Mark interviews Steve Forbes, Chairman of Forbes Media.

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Steve believes the U.S. may need to resume military hostilities against Iran before the conflict can be resolved, even as the Strait of Hormuz blockade puts mounting economic pressure on Tehran. He also touched on elements of the original Iran nuclear framework from the Obama era that may resurface in current negotiations under the Trump administration, although not in their entirety. The guys also turned to NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, which pivoted its focus to the moon last week, and what that shift means for the future of the U.S. space program.

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0:00.0	Mr. New York, Mark Simone, 710WR.
0:06.4	Well, Steve Forbes, the chairman of Forbes Media and author of many great books.
0:12.1	You should get his latest book, Inflation.
0:14.1	You will really learn a lot.
0:15.4	Highly recommended, Steve Forbes' latest book, Inflation.
0:18.4	You can get it on Amazon, of course, read Forbes Media.
0:22.2	Steve Forbes, how you doing?
0:24.8	Doing fine, thanks.
0:26.7	I'm in Arkansas today, sunny Arkansas.
0:30.1	So I think they have warm weather here.
0:32.7	You have warm weather there.
0:35.3	And the Yankees won a game last night so a little close 11 to 10 judge
0:40.8	had two home runs so uh life could be worse i hate to ask but what are you doing in arkansas
0:48.6	speaking at harding university oh that young americans for for Freedom, and a great conservative group, right-thinking group.
0:59.2	So, yeah, it's nice to be in company of enlightened people.
1:03.2	Yeah, and Steve Forbes, by the way, one of the great speakers in America, if you need somebody to make a great speech for you, for whatever organization.
1:10.7	But, hey, the blockade of the Straits of Hormuz is so brilliant.
1:17.0	Why didn't we think of that three weeks ago?
1:20.5	It should have been done at the beginning, and thinking things through. They should have planned what would be the reaction
1:30.6	of China deal with that reaction of Russia deal with that but if Iran was going to close the
1:36.0	straight then they say okay it's closed everybody and if you want to get through we'll let some
1:42.1	through but we're going to control that.
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