{"podcast":{"title":"What A Day","slug":"what-a-day-96811","podcast_index_feed_id":96811,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166630.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166630","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43408283.jpg","author":"What A Day","episode_count":1600,"summary":"If you’re looking for hype, fake outrage, and groupthink, kindly keep moving. Our mission at What a Day is simple: to be your guide to what truly matters each morning (and the fun stuff you might have missed) in just 20 minutes. Host Jane Coaston brings you in-depth reporting and substantive analysis on the big stories shaping today and the creeping trends shaping tomorrow—and when she doesn’t know the answers, she asks someone even smarter to fill us all in. Radical, right? New episodes at 5:00 a.m. EST, Monday–Friday in your favorite podcast app and on YouTube. Being informed was never this easy.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T18:19:00.313487+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811"},"episode":{"title":"Hegseth Hits The Hill","slug":"hegseth-hits-the-hill","published_at":"2026-04-29T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811/hegseth-hits-the-hill","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8896832","audio_url":"https://clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/arttrk.com/p/CRMDA/mgln.ai/e/284/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8896832.mp3?modified=1777430493&sid=5166630&source=rss","summary":"Secretary of War/little boy Pete Hegseth will be testifying before Congress this week — starting with a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee today. And if you ask him, everything in Iran and everything else is going just fine! Great, even! But Colorado Democratic Rep. Jason Crow serves on the committee – and he has a lot of questions for Hegseth. We asked him to give me a preview ahead of today’s hearing. And in headlines, gas prices are still on the rise , King Charles speaks to Congress, and a beach day turns into a federal indictment for former FBI Director James Comey Show Notes: Call Congress – 202-224-3121 Subscribe to the What A Day Newsletter – https://tinyurl.com/y4y2e9jy What A Day – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@whatadaypodcast Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday","meta_description":"Secretary of War/little boy Pete Hegseth will be testifying before Congress this week — starting with a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1458,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-a-day-96811/episodes/hegseth-hits-the-hill/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-a-day-96811/hegseth-hits-the-hill.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}