{"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":"Matt Campbell: His 9/11 Inquest Is Now at the UK Supreme Court","slug":"matt-campbell-his-9-11-inquest-is-now-at-the-uk-supreme-court","published_at":"2026-04-02T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421/matt-campbell-his-9-11-inquest-is-now-at-the-uk-supreme-court","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421","url":"https://buymeacoffee.com/tmgm/he-wasn-supposed-to-be-there-and-24-years-later-his-case-still-isn","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/2465711/episodes/18947939-matt-campbell-his-9-11-inquest-is-now-at-the-uk-supreme-court.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail Matt Campbell's brother Jeff died in the North Tower on September 11th 2001. The official inquest spent two minutes on his life and death. No investigation into cause of death. No evidence examined. The coroner signed off the wrong year of death on the paperwork. When Matt submitted a 2,500 page application to the UK Attorney General requesting a new inquest the answer was no. Twice. The reason — the Attorney General claimed the decision was immune to judicial review entirely...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail Matt Campbell's brother Jeff died in the North Tower on September 11th 2001. The official inquest spent two minutes on his life and death…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4426,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421/episodes/matt-campbell-his-9-11-inquest-is-now-at-the-uk-supreme-court/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/matt-campbell-his-9-11-inquest-is-now-at-the-uk-supreme-court.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}