We live in a divided country.

I am a lifelong Republican.

With all kinds of different people.

You know, I'm a mother.

I'm a grandmother.

And every week on the Middle with Jeremy Hobson podcast, we bring them all together with an all-star panel.

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Thanks for having me. And listen, not to the extremes, but to the people who want to meet in the middle.

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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one, hour number one of our radio program.

And here we are again to discuss what we are going to talk about this hour.

But before we get to that, it is our Friday show, and that means the weekend for us is upon us.

And that also means that the fifth hour podcast is back with myself, Ben Mallor,

old buddy Danny G. Radio.

And if you love this show, it's a spinoff of the Ben Mallor show.

We can say naughty words.

And I have access to my own sound effects on that fifth hour podcast.

And our Friday conversation with a regular.

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