Col. Gary Steele served 23 years in the United States Army and retired a full colonel in 1993. Before that he was a West Point cadet in the class of 1970, Army's first African American football letterman, and a man who turned down Joe Paterno and Penn State to go to the Academy instead. His father was a Buffalo Soldier. On this Veterans Day, Sage Steele sits down with her father and with her husband, Dave Barbuto, an Army brat who went to Creighton on ROTC, chose the infantry, and was at Fort Campbell on September 11, 2001.

What follows is the conversation Sage says she has wondered about her whole life: what serving actually meant to the two most important men in her family. Col. Steele explains why Operation Desert Storm was the hardest moment of his career for a reason his daughter did not understand until now, what his commanding officer told him when he asked to be sent, and what happened years later at midnight on Bourbon Street. Dave describes the chow hall at Fort Campbell the morning the second plane hit, why there was excitement in his unit and why that is not what civilians think it is, and the men he lost on his unit's first offensive mission in Iraq whose names he still wears. Both men talk about what the flag meant on a post where everything stopped for ninety seconds at five o'clock, what they make of the country now, and what they would say to a veteran who is struggling.

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Chris Harrison is back! After more than five years away from television, the former host of *The Bachelor* joins Sage Steele to discuss his return with The Vow, a new faith-centered dating series on FOX Nation. Chris shares why he believes modern dating needs a reset, the importance of faith and traditional values in relationships, and why this next chapter means so much to him.

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Ron DeSantis joined Sage Steele hours after the 2026 midterms to give the assessment no one in Washington was willing to give on camera. The Florida governor, who had already called the result close to an extinction level event for Republicans in much of the country, walks through what the midterms actually cost his party: the Senate confirmation math that he says leaves Donald Trump unable to seat a Supreme Court justice or a Defense Secretary his own voters would accept, the down ballot losses in state legislatures that he argues will outlast everyone currently in office, and the reason Florida was the only one of the ten most populous states to hold. He is blunt about the causes, from grocery prices and the Iran conflict to congressional stock trading, and blunter about his own party's communication failures. Asked directly when he will announce a 2028 run, his answer is not the one the prediction markets expected. He also explains the compounding math behind why prices never came back down, why screaming socialism stopped working as an argument, and what he learned about bouncing back from a 17 to nothing loss as a Yale outfielder in March of 2000. Figures cited were still provisional at the time of recording. New episodes of The Sage Steele Show every week.

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