{"podcast":{"title":"Hawk Podcasts","slug":"hawk-podcasts-6751455","podcast_index_feed_id":6751455,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/pPVtxSNJ","website_url":"https://hawk-podcasts.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/01123aa5-ddc5-46ef-8ec3-6344dfabaf79/4c578f53-f1f0-49db-8058-3a9b1910fcf6/3000x3000/hawk-podcasts-20audio-20template.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Hawk","episode_count":197,"summary":"He's raw, unfiltered, unedited, authentic, vulnerable and sometimes annoying. His laugh is infectious, and he often engages in long periods of awkward silence. He will tell it like it is, and whether you’re on the left or the right he’s bound to make you uncomfortable at some point. But he will definitely make you think. A licensed, practicing trial attorney for the last 25 years, he brings his legal experience and knowledge to the news of the day and current events here at home to offer different perspectives and additional things to consider.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T08:17:32.470914+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hawk-podcasts-6751455"},"episode":{"title":"Is Todd Blanche Simply Stupid or is He Evil?  Or Both?","slug":"is-todd-blanche-simply-stupid-or-is-he-evil-or-both","published_at":"2026-07-15T14:15:42+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hawk-podcasts-6751455/is-todd-blanche-simply-stupid-or-is-he-evil-or-both","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hawk-podcasts-6751455","url":"https://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/2f3709c2-07df-488d-92c9-f3103d2db29d/73d4921a-b648-432b-9ad6-c18c04a39172/episodes/audio/group/cd0ac921-3ef8-4d75-b348-89282c5dc560/group-item/6f2ac9f4-7acb-47b4-967d-f816de34c382/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=pPVtxSNJ","summary":"The night before Todd Blanche's Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing to become Attorney General, a New York Times story by Glenn Thrush lands with 352 pages of internal DOJ emails, obtained by the watchdog group American Oversight and shared with the paper. Hawk's view is that Blanche is genuinely qualified on paper, a former line prosecutor and trial attorney, which is exactly what makes his conduct worse: he has kept acting as Donald Trump's personal lawyer while running the department.","meta_description":"The night before Todd Blanche's Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing to become Attorney General, a New York Times story by Glenn Thrush lands with 352 pa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1294,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hawk-podcasts-6751455/episodes/is-todd-blanche-simply-stupid-or-is-he-evil-or-both/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hawk-podcasts-6751455/is-todd-blanche-simply-stupid-or-is-he-evil-or-both.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}