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Yaron Brook, filling in for Mike Opelka, shares evidence that poverty is shrinking all across the world. Nearly 2 billion human beings no longer live in extreme poverty -- an improvement of over 20 percent since 1990. He explains how freedom has increased access to money for people all over the world.

 Yaron Brook, filling in for Mike Opelka, explores how freedom and capitalism has brought down the cost of airline tickets 50 percent in the past 27 years. He also explains how travel enriches us and helps us be grateful for what America has achieved.

Yaron Brook, filling in for Mike Opelka, addresses the one thing that does not seem to be improving in this world of freer markets and technology: white middle aged American life expectancy. He talks about what is to blame for this alarming statistic, and how to overcome it. Hint: government is not the solution.

Yaron Brook compares technology from 1990 to today and is exuberant about how much better life is now. Computing and medical advances have completely changed our lives for the better, he argues. He says we should learn the cause of the good and fight for it so that the future is better than the present.

Yaron Brook explores improvements in the human condition since the Industrial Revolution. He then asks everyone to examine times they have been unsuccessful, and points to emotional responses as the path to sustained failure. Reason is, therefore, the route to happiness.

The main stream media has a decidedly left leaning bias, but Fox can’t claim to be fair and balanced any more. Yaron Brook, filling in for Mike Opelka, explores the implications of President Donald Trump touting Fox during his Phoenix rally. He then reminds us of what the main stream media ignored during Barack Obama’s presidency.

 Yaron Brook discusses Galt’s speech from “Atlas Shrugged,” contrasted with works like “The Social Construction of Reality,” and suggests that the person with the most votes and the biggest guns decides what reality is in this day and age.

Alex Epstein, president of the Center for Industrial Progress, discusses “An Inconvenient Sequel” with Yaron Brook. He comments on what is true, what Al Gore failed to report on, and how industry has actually saved human life from climate rather than end it or make it worse.

 Yaron Brook agrees with the first half of a piece in the September edition of “The Atlantic” titled “How America Lost Its Mind.” Respect for reality and rational thinking started to decline in the 1960s. But Yaron and the author draw very different conclusions about how that manifested in America.

Guest Host Yaron Brook fills for Opelka 
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HOUR 1 -  Tales About Two Presidents
The main stream media has a decidedly left leaning bias, but Fox can’t claim to be fair and balanced any more. Yaron Brook, filling in for Mike Opelka, explores the implications of President Donald Trump touting Fox during his Phoenix rally. He then reminds us of what the main stream media ignored during Barack Obama’s presidency.

HOUR 2 - How America Really Lost Its Mind
Yaron Brook agrees with the first half of a piece in the September edition of “The Atlantic” titled “How America Lost Its Mind.” Respect for reality and rational thinking started to decline in the 1960s. But Yaron and the author draw very different conclusions about how that manifested in America.
Yaron Brook discusses Galt’s speech from “Atlas Shrugged,” contrasted with works like “The Social Construction of Reality,” and suggests that the person with the most votes and the biggest guns decides what reality is in this day and age.

HOUR 3 - Life is more important than climate
 Alex Epstein, president of the Center for Industrial Progress, discusses “An Inconvenient Sequel” with Yaron Brook. He comments on what is true, what Al Gore failed to report on, and how industry has actually saved human life from climate rather than end it or make it worse.