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Welcome to the Steve Day Show here live and on demand on Blaze TV radio and podcast alongside Todd Erzine and Aaron McIntyre.

I am Steve Dase.

Coming up on today's show, it'll be your turn for a feedback Friday.

Looking forward to those questions, Todd. Tell me we have some good ones this week.

Some good snotty questions. I think so. All right. So, of course, I have not seen any of the questions. I have no idea what subject matters will be addressed. I'll find out when the rest of the audience does coming up in the next hour of the show. Bob Van der Plotz is going to join us at the bottom of the hour as well.

On just personal note, I just want to say.

I, I just want to say.

I'm just extremely blessed. And I had probably the best birthday weekend a man my age could possibly

have. We had an overnight with the granddaughter on Friday night.

We had Amy and I had date night on Saturday night.

And then last night we took everybody to dinner.

Grandparents, my grandparent, or the kids' grandparents, my parents, you know, boyfriends and girlfriends and girlfriends. And we took everybody to dinner over at Machine Shed, which is, if you've never been to Iowa, is just, you know, the quintessential Iowa restaurant. I mean, we have a lot of good restaurants here. There's a lot of travel around the country. There's a lot of good restaurants everywhere. But if you ever want to know what, you could have come to Iowa for the first time and you're

like, what's like the, you know, what's the vibe? Machine Shed is, particularly if you go to breakfast, machine shed is the restaurant you have to go to. Fair? Every time media come here for the caucuses or something and they'll text me or call me and I mean for years. I've sent sent them tons of business of people from out of town.

That's just kind of the Iowa vibe, you know? And we went there for dinner last night, had a great

time. And at this stage of life, I could not imagine I could have had a better birthday weekend.

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