{"podcast":{"title":"The Middle Ground Mic","slug":"the-middle-ground-mic-7275421","podcast_index_feed_id":7275421,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2465711.rss","website_url":"https://www.themiddlegroundmic.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/v0gdqdpcxh9tn3cl6vi57t68ixkq?.jpg","author":"Joe","episode_count":210,"summary":"Tired of partisan bullshit tearing America apart while politicians hide behind excuses and sacred cows get endless protection? Step into The MiddleGround Mic, the no-compromise centrist politics podcast that refuses to play nice with extremes. No Left. No Right. Forward. Hosted by Joseph Steagall, we deliver militant centrism at full throttle — ripping apart hypocrisy from every angle, calling out the nonsense on both sides, and hammering pragmatic, zero-BS fixes for the real fights: elections, foreign policy disasters, border security failures, economic meltdown, and community breakdowns in this fractured mess of a country. Regularly hitting the top 30 in U.S. News Commentary with over 750,000 downloads and rising fast, we bring raw, bipartisan truth from thought leaders, journalists, policymakers, and actual people — not scripted talking heads. This is the honesty, clarity, and politics without tribal loyalty that the mainstream media won’t touch. Being MiddleGround or centrist isn’t weakness or fence-sitting — it’s being a straight-up warrior against the insanity of echo chambers, armed with facts and the spine to say what everyone else is too scared to. If you’re independent,…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421"},"episode":{"title":"$8 Gas Coming? Iran Crisis, Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock, and the Real Middle Ground | Middle Monday","slug":"8-gas-coming-iran-crisis-strait-of-hormuz-oil-shock-and-the-real-middle-ground-middle-monday","published_at":"2026-03-09T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421/8-gas-coming-iran-crisis-strait-of-hormuz-oil-shock-and-the-real-middle-ground-middle-monday","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421","url":"https://buymeacoffee.com/Tmgm/the-oil-shock-nobody-wants-talk-about","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/2465711/episodes/18813389-8-gas-coming-iran-crisis-strait-of-hormuz-oil-shock-and-the-real-middle-ground-middle-monday.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail Is $8 gas actually coming? Oil markets are surging as tensions escalate around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway controlling nearly 20% of the world’s oil supply. With Brent crude climbing and shipping disruptions increasing, the risk of an oil shock is suddenly back in the global conversation. In this Middle Monday episode of The MiddleGround Mic, Joseph Steagall breaks down the rising oil crisis, how Iran’s leadership turmoil could impact global energy mar...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail Is $8 gas actually coming? Oil markets are surging as tensions escalate around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway contro…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1302,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421/episodes/8-gas-coming-iran-crisis-strait-of-hormuz-oil-shock-and-the-real-middle-ground-middle-monday/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421/8-gas-coming-iran-crisis-strait-of-hormuz-oil-shock-and-the-real-middle-ground-middle-monday.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}