Hawk Podcasts

Hawk
  • 4.8 (260)
  • Politics
  • Updated Weekly

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.

  1. Uncontroverted Facts: As an Attorney I Could Never Have Defended This Man

    1d ago

    Uncontroverted Facts: As an Attorney I Could Never Have Defended This Man

    The uncontroverted facts: Cyrus was shot in the back. If someone is pointing a gun at you and you shoot them, they don't get hit in the back. Hawk also addresses that the jury was never told Mr. Chow had been involved in two prior shootings as a private citizen. Hawk reflects on his own criminal defense career and the moral weight of defending clients in cases involving rape and child sexual assault, and why he walked away from criminal defense law after just three years. Racism in America in 2026 is part of this conversation, and Hawk acknowledges the limits of his own perspective while using his platform to elevate Black creators speaking to that lived experience. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk  - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole  - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social  - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com  - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts  - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk  - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk   ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO - Additional Content Available Here:  https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

    10 min
  2. Pete Hegseth is a Racist Transphobic Cosplay Warrior who Hates Women

    2d ago

    Pete Hegseth is a Racist Transphobic Cosplay Warrior who Hates Women

    Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense and former Fox News weekend co-host, is facing mounting scrutiny across three major stories that broke in a single day. Hegseth has classified the Pentagon press area, effectively barring journalists from accessing public affairs officials, a move that is expected to face legal challenges after courts have already ruled against him multiple times for restricting press access. A federal appeals court blocked Trump and Hegseth's transgender military ban in a scathing 107-page opinion written by Judge Robert Wilkins, who found the policy arbitrary, demeaning, and unsupported by any factual basis, noting that transgender service members have served honorably and pose no threat to national security. The New York Times reported that Hegseth personally intervened in a slate of 22 Navy admiral promotions, blocking candidates who are disproportionately Black and female, actions that current and former defense officials say appear to violate the merit-based, apolitical promotion process. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk  - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole  - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social  - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com  - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts  - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk  - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk   ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO - Additional Content Available Here:  https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

    13 min
  3. Trump's $1.776B Insurrectionist Slush Fund is DEAD

    3d ago

    Trump's $1.776B Insurrectionist Slush Fund is DEAD

    Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion over an unlawful tax return disclosure, a lawsuit that was time-barred, improperly pleaded under the statute, and lacked any adversity between the parties since Trump controlled the very agencies he was suing. Todd Blanche and the DOJ mounted zero defense, then quietly settled for $1.776 billion in taxpayer money, including a sweeping addendum that would have permanently shielded Trump, his family, his businesses, and his associates from any future federal investigation. On May 27th, a group of 35 former federal judges, represented by ethics attorney Norm Eisen, filed a motion alleging the settlement was a product of collusion and a fraud on the court. By May 29th, a federal judge had reopened the case. By Friday night, the Wall Street Journal reported the White House was scrambling. By Monday, it was dead. Trump has until June 12th to respond to the court's order. Republican senators, Mike Pence, and now the federal judiciary all lined up against it. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk  - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole  - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social  - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com  - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts  - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk  - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk   ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO - Additional Content Available Here:  https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

    40 min
  4. The Intentional Destruction of 60 Minutes - To Please Donald Trump

    3d ago

    The Intentional Destruction of 60 Minutes - To Please Donald Trump

    Hawk walks through Jonathan V. Last's Bulwark newsletter "The Murder of 60 Minutes," a deep look at how Barry Weiss and the Ellisons are systematically dismantling CBS News and 60 Minutes to appease Donald Trump and clear the path for billion-dollar media mergers. 60 Minutes generated $206 million in advertising revenue in 2024, yet CBS's corporate parent Paramount SkyDance is willing to destroy a profitable and iconic institution. David Ellison paid $150 million for Barry Weiss's Free Press website and installed her at CBS News, where the ratings have cratered across the board. Correspondents Sharon Alphonse and Cecilia Vega were pushed out. Producers Tanya Simon and Drag Mihalovich were fired. Leslie Stahl was bypassed for a Netanyahu interview she had worked on for months. Hawk connects this to the broader pattern of corporate surrender: law firms, universities, media companies, and figures like Jeff Bezos publicly capitulating to Trump in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment. Larry Ellison has reportedly already discussed what he plans to do to CNN anchors Trump dislikes, with Warner Brothers Discovery in Ellison's sights next. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk  - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole  - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social  - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com  - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts  - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk  - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk   ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO - Additional Content Available Here:  https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

    18 min
  5. Trump's Iran War is an Epic Failure on All Fronts

    May 26

    Trump's Iran War is an Epic Failure on All Fronts

    Republican senators Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and Roger Wicker initially called the deal a disaster and a surrender before reversing course. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and analysts from The Atlantic and The Bulwark all weighed in on what amounts to the worst U.S. strategic defeat since the Iraq War. Robert Kagan's piece in The Atlantic argued that Trump's endgame was surrender, and that Iran is using the ceasefire to lock in Strait of Hormuz control by forcing nations including South Korea, Turkey, and India to normalize diplomatic and economic ties with Tehran. Russia and China benefit most. Iran emerges stronger militarily and economically. Hamas and Hezbollah get refunded. Israel is left isolated. And the United States loses 20% of the world's energy supply to Iranian control. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk  - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole  - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social  - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com  - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts  - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk  - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk   ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO - Additional Content Available Here:  https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

    33 min
  6. Hawk & Reed Galen Discuss Midterms, White Reparations and What's Next

    May 21

    Hawk & Reed Galen Discuss Midterms, White Reparations and What's Next

    Find Reed Galen Here Substack: https://reedgalen.substack.com/ Join the Union: https://www.jointheunion.us/ Civic Forum: https://www.civicforum.org/ SUBSCRIBE to Hawk on YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts Become a Member: https://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts/join Hawk sits down with Reed Galen, one of the founding members of the Lincoln Project, for a wide-ranging conversation about the Trump administration's $1.776 billion reparations fund for January 6th participants, and what it signals about a presidency that has consistently outpaced even the darkest imaginations of its critics. Galen and Hawk break down the mechanics of the fund, how it is structured around a secret five-person commission appointed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanch, and how Trump's known appetite for financial self-dealing raises serious questions about where the money actually ends up. The conversation moves into Trump's polling numbers, now hovering around 37%, and what that floor means for the 2026 midterms. The two examine the Democratic Party's structural failures, from the DNC autopsy that may never see the light of day, to Chuck Schumer's pattern of extracting nothing from Republican negotiations, to the rise of left populist candidates like Zohran Mamdani and the corporate establishment's coordinated effort to crush them before 2028. Galen draws on his experience inside the 2004 Bush re-election campaign to explain how the MAGA base mirrors the Christian conservative movement that was underestimated for decades, and connects that history to why the Democratic Party keeps treating its own base as an inconvenience. The conversation covers the Harris campaign's failure to counter the trans ad that aired nationally during college football, Thomas Massie and the Epstein files, Ken Paxton's endorsement by Trump over John Cornyn, voter suppression mechanics in Texas, the 2028 presidential race, Galen's new organization civicforum.org, and whether the entire American political system is even fixable from the inside. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk  - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole  - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social  - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com  - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts  - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk  - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk   ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO - Additional Content Available Here:  https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

    1h 3m
  7. "Checkmate" is From a Persian Phrase Meaning "The King is Helpless"

    May 19

    "Checkmate" is From a Persian Phrase Meaning "The King is Helpless"

    Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz. They have access to 30 of their 33 missile launching sites along the Persian Gulf coastline. They have tens of thousands of drones, mobile missile launchers moved inland, and have already struck a Qatari natural gas facility that will take years to repair. The American military umbrella that once protected Gulf State energy infrastructure has been exposed as ineffective. Hawk walks through Kagan's full argument, including what a post-American world order looks like when China and Russia emerge stronger, when Gulf States and European nations begin normalizing relations with Iran, and when America's weapons stockpiles are critically depleted after six weeks of nonstop bombing with no clear strategic objective from the start. Fox News analyst and retired Army General Jack Keane says the U.S. is preparing to return to full-scale combat operations. Trump has reportedly asked the intelligence community to assess what it would look like to simply declare victory and leave. The U.S. has also just rejected Iran's latest peace deal. The nuclear question is real. Israel has the Samson Option. Trump is backed into a corner. Neither Trump nor Netanyahu has shown restraint when losing. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk  - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole  - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social  - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com  - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts  - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk  - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk   ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO - Additional Content Available Here:  https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

    21 min
  8. Where is My Trump Phone!?!?!

    May 18

    Where is My Trump Phone!?!?!

    Hawk breaks down the long history of Trump merchandise grifts targeting loyal MAGA supporters, from Trump Bibles and fake Gibson Les Pauls to NFTs now worth nothing, digital trading cards, gold high-top sneakers, and Trump watches with missing letters on the face. The $60 million phone scam sits alongside the $300 million election defense fund raised after 2020, money that was kept rather than spent on legal challenges. The pattern is consistent: non-refundable deposits, no contractual obligation, and supporters who return again and again regardless. One supporter put deposits on four phones and lost $400. The fine print protected the Trump family entirely. With gas prices climbing and questions about democratic institutions growing louder, the Trump phone story is a case study in the financial relationship between a political movement and the merchandise empire built around it. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk  - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct  - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole  - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social  - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com  - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts  - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk  - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk   ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO - Additional Content Available Here:  https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

    10 min
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4.8
out of 5
260 Ratings

About

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.

Information

  • Creator
    Hawk
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    168
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Hawk Podcasts
  • Show Website
    Hawk Podcasts

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