Dead Air with Steve Schmidt & Dean Blundell: Lil Marco's big trip
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Today's episode of "Dead Air" with Steve Schmidt and Dean Blundell covered Marco Rubio’s disastrous visit with Pope Leo XIV and Trump’s reflecting pool on the National Mall. José Olivares, an investigative reporter for The Guardian, also joined to talk about his bombshell report about ICE.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | This is a secretary. |
| 0:05.5 | Great to see. |
| 0:06.2 | Because Martin. |
| 0:08.0 | Hang it too. |
| 0:09.2 | And. |
| 0:13.2 | Ha! |
| 0:17.4 | Ha! |
| 0:20.2 | What do you get a guy that has everything? |
| 0:24.2 | A crystal ball and a new pair of fucking shoes. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to Dead Air. |
| 0:27.8 | My name is Dean Blondell. |
| 0:30.2 | That is my very good friend, the indispensable Steve Schmidt, from the warning right here on Substack. |
| 0:38.1 | Obviously, we are here because of the Save America movement. |
| 0:42.1 | That is where you will find dead air every Saturday. |
| 0:45.2 | And every Monday, what we like to do is talk about the things that don't get enough press or any for a variety of reasons, Steve. |
| 0:52.3 | And Marco, little Marco, he didn't get the press he'd served this weekend |
| 0:58.0 | or this week from his unbelievable meeting with the pope giving him a swarovsky crystal football |
| 1:04.8 | with the state department logo on it while getting the date of his last visit wrong while the Pope just sat there and went, |
| 1:13.3 | wow, okay. |
| 1:22.0 | It's poverty hour, dude. |
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