Podcasts about Objectivism

Live from Madrid 2 (Sept 29, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show#InterestRates #IranNuclear #AIRegulation #Netanyahu #SpaceX #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #MarkZuckerberg #TrumpNews #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #Objectivism #AynRand #Anarchism #EconomicsExplainedLike this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show](askyaron@yaronbrookshow.com/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism?

Choosing a Career ~ I can't decide on a career. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Live from Madrid (Sept 28, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 155)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/sLrPRT7SZaAIf 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. debt14:55 — Why "deregulation + AI will save us" is a bipartisan fantasy36:12 — Iran's fake Hormuz reopening offer — and why oil above $100 tells the real story41:01 — A Hamas bodyguard was granted UK asylum, and Britain barely blinked58:36 — NVIDIA's OpenShell/Sentry and Red Queen Bio: AI is the answer to AI risk — and Starship reaches orbit1:44:16 — Why Netanyahu, for all his flaws, is still a giant next to Europe's leadersAudience 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 #EconomicsExplainedLike this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show](askyaron@yaronbrookshow.com/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism?

Resolving Conflict ~ I have problems resolving conflicts with my spouse. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Child Self-Harms ~ Daughter of ex alcoholic hurts herself. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Understanding Your Child ~ How to better understand and enjoy your child - a short interview with parenting coach Cornelia Lockitch. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Porn vs. Romance ~ How can I save my marriage after my wife discovered my porn addiction. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Live Sep 20, 2026Why Capitalism is Losing & How to Start Winning | Yaron & Nikos Dialogues#AynRand #Objectivism #MikeMentzer #Bodybuilding #IndividualismNotAltruism #FreeMarket #MovieReview #SelfMadeMan #RationalSelfInterest #Individualism #NikosSotirakopoulos #Capitalism More from Nikos Sotirakopoulos: https://www.nikos.org/Support Nikos: / @nikos_1717

Live from London (Sept 19, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show#iranregimechange #MiddleEastCrisis #AIRegulation #Anarchism #FreeMarkets #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show](askyaron@yaronbrookshow.com/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism?

Suicide, Teenage ~ I need to help my suicidal friend get over some rough times. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Divorce, How to ~ How to back out of a marriage with an obese wife. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Live from London (Sept 16, 2026) | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 153)Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/ADBp2WNtUfkTrump 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.

Cognitive Therapy ~ What a first session of cognitive therapy is like - a short interview with Dr. Jeff Riggenbach. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Romantic Breakup ~ I can't deal with an unexpected romantic breakup. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Welcome to Episode 229 of the Xbox Hall of Gamers Podcast! This week we talk about Kojima ditching PlayStation, Steam spoiling every upcoming game, and how Objectivism lead to Bioshock. Every week, we discuss all things achievement hunting, Xbox news, and exclusive interviews with individuals across the Xbox Community. Hosted by Neomaster (Mat), and a rotating cast of co-hosts Shadowless (Cameron), Keo (Keo), Firehawk (Shane) Reptar (Jake) and AudreyChar (Char) we welcome you to the Xbox Hall of Gamers!Keep up to date with the show and join our community on our Discord: https://discord.gg/gWzJymRStrHelp support the show by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hallofgamersIntro and Outro music produced by Sam Gibbs: https://www.fiverr.com/s/ZmXRpQQ

Alcoholic Husband ~ My husband is wonderful but drinks 2 large bottles of vodka a day and hides it. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Apologies ~ My husband won't apologize when he unintentionally hurts my feelings. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Live Sep 11, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 152)9/11, 25 Years Later -- Did We Learn Anything? | Yaron Brook ShowWatch 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.

9/11 was one of the most consequential events of the 21st century. Yet twenty-five years later, the attacks and their aftermath are still widely misunderstood. In two consecutive talks at our student conference in Austin, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo analyzed America's failures before and after 9/11, drawing on more than two decades of work on the subject. They show how the self-abasing morality of altruism shaped American policy, leading the US to betray its ideals, appease its enemies, sacrifice its soldiers, and lose its wars. This double lecture is a must-watch for anyone who cares about America and wants to make it secure.Topics include:Introduction by ARI's CEO, Tal TsfanyHow 9/11 was experienced and perceived in the immediate aftermathThe religious, modernity-hating motivation behind 9/11America's emboldening of Islamists in the decades before 9/11America's abject, craven response to the Danish cartoons of MuhammadThe intellectual rot 9/11 exposed and Objectivism's potential to change itHow American altruism crippled its troops' ability to fightHow America refused to recognize or defeat its enemiesThe devastating consequences of our altruistic approach to the Afghanistan and Iraq warsQ&AResources:Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo, Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11.

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. 

Bossy Wife ~ How can I deal with a wife who is an authoritarian parent? Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Live Sep 8, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 150)Netanyahu & 10/7; Houtis; Trade War; AI; Parenthood; PISA; Achievements | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/9JTdXX9LAyoDid 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.

The New Intellectual Book Study is a free book club discussing For the New Intellectual, by Ayn Rand. This week our reading was pages 164–177. Here John Galt explains the reason that the nation’s producers are going on strike. He points to the evil of the moral code that dominates society, the code of other-ism (philosophical altruism). Galt says, “We who were the living buffers between you and the nature of your creed are no longer there to save you from the effects of your chosen beliefs. We are no longer willing to pay with our lives the debts you incurred in yours.” This is a confrontational section. It is the call to action. About the Book Study: Today's society is degenerating into a cult of despair. Not even churches are immune. In For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand gave a brilliant overview of the status of Western culture, what brought us here, and how to bring a second Renaissance. The book is a good first or second read for someone wanting to understand Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Rand offered the book as a collection of the essential ideas in her philosophy “for those who wish to acquire an integrated view of existence.” Rand's goal was to advocate against mysticism, altruism, and collectivism, and for their opposites: reason, individualism, and capitalism. This book study was designed for Christians interested in understanding Rand's work and finding out where her insights can be valuable specifically to Christians. Project Outline: Ayn Rand's “For the New Intellectual” Week 01 – pgs 10–23 Week 02 – pgs 24–37 Week 03 – pgs 37–57 Ayn Rand's Character Speeches Week 01 – Short Speeches, pgs 60–76 Week 02 – Roark's Courtroom Speech, pgs 77–86 Week 03 – Earlier Atlas Shrugged Speeches, pgs 88–101 Week 04 – Later Atlas Shrugged Speeches, pgs 101–116 Galt's Speech Week 01 – pgs 117–131 Week 02 – pgs 131–146 Week 03 – pgs 146–164 Week 04 – pgs 164–177 Week 05 – pgs 177–192 Listen to the podcast in the player below, or view the video here. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Why Christians Should Reconsider Ayn Rand About Us (For the New Christian Intellectual) Ayn Rand and Christianity? Christianity + Western Civilization The Plunder of the Egyptians Americanism Book Study Objectivism Book Study Become a Patron As a $1/mo. Podcast Insider, attend our Video Hangouts and access patron-only podcast episodes. As a $10/mo. Philosophy Club Member, get an invite to attend occasional podcast recording sessions via webinar and submit questions either live or beforehand. Video Version Click here to find our replays on YouTube. About the Podcast For the New Christian Intellectual is a free show created for Christian thinkers and communicators. We focus on classical (and overlooked) Christian principles such as reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and individual rights. Subscribe to the show through Apple Podcasts to automatically get every episode. How to Help The best way to help more people find out about the show is to subscribe through Apple Podcasts, download several episodes, and leave us a review. Click here to subscribe. Listen to the Podcast The post FTNCI 105: Christians Discuss John Galt's Speech (4/5) first appeared on For the New Christian Intellectual.

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 ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/WRyx6p9ttZEIf 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 Topics0:00 — 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 open1:11:21 — A dead Volkswagen car plant gets reborn building Israeli missile defense systems1:19:48 — New BBC footage ties a Saudi "student" directly to the 9/11 hijackers1:32:02 — "Proportionality" in war is moral cowardice dressed up as ethics1:40:39 — A surgical robot that spots blood vessels and nerves live during brain surgeryLive Audience Questions1:35:55 — Coke Zero, Diet Coke, or cold turkey? A former addict's honest take on quitting sugar — plus the sweetener research nobody's talking about1:39:25 — 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 check1:40:31 — Who should set safety standards — the market or the government? A machine builder explains why OSHA is barely in the room1:41:52 — Why do East Germans and Russians still get nostalgic for communism? The dark psychology of longing for your own oppression1:45:13 — 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 world1:47:16 — 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?

Romantic Reconciliation ~ How do I get back my girlfriend who broke up with me? Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Live Sep 6, 2026(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 12)Mike Mentzer -- Body Builder & Ayn Rand; Movie Reviews | Yaron & Nikos DialoguesWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/5Z_8i4wmdNMCan 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 Topics0:00 — Intro, announcements, and what's on deck3:14 — Who was Mike Mentzer — life, background, early influences11:40 — High-intensity training: the theory21:04 — Does it actually work? The evidence for Heavy Duty37:39 — Why Mentzer walked away from competitive bodybuilding42:33 — Finding Objectivism — how Ayn Rand reshaped his thinking56:00 — Mentzer's writings and his influence on a generation of lifters1:04:07 — The deaths of Mike and Ray Mentzer1:05:08 — John Little on his friendship with Mentzer1:07:33 — Why Mentzer still fascinates people decades later1:11:33 — Steve Ditko and the Objectivist superhero Live Audience Questions1:19:40 — "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?"#AynRand #Objectivism #MikeMentzer #Bodybuilding #IndividualismNotAltruism #FreeMarket #MovieReview #SelfMadeMan #RationalSelfInterest #Individualism #NikosSotirakopoulos #Capitalism More from Nikos Sotirakopoulos: https://www.nikos.org/Support Nikos: https://www.youtube.com/@nikos_1717

Live Sep 5, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 148)Answering Capitalism's Critics #3: Hasan Piker — “Technofeudalism” | Yaron Brook ShowWatch Now: https://youtube.com/live/HgG_a5U8EfkIf Big Tech is "feudal lords" and workers are "serfs," why can you delete your Facebook account, but a medieval peasant couldn't walk off his lord's land?A famous socialist streamer just told 2 million people that Jeff Bezos "won the lottery" and that Big Tech runs a new "feudalism." He's wrong on both counts — and Yaron will prove it with a 1979 Chinese village, a bag of rice, and one simple question: who actually builds the things you use every day?In episode 3 of "Answering Capitalism's Critics," Yaron breaks down Hasan Piker's viral Breakfast Club interview line by line — his embrace of Yanis Varoufakis's "technofeudalism" thesis, his claim that profit is theft, and his insistence that success is a random lottery ticket. Yaron shows why the profit motive — not government redistribution — is the actual mechanism that turned starving Chinese villages into a country that feeds 1.4 billion people, why homelessness isn't a capitalism problem, and why Europe, for all its wealth, has never produced a YouTube, a PayPal, or a Google. If you've ever heard someone call Elon Musk a "feudal lord," this is the episode that ends that argument for good.

The Gay Closet ~ I just got exposed to HIV from a gay encounter. Listen to caller's personal dramas four times each week as Dr. Kenner takes your calls and questions on parenting, romance, love, family, marriage, divorce, hobbies, career, mental health - any personal issue! Call anytime, toll free 877-Dr-Kenner. Visit www.drkenner.com for more information about the show (where you can also download free chapter one of her serious relationships guidebook).

Live Sep 4, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12 - Episode 147)Economy; Meta; Galliano; Clancy; Piacenti; Volkswagen; Falkland; Achievement | Yaron Brook ShowWhy does an economy add 162,000 jobs while diesel hits $5.85 a gallon, and why is a fashion designer getting cancelled fifteen years after he apologized — while a killer's murder gets celebrated online? A jury just deadlocked 11-1 on whether a mother who strangled her three kids one at a time was "legally responsible." Meta just agreed to pay up to $18 billion to 47 state attorneys general — with zero trial, zero vote, and zero proof of fraud. And Javier Milei, self-styled libertarian hero, is now threatening private companies over the Falkland Islands. Something is badly wrong with how America decides guilt, regulates business, and defines freedom — and Yaron Brook breaks all of it down in one hour.In this episode: why the August jobs report is a testament to markets surviving government, not thriving because of it — why Trump demanding Fed rate cuts on Truth Social is economically illiterate — why Meta's mega-settlement is regulation-by-extortion in a closed room instead of a courtroom — why The Met cancelling John Galliano's retrospective reveals a culture that can't forgive — why the "mental illness" defense in the Lindsay Clancy case should worry every juror in America — why cheering the murder of Erin Piancetti reveals the same rot as cheering Luigi Mangione — why Volkswagen's 100,000 layoffs are the price of politicized business — and why Milei betraying Falklanders' private property rights for nationalist theater is a genuine disappointment.Timestamps: 0:00 — Intro / weekend show schedule 4:23 — August jobs report: 162K jobs added, why it's the market's win, not government's ~14:00 — Trump demands Fed rate cuts on Truth Social — why that's economically illiterate ~18:00 — Diesel at $5.85: how the war disrupted Gulf refining, not just crude 22:27 — Meta's $12–18B AG settlement: regulation by extortion, not by law 29:20 — The Met cancels John Galliano's retrospective — can a culture ever forgive? 38:26 — The Lindsay Clancy mistrial: is "postpartum psychosis" swallowing criminal responsibility? 41:15 — Erin Piancetti's murder and the ghouls celebrating it online 47:02 — Volkswagen cuts 100,000 jobs: the cost of politicized corporate governance 57:22 — Milei's Falklands reversal: nationalism vs. the people who actually live there 1:04:34 — Good news: Waymo hits 500,000 weekly rides, Nissan's factory robots 

September 11, 2001 — and America's response to it — shaped the 21st century. Confidence in America's ability to win wars cracked, trust in leadership and experts went down, and, in response, populism, nihilism, and conspiracism raised their ugly heads. From day one, the Ayn Rand Institute's experts grasped the meaning of the attacks and the significance of a proper response. They called for war with Iran and opposed Bush's altruistic wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their advice was not followed, but their predictions held.In this special livestream marking the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Yaron Brook, Elan Journo, and Onkar Ghate — the Institute's three leading experts on the attacks — trace what went wrong in its lead-up and aftermath, and how Ayn Rand's philosophy let them foresee what most people still struggle to understand.Topics include:The events and evasions that led up to 9/11.How shocking 9/11 was, given the atmosphere in the 1990s.The corrupt failure of intellectuals to warn of and explain 9/11.How both the government and academia whitewashed religion and Islam.Why and how ARI commented on 9/11 and its aftermath.How Objectivism helped ARI's experts to predict America's failures.The disgraceful Western response to the Danish cartoons of Muhammad.The rise of populism and nihilism as a result of 9/11.Resources recommended in the episode:Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo, Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11.

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Live Sep 3, 2026 | Yaron Brook ShowHegseth; Iran; Russia; JDVance; Debt; Oil; Golden Shares; Founders; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show#Iran #Russia #NATO #Canada #TariffWars #DataCenters #ArtificialIntelligence #NationalDebt #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #Ukraine #FederalReserve #FreeMarkets #AynRand #Objectivism Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show](askyaron@yaronbrookshow.com/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

Live Sep 2, 2026 | Yaron Brook Show(Season 12, Episode 141)The Meaning of 9/11—25 Years Later: Objectivism, Islamic Totalitarianism, and America's Crisis of IdeasWith Elan Journo, Onkar Ghate & Yaron BrookWhen jihadists struck on 9/11, ARI's response differed radically from those of conservatives, libertarians, and politicians of every persuasion. We argued that America faced a global ideological movement, that it needed to be defeated, but that the fundamental obstacle to U.S. victory was not a lack of military capability; it was philosophic. Unless challenged, the prevailing irrational ideas about morality would subvert the world's greatest military force.Tragically, ARI's analysis was proven correct.Join us for two events analyzing what went wrong since 9/11, illuminating the power of Objectivism, and pointing the way out.#jihad #islamism #september11th #altruism #collectivism #AynRand #IndividualRights #Objectivism #ObjectivismExplained Like this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.**The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by**[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show](askyaron@yaronbrookshow.com/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

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Live August 25, 2026 | Yaron Brook ShowMoscow; Iran; Canada; Data Centers; Bessent; Amargi ; Sit Awareness; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show#bondmarket #debtforgiveness #situationalawareness #debt #Capitalism #Objectivism #Ukraine #FederalReserve #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #FreeMarkets #trump #trade #TariffsAreTaxes #israel #ForeignPolicy #AynRandLike this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show](askyaron@yaronbrookshow.com/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

Live August 24, 2026 | Yaron Brook ShowBonds; Gerontocracy; Canada; Iran; Ukraine; DSA; Nvidia; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show#bondmarket #Capitalism #Objectivism #Ukraine #FederalReserve #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #FreeMarkets #trump #trade #TariffsAreTaxes #israel #ForeignPolicy #AynRandLike this episode?Subscribe, share it with friends, and become a Patreon supporter to access monthly AMAs, exclusive content, and commercial-free audio.The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by[The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere)[Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/)[Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron)[Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) &(https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/)[Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com)[Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow )[Sponsor the Show](askyaron@yaronbrookshow.com/)[One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ)Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook )Like what you hear? Like, share, and subscribe to stay updated on new videos and help promote the [Yaron Brook Show](https://bit.ly/3ztPxTx)Continue the discussion by following Yaron on [Twitter](https://bit.ly/3iMGl6z) and [Facebook](https://bit.ly/3vvWDDC )Want to learn more about Ayn Rand and Objectivism? Visit the [Ayn Rand Institute](https://bit.ly/35qoEC3)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/yaron-brook-show--3276901/support.Yaron is the executive chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a world class speaker. He is the coauthor of the national best-seller Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government, Equal is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality and In Pursuit of Wealth: The Moral Case for Finance. He speaks around the world on a variety of topics including the morality of capitalism, Ayn Rand and her philosophy, finance and economics, and the value of inequality.

Live Aug 23, 2026(Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Episode 11)Patrick Deneen & The Post Liberal Right | Yaron & Nikos DialoguesPatrick Deneen says liberalism failed because it succeeded — freedom gave people too much of it, and now he wants a new elite to rule in the name of the "common good." Is that a critique of the West, or the oldest excuse for tyranny wearing a Notre Dame faculty badge?Patrick Deneen says America needs "regime change" — not at the ballot box, but a quiet takeover by a new elite who'll rule for the "common good" instead of individual rights. He calls it postliberalism. Yaron Brook calls it what it actually is: aristocracy with a syllabus.Deneen's bestselling books — Why Liberalism Failed and Regime Change — have become the intellectual bible of the post-liberal right, blurbed by Obama, quoted by JD Vance, cited by the "common good conservatives" reshaping the GOP. His argument: individual freedom itself is the disease. The cure is a ruling class willing to override your choices for the sake of the collective.In this episode of Yaron & Nikos Dialogues, Yaron Brook and Nikos Sotirakopoulos take Deneen's ideas apart line by line — where "common good" politics actually leads, why every attack on individualism ends up defending the same thing (power over you), and why the post-liberal right and the woke left are closer than either side wants to admit. If you've heard people say liberalism "went too far," this episode explains exactly what they mean — and why they're wrong.Main Topics: 00:00 — Cold open: what "regime change" actually means in Deneen's own words 06:30 — Who is Patrick Deneen, and why did Obama put him on a reading list? 15:00 — "Liberalism failed because it succeeded" — unpacking the core claim 26:00 — The "common good" con: how collectivism always smuggles itself in through a nice-sounding phrase 38:00 — Aristopopulism: Deneen's plan for a new elite to rule over the "many" 50:00 — Is this Catholic integralism with a populist paint job? 1:02:00 — Where the post-liberal right and the woke left secretly agreeLive Audience Questions: 1:14:00 — Is Deneen just describing real problems badly, or is his solution the actual danger? 1:20:30 — Does JD Vance actually believe this stuff, or is he just borrowing the vocabulary? 1:27:00 — Can a "new elite" ever rule for anyone but itself? 1:34:00 — Is national conservatism just socialism with incense and a flag? 1:41:00 — What's the actual liberal (classical) answer to the loneliness and rootlessness Deneen describes?