{"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":"Breaking News: Trump Rents the Strait He Claims to Own in a Deal He Wasn't Even a Party To","slug":"breaking-news-trump-rents-the-strait-he-claims-to-own-in-a-deal-he-wasn-t-even-a-party-to","published_at":"2026-08-06T20:11:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/breaking-news-trump-rents-the-strait-he-claims-to-own-in-a-deal-he-wasn-t-even-a-party-to","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","url":"https://www.narativ.org/p/fivestack-trump-rents-the-strait","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210108654/67b1398365327da2ecb61c8b44ee910c.mp3","summary":"5️⃣ Someone Is Paying Toronto Teens to Shoot at America Toronto police arrested a 19-year-old and a boy of 15 for the July 27 shooting attack on the US Consulate — Chief Myron Demkiw said someone offered them payment over encrypted apps to pull the trigger. Dean Blundell has owned the story since dawn: two seized guns trace to 27 shootings across the GTA, Jewish institutions among the targets, and US prosecutors allege a Kata'ib Hezbollah commander bragged, \"in Canada, we have our guys.\" Dean's read: two explanations survive — an Iranian proxy network hiring Canadian kids by app, or a false flag built to look like one. 4️⃣ Carr Hands Local TV to Nexstar and Sinclair Brendan Carr overrode Congress. His FCC voted 2–1 to scrap the 39 percent cap — Congress's 2004 law against one company reaching more than 39 percent of American homes — and replaced it with case-by-case review his own commission controls. Zev produced local TV for years: the 6 PM local newscast, not the networks, is where America gets its news, and Sinclair and Nexstar now get to buy the dial. Anna Gomez dissented: \"unlawful on its face.\" 3️⃣ Senators See Potential Bribery in Trump's Korean $2 Million Korea's Base Group paid Donald Trump's business $2 million while its affiliate fought his Commerce Department over aluminum tariffs — Trump logged the money in his own June disclosure as a \"nonrefundable development fee.\" Elizabeth Warren's Senate Democrats demanded answers Thursday: the payment \"raises significant concerns about pay-to-play politics and the potential for bribery.\" Dean's Canadian precedent: Brian Mulroney took $300,000 and his majority party lost nearly every seat. 2️⃣ Paul Refers Pardoned Fauci to Trump's DOJ Rand Paul's committee voted 8–7 to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt and referred a p…","meta_description":"5️⃣ Someone Is Paying Toronto Teens to Shoot at America Toronto police arrested a 19-year-old and a boy of 15 for the July 27 shooting attack on the US Co…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2461,"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/breaking-news-trump-rents-the-strait-he-claims-to-own-in-a-deal-he-wasn-t-even-a-party-to/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/breaking-news-trump-rents-the-strait-he-claims-to-own-in-a-deal-he-wasn-t-even-a-party-to.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}