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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHart Radio.

My guest today is Ben Dominic.

Ben is a Fox contributor and the host of the Big Ben Show,

editor at large at The Spectator and writes for

the transome substack. Hi, Ben. So nice to have you on. Carol, it's great to be with you. You're

one of my favorite people in this industry. Thank you, Ben. It's a real pleasure to be invited to

talk to you today. I have been a long time fan, and I actually was thinking this. I feel like I've been reading you and watching you for so long, like longer than, you know, most people in our world, in this thing of ours.

But I don't know the origin story.

How did you get into this business?

So I have kind of a weird life, and I'll just put that in front and centers.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi.

I grew up in the South in Charleston, North Charleston, near Park Circle for the listeners

who are from South Carolina, Nancy Mesa's district now.

And it is, and I grew up in a family that was not particularly interested in politics other than the pro-life issue.

There was actually a picture of me when I was a kid that ran in the New York Times of me holding a sign at the March for Life in D.C.

Because my family would make the track up there every year to March.

I was born to two Christian hippie foresters, which is, I know sounds a little odd.

Are there a lot of those or no? Not really, I don't think.

They're very crunchy and they were...

I mean, I think you would have considered them kind of conservationist environmentalist types, you know, within that space.

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