{"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":"Trump Left the Cabinet on the Decoy. The Fivestack Has the Manifest.","slug":"trump-left-the-cabinet-on-the-decoy-the-fivestack-has-the-manifest","published_at":"2026-08-12T21:12:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/trump-left-the-cabinet-on-the-decoy-the-fivestack-has-the-manifest","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","url":"https://www.narativ.org/p/trump-left-the-cabinet-on-the-decoy","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210940021/a74ef4a3d984795a903800194545baed.mp3","summary":"Before the countdown, Dean broke the day’s business story: DOJ and SEC investigators had opened a probe into Mark Walter’s sports-empire loans — and weeks after Walter handed Trump a World Series ring at the White House, he sold the Lakers to Jared Kushner’s brother Josh and Bob Iger for a record $12.5 billion. “This is straight-up mobbery,” Dean said. 5️⃣ THE ECLIPSE The moon slid exactly over the sun and switched off the daylight from Iceland to Spain — Spain got the rarest cut, totality at sunset. The Assyrians read eclipses as a change of kings coming. Dean isn’t superstitious. Zev counted the omens anyway. 4️⃣ HEGSETH BROKE THE CARRIER Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln are trying to go over the side — six or seven attempts, by Dean’s reporting from crew families, some of them fatal. The ship is at week 37 of a deployment that should have seen port at week six: no toothpaste, no soap, protein slop, mold in the HVAC, mail sanctioned, family rations never delivered, casualties from Iranian strikes unacknowledged. The Pentagon answered with a shrug and a stand-down while Pete Hegseth asks for $67 billion. Then the IRGC adviser told PBS the other half: Iran builds missiles faster than it fires them — and if Congress wants a real investigation, compare Trump’s assets before the war to after. 3️⃣ THE PLOT TO STEAL 2026 Trump told our cameras he won’t rule out a federal takeover of the midterms — “stranger things have happened.” Wisconsin answered overnight: Democrats refused Francesca Hong, the socialist the RGA spent $3.6 million elevating, and picked David Crowley by half a point — who promptly announced a unity tour WITH Hong, aimed at one target. The electorate is more switched on than the men buying its primaries. Also new: $20 million in electrified ICE gloves — t…","meta_description":"Before the countdown, Dean broke the day’s business story: DOJ and SEC investigators had opened a probe into Mark Walter’s sports-empire loans — and weeks…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2876,"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/trump-left-the-cabinet-on-the-decoy-the-fivestack-has-the-manifest/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/trump-left-the-cabinet-on-the-decoy-the-fivestack-has-the-manifest.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}