Not Even Mad: Charles Lehman & Brad Carson
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The Epstein files and the Michael Wolff ethics mess. Then Brad Carson (Americans for Responsible Innovation) and Charles Lehman (Manhattan Institute / City Journal) dig into the shutdown endgame, Schumer's calculus, 2026 vibes, and why data centers might be a sleeper issue. They argue affordability vs. "afford to dream," culture vs. policy, and whether legalization waves for pot, NIL, and sports betting were built to fail. Plus: AI guardrails, why adding friction to vices works, and Goat Grinders on EST vs. EDT, reclining your plane seat, and off-leash dogs. Bonus Q&A about Brad's Senate race in the Not Even Mad feed.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, November 13th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 0:07.3 | It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:09.5 | The Epstein files are trickling out. |
| 0:12.8 | Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, minutes ago, literally, releasing emails that they say were written by Jeffrey Epstein that explicitly, |
| 0:23.6 | specifically mentioned Donald Trump by name. |
| 0:27.6 | There's almost no verb you could use without getting icky. |
| 0:31.6 | And the ickyest of all, certainly not, but right in the middle of it. |
| 0:34.6 | And for my purposes, what I'm going to talk about today is Michael Wolfe, one of the best-known |
| 0:39.0 | journalists working. |
| 0:41.4 | And he's also, I guess, a broker and giving advice to Jeffrey Epstein all over these files. |
| 0:47.6 | He is one of a few household-ish names in the world of journalism. |
| 0:52.6 | He recently started doing Instagram or social media posts from his house and Amagansit |
| 0:58.8 | and he wears weird sweaters and people love that too. |
| 1:01.6 | Most people know Michael Wolf is more so than, I don't know, all but two or three other |
| 1:07.3 | journalists. |
| 1:07.9 | Who's a better known journalist today who's still working? Bob Woodward is, |
| 1:12.6 | maybe from the New York Times, Maggie Haberman? I don't know. I think maybe more people know |
| 1:17.5 | Michael Wolf, but what do we say about Michael Wolfe, who not just in this instance, throughout |
| 1:22.0 | his career, has shown himself to be totally unethical. Well, Isaac Saul, my friend Isaac Saul of Tangle, |
| 1:27.1 | was tweeting today. |
| 1:28.3 | The latest Epstein emails are bad for Trump, but arguably, they are far worse for Michael |
| 1:33.3 | Wolfe, who is literally game planning with Epstein about how to defend himself in the media. |
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