European politicians who'd rather cave than govern.

    Then the audience takes over: CPAs, career advice, zoning fights in your own backyard, whether men are really being "feminized," and why one European capital's mayor just switched parties. Unfiltered capitalism, individualism, and foreign policy — live, from a hotel room in Spain.

    Main Topics:
    00:00 — Live from Madrid: why there was no show for a week (Tbilisi, Florence, and Georgian hospitality)
    09:11 — The real story: 10-year yields above 5.2%, mortgages over 7%, and no adults in the room on U.S. debt
    14:55 — Why "deregulation + AI will save us" is a bipartisan fantasy
    36:12 — Iran's fake Hormuz reopening offer — and why oil above $100 tells the real story
    41:01 — A Hamas bodyguard was granted UK asylum, and Britain barely blinked
    58:36 — NVIDIA's OpenShell/Sentry and Red Queen Bio: AI is the answer to AI risk — and Starship reaches orbit
    1:44:16 — Why Netanyahu, for all his flaws, is still a giant next to Europe's leaders

    Audience Questions:
    1:07:24 — "How do I actually vet and trust a CPA before handing them my finances?"
    1:18:18 — Should your neighbor get to tear down a house and build multi-family housing next door?
    1:40:23 — Poland's mayor just became a Democrat — good sign or empty gesture?
    1:42:07 — Are men really being "feminized" in modern society — or is that the wrong word entirely?
    1:46:34 — Will Europe's tariff wars hand the next elections to the left?

    #InterestRates #IranNuclear #AIRegulation #Netanyahu #SpaceX #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #MarkZuckerberg #TrumpNews #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #Anarchism #EconomicsExplained

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    28 September 2026, 8:53 pm
  • 2 hours 44 minutes
    Why Capitalism is Losing & How to Start Winning | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
    Live Sep 20, 2026
    Why Capitalism is Losing & How to Start Winning | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
    (Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 13)
    Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/0NEiaMMzNAg
    "If capitalism has cut world poverty by 90% and cured more disease than every government program combined — why does almost nobody defend it, and why does every generation vote to kill it again?"

    Capitalism made you rich. It gave you the phone in your hand, the food on your table, the medicine that keeps your grandparents alive — and almost everyone alive today still thinks it's evil.

    In this episode of the Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Yaron Brook and Nikos go after the real reason capitalism keeps losing: it's not an economics problem, it's a morality problem. Every generation, in every country, votes against the system that made them wealthy — because they've been taught that self-interest is shameful and sacrifice is sacred. Yaron argues that no amount of GDP charts or Milton Friedman quotes will fix that. Only a moral revolution will.

    Yaron and Nikos dig into why guilt, not ignorance, drives people toward socialism, why "greed" became capitalism's PR disaster, and what it would actually take to start winning the argument again — with young people, on college campuses, and in the culture at large.

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    Main topics
    00:00 — Cold open: the world got 90% richer in 300 years, and still hates the system that did it
    06:15 — Why "capitalism works" has never been enough to win the argument
    14:30 — The real fight is moral, not economic
    24:00 — How guilt gets built into every entrepreneur's success story
    33:45 — Altruism vs. self-interest: the actual battle line
    45:10 — Why Bill Gates has to "give it all away" to be forgiven for making it
    55:20 — What a moral defense of capitalism actually sounds like
    1:05:00 — Where the right and the left both get capitalism wrong
    1:15:40 — What "winning" would actually require — culture, not policy

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    1:29:50 — "Isn't 'greed is good' just handing the left a free win?"
    1:35:10 — "How do I defend capitalism to my socialist friends without sounding heartless?"
    1:41:00 — "Is Trump-era tariffs and bailouts capitalism, or something else?"
    1:47:30 — "Can young people actually be won back, or is it too late?"

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    20 September 2026, 7:46 pm
  • 2 hours 29 minutes
    Live from London (Sept 19, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
    Live from London (Sept 19, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
    (Season 12, Episode 154)
    Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/NSoOp0Hzlyk

    Trump just banned CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House — so why is Yaron Brook, a lifelong critic of the mainstream media, calling it a First Amendment violation?

    Mark Zuckerberg is being compared to Stalin and Mao in a major new profile — and Yaron Brook says that comparison reveals a culture that can't tell the difference between building an app and running a gulag. Live from London after filming three new documentaries (on Karl Marx, on why capitalism keeps losing the argument, and a five-hour deep-dive into his own life), Yaron rips into Trump's press bans as a bipartisan assault on free speech, dismantles Zuckerberg's bizarre Augustus fetish, and explains why he refuses to debate anarchist YouTuber Liquid Zulu. Plus: Pfizer and Lilly's "most favored nation" drug deals, the $100K H-1B fee, a looming Fed rate hike, the Greenland gambit, and America's falling PISA scores.

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    Main Topics:
    0:00 – London documentaries: Marx, capitalism's failed defenders, and Yaron's own life story
    16:25 – Trump bans CNN, MS Now & Politico from the White House
    19:24 – Why revoking press passes over content is textbook censorship
    25:29 – The Zuckerberg profile: "1 in every 2.3 humans" uses his products
    44:34 – Zuckerberg's "Domination" memo and his Augustus obsession
    54:36 – Why Yaron won't debate Liquid Zulu on anarchism
    1:04:29 – The Fed signals another rate hike this year
    1:22:34 – Property rights, anarchism, and what the state is actually for

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    1:32:06 – "Who really won the Kinsella vs. Mossoff debate on IP rights?"
    1:43:38 – "Roland's $20 Swiss franc question — what's it really worth?"
    1:13:25 – "Where's the line between economic power and political power?"

    #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #Capitalism #MarkZuckerberg #AIRegulation #TrumpNews #FreeMarkets #Objectivism #AynRand #Anarchism #EconomicsExplained

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    19 September 2026, 10:34 pm
  • 1 hour 29 minutes
    Live from London (Sept 16, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
    Live from London (Sept 16, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show
    (Season 12, Episode 153)
    Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/ADBp2WNtUfk

    Trump just handed the Red Sea to Iran's proxies — so why is Yaron Brook filming a documentary at Karl Marx's grave instead of talking about it?

    Yaron Brook is broadcasting live from London — shooting documentary footage at Karl Marx's actual grave, at the original London Stock Exchange, and beside the statues of Adam Smith and John Locke — and he's not happy about what's happening back home. While he's been filming, the Trump administration has reportedly cut a deal letting Iran's Houthi militia choke off a global oil choke point and abandon Saudi Arabia entirely. Yaron calls it out for what it is: a strategic surrender that resurrects Iran from defeat. He also explains — bluntly — why he refuses to debate a popular anarchist YouTuber, why anarchism can never be Objectivism no matter what its fans call themselves, and why AI should face liability, not regulators.

    Then he opens the floor: Trump vs. Hitler comparisons, whether rights are contextual, where altruism actually came from, what "FU money" would really change about his life, and what it means to become American.

    Unfiltered, live, from London.

    🕐 Main Topics
    0:00    Why is Yaron filming a documentary standing at Karl Marx's grave — and who's profiting off it?
    2:45    Inside the two documentaries: a critical film on Marx, and "why doesn't capitalism win the argument?"
    21:47    Why won't Yaron debate anarchist YouTuber Liquid Zulu — and can you even be an "Objectivist anarchist"?
    24:32    Is Trump handing the Red Sea to Iran's Houthi militia — and abandoning Saudi Arabia to do it?
    30:04    Why a "deal with the devil" over the Bab el-Mandab strait could hand Iran victory out of defeat
    ~32:00    Should AI be regulated before it causes harm, or should liability law do the job instead?
    ~36:00    What actually is artificial intelligence — and why does the debate keep getting the definition wrong?

    🎤 Live Audience Q&A
    ~40:00    Is comparing Trump to Hitler a serious argument or just lazy outrage?
    ~44:00    Is "cruelty is the point" a fair read of Trump-era politics, or a smear?
    ~48:00    Are individual rights absolute — or does context actually change how they apply?
    ~51:00    Where did altruism as a moral doctrine actually come from — and why does Yaron reject it?
    54:26    What would Yaron actually do differently if he never had to earn another dollar?
    ~1:02:00    Is Germany's AfD surge a healthy revolt against failed politics, or something more dangerous?
    ~1:08:00    What actually makes someone American — a passport, or a set of ideas?
    ~1:14:00    Twenty-five years after 9/11, why does Yaron say the West still hasn't learned the lesson October 7th repeated?
    ~1:20:00    How can you get a scholarship to study with Yaron at the Academy of Ideas (AIU)?

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    16 September 2026, 9:32 pm
  • 1 hour 51 minutes
    9/11, 25 Years Later -- Did We Learn Anything? | Yaron Brook Show
    Live Sep 11, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
    (Season 12, Episode 152)
    9/11, 25 Years Later -- Did We Learn Anything? | Yaron Brook Show
    Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/bCVd8x6k9AA

    "We have the hijackers' names, their financiers, even the warnings — so why, 25 years later, can Washington still not say who attacked us on 9/11?"

    25 years ago, 19 men killed nearly 3,000 Americans in under an hour. Today, American forces are still trading fire with the region that produced them, oil is over $100, the Strait of Hormuz is barely open — and Washington still cannot say, in one sentence, who the enemy is or what winning looks like.

    Yaron Brook marks the anniversary by asking the one question nobody in Washington wants answered: did America learn anything from 9/11 — or just how to live with the threat instead of ending it? He names the enemy by name (Islamic totalitarianism, fountainhead Iran, financier Saudi Arabia), lays out the twenty years of warnings the country ignored before 2001, and shows how altruism — the idea that self-defense isn't a good enough reason to go to war — turned Afghanistan and Iraq into twenty-year sinkholes of American blood and money. He also tells the story of Rick Rescorla, the Morgan Stanley security chief who trained his people to survive the towers while everyone around him called him paranoid — the one hero of that morning who actually thought, judged, and acted.

    If you think 9/11 was a settled story, this is the episode that reopens the file.

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    Timestamps — Main Topics
    0:01 — 25 years since 9/11: what we learned vs. what we never did
    9:00ish — 20 years of warnings before 2001 that America ignored (Beirut, Khobar Towers, USS Cole)
    ~20:00 — "War on terror" was a category error — terror is a method, not an enemy
    ~28:00 — Why altruism, not incompetence, is the real reason we never named the enemy
    32:03 — Iran: the fountainhead of every successful Islamist movement on earth
    41:57 — We won the actual wars in weeks — then handcuffed ourselves with "proportionality"
    44:31 — Nation-building in Afghanistan: installing rights in a population that never asked for them
    ~55:00 — Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi money machine and the BBC's new evidence on the hijackers
    1:07:13 — Getting good at defense, at the cost of our own freedom (Patriot Act)
    1:12:39 — Rick Rescorla: the one man at Morgan Stanley who thought, judged, and acted
    1:16:20 — Verdict: did we learn anything from 9/11?

    Timestamps — Live Audience Q&A
    1:24:17 — "Should we even negotiate with illegitimate regimes like Iran?"
    1:47:10 — "What's the strongest argument against religion itself?"
    ~1:50:00 — "Isn't the Patriot Act itself part of the price we paid for 9/11?"
    ~1:55:00 — "Was there really an imminent threat before 9/11 — and did we see it coming?"
    ~2:05:00 — "Qatar funds the Muslim Brotherhood and hosts a US base — how does that make sense?"

    #9/11 #WarOnTerror #IslamicTotalitarianism #IranRegime #Afghanistan #NationalSecurity #Iran #Netanyahu #Israel #October7 #iranwar #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism 

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    11 September 2026, 7:53 pm
  • 1 hour 50 minutes
    Iran; Canada; Netanyahu; UK vs Israel; Mertz vs AfD; DSA; AI; Tucker; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show
    Live Sep 9, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
    (Season 12, Episode 151)
    Iran; Canada; Netanyahu; UK vs Israel; Mertz vs AfD; DSA; AI; Tucker; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show

    "If Israel got secret warnings before October 7th and ignored them, does that make it a conspiracy — or just catastrophically bad judgment? Yaron Brook says only one of those is true, and it should end Bibi's career either way."

    Oil just blew past $100 a barrel, and the U.S. response to Iran is to sink empty tankers instead of destroying the missile launchers actually shooting at American ships. Trump just banned — not taxed, banned — Canadian beer, cheese, and motorcycles. And a new Haaretz report claims Netanyahu got a 45-minute warning call before October 7th and sat on it. Yaron Brook breaks down why the Prime Minister's guilt doesn't depend on that one phone call, why Germany's Merz is losing to the AfD because he won't say the word "Islam," and why Tucker Carlson is now platforming people who think algebra isn't real math.

    Yaron Brook — Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and host of The Yaron Brook Show — brings reason, individual rights, and zero patience for strategic incoherence to today's news. 

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    Timestamps — Main Topics:
    00:00 – Cold open: Apple event, schedule, and why the tit-for-tat with Iran makes no sense
    05:38 – Oil above $100: Iran's widening war and America's incoherent strategy
    ~14:00 – Trump bans Canadian alcohol, dairy, and motorcycles outright
    ~20:00 – Why Netanyahu must lose the next election regardless of the UAE-warning dispute
    ~27:00 – Merz vs. AfD: Germany's landslide and the word nobody will say
    32:36 – Britain moves to ban settlement imports; Israel retaliates
    48:17 – NYC DSA's paid co-chairs and socialist hypocrisy
    54:22 – Anthropic researcher resigns over AI "extinction" warnings
    1:09:29 – Tucker Carlson platforms a guest who says algebra is fake
    1:19:00 – Good news: Mexico's homicide rate, human achievement segment

    Live Audience Questions:
    1:22:15 – "If AI replaces most jobs, does capitalism still work?"
    1:28:40 – "Is Netanyahu guilty of negligence or something worse?"
    1:35:10 – "Should the U.S. actually be able to ban imports from an ally like Canada?"
    1:41:00 – "Is the AfD's rise proof democracy can't handle immigration, or proof mainstream parties are cowards?"
    1:47:30 – "Does Tucker Carlson's platform make him dangerous, or just embarrassing?"

    #Iran #Netanyahu #Israel #AfD #Tariffs #October7 #iranwar #AIRegulation #TradeWar #canada #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism 

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    9 September 2026, 7:54 pm
  • 1 hour 39 minutes
    Netanyahu & 10/7; Houtis; Trade War; AI; Parenthood; PISA; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
    Live Sep 8, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
    (Season 12, Episode 150)
    Netanyahu & 10/7; Houtis; Trade War; AI; Parenthood; PISA; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
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    Did Benjamin Netanyahu get an 11-day warning about October 7th — and sit on it?

    In this episode, Yaron Brook lays out the two new reports rocking Israel a month before its election, and argues the case for a reckoning goes well beyond one man's political survival.
    A month before Israel's election, two bombshell reports allege Prime Minister Netanyahu received direct warnings before October 7th — one from the President of the UAE himself — and failed to act. Yaron Brook breaks down what's credible, what's spin, and why he thinks Netanyahu has to go regardless of how this specific allegation shakes out.

    Then: Houthi missiles just hit Saudi Arabia in one of the largest attacks in years — is the Middle East sliding into a wider war? The US and Canada are taxing their own citizens in a trade fight neither side can win. OpenAI's own chief scientist is calling for the industry to slow itself down. And a Virginia mother just got a criminal conviction — and a spot on the state's abuse registry — for letting her five-year-old walk half a mile to a pond.

    Yaron Brook brings his signature no-BS, reason-first take on the week's biggest stories — plus live audience questions on Rick and Morty, Ayn Rand's cultural legacy, Mike Mentzer, Milei-style populism, and more.

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    Main Topics:
    00:20 – Netanyahu allegedly warned before October 7 — and did nothing? 
    00:51 – The two competing reports and why timing (one month before elections) matters 
    1:24 – Houthi missiles hit Saudi Arabia — is the Red Sea the next war front? 
    2:04 – OpenAI's own chief scientist says: slow AI down 
    2:38 – Good news first: driverless cars hit London, ASML bets big on the Netherlands 
    3:16 – Netanyahu's response to the UAE's warning, unpacked 
    10:05 – Has Netanyahu always misjudged Hamas? 
    19:41 – Why Israel needs an independent commission — now 
    22:12 – Inside the Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia 
    30:07 – The US-Canada trade war: who's really paying the tax? 
    41:17 – Should AI regulate itself into paralysis? 
    54:34 – A mom convicted for letting her 5-year-old walk to a pond 
    59:13 – America's PISA scores are collapsing — here's what that really means 
    1:06:08 – Driverless taxis go live in London 
    1:09:42 – ASML's new mega-campus in the Netherlands 
    1:12:09 – A nuclear plant comes back from the dead — thanks to a DOE loan 
    1:14:12 – Why long-term power contracts matter more than subsidies

    Live Audience Questions
    1:18:22 – Should Yaron review Rick and Morty's most philosophical episode? 
    1:20:35 – Are Netanyahu and Trump the same kind of transactional operator? 
    1:23:51 – What made the Mike Mentzer story so moving? 
    1:24:56 – Did Ayn Rand personally save the West from another dark age? 
    1:26:53 – Is historian Frank Dikötter's take on China as sharp as Yaron's? 
    1:27:26 – Is Milei's brand of populism sustainable — or a warning sign? 
    1:29:24 – What does Yaron make of the Lindsay Clancy case? 
    1:30:29 – Does holding onto anger betray justice — or just waste energy? 
    1:32:35 – Can an AI actually simulate a brain? 
    1:33:13 – The "Mississippi Miracle": how one state fixed its schools fast 
    1:33:54 – Devil's advocate: is Netanyahu as culpable as Lindsay Clancy? 
    1:35:09 – Is Trump's deregulation push secretly Rand-influenced? 
    1:35:37 – Is the whole West finally moving toward deregulation? 
    1:36:46 – Can egoism quietly win even in an altruist culture?

    #Netanyahu #October7 #Israel #Houthis #AIRegulation #TradeWar #saudiarabia #canada #reading #FreeMarkets #GeopoliticsToday #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism 

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    8 September 2026, 8:41 pm
  • 1 hour 51 minutes
    Labor Day; Afd; 9/11; Civilian Casualties; Gas Prices; VW; Iran; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
    Live Sep 7, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
    (Season 12 - Episode 149)
    Labor Day; Afd; 9/11; Civilian Casualties; Gas Prices; VW; Iran; Achievements | Yaron Brook Show
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    If the American worker has never had it better — 46x richer, working 50% fewer hours, dying on the job 60% less often than in 1970 — why does half of Germany just voted for a party built on ethno-nationalism and Putin-worship?

    Yaron Brook opens Labor Day by torching the holiday's founding myth: American workers didn't get here because of unions or government mandates — they got here because capital, competition, and freedom made human labor worth more every single year. Then he turns to Germany, where the AfD just posted its strongest result ever — 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt — and asks the uncomfortable question nobody in Berlin wants asked: what happens when the only party willing to name migration, energy collapse, and economic stagnation also happens to be ethno-nationalist and pro-Putin?

    From there: newly surfaced BBC footage tying a Saudi "student" directly to the 9/11 hijackers, why the Strait of Hormuz is still functionally closed a year after the war "ended," a Volkswagen factory getting a second life building Israeli missile defense systems, and why "proportionality" in warfare is — in Yaron's words — barbarism dressed up as ethics. He closes on a robotic surgical system that can now spot blood vessels and nerves live during brain surgery — proof that human achievement never stops compounding, even while politics tries to strangle it.

    Timestamps — Main Topics
    0:00 — Labor Day is a celebration of capitalism, not unions — the numbers prove it
    ~20:00 — AfD's landslide win in Saxony-Anhalt and why Germany's "firewall" against it is collapsing
    ~50:00 — Gas prices stay high because the Strait of Hormuz is still not actually open
    1:11:21 — A dead Volkswagen car plant gets reborn building Israeli missile defense systems
    1:19:48 — New BBC footage ties a Saudi "student" directly to the 9/11 hijackers
    1:32:02 — "Proportionality" in war is moral cowardice dressed up as ethics
    1:40:39 — A surgical robot that spots blood vessels and nerves live during brain surgery

    Live Audience Questions
    1:35:55 — Coke Zero, Diet Coke, or cold turkey? A former addict's honest take on quitting sugar — plus the sweetener research nobody's talking about
    1:39:25 — Hold your nose and vote Democrat until the midterms? Where "the enemy of my enemy" ends — and whether that support should ever mean writing a check
    1:40:31 — Who should set safety standards — the market or the government? A machine builder explains why OSHA is barely in the room
    1:41:52 — Why do East Germans and Russians still get nostalgic for communism? The dark psychology of longing for your own oppression
    1:45:13 — What actually drives someone to become a Navy SEAL — duty, sacrifice, or something more selfish than people think?
    1:45:28 — Is Europe quietly dumping Microsoft for homegrown tech — a blip, or the start of a real tech decoupling from America?
    1:46:34 — Growing up in Israel surrounded by Holocaust survivors — what that does to how you see the world
    1:47:16 — Did the Enlightenment thinkers already know reason drives innovation — or did it take Ayn Rand to say it out loud?
    1:48:27 — Texas Senate shakeup: why national Republicans are getting cold feet on Ken Paxton — and just how dangerous a candidate is Talarico?

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    7 September 2026, 7:54 pm
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    Mike Mentzer -- Body Builder & Ayn Rand; Movie Reviews | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
    Live Sep 6, 2026
    (Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 12)
    Mike Mentzer -- Body Builder & Ayn Rand; Movie Reviews | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues
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    Can you build the perfect body with the wrong philosophy? Mike Mentzer scored a perfect 300 at the 1980 Mr. Olympia, lost the title anyway, and spent the rest of his life proving that lifting weights and reading Ayn Rand are the same act of self-respect. Was he right — or did he just get robbed?

    Mike Mentzer never separated the barbell from the book. He built Heavy Duty training on the same premise Ayn Rand built her ethics on: that your body, like your mind, is yours to master through reason — not tradition, not volume, not somebody else's program. Today Yaron and Nikos put Mentzer's life under the bar: the perfect score the judges gave him, the title politics took from him, and the philosophy that made him say bodybuilding itself is a moral act. Then the show turns to the screen — movie reviews, what modern film does to heroism, and why so few directors can stomach showing you a man who actually wins. Live audience questions close it out.

    If you think fitness and philosophy live in separate rooms, this episode is going to rearrange your furniture.

    Timestamps — Main Topics
    0:00 — Intro, announcements, and what's on deck
    3:14 — Who was Mike Mentzer — life, background, early influences
    11:40 — High-intensity training: the theory
    21:04 — Does it actually work? The evidence for Heavy Duty
    37:39 — Why Mentzer walked away from competitive bodybuilding
    42:33 — Finding Objectivism — how Ayn Rand reshaped his thinking
    56:00 — Mentzer's writings and his influence on a generation of lifters
    1:04:07 — The deaths of Mike and Ray Mentzer
    1:05:08 — John Little on his friendship with Mentzer
    1:07:33 — Why Mentzer still fascinates people decades later
    1:11:33 — Steve Ditko and the Objectivist superhero

     Live Audience Questions
    1:19:40 — "Is there really a connection between a healthy mind and a healthy body?"
    1:23:40 — "Mentzer said self-esteem is 'the reputation you gain with yourself.' Jordan Peterson says your worth comes from your rank in a hierarchy. Who's right?"
    1:25:29 — "Can a janitor at Apple have as much self-esteem as Steve Jobs?"
    1:30:02 — "Was Arnold Schwarzenegger basically an Ayn Rand villain — a genetic-lottery-winning power luster?"
    1:36:53 — "Steve Ditko's superhero The Question once recited the law of identity on TV. How did that get past network censors?"
    1:41:59 — "Who was Rex Dante, the man who introduced Mentzer to Ayn Rand?"
    1:43:31 — "How does Mentzer's prime physique compare to Brad Pitt's in Troy?"
    1:49:42 — "Is Gad Saad's 'suicidal empathy' just Rand's warning about altruism dressed up as compassion?"
    1:52:30 — "Can people really be fully brainwashed? If so, how did we ever escape the Dark Ages?"
    1:53:55 — "Should doping be banned in sports?"
    2:00:10 — "Why do you say Steve Ditko was crazy?"
    2:04:16 — "What do you make of the Republican Party split over beef policy?"
    2:37:30 — "What is Rand's 'anti-conceptual mentality' — and how does it explain tribalism?"
    2:42:10 — "Hasan Piker and Tucker Carlson both sound like con men, not ideologues. Agree?"
    2:46:11 — "What actually stopped the Romans from an industrial revolution?"
    2:49:09 — "Did superhero movies lose something by cutting the 'man worship' the genre used to have?"
    2:54:50 — "Would you and Nikos ever do a live Mentzer-style high-intensity training session on the show?"

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    6 September 2026, 9:04 pm
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