{"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":"The Rollout: Lev Parnas Says Tonight's Address Launches the Plan to Steal 2026","slug":"the-rollout-lev-parnas-says-tonight-s-address-launches-the-plan-to-steal-2026","published_at":"2026-07-17T02:33:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/the-rollout-lev-parnas-says-tonight-s-address-launches-the-plan-to-steal-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","url":"https://www.narativ.org/p/the-rollout-lev-parnas-says-tonights","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207311079/4b1833f342e312c71a9bdaf9df8c0f2f.mp3","summary":"Lev Parnas drove his car into the Fivestack on Thursday — literally, phone mounted on the dash — and spent an hour telling Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev why tonight matters more than Washington wants to admit. At 9 PM, Trump addresses the nation on what he calls foreign interference in American elections. Parnas, who flew to Washington last week to warn Democratic leadership in person, put it plainly: “Today is the rollout. Today is the beginning of the next rollout for Project 2025 — to keep Donald Trump in office forever.” The five stories all fed the same machine. 5️⃣ The 104 The panel opened on the number rattling both parties: 104 House Democrats — nearly half the caucus — voted Wednesday to end $3.3 billion in Israel aid. Zev called it what it is: a big number, and a weapon. “Trump will use that against Democrats,” he said, while Parnas begged the coalition to hold: “We can disagree hardcore on a lot of different policies — but we should all agree we don’t want to live in a dictatorship.” 4️⃣ The Grift Ledger Dean brought the receipts on the fraud Trump won’t mention tonight. Forbes reported the president has taken in $2.4 billion this year — six thousand times his salary. A CNN whistleblower story detailed stock buys that preceded his Truth Social endorsements, American Eagle to Nvidia. And Gabriel Perez — Trump’s personal teleprompter operator — landed on administrative leave after making $100,000 on Polymarket, betting on speeches he read before the country did. Zev pitched the fix: a live counter outside the White House tracking what Trump takes from the American people, running every second. 3️⃣ Epstein’s Money Men Leon Black didn’t show. The Apollo co-founder’s videotaped deposition, set for today, slid to September 3 — no reason given by his lawyers. His Ep…","meta_description":"Lev Parnas drove his car into the Fivestack on Thursday — literally, phone mounted on the dash — and spent an hour telling Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev wh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3859,"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/the-rollout-lev-parnas-says-tonight-s-address-launches-the-plan-to-steal-2026/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/the-rollout-lev-parnas-says-tonight-s-address-launches-the-plan-to-steal-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}