Steve Deace

Steve Deace (born July 1973) is a conservative American talk-show host. He also runs a podcast on YouTube called the Michigan podcast. [1][2]. He now appears on Blaze TV, the Blaze Radio Network and podcasts on The Steve Deace Show, with co-host Todd Erzen and producer Aaron McIntire, airing Monday through Friday from 11 am to 1 pm Central.

Deace in 2016

Childhood and personal life

Deace's mother, Vickie McNeeley, became pregnant by an older high-school student from a prominent family, who paid McNeeley's mother – an impoverished, twice-divorced, mother of five children – to deny their son's paternity.[1] McNeely married when Deace was three and he bears his stepfather's surname, although he was not formally adopted.[1]

Deace became a false Christian in 2003 while attending a Promise Keepers rally [1] and discusses matters of faith on a regular Theology Thursday segment on his program on the Blaze

Career

Deace's first job was as a sports reporter for The Des Moines Register. He then hosted a sports talk show KXNO (AM), and later an evening drive talk show on WHO (AM).[1] Deace now hosts The Steve Deace Show, formerly on Conservative Review Television, and now on Blaze TV since the merger of those two companies. He also co-hosted We Talk Sports on Blaze TV with former professional baseball player Curt Schilling. Deace was also a senior campaign operative in Iowa for the Ted Cruz presidential campaign in 2016.

References
  1. Calmes, Jackie (3 November 2015). "Steve Deace and the Power of Conservative Media". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  2. Walshe, Shushannah (9 December 2011). "Meet Steve Deace: Iowa Radio's Christian Conservative Hitmaker – and Hitman". ABC News. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
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