{"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":"Patel Won't Promise to Keep FBI From Polls, Defends Bestiality, Trump Calls AI Threats a Hoax, But Owns 5 Million NVIDIA Stocks; Hegseth Impeachment?","slug":"patel-won-t-promise-to-keep-fbi-from-polls-defends-bestiality-trump-calls-ai-threats-a-hoax-but-owns-5-million-nvidia-stocks-hegseth-impeachment","published_at":"2026-09-15T21:06:32+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/patel-won-t-promise-to-keep-fbi-from-polls-defends-bestiality-trump-calls-ai-threats-a-hoax-but-owns-5-million-nvidia-stocks-hegseth-impeachment","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","url":"https://www.narativ.org/p/0915-fivestack","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/215867327/8175115136cdb455c547ba426c0e222c.mp3","summary":"Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. GET 40% OFF GROUND NEWS 5️⃣ Patel Defends Hiring Memo That Forgives Teenage Bestiality Kash Patel sat five hours in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, and a Republican did the first damage. John Kennedy of Louisiana asked why the bureau's June hiring memo mentions bestiality at all: \"The person who recommended it, why didn't you just say, what planet did you parachute in from?\" Patel said the change protects trafficking victims forced into it. Zev read the memo on air: a candidate who paid a prostitute fewer than three times, more than ten years ago, stays in the running, and bestiality or animal cruelty clears if the applicant was under 18. \"That doesn't describe somebody being a victim at all,\" Ellie Leonard said. Cory Booker: \"We don't have an FBI director. We have a lackey here. And frankly, he's not even a good lackey.\" \"They're not even good dictators,\" Lev Parnas said. \"They're comical fools.\" Sheldon Whitehouse asked about 37 pages the FBI still has not turned over — the agents' handwritten notes from interviewing a woman who told them Donald Trump assaulted her at 14 or 15, Whitehouse said. Patel: \"I don't know what you're referencing. We've produced three and a half million pages.\" Ellie has worked that file, Jane Doe 4, in her own reporting: the Justice Department first released only the one interview in which the woman refused to discuss Trump, she said, and the agents' notes never came at all. \"The head of the FBI and the Attorney General of the United States don't know about these 37 pages,\" Ellie said. \"And yet Reddit knows about them. Substack knows about them. The Post and Courier knows about them. Katie Phang knows about them.\" Her verdi…","meta_description":"Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. GET 40% OFF GROUND NEWS 5️⃣ Patel Defends Hiring Mem…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3391,"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/patel-won-t-promise-to-keep-fbi-from-polls-defends-bestiality-trump-calls-ai-threats-a-hoax-but-owns-5-million-nvidia-stocks-hegseth-impeachment/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/patel-won-t-promise-to-keep-fbi-from-polls-defends-bestiality-trump-calls-ai-threats-a-hoax-but-owns-5-million-nvidia-stocks-hegseth-impeachment.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}