Best of 2025: Comedy Mayhem from a Midwesterner’s Mind
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Comedian John Branyan celebrates the sensibilities of those who live in the Midwest……what some people from the West and East coasts refer to as “Flyover Country.” The “coasters” think their big cities and beaches are special, but the Midwest contains all of America’s food! After riffing on a variety of subjects, John closes with a very encouraging word picture about the value of every human life.
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| 0:00.0 | Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours? |
| 0:07.3 | That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called |
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| 0:17.7 | that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally. |
| 0:22.8 | So I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.5 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, comedian John Branion shares some pretty unique |
| 0:37.0 | insights on a variety of topics, |
| 0:38.8 | including why we do the jobs we do. |
| 0:41.6 | But you know what? We don't really get paid according to how difficult the job is. |
| 0:45.2 | We don't. We don't get paid by how hard the job is. If we did, |
| 0:49.7 | trapeze artists would be the highest paid people on the planet. |
| 0:54.2 | Wouldn't they? |
| 0:55.4 | They swing upside down and have to catch other people. |
| 1:00.3 | That has to be harder than your job. |
| 1:03.3 | Well, we're so glad you could tune in for a lighter episode of the show here on New Year's Day. |
| 1:08.5 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:10.7 | Another year. It's hard to |
| 1:12.5 | believe. What a great way to start, 2026. John Branion is one of our more popular comedians on |
| 1:18.9 | Focus on the Family, and I'm sure you will get a kick out of what he has to share today, especially |
| 1:24.4 | his closing story about the unique value of every human life. |
| 1:28.9 | In fact, this was one of our most popular shows of 2025. |
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