
Back in August, James O'Keefe's rebranded operation, now calling itself the Citizen Justice League, sent people dressed in racist Muslim garb into Minneapolis polling places to test Minnesota's voter "vouching" law...


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Hosted by Thomas Smith and Lydia Smith · true crime · EN-US
Gavel Gavel is the podcast that takes you inside the courtroom. Co-hosts Thomas and Lydia Smith ask the questions you're actually thinking, crack the jokes the case deserves, and cut through legal jargon — while real legal experts with actual trial experience bring the analysis that makes sense of it all. Sharp, funny, and genuinely informative, it's for anyone who's ever watched a trial unfold in the news and wanted someone to explain what's really going on.
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Signup to Generate a PitchGavel Gavel is the podcast that takes you inside the courtroom. Co-hosts Thomas and Lydia Smith ask the questions you're actually thinking, crack the jokes the case deserves, and cut through legal jargon, while real legal experts with actual trial experience bring the analysis that makes sense of it all.
Gavel Gavel is hosted by Thomas Smith and Lydia Smith. The show has published 91 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "GG90: "You Gotta Spend Voter Fraud to Make Voter Fraud" - James O'Keefe" (30 October 2026, 53 minutes), "GG89: NY Defense Attorney Calls the Tompkins County DA's Cornell Decision "Truly Stunning"" (16 October 2026, 56 minutes), and "GG88: The Cornell Chi Phi Gang Rape Lawsuit, Part 2" (5 October 2026, 42 minutes).
Gavel Gavel publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 91 episodes.
Booking probability for Gavel Gavel is 46%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Gavel Gavel requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Gavel Gavel's contact route on record: verified email.
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Thomas Smith and Lydia Smith hosts Gavel Gavel, a true crime podcast with 91 episodes published.
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Back in August, James O'Keefe's rebranded operation, now calling itself the Citizen Justice League, sent people dressed in racist Muslim garb into Minneapolis polling places to test Minnesota's voter "vouching" law...

Episode #89
Part 3. Thomas and Lydia welcome back criminal defense attorney Liz Skeen to break down the Tompkins County DA's decision not to prosecute the Cornell Chi Phi case, line by line. Why did the DA's own press release say...

Part 2. It's time to talk about the disgusting Snapchat convo that really is the foundation of this entire case. In a group of 57 people, only 1 to possibly 3 people did the right thing and reported it and/or gave it to...

Part 1. Thomas and Lydia open the 101-page complaint in Jane Doe v. Cornell University et al. , the Chi Phi gang rape lawsuit that has taken over the internet, and the misinformation is flying from every direction. What...

Part 2! Thomas, Lydia, and Matt return to the Broadview grand jury transcript, with Lydia in the role of a lifetime as prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg. What happens when a juror says the case is a crock of shit, and what...

Episode #85
Back to the Broadview Six! Thomas, Lydia, and Matt return to the case that gave us one of our favorite transcript moments of all time, because its most memorable character is suddenly all over the news. Sheri...

Part 2 of Operation Puppet Master! Thomas, Lydia, and Matt dig into the actual discovery documents from the Minneapolis ICE-protest indictment, and what they find is something else. Undercover HSI agents spent months...

Thomas and Lydia are joined by MJ Morley to dig into the Andrew and Tristan Tate extradition proceedings now playing out in a Miami federal courtroom. Britain has charged them with 59 offenses across seven complainants...

Thomas is joined by New York defense attorney Liz Skeen to break down Luigi Mangione's federal guilty plea and what it actually means for the state case still waiting in the wings. The death-penalty charges are already...

Part 4, final part of The Most Brazen and Corrupt Heist in American History! Thomas, Lydia, and Matt finish reading Judge Kathleen Williams' scorched-earth takedown of Trump's tax-return lawsuit slush fund, and it only...

Episode #78
Part 2! Trump "settled" a lawsuit against his own IRS, and out popped a secretive slush fund even the DOJ can't be bothered to name properly. Then 35 retired federal judges took one look and moved to blow the whole...

Part 1! Donald Trump sued the IRS, an agency he currently runs, for leaking his own tax returns, and asked for a cool $10 billion. Thomas, Lydia, and Matt dig through the actual complaint and a judge's increasingly...

Episode #76
In part 2, Douchewitz continues his insane legal battle all the way up to a petition to the Supreme Court. Along the way, he gets help from the Trumpiest MAGA judges of Florida, and yet still his case sucks and he can't...

Mixed into the mostly horrific Supreme Court news this week was a rejection of Alan Dershowitz's petition for cert. But... what the hell was that even about? We, for two, couldn't even remember. So we decided to take a...

Part 2! Thomas, Lydia, and Matt finish their live read of the Broadview Six grand jury transcripts, and things get significantly worse. Patrons at patreon.com/gavelpod get episodes early and ad-free!

Part 1! The Broadview Six grand jury transcripts are finally unsealed, and Gavel Gavel is here to bring them to life. They are seriously amazing. Patrons at patreon.com/gavelpod can listen to Part 2 right now!

It's a tale of two 4th amendments for the world's hottest alleged killer who didn't do it because he was at my house.

Episode #71
The "trial of the century" in South Carolina is potentially going to happen for a second time this century. You may have seen some headlines about this but Liz Skeen is taking us even deeper.

Episode #70
Part 3! In this very special episode, Thomas and Lydia Smith celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary in the most normal and romantic way possible: subjecting themselves to an extended interrogation about their marriage...

Episode #69
Part 2! In this very special episode, Thomas and Lydia Smith celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary in the most normal and romantic way possible: subjecting themselves to an extended interrogation about their marriage...
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