4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Michael A. Cohen, author of the Truth and Consequences newsletter, and Charles Fain Lehman, Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, debate the capture of Nicolas Maduro and whether Marco Rubio is positioning himself as the "Governor General of Latin America." The panel analyzes Tim Walz's exit from the Minnesota governor's race amid a $9 billion pandemic fraud scandal and the controversial appointment of Cea Weaver to New York's housing office. Plus,the debunking of the "Heritage American" myth that only 37–39% of the population meets the pre-1860 ancestry criteria, the New York Times' creative statistics on 8.5 MPH bus speeds, and Larry David's strict January 7th statute of limitations on wishing anyone a "Happy New Year."
Produced by Corey Wara
Coordinated by Lya Yanne
Video and Social Media by Geoff Craig
Do you have questions or comments, or just want to say hello? Email us at [email protected]
For full Pesca content and updates, check out our website at https://www.mikepesca.com/
For ad-free content or to become a Pesca Plus subscriber, check out https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/
For Mike's daily takes on Substack, subscribe to The Gist List https://mikepesca.substack.com/
Follow us on Social Media:
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pescagist/
X https://x.com/pescami
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@pescagist
To advertise on the show, contact [email protected] or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/TheGist
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Thursday, January 8th, 2026 from Petrfish Productions. It's the Gist. I'm Mike Pesca, |
| 0:09.8 | and today's a not even mad day. We have two not even mad stalwarts, and in fact, I have to say |
| 0:14.9 | when I cast this one, I was hoping they'd get a little mad. A little bit on Venezuela. |
| 0:19.9 | Coming together, I'm Mom Donnie, which I have to talk about. |
| 0:22.8 | They are Charles Fane Lehman and Michael A. Cohen, like when the middle names get involved. |
| 0:28.7 | Now, if you're not from New York, a little bit of an orientation about the Mamdani segment that we're going to do, |
| 0:35.1 | there is a woman who is going to be in charge of housing or |
| 0:39.2 | tenant rights policy. Her name is C.O. Weaver. And you will hear on the show, I quote a |
| 0:45.0 | couple of tweets. I also quote the New York Times saying most of these tweets talking about white |
| 0:49.4 | supremacy in association with housing and talking about wanting to elect more communists. |
| 0:55.9 | The New York Times says, yes, but these occur before 2020. |
| 0:58.6 | Those tweets may have. |
| 1:00.7 | I tracked down a bunch of interviews she gave. |
| 1:04.4 | Here is one from the reply guys podcast. |
| 1:07.7 | And this was in 2020, where she said, |
| 1:10.4 | it's also the fact that like when, you know, as |
| 1:14.1 | you were talking about, when the housing crisis happened, when, when the housing market collapsed, |
| 1:18.3 | it was because a lot of banks gave like predatory loans to people of color. |
| 1:27.2 | Yeah, total. And. So you see that homeownership as like |
| 1:31.3 | wealth building and like related to education for white families and like a trap for black |
| 1:37.9 | families and it's just so fucked up i'll say it it's bad and i I don't like it. It's bad. So I mean we need to take that. We need to, like, really, like, when I say we need to abolish private property, like, really do mean it. So she's pretty clear on what she wants. She just did an interview saying maybe I wouldn't have said all that stuff that I did say that way, but we know |
| 2:01.8 | what she wants. She is not a person who thinks that private property should exist. I'm going to say, |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 27 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mike Pesca, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Mike Pesca and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.