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The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.
The headlines tell you what happened. The Next Steps Show challenges you to ask why it matters, who is accountable, and what comes next.
Hosted by Peter Vazquez, The Next Steps Show is a bold, conservative talk radio show and podcast where faith, politics, entrepreneurship, and the American spirit converge. We go beyond political talking points and media narratives to confront the issues shaping our nation, our families, our businesses, and our communities.
Through fearless commentary…
Episodes
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.The Cost of Fraud, The Price of Silence
There is a moment before the microphone goes live when the room is quiet enough to hear your own thoughts. You sit down. You glance at the monitor. Another…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Who Is Steering the Soul of the Nation?
Peter Vazquez walks the line between headline and heartbeat, tracing the Vanboolzalness Crisis where secrecy becomes policy and fear becomes currency. He…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Curated Truth and the Fight for Reality
A nation does not fall in a single crash. It erodes in silence. One edited headline at a time. One buried protest. One algorithmic nudge. Truth is no longer…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.God, Country, Family Still Matters
Friday did not start with outrage. It started with Spanish, rock and roll, and the kind of laughter that reminds you America is still worth fighting for. Peter…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Marble Domes, Broken People
Albany is the perfect metaphor: polished power, dirty streets, and a political class that demands applause while families do the math in the dark. Peter…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Community Speaks Louder Than the Noise
Peter Vazquez got summoned to Albany, so the microphone passed to Dom Genova of the No Nonsense Roundtable, and the day turned into a reminder of what real…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.War on the West: Truth, Media, and the Fight Ahead
Snow fell hard in Rochester, the kind of cold that makes you respect gravity and good boots. With Peter Vazquez on assignment, Luis Martinez stepped into the…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Left, Right, and the Cost of Bad Policy
A city at a crossroads does not whisper. It argues. It grinds. It forces uncomfortable conversations at street level and kitchen tables alike. This…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Freedom Without Permission: Faith, Family, Ownership
In a city that keeps quoting Frederick Douglass while forgetting Frederick Douglass, Peter Vazquez turns up the truth and turns down the excuses. Lavelle…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Receipts for Liberty: When Citizens Audit Power
When a citizen asks, “Show me the books,” and the system answers with a smear, the republic is already sliding into a managed life. Peter Vazquez sits with…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Hyde’s Line in the Sand: Truth vs. Political Drift
A nation celebrates “choice” while the numbers climb, and the fight shifts from courtrooms to mailboxes. Peter Vazquez sits with Kelsey Pritchard…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Words Turn to War: A Vanbōōlzalness Tale
Headlines scream war, but Pastor Mark Biltz (El Shaddai Ministries) walks the map beneath the noise: Israel at the center, Persia shaking, and church…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When the Dream Was Hijacked
A hard reckoning echoes through this conversation on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., culture, and consequence. Emery McClendon, Rev. David Lowery Jr., Michael…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Who Is Discipling the Next Generation
Religious Freedom is on the calendar, but the culture is clawing it back in real time. Peter Vazquez and Abe Hernandez trace two parallel journeys: a nation…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Compassion Becomes Control
Power no longer kicks down doors. It kneels in prayer, smiles with compassion, and asks you to surrender judgment for comfort. Peter Vazquez dissects New…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Protection Becomes Persuasion
Liberty is not stolen in one raid, it is traded away in small, polite bargains. Peter Vazquez warns how “protection” becomes persuasion, how collectivism sells…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Order Masks Control
Prophecy meets policy as Peter Vazquez sits down with Pastor Mark Biltz, author of The Final Tyrant, tracing how deception wears the mask of order from Iran to…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Narratives Replace Reality
A Friday mic check turns into a civics gut punch. Peter Vazquez and Gary Stout trace how narratives are built, sold, and enforced, from Venezuela’s collapse to…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Speech Is Managed and Silence Is Trained
Free speech rarely dies with a bang. It gets managed, softened, and labeled “safety” until dissent becomes hazardous. Peter Vazquez presses the fault lines…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Where Power Hides and Community Still Speaks
Truth dies in the gap between slogans and outcomes, so Peter Vazquez goes digging. Investigative journalist Bill Conroy follows the money behind Venezuela…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Power Moves Before Permission
Snow melts, the world heats up, and Peter Vazquez asks the forbidden question: when power moves with force before permission, what happens to legitimacy…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Truth Is Managed and Freedom Fights Back
A dictator falls abroad while truth collapses at home. Media spins, activists chant, and Nick Kangadis cuts through the fog, exposing propaganda, collectivism…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Stewardship Over Symbolism in a New Year
2026 opens with a mirror: look at the soul, then choose stewardship over symbolism. Kerrie Holschbach of Food For His Children shows poverty breaking when…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Clarity Over Chaos: The Reckoning at Year’s End
The year closed with a reckoning. Money without math. Values without truth. Stefan Padfield, Executive Director of the Free Enterprise Project at the National…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Truth Breaks and Children Carry the Cost
A nation decides which suffering matters. In Israel, children learn fear before bedtime, and Shava Kleinman of the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund explains what…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Christmas Ends. The Lie Continues.
Christmas is over. The truth is not. Peter Vazquez cuts through the wrapping paper and the lies as Jan Jekielek of The Epoch Times exposes how communist China…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Hope That Refuses to Collapse
Christmas Eve arrives with a hard question: what happens when a culture calls death “dignity,” shrugs at violence as inevitable, and rewrites mercy into the…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Christmas at the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom
Two days before Christmas, the microphones open and the noise of the season gives way to something heavier. Peter Vazquez confronts the moment plainly: the…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.The Vanbōōlzalness Crisis: Who Is Really in Control?
The conversation began with a parasite that hijacks the mind of its host and walks it quietly into destruction. That image became the lens. Not biology, but…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Adulthood Leaves the Room
A studio lights up after days on the run, and Peter Vazquez comes in with a question that does not care about your politics: when did we start confusing…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.The Soft Language of Tyranny
“Mira la izquierda, mira la derecha.” The ground under New York shifts again, and the shift always comes with a friendly label. Safety. Dignity. Compassion…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Collapse by Permission
The world keeps offering the same trade: fear in exchange for freedom, crisis in exchange for control. A beach turns into a crime scene. A campus turns into a…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Truth Becomes Dangerous
The studio felt like a courtroom with Christmas music playing in the hallway. The case was simple: when transparency gets treated like a threat, corruption…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Tolerance Becomes Surrender
A warning delivered without velvet gloves. While Peter Vazquez was on assignment, Luis Martinez took the chair and spoke as a man who has seen ideological…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Truth, Power, and the Price of Confusion
A storm moves in, the temperature drops, and a deeper question hangs in the air: what happens to a nation when truth grows colder than the weather? Peter…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Discernment in the Age of Manufactured Confusion
Truth does not whisper anymore. It has to fight its way through noise, narratives, and carefully curated confusion. Peter Vazquez digs into a conversation that…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Too Obedient to Notice?
Look left. Look right. Ask yourself whether the decay you feel is imagined…or engineered. This episode is a reckoning with obedience disguised as peace, and…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When Justice Becomes a Revolving Door
Justice was never meant to be a revolving door. In New York, it has become one by design. Accountability has been stripped from the system and replaced with…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.The High Cost of Complacency: God, Country, Family Under Fire
Families gather, meals are shared, and yet the deeper question remains: What holds a nation together when gratitude fades and complacency takes root? On this…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Freedom Tested: Faith, Gratitude, and Resolve
In this Thanksgiving Eve edition of The Next Steps Show, Peter Vazquez begins with the brutal truth the world wants to ignore: Iran’s regime is executing its…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.United by Purpose, Guided by Truth
America is in a spiritual and cultural crossfire, and Peter Vazquez refuses to sit quietly. Joined by Terris E. Todd, Director of Coalitions and Outreach for…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.America’s Unraveling: Culture, Power, and Hybrid War
America stands at a crossroads where cultural confusion, ideological pressure, and accelerating technological force collide. Justine Brooke Murray, MRCTV Video…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.America’s Longinus Moment
Darkness does not conquer a nation when it first appears, but when people stop recognizing it. Peter Vázquez takes listeners to the foot of the Cross, to the…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.America at the Brink: Faith, Culture, and Conflict
National Absurdity Day set the tone, but the hour quickly exposed something far more serious: a nation being divided on purpose. What begins as cultural…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Faith and Science: Rebuilding Truth, Order, and Education
Host Peter Vazquez and guest Brian Thomas Wetzel go straight at the crisis in America’s classrooms and the confusion in our culture, not to complain, but to…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Guarding Our Future in an Age of Power and Deception
America’s future can be secured when parents step forward with confidence and purpose. Combat veteran and former CIA officer Adam Hardage reminds us that…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.When the Church Bows to Culture: A Call to Return to Truth
The episode unfolds like a reckoning inside the American church. Peter Vazquez opens by challenging the spirit of the age with a simple line: “Being happy is a…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.The Cost of Control
The conversation returns to its roots: one man at a microphone, facing a community wrestling with the cost of control. Peter walks listeners through a country…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Veterans First: God, Country, Family, and the Fight for Real Care
Veterans Day is not a slogan. It is a standard. On today’s Next Steps Show, U.S. Army Iraq veteran and Combat News founder Sgt. Mark “Sarge” Mitchell joins…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.The Art of Confusion: Exposing Media Bias with MRCTV’s Eric Scheiner
The noise was deafening—half-truths dressed as compassion, headlines lit to flatter the left and bruise the right. On this episode, Peter Vazquez sits down…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Kick Down the Door: Maát Reed’s Rise and the War on Excuses
America says wait your turn. Take it. Peter Vazquez sits with Maát Reed, a woman who fought from foster care to the corner office and built On The Move…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Truth in the Streets: After the Earthquake in New York Politics
The dust has not settled in New York. It shifted. On this episode, Peter Vazquez walks listeners through a post-election landscape where Monroe County’s old…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Election Day 2025: Truth, Leadership, and the Fight for Freedom
Election Day, 11/4/25. I sit with Monroe County GOP Vice Chair James VanBrederode to cut through the noise: victims sidelined, bad policy fueling poverty and…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Build a Better Henrietta: Leadership That Works for Everyone
Henrietta stands at a turning point. Corey Brown, engineer and father, joins Peter Vazquez to confront failing leadership, rising assessments, and cultural…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Crossroads of a Republic: Liberty, Truth, and the Fight for America’s Future
America stands at a crossroads: liberty versus control, truth versus narrative. As federal distrust rises—nearly 70% of Americans say media bias threatens our…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.The Battle for Truth at Home and Abroad.
Peter Vazquez leads a powerful conversation on faith, freedom, and the duty to act when truth is under fire. From rising antisemitism and moral confusion…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Courage Over Victimhood: Faith and Freedom Reclaimed
America’s compassion has been replaced by control, trapping citizens in systems that measure dependency instead of progress. Rachel K. Barkley, political…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Power Buried: How Fear, Politics, and Curio Are Rewriting America’s Nuclear Future
Peter Vazquez sits down with the Hon. Ed McGinnis, former U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy and now CEO of Curio. With over three decades at…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Truth Under Fire: Exposing Big Tech, Bias, and the War on Free Speech
A hard look at truth and speech. MRCTV’s Nick Kangadis, a self-described anti-communist, calls out the culture war, dependency sold as compassion, and the…
The Next Steps Show | Faith. Politics. Entrepreneurship. Freedom.Irondequoit Town Supervisor Debate: Andre Evans and Anthony Costanza
Mira, listen. This was a real job interview for your streets, taxes, and safety, where Monroe County's median property tax hit $3,805 last year, one of the…