{"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 Purges Secret Service, 100 Dead in Nepal, Zuckerberg Pays $17 B, Trump’s Moscow Man, USPS, Ford’s Kiss My Ass Moment","slug":"trump-purges-secret-service-100-dead-in-nepal-zuckerberg-pays-17-b-trump-s-moscow-man-usps-ford-s-kiss-my-ass-moment","published_at":"2026-08-26T20:53:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639/trump-purges-secret-service-100-dead-in-nepal-zuckerberg-pays-17-b-trump-s-moscow-man-usps-ford-s-kiss-my-ass-moment","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fivestack-with-dean-blundell-zev-shalev-7267639","url":"https://www.narativ.org/p/trump-purges-secret-service-100-dead","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/212887388/029261ebdc083aad04c59d0eb1564570.mp3","summary":"Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. DEVELOPING….Kash Patel ran the leak hunt out of the White House this week — three Secret Service communications staff on leave, four New York Times reporters subpoenaed, the agency that guards the president investigated from the building it guards. Dean Blundell disputed that on air: nobody has confirmed the Secret Service leaked anything, he said, calling it a purge of people not loyal to Trump and putting the catering-truck leak on Karoline Leavitt, 48 hours before she quit — Narativ has not verified that, and our reporting cuts against the purge: nobody fired, no target list. 5️⃣ Nepal — the wall of water In the video Zev played, birds lift off before the water arrives, people run because they can hear it, and a building Nepal and China built together is gone. Ninety-five dead by Wednesday night, more than a hundred now — thirty-three in Chitwan, 150 kilometres downstream, one in the district that touches China. Nepal got no warning because no mechanism exists. Both sides agreed in principle to share flood data after the same river flooded in July 2025. Nobody signed it. 4️⃣ Meta buys its way out Mark Zuckerberg sat through part of the trial, saw where it was going, and paid up to seventeen billion dollars. Forty state attorneys general took the deal mid-trial, and the money comes with rules — two hours a day for teenagers, teen accounts locked overnight. Meta admits nothing. Zev signed up for the last Meta settlement to see what his privacy was worth, and collected 18 cents. Congress passed nothing. The states did this. 3️⃣ The CIA director in Moscow John Ratcliffe spent eight hours at Vnukovo on Tuesday and nobody in Washington announced it. Flight trackers caught…","meta_description":"Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. DEVELOPING….Kash Patel ran the leak hunt out of the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3314,"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-purges-secret-service-100-dead-in-nepal-zuckerberg-pays-17-b-trump-s-moscow-man-usps-ford-s-kiss-my-ass-moment/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-purges-secret-service-100-dead-in-nepal-zuckerberg-pays-17-b-trump-s-moscow-man-usps-ford-s-kiss-my-ass-moment.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}