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Live August 13, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show
Assassination?; Tucker/Shapiro; Qatar; Rent; Data Centers; Refunds; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show

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Live August 12, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 134)
Primaries; Mail votes; Immigration; Iran; China; Jones Act; Inflation; MAGA Media | Yaron Brook Show
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"If MAGA was never about stopping illegal immigration — if it was about stopping all immigration, even the PhD who wants to build the next Silicon Valley company — what does that tell you about who's actually driving this presidency?"

On this episode Yaron breaks down district by district on why Democrats are going to win the midterms — and why it has nothing to do with anyone actually liking them. Then he breaks down why Mike Lindell lost his primary with Trump's endorsement, why the DSA is becoming to Trump what MAGA was to Obama, and why the administration's new mail-ballot power grab is headed for a wall named "the Constitution."

Yaron goes to war on the Jones Act — a 1920s law so absurd that Trump's own "fix" now requires a bureaucrat's sign-off for every single ship voyage — and explains why Iran is betting it can outlast us, because dictatorships are built to make their own people suffer. Plus: China's tariff failure is turning into full industrial central planning, July's inflation numbers, and a live audience Q&A covering Fort Knox's gold, social media liability lawsuits, and Gaza casualty numbers.

If you think both parties are lying to you about immigration, inflation, and Iran — you're right. Let's get into why.

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TIMESTAMPS 
00:00 – Cold open: Mike Lindell loses his Trump-endorsed primary 
07:09 – Q: "Shouldn't Objectivists support Mike Lindell?" 
09:18 – Why Democrats win the midterms without anyone actually liking them 
11:58 – How Trump created the DSA the way Obama created MAGA 
15:14 – Trump's mail-ballot executive order: an unconstitutional power grab 
18:45 – Will your mail ballot even count this fall? 
21:30 – The $100K fee that outs MAGA as anti-immigration, period 
28:05 – Why sanctions alone will never break the Iranian regime 
36:47 – The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at a 40-year low 
39:58 – China: how tariffs failed and morphed into subsidies and equity stakes 
43:18 – Xi's leverage and why Beijing isn't blinking 
46:47 – The Jones Act "waiver" that needs a bureaucrat's permission per voyage
50:18 – July inflation: relative prices or the real thing? 
1:08:26 – Fort Knox: is the gold actually there? 
1:11:15 – What America should do with $644 billion in government gold

LIVE AUDIENCE Q&A 
1:22:09 – Kicking off viewer questions 
1:26:23 – Q: Are social media companies liable for addicting your kids? 
1:38:16 – Q: Did "woke" already peak? 
1:41:07 – Q: How many real civilians actually died in Gaza?

#Immigration #Iran #ChinaTariffs #MAGA #Midterms2026 #Capitalism #Inflation #AynRand #democrats #dsa #ObjectivismToday #ForeignPolicy #FreeMarkets #AynRand

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Live August 10, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 133)
AI Manifesto; Cards; Munitions; Gaza; C/Attacks; Economy; AirTraffic; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show
Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/A4FIB98E2dU

AI, Iran, and the Death of American Deterrence — Zuckerberg's Gamble, Tehran's Endgame 
 
Zuckerberg just told Washington to stay out of AI — then invited it right back in. Iran just told Trump: reopen Hormuz on our terms, or it stays shut forever. Who's actually calling the shots?

Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word AI manifesto today that doesn't beg government to save the world from his own product — a first for Silicon Valley. In this episode, Yaron breaks down why that's a genuine breath of fresh air, and the one line buried in it that undercuts the whole thing.

Then: Iran believes it holds every card in this war, and it's hard to argue they're wrong. 440.9 kg of 60%-enriched uranium — enough for ten bombs — is unaccounted for. The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. Tehran is studying North Korea's playbook, not Libya's.

Plus: hackers just hit water systems in 12 states, Lockheed is blocking Ukraine from building its own Patriot missiles, why Yaron actually likes video gamers running air traffic control towers, and a live audience Q&A on values, justice, and how to actually think straight in a chaotic world.

⏱ Timestamps
0:00 — Weekend recap + Friday's Odyssey review
2:20 — Does Tucker run in 2028, or does he back JD Vance?
4:55 — Zuckerberg's AI manifesto: the good, the bad, and the government-sized hole in it
29:51 — "Iran has all the cards, Trump has none" — how did we get here?
50:08 — The two things that actually matter for US national security right now
56:49 — America's munitions crisis: can we even fight the next war?
1:05:06 — Gaza's stalemate and why Netanyahu has to go
1:07:42 — Cyberattacks hit water systems in 12 states — is Iran behind it?
1:07:50 — The economy nobody trusts: Americans are traveling more than ever
1:22:48 — Gamers are now running air traffic control. Should that scare you?
1:25:47 — Crime is falling and surveillance cameras are everywhere — trade-off or triumph?
1:28:37 — Human Achievement of the Day

1:45:51 — 🎙️ LIVE Q&A: "How do you rebuild your values after everything falls apart?"
1:49:44 — 🎙️ LIVE Q&A: "What do you owe the people in your life — and what do you owe yourself?"

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Live Aug 8, 2026
(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 9)
In the Mind of JD Vance | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues

Is JD Vance the future of American conservatism — or is he Elizabeth Warren with a rosary?

JD Vance calls himself a defender of capitalism. He talks about "robber barons," praises union power, campaigns for Viktor Orbán's crony state in Hungary, and once said UFOs might be demons. 

Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos spend this episode taking Vance's own words apart — the Rogan interview, the "Christian political economy," the Iran deal he ran point on — to answer one question: what does JD Vance actually believe, and is it conservatism at all, or socialism wearing a cross? 

Tune in as Yaron and Nikos go inside the ideas driving the man most likely to be the next face of the Republican Party, and they don't pull punches.

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Main Topics:
00:00 — Who is JD Vance, really — populist, Christian nationalist, or something new?
08:00 — Vance on Rogan: "robber barons" and the language of Elizabeth Warren
18:00 — "Christian political economy" — is it just socialism with incense?
30:00 — Vance as the anti-Israel voice inside Trump's Iran deal
42:00 — Campaigning for Orbán: crony statism dressed as civilizational defense
55:00 — UFOs as demons — the mysticism creeping into the American right
1:05:00 — Is Vance the future of the GOP, or a bridge to something worse?

Live Audience Questions:
1:15:00 — Is Vance more dangerous than Trump long-term?
1:22:00 — Can you be pro-capitalism and anti-"robber baron" rhetoric at the same time?
1:30:00 — Does Vance actually believe his own Christian nationalism, or is it strategy?
1:38:00 — What would a principled alternative to Vance's economics look like?

#JDVance #Objectivism #Capitalism #AynRand #Conservatism #ChristianNationalism #Populism #FreeMarkets #IndividualRights #ModernRight #PoliticalPhilosophy #NikosSotirakopoulos 

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Live Aug 7, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 132)
The Odyssey -- Movie Review | Yaron Brook Show
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Nolan Erased Odysseus's Mind — And Nobody's Talking About It

Is Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey a spectacular film — or a philosophical bait-and-switch?
 
Christopher Nolan spent $250M turning the smartest man in Greek mythology into a guilty, brooding penitent who needs forgiveness — not intelligence — to get home. Homer's Odysseus survived by outsmarting gods and monsters. Nolan's Odysseus survives by feeling bad enough about it. 

In this episode, Yaron dissects where the film is a visual triumph — and exactly where it quietly rewrites 2,800 years of Western storytelling into a Christian redemption arc. Homer's original Odysseus felt no guilt at all; his flaw was pride, and his superpower was his mind. Nolan's Matt Damon, by contrast, plays a man crushed by guilt and sin. Yaron argues Nolan strips out the intelligence that made Odysseus the founding hero of Western civilization, replacing it with atonement, renunciation, and "trust the gods."

Along the way, Yaron covers the aesthetics, the IMAX cinematography, the casting-controversy nonsense, the Bronze Age history behind the myth, and what it means that Nolan himself has admitted audiences won't accept an unflawed hero anymore.

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Main Timestamps:
0:00 — Why most movie reviews are pretentious nonsense (and why I won't pretend this is "objectively great")
2:53 — What it actually takes to judge a film's aesthetics — movies are the hardest art form to critique
8:11 — Ayn Rand on art as "selective recreation": what metaphysical value judgment is Nolan making here?
9:59 — First verdict: the IMAX spectacle is worth the biggest screen you can find
12:39 — Real puppetry, real cameras, almost no CGI — how Nolan actually built this world
43:28 — Why Odysseus sails away from Ithaca instead of reclaiming his throne — Nolan's guilt-and-renunciation ending
45:21 — The "Nolan hero" pattern: Oppenheimer and Odysseus are the same man
46:36 — The fatal cut: why stripping Odysseus's intelligence breaks the whole point of the myth
1:12:41 — My final verdict: see it, but know what you're watching

Audience Questions:
1:19:36 — 🎤 Live Q&A: "Jason and the Argonauts had gods moving men like chess pawns — why doesn't Nolan?"
1:21:38 — 🎤 Live Q&A: How does Tennyson's Ulysses poem stack up against both Homer and Nolan?
1:24:02 — 🎤 Live Q&A: A 15-year-old just studied Homer in school — what should he take from seeing this movie?

#TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #MattDamon #Homer #GreekMythology #MovieReview #art #AynRand #Objectivism #WesternCivilization #FilmCriticism

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