{"podcast":{"title":"The Intercept Briefing","slug":"the-intercept-briefing-951534","podcast_index_feed_id":951534,"rss_url":"https://rss.acast.com/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill","website_url":"https://theintercept.com/podcasts","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61b775cb169562bbade950d2/1760635288941-f6a6d5ae-4bcb-4b70-8ea6-88ec7090c7dc.jpeg","author":"The Intercept","episode_count":404,"summary":"Cut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a weekly podcast delivering news, incisive political analysis and deep investigative reporting, hosted by The Intercept’s journalists and contributors including Jessica Washington, Akela Lacy, and Jordan Uhl. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T14:18:03.081390+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-intercept-briefing-951534"},"episode":{"title":"Rambling Man: Trump’s State of the Union","slug":"rambling-man-trump-s-state-of-the-union","published_at":"2026-02-25T14:50:44+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-intercept-briefing-951534/rambling-man-trump-s-state-of-the-union","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-intercept-briefing-951534","url":"https://theintercept.com/2026/02/25/podcast-trump-state-of-the-union/","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/f5b64019-68c3-57d4-b70b-043e63e5cbf6/e/699efdc8ed94f5e3263daec5/media.mp3","summary":"“The deliberate cruelty that they found humor in stood out to me,” says Jordan Uhl of Donald Trump’s Tuesday evening State of the Union. This week on the Intercept Briefing, co-hosts Uhl, Akela Lacy, and Jessica Washington disentangle Trump’s nearly two-hour-long speech so you don’t have to.  “This is who these people are. In some ways, they're trying to sugarcoat what they're doing, but in other ways they're so blatant about doing really evil things around the world and being totally OK with it,” says Lacy, in reference to Trump talking about kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro . “It is really alarming to me how good they are at framing that in a positive light. And there were people cheering all over the room for us toppling a regime, doing regime change, while they're telling you that we don't do that anymore.”  Washington adds, “The whole thing, if you read it, if you listen to it, it reads like a white nationalist speech.” The co-hosts also dissect the Democratic Party's official response to the State of the Union, delivered by Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger. Listen to the full conversation of The Intercept Briefing on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you listen.  Keep our investigations free and fearless at theintercept.com/join .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"“The deliberate cruelty that they found humor in stood out to me,” says Jordan Uhl of Donald Trump’s Tuesday evening State of the Union. This week on the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2274,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-intercept-briefing-951534/episodes/rambling-man-trump-s-state-of-the-union/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-intercept-briefing-951534/rambling-man-trump-s-state-of-the-union.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}