FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev

About FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev

Top 5 Breaking News with Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev. www.narativ.org (https://www.narativ.org/s/fivestack-w-dean-and-zev?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

D. Blundell and Z.Shalev

Category

news · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Feb 2025

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

316 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   FiveStack LIVE: Trump and Musk Betray Ukraine as the Ratings Sink and the Corruption Spreads

   5️⃣ The nightmare before the polls Inflation came in at 3.7 percent on Wednesday, the last report before the midterms, and The Economist's tracker has Trump at 34 percent approve and 61 disapprove, ten points above Nixon's last reading. Fuel oil is up 74 percent on the year. Reuters/Ipsos found 78 percent of Americans blame Trump's policies for prices outrunning their pay, and 64 percent of Republicans put some of the blame on the White House. 4️⃣ Guilfoyle's donor paid Trump's sons too Kimberly Guilfoyle lost her ambassadorship on Tuesday, less than a week after Eric Deters' texts surfaced, and the next names on his list are the president's sons: $200,000 to Don Jr. for two appearances, $100,000 to Eric Trump, $125,000 to Trump's PAC and $100,000 for a Kentucky Derby trip, by Deters' own count. Zev Shalev played Trump calling Guilfoyle "my friend for a long time," a day after he said he barely knew her. The fear inside the White House, Shalev said, is what she has written down over the years. 3️⃣ The CFTC pulled its own referral Bloomberg reported Tuesday that a senior adviser to CFTC chair Michael Selig told staff to retract the insider-trading referral on about $580 million of oil-futures bets placed at 6:49 a.m. on March 23, fifteen minutes before Trump's post postponing strikes on Iran, and took the review over himself. Narativ reported those trades the night they happened. "This is how they do the corruption when they're in government," Shalev said. "They do the corruption and then they hide it." 2️⃣ The Saudis break from the mob The Houthis have hit Saudi Arabia three times since Oct. 3, the latest a building at Aramco's headquarters, and Trump, who holds a truce with the Houthis, has fired nothing. Shalev's reading: the war is being kept running to juice energy prices, and a president who lets Iran's proxy hit an American ally has picked a side. "If you're helping our enemies attack our allies, you're a traitor." 1️⃣ Musk throttles Starlink as Putin blacks out Kyiv SpaceX capped Ukraine's military Starlink terminals at 100 mph on Tuesday night and told nobody; Ukraine learned of it from customer support. The same night Russia fired 39 ballistic missiles and 120 drones, hit all three of Kyiv's heat-and-power plants and left 600,000 people without power, and the first wave came with no American warning. Zelensky, to Piers Morgan: "It's a pity that we are losing a strong partner." He said he is sure they knew what they did, that Starlink was blocked at 1 a.m. by SpaceX and the United States, and that people will die. Dean Blundell called Musk a war criminal. Shalev agreed. Bonus: Abramovich The BBC's Panorama says Deloitte Cyprus faked the papers that hid $10 billion of Roman Abramovich's money. Narativ found him in the Epstein files and in the Bear Stearns funds beside Epstein in 2007. The next chapter of The Greatest Heist takes him up. Thank you Uncomfortable Truth by Monica (https://substack.com/profile/52630301-uncomfortable-truth-by-monica), LC - Silence is Complicity (https://substack.com/profile/498003941-lc-silence-is-complicity), Beth Cruz (https://substack.com/profile/178744313-beth-cruz), Robin Payes (https://substack.com/profile/22747167-robin-payes), LeftieProf (https://substack.com/profile/116079548-leftieprof), and many others for tuning into my live video with Dean Blundell (https://substack.com/profile/34833166-dean-blundell)! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe (https://www.narativ.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

2. 

   14 Oct 2026

   FiveStack LIVE: Trump Hands Putin the Diesel and Ukraine the Bill

   Lev Parnas sat in for Dean Blundell, and every story led back to Russia. 5️⃣ Fourteen minutes at the podium Katie Zacharia gave her first briefing as White House press secretary and left after 14 minutes. She read a statement, called on three friendly reporters, announced that the president had asked Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign, took a question about her children and ended it. Along the way she said "my president," then corrected it to "my husband." Zev: stage managed, a corruption firing announced from the podium with no follow-up allowed. Lev: "She's from Central Casting." Outside Marine One, Trump did the cleanup: "She wasn't a member of my family." Zev: she was engaged to Don Jr., and now he barely remembers her. 4️⃣ Paxton's Dubai New Year Wall Street Journal reporters found Ken Paxton, Trump's pick for the Texas Senate seat, in a Dubai high-rise on New Year's Eve with his girlfriend and two men under federal indictment in Illinois. One of them, Anosh Ahmed, gave Paxton's campaign $190,000, including $25,000 days after his indictment. Lev: they go to Dubai because there is no extradition. The same night in Ohio, JD Vance opened for Trump with "I'm the vice president, not James Talarico," and Trump told the crowd about examining a candidate's body on stage: "I don't do this with men very often." 3️⃣ Guilfoyle's bill The Journal reported last week that Guilfoyle asked donor Eric Deters to pay a $100,000 American Express bill before her confirmation hearing, by wire so it would leave no paper trail, in exchange for access to administration officials. Her lawyers deny she sought money. NBC reports the State Department's inspector general is investigating. Lev: it reminded him of paying Rudy Giuliani's American Express, and his sources say Deters is about to go "scorched earth" on Guilfoyle and on Trump. Zev: the corruption is one degree from the president's son. 2️⃣ The Greatest Heist Zev walked through Chapter 10: Liquid Funding, the Bermuda company Jeffrey Epstein built with Bear Stearns, borrowed $6.7 billion against almost nothing, made the margin calls that broke American Home Mortgage in July 2007, and was the only lender paid in full. Whoever controls when a market collapses controls when to sell and when to buy. Lev: the same play is running now, in energy. 1️⃣ Russia, Russia, Russia The Treasury licensed Russian diesel into the United States for six months after Trump's call with Putin, up to 4.8 million tons in stages. Zev: the deal feeds Russia's army and is timed to get Trump through the midterms. Asked why both sides say there is no ceasefire, Trump said: "They agreed because I said they agreed." Lev says his sources describe a larger plan: Nord Stream, pressure to push Zelensky out, and a halt to intelligence sharing he cannot yet confirm. BONUS: Pope Leo XIV had part of his right lung removed in Rome after doctors found cancer, the Vatican said. And Zev and Lev agreed to build a regular Ukraine and Russia show. Thank you Ellie Leonard (https://substack.com/profile/39376636-ellie-leonard), LC - Silence is Complicity (https://substack.com/profile/498003941-lc-silence-is-complicity), Dr. Eric Lullove (https://substack.com/profile/66521654-dr-eric-lullove), Robin Payes (https://substack.com/profile/22747167-robin-payes), Alex LeMay (https://substack.com/profile/163250417-alex-lemay), and many others for tuning into my live video with Lev Parnas (https://substack.com/profile/35788031-lev-parnas)! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe (https://www.narativ.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

3. 

   8 Oct 2026

   FiveStack LIVE: Trump Sets the Iran War's Clock to the Election

   5️⃣ Canada's Nobel The Swedish Academy gave the Nobel Prize in Literature to Anne Carson, a 76-year-old Toronto-born poet, the first Canadian since Alice Munro in 2013. She emailed The Globe and Mail one word: "YIKES!!" Zev, who lives in her city and had never heard of her, played a minute of her reading. Trump told reporters Wednesday he should get the Peace Prize, announced Friday. 4️⃣ The Epstein record costs a chair Leon Botstein resigned his remaining Bard College roles a day after Rep. Jamie Raskin asked for a criminal investigation into his dealings with Jeffrey Epstein. Zev: a small step, since Botstein had already retired as president. Raskin takes the Oversight gavel if Democrats win, with a list of untouchables waiting and Howard Lutnick at the top. Why corporate America will fight it is the subject of "The Trigger," Chapter 10 of "The Greatest Heist," publishing today with the document on how the network lit the fuse on 2008. 3️⃣ CNN, back inside and bought Judge Timothy Kelly kept CNN, Politico and MS NOW in the White House through Tuesday. The bigger story is the owner. David Ellison, whose family now owns CBS and Warner Bros., told Anderson Cooper that CNN's independence would be protected. Dean put CNN's front page beside MS NOW's: no San Antonio rally. Zev: CNN has not been CNN for a long time. 2️⃣ All the grift in one story Wall Street Journal reporters published texts in which Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle asked donor Eric Deters to wire $100,000 to her American Express account days before her confirmation hearing: "It won't show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express." Vice President Vance: "I don't love that," then said he did not know the details. Rubio keeps her in Athens. Trump's midterm chiefs Chris LaCivita and James Blair took money from the Russia-aligned government of Republika Srpska, and Susie Wiles's daughter works at the firm that lobbies for it. Trump's August disclosure shows up to $25 million in Meta stock and up to $5 million in SpaceX debt, bought two days before he signed a commercial space policy. Thursday he pinned a medal on Elon Musk and called him a "national treasure." Zev: "The corruption is hand in hand with the incompetence." 1️⃣ The war gets a date Trump posted at 12:17 p.m. that the United States "will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections," citing "productive discussions," days after the Pentagon told Central Command to finish preparing to resume major combat. Zev's read: he is not attacking because he cannot. A strike before Nov. 3 would start a revolt inside a party losing on the war. BONUS The USS Abraham Lincoln docked in San Diego after 321 days, as Trump kept naming San Diego as an Iranian target. And Mark Carney said von der Leyen and Costa will be in Montreal in three weeks to launch a Canada-EU alliance. Dean: "We're divorcing the United States of America." No show Friday; back Tuesday after Canadian Thanksgiving. Thank you Uncomfortable Truth by Monica (https://substack.com/profile/52630301-uncomfortable-truth-by-monica), LC - Silence is Complicity (https://substack.com/profile/498003941-lc-silence-is-complicity), Caro Henry (https://substack.com/profile/464640-caro-henry), Jill (https://substack.com/profile/65894733-jill), Micheal Scott (https://substack.com/profile/313863550-micheal-scott), and many others for tuning into my live video with Dean Blundell (https://substack.com/profile/34833166-dean-blundell)! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.narativ.org/subscribe (https://www.narativ.org/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

Who has been a guest on FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ellie Leonard
• Jenn Budd
• Lev Parnas
• Jacob Kaarsbo
• Nick Paro

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

19 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

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76

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32