The Gutowski Files: The Reload Dives Deep Into The Epstein Files
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this installment of the Gutowski Files we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss The Reload's recent deep dive into the files released by the DOJ regarding Jeffrey Epstein and how there is a tie-in to the firearms world and then we talk about pending gun legislation in the state of Virginia.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all right again, welcome back yet again to the Gut file starting, I over-enunciated that for some reason. |
| 0:24.2 | To the Gutowski file starring our very own Stephen Gutowski. He is the founder, editor-in-chief, over at the reload.com. |
| 0:31.8 | It's the reload.com. Do you check out the hyperlink in the description and go see about getting a membership over there. |
| 0:37.7 | Stephen does rely on his membership dues to fund his important work. And he has been a busy |
| 0:42.3 | be over there. He and I spoke at length before we hit the record button about what he's been |
| 0:46.6 | working on. He's gotten into the into the Epstein files that have been released recently by the |
| 0:51.6 | federal government by the Department of Justice. And there's all sorts |
| 0:54.3 | of stuff there in. And you may wonder, well, gee, whiz, Mike, what does the Epstein files have to do with |
| 0:59.3 | the gun world? Well, the head of one of the largest sort of anti-gun groups is Michael Bloomberg. |
| 1:05.6 | And he is evidently mentioned more than once. Do you even tell us about that? Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:11.0 | So I've been looking through the files that the Department of Justice has released, |
| 1:15.3 | at least what they have released. |
| 1:16.8 | And certainly there's been criticism that not everything has been released |
| 1:21.8 | and that the redactions have been a problem. |
| 1:24.9 | And I would say during my days looking through this |
| 1:28.3 | really weeks at this point that that's certainly true that they |
| 1:32.7 | under-redacted certain things and over-redacted certain things and that |
| 1:36.0 | that even comes up in the stories that I've done which are |
| 1:38.5 | you know as you're talking about here really primarily related to gun |
| 1:43.1 | stories right and that that's where Michael Bloomberg comes in. |
| 1:46.6 | Michael Bloomberg, as people know, is former New York mayor, billionaire, who also is essentially |
| 1:55.6 | the top fundraiser and organizer of the gun control movement in the United States. |
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