FiveStack with Dean Blundell & Zev Shalev

57:15

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

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2026/10/08

5️⃣ Canada's NobelThe 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 chairLeon Botstein resigned his remaining Bard College roles a day after Rep. Jamie

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58:36

FiveStack LIVE: Americans Told to Leave Russia As...

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2026/10/07

5️⃣ The shot he didn't takeAsked what Democrats could impeach him for if they win Congress, Donald Trump said he could have done "very bad things" to Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Hussein Obama but thought it "inappropriate." Then: "I've had my shot and still do." People have told him "let's go get them," he said, and he told them no, "you can't do that to the presidency." Zev's read: he is trying to talk Democrats out of impeaching him by reminding them what he could have done. Dean

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57:43

FiveStack LIVE: Russia’s Plague Claims A Possible...

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2026/10/06

5️⃣ Trump's FBIJill Fields, a former supervisory intelligence analyst in the FBI's Los Angeles office, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Trump watched a TikTok of protesters warning neighbors about immigration agents in Alhambra, and that Kash Patel told FBI leaders the president "was angry about the incident, and he wanted those protesters investigated and arrested." A second order, she says, came from Emil Bove: investigate anyone protesting at federal buildings in Los Angeles, with no

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65:05

FiveStack LIVE: Lutnick Whistleblower Dies as Trump...

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2026/10/05

5️⃣ Flávio Bolsonaro beats Lula and every pollster in BrazilFlávio Bolsonaro finished first in Brazil's presidential election with 47 percent of the valid vote, two points and about 2.2 million ballots ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, according to the electoral court. Neither cleared 50 percent, so they meet in a runoff on October 25. Lula called the result unexpected and said, "we are in extra time." Every final poll had Lula ahead. Jair Bolsonaro, Flávio's father, is serving 27 years

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61:48

FiveStack LIVE: Trump’s Palace, America’s Pain: Jobs...

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2026/10/02

Donald Trump is reshaping the White House while the American labor market slows. September brought just 29,000 new jobs. On this FiveStack, those two stories bookend a countdown about what power protects—and who absorbs the cost.Between them: a new prosecutor in the Cornell sexual-assault investigation, a Republican senator’s private rebuke of Trump, and another military deployment toward the Middle East. Together, they put accountability at the center of the month before the midterms.Anne P

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52:32

FiveStack LIVE: — Hegseth Purges Generals and Trump...

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2026/10/01

Sale lasts until 11 PM ET5️⃣ Trump campaigns only where Republicans cannot loseDonald Trump heads to a Peterbilt plant in Denton, Texas, and a rally in Durant, Oklahoma. "I want all of them by a lot. I'm going there just to make sure," he told reporters before leaving. Ken Paxton explained the itinerary on a leaked tape: "everyone's numbers dropped" after the Republican midterm convention. No candidate on the bubble wants Trump near their

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57:11

FiveStack LIVE: Smith Swears Trump Committed Crimes;...

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2026/09/29

5️⃣ Jack SmithJack Smith told the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath that his investigation "developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation." Republicans spent four hours trying to turn it on him. Senator Eric Schmitt held up a poster of texts to put Smith at an Atlanta Hawks game the day after Fani Willis disclosed her affair, told him "I think you've already perjured yourself," and called him "a total dirtbag." Smith had been in

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44:03

FiveStack LIVE: Police Free Fairford Five Trump Said...

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2026/09/28

5️⃣ EgyptEgypt's intelligence chief telephoned Benjamin Netanyahu days before October 7 and warned him Hamas was about to strike, the Journal reported Monday, the third Egyptian warning to reach him. Netanyahu's office denied it within hours. Netanyahu may not have built the attack, but he was warned, and the war that followed kept him in power. Israel owes itself the reckoning America owes itself over Trump: how did we keep giving this man permission?4️⃣ The adFox News Sunday aired a 30-second

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66:20

FiveStack LIVE: Trump Bows to Xi as the Supreme Court...

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2026/09/25

Dean Blundell came straight from his son’s wedding on Thursday — congratulations to the new Mr. and Mrs. Blundell.5️⃣ The red carpetAmerica is watching its empire fold in real time. Trump rolled red carpet from the tarmac to the East Room for Xi Jinping this week, then walked the whole room out to the building site of his ballroom. “It’s one year away from completion,” Trump said in his toast. “This is an honor of President Xi.” He did this for the leader of a country whose groups, CNN reported,

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55:39

FiveStack LIVE: Trump Sinks to 32% and Says He Isn’t...

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2026/09/23

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan.5️⃣ Trump hits 32% and enters the Nixon zoneTrump fell to 32% in the Reuters/Ipsos poll published Monday, his career low. Republican strategists told the Guardian they fear a “bloodbath” in 41 days. The Senate is in play, with Iowa a toss-up and James Talarico ahead in Texas. Trump is entering the Nixon zone. Nixon’s senators told him at about 24% he had no votes; he resigned. “I’m not running. Other

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65:55

FiveStack LIVE: Trump Asks Whether to Annihilate Iran...

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2026/09/22

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan.Dean Blundell was away for his son's wedding, so Eddy Aragon of The Rock of Talk sat in from Albuquerque. Aragon owns a conservative radio station and spent the hour disagreeing with Zev in public — and, more often, with Trump. Today's Fivestack is brought to you by Ground News, which gives you the news from the left, the right, and tells you what you're missing in the middle. Get 40% off the Vantage

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42:37

FiveStack LIVE: Trump’s “Human Printer” Natalie Harp...

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2026/09/21

5️⃣ Natalie Harp Triggered CNN Ban — Paramount Clears Merger, Editorial Board GuttedTrump’s aide Natalie Harp showed the President a reel of TV hosts criticizing him this week, and within hours Trump announced a ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press pool. The move backfired spectacularly: major networks including Fox, NBC, and ABC walked out of the pool in solidarity, leaving the White House with no credentialed media. Meanwhile, the Ellison family’s Paramount cleared the final

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59:52

‘Barely Alive’ McConnell Votes Wrong, Don Jr.’s...

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2026/09/17

Zev broke the countdown to play Hakeem Jeffries on the OpenAI agents: caged in a test environment, they talked their way out, went two months unnoticed, cased Hugging Face, elected a leader and named themselves The Collective. They sent some of their own out to fail on purpose, Jeffries said.5️⃣ McConnell Votes WrongSenator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, the former majority leader who retires in January, walked into a Senate Agriculture Committee markup on Wednesday after three months away

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81:18

Trump’s Fed Chair Raises Rates, ‘New’ 60 Minutes...

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2026/09/16

5️⃣ Burgum Spends $84,000 to Warn Visitors Off American HistoryDoug Burgum will spend $84,000 on about a dozen National Park Service signs outside the National Museum of American History, telling visitors the exhibits inside push the curators’ “personal viewpoints.” Trump’s Interior Secretary put the price in a September 3 letter to Senators Jeff Merkley and Lisa Murkowski, which The Atlantic published Tuesday. Nobody has written the signs yet. The curators are historians; Burgum’s signs tell the

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56:31

Patel Won't Promise to Keep FBI From Polls, Defends...

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2026/09/15

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan. GET 40% OFF GROUND NEWS5️⃣ Patel Defends Hiring Memo That Forgives Teenage BestialityKash 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

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71:01

FiveStack: Trump Spares Putin’s Refineries As...

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2026/09/15

5️⃣ Trump Spares Putin's Refineries as Diesel Hits $6.23Diesel hit a record $6.23 a gallon Monday, the 10-year Treasury touched 5 percent, its highest since October 2023, and Costco began rationing motor oil. Trump posted his fix at 11:05 AM: Ukraine has agreed to stop hitting Russian refineries. The player Trump is helping most is Russia. Lev Parnas: Houthi drones took out Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline on Friday, so somebody else's oil fills the gap, and "you got two players right now that

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64:55

FiveStack: Trump Dangles $5,000, Bullies Kimmel Off...

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2026/09/10

Every weekday at 3 PM ET. Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev count down the Top 5 Breaking News Stories of the day. FiveStack Live is available for free for everyone. Never miss an episode by joining our mailing list below. 5️⃣ Clinton Auditions On Morning JoeHillary Clinton went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Thursday and delivered the line of a candidate testing the room. “I love Israel, and I hate Netanyahu’s government and his policies. I love America, and I hate Trump’s government and policies,” Clinton

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66:25

FiveStack: Dean Comes Home From Dachau to Trump...

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2026/09/09

Every weekday at 3 PM ET. Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev count down the Top 5 Breaking News Stories of the day. FiveStack Live is available for free for everyone. Never miss an episode by joining our mailing list below. Dean spent eleven days in Bavaria with Steve Schmidt and their sons, Jake and Joey, both twenty, walking the road the Nazis took and the road the Allies took back. They drank in the Hofbräuhaus under the bullet hole Hitler put in the ceiling in 1923. They stood in Dachau, where the

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52:55

FiveStack LIVE: Iran Grabs US Robot Sub as Washington...

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2026/09/09

Today’s FiveStack is brought to you by GroundNews — FiveStack viewers get 40% off their Vantage plan.American forces destroyed five Iranian tankers Tuesday after the Revolutionary Guard fired missiles at a US warship twice in two days and missed. Iran claims it hit the American base at Al Azraq, Jordan; neither Jordan nor the Pentagon has confirmed it.5️⃣ Carney Charges Americans, Trump Swings at KansasMark Carney started charging Americans at one minute past midnight Tuesday: C$27.6 billion of

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57:05

FiveStack LIVE: Gloria Steinem, Super-AI, Leon Black...

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2026/09/03

5️⃣ Gloria Steinem, 1934–2026Gloria Steinem died Wednesday at her home in New York, at 92, and Zev opened on what she actually invented: an arithmetic. People outnumbered on their own stop being outnumbered together. He first met the idea in a Sociology 101 lecture hall in South Africa, where it became scaffolding for a new constitution — and the reason that country wrote women’s rights and gay rights into law while others did not. Dana DuBois, who stepped out of her workday for the top of the

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