{"podcast":{"title":"Serious Trouble","slug":"serious-trouble-5498851","podcast_index_feed_id":5498851,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/906465.rss","website_url":"https://www.serioustrouble.show/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/906465/8304b8163a0aee7dba424b4492ff198e.jpg","author":"Josh Barro and Ken White","episode_count":183,"summary":"An irreverent podcast about the law","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T08:17:11.388966+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851"},"episode":{"title":"Pound Cake for Everyone","slug":"pound-cake-for-everyone","published_at":"2026-03-20T18:28:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851/pound-cake-for-everyone","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851","url":"https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/pound-cake-for-everyone","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191487190/311abb6dad1b2331f41f35747e2c2817.mp3","summary":"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss the Afroman trial and also look at a rough hearing for AUSAs in New Jersey , as the Trump administration decides it will hire candidates straight out of law school to work in US Attorneys’ offices . That’s for all subscribers. Paying subscribers will also hear our conversations about: * Judge James Boasberg’s order quashing subpoenas to the Federal Reserve , U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s choice to appeal that order, and Boasberg’s other order requiring the disclosure of grand jury no-bills . * Capitol pipe bomber defendant Brian Cole, who has made his anticipated claim that the president’s pardon of January 6 rioters also applies to him (even though this seems to go against the plain language of the pardon, which applies only to those “convicted” of offenses related to January 6.) * Sam Bankman-Fried’s mom, who got slapped down for trying to have ex-parte communications with the judge overseeing his case ; Judge Lewis Kaplan reminded Prof. Barbara Fried that she might be a lawyer, but she’s not her son’s lawyer, at least not in this case. * Defendants convicted of terrorism-related offenses in Texas over an anti-ICE action where they set off fireworks and one defendant shot a law enforcement officer in the neck; as Ken notes, despite the rhetoric on both sides, this trial was never really about whether ‘Antifa’ constitutes a terror organization . * More hot hot administrative procedure action, with Judge Brian Murphy issuing a preliminary injunction against the new, laxer child vaccination guidelines from Robert F. Kennedy Jr’.s Department of Health and Human Services. * And dog-fashion magazine Dogue , which is being sued by Condé Nast for infringing th…","meta_description":"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss the Afroman trial and also look at a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1480,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/serious-trouble-5498851/episodes/pound-cake-for-everyone/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851/pound-cake-for-everyone.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}