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 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?🔴 Watch live every weekday. 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