{"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":272,"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":"2026-07-21T10:18:34.994558+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639"},"episode":{"title":"FiveStack LIVE Recap: Patel’s Drunk Denial, Lutnick’s Canada Tantrum, MTG’s Epstein Bombshell, China’s Missile Boat, and Trump’s Iran Collapse","slug":"fivestack-live-recap-patel-s-drunk-denial-lutnick-s-canada-tantrum-mtg-s-epstein-bombshell-china-s-missile-boat-and-trump-s-iran-collapse","published_at":"2026-04-22T20:58:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/fivestack-live-recap-patel-s-drunk-denial-lutnick-s-canada-tantrum-mtg-s-epstein-bombshell-china-s-missile-boat-and-trump-s-iran-collapse","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","url":"https://www.narativ.org/p/fivestack-live-recap-patels-drunk","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195068553/ec5cb0455e64ca2662490f934b81607c.mp3","summary":"FIVESTACK just posted our biggest live Substack audience ever — 6,000 of you watched us as we were live. Thank you for spending your time with us. Come back every day! Monday -Friday at 3 PM ET 5️⃣ Patel’s “Never Intoxicated” Presser — And Who Trump Hires On Purpose The FBI Director of the United States of America stood at a DOJ podium yesterday and told a room of reporters he has “never been intoxicated on the job.” That’s the sentence. That’s what we’re doing now. Acting AG Todd Blanche stood beside him — Patel’s boss, for those keeping score — and told reporters he hadn’t read The Atlantic story he was there to dispute, but assured everyone parts of it were “blatantly false.” Reporting he hadn’t read. Blatantly false. Sure, buddy. Patel’s response to the allegations that he’s had “bouts of excessive drinking” and unexplained absences from the Bureau? A $250 million defamation lawsuit, a rant about the “fake news mafia,” and a cute line about being “an everyday American who loves his country [and] loves the sport of hockey” — that last one a reference to video of him chugging beers with the US Olympic gold medal hockey team in February. An everyday American. Running the FBI. Zev’s point cut to the bone: this is who Trump hires on purpose. Not despite the red flags — because of them. Compromised people are controllable people. Patel was put there to do two things: protect Trump and punish Trump’s enemies. Everything else — the Atlantic reporting, the 700 agents reassigned, the unexplained absences, Jamie Raskin launching a House investigation today and demanding Patel submit to an alcohol test under penalty of perjury — is noise around the core function. As I said on the show: “He’s doing the job he was hired to do. The drinking is the side quest. The Bureau being hol…","meta_description":"FIVESTACK just posted our biggest live Substack audience ever — 6,000 of you watched us as we were live. Thank you for spending your time with us. Come ba…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3652,"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/fivestack-live-recap-patel-s-drunk-denial-lutnick-s-canada-tantrum-mtg-s-epstein-bombshell-china-s-missile-boat-and-trump-s-iran-collapse/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/fivestack-live-recap-patel-s-drunk-denial-lutnick-s-canada-tantrum-mtg-s-epstein-bombshell-china-s-missile-boat-and-trump-s-iran-collapse.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}