Aug 27, 20257 min
A school shooting shakes Minneapolis to its core; Trump slaps India with a 50% tariff like it’s Black Friday gone wrong; DC’s Union Station turns into Fort Trump; Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce break the internet with...
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Daily top news stories, always waiting for you M-Th at 5pm ET. Short enough to learn something, long enough to walk your dog. Dodge the news and catch up with Jonni.
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What is Top 5 at Five about?
Daily top news stories, always waiting for you M-Th at 5pm ET. Short enough to learn something, long enough to walk your dog. Dodge the news and catch up with Jonni.
What has Top 5 at Five covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Wed. 08/27: Minneapolis Tragedy; Trump Tariffs India; Taylor & Travis Put a Ring On It" (27 August 2025, 7 minutes), "Mon. 05/19: Biden’s Cancer Gets Real; Grok Starts Preaching; Sesame Street Secures the Bag, & More News!" (19 May 2025, 9 minutes), and "Mon. 05/12: Trade war gets a smoke break; Afrikaners get the VIP lane; YouTube gets duped by fake Shrek, & More News!" (12 May 2025, 9 minutes).
How often does Top 5 at Five publish?
Top 5 at Five publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 10 minutes across 197 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Top 5 at Five?
Booking probability for Top 5 at Five is 26%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Top 5 at Five requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Top 5 at Five's contact route on record: verified email.
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Mon. 05/19: Biden’s Cancer Gets Real; Grok Starts Preaching; Sesame Street Secures the Bag, & More News!
May 19, 20259 minWhile New York was busy sweeping Boston and clowning the Mets, the rest of the country got hit with some serious headlines: Biden’s facing down aggressive prostate cancer, Trump told Walmart to “eat the tariffs” like he...
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Mon. 05/12: Trade war gets a smoke break; Afrikaners get the VIP lane; YouTube gets duped by fake Shrek, & More News!
May 12, 20259 minThe U.S. and China sign a trade truce with an expiration date. Trump suddenly loves pharma price caps—as long as he gets credit. Bill Gates hits the gas on giving it all away. White South Africans get the refugee fast...
- May 7, 20259 min
Today updates: Newark air traffic controllers go full bird box after a 90-second radar blackout—and now 20% of them are on mental health leave. Meanwhile, Powell hits pause on rate hikes while Trump rage-posts like it’s...
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Tues. 05/06: Trump Tries to Buy Canada; VA Pulls the Plug on Veterans; GTA VI Trailer Drops (Again) & More News!
May 6, 202510 minStill shaking off that Cinco fog? Don’t worry, I got you. Today we’re breaking down Trump’s bizarre real estate pitch to Canada, the VA’s head-scratching decision to yank a foreclosure lifeline from veterans, and...
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Mon. 05/05: Trump Shrugs at the Constitution; Loans Come Due; and Science Teleports the Internet; & More News!
May 5, 202512 minTrump goes on national TV and says the Constitution is more of a suggestion than a rulebook. Student loan collections are officially back, so ignore those notices at your own risk. Meanwhile, scientists manage to...
- Apr 21, 202510 min
Pope Francis is gone, and with him ends one of the most headline-generating papacies in modern times. President Trump’s threats to the Fed have the dollar in freefall, ChatGPT’s getting politely bankrupt, and the NBA...
- Apr 17, 20258 min
Florida State goes on lockdown, Puerto Rico goes dark (again), and Trump’s still trying to fire people he legally can’t touch. Meanwhile, China bans self-driving hype while Tesla continues cosplaying as a tech god, and...
- Apr 16, 20259 min
Trump’s back on his “lock her up” arc—except this time it’s Letitia James, and he’s the one begging the DOJ for a criminal referral. Meanwhile, Jerome Powell politely drags Trump’s tariff tantrum while Elon’s baby count...
- Apr 15, 202512 min
From federal shakedowns at Harvard to zombie chicken diplomacy, today’s episode has it all. JD Vance fumbles the football—literally—at the White House, Trump wants history class to skip the bad parts, and Jack Black...
- Apr 14, 202511 min
Trump cozies up to Bukele and shrugs off the Supreme Court like it’s spam mail, KFC wants your morning breath to taste like drumsticks, TikTok becomes China’s luxury goods showroom thanks to a backfiring tariff war...
- Apr 2, 202510 min
Trump’s about to ghost Elon, TikTok’s getting wrapped in a flag and sold for parts, and Mayor Adams just walked out of federal court like it’s an episode of Suits. Plus, the NFL finally fixes its overtime mess, and the...
- Apr 1, 202512 min
Trump declares a new holiday and it’s just tariffs in drag. OpenAI grabs $40 billion while Elon fumes in a corner. Cory Booker talks for 19 straight hours and somehow still doesn’t filibuster. France kicks Marine Le Pen...
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Mon. 03/31: Torpedoes, Turds, & Third Terms
Mar 31, 202513 minFrom baseball bats built like missiles to precinct pranks gone full psycho, today’s Top 5 is a chaos buffet. We’re talking Yankees going nuclear at the plate, a Jersey police chief running the world’s grossest HR...
- Mar 25, 20259 min
Trump’s crew thinks a Signal group chat is a secure comms channel—spoiler, it’s not. Meanwhile, the administration walks away from Saudi talks with less than a ceasefire but more than zero, Diddy gets half a lawsuit...
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Mon. 03/24: DNA, DMs, and Dumb Decisions
Mar 24, 202511 minPrivate chats re Houthi attacks in Yemen in Signal got leaked to a journalist like it was WhatsApp in 2012, Trumpito’s back in court doing his best impression of a man who’s never read the Constitution, and 23andMe just...
- Mar 20, 202514 min
Hollywood meltdowns, billion-dollar sports sales, and the government making moves no one asked for—welcome to another day in 2025. We break down Gal Gadot’s protest-filled Walk of Fame ceremony, Disney’s Snow White...
- Mar 19, 202510 min
A $95 million Texas Lottery hack that might get shut down, the JFK files drop that wasn’t the bombshell some hoped for, Trump’s FTC purge and Musk’s Social Security overhaul, RFK Jr.’s bird flu “strategy” (spoiler: it’s...
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180: Forever 21 Lies, Roku Spies, and Trumpito Tries
Mar 18, 202511 minTrumpito is back at it—spinning a non-ceasefire in Ukraine, throwing tantrums about judges, and quietly rehiring the government workers he fired. Roku is testing autoplay ads before you even reach the home screen...
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179: Trump’s Deportation Party; Harvard’s Freebies; and Alexa’s Listening (to Literally Everything); Plus more News!
Mar 17, 202512 minHappy Monday, Top 5 fam! Today, we’re breaking down the weekend’s wildest news: Trump ignored a judge and shipped Venezuelan gangsters to El Salvador anyway, Arlington Cemetery casually erased minority war heroes...
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