{"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":"Moscow on Fire; Hegseth Guts NATO; JD Vance Turns on Israel's Hawks, and SCOTUS Set To Redefine Who Can Be American","slug":"moscow-on-fire-hegseth-guts-nato-jd-vance-turns-on-israel-s-hawks-and-scotus-set-to-redefine-who-can-be-american","published_at":"2026-06-18T21:41:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/moscow-on-fire-hegseth-guts-nato-jd-vance-turns-on-israel-s-hawks-and-scotus-set-to-redefine-who-can-be-american","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","url":"https://www.narativ.org/p/moscow-on-fire-hegseth-guts-nato","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202627517/f3a8647de945c54de3f74494800ecb28.mp3","summary":"Five stories, one motion. On Thursday the president pulled America back from almost everything it has held for eighty years — the alliance that contained Russia, the war he says he ended, the courts that check him, even the Israeli hawks he used to arm. Each retreat left a space, and into every one of them someone else is already stepping. That was the through-line of today’s Fivestack. 5️⃣ Vance Tells Israel “You Can’t Kill Your Way Out” For the first time, a senior Trump official said it to Israel’s face. JD Vance — who helped negotiate the Iran framework — named Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir and dismissed their revolt against the deal as a “freakout,” warning Israel to “wake up and smell the reality.” It’s a real crack in a coalition that has run on lockstep support for Netanyahu’s government. Trump wants the war closed so he can bank the win; Israel’s far right wants it open. Watch the daylight widen — this is the rare fight where the administration is to Jerusalem’s left. 4️⃣ Four Presidents, One Stage — Obama Opens His Center on Juneteenth While the sitting president gutted NATO, four former presidents shared a stage in Chicago. Barack and Michelle Obama dedicated their $850 million center with Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and Bono performing and Clinton, Bush and Biden in the seats; the doors open to the public Friday, on Juneteenth. Dean took the turn the moment earns: this is the counter-image to the rest of the board. One definition of America was being dismantled in Washington today. Another was being enshrined on the South Side. 3️⃣ “Your Moscow Will Burn” — Ukraine’s Biggest Strike on the Capital A day after Trump shrugged him off at the G7 — “it has no impact on us, we’re thousands of miles away” — Zelensky made Moscow impossible to ignore. Ukraine’s…","meta_description":"Five stories, one motion. On Thursday the president pulled America back from almost everything it has held for eighty years — the alliance that contained…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2186,"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/moscow-on-fire-hegseth-guts-nato-jd-vance-turns-on-israel-s-hawks-and-scotus-set-to-redefine-who-can-be-american/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/moscow-on-fire-hegseth-guts-nato-jd-vance-turns-on-israel-s-hawks-and-scotus-set-to-redefine-who-can-be-american.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}