CEASEFIRE: Will It Hold? | Guest: Alvin Lui | 4/8/26

Summary

Steve Deace Show Podcast Summary

Episode: CEASEFIRE: Will It Hold?
Date: April 8, 2026
Host: Aaron McIntyre (with Todd Erzin, guest Alvin Lui)
Network: Blaze Podcast Network

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode centers on America’s evolving domestic and foreign challenges from a “principled conservatism with a snarky twist” lens. With Steve Deace himself absent (traveling to a speaking engagement), Aaron McIntyre and Todd Erzin, along with guest Alvin Lui (Courage Is a Habit), steer discussion on the Iran ceasefire, cultural symptoms of American decline, the recent transgender study out of Finland, and grassroots action for parents and conservatives. The tone is critical of progressive cultural trends, supportive of assertive U.S. foreign policy, and focused on personal and civic action rather than passive dissatisfaction (“black pilling”).

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Episode Breakdown & Key Insights

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1. Opening and Housekeeping

00:38–02:12

• Host absence explained: Steve Deace is absent due to airline snafu; stuck en route to Philadelphia.
• New show procedure teased for upcoming episodes (to get to content faster).

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2. Setting the Table: News, Culture, Conservative Discontent

02:53–05:15

• Transgender Study Preview: Alvin Lui (Courage Is a Habit) to discuss Finnish study on transgender issues.
• Conservative Lament: Ongoing cultural battles in U.S. (e.g., California, Minneapolis) regarding transgender policies seen as “demonic” or extreme:
  • "These are the cultures. It goes all the way to the end. We will cut off your children's body part. We will soul rape them. We will have fetishists entering their bathroom and grooming your children for their sexual delights. This isn't theoretical. It's all happening right now." (Todd Erzin, 05:15)
• Analogy: Nations like Finland are called "lost," yet their science influences the global transgender debate.

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3. Foreign Policy Focus: Iran Ceasefire and Operation Epic Fury

07:07–13:13, 22:07–27:01

• Breaking News Montage:
  • Ceasefire with Iran: President Trump announces Iranian regime accepts a two-week ceasefire after overwhelming U.S. military pressure ("Operation Epic Fury").
  • Details: Iran's key leadership allegedly eliminated; Trump touts U.S. leverage over nuclear, economic, and military spheres.
  • Impact: Strait of Hormuz to reopen, oil prices drop sharply.
  • Official Statement: “President Trump had the power to cripple Iran's entire economy in minutes. But he chose mercy. He spared those targets. Because Iran accepted the ceasefire under overwhelming pressure, the new Iranian regime understood that a deal was far better than the fate that awaited them.” (Pete Hegseth, 08:53)

Analysis & Tone:

• Continued skepticism about whether the ceasefire will last; concern over potential face-saving rhetoric (“everyone is looking for an off ramp while trying to save face”).
• Markets respond positively, but caution that a return to hostilities is possible:
  • “It might not mean anything. We could be back at war this time tomorrow. I don’t know. The markets certainly think that this thing is going to stick.” (Aaron McIntyre, 27:01)

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4. J.D. Vance on Civilization and Domestic Engagement

11:08–13:13, 15:37–19:12

• J.D. Vance (VP) Quotes:
  • "What the United States and Hungary together represent under Viktor's leadership and under President Trump's leadership is the defense of Western civilization..." (11:08)
  • On “black pilling” (political disengagement after disappointment):
    • “Black pilling is how you give power to the forces that are trying to destroy what our ancestors built.” (J.D. Vance, 12:01)
• Takeaway: Vance urges listeners to be patient, involved, and resistant to “checking out” after political disappointments or slow cultural progress.

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5. State of the Union: Culture War News Montage

13:23–15:37

• Controversial/Trending Domestic Stories:
  • Canada: Three men in a polygamous homosexual relationship adopt a girl.
  • California: Senator Scott Wiener defends “conversion therapy” bans, equating it to suppression of the Christian gospel.
  • Nashville: School bell changes for Ramadan observation.
  • Minneapolis: Measure to allow adult bathhouses and sexual activity venues.

Hosts’ Commentary:

• Argue these “pit of hell” stories are symptoms of moral and societal decay, not restricted to blue states.

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6. Civic Responsibility vs. Despair (“Black Pilling”)

19:12–22:07

• Todd Erzin’s Challenge:
  • Need for grassroots action; not just blaming politicians:
    • “Here at home, you know who the tip of the spear is? You. Me. We're supposed to be doing something other than, as J.D. Vance said, black pilling… There are dragons to slay all over the place. Right here, that's black pilling. That life is black pilling. And yes, Vice President Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are calling you to so much more. What are you prepared to do?” (21:29)
• Critique of Conservative Men:
  • Criticism of passive men “living in imaginary worlds” (videogames/Gamer boyfriend phenomenon).

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7. Discussion with Alvin Lui (Courage Is a Habit)

30:26–46:46

a. Finnish Transgender Study

• Headline Finding:
  • Longest study globally (1996–2019) shows youth who underwent transgender surgery experienced higher suicide rates:
    • Boys post-surgery: suicide rate increases from ~10% to ~61%.
    • Girls post-surgery: suicide rate increases from ~22% to ~54.5%.
    • “After $50 million, water is wet and money makes life a little easier. That's the result. So, no surprise to anybody who has been fighting the transgender cult.” (Alvin Lui, 32:23)
• Moral/Political Framing:
  • “Nothing short of a crime against humanity..." (Todd Erzin, 34:15)
  • Calls for reckoning: lawsuits, eventual criminal accountability for medical practitioners and school officials.

b. Tactics of the Left & Parental Action Steps

• Insight: Progressive activists weaponize Americans’ empathy and fear of being called bigots; victory requires the majority to “reject inclusion and embrace exclusion” instead of compromising on child safety.
  • “They won't need to change tactics because every time you get them into a corner, they pull out that empathy and kindness card." (Alvin Lui, 39:02)
• Tool Highlighted: Courage Is a Habit’s resources give turnkey opt-out letters & FOIA request guidance for parents to push back against radical ideological curricula (e.g., “Lean In Girls” program in schools).

c. Broader Ideological Context

• Transgenderism, CRT, and “Live and Let Live” America:
  • Framed as vehicles for communism (“All the transgenderism, the critical race theory... it's just a vehicle to deliver communism to America.” - Alvin Lui, 44:26)
  • American “live and let live” mentality seen as ill-suited to fighting determined leftist activism.

d. Action Steps Recap:

• Parents: Use legal channels—demand transparency, opt out, create legal exposure for school districts.
• General: Stay “on offense,” organize, never assume the culture war is “won”; the opposition never rests.

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8. Buy, Sell, Hold — Lightning Round, Cultural Critique, and Listener Engagement

49:07–end

• Wide-Ranging Mini-Topics:
  • Commentary (often sarcastic/snarky) on U.S. military morale, Trump as a biblical archetype (King Jehu), American male passivity, college athletics as idolatry, and more.
  • Todd Erzin on Trump:
    • “Trump was an indictment of all of us.” (62:11)
  • On grassroots political engagement:
    • “Republic cannot sustain itself on the whims of its people. There has to be a unifying, cohesive force that binds them together. Not just whims.” (Aaron McIntyre, 86:17)
  • “Betting against your own country is unpatriotic.”
    • Theme of patriotism vs. cynicism or disengagement.

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9. Final Takeaways

• Ceasefire with Iran is a moment of tentative optimism, but skepticism remains whether real change has occurred or if it’s “rhetorical flourish” for political benefit (“Could be back at war this time tomorrow; markets are optimistic, but history cautions”).
• Conservative Responsibility: The right must move beyond “black pilling” (defeatist complaining) and instead act: run for local office, hold schools accountable, refuse to let empathy be weaponized.
• Cultural Trends: There’s a crisis of meaning and masculinity — cited examples include “gamer boyfriend” apathy, obsession with professional sports, and the numbing effect of comfort/distraction (“invincible ignorance in our men right now”).
• Importance of Institutions and Values: Repeated calls to preserve core principles (citizenship, family, religious faith) against both cultural decay and external threats.
• Optimism through Action: Guest Alvin Lui is bullish on eventual legal and cultural victory — if only people get off the sidelines.

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Notable Quotes and Timestamps

• On the black pill (disengagement):
  • “Black pilling is how you give power to the forces that are trying to destroy what our ancestors built.” — J.D. Vance (12:01)
• On leftist indoctrination of kids:
  • “We will cut off your children's body part. We will soul rape them.” — Todd Erzin (05:15)
• On empathy and leftist tactics:
  • “They don't have to change tactics because every time you get them into a corner, they pull out that empathy and kindness card." — Alvin Lui (39:02)
• On parental action:
  • “If you do it in volume, they absolutely hate it because they are so not used to pushback. And so staying on offense is really important." — Alvin Lui (45:17)
• On America’s decline:
  • “There’s a level of invincible ignorance going on in our men right now on so many levels. And they are the… it's the idiocracy. Absolutely.” — Todd Erzin (86:52)
• On U.S. foreign power:
  • “President Trump had the power to cripple Iran's entire economy in minutes. But he chose mercy.” — Pete Hegseth (08:53)
• On Trump as a cultural barometer:
  • “Trump was an indictment of all of us.” — Todd Erzin (62:11)

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Suggested Listening Guide (Timestamps for Reference)

• Opening banter and setup: 00:38–05:15
• Iran ceasefire headline & analysis: 07:07–13:13, 22:07–27:01
• J.D. Vance quotes and discussion on disengagement: 11:08–13:13, 15:37–19:12
• “What Happened While We Were Away” U.S. culture montage: 13:23–15:37
• Discussion about action vs. passivity: 19:12–22:07
• Alvin Lui on Finnish transgender study and parent activism: 30:26–46:46
• Buy/Sell/Hold and cultural reflections: 49:07–92:39

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Overall Tone

• Snarky, combative, sometimes darkly humorous.
• Hyper-critical of progressive/“woke” policies, urgent about need for active resistance.
• Defensive of assertive conservatism, both in foreign policy and the culture war.
• Regular invocation of religious, moral, and civic duty.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode delves deep into developments in the U.S.–Iran standoff, recurring American cultural and moral crises, and the practical “marching orders” for those feeling left behind by both politics and culture. Guest Alvin Lui’s urgent call for legal and parental activism is balanced with critiques of American comfort and passivity. The message: don’t check out; get involved. The war between right and left isn’t just political or military, but spiritual and civic—and the fate of the country is still what’s at stake.

Transcript

[Aaron McIntyre]

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[Alvin Louie]

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[Todd Erzin]

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[Aaron McIntyre]

I'm all excited. I've been working all week, very hard, long hours all week on a new top of the show procedure for the Steve Day show that we're gonna roll out on Monday. It's gonna be really cool. Hopefully helping us get right to the content as fast as possible. I was telling Todd about this for the first time this morning. So Todd is aware of these new procedures. And wouldn't you know, we're gonna have to BS for like three or four minutes because I was gonna do kind of the same thing. I was gonna get right to the montage. Who am I? Well, I'm Aaron McIntyre. He's Todd Erzin. Steve had, wouldn't you know, another American airline industry mishap yesterday. Couldn't get out of Des Moines on his way to Philadelphia. The event organizers at the event he's speaking at were insistent. We want Steve. Give us Steve. Give us Steve. And so now Todd, now Steve is on his way. I think he's stuck in Chicago currently. So that's why he's gone. That's why Todd and I are here. That's why we are trying to say as much as we possibly can while the montage finishes rendering. Because. Because I ran out of space on my hard drive. Different reason than last time. So I'm hoping that this time around things will work. How are you doing, brother?

[Todd Erzin]

I'm good. I show up regardless. I'm happy to do my part. And even after Michigan wins a national championship, the curse of Connor Stallions still abides. Floats around.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Indeed it does.

[Todd Erzin]

Makes sense.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Indeed it does. Did you think Steve was on cloud nine yesterday or not so much? After Michigan's resounding run through the tournament, no idea.

[Todd Erzin]

Didn't even come up. Didn't even come up. So I think. I think the. The Tucker stuff was more prevalent than any any great blue and gold swoon could endure for more than 24 hours. Which is good. Which is good because it's. It's only supposed to be a. Well, a pastime and not an obsession.

[Aaron McIntyre]

It's Wednesday. You know what that means. Coming up in hour two. It'll be a full hour of buy, sell or hold. Why a full hour of buy, sell or hold? An hour two. It's because our weekly profit of woe and lamentation is gone this week. Not sure why, but he needed to be off this week. That's okay. We have our friend Alvin Louie from Courage is a Habit. He'll be on talking about a new study I believe out of Europe regarding transgenderism. We'll talk to him next segment. But before we get going here, wanna tell you about our friends over at Jace Medical. It seems like every day and we'll be talking about this in just a few minutes. Every day we hear bigger and bigger updates on the Iran war. It's tempting to just tune out and keep living but it's touching every single part of our lives. So our plea to you is even if you can't stay updated all the time, take action right now. The price of oil rises and rises and then falls and falls and falls like we've seen the last 24 hours. Having a cascading price increase that is probably going to, it's going to ripple out over a period of months now on everything. Gas prices are soaring. But one thing we don't always see but can be just as impactful and even deadly is the lack of antibiotics in pharmaceuticals. Straight of hormuz, critical bottleneck not just for our energy but for pharmaceutical supply chains as well. Most Americans don't realize how many of our medications rely on overseas manufacturing and shipping routes through that region. Roughly 80% of medications are imported from India and China. Both of those countries rely heavily on the oil that's being stopped. And the US is of course now not threatening but was threatening for the last couple of weeks striking some of those oil producing infrastructure targets in Iran. All of this, all of this uncertainty puts major strains on the supply chain and supply chains break faster than people expect. But you don't have to feel its impact. With Jace Medical you can get prescription antibiotics, blood pressure medications, diabetes treatments and so much more shipped straight to your door ahead of time. So you're ready before you need it. These are things people depend on every single day. Even if you can't stay updated, stay prepared. Be ready with Jase. Enter promo code DACE at checkout for a discount on your order. And that's promo code D A C at j a s e.com promo code dace.com. todd, you talk for a little bit while I load the montage.

[Todd Erzin]

Well, it's good, it's going to be good to connect with Alvin again. This study out of Finland, you know, it's, it's simultaneously basically just endorsing scripture, ultimately going all the way back to the beginning. Who we were created to be, how we were created. God's design for us but we keep having to come out with the truth in every way we possibly can because the demonic has taken hold and continues to take hold of people on the transgender front across the land. Helping them escape from this cult is absolutely paramount. The I mean we have currently California, Minneapolis right now there are news stories going on where they are doubling and tripling down. Those states are actually worse than ever before. And again, this is not just higher tax rates. These are the cultures. It goes all the way to the end. We will cut off your children's body part. We will soul rape them. We will have fetishists entering their bathroom and grooming your children for their sexual delights. This isn't theoretical. It's all happening right now. And so Alvin joining us again to talk about a pure science out of Finland once again. This is like, this is like the tra. The like Sweden was to Covid Finland is is coming to the aid of trans. They're totally lost there. They're totally forsaken in so many ways. But they've got the science. So let's see if anybody has ears to hear and eyes to see.

[Aaron McIntyre]

You invoked a few stories that are covered now in what happened while we were away. What happened while we were away Brought to you by Ceasefire President Trump about 90 minutes from his deadline of 8pm Eastern Time for Iran to agree to a Trump announced Iranian leaders had indeed brought forward a workable plan. Trump announced a two week cessation of attacks against the regime Iran in a statement from Foreign Minister Aragachi thanked leaders in Pakistan for intermediating the deal and basically agreed in principle with the terms. President Trump posted on Truth Social this morning, quote, the United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive regime change. There will be no enrichment of uranium and the United States will working with Iran dig up and remove all of the deeply buried B2 bombers nuclear dust. It's now and has been under a very exacting satellite surveillance space force. Nothing has been touched from the date of the attack. We are and will be talking tariff and sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been agreed to. Thank you for your attention in this matter. President Donald J. Trump Part of the deal allegedly means the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices over the past 24 hours have been dropping like an Iranian warship to the depths of the Gulf. At the Pentagon this morning, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says Iran begged for

[Pete Hegseth]

this ceasefire and we all know it. As the president Truth this morning A big day for world peace. Iran wants it to happen. They've had enough. Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield. A Capital V military victory.

[Aaron McIntyre]

He reminds the regime it was Trump who shows mercy.

[Pete Hegseth]

President Trump had the power to cripple Iran's entire economy in minutes. But he choose. He chose mercy. He spared those targets. Because Iran accepted the ceasefire under overwhelming pressure, the new Iranian regime understood that a deal was far better than the fate that awaited them. This new regime just happened to look at what happened to their predecessors. Their top leadership was systematically eliminated. The previous Iranian supreme leader, dead. The Supreme National Security Council secretary, dead. The Supreme Leader Office advisor, dead. The Supreme Leader Military Office chief, dead. The Defense Minister, no longer with us. The IRGC commander, dead. The Armed Forces General Staff commander, dead. The Intelligence minister, dead. The IRGC Navy commander, no longer here. The IRGC intel chief, dead. I skipped over a bunch and I could go on and on and on

[Aaron McIntyre]

and to the troops. Hegseth says, well done.

[Pete Hegseth]

You're the backbone of our country. Your skill, your bravery, and sheer guts and grit showed the world what America is all about. I'm proud of you. We're proud of you. President is proud of you. Job well done. But stay vigilant and stay ready.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Kaine gave an overview of Operation Epic Theory by the numbers, a different set of numbers.

[Todd Erzin]

Along the way.

[Aaron McIntyre]

We consume more than 6 million meals

[Alvin Louie]

and by my estimate, more than 950,000

[Aaron McIntyre]

gallons of coffee, 2 million energy drinks

[Todd Erzin]

and a lot of nicotine.

[Aaron McIntyre]

But I am not saying that we have a problem. President Trump posted on Truth Social this morning that any country caught attempting to supply weapons to Iran will be slapped with a 50% tariff. We shall see if the ceasefire holds. In other news, Vice President J.D. vance continued his tour in Hungary, invoking during his speech the two countries shared basis for civilization.

[J.D. Vance]

What the United States and Hungary together represent under Victor's leadership and under President Trump's leadership is the defense of Western civilization. The defense of the idea that children should be able to go to school and get educated and not indoctrinated. The defense of the idea that European and American families should be able to transport themselves and be able to afford to heat and cool their homes. The defense of the idea that we are founded on a certain Christian civilization and Christian values that animate everything from freedom of speech to rule of law to respect for minority rights and protection of the vulnerable. There is so much that unites the United States and Hungary, and unfortunately, there have been too few people who have been willing to stand up for the values of Western civilization. Viktor Orban is the rare exception that has unfortunately proved the rule.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Vance, during another event, also had words for blackpillers.

[J.D. Vance]

Resist the temptation to think that victory is immediate or that we're going to win back our civilization through instant gratification. I mean, this institution was founded in 1996. It's far more influential than it was back then. But I think a lot of people, this is particularly true in the United States of America. If they see something that the administration does they don't like, they say, oh, that's not what we voted for. We're going to check out of politics. No, no, no, that's the exact wrong response. If we do something you don't like, the response should be to get more involved, to make your voice heard and to try to push things in the direction that you want them to be pushed. Our civilization was not built overnight. It's not going to be saved overnight. And so what I'd encourage you to do is stay involved, be patient, and don't let disappointment turn to checking out of the system entirely. There's way too much of that, I would say, in the Anglo system and the American system. There's way too much. You know, I didn't like this thing that the vice president said or I didn't like this thing that the president did and I'm going to completely check out. We call that black pilling in the United States, States of America. And black pilling is how you give power to the forces that are trying to destroy what our ancestors built.

[Aaron McIntyre]

So that's the state of the Union abroad. Let's go back home with a hodgepodge of trending stories from the past 24 hours from our country and continent, starting with Canada.

[Todd Erzin]

For the last seven years, Jonathan Bedard, Eric Leblanc and Justin Mahu have been waiting to become parents together, something that officially happened yesterday.

[Aaron McIntyre]

She's perfect, of course, like any, she's curious, she's energetic, she loves to play, she loves to jump, she loves to dance.

[Todd Erzin]

They adopted their three year old through Quebec's Youth Protection Services, but first had to be approved as foster parents. Something that required a lot of work and openness, they say, to their relationship.

[Aaron McIntyre]

We had a lot of things to go through in order to be able to be to have that accreditation. And it's through that process that they learned that we are a little different because we're three, but we're not different from any other family. Yeah, you heard that right? That's a polygamous homosexual relationship who were able to adopt a young girl. In California, State Senator Scott Weiner is defending the state's ban on the gospel during therapy consultations for minors.

[J.D. Vance]

I'm here today to present Senate Bill 934, a bill to provide justice to survivors of conversion therapy by allowing them more ability to seek compensation through malpractice claims. Straight up.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Conversion therapy is quackery.

[J.D. Vance]

It is psychological torture.

[Aaron McIntyre]

You can't change someone who is LGBTQ into not being lgbtq. All major medical associations agree that sexual

[J.D. Vance]

orientation and gender identity are immutable characteristics and that so called conversion therapy is

[Aaron McIntyre]

fraud that harms patients. In Nashville, Overton High School has changed its daily bell schedule to accommodate Muslim students observing Ramadan. In Minneapolis, city leaders are considering passing a measure that allows bath houses and other venues for adults. It would also allow sexual activity because that's obviously the priority in the Twin Cities. Are you having fun? We're having fun. Good thing we have a united front to push back against this demonic evil in our own lands. Here's Mohammed bin Karl Sunni. But it's not just mockery of Islam. And no president should mock Islam. That's not your job. This is not a theocracy.

[J.D. Vance]

We don't go to war with other

[Aaron McIntyre]

theocracies to find out which theocracy is more effective. Those of you listening, sometimes you just gotta be watching. And that's what happened while we were away. All right, so a lot to get there in today's montage, Todd. And now you know why it took so long to render live on the show. So let's go to this. I think it was a perfect, if I may say so myself, a perfect jumping off point From Vice President J.D. vance's remarks about the black pillars into what we're seeing now. These just stories. The one from Canada, I don't think that's a current story, but it was trending this week. I think you saw that as well. The story from California, Scott Wiener calling. When we talk about conversion therapy, when lefties talk about conversion therapy, here's what they're talking about. The gospel, that's what they're talking about. It's not they have to use pejoratives. They have to use an undefined language in order to redefine it to what they want. Does that sound familiar to you? That's what conversion therapy, when they talk about conversion therapy, when therapists are talking to kids about gender and any issues that they may have there, when they say conversion therapy, what they mean is, here's the gospel. God designed you in his image. God gave you a body that is wonderful and you are fearfully and wonderfully made. That's what they're trying to put the kibosh on because it's antithetical to their version of the truth. The truth is antithetical to their version of the truth. So I just want to put that out there as well. So Scott Wiener in California, reparations, reparations essentially for those who have, who have been subjected to the quackery. He called it the quackery of, of the gospel. We go to Nashville. Nashville. Nashville. No, not Nashville, Texas, because that's a regular thing. Now we would expect a story like that from Texas, but no, Nashville, Tennessee. Changing their entire bell schedule in that high school. I think it was the Overton, Overton High School. Changing their entire bell schedule to accommodate Islam. Bath houses in Minneapolis, anybody. And I understand the temptation to add the proclivity that we have on our side when we see foreign adventures and we see all of this happening, all of this happening in our own backyard. I understand the proclivity to say this administrator. I mean, what are we doing here? It's not cutting it. I think that's some brilliant messaging. I think it's some challenging messaging From Vice President J.D. vance to say things don't happen overnight. You don't go through a drive through at McDonald's and get a civilization change. That's just not how this works. That's not how any of this works. But he didn't do it in a condescending way. It was just a very matter of fact way. Every single, every single issue that we face here, every single, just absolute pit of hell story that we see popping up from places like Nashville or places like Dallas or places like California where we tend to expect it to come from more often. That is never and it never has been an excuse to check out, which I'm glad. Vice President Jance Vance, I should say, Vice President Vance, he called that out and I think that's exceedingly necessary. Now how many people will actually heed his words? That remains to be seen. But what do you think of that messaging before we even get to the Iran stuff and what that means, what do you think about that messaging from Vice President J.D. vance?

[Todd Erzin]

Well, listen, I am sympathetic to. We need to be every bit as aggressive at home or expect our government officials to be every bit as aggressive doing their duty, doing their jobs at home, as whatever we think we need to do abroad. But there are a Lot more people here at home besides elected officials of all kinds who can and must do something here at home. Doing things abroad is more limited. It is confined to politicians, the military, et cetera, et cetera. Here at home, you know who the tip of the spear is? You. Me. We're supposed to be doing something other than, as J.D. vance said, black pilling. And by the way, besides just J.D. vance. Pete Hegseth, beyond their titles, again, just they're men. That's what, that's what we're talking about. And we here at home have way too many excuses. Is it bad in Texas and Nashville because ostensibly red state Republican government, government officials are fake or pulling their punches? Of course, you know who else is? You. You've got too many excuses. You know, you know way more about your sports teams than you do about your local government. You won't get involved. I don't. Again, I, I pushed it as far as I can in my old school district that I had the local officials going boss hog and calling up Roscoe and Cletus, the cops, and walking around and following me because I was pointing out publicly in the town square all of their misdeeds. All right, you can do more. You just don't want to. So listen, we can blame government officials all we want to and apparently on the anon, right, that is our only plan. But you have got to do more than be the guy right now. This is perfect timing. Perfect timing. This ostensibly right of center women's magazine called Evie came out with its in defense of my gamer boyfriend story. Even on the right, the so called right, they're trying to convince you that your job as a man is to just be comfortable and docile and go on adventures perpetually inside an imaginary world when there are dragons to slay all over the place. Right here, that's black pilling. That life is black pilling. And yes, Vice President Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are calling you to so much more. What are you prepared to do?

[Aaron McIntyre]

Let's touch on that Canada story because I think this needs to be reset. We reset this almost every time there's a story like this very quickly because we need to get to the Iran story, which is the pressing story everybody's talking about this morning. So a polygamous homosexual relationship. For those of you listening, I'm using air quotes when saying relationship. By Canada's own statutes, precedents, laws on the books, legally medically assisted suicide, which is killing, it's murdering. There's no such thing as medically assisted suicide. That's legal there. The redefinition of marriage has been a thing in Canada for a long time. What statute? If you are not right wing, you wouldn't describe yourself as right wing. And that story about the polygamous homosexuals adopting a young girl in Canada has you feeling a little weird, a little icky. It gives you the ick. I would ask you why, by what standard, by what legal precedent, statute? I'm not even talking morally. I'm just talking legally and can. Why? Why not? If you are not a right winger, if you're not a conservative, not a Christian. But that story gives you the ick. Why? Why? That's the question that I have for you. Let's get to Iran. So about 90 minutes before the deadline that President Trump gave for Iran to produce some sort of a plan, President Trump announces that they did indeed come forward with, I think a 10 point plan. Aragachi, the foreign Minister who is always talking tough. In fact, I want to, I want to find this post from our and I want to read it real quick. The post from Iran's Foreign Minister Aragachi. Now this is something that President Trump posted on Truth Social last night. So maybe it's fake, but I don't think so. I think Trump probably recognizes this is legitimate and would not be posting it if it were not legitimate. So this is the statement from Iran's foreign minister. Quote, on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, I express the gratitude and appreciation for my dear brothers, Prime Minister of Pakistan and Field Marshal Munir for their tireless efforts to end the war in the region. In response to the brotherly request of Prime Minister Sharif of Pakistan in his tweet, and considering the request by the US for negotiations based on its 15 point proposal, as well as announcement by President United States about acceptance of the general framework of Iran's 10 point proposal as a basis for negotiations, I hereby declare on behalf of Iran's Supreme National Council, if attacks against Iran are halted, our powerful armed forces will cease their defensive operations for a period of two weeks. Safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran's armed forces and with due consideration of technical limitations. So why did I read that for you? You know this guy? You've seen him. If you've been following Iran for any amount of time, especially recently in the last six weeks, you've seen this guy on television, you've maybe seen some of his writings as well. Todd, does this sound like the same guy that you heard that Saturday morning we woke up and we learned that perhaps, perhaps Ali Khamenei had been targeted and killed. Is this the same Aragachi? Does that sound like the same person? Because this was the guy who that very Saturday was asked point blank, hey, can we get a status report on your supreme Leader? And he said, no, everything's being handled. We have a security situation. Everything's being handled. Operations are continuing on normally. It was very much Baghdad Bob. And he has been very, very, to certain degrees, though not as much as some of the IRGC flacks that we've seen on television as well. This guy has been toeing the regime line pretty hard. Do you hear that in that statement, Todd?

[Todd Erzin]

No, but everybody, I mean, we talk on the show all the time about rhetorical flourish. We are now living in the time on both sides of this, quite frankly, are living in the time of rhetorical flourish because everybody's looking for an off ramp while trying to save face. I mean, Trump's statements are in the realm of sanity versus beforehand. He was clearly using rhetoric that was coming from the top rope just to try to make people think he was perhaps losing his marbles and would do anything. I mean, everybody is sounding differently because they were trying to turn the volume of words up to maximum volume to get away from this thing.

[Aaron McIntyre]

My point with Aragachi is, though, he had that opportunity. They had that opportunity for weeks and weeks and weeks. They have, and they still continue to say, we demand reparations. We demand you pull out of the Middle East. We demand that we're going to charge $2 million a ship. We demand, we demand. It was always we demand. And now all of a sudden, yeah, okay, we'll talk now. So I don't know what that means. It might not mean anything. We could be back at war this time tomorrow. I don't know. The markets certainly think that this thing is going to stick. I don't know if you saw the price of crude oil futures dropping like a rock in the past 18 hours or so. So it certainly seems like the markets think that this thing is, is going to stick. Well, something that has stuck with Steve, and you can tell when something sticks with Steve, when he really, really, he really, really likes everything that we, all of our partners that we partner with here on the Steve Day Show. But it's an indication of, let's just say, a lack of restraint when he doesn't share anything with us. A lot of times he's excited to share things with us, share our partner's work, share our partner's products. But I don't think he's shared anything with us from our friends at Kexi. And as we approach Mother's Day, this is a great time to check out their offering of wonderful, wonderful baked goods at Kexi. We know you know by now that when it comes to real handcrafted treats, Kexi is Steve's go to had them on the show now for a number of times because they just, they do it better than anybody else. These aren't those thin flavorless cookies you find at the store. These are substantial premium brownies and cookies. They ship fresh nationwide straight to your door. Right now. Kixie has released two of the most requested seasonal flavors, the Texas Sheet Cake and the Carrot cake. Whether your mom loves that rich fudgy chocolate or the warm home cooked feel of carrot cake, these are the flavors that define the season. But remember, Kexi rotates their menu regularly to keep things fresh. So you'll want to get your Mother's Day in. Orders in early. Make Mother's Day easier this year. Go to kexi.com, that's K-E K-S I.com use the code DACE for 15% off of your order. Treat her and yourself to the Texas Sheet Cake and carrot cake cookies. That's kexi.com use promo code DACE for 15% off of your order. When we come back, when it comes to actually doing the things that we say, we believe when it comes to actually building things, we're going to talk to an old friend, Alvin Louie of Courage is a Habit about an interesting new study out of I believe it's Finland. Todd talk about that and more his organization that's coming up next,

[J.D. Vance]

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[Aaron McIntyre]

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[Alvin Louie]

That's right. Yeah. Water is wet. That's right. After, you know, $50 million, water is wet and money makes life a little easier. That's the result. So no surprise to anybody who has been fighting the transgender cult. They saw that youth who went through the surgery, the transgender surgeries because of this social contagion actually had a much higher rate of suicide. More specifically, the boys who had about 10% rate of suicide after they had their penis removed had a 60, almost 61% chance rate of suicide. For the girls who went through the surgery and basically just had an appendage attached to their abdomen because their, their vagina was removed, they, they came in with about, about 22% suicide rate. And then after the surgery they had a near a 54.5% suicide rate. Now this study is the longest study of its kind. There isn't anything like it in the world because it started in 1996 and then it, it ended in 2019. So you're talking about 23 years because remember, there's a lot of countries over, over there that started this barbaric practice before we did in the US and so they have a lot more data which is, you know, which is even more evil for us because in America there was plenty of data that this was harming children which again, you didn't need data to know you can't be mutilating kids. But it wasn't, we weren't the first to do it, but we still do it did it anyway despite all this evidence from, from European countries. So Obviously a, you know, water is wet study. But it's very sad because these are obviously, you know, young people who, Whose life has been per. Altered.

[Todd Erzin]

Alvin, we. You're perfect to fill in for Steve because he's larger than life and you have that aspect to you as well. Also in terms of the marching orders you both give, you are both talking while you talk about the issue. Your website is giving people marching orders. How to very specifically get involved. Steve has written books like that as well. I want to talk about that. A number, number of fronts. But first this, this is a, this is nothing short of a crime against humanity. Steve has written books, two books related to Covid on that front. One of them had Nuremberg in the title because it's that level of trials that should be happening regarding what happened with COVID The same is true here. Is there any chance that we will have eyes to see and ears to hear anytime in our lifetimes, Alvin, where we will have a legal reckoning that is necessary to make sure something like this never happens again?

[Alvin Louie]

Oh, I 100% believe that. I'm very optimistic that in, in, in. In the next 10 years we will. Because for two reasons. Number one, you have a lot of detransitioners coming out now, obviously, you know, filing lawsuits. You have lawsuits coming out of schools where they're keeping transgender secrets from parents. We just had a huge Supreme Court where they struck down Colorado trying to prevent what they call, what they call conversion therapy, which is, you know, the way they talk about is you cannot find out what the root cause is of a child thinking they're born in the wrong body. So, you know, it's really important that parents continue to use things like our opt out form. Speaking about marching orders, we can talk about that is you have to put something in front of the schools for them to break it because the law is not proactive. I think there's. That's one of the Ms. Kind of the misnomer that a lot of Americans still have that the law will protect me. No, the law doesn't protect you. The law is reactive. So, for example, we have laws to prevent. We have laws that say you can't murder people. That doesn't keep people from murdering people. What that does is that the law, if we catch the murderer, punishes people. That's the whole point. And so for when we, when the Supreme Court passes these injunctions and they pass these cases, a lot of parents go, yay, this is great. Was out of the schools. And the schools can't keep secrets. No you have to put it on the schools, make them break it, then you sue them. And so the more lawsuits we have, the bigger the chance that we can start going after these doctors, these clinics, these mental health offices, mental health professionals, school counselors, because they are the ones that put the child on that operating table. And so we will, obviously we want to see, I mean, at the minimum, bankrupting these people. We want to see prison time because this is a crime against children. And, and so we. So everything that we do at Courage is a habit is in service of that, to help parents, give them the tools so that they can put it on the school. And either a, the schools follow and great, they protect their kids, which is the point. Or two, the schools break it. And then, then it starts, you know, we can start building these class action lawsuits.

[Todd Erzin]

It's, it's unquestionable that you have breathed life into the title of your organization. In across the country, Courage is becoming a habit. Even in blue states, more and more people are speaking up. This is going on in Colorado, where they got refer this kind of thing, this issue on referendum, um, so that's good. But the appetite for evil on the left has not, they have not turned down the volume in any way. They just. There's a hospital in Michigan that just promised, we're going to re rack our transgender surgeries. We're not going to stop. We pause for a little while now. So what have you learned as. As momentum has been gained on our side? Alvin, the passion of the evil on the left has not changed. But have their tactics changed on the left? Because like I said, California, the hospitals in Michigan, Minneapolis right now, Colorado, this evil is still going on everywhere. Are their tactics changing?

[Alvin Louie]

No. And the reason why their tactics don't have to change is for one reason. Americans, by and large still have an empathy problem.

[Todd Erzin]

Yes.

[Alvin Louie]

Meaning they have too much of it. And so long as that, we, we are letting our kindness and our empathy be weaponized. They don't have to change tactics. So they'll have, they'll. They'll change taxes when people go, I don't care if you call me a bigot, transphobe, homophobe, racist, once that, once. Those words don't mean anything to the majority of Americans. Once you can't dangle a child that you brainwash and say, that child's gonna die. And then you go, okay, you know what? Maybe we should, maybe, maybe we should have. Find a compromise. Until the majority of Americans reject inclusion and embrace exclusion and embrace the fact that we cannot, you have our empathy be weaponized. They won't need to change tactics because every time you get them into a corner, they pull out that empathy and kindness card. They start, they start talking about human rights and human dignity and you see it all the time. And the reason why they don't have to change is because a lot of people still don't have the courage to be able to stand on a solid rock and say, I don't care. I don't care what you call me. I'm not going to have my empathy be weaponized. My empathy goes towards the kids that haven't been mutilated yet. My empathy doesn't go towards the kids that you're dangling in front of me that you have brainwashed.

[Aaron McIntyre]

So, Alvin, on your website, your organization's website, courageisahabit.org there's another topic, and it's related, but another topic that I think there's a good opportunity for parents in particular, parents in particular to get activated, to get involved. As I understand it, you go to Courage is a habit.org, their tool of the week, educates about something. The largest school counselors association in the country is now promoting some sort of weird radical feminist indoctrination. It's couched as curriculum, but indoctrination. Tell us more about this and how parents can get involved.

[Alvin Louie]

Absolutely. So the American School Counselor association, or ASCA as we call them, ASCA, manages and trains school counselors in all 50 states. So all 50 states use, uses the ASKA model for their mental health. So whether you're in California, whether you're in anywhere in between, all the way to New York, when your schools talk about mental health, they're talking about ASKA standards. So let's set that foundation. So what you're seeing there at courageous a habit.org on the tool of the week is the ASCA. The organization partnered with a radical disgusting feminist organization called Lean In. And Lean in has a school program called Lean In Girls. And they're in your schools. And they target girls between 11 and 15. Now, besides the usual feminist propaganda, you know, family hating, man hating, abortion, all those kind of things, they also teach these girls that boys can have, and I quote, the girlhood experience. And so the reason why they're picking on the 11 to 15 is because this is for any child, even a boy, but especially for girls. That is the most vulnerable age when you're growing up, because you're not a baby, you're not like a toddler, but you're also not so grown that if you're raised right, you kind of, you know, you're like, okay, you're starting to be able to think for yourself that 11 to 15 is very vulnerable because that's when you're going through puberty. And so this lean in girls, this radical feminist program is designed for a lack of a better description, is to create more Renee Goods. You know, that woman that got shot by ICE because she's out there screaming, impeding ice. They want girls to be angry. They want them to have no hope. They want them to be as miserable and unlikable as possible, and they want them to be able to accept transgenderism. However, here's the. However, the reason why they can get Pat to get this past parents is because they disguise it under 2, 2, 2 umbrellas. Mental health and female empowerment. And so unless you have like, you know, like an organization like ours that dive deep into, Go to their webinar, go to their, you know, find their training material and expose it. Because when you look at the training material, obviously it's not mental health or female empowerment, is to create more people like Renee. Good

[Todd Erzin]

last question here, Alvin. You'll have a few minutes to answer it. Action steps again, the getting this thing that's polling as you poll people these days, and more and more people, even people on the left, are like, I'm exhausted by the trans stuff. But it's one thing to pull it, and it's another thing to put it in action here. In action in the next year is going to be a vote, and people are concerned about economic issues, other issues as well, in the next couple months, how do you make sure this is on people's radar so that it's not just a thought and emotion in their head? It turns into a vote to make sure we do not. Right here in Iowa, there's left, the Democrats who unanimously voted for transgenderism. We beat that back before just about anybody else. But there are leftists coming in from other states to try to turn us back. How do we make sure people are staying on target and not just saying, yeah, we got some victories here. I'm sure we figured this out.

[Alvin Louie]

Well, it's the understanding that communism, because that's really what we're talking about. All this, all the transgenderism, the critical race theory, all these things, it's just a vehicle to deliver communism to America. I want everyone to understand that communism and the American attitude of live and let live, and I'll give my shirt off my back to my neighbor. Those two philosophies are actually a terrible Matchup. Because when you wake up in the morning, you think about, there's 100 things you think about and it's all about improving your life or improving your children's life or your work or your hobbies or your business. When a Communist wake up, 100% of their effort is spent infringing on you. So they will never back off. They will continue to move forward and infringe on you unless you fight back. So there is never a time as an American where you can go, I think we're good, I think I can go back.

[Todd Erzin]

Exactly.

[Alvin Louie]

And I think it's that going back and going to sleep is where. How we got here in a lot of different places. So as a parent for let's just take the Lean In Girls. If you go to the Lean in Girls tools@couardous habit.org we give you these turnkey letters or we teach you how to do a foyer request to see if your school's using it. We teach you, we give you opt out letters like we have an opt out there where you go, hey, any kind of Lean in Girls feminist program, whether it's a lean in Girls or a similar program, you don't have my permission to have my daughter attend these unless I see it first or unless I get my written permission. So we want parents to be very active in that because a lot of parents that schools never hear from them. They kind of complain on Facebook sometimes, but they don't really hear the principal, the vice principal, the superintendent doesn't hear from 50 parents turning these things in. And while it may not seem like it's a lot by turning, you know, these kind of turnkey things that we make for you, if you do it in volume, they absolutely hate it because they are so not used to pushback. And so staying on offense is really important. You're talking about voting. All of this stuff in K12 and the trans stuff leads to people voting for your own demise. So if you want to help elections, make sure that your children and your children's friends aren't brainwashed to vote for their own demise, man.

[Todd Erzin]

I mean, you are one of the hidden gems of a movement that we need to be breathing life into on a daily basis. Really appreciate your time, Alvin.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Alvin.

[Alvin Louie]

Thank you guys. I appreciate you guys.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Thank you so much. Courageisahabit.org is the website. Thank you again, Alvin, for all of your great work. Keep it up, man. Appreciate it. When we come back, we're going to play a game of buy, sell or hold. I am not going to do the uncensored buy seller hold any longer. I am going to censor as we go to make sure we get as best as we can the best submissions. So Todd, gird your loins. We'll be talking about that coming up next. Also, a dirty little secret that I have been hiding from you about something I use every single day and I think it's time to come clean. I'm going to tell you about all that and more coming up next. Todd, the longer time goes on, the more conversations we're having about Islam and the encroachment in Western civilization, particularly the United States in certain areas of the United States. And then we have conversations like we just had with Alvin Louie. And the similarities are striking in terms of the tactics that both radical Islam, which is really, I think for the most part all of Islam and the communists, the tactics they use are basically the concentric circle is a circle. More in a moment.

[Alvin Louie]

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[Aaron McIntyre]

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[Todd Erzin]

How do we even move on from there?

[Aaron McIntyre]

That's about right. Dacian memes for pumpkin spiced queens.

[Todd Erzin]

It's just Shakespeare. Amazing.

[Aaron McIntyre]

How far are we away from that? I've been looking all year. I've been looking for polymarket odds for when Tucker Carlson will implore people that you're not really a good Christian unless you convert to Islam. I'm looking for poly market odds on that because that's, that's about as slam dunk as you could possibly ask for.

[Todd Erzin]

We're already there. See, here's the Tucker thing. His multiple iterations. You know, wonder kid straight out of, you know, DC Royalty and had a lot of success early on and then there's phases of professional life and after that crossfire CNN stint ultimately wait made his way over to Fox but was just, he, I mean he was one of those plug in guys. Still interesting but you know, not over the top. He didn't have his own show. O'Reilly leaves and he's a known quantity. They put him in there and he has quickly as much success and ultimately more success than even O'Reilly had in many respects. But he, he, he found a niche and if you'll recall, one of the things he did is he brought on a lot of people that nobody had ever heard of, but they were speaking the messages without apology, without filter of the left. And he was. I don't know how much it had to do with just his call, the people that were helping him. But if you can get those people on and just say what they actually think over and over and over again, you establish that these just are talking parts. This points, this is. This is real to them. And in enough numbers, they can change things unless you up your game on the right. I thought he was incredibly successful at that. So he's. They identified a way to communicate to people, to an audience that they thought was there. Well, again, I don't know who Tucker and his people necessarily are now, but if Tucker himself already isn't there, there's an audience. And all you have to do is get on social media, not just X. But then if you really go into the underbellies, those underbellities that turn Tyler Robinson into the assassin that he was, that's. That's not a joke. It is that Gollum. It is obsessed with hating Jews. It. And it is obsessed with doing so in the name of a very perverted version of Christianity. So in that sense, Aaron, and that's

[Aaron McIntyre]

why it's already off the board.

[Todd Erzin]

This should scare the hell out of you. You're already there.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Yeah, it's just sad. Yeah, just really sad. And you just pray that as many people as possible that are reachable don't go down with him. Let's go to Ari. Trump is like King Jehu of Scripture. Flawed, but better than being governed by Jezebel and received a blessing for destroying Jezebel, her puppet, King Biden. Oops. I mean, Joram and BAAL worship. Overall, I'd say kind of bi. I think people, you know, people getting their panties in a wad over President Trump's Easter morning message. You know, praise be to Allah. Dropping the F bomb in the same post. That's not my cup of tea. I wish he hadn't, but that's. We've seen it now. That was part of negotiating a very similar, at least a similarly aggressive message on. On Monday morning as well.

[J.D. Vance]

But

[Aaron McIntyre]

I just don't expect Romans to act like saints. I think President Trump is far more open to real conversations about faith, forgiveness, eternal life than he was 10 years ago. I'm pretty confident about that. He still has people like Paula White in his orbit, who is just a false teacher. She's just a false teacher. Yet at the same time, President Trump has made various ovations throughout this really since the near assassination, you know, I'm not sure if I'm going to heaven. I'm trying to go to heaven, trying to do good things to go to heaven. That's stuff that he would have never said 10 years ago. What I find far more troubling, and found it at the time far more troubling 10 years ago, was when I think it was Frank Luntz asked him, hey, have you ever asked God for forgiveness? And it's not so much that I expected Trump to give some sort of eloquent hermeneutic about forgiveness, it's just that I think he took this as I've never. I don't want to communicate any sort of weakness at all. So what I need to communicate is that I've never done anything wrong at all. And that's for Iowans that, you know, that's one thing, but in the context of the question that it was asked, that's far more troubling. So not my cup of tea. But you can't simultaneously expect him to act like a perfect choir boy at the same time as you're also expecting him to negotiate with Iranian terrorists. And I'm not saying that's what people are necessarily saying. I'm just exaggerating here to make my point. I just don't expect him to act perfectly all the time or act the way that I would like to all the time. You might say that that's maybe too low of a standard. Maybe it is. I'm just, guys, you're going to forget about this probably by the end of this week. So I'm not going to bother getting myself all. All upped and anti amped up about this. Case in point, I've been saving this for a while. Let me go to my bookmarks real quick on X X X Bookmarks, all bookmarks. Let's go to this. And it saved absolutely none of my bookmarks. There it is. This is a post from a reporter back from February 6. The fallout from Trump's Truth Social. President Trump's former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney tells me this just cost the GOP the midterms in the House. Mulvaney told me moments ago I talked to several House members that are just besides themselves and they don't really know how they're going to handle it on the road. Mulvaney broke it down this way. He said the post could have been done by a staffer, but it was done at nearly midnight. And there's only two people that Mulvaney knows have that access to the account. Mulvaney said, if I'm the chief of staff, I got to the president. I say it was such and such staffer. This person's been fired. Yada, yada, yada. This is a reporter from, I believe, News Nation. Do you have any idea what this is talking about? I saved this on purpose for this purpose. Do you have any idea what this post is about that I just read? No idea. Everybody got their panties in a wad over this post back in February, everybody. Here's a News Nation reporter quoting Mick Mulvaney, the former chief of staff, saying that this is gonna cost the midterms for the gop. And yet you have no idea what this post is about. And I'm guessing most people listening right now probably don't have much idea what this is talking about. This is illustrating my point. I'm not gonna get my panties on in a wad over something you're going to forget by the end of this next week, which tells me what, you don't really care either if you're one of those people that are really worked up over this. And just for full disclosure, this is the, this is the Instagram autoplay post where it started depicting Obama as the monkeys. Remember that? Todd, your thoughts?

[Todd Erzin]

Listen, this, you don't even using. I be careful of using very specific scriptural applications, a one to one, but using him to broadly understand, using it to broadly understand not just Trump, but everybody sinners is a good idea, but outside of Scripture, Listen, this is my whole point about him. And we all had our learning curve on this, but some are obviously still going through it. When I said Trump is the weather, this is what I mean. We know what the weather is. We know it has whatever the average temperature in a given season, whatever the outliers are, but there are seasons and those are very, very different. And like, Trump has his moments where there's a season where you just, you know, buckle up and there's other ones where, like, heck, yeah, that's as good as it's been ever been in my lifetime. So. But Trump has more or less been Trump for the last decade as he has dominated our politics. Within that spectrum, the thing that has gone through much more change, vacillated is us, whoever the right is, even the left, trying to figure out who we are in relation to culture, politics, everything. Which is why there's this thing called Trump Derangement Syndrome. He's been more or less the same, but he's pushing all kinds of people, you know, from the nut jobs on the left to David French and Jonah Goldberg. I mean, up is down, down is up. Cats and dogs living together. So really, it's. It. This is something obviously all of us needed on some level, a lot of it, because we just got too comfortable. We thought. We knew that. We thought we had been at the end of history. Francis Fukuyama. That clearly wasn't the case. And much of it has to do with. Because we had be. We are far too closely aligning ourselves as consumers and not as citizens. If we were truly citizens, not only would we be able to acclimate much quicker and much better to this stuff, but it may have never happened to begin with. Trump was an indictment of all of us.

[Aaron McIntyre]

It's extremely well said. And I think this goes into what we were going to talk about today. We were going to have John Daniel Davidson, I believe, still with a federalist on, to kind of give an update, kind of a vibe check, since I know that term is widely beloved now, on whether or not America is still trending towards going evil as it becomes

[Todd Erzin]

more pagan, and I'm going to rebook him. I just want Steve to be here for that, because Steve is just infatuated, rightly so, with that whole proposition.

[Aaron McIntyre]

And I think what I'm about to say has everything to do with how you ended Trump being an indictment on all of us. Is it true what Steve has insisted over the last several days now, and really since the start of Operation Epic Fury? I believe it's true. Every time one of these mullahs, every time one of these top commanders in IRGC gets offed, praise the Lord. These were evil people who had agency and used that agency to do some incredibly evil things. Incredibly evil things. So I'm glad every time one of those gets offed, if American forces are the instruments of that, I'm fine with that. In fact, praise the Lord for that. Now, I don't believe this is descriptive here. This is not necessarily what I believe is actually happening. I mean, we had that airman who went down behind enemy lines, and we heard Pete Hegseth say the other day, the first thing that he said to us when we made contact with him, God is good. We have a Secretary of War right now who holds regular Bible studies and services at the Pentagon, who openly declares Christ's lordship in all things. Those things are very good. I'm just saying this so you can help reframe your thinking. If it is true that it is good when evil men meet justice, even this side of eternity, and it is true that it is the United States meeting their justice, carrying out that justice against them. Is it also true that America is good? Not necessarily. We could just be an instrument of God's wrath. We could be. Now, I don't believe that's the case yet, but that kind of goes to what you're saying, Todd, when the soft underbelly keeps showing itself in this country. Similar to the last half of the montage today, we've got to have those conversations, and we will, with John Daniel Davidson at a later date as America becomes more pagan. Let's go to this. Brandon Payne says the country would be better off if general election ballots did not indicate party. Buy, sell or hold. I'm going to say, ooh, this one's a hard one. This one's harder than I thought because I was going to say buy at first,

[Todd Erzin]

but the I'm going to sell. I don't think there's any convincing reason why that would magically make things infinitely better. I mean, I.

[Aaron McIntyre]

There's a conversation about how many low information voters are there on both sides or in the middle with independents as well. How many low information voters are there? Because I could make an argument this could make name ID even worse. The name ID problem meaning as long as the most people know your name, if you don't have a letter by your name, then just instinctively that's who people are going to vote for. So I think this is a more difficult proposition.

[Todd Erzin]

Yeah, I'm selling. I don't think there's anything magic about it. I mean, I understand there's threads there that you can follow, but I would stop at being convinced by any of them.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Yeah, I think because of the low information problem across the board, I'm going to sell as well because the prompt was this country would be better off if general election ballots did not indicate party. So I don't think we would necessarily be better off. Let's go to this one. Jonathan says Steve's travel schedule is a psyop to throw off the annual WASP invasion and an extreme excuse to wear Crocs in the man cave while at work. Technically,

[Todd Erzin]

no, he's not dedic that dedicated to getting away. No, there's you, you, you have to. First of all, he doesn't need a reason to wear Crocs of any kind whatsoever. This is literally. There's no. He. He is that guy everywhere. If he. He's trying to. And he would proudly try to push all levels of social decorum to the point where he could wear Crocs, you know, at, you know, with a tuxedo. This is, this is his goal in life. So there's no, there's no agenda to go out, go get on a plane and endure all those annoyances to avoid annoyances here? No.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Well, this is going to be the first spring and full summer we're at this new facility, so we will see if the wasps show up here. Following in Steve's crock steps, of course. As we move into spring, as well, as you watch the trees bloom, I know I have the same inclination. I'm always watching the trees. Hey, that one's blooming. That one's not quite blooming. The grass is getting greener. Maybe you're in the mood to plant a tree of your own. That's where our friends at Fast Growing Trees come in. Did you know Fast Growing Trees is America's largest and most trusted online nursery with thousands of trees and plants. Over 2 million happy customers as well. They have all the plants your yard or home needs, including fruit trees, privacy trees, flowering trees, shrubs, and houseplants, all grown with care and guaranteed to arrive healthy. It's like your local nursery, but anywhere you live with more plants than you'll find anywhere else. Whatever you're looking for, Fast Growing Trees helps you to find options that actually work for your climate, space and lifestyle. Fast Growing Trees makes it easy to get your dream yard. Just click, order, grow and get healthy thriving plants delivered to your door. Their alive and thrive guarantee promises that your plants arrive happy and healthy. No green thumb required. Just quality plants you can count on, plus ongoing support from trained plant experts who can help you plan your landscape, choose the right plants, and learn how to care for them every step of the way. Right now they have deals going on on spring planting essentials, up to half off on select plants. And listeners to our show get 20% off their first purchase when using the code dace at checkout. That's an additional 20% off. Better plants and better growing. @fast growingtrees.com using the code DACE at checkout fastgrowingtrees.com code DACE now is the perfect time to plant let's grow together Promo code [e-mail] let's go to this one. This is from Darren White as we continue buy, sell or hold. Who says he's got a screenshot of Steve and his Michigan podcast like Tracksuit Thing. Steve joined the Cub Scouts over Easter weekend.

[Todd Erzin]

From that perspective, it does look very. Yes, I. And because I've worn that uniform. Yes, it does.

[Aaron McIntyre]

You were in The Scouts.

[Todd Erzin]

I was.

[Aaron McIntyre]

What was the.

[Todd Erzin]

I was a Cub Scout. I was not a Boy Scout.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Oh, okay, gotcha. How was that experience,

[Todd Erzin]

you know, do you remember? Well, I look back at it fondly. I don't. I mean I always had. There was always like a. As often as not a den mother, like so I don't remember it being, you know, men doing men things kind of thing. I also don't remember it being like, you know, and I lived, trust me. I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. So I'm sure at the time there were some leftist moms doing the, the leading, but I don't remember. I remember it, you know, Pinewood derby cars and stuff like that. So most, mostly fond memories.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Very nice. David Esch is next. As much as we don't want our soldiers in other countries, they are loving every minute of it. I don't know Now, I've not been in the military and neither of you, neither is Steve. So this is coming from a very non military perspective. I'm sure if you asked somebody like Jesse Kelly the same prompt, he would be able to give a more informed answer. I do have a buddy of mine. I mean, he's one of my oldest friends. First memory of life was with this guy. He is right now very, very close to Iran being deployed as part of the National Guard. I will tell you this deployment which predates, well, predates the Operation Epic Fury, he was not loving every minute of it. And mostly that was out of boredom and like, what the heck are we doing over here? But I would say some of them love it some of the time, especially when they get to do action and things like that. Most of the time though, deployment, as I understand, is kind of miserable. At least most of the moments are rather miserable. So I'm going to sell this. Overall though, I do understand where you're coming from.

[Todd Erzin]

I will buy the other side of it. Just to reemphasize a point I made, I think last week along this front and I learning about this as directly as I'm able to through my oldest daughter's boyfriend who she's been with now for, you know, four years, as long as she's been in college, in their senior year of high school. You know, he's, he's been a Marine for a good chunk of that time and he knows people that are sent over there. He was going through some specialized training at the time that precluded them from happening at the moment, whatever the 2500 or 3500 were sent over. But just the. It Wins a lot. We haven't heard a like a malaise, military malaise speech in a long time like we did under Biden. We're like, this is what you know, you're. You're poisoning me with the jab. You're court martialing me if I won't take it. I don't even know what the heck is going on or why I did this in the first place. You know, there's Pete Hegseth. That's the vibe of the military again. God bless America. I feel like I'm part of something. I don't necessarily. I clearly don't want to die, but I'm willing to be part of something where I may have to sacrifice in the name of something good, true and beautiful. There is a genuine return to that. Hegseth is the embodiment of that. And I, I hear in the stories from again, my daughter's boyfriend. That alive in him. To the extent that she relays that to me. Him. My occasional text with him. I. I don't know details. Aaron's. I think Aaron's right over the target. On. It's completely situational, man to man, incident to incident. But we're so used to online, there's a lot. You send your sins over there then I agree being cavalier with lives that are not related to you is something that's always been a problem with statesmen and the people that they're sending over to die for various causes. But we shouldn't become so jaded that we don't understand that. Young men wanting to put their George Washington on. When he was a young man early on in the French of Indian War and the first battle out in what is now the area of Pittsburgh and came back and you know, some bullets had been shot at him. He hadn't been shot himself. And his quote was there was something charming in the sound of it. There's not. Don't go looking for war. Don't be picking unnecessary fights. But the beating heart of a young man to be part of something that calls him to the greatest forms of duty and sacrifice, that's a good thing.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Along lines that have nothing to do with that. I have to get your instant reaction to this and I want it on camera as well. This is a. A post from SportsCenter.

[Todd Erzin]

Oh boy.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Nebraska forward Burke. I don't know how to say his last name. Burke Buchen.

[Todd Erzin]

No idea.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Got a tattoo to commemorate the Huskers historic season. He got a tattoo. You can see it 28, 7. That was the record. Got a tattoo Yesterday to celebrate Nebraska's historic season. Today, he entered his name into the transfer portal. Todd,

[Todd Erzin]

this is, this is what idolatry does to you, man. More than half of all the NBA, excuse me, the current NCAA men's basketball players are in the portal. This is obviously broken. It's obviously unsustainable. But more important, it's just idolatrous. And I told you from the very first day when almost no one else would, and it's all on tape, y' all did this. Don't just blame me, ncaa, you all did this.

[Aaron McIntyre]

More in a moment.

[J.D. Vance]

The steve day show.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Back for one final segment on the Steve Day Show, I'm Aaron McIntyre, he's Todd Erzin. And we need to talk about sleep. When you're in the 20s or 30s, you can get away with a bad night here or there, maybe a few bad nights here or there. You power through, you grab coffee, bounce back in your 40s or 50s. I hear not so much. I bet you probably told yourself going this year you were probably gonna try to fix your sleep. But it is now April, which means the new year new me energy has worn off. When Steve was looking for a sleep aid, he wasn't looking for something to just knock him out. He didn't want to feel drugged or groggy the next morning. He just wanted to real sleep. And that's when he found Beam. Beam Dream, made with a powerful blend of all natural ingredients, Reishi, magnesium, melatonin and others. Not to mention, it tastes amazing. He's been drinking the chocolate for a while, the flavor that they sent him, and he raves about it. It's the perfect hot cocoa before bed. If you've been waiting for the right time to try dream, that's right. Now they're offering our listeners an exclusive discount by going to shopbeam.com Steve use code Steve and get his exclusive offer up to 40% off Beam's Dream Powder. Shopbeam.com Steve use code steve for the discount shopbeam.com Focus on your sleep. It's very important. Shopbeam.com Steve use Code Steve one final segment of Buy, sell or hold. But that's not really true if you're a subscriber to BlazeTV. We'll be doing a bonus Buy, sell or hold segment in the overtime coming up a little bit later. Let's continue on though, with this. John Bellic says betting against your sports team feels wrong, but sometimes you gotta do it. Putting $20 on Todd Blanche to become the next Attorney General makes me sick to my stomach. Buy, sell, or hold. Betting against your country is unpatriotic. Sounds like John is maybe on Pauly Market. Bye. Betting against your own country is unpatriotic. Increasingly the prediction markets themselves are just. If they're not unpatriotic, they're just nothing good this way comes. What do you think about the meat of his inquiry there? Buy, sell or hold. You think Todd Blanche will become the next full time Attorney general? He's acting Attorney General now. Buy, sell, full time attorney General. I'm going to sell. I think it'll be worse than Todd Blanche.

[Todd Erzin]

Good. I so as long I don't. There's two meats of that. That topic that and the whole betting against thing with I'm. This is one of the threads of the big Short movie which is fantastic. And that kind of thinking where the, the thing that isn't supposed to be the main thing becomes the main thing just destroys everything. So yes, that is a bad idea because you'll, you will get hooked on that fix. Instead of preserving the good, the true and the beautiful. As for like I, my goodness, I'm selling. I'm just gonna take the field. That's an easy betting out. Mostly I'm taking mostly because I don't want to think about it.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Next, let's go to Jerry who broaches something that we did not get to when talking about Iran, the ceasefire at all. Jerry says, just saw the Secretary of War keep saying there's a new regime in Iran. There's no new regime there. The mullahs and the IRGC are still in charge and they are still bombing Israel and the other Gulf states. So the ceasefire will end maybe today.

[Todd Erzin]

This is what I talked about earlier about rhetoric. Everybody's trying to turn their own rhetoric up to 11 to which is what politics, you know, messaging. That's what it is. Try to capture the moment so that your messaging is dominated. Dominating. This can be taken both ways in the hearts and minds of people who are trying to move on. Is it a regime change akin to the protests out on the streets have found their man and their anointing? No. But is it a regime change in that the people. It's a different group of people than all those ones that we've already blown up or decapitated? Yes. So it depends which one you want in this moment.

[Aaron McIntyre]

So that's the crux of where we're at now with Iran, I think because if it's what you're talking about, which it's a new regime with the old players, with maybe a different mindset we'll find out the answer to that pretty quickly. And whether or not they actually have power. Okay, we're going to find the answer to that pretty quickly. Fairly quickly. If it's a civilizational win, meaning that Iran is now permanently crippled and this is going to bolster the reformists within Iran, then it's going to take many years to find that out. However, when it comes to the facts on the ground, it is true that, that I believe Kuwait, I believe UAE continues, and I believe Israel, even after the announcement of the ceasefire last night, continued to take incoming fire from Iran. Those are the facts as best as I can tell them on the ground. Does that mean the ceasefire is over? No, it might just mean that the communications. The communications, we've knocked those out. And so it's really, really difficult in some of these bunker locations, these mountain cities, it's difficult to get word to the people who are actually pushing the buttons to fire the missiles to say, hey, cut it out, we're negotiating, it's a ceasefire. Or it could be that the people we're negotiating with don't actually have that kind of power. I would give it a couple more days, though, before we make any grand pronouncements about how this was a waste of time and the ceasefire never really went into effect. So does that mean I'm buying or selling? I'm going to sell for now, but it could be a buy within 48 hours. Jerry says we're going to do so much whimming. So much whimming that we're going to get tired of so much whimming. This is an invocation of what I said. Republic. If you can keep it. Not a whim, not a whim. But that seems to be. Until I see something else. That seems to be the. The modus operandi, which some of those whims might be really nice. It might be a result of things we have done as a country that are righteous. But a republic cannot sustain itself on the whims of its people. There has to be a unifying, cohesive force that binds them together. Not just whims. Whims don't do that, Todd. We're going to be doing so much whimming, we're going to get sick of it.

[Todd Erzin]

It's an election year, and that's all we really need or have time for when we have other, you know, duties to attend to, like making sure we are properly studied up for our fantasy football draft. I just think, Aaron, it's not. I'm so glad you included it at the end of the last segment because it I'm going to constantly refer to says so much that that guy who got a tattoo, got a tattoo and then left the tattoo that the team

[Aaron McIntyre]

less than 24 hours later, like, yeah,

[Todd Erzin]

there's a level of invincible ignorance going on in our men right now on so many levels. And they are the. It's the idiocracy. We are. Absolutely. And it's why Pastor Kerry Gordon, constantly trying to fight back tears, says, hey, if I'm a. He basically told you you want to do the betting markets right now within the next 50 years. It's a safer bet to say Nigeria is a sustainable Christian civilization than America. How do you like them apples?

[Aaron McIntyre]

Really difficult truth to accept when you're sitting in air conditioning in front of a 75 inch TV. Pretty difficult truth to accept. But I do think it's true. I do think it's true. I hope that their suffering has pushed them into the arms of Jesus. There's a lesson in that somewhere. Let's go to C. Smith who says AI will force the politicians to address the outsourcing of jobs overseas to India and China. The country cannot allow this many good paying jobs to leave. I don't know what kind of jobs we're talking about here. Whether those are tech jobs, whether those are manufacturing jobs, I'm not really sure the jobs we're talking about here. I think this is a massive can of worms. Massive can of worms. But there is a possibility if AI is 50% what they promise it is and could become in terms of the displacement of white collar workers, which account for a lot of our consumer spending in this country. Which means what? They account for a lot of our actual private economy. Okay, there's a possibility that a lot of white collar, again, if it's 50% true, a lot of white collar work could be done away with in favor of AI. Now of course, before you even get to the okay, so then what. What do those white collar workers do? You have to confront the notion of whether or not that in and of itself should be legal to do. We're all for efficiency increases, but efficiency is not God. When we have these conversations, it's just talking about these human beings, white collar though they may be, as if they're widgets, as if they don't have families, as if they don't have futures, as if they don't have pasts that they work hard to achieve things. But. But let's say we work through the morality of displacing these with AI there's a possibility if you listen to Mike Rowe, there are a lot of good paying jobs and a huge need in terms of manufacturing on I think ships, submarines, things of that nature that he's talked about a lot of demand for pretty good to high paying jobs but jobs that require a lot of manual labor and long hours. Todd, I think it's very possible that there's going to be, we're going to come to a point where we're going to figure out whether or not people want to be comfort, want to just work in their office jobs, whether that's truly their heart or they're willing still to achieve, you know, a nice living by going out and doing the hard jobs. And I don't know if we're going to like the answer to that question.

[Todd Erzin]

Oh, I know.

[Aaron McIntyre]

You picking up what I'm putting down here?

[Todd Erzin]

Yeah. Yes, in a way I, this is exactly what I'm addressing earlier on when I said this article again from a so called right wing woman's magazine called Evie about in in it's I think it's titled in defense of my Gamer Boyfriend. And this is where he gets together with his buddies. This is where he seeks out adventure. What a crock of bleep. As a famous proppant, Colonel Slade in A Scent of a Woman once said, my goodness, that is just weakness incarnate. If that is where you get fellowship an adventure. Yeah, we're cooked and we are never we're going to resent when opportunity Aaron's making an argument like he's trying to make lemonade out of potential lemons. How an economy could do swing around opportunity really elevate men both economically but also in terms of real adventure being in the arena, being a part of constructing something, making something. I don't but he's absolutely right. We, we may it's that the great movie Major League. Hey, you want to come manage the Cleveland Indians? I don't know. I got a guy on the other line who wants to buy a set of white walls. You know, we're just, we are so distracted. We are so full of excuses. We have no real understanding how soft our underbelly is.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Next, let's go to this. Andy in Florida says if the Iran war drags into the summer, the impact on the economy and federal, state and local elections will be more damaging to Trump's second term than Covid was to his first. Largely I would buy because at that point, at that point you're probably probably losing fresh people in addition to the people who Reluctantly supported you even after Covid, probably. That's just. That was my gut instinct anyway.

[Todd Erzin]

Well, that's bad. I would. If we were involved. See, the point I've been making about it seems like we're missing a variable. If we were involved for that long, it better be because it became abundantly clear that. That it was for a very existential reason that we have not been allowed to understand up to this point. But. And also I was going to. You know, Covid was. My first instinct was to sell on this front. But even with COVID we do believe on this show that they absolutely attempted. At the very least, they attempted to steal that election. And we all have various perspectives on ultimately did. Did they in fact, stealing it. They certainly closed the. The margin because there's no doubt, based on all the evidence we have by their own admittance, the articles they wrote after that, that they put their thumb on the scale every place they could and used Covid as their cover. So. I don't know. The more I think about it, there's more there to what you're saying than I think. I mean, it wouldn't be good. It wouldn't be good. I just hope that the reason we'd be fighting for that long is we. Because we. It became evidently clear that we had no choice on some level. But I'm gonna. I'm gonna switch my argument. I just think there's enough good faith in what you're arguing for initially. You know, what we think about COVID on this show, if you're gonna compare it to Covid. But I think I see what you're doing the more I talk about it. So I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Dojohn Ryan says Steve is missing the point in all of this. The dow is over 50,000. I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader, as I hear. MacIntyre, the S&P at almost 7,000 and the NASDAQ smashing records. CC Poudle, the Future is ours. Thank you. Buy, sell or hold. I like the invocation of both Pam Bondi and Jill Biden there. The whole Cece Padway. The future is ours. Do you remember that when she tried to. When Jill Biden tried to speak Spanish. I don't pander to the Spaniards, to the Mexicans. Si, si, Padua. The future is ours. You don't remember that?

[Todd Erzin]

I don't off the top of my head. I'm sure it was glorious at the time.

[Aaron McIntyre]

SoCal Conservative says everybody would understand Trump Much better if they read Art of the Deal and looked at every decision he makes through the lens of that book. Yes, but we're 10 years into that. People who have not bothered to do that are not going to. And people who have understand that and get very frustrated with the former group.

[Todd Erzin]

This. Yes. And you would understand a version of my weather argument then. Now the flip side of this is it. Well, so I will sell. It's. It's okay to criticize him. You understanding him is not the same thing as anointing him either, or turning your binary brain into David French mush. You. You. You can really celebrate the good things he does, of which there have been many. You can criticize them when you think you know what I mean. Again. Now let's go talk about COVID again. That was bad. That was really, really bad. And I'm. I. And. And so my initial instinct was no, no way. Right now, I'm prepared to compare Iran in any way to that. But if he keeps going on, as you said, that's okay. And it's certainly okay to criticize him. We still don't know all the motivations of this. You can criticize. Criticize him on that front. It's okay.

[Aaron McIntyre]

Along the lines of Art of the Deal, Our first submission. That will take an overtime bonus. Buy, sell, or hold. Has an interesting idea. We'll talk about that next. Until tomorrow. Romans 8, 28, go hard.