{"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":"Monday Mayhem: Epstein Unredacted + Trump's Gorilla Meme Firestorm","slug":"monday-mayhem-epstein-unredacted-trump-s-gorilla-meme-firestorm","published_at":"2026-02-10T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421/monday-mayhem-epstein-unredacted-trump-s-gorilla-meme-firestorm","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421","url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/2465711/episodes/18653484-monday-mayhem-epstein-unredacted-trump-s-gorilla-meme-firestorm.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/2465711/episodes/18653484-monday-mayhem-epstein-unredacted-trump-s-gorilla-meme-firestorm.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail This week on Finding The Middle: Congress views unredacted Epstein files TODAY (Feb 9, 2026) – 3.5M+ pages from DOJ, new names, potential bombshells. Victims’ lawyers rage: NOT ENOUGH redactions – survivors exposed, death threats, lives shattered. Ghislaine Maxwell pleads the Fifth in deposition, offers clemency to clear Trump/Clinton. Trump's deleted gorilla meme on Obamas sparks racist backlash – distraction or coincidence? We dive deep: Historical probes (1996 ignored rep...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail This week on Finding The Middle: Congress views unredacted Epstein files TODAY (Feb 9, 2026) – 3.5M+ pages from DOJ, new names, potential…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1155,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-middle-ground-mic-7275421/episodes/monday-mayhem-epstein-unredacted-trump-s-gorilla-meme-firestorm/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/monday-mayhem-epstein-unredacted-trump-s-gorilla-meme-firestorm.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}