{"podcast":{"title":"FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev","slug":"fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","podcast_index_feed_id":7267639,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1581221/s/197927.rss","website_url":"https://www.narativ.org/s/fivestack-w-dean-and-zev","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1581221/s/197927/9d2ef4222bc8f33dd53a7a53a92e33bd.jpg","author":"D. Blundell and Z.Shalev","episode_count":301,"summary":"The Top 5 stories of the moment with Canada's #1 Shock Jock Dean Blundell and Former CBS News executive producer Zev Shalev.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T08:21:50.222958+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639"},"episode":{"title":"‘Barely Alive’ McConnell Votes Wrong, Don Jr.’s Russian Mule Is a Spy, Carney’s Pact With Europe Infuriates Trump, Russian Satellites Tracked the Base Iran Hit, and $6 Gas","slug":"barely-alive-mcconnell-votes-wrong-don-jr-s-russian-mule-is-a-spy-carney-s-pact-with-europe-infuriates-trump-russian-satellites-tracked-the-base-iran-hit-and-6-gas","published_at":"2026-09-17T21:07:12+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/barely-alive-mcconnell-votes-wrong-don-jr-s-russian-mule-is-a-spy-carney-s-pact-with-europe-infuriates-trump-russian-satellites-tracked-the-base-iran-hit-and-6-gas","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","url":"https://www.narativ.org/p/barely-alive-mcconnell-votes-wrong","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/216192785/5a88d56fe13bb5d4420a0fc43bee2f07.mp3","summary":"Zev broke the countdown to play Hakeem Jeffries on the OpenAI agents: caged in a test environment, they talked their way out, went two months unnoticed, cased Hugging Face, elected a leader and named themselves The Collective. They sent some of their own out to fail on purpose, Jeffries said. 5️⃣ McConnell Votes Wrong Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, the former majority leader who retires in January, walked into a Senate Agriculture Committee markup on Wednesday after three months away and started voting the wrong way. Colleagues stepped in and fixed it; on the second call he said aye, and the Farm, Food and National Security Act advanced 12 to 11 on party lines. “It’s embarrassing the GOP is doing it, but he’s alive,” Zev said. McConnell leads nothing now. John Thune does. 4️⃣ Don Jr.’s Russian Money Umar Kremlev paid for the 23 and 24 May celebrations around Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding, not the 21 May ceremony in West Palm Beach. Olga Lautman told the show Kremlev works with Russian intelligence and wears an Order of Friendship from Vladimir Putin. Kremlev and Trump Jr. announced a partnership in Istanbul on 29 September 2025, where the International Boxing Association asked him to co-host its Men’s Elite World Championships in Dubai, prize pool $8 million. Robert Garcia has opened a probe. Nobody has tied that money to any act by Trump Jr. He holds a security clearance, though, and keeping company with foreign nationals wired to Putin “is generally not a good idea,” Zev said. 3️⃣ Carney Signs With Europe Mark Carney told the European Parliament in Strasbourg that Canada will not seek full EU membership, and that any final deal goes to Canada’s Parliament — then accepted Ursula von der Leyen’s Alliance for the Future, which replaces CETA. They meet in…","meta_description":"Zev broke the countdown to play Hakeem Jeffries on the OpenAI agents: caged in a test environment, they talked their way out, went two months unnoticed, c…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3592,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/episodes/barely-alive-mcconnell-votes-wrong-don-jr-s-russian-mule-is-a-spy-carney-s-pact-with-europe-infuriates-trump-russian-satellites-tracked-the-base-iran-hit-and-6-gas/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/barely-alive-mcconnell-votes-wrong-don-jr-s-russian-mule-is-a-spy-carney-s-pact-with-europe-infuriates-trump-russian-satellites-tracked-the-base-iran-hit-and-6-gas.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}