Next Steps Show Podcast
Courts, World Cup, and New York Reality
Rochester sports legacy took center stage as Peter Vazquez welcomed Andrew Battisti to discuss the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Rochester soccer history, Soccer Is a Kick in the Grass, and the local voices that kept the game alive. Deanna Kernan then shared the 140-year story of the Tennis Club of Rocheste…
Truth, Duty, and the Citizens Who Still Show Up
Consequence-Free Power framed a hard-hitting show about leaders who make bad decisions while citizens pay the bill. Peter Vazquez connected voter frustration, Spencer Pratt’s rise, Medicaid work requirements, Philadelphia’s rideshare tax, New York redistricting games, Rochester cost pressures, and …
Truth, Bills, and the Cost of Managed Reality
Managed Reality is the thread running through today’s conversation, from media gatekeeping to Albany’s promises and Rochester’s rising costs. Peter Vazquez speaks with Luis Cornelio, Associate Editor for MRC Free Speech America, about Big Tech, news apps, censorship, identity politics, and how Amer…
Albany Failed. Monroe County Must Lead.
Monroe County Leadership is tested as Peter Elder steps into the center of a conversation about Albany’s late budget, rebate politics, rising costs, Rochester’s distressed future, schools, Republican discipline, and voter trust. Peter Vazquez opens with Assemblywoman Andrea Bailey on the $268 b…
Budget Battles and Children Reaching Skyward
Kitchen Table Liberty runs through this conversation as Peter Vazquez speaks with Summer Johnson, candidate for New York’s 130th Assembly District, about Albany’s late-night budget games, parental authority, broken schools, public safety, life, and the duty to make local voices matter again.The…
Trained to Depend, Called to Lead
Silent Majority Leadership stands at the center of this hard-hitting conversation with Peter Vazquez, John deVerteuil and Terris Todd. DeVerteuil, author of We Are America: A Voice from the Silent Majority and CEO of Nation-Building Advisory Group, warns that nations weaken when leadership fails, c…
Wake Up and Get to Work
Memory and responsibility frame this powerful conversation between host Peter Vazquez and guest P. Rae Easley, Project 21 Ambassador. The discussion moves from Bob Woodson’s legacy and the rejection of liberal victimhood to Rochester’s ICE detention debate, government dependency, grocery prices, hi…
Where Patriotism Becomes Action
One Soldier at a Time is the focus as Peter Vazquez speaks with Lauren Coe about the organization’s hands-on mission to serve veterans, active duty, military families, caregivers, and hidden heroes. The conversation highlights Hygiene Packages of Hope, care for veterans facing PTSD, poverty, homele…
Life Before the Damage
Life Before Damage frames a hard hour on life, law, family, and responsibility. Host Peter Vazquez speaks with Attorney Mary J. Browning of Operation Outcry at The Justice Foundation about abortion pills, women injured by abortion, state sovereignty, and the fight over mifepristone. John C. of Cari…
Buried Truths, Broken Homes, Public Faith
Cultural Discernment runs through this hard-hitting conversation as Peter Vazquez opens with Richard Syrett, host of Richard Syrett’s Strange Planet, regular guest host on Coast to Coast AM, and author of Tales from the Rock and Roll Twilight Zone. Together they examine rock’s buried history, symbo…
When the Machines Lie and the City Pays
Broken trust crisis defines this live conversation as Peter Vazquez welcomes Tom Olohan of MRC Free Speech America to expose how AI, Big Tech news apps, Wikipedia, comedy, and media framing shape what Americans are told to believe. The show then turns to Rochester, where gas tax relief, PAB authori…
Where Summer Still Leads Us Home
Rochester family memories are at the center of this conversation. Peter Vazquez begins with Natalie Darrow, Director of Marketing at Seabreeze Amusement Park, where 147 years of summer history still live through the Jack Rabbit, family ownership, first jobs, and clean, safe fun. Then the show turns…