Todd Erzen (3:53)

Is this the kind of glitches that is always the one way glitch that only goes in one direction?

Steve Deace (3:57)

It is. It's true. I mean, we're never going to wake up and have tens of thousands more subscribers. Oh, sorry guys, it was a glitch. And always these always only go one way. So tens of thousands of you have not gotten episodes in up to a week now. Now two things on this. That one where you guys can help us. Number one, if you can, if you're on Apple, hit follow to un. Hit unfollow. To follow. Unfollow the show and then follow it again. All right. There's a decent chance it's not 100%, but there's a decent chance that will fix the glitch. I mean, how? Just ridiculous. If you will unplug it and then plug it back in. Then again, for much of our lifetimes, Todd, we have been working with that very technical maneuver to fix everything from TVs to radios to computers. Right.

Todd Erzen (4:47)

Could we call up Henry Winkler? Can the Fonz just hit the jukebox? Indeed, indeed.

Steve Deace (4:52)

You know, so there's a decent chance if you hit unfollow and then follow again that everything will show up as normal. All right? So until this is fixed, we're going to need tens of thousands of you people to do that for us, if you don't mind. So and of course, many of the people that we need to do this. Don't know that we need them to do this.

Aaron McIntyre (5:13)

I know.

Steve Deace (5:13)

Because they're not tuned in because they can't get the podcast version. So no problems there at all. So first, we have the largest video platform on planet Earth that will not even let us get 5,000 views for an episode. All right? Despite the. The size of overall. Overall size of audience we have. And now we have the largest podcast platform on planet Earth that had a, quote, glitch, and we've lost tens of thousands of our subscribers. And so now here's the other solution to this, though. Okay? This is again why you want to become a subscriber to Blaze tv. Because if you're a subscriber, you get this content directly from us. There's no more ongoing six years of punitive censorship from YouTube that requires 16 state attorneys general to write a letter saying, what you doing to Google, the biggest company on planet Earth. There's no waiting around to see if one of the other biggest companies on planet Earth, Apple, can get around to fixing the glitch. You can just get this content directly from us so you don't have to worry about this stuff. All right? BlazeTV.com DACE use the code DACE. You'll get $20 off your annual subscription to BlazeTV when you do that. That's BlazeTV.com days code DACE. You'll get$20 off your annual subscription and you won't have to worry about the next time there's a glitch and the next time, you know, well, how many, how many YouTube TV channels have we started, Aaron? I know it's three or four at least.

Aaron McIntyre (6:49)

It's somewhere in there a point of personal priv. I just looked this up real simple. Syndication is the backbone of podcasting technology. Yesterday was its 27th anniversary. It's been around for 27 years. And Apple is screwing this up. Just point of personal privilege over.

Steve Deace (7:12)

So again, you can unfollow to unsubscribe and then follow to resubscribe. And there's. There's a decent chance, though not a guarantee, that will fix the issue. And if you could help, you know, where you guys could also help is maybe if you guys posted this stuff on your socials for us, maybe it might catch other people that won't get a chance to hear this. You know, if we kind of just do this word of mouth, all right, that would help. But another way that it helps if you guys just get this content directly from us. Blazetv.com dace Use the promo code, Dace. You'll get 20 off. And then no more glitches and no more punitive censorship. That apparently is a never ending story. And with that, here's Aaron's rundown of what happened while we were away.

Aaron McIntyre (7:53)

What happened while we were away Brought to you by the crown jewel President Trump announced late Friday US Forces struck military targets on Iran's crucial Kharg Island. Trump described the island as the crown jewel of the Iranian regime and he's right. The strategic island accounts for around 90% of Iran's oil exports. But Trump carefully noted only military targets on the island were targeted. The Pentagon has identified the six airmen killed in an aircraft crash in western Iraq last Thursday. The airmen are 33 year old Major John Klenner of Auburn, Alabama, 31 year old Captain Arianna Savino of Covington, Washington, 34 year old Tech Sergeant Ashley Pruitt of Bardstown, Kentucky, 38 year old Captain Seth Koval of Mooresville, Indiana, 30 year old Captain Curtis Angst of Wilmington, Ohio and 28 year old Tech Sergeant Tyler Simmons of Columbus, Ohio. Heroes one and all, and we pray for their families. Central Command provided yet another update on US efforts to defang the Iranian regime, saying the US destroyed 90 military targets on the aforementioned Khari island over the weekend, including storage bunkers for naval mines and missiles and other military infrastructure. Aviators have flown 6,000 combat flights. US military objectives include air eliminating Iran's ballistic missiles, drones and naval threats. US Is also going after the wider manufacturing apparatus behind Iran's launchers, missiles and drones and is seeking to dismantle Iran's defense industrial base. The US Is also focused on eliminating Iran's threat to the free flow of commerce through the Strait of Hormuz. Not to be confused with the gay of Hormuz, Iran's new supreme leader Motaba Khamenei, who according to the New York Post, President Trump was briefed on last week with intelligence pointing towards the possibility the younger Khomeini is a homosexual. The Post says Trump laughed when he heard the intel report. Our number one rated homosexual, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant says what we're doing with Iran is a once in a generation opportunity.

Steve Deace (9:49)

We want to destroy the Iranian ability

Aaron McIntyre (9:52)

to project power outside of their borders.

Steve Deace (9:55)

And you know, Brian, Iran was the

Aaron McIntyre (9:57)

head of the snake, the head of

Steve Deace (9:59)

the snake for global terrorism everywhere, whether

Bob Vander Plaats (10:03)

it was through their proxies or there

Aaron McIntyre (10:06)

were Iranian guard members in Venezuela, there's Hezbollah in Colombia, they're interacting with Cuba.

Steve Deace (10:15)

You know everywhere that there is chaos and terrorist mayhem.

Bob Vander Plaats (10:19)

It is Iran.

Aaron McIntyre (10:20)

In other news and notes from over the weekend, Megyn Kelly accused Mark Levin of having a micropenis, prompting a strong defense of Levin from President Trump on Truth Social last night where he said, among other things, quote, those that speak ill of Mark will quickly fall by the wayside. And they are not maga. I am. Tucker Carlson says there's a good chance

Steve Deace (10:37)

I may have committed some light treason.

Aaron McIntyre (10:40)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted a video on social media where he says in Hebrew he's dying for coffee and encouraged viewers to count his fingers. The video comes after a multi day info op, one of the most retarded we've seen yet, claiming Israel's leader had been slain by Iran in a rocket attack. And finally, after long last, all jokes aside, we do have proof of life of Iran's new supreme leader, Mataba Khamenei, who gave an interview to state media this morning.

Steve Deace (11:06)

Why are you gay? You are gay.

Aaron McIntyre (11:12)

And that's what happened while we were away.

Steve Deace (11:14)

Aaron's montage brought to you by our friends over at Birch Gold. You know, in 2006, $20,000 equaled roughly 33 ounces of gold at spot price. At today's prices, those 33 ounces would be worth over $165,000. That's why smart Americans diversify a portion of their savings into precious metals. Gold has been a hedge against uncertainty and debasement schemes for literally eons. And even better, Birch Gold can help you to convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered retirement account in gold. Just get started by texting my name Steve to the number 989-898. Receive your free info kid on gold. No obligation, just useful information with an A plus rating from the Better Business Bureau. Tens of thousands of happy customers led Birch Gold Group help you diversify with gold and get that peace of mind today. Get started by Texting Steve to 989-898. Text my name Steve to the number 989-898.

Todd Erzen (12:11)

There was a time not very long ago when a montage filled with stories of Mark Levin's penis and are you gay? To the Iranian leader. You would have had to take in a moment there to collect yourself, but you just went right into that read like that's just another day that ends in why now?

Steve Deace (12:31)

It is, it is okay not to. And I gotta be honest man, I'm just kind of, I'm, I'm, I'm gut punched with this apple thing. It just is. Like you know what else Just let's pile on. You try to make a movie almost die twice. All right? Somehow create a video platform that is not permitted access on the largest video platform on planet Earth, but because your podcast audience is so large, you are able to sustain that nevertheless. And now it's not nearly as large. So here we are. Yes. Not even locker room humor will cheer me up on this Monday. No. And we had a blizzard in the middle of March. You know, I love March snow on top of that. So. Yes. So I'm in a bit of a mood. Okay. And I was going to say something that in response to something Aaron had in his montage, and now I don't remember what it was. There were two things. Aaron, just run down the montage again. Highlight it for me, because there's something, a point I thought, that needed to be made.

Aaron McIntyre (13:39)

Striking military targets on Kharg Island. We had the six airmen tragically in that crash over western Iraq. We also had the gearing up to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Not to be confused with the gay of Hormuz Ayatollah community.

Steve Deace (13:55)

That's the one right there. I want to address that. Okay. The reality is homosexuality has been rampant in Bedouin cultures for eons. Eons. So it's. Now, Bedouin cultures are typically more Arab, but. And of course, Iran is not. But they're also very Muslim, and Iran is. But I mean, homosexuality, pederasty, which is the grooming of pubescence into sexual deviancy, that is the choice of the deviant doing the grooming, was rampant all throughout the eras of the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire. It's been rampant all throughout the Bedouin world, in the Muslim world, it's been rampant for eons. This is really nothing new. Nothing new. I want to discuss. And maybe because I am in this mood, if I wasn't in this mood, I probably would not. But I'm in this mood. Right. So why not? Let's discuss what's happening in the podcast world, shall we?

Todd Erzen (15:09)

We shall.

Steve Deace (15:10)

Since Aaron, you put it in your montage, and I probably would not have brought it up unless you did.

Todd Erzen (15:15)

That's one of the questions coming in our two, by the way.

Steve Deace (15:17)

Okay. Because you'll notice I have said absolutely zero about any of this all weekend long, and that is not accidental. It's on purpose. And the reason being is because I think online is the absolute worst place to discuss this because there's just. It's retarded. When I logged on this morning to get caught up in what's Going on. I thought this might be the most retarded collection of retards I have ever seen. Retard. In all my years of doing this, I've just, I have never seen more combined retardation in my feed. I've had this feed for 16 years. I've just think about all the things we've lived through too. Stolen elections, scamdemics. Right. Okay. 16 years. I can't recall ever seeing a level of retardation like what is currently happening. And man, I do I think a lot of that Charlie Kirk meme where he's the giant dam holding back this big escalating body of water called right wing retardation. And behind him is the dam is the unite the right Learning to unite and win. I mean that, that meme, man, it's got a permanent place right here on my desktop. I look at it at least a few times a week. There's barely a day that goes by I don't think about it and that it's not confirmed. But what I want, here's the reason I want to talk about it because if we were going to get into the melodrama, I would have. No, what's going on on the online is just all the melodrama. Whose camp are in? Who's do you like? Who's got the best put down? Okay. Who's you know, an Israeli agent and who's bought off by the Muslims? It's just all retardation and I'm just not interested in discussing that on one, you know, with a lot of retards. I'm just not going to do that. But here I think maybe we should discuss it for a couple of minutes because I know a lot of you are aware of it and these are some of the most important voices that our industry has ever produced. And, and here's how I want to approach this. I want to look at this. What's the thing we're the best at? I put us up against any show out there when it comes to worldview diagnosis and analysis. That's, that's my home. That's, that's my, you know, native tongue. That's the thing I think we're the best at. And I also don't know any of, I know I know them all, all the people that you guys are talking to, talking about and that are involved in these back and forths. I know them all on a first name basis, but I don't know any of them well enough to make some kind of wide sweeping value judgment of motivations. With one exception, I am, I am confident in saying, based on the, the extent of my own interactions with Tucker Carlson, that he believes the nation of Israel is an evil country and that Bibi Netanyahu in particular is a central hub of evil in the world. And I've had more extensive conversations with him about this than I have any of the other people, Shapiro, Megan Kelly, Mark Levin involved. So I'm, I'm confident in that because he's just communicated those motivations to me. So I'm not as confident in communicating the motivations of other people when I've not had those conversations and I don't know them well enough to know. Fair. Okay, sure. So as best as we can, let's look at this from a worldview perspective. And there was a post over the weekend that I did respond to about this entire blow up on our side, but I responded to it because it didn't mention any names and get any of the back and forth, but tried to take the conversation like up here, raise it a level. Right. And one of the things. And you'll see it in my feed if you follow me on X at Steve Day show, you'll see that I did respond to a post by somebody called the Drunk Republican. And that's where we are. All right. If you live in the right wing online world, you need to go to a guy who calls himself the Drunk Republican to get some clarity. Is that even a mild exaggeration?

Todd Erzen (19:36)

I'm drunk right now.

Steve Deace (19:37)

I mean, this guy's called the Drunk Republican. He's the less retarded of anybody. Let me put it that he's the most sober out there. Okay. Basically. All right. One of the things he said, and this is why his post caught my eye, is that collectively a lot of the worldviews on our side were broken by Covid. And that's what got my attention. Because who was one of the landmark leaders in pushing back on that narrative?

Todd Erzen (20:09)

Us.

Steve Deace (20:09)

Us. As far as I know. I'm not aware of any other American who has two different certified national bestsellers deconstructing the COVID narrative. And if you look at a lot of the people, not exclusively, but would we all say just based on our, just observationally, it's not a super majority, but would we all say a majority of those who are the most skeptical about Israel and this particular war were also amongst the friendliest to our overall Covid speculation or skepticism? You think that's a fair, that's a fair disposition, Aaron. You think that's fair?

Todd Erzen (20:55)

I'm not with it.

Steve Deace (20:57)

Okay. I mean, I don't think it's like 90% or something, but I think it's at least 50%.

Todd Erzen (21:00)

Sure.

Steve Deace (21:01)

Maybe 50.1, maybe 55, 45, 65, 35. Somewhere in there, a majority of those, the most skeptical of Israel and the most skeptical of. Of this war. Okay. And the quote, unquote, official story on Charlie's murder would be people who by and large were very supportive of the work that we did during COVID There's

Todd Erzen (21:23)

a lot of overlap.

Steve Deace (21:24)

There is. Okay, so then I think I should explain to you why I'm not on their side on any of this. And there's two reasons why. Worldview and facts. Other than that, though, I'm nearly persuaded. Let me tell you something you guys don't know. Just to give you a little context to this conversation. I've always had a great amount of respect for Mark Levin. He gave the. The. He gave me, you know, one of the most mind blown moments I've ever had as a consumer of conservative talk radio. When I was coming up, the first time I ever heard Mark Levin say, we're not a nation of immigrants, we're a nation of citizens, blew my mind. I like, had to pull the car over almost. I mean, blew my mind had even thought about that, how profound that was. That being said, Mark and I like, private. You guys know this. The management here at the Blaze knows this, but very few other people know that. Mark Levin and I nearly got into like a flat out shouting, screaming match over the COVID jab. You guys remember this?

Todd Erzen (22:26)

Yes.

Steve Deace (22:26)

Yeah. Very few people know this. There was really. Hey, you're going to have disagreements in a company like this. Mark is on it, not with us anymore. Okay. But I have the utmost respect for Mark Levin on multiple fronts. But during COVID our show sounded a lot different than his sounded, right?

Todd Erzen (22:41)

Absolutely.

Steve Deace (22:42)

Okay. So I'm. I'm not really native to either one of these two tribes, and I don't think it's as simple as Team Levin and Team Tucker. I put a trick question on my Facebook page last week just to see how many people would step on the banana peel, slash, rake and take the, Take the. Take the bait. And a lot did, unfortunately. Okay. Yeah, it happened. Yeah. And this is not new. You know, Paul says in the New Testament, some of you say you were saved by me, some of you say you were saved by Apollos, some of you say you were saved by Aquila. Okay. Or, or Cephas. There's just one Lord, one baptism. Overall, so right away we always have this like high minded view of the early church and how they just all, just all walk the narrow road in perfect form. Okay. Like Christian soldiers marching off to war. Just like watching an army of Christians just in perfect lockstep in perfect for. No, they were already arguing with each other. They're human beings too. They were already tribalistic. This thing, man, they were already doing it. They were already doing it. Founding father Mark Thomas Jefferson's like, man, if I should go to heaven, but only with members of a political party, I should never go at all. Then he, five minutes after he wrote that, he turned around and blew up a lifelong friendship with John Adams over which political party they were about going to be in. True story. True story. It's human nature. It's just human nature. It's what it means to live in a fallen world. How I try to avoid as best as I can to fall into that is with my worldview and with facts. And if you look at the work that we did during COVID almost none of it was speculative. When you and I published that number one bestseller, Todd Fauci and Bargain, there were more, there were more footnotes than pages in that book. How many of them were challenged, fact checked, politifacted? How many of them?

Todd Erzen (24:31)

I think they started trying, they realized they couldn't on any of them, so then they just ignored it.

Steve Deace (24:35)

It was all zero. It was just all evidence based facts. And most of my evidence came from government sources. See, the evidence that we were telling you the truth about this all along was out there. They just didn't want. And a lot of times it was their own cdc. We use CDC data in that book. We use data from health departments of major nations and G8, NATO nations all over the. All over the globe. I mean, none of it was just theorizing. It was all fact based. They just didn't want you to know the facts. They deployed the media in corporate America to Lydia to get you to succumb to a psyop. But they knew all along their data knew all along. They just hid the data from you, trusted you wouldn't do the homework. That is nothing like what's gone on here with Tyler Robinson and Charlie's murder. And now Erica Kirk is doing child. That was the big thing this weekend. She's trafficking children. You see that one?

Todd Erzen (25:29)

Yes.

Steve Deace (25:29)

Yeah, okay, just wicked, evil, vile stuff from Candace and her cult and the minions and wannabes that are now trying to compete with her for, you know, most vile person online. No facts at all you know, there's no official story on Tyler Robinson. There's an overwhelming amount of evidence. But there's going to be a trial here pretty soon. We just found out whole thing's going to be on tv and we'll all get to watch and see what evidence is presented. Maybe he'll plead out before that, but then that means he realizes the evidence was so far against him that he pled out. So we. I guess you can't care more about Tyler Robinson's innocence than Tyler Robinson does if he bleeds, right? Probably not. Yeah, well, you could, but then you'd be a demonic retard. Okay, there's never any evidence here. All we ever did, our Covid skepticism was all on evidence. It's all on evidence. And then there comes down to my worldview. My biblical worldview takes precedence over everything else, which is why sometimes you'll see me deep in like, it looks like I'm deep with one group of people, then another issue comes along and then I'm not with those people, but against them. It's the. What's the. How does that happen? Because that's a narrow road. I think a lot of people have just decided since COVID that anything that looks or sounds official is now automatically wrong. The problem with doing that is it's very reactionary. And it's similar to when the leftist said during postmodernism, well, if everything official is wrong, that's a little bit like saying, well, there's no absolute truth. Well, that sounds like an absolute. Right, Right. Well, if everything official is wrong, is that your official position? Is that your official declaration? Is that your official stance? So how do I not know, therefore, that that is not wrong? It's a self refuting statement. And so anything at all that looks like, like looks like it's official automatically go against. I think Megan and Tucker have found themselves in this position. And if there's one thing I'm the most resentful about, that crowd is they're making me agree with Ben Shapiro again. And I freaking am really pissed about that. If there's anything about the whole thing I'm really pissed off the most about is that you're making me agree with Ben Shapiro again. That's really upsetting me. But again, just because something is official doesn't mean it's wrong. Well, Steve, Lindsey Graham agrees with you that the ayatollahs are bad. Okay, well, if Lindsey Graham suddenly agreed that Lucky Charm cereal was great, should I mention my taste buds change? That's not a standard. That's how children think. But the American worldview is very broken. We have simultaneously, in the last generation, have schools take critical thinking permanently out of education so they could inculcate you so that she'll be a drone. And at the same time, the church has largely just gotten out of the, you know, worldview formation and contending for hearts and souls business, and it's just contending for tithing units and the collision of these two things. Now we don't have an educated populace, which the founders thought was the greatest, the greatest weapon against tyranny. We don't have an educated populace anymore. And then we have, we, we don't have an educated, we don't have an educated cachet of saints any longer either. And those two things together have broken America. And so what you see is Tucker often is making claims that are just often factually not true. I have no idea if his current CIA claim is true. Thank you, Aaron, for not putting that in the montage. There's a reason I'm, I might be the most high profile personality in America and then comment on that all weekend. I think it's just as possible that's true, as Tucker just made the whole thing up in order to get attention. I have no clue. I don't know. Couldn't tell you. But if your worldview begins with I'm automatically against anything other than what the Bible says is good, you are going to fall into a snake pit and you're going to become what you want, what you once claimed you hated. Because the only things in this world that you should consistently be against, or are the things the word of God says to consistently be against? And everything else you have to take on a case by case basis. And that's critical thinking. And you got to do that through the prism of does it line up with the word of God and then does it line up with the facts? And what two things are missing from a lot of this online discourse between these top four or five podcasters and everybody all going at each other. In much of the discourse that you see online, what's often missing is facts, particularly on one side here, the side that says to be skeptical of everything is to be smart. Well, then should I be skeptical of you and be even smarter? The Steve Day Show. All right, back here on the Steve Day show, maybe you guys saw me wearing a really cool gray hoodie last week. Well, actually, tens of thousands of you didn't, thanks to Apple. But not that I'm bitter, but I'm very, very, in fact, Anywho, if you did, if you're one of the lucky few, they got to see that really cool gray hoodie I was wearing last week. It's from our friends over at Conduit Clothing, right? So they don't just do really cool casual clothing. They do that, but they're. They're mission driven, not margin driven. And so they are trying to pass out right now 500 ESV Bibles, not just to you, but the people you know that don't have one, right? They. They want to multiply here, the word of God, right? So if you want to get really cool gear and then on top of that, make sure you put the most important thing on the earth, the only perfect thing on the earth, the word of God, into the hands of somebody that needs it, go to conduitclothing.com, use the code Steve. You'll get free shipping right now. Conduit, as in a conduit for Christ. C O N D u I t conduitclothing.com use the promo code Steve. You'll get free shipping. Lots of cool casual gear there. So you can wear your faith and where the messages of your faith, maybe those will be conversation starter. Who knows, they might even be conversation enders with some of the people that you'd prefer to keep quiet. Works both ways. Conduitclothing.com c o n D U I T Use the promo code Steve for free shipping@cuitclothing.com code Steve. And we welcome in our good friend Bob Vander Plaats from the Family Leader. Good to see you, my man. How are you?

Bob Vander Plaats (32:12)

Good to see you. And thanks for wearing that. That gray hoodie. I did see you.

Steve Deace (32:17)

You did see that?

Bob Vander Plaats (32:18)

Yeah, I did. But you need to take a bite out of that apple. You don't need to be Steve Dace

Steve Deace (32:23)

unplugged that situation, man.

Bob Vander Plaats (32:27)

Did we have to go here?

Steve Deace (32:29)

You did. You went there.

Bob Vander Plaats (32:30)

I went there.

Steve Deace (32:30)

I was gonna move on. You went there. I heard it because, believe me, I've been. I've been parked here all weekend long. I've just begun to vent. All right. It's only our livelihood.

Bob Vander Plaats (32:41)

I know. It is.

Steve Deace (32:42)

Yeah. I mean, what. I mean, there's no reason to panic.

Bob Vander Plaats (32:45)

Well, if they're gonna miss a show, don't miss Mondays. How we doing?

Steve Deace (32:48)

All right. I didn't think much of this when I. When I saw the clip we're about to show the audience, I just thought, no, that's interesting. But what made it very interesting to me, what made it very Interesting to me is when I saw that you highlighted it. Okay. Because, you know, for people that don't know and for the tens of thousands of people who can't hear this right now because of Apple, they may find out later. Maybe these shows one day will get restored. We'll see.

Todd Erzen (33:20)

Okay.

Steve Deace (33:21)

But you have a reputation for having a. A bit. A bit of influence in the Iowa presidential caucuses here in our home state

Bob Vander Plaats (33:32)

every now and then.

Steve Deace (33:33)

And, and of course, that process is going to start here about. Well, if it, if, if we lose badly, it's going to start about five minutes after the midterms. And if the midterms do not go as bad as they look right now, they might. It'll start 15 minutes after the midterms. Right. Okay. So it's going to be pretty soon here that this process is going to kick into high gear.

Bob Vander Plaats (33:53)

And unofficially, it's already started.

Steve Deace (33:56)

Well, that's true, too. Yeah. But the fact you highlighted this got my attention. So let's play this clip for the audience. Are there any points of disagreement between yourself and your vice president when it comes to US Action in Iran? I don't think so. No. No, we get along very well on this. He was, I would say, philosophically, a little bit different than me. I think he was maybe less enthusiastic about going, but he was quite enthusiastic. But I felt it was something we had to do. I didn't feel we had a choice.

Bob Vander Plaats (34:35)

If we didn't do it, they would have done it to us. I felt based on the negotiations that

Steve Deace (34:39)

were being had by Steve Witkoff and, and Jared Kushner and Marco and Pete

Bob Vander Plaats (34:45)

and everybody was involved, I felt that

Steve Deace (34:47)

they were going to. That they were looking to tap us along before they hit. And I thought they were going to hit.

Bob Vander Plaats (34:52)

And if they hit us first, that

Steve Deace (34:53)

would have been a very bad thing.

Bob Vander Plaats (34:55)

In the back, please.

Steve Deace (34:56)

In the back. All right. Why did you highlight this?

Bob Vander Plaats (35:01)

I highlighted, I think I put the word insightful and insightful because we know there's a division taking place, and J.D. vance is the wingman of President Donald Trump. And if he is to run for president, he's not going to be able to separate himself from some of these issues. And we know that Tucker Carlson believes this is grievously evil. I forget what. The exact words that he had, but everybody else knows that Tucker's relationship with JD Is very, very strong. And so I thought it was insightful in a couple. One is that a reporter asked, you know, where's J.D. in these negotiations? Is he with you? Is he enthusiastic about this. And I thought Trump's answer was also kind of telling. You saw him think about it, almost take a deep breath. And even when he used the word philosophically, he was more philosophical. Well, that's kind of J.D. anyhow, right? He is more philosophical. That's what we appreciate about JD as well. He's very bright. But then Trump's saying, you know, he might not have been as enthusiastic, but he was still enthusiastic. Now, everybody can read into that what they want to read into the way Trump characterized that, but kind of like the way I took it as, okay, I'll go along with this. And quite frankly, when you're vice president, you don't have a whole lot of choice anymore. You will go along with this. When you agreed to be vice president, you agreed to go along with this, but now you're going to have to own it as well. And so when you take a look at the fractures of the divisions taking place, to me, it does lend itself to 2028. JD's going to have to answer these questions. If Ted Cruz is in the race, he's going to make sure JD answers these questions. If it's Ron DeSantis, Glenn Youngkin, Brian Kemp, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, you name the ones who are probably all going to be in this race. And JD's gonna have to own a lot of this stuff. Now, some of the stuff is gonna be very good to own some. It's gonna be stuff he'd rather run away from. But I thought it was insightful, A, the reporter's question and then B, I thought just the way Trump responded to it, both non verbally and verbally.

Steve Deace (37:12)

So I've had a few conversations with some little birdies about this over the last week.

Bob Vander Plaats (37:17)

I would say over this exact clip or over the whole situation?

Steve Deace (37:20)

Over the whole situation. And then this clip kind of emerged. Cause you're right. Unofficially. Well, I was discussing when it unofficially begins, which is right after the midterms. But the unofficial, unofficial beginning has already begun. That is true.

Todd Erzen (37:35)

All right.

Steve Deace (37:36)

So I had a couple little birdie conversations about this. And I had a couple little birdies actually come to me and ask me my opinion about this. I actually think this could not be going better for JD Vance.

Bob Vander Plaats (37:50)

Sure.

Steve Deace (37:50)

And let me explain why this is setting up now that he's never going to have to clean up this mess, he's never going to have to address it. Because what is happening is that Tucker is casting himself so far out of the mainstream. Well, so far out of Trump's mainstream, which right now on the right is really the only mainstream that ultimately matters. He's doing that so much so that. And J.D. has to own every action of the Trump administration. Not to mention, that's totally fine because no one's gonna win the next nomination in the Republican Party running against the Trump administration. Right. So even stuff that they do that we don't agree with or we don't think is working out right? Like, let's say this war turns into an unmitigated Iraq like disaster, which would shock me, given the current people involved. But let's just say for the lack of sake of argument, that's going to happen. Name me the candidate who's going to run on what an asinine decision Trump made and try to win the Republican nomination with that in 28. Who is that?

Bob Vander Plaats (38:54)

And after most of them, if not all of them, said what a bold and courageous decision was, Obama should have done it, George W. Should have done it. George H.W. should have done it, Bill Clinton should. Nobody had the courage to do it until Donald Trump stepped into.

Steve Deace (39:08)

I think this is going, I think this is giving JD a chance to actually own both sides of the argument to some degree, which is now, this assumes, this assumes at some point now, I mean, Tucker's already dropped blood libels on Jews and we're just repeating Nazi tropes and platforming Ian Carroll, unconditional surrenders. Your soldiers get to rape your women. Right.

Bob Vander Plaats (39:27)

Okay, what is this?

Steve Deace (39:29)

I mean, so there's. There. No, I don't have. I don't. Who knows what, what this looks like in 60 days. Yeah, right. But at the time that you and I are having this conversation on March 16, I mean, JD's in a position of saying, listen, I, you know, I'm, my record is the policies of the Trump administration. That's my record. And on the other hand, I don't think we should be, as a movement out to just eagerly just cast out everybody that has opinions that disagree with us and things of that nature. Obviously, my record is in opposition to much of what my friend Tucker wants to say. I'm not. That's not going to change my friendship with him. If it changes his friendship with me, that's his decision. But now my, he, he is being offered and he. The, the there. I thought this was going to be a problem about a month, about six months ago, but the more radicalized Tucker has become, and now you have Trump himself essentially, you know, taking his belt off and spanking. Tucker did it again last night with The Mark Levin post he put on social media.

Bob Vander Plaats (40:26)

It's becoming easier to do.

Steve Deace (40:27)

Yes. And so in many respects, Trump is clearing out the brush for JD. And now JD's like, JD can just fall back on my record. I'm the Vice President of the United States. My record is the record of this administration. It's not the podcast that Tucker Carlson did on February 9th of 2026. This is my record. Okay?

Bob Vander Plaats (40:48)

And even, even for JD, not only is Trump clearing the brush for JD, but JD could point back to that clip and say, did you hear what he said? J.D. was more philosophical about this. What does that mean? J.D. could say, I asked all the pertinent and relevant questions to make sure everybody went in eyes wide open versus eyes shut. I was an adult in the room to make sure all these questions that all of you had got addressed. And then when the decision's made, you bet I'm a loyal vp. I shouldered up a.

Steve Deace (41:21)

Sure. He gets to say to that dissident wing, I'm the only voice you have. Sure. And I made sure your concerns were heard. But then he gets to turn. He gets to come to Iowa and South Carolina where the average caucus goer and the average South Carolina primary voter is going to be 60, a 65 year old evangelical white boomer. And he's going to get to say, and I was there the whole time that we dunked on Iran and dropped Moabs and everything else. I mean, he's. This is actually setting up very, very well for him. And the other issue, at least as far as I can see. And ultimately none of this is an issue unless Marco Rubio runs.

Bob Vander Plaats (41:55)

Right.

Steve Deace (41:55)

There's none of the, all the other names you mentioned, like you, I know them like them to various degrees, respect them to various degrees. Fine, people. Okay? But the only name that would, that makes this entire conversation relevant is Marco Rubio's. And I'm not entirely convinced he would run without knowing that knowing going in the Trump endorsement was gettable for at least gettable or he had it, Okay?

Bob Vander Plaats (42:21)

I would say he had it and that he saw that JD is collapsing and because JD is collapsing, it gives him a lane to go into run. But when I mention those other names, a lot of the other names are looking for the separation over Israel, over this Iran war, over those types of things with JD because of JD's association with Tucker. Steve, you're right. The more radicalized Tucker becomes, the more out of the mainstream he becomes, the more like, who is this Tucker anymore? It gives J.D. way, way more clearance. And you know what? J.D. is the one in the room where it happened. All these others are not right. So JD can say, listen, I represented all your interests. And when the president, who is a bold and courageous leader, made a bold and courageous decision, you're doggone right I shouldered up with him.

Steve Deace (43:07)

I mean, he gets to say, you know, I'm the unifying force of this coalition. I represent a wing that often feels like they're not heard. I make sure your voice is heard. He can go, he can go to those events, to the natcon conferences, and, you know, whatever other stuff is going on in that wing, he can go have those conversations. He can show up at the Family Leadership Summit and at the South Carolina, you know, wave the Israeli flag evangelical event and say, hey, I was on the administration that made the entire Iranian regime assume room temperature. I don't know, I, I Todd and Aaron, what do you think? Because I actually think this is actually setting up very well for him.

Todd Erzen (43:44)

Well, once again, it's such a bizarro world. Looking back to where we started, watching Trump come down the escalator early debates with all those candidates, how more often than not, Donald Trump, of all people, is the grown up in the room having the most reasonable conversation. It's who saw that coming and he's

Bob Vander Plaats (44:05)

the one who's making the decisions. And I think if JD Says that, you know, listen, I'm philosophical by nature. There's no doubt I am. And what Trump has taught me, at some point, you need to make a decision, and you need to be able to make a decision as President of the United States. And I learned under that, I was an apprentice under that. That gives me, you know, the bona fides to be the next President of the United States.

Steve Deace (44:28)

Aaron, what do you think?

Aaron McIntyre (44:30)

Bob will not be able to hear this, so you'll have to relay to him what I said. You said, we don't know what this will look like in 60 days. We don't know what this whole thing will look like in six hours. However, I agree with the analysis as it stands right now, it's kind of setting up to where JD Vance can play both sides own both sides of the argument here. And I think that's probably not the prevailing wisdom that is out there right now. But when you look at it just a little bit closely, a little bit closer, like you just did, I do think this is shaping up. But again, we're at war. Wars can change really, really fast. Things can come up really, really fast. So 60 days, six hours, it could Be a lot different.

Todd Erzen (45:08)

One thing I'm curious about philosophically, if one of those things is it doesn't. Is no matter how well this war goes, if we don't pass the SAVE act without question, how's that going to look to our voters? Because how much are they going to care then?

Steve Deace (45:23)

Well, that's true for this fall. Yeah.

Bob Vander Plaats (45:25)

For the midterms as well. But the midterms definitely play into 2028. If you lose the midterms and all of a sudden it's just constant indictment, constant impeachment. President Trump or not advanced anything else that weakens a JD Vance see who's

Steve Deace (45:40)

gonna run on Ted Cruz? You think Ted Cruz is gonna listen? I like Ted. I was in those meetings. Okay. I was in that debate prep trying to get Ted to punch back one on one against Trump. Not his native tongue. And so Ted's going to run on. The Trump administration has failed us. They lost us the midterms. And that's why we're bogged down. That's why I'm in the Senate right now in the minority. Bogged down in the, in, in impeachment. Is that, is that he's going to run on that? Because I have a hard time believing that's going to happen.

Bob Vander Plaats (46:07)

Ted Cruz may not will others, though. I definitely believe if it's a midterm loss, that is not advantage JD Vance. It might be advantage to a Marco Rubio saying Olison because Marco Rubio got unanimously confirmed by the U.S. senate. Everybody seems to love Marco. He just takes on more and more jobs type thing. I think for JD to be the basically heir apparent here, I believe they do have to win the midterms.

Steve Deace (46:35)

I think the only opinion that matters is Trump's. I think that's the only opinion that matters. And I think that if on the inside, if he has lost confidence in JD to take over as a standard bearer, then he'll endorse Rubio. And barring that, I don't think. I really don't think any of this matters because there's no one's. There's one candidate who could try this. The problem is, and I love Ron DeSantis, the problem is he tried this to some degree. He kind of tried it when he tried to run in the primary and then kind of didn't. Okay. And I just don't see a lane for Can Thomas Massie beat Donald Trump in his congressional district where he's so very well known and so very well liked on an individual basis. Yeah. And he's done it before and he may do it again. Okay. Could he do it nationwide?

Bob Vander Plaats (47:27)

I don't think so.

Steve Deace (47:28)

That's what you're kind of asking somebody to do.

Bob Vander Plaats (47:29)

However, though, Steve, if we're transparent and be mature about this, there's all kinds of fractures within the GOP base all the way from what you talked about. The SAVE act, the establishments, those who don't want Trump anymore, those who are all in for Trump. Heck, in Iowa, it's the pipeline, it's the esa.

Steve Deace (47:46)

Don't disagree with any of that.

Bob Vander Plaats (47:47)

Everybody seems to be fractured. One thing takes care of people's division, that is winning. And if you win in 2026, I believe it's advantage. J.D. vance. If you lose in 2026, I believe those fractures get more deepen and widened and. And now you have a real caucus race or primary race on your hands.

Steve Deace (48:06)

Okay, well, we're going to have plenty. I'll give you the last word. We're going to have plenty of time to discuss this debate this. But I knew this would be a fascinating conversation. Good to see you, man.

Bob Vander Plaats (48:14)

Good to see you as well.

Steve Deace (48:15)

All right, we're come back. Go Hawks. Nice. You guys have Clemson, right?

Bob Vander Plaats (48:20)

We got Clemson, but remember those cyclones, those Cyclones could win it all. They could give your Michigan Wolverines a run.

Steve Deace (48:25)

Next hour, it's your turn to ask me anything. Stay tuned. All right, back here with hour two, live and on demand on Blaze tv, radio and podcast. Podcast. I'm Steve Dase alongside tod erzen Aaron McIntyre. You can let us know what you think about what we think via the stevedace.com inbox by emailing us steve@steveday.com. that's D E A C E like us on Facebook. Me, we and Gab. You can follow me at Steve Day show on X Instagram and Tik Tok. You can also find me on YouTube, I think. I'm not entirely sure, but maybe.

Aaron McIntyre (49:22)

Did you see the email I sent you?

Steve Deace (49:24)

I saw you sent me an email, yeah. At day show on YouTube. I'm out of veins to cut. What's. What.

Aaron McIntyre (49:32)

It's actually good news.

Steve Deace (49:33)

Oh, really? Okay.

Aaron McIntyre (49:34)

Well, you could frame it as bad news though, if you want to.

Steve Deace (49:37)

Well, that's. We've.

Aaron McIntyre (49:39)

We've. By our standards, our YouTube channel has been going like gangbusters. Just so happens to coincide with certain lawsuit.

Steve Deace (49:50)

You don't say. Huh? You mean like since a certain letter got sent from 16 state attorney generals? That.

Aaron McIntyre (49:56)

What, you're not alleging anything?

Steve Deace (49:58)

Just something you may have noticed? Yeah, weird. Okay. Anyway, go to our YouTube page at Day show on YouTube. That's at Day show on YouTube. And then I don't know what the hell you do with the podcast. Do we have one? Is it that on? I don't know, but actually it's just Apple. Every other podcast is apparently great. The only problem is the majority of podcasts are, well, apple. So you can like the like rate, subscribe, leave us a five star review. If you're on Apple and you're not getting our show, which means you probably aren't hearing this, but maybe we got lucky. Hit. Hit the follow button to unfollow and then refollow again and holy crap, that just sounds really stupid. But that's apparently what we have to do here.

Todd Erzen (50:48)

Have we tried carrier pigeon? Can, can we get our show to send an owl, Whatever?

Steve Deace (50:52)

Yeah, send an owl. Yeah. So you guys can tell, man, I'm. I'm. I'm down bad this weekend, man. I'm down bad. So I could use all the 5 star reviews I could get. And I know that sounds like emotional blackmail, because it is at this point, man, I'll. I'll take the pity affirmations. Know what I'm saying? You'll take the pity affirmations at our age? I'll take them.

Todd Erzen (51:19)

You're down bad. So we're just gonna let the audience start asking you questions now. I'm sure that'll.

Steve Deace (51:24)

Yes, just open it up. Ask me anything. All right. This part of the show brought to you by To Covis, which I've got to bust mine back out when I get home because we had a blizzard warning yesterday. But you know what? To Cova's boots, they're fantastic. They're very comfortable. They're very functional. Mine look exactly like. Almost exactly like they look when I've. When I first put them on. And it's not because I don't use them to do yard work. I do. I don't use them to, you know, I do snow removal. I do all of that as well. All right. It's just because of just how well put together these boots are. They are broken in for comfort right out of the box. All right? And they're. They not only are functional, but they look good too. So I mean, you can just wear them for a night out if you want. And they have like just cowboy boots too, not just work boots. So right now get 10% off to cova.com steve when you go there and you sign up for email and text alerts, that's 10% off at Tokova's T E C O V a s T E C O V a S for to covas to covis.com Steve get 10 off again at to covas.com Steve and with that, are we ready for some ask me anything.

Todd Erzen (52:39)

Are you ready?

Steve Deace (52:40)

I a better question is given the mood I'm in, is the audience ready for some of the answers they may get? There should be some bangers with everything going on right now, for sure. All right. I'll get through as many of these as I can and then we'll get through what's what remains in the overTime today for BlazeTV subscribers at BlazeTV.com Days use the code DACE for a discounted subscription so you don't have to worry about will the show ever show up on YouTube again? Will I ever have the Steve Day show on on Apple itunes again? Just get it directly from us. Blazetv.com dace Use the code DACE to get $20 off your annual subscription. There's and never worry about quote unquote glitches. All right, Todd, you've got the questions. I have not seen any of these questions yet. You fed the ones to Aaron that you thought were the most interesting to get on the show this week. So Aaron, let it rip.

Aaron McIntyre (53:32)

All right, we'll start with Jonathan Mull. USA teams have now beaten Canada for the gold medals in women's men's Paris sled Olympic hockey plus a win in the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals. Is Alberta automatically ceded to the US After a fifth win?

Steve Deace (53:47)

Do we want that?

Todd Erzen (53:49)

Well, isn't Alberta supposedly.

Steve Deace (53:51)

Is that. Yeah. So that's, that's just Alberta is like the Democrat party because the rest of the country, except for the rural areas that like, you know, there's 10 people per square mile if there's a part

Todd Erzen (54:02)

worth having and apparently maybe resources wise too. Yes. Is there a trade?

Steve Deace (54:09)

So Alberta is just is like Austin, Texas. Like because it's in Texas, it's very left wing. But because it's in Texas they still have to like be somewhat sane. See what I'm trying to say?

Todd Erzen (54:21)

I do.

Steve Deace (54:21)

So it's very left wing. But they can't be completely insane because they're in the, they're, they're in Texas, but the rest of the country is insane. Right?

Todd Erzen (54:30)

Sure.

Steve Deace (54:31)

All right. So then sure, you bet. As long as it's sane, you bet I'm in.

Aaron McIntyre (54:38)

Next we go to Darlene Holt McAdams. Do you think all the fighting between so called Christian and or conservative influencers are part of Bible prophecy?

Steve Deace (54:53)

Maybe I, I will tell you this, man, I have. Or actually that was a lady that sent that, right? I think so, ma'. Am. I'm sorry. I'll tell you this, ma'. Am, I have for almost 20 years done shows on alternative eschatological theories, shows skeptical of dispensationalism, which is a buzzword that most of the people online dropping it do not know what it means at all. But what has happened here, and pretty fast is a rate of acceleration that is just unnatural. Now, is it preternatural or is it supernatural? Okay, answer may be yes, but it's the, the level of deceleration here. Especially because I don't know if you guys saw there. NBC News has a poll out today. Did you guys see this?

Todd Erzen (55:56)

I'm not sure.

Steve Deace (55:56)

Report for support for Israel amongst Republicans is almost exactly what it was 10 years ago. No, hasn't really changed at all. And yet. Is that what we're being fed online?

Todd Erzen (56:07)

The optics are clearly different.

Steve Deace (56:09)

The optics are clearly different. The last time I can remember something like this was, and I still would have been in the middle of this right about the time you came on board. But you know, when Jen and Rebecca were here, we first launched in this indication and first went national. I mean, I must, I mean, I went toe to toe with every 22 year old millennial Ron Pauler that we were going to be the party of stoners and gay marriage. Right. And, but, but there was, there was real polling data that showed Republicans were softening on both of those issues at the time. There was. Okay, there's been no real polling whatsoever to demonstrate that that's happening on the Israel issue. So you, you just don't have this level of, I mean, Tucker could oppose the Israel war or, I'm sorry, the Iran war over just our record on, our checkered record of, of military conflicts in the Mideast going all the way back to the, the, you know, the, the Beirut fiasco in 1983 into Reagan.

Todd Erzen (57:19)

Oh, he's wealthy.

Steve Deace (57:20)

He could just base it all on that.

Todd Erzen (57:21)

He'd have a ton of overlap with you, quite frankly, in terms of.

Steve Deace (57:24)

He doesn't have to give us like mysterious sects of Judaism who are secretly in control and want to build the Third Temple. See, when you don't have to go to anti Semitic tropes to make your arguments, but you kind of choose to, you see what I'm trying to say? What would we have to have any form of anti Semitic trope to debate the wherewithal or integrity of A prolonged military engagement in the Middle east for we don't have all kinds of evidence to show that we're not typically not really good at this. There's just not concern based on past president precedent alone. Why, why do we have to chase. Why do I have to do this like retarded form of Temu Gnosticism for the online retards. Why do we have to do this? I see. I'm kind of inclined to think because we want to. Right. Like if you're making arguments you don't have to make in order to make your point, wouldn't we all agree you're doing that because those are the arguments you want to make? Right.

Todd Erzen (58:23)

Yes.

Steve Deace (58:23)

Yeah. So that's to me not that to me is not natural. That stuff supernatural. And it just seems like, you know, in the last 10 minutes and again, you find someone with a bigger platform before Apple intervened this weekend, you find somebody and I'm still bitter. You find somebody with a bigger platform before Apple intervened this weekend that has done more shows skeptical of Left behind eschatology than I have over the last almost 20 years. And I'll wait. Go ahead. You're not going to find one. You're not going to find a show, you're not going to find a larger Christian platform in America than this show that has done more content skeptical of the left behind narrative than I have done most of my whole career. And yet like it doesn't it seem like in the last 10 minutes it was like let's entertain Nazi era anti Semitic tropes. Allah is great. And did you know that Erica Kirk is a, is, you know, is a co conspirator in her husband's murder might have pulled the trigger herself. That crap is not natural. That stuff is supernatural. And not, not everybody who's an anti Zionist has persecuted Erica Kirk in the last six months, but everybody who has persecuted Erica Kirk in the last six months is an anti Zionist. And that, that, so that stuff I to me that's not natural, it's supernatural driven by forces not of this world or preternatural driven by some forces we cannot see. But speak Arabic a lot and think Muhammad was a dude or maybe a little bit of both. Any thoughts on that?

Todd Erzen (60:18)

Well, from a perspective of specific biblical prophecy, I think you even saw something today that I saw about how the voices of and we've talked about this privately as a show maybe we've talked about the conservatives post Trump winning the kind of the comeback of all political comebacks. And now we need to start Considering the math more specifically in line with what's happening now, we should not, shouldn't that be inspiring a level of focus and unity and the art of the deal and what we can all do together? And instead the exact opposite is happening. Is that what you think they are getting at with Bible prophecy? Is it something else with false teachers? But when somebody suggests that, what comes to your mind? Something nefarious, but nothing no specific. And I ask because you bring up the left behind books. I don't know if a lot of

Steve Deace (61:34)

people, most people don't understand getting rid of this Iranian regime would actually go against the left behind narrative, numb nuts. Okay, the left behind narrative kicks off with an Iran Russian Ezekiel 38,39 Invasion or attempted invasion of Israel that God supernaturally gets rid of. Having chicks wearing bikinis in downtown Tehran. Again, goes against that entire narrative, guys. Goes against that entire narrative.

Todd Erzen (62:09)

This is why I ask.

Steve Deace (62:10)

But most of the people, again most people using the terms like dis don't know what these things mean. And that's how you also know that's not natural. These, these buzzwords get just fed into systems and people instantly pick up on them and then just instantly start regurgitating them. And in mass, not natural. It's not natural. What do you and I both say the other day? Maybe the best argument for the left behind narrative is the reaction is how this iteration, this little nation of Israel, causes people to lose their damn minds. Might be the best argument for the entire left behind narrative. Because this is not natural.

Todd Erzen (62:46)

Which is why I asked the question. I don't claim to believe that most of the people who believe the left behind narrative aren't reading their Bible, but I do wonder how much now we're going back. Steve. What that came out when you and I are what, in our late mid

Steve Deace (63:06)

to late twenties, somewhere in there? Yeah.

Todd Erzen (63:09)

How much of that, the existence that it being spoken into existence in terms of like a what, 10 books, movies that came out. How much of that is just then the, the, the Disney version of the Bible story is in the narrative now?

Steve Deace (63:30)

I don't know but I, but I do think that this stuff is not natural. What we're saying, the rate of acceleration, how quickly it just shows up, how quickly it's descended into places. I mean, I'm looking at an exchange right now. Mike Cernovich I've lost track of the times podcasters and others have taken shots at me. I always, Almost always ignore 90% is focusing on senators like John Curtis, who probably stole the Utah election total Distraction to spend hours a week reacting to each other. It's slave behavior. Pretty reasonable take. Okay, Megyn Kelly just responded to him, quote, disagree. You can take the high road and ignore for a while, but eventually, after hundreds of tweets and attacks, you punch the bully in the rhetorical face and then he goes running to daddy about his micro penis. This level of content, I mean, we've seen Megyn Kelly legal expert on Fox. We've seen Megan Kelly hosting the co hosting the Today show, doing corporate media. We've seen Megan Kelly pushing, you know, right wing ideologue, pushing back on narratives. She's almost always unflappable. She's almost always professional, right?

Todd Erzen (64:42)

Yes.

Steve Deace (64:42)

Ever seen this kind of behavior at a hurdle?

Todd Erzen (64:46)

Well, she certainly dialed it up to 11.

Steve Deace (64:47)

Yeah. See, tell me who goes down the anti Zionist road and comes out a better person for it. I'll wait. Tell me who goes down that road and thinks. And then after that, and then when they're about halfway, a few steps down that road, you come back thinking, that person is just more well rounded, reasonable and rational than I can ever remember. Does that person literally ever existed, like, ever? This stuff is supernatural. I mean, it just, it's supernatural. Normally unflappable people just allowing their brains to get busted.

Todd Erzen (65:19)

We better have some supernatural answers.

Steve Deace (65:21)

Correct. Let's get to the next question.

Aaron McIntyre (65:24)

We will go next to Michael Fries, who asks, how do you feel about Ted Cruz's recent statement that if I say Christ is king, it's the same as saying I hate Jews. And does it change your opinion of him from a purely biblical standpoint? Did he actually say that?

Steve Deace (65:38)

That's not the context of what he said. But my answer would be, of course saying Christ is king is not anti Semitic. And of course, a bunch of anti Semites online have been wielding that term specifically to be anti Semitic. So it's, it's always about context, okay? It's always about context. I mean, if you go home and beat your wife, who's the guy that sent this note?

Aaron McIntyre (66:04)

Michael.

Steve Deace (66:05)

Hey, Michael, you go home and beat your wife tonight. And as you're beating the crap out of her, just say repeatedly, I love you. I love you, I love you. Maybe she, you know what, you've given her a black eye, broken her nose. Just scream out I love you over and over again. Then send me a question and say, hey, you know, I might, I, I told my wife in between beatings last, during the beatings last night, at least 15 times I counted, I love her, you know, and I'm this is, you know, me loving her as Christ loved the church. I mean. I mean, why am I a wife beater? Context kind of matters, doesn't it?

Todd Erzen (66:35)

A bit.

Steve Deace (66:36)

A bit? Okay. I mean, like this. There's this retard, Jake Shields, who goes out there and posts Christ as king all the time and then later on admits he's not even a Christian. He just doesn't troll Jews. So, yeah, when all you know about someone's Christian, alleged Christianity is they post Christ as king and they have no other contextual definitions of their Christianity at all. They. Chances are they're an anti Semite and they're just an anti Semitic troll. Now, is it anti Semitic in and of itself to declare that Christ is king? Of course not. But if you're doing so to be anti Semitic and a troll, you're in violation of the third commandment. You have taken the Lord's name in vain and your eternal soul is in peril. Repent. How am I doing so far?

Todd Erzen (67:23)

Pretty good, I think. Yeah.

Steve Deace (67:24)

Like the Mudamin going well.

Todd Erzen (67:26)

You're still hinged.

Steve Deace (67:29)

Let's keep going. Next.

Aaron McIntyre (67:31)

Is this from Josh Rosenhoover? For someone who has never spoken at CPAC and held that as a fact as a badge of honor, why now does it seem like you're toeing the line in order to get the invite?

Todd Erzen (67:43)

Here we go.

Aaron McIntyre (67:45)

Josh, have you listened to the last 19 minutes of this show?

Steve Deace (67:48)

What line am I towing? I don't know what line I'm towing. I don't know what line it is. Did he offer that in his question? No.

Todd Erzen (67:55)

That's it. Okay.

Steve Deace (67:56)

Right. I mean, I'm happy to address. If you think I'm towing some line. I'm. I'd be happy to address it. I would just need to know. I would just need to know what that line is. That's. That's the most respectful answer I could have. I. I just would need to know what that line.

Todd Erzen (68:07)

But what's the CPAC line? Let's start there.

Steve Deace (68:09)

I mean, I have absolutely no idea. I'm. Guys, I'm already booked to go speak in the North Dakota State GOP convention the same weekend. I. I couldn't speak at CPAC even if I got an invite, which I'm pretty confident is never gonna happen. All right? But I. I have no idea. Plus, I can promise you that the North Dakota GOP convention is going to pay a lot better. So I have no idea because I don't think CPAC pays you anything. They think that you should be. Feel blessed to speak to them. Maybe that was true like 20 years ago. I think that's true now. No, probably not, no. But I. Again, if you have a. Have a line you think I'm towing, just tell me and I'll happily address it. You bet. I just don't know what that is.

Aaron McIntyre (68:52)

Next we go to Jacques. Jacques Hoffman. I think that's how you say it. Some say neoconism has never truly worked because it's never truly been implemented. Is the answer then to neocon harder?

Steve Deace (69:05)

I would wonder what you think the definition of neocon is, because again, I think most of these are terms people don't know what the meaning is like. A lot of you think that any belief system in Christianity that believes there was going to be a future nation called Israel is dispensationalism. And that is entirely untrue. In fact, one of the greatest critics of dispensationalism was Charles Spurgeon. He debated it in England at the time, where it originated as at least heterodoxical, if not flat out heresy. And he also believed that Romans 9 through 11, to be fulfilled, may require a future nation of Israel one day. Jonathan Edwards may be the greatest preacher of colonial America. I would argue much of his thoughts of Judaism and the Jews is very replete with a lot of medieval Reformation era, we would call them pejoratives today. Okay. And yet he also believed there would maybe have to be a future nation called Israel reconstituted in order to fulfill Romans 9 through 11 at the end of the age. And he preached about, you know, 50 years before dispensationalism even reached America. So I think a lot of these are buzz terms. Right? Which is why when you guys ask me what this is. See, this is why my whole career, when you've asked me, steve, are you a Calvinist or an Arminian? Ask me a specific question and I'll give you an answer. But don't ask me about a label, because a lot of people just want labels to immediately disregard you. How many people from the traditional neocon era have been on this show? Todd, you've been booking it now for. This is your 11th year, right? Yeah. Okay, in the 11th year, 11 years you've been booking this show, how many people that are traditionally from the neocon Bush Iraq era have you booked on this show in those 11 years? Would you say

Todd Erzen (71:01)

not. Not many, if. I mean, I have no idea.

Steve Deace (71:05)

And certainly let's. Let's just say maybe early on, maybe we still did, but as the years have gone, what you're saying in the last five or six years, how many would you say?

Todd Erzen (71:12)

That's right. I can't even.

Steve Deace (71:13)

It'd be. It would be a zero.

Todd Erzen (71:14)

Yeah. I can't even think of one off the top.

Steve Deace (71:15)

Yeah. So, I mean, I. Again, define these terms for me.

Todd Erzen (71:20)

There you are just holding the line, Steve.

Steve Deace (71:21)

Yeah, I just would want to know what the term is. And again, I'll just reiterate. I have all the same reservations about what we're trying to do in Iran that I had the day before we launched it. But I'm also not going to root against America. And number two, every time a member of the Iranian high command dies, an angel gets his wings.

Aaron McIntyre (71:41)

Next, we go to this from Jeffrey Otto. Which is a bigger threat to the existence and position of the United States as a force for good Artificial intelligence or James Talarico.

Steve Deace (71:52)

It's James Talarico for sure. And it's not even close. It's James Talarico and what he represents. Because what he represents is the deconstruction of the rubric by which we would determine how all these technologies will be utilized. What's the moral framework? What's the legend to the map? While I do agree that as a technology, the immersiveness of AI makes it more prone to the fallibilities of human nature than the previous evolution. Small E of technology. But that still doesn't mean it's inherently wrong. For example, the dopamine hit and the rush and the sense of connection and conquest, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. How many men have thrown entire empires away for sex?

Todd Erzen (72:46)

A couple.

Steve Deace (72:46)

A couple. So there is something unique about the power and allure of sex that makes us, our fallibility, Uniquely prone to it. Right? That we are maybe uniquely prone to destroy ourselves as men in order to acquire that connection and hit. That maybe some other sinful manifestations, we would not be as reckless and being tempted by fair. Right? But is that also the primary way that we perpetuate the species? And it's the prime is one of the primary ways that we have intimacy and oneness as a. As a species.

Todd Erzen (73:18)

Right?

Steve Deace (73:19)

See what I'm saying? Okay, so just because something is uniquely temptable doesn't mean it's uniquely bad. So without. Listen, man, the manifestation of the. The systemic manifestation of a telerika represents makes literally everything. Your worst nightmare fear of AI it literally makes everything. The everything now becomes infested with the spirit of the age. Because it's. Because most things are in the eye of the beholder. And if the beholder is an unrepentant, deconstructed reprobate, then all of a sudden lots of things that previously you didn't think were nearly the threat that AI represents. Right. But they're now suddenly weapons of cultural mass destruction in the hands of such people. Right. Like a police force. We need a police force. Right.

Todd Erzen (74:16)

Yeah.

Steve Deace (74:16)

How about James Talarico's worldview selecting your police force. Sheriffs all over America.

Todd Erzen (74:20)

Oh, we got tastes of that for Covid and other.

Steve Deace (74:23)

Correct. Now let's make it now. Let's put it everywhere.

Todd Erzen (74:26)

Right.

Steve Deace (74:27)

You'll be begging for AI to make your decisions for you if we do that.

Todd Erzen (74:30)

Okay.

Steve Deace (74:31)

The, the most, the most devastating weapon on this planet is human sinfulness. And there is no force of nothing we can concoct, no technology we could create, no form of government that we could manifest that can contain that. Which is why we're 250 years into this experiment and we're the longest running experiment in self government in the history of this, of this planet. Nothing's more destructive than human sinfulness. Nothing is.

Todd Erzen (75:04)

And you should be terrified at the percentages of the vote that he's about to get in checks, notes, Texas, he's

Steve Deace (75:10)

going to get at least 45% of the vote. So think about that. Yeah.

Aaron McIntyre (75:18)

Theresa, Dylan McSpadden says, how would you handle disabilities in the church? More often than not, those with disabilities are excluded from worship, including my own family. We were told to sit either in the rear of the sanctuary or in a back room with a TV because our autistic children were too distracting for others. We had other rules too. We obviously don't attend that church any longer. But it has left all five of my children with strong concerns about Christian faith, despite our best efforts to raise them in the faith. I think the church as a whole is severely lacking in how those with disabilities are treated.

Todd Erzen (75:52)

I included this in particular because there were like multiple passionate responses to her question to this. Yeah.

Steve Deace (76:00)

So as a general rule, the biblical worldview does not punish people for a state of being, meaning I was born with a disability. I was born with. You know, we're in a sinful world, so there's, there's going to be maladies, there's going to be imperfections within our species because we're in a sinful world. So traditionally, the Christian worldview has actually been what has stood up for those born with those infirmities. While the rest of the world and the rest of these cultures were eager to discard them. So that should be the default setting for sure. Okay. Did I say it was an absolute, though?

Todd Erzen (76:45)

No.

Steve Deace (76:46)

Right. Because we also, you know, and I'm not in. Teresa, your situation, I didn't see the behavior. I didn't see the way the church reacted. Okay. But we also cannot have the entire church held to the standard of a few people with disabilities at the same time if they're unable to focus when. When reverence is being paid. So it's a give and take that should be part of any healthy relationship between a church and its congregates. There should be. The grace should err on the side of giving more accommodation to those with infirmities. But at the same time, we do have to have order. We do have to have that God is a God of order.

Bob Vander Plaats (77:42)

Right.

Steve Deace (77:43)

So I'm not confident that in this particular church age, we would probably do that very well. Right. If you're. If you're in the way of the four songs and the MC Sermon for 28 minutes and us getting the next three services in here. You see what I'm trying to say. Like, in this age, my bias would be to be sympathetic to you, frankly, because of a lot of the. The McChurch that goes on in America today. But it's not an absolute standard either that we have to accommodate just these people for the entirety of the congregation either. There's a. There's a balance. There's a give and take there, and that's where good sympathetic and convictional leadership in a church is required. The steve day show. So after tomorrow's show, I'm heading to Nashville to do my next Ask Me Anything for tpusa Faith. We're going to be at Middle Tennessee University there in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. And I'm going to be bringing with me my CHIRP stuff, my rolling power mini massager, my. My mini foam roller, trigger point rollout. These things, man, they are literal lifesavers in terms of staying active, getting active, staying healthy as best you can, particularly as we get older. And you want to. You want to see the entire catalog of what CHIRP has available to you. And then if you travel a lot or just even a little bit, or maybe you're working a job where you're tough on your. On your feet all day, you know, you're swinging that hammer on a roof, um, the Chirp contour gives you a decompression massage table with professional grade relief, like spinal decompression, soothing massage, and more, all from the comfort of your own home. So you're going to get industry quality devices without the expensive appointments that are very time consuming. At the same time FDA cleared devices, almost every product is FSA or HSA eligible as well to try to make it as affordable as possible. So go to Go Chirp like a birdie Chirp C H I r p gochirp.com steve go chirp.com steve and check out the full menu of what they have available there like the rolling power mini massager that's going to be in my carry on suitcase when I leave tomorrow From Chirp Go Chirp.com Steve C-H I R P Gocher.com Steve all right, should we continue on?

Todd Erzen (80:21)

Let's go.

Aaron McIntyre (80:21)

All right, we will continue on with Todd Miller who says I've never heard you guys really address the problem of online predators and satanists on your show. It's a huge problem and these people are using online games and forums to reach kids. Many parents are completely unaware that these things are dangerous.

Steve Deace (80:39)

You know what, it's probably because you've still got a couple school age kids at home. But they're older, right? I have no kids that are school aged and all my kids are adults now. Aaron's kids are not yet of the age where they're still pretty young. You know, where that's a problem yet. So that is a thing that generationally would have slipped through our fingers for sure.

Todd Erzen (81:03)

As I understand it, there are now online gaming communities that are basically Reddit forums and they've talked about that. This is one of the ways they got to Tyler Robinson uh, yeah, just wait. With way too many parents are letting it, you know, screen time of all kinds.

Steve Deace (81:21)

Yeah, yeah.

Todd Erzen (81:22)

You, you're tired. You don't want to have the argument. You just want your me time. You just sedate them, give them the thing on every level that's going nowhere good. The anonymous communities of who knows what, whether they're adults or teenagers is just if they plug into that matrix, don't be shocked what comes out the other side.

Aaron McIntyre (81:45)

Next we go to Christopher Junman who says the question I have for both you and Todd is how do you guys feel about having to pay more money to fill our cars with gas because of the war in Iran right now? And what would you like Congress to do in Washington D.C. since we're paying too much on gas right now? Apparently I don't exist.

Todd Erzen (82:02)

That's why this question is there. I didn't understand like have I been more jingoist Aaron just teleports than Aaron. Why does Aaron get left out. Why do I get put in that? What was fascinating to me about this,

Steve Deace (82:15)

yeah, we're, we're just a bunch of jingoistic boomers now. Actually, the boomers were not jingoistic. We are. Our generation has been fairly jingoistic. That part's true. Okay, so maybe that's the assumption there. We're generationally profiling. Aaron, as the millennial knows that all US military action is nothing but a, a complete front for the military dust industrial complex. Right. That's kind of the generational bias in that direction. But listen, I, I mean, I'm not enjoying spending Covid or. $70 to fill my trunk up, I think is what it just cost me. Pretty close to it. I'm not enjoying that. I'm not like, oh man, let's do this again, let's do this some more, you know, so have you guys, Am I like posting like a whole bunch of flag waving content? Am I doing that?

Todd Erzen (83:14)

Well, to him, you are at all by supporting the war in any way, whatever it is, the police action, the, you know, you know, whatever it is by supporting it at all. That's clearly what's implied here.

Steve Deace (83:28)

A lot of things can be simultaneously true. It can be simultaneously true that I, I can't sit here as someone whose job it is to try to be fairly informed anyway, and, and I, I can't sit here and, and tell you I can't even begin to, to contemplate what comes next in Iran if we topple the regime. I, I, I sincerely do not know. I also know that every time we kill a member of this regime, the world's a better place. I have no idea what our exit strategy is. I don't know what severely degrade their military so that they can't harm Americans and get in the way of American interest. I don't, I mean, I understand what that means. I just don't understand how that's applied. Right. Does, you know, so, you know, I don't know what that, especially in an era where you can just have terror sleeper cells all over the world and a handful of people, if not just individuals, can wreak havoc. Right. I'm not sure exactly what that means in terms of how we apply that as a standard, you know, but I, I also know that Iran can never, ever have a nuclear weapon for all the reasons we're just having this part of the conversation right here. I know. We're not. Whatever odds we have of not getting annihilated in these midterms go to negative integers. If gas remains at $3.80 a gallon, the current national average. I also know that once we are now in this, the. The worst move we could make, in my view, is to cut it short by a week or two because we're panicked over gas prices. And then all of a sudden, you got to go back to the American people again in six months and say, well, you know, we didn't get everybody. See what I'm saying? I mean, it kind of seems to me if you're gonna do it now, you gotta see it through, but you also wanna see it through as quickly as you possibly can, right? You know, these are all reasons why I was leery about this before we did it. Those are all reasons why, all right? Because how to navigate all these things simultaneously, I don't know how to do that. It's beyond me. You know, I'm not the president. He's the one that has to navigate those things, him and his team. I don't know how to navigate them, but these things are all simultaneously true. And that means this. You know, simple attempts at simple explanations for things aren't appropriate. But things get real simple when you can't afford to fill up, put the diesel in your truck, right? Things get real simple then when the $7 a gallon for diesel gets passed on to every good and service that you're trying to purchase, that was. That was using that diesel to get it to you. Right? You know, this is the danger of all these things, you know, I don't begrudge your point at all. It's a. It's a verifiable lament.

Todd Erzen (86:23)

You know, pitting variables against one another, if you're honest with yourself is a very important thought exercise. So if. If you're being honest with yourself, you also have to go both ways. Like, is just because gas getting more expensive, that this is not worth getting into? Well, you don't know that either. Secondly, and I will say, listen, right now on the table, just as of this weekend, there are now Marines, 2,400 of them, if memory serves, that are now being sent to the Middle East. Not sure, the language is vague, but I do know some of them are from Japan, where my oldest daughter's boyfriend is stationed. As a Marine, he's going somewhere else for training, but he knows some of these guys. So, yeah, this is getting closer and closer to home. And I will tell you, comparing variables, like you're doing one that does come to mind, that I will have questions of. And I will be comparing if. If we're going over there to fight and putting our boys at risk. But we can't pass the SAVE act here at home. Oh, I'll be comparing variables, that's for damn sure.

Steve Deace (87:31)

Hey, listen, I mean, I've got a son in law who's enlisted right now. He was told that if Biden wins, they're all going to Syria. His unit is. Then Biden didn't win. And then they, they sent, they, they let the parts of his unit that volunteered basically to go to Syria to go. I still have no idea why they ever had to be in Syria at all. Regardless whether Trump is president or, or Biden is, I have no idea. And then where do we pull all our troops out of before Operation Epic Fury launched? Syria? Again, I still have all these various questions and reservations, but I'm not Sean Penn, okay? Much of what Tucker's doing is Sean Penn level stuff. Let me go hang out with Daniel Ortega and Castro and, and Gorbachev because Reagan's gonna blow up the world. Okay? That's kind of what's going on here now.

Todd Erzen (88:24)

And I think your conversation with Bob needs to be kind of reset because I don't think we understand how much people have been beaten down by the half assed prosecution of whatever was being prosecuted in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. And that's the only lens people can see it through. And now, even if this is absolutely necessary, A and B is being adjudicated militarily in the best possible way, people just don't even have the frame of reference anymore for seeing that. And, and that's too bad. And that's on everything. And that has gone before. You and Bob actually set that up nicely. But I don't think you. Yeah, I mean, I think you could have reset that over and over and over again about how people are broken because of how many men have died

Steve Deace (89:12)

for what I'm, I'm rooting for America, but I'm not like, you know, I'm not trading a bunch of flag waving text with a bunch of my friends all over the country, let alone with you guys. Have we even traded a lot of those privately? No. At the same token, I think Trump has earned a level of credibility on the foreign policy front and therefore a level of margin that I would not grant him on some other areas. You know, so like, every time the Maha people freak out, I don't blame you guys for freaking out at all. Right. Because we saw Trump completely buckled to the COVID narrative and lost his entire presidency to it, right?

Todd Erzen (89:49)

Yes.

Steve Deace (89:49)

So I don't blame The Maha people. You guys see me. The Maha people freak out all the time. You ever see me once, like, check those people. Hey, Patience. Ever see me do that? One time?

Todd Erzen (89:59)

Not aggressively so. I mean, just counseled strategy, but that's it.

Steve Deace (90:02)

Yeah. I mean, I don't. I don't blame you for freaking out at all. He's. He's his. In this area, he's totally unproven. Frankly, pretty much everybody's totally unproven in this area. We're proven things right now. But on the foreign policy side, this has been. Trump's the most successful foreign policy president of my time, that I could legally vote in America. So he's going to get a lot of margin. Not to mention the fact, while I'm enjoying reading the obituaries for every Iranian leader, I'm enjoying them at the same time knowing I have no idea that we even know what comes in after we get rid of all these people. I don't know the answer to that. I don't. But I'm not rooting against my country. I'm not.

Aaron McIntyre (90:40)

Next up is Peggy Schrader, who asks what's wrong with awarding electoral college votes based on percentage of votes.

Steve Deace (90:50)

Is this about the note we had last week of changing this to. Instead of the percentage of people who. Oh, she wants them proportionally given. That's what she's saying then across the board. Well, as opposed to a winner take all.

Todd Erzen (91:03)

Well, this is like what Nebraska and Maine do this.

Steve Deace (91:06)

They have a bit of a split. Yeah, I don't.

Todd Erzen (91:11)

I wanted to see what you had to say. I mean, nothing's wrong. Like moral.

Steve Deace (91:16)

Nothing's morally wrong politically. It would. It would demolish our side if we did that. Because they control the major population centers. That's why they want a national popular vote. This would be just another variation of that. It's another variation. It's not a pure popular vote, but it's a step in that direction. So the founders created this system specifically for proper proportionality. Proportionality. So that you would not have a handful of states in the Northeast completely just dictating total and complete policy to the other rest of the original 13 states. And then the. The as you're expanding the country,

Todd Erzen (91:53)

a

Steve Deace (91:53)

lot of these territories were also more agrarian, more rural. So all the Northwest ordinance states then all have to go by whatever Massachusetts and Connecticut come up with, because that's where most of the people lived back in those days.

Todd Erzen (92:04)

Right.

Steve Deace (92:05)

So I. But here's. As a general rule, here's what I'm in favor of. Do whatever it takes to win except that which the word of God says we can't do. So if. If there are states where proportional electoral college votes would help us, then let's. Like California. I'm all in California. I hope they do proportional electoral college votes.

Todd Erzen (92:28)

Right.

Steve Deace (92:29)

Because we get a few.

Todd Erzen (92:29)

Yes.

Aaron McIntyre (92:30)

Okay.

Steve Deace (92:31)

In our state, should Alabama do it?

Todd Erzen (92:33)

No.

Steve Deace (92:33)

Should Mississippi do it?

Todd Erzen (92:34)

No.

Steve Deace (92:34)

Georgia? Well, actually way Georgia trending, maybe. Okay. But you see where I'm going with this? All right. In the states where we're in control, it's retarded. In the states where we're not totally in favor of it, do whatever it takes to win except that which God. What did I say Nebraska should do? Nebraska should have. Should in 24. Absolutely. Put its electoral college votes together. Okay. And then after the election in the next session, change it back just in case we lose the next one. And we need. We're in a war. Can't just. Don't just stand there and get shot, you know, Got to be nimble. Move. You know, Got to be nimble. So I'm. For whatever it takes to win that doesn't violate the word of God. And changing all the electoral college votes as many times you need to to get the announcement, to get the results you want, as long as it's above board and not done after the fact right through the proper legislative process. Is any of that unbiblical at all?

Todd Erzen (93:26)

No.

Steve Deace (93:27)

No. In fact, I would say it's very boaz level shrewd. So do it. As Lander once said, folks, if you're struggling with too much chronic pain, that's because you probably have too much inflammation in your body. That's where our friends at Relief Factor come into Play. It's only 20 bucks to try the three week quick start to see if you don't see a difference in your pain in three weeks or less. Over 1 million people have tried that quick start over the years. 70% of them saw such great results that they stuck with the product long term. So why don't you see if you don't see a difference in just three weeks or less, especially when it's just 20 bucks. To find out@Reliefactor.com Again, head over right now to Releffactor.com all right, how many we have left for the overtime, Aaron?

Aaron McIntyre (94:11)

We only have three left.

Steve Deace (94:12)

Oh, beautiful. Do those in the overtime for Blaze TV subscribers today. I don't want to jinx it, but it appears the Apple issue actually has been fixed. I. I've. I've noticed our podcast Ranking has soared. All right. I think we were like 75th in our category. We're now back into the top 15 where we typically are. Or top 15 or 20. Right. What are you seeing on the download side, Aaron?

Aaron McIntyre (94:37)

I'm seeing more downloads for the last two episodes, which were the suspect episodes, than I saw two hours ago. Also have some breaking news from our president, Gaston Mooney. For all of those who have been asking for this for quite a while, I think today will be the first day we will be on Spotify video.

Steve Deace (94:56)

Oh, okay.

Todd Erzen (94:58)

Are we going to be like the Apple comeback story of the year?

Steve Deace (95:02)

I need that. You know what I really need and my retirement fund really needs us to be the YouTube comeback story of the year. That's what it really needs.

Aaron McIntyre (95:12)

Did you click on what I sent you?

Steve Deace (95:13)

I'm not. No. I haven't been doing the show, but it's on my list for after the show and I just. I wasn't in a position I could take any more bad news right now. It's not bad news, though. I mean, I was down bad. It's not bad news. Okay. Todd, you have any final thoughts? Yeah.

Todd Erzen (95:28)

Well, you were. You were a gamer today. Good job.

Steve Deace (95:31)

I did. I played emotionally hurt today. I almost took a mental health day. Almost did. I played emotionally hurt today. I did. My brain was out there limping a little bit. I Willis readed it though, man. Right. My brain came out there hobbling on one cerebellum, man Was on one synapse. But I gave it my all. I played this one hurt. I did. Bought America. Needed that. Deserved it, in fact. Aaron, your thoughts?

Todd Erzen (96:04)

I don't.

Steve Deace (96:04)

I could tell he was insulting here.

Todd Erzen (96:07)

We're not going to put you on the couch.

Steve Deace (96:09)

We don't.

Todd Erzen (96:09)

We don't need to mine any deeper. Just get it out of the system today. Come back tomorrow.

Aaron McIntyre (96:13)

Well, the couch we have is broken.

Steve Deace (96:14)

That's true. We broke the couch. The couch is broken too. I think we're back tomorrow. Till then, go hard. Romans 8:28.

Aaron McIntyre (96:37)

Atblinds.com it's not just about window treatments. It's about you.

Steve Deace (96:42)

Your style, your space, your way.

Aaron McIntyre (96:44)

Whether you DIY or want the pros to handle it all, you'll have the confidence of knowing it's done right. From free expert design help to our 100% satisfaction guarantee. Every everything we do is made to

Steve Deace (96:55)

fit your life and your windows.

Aaron McIntyre (96:56)

Because@blinds.com, the only thing we treat better

Steve Deace (96:59)

than Windows is you.

Aaron McIntyre (97:00)

Visit blinds.com now for up to 45% off site. Wide, plus a professional measure at no cost. Rules and restrictions apply.