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  • MISGENDER THE TITANS! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 266, 19 June)

    Chas & Dr Dave discuss Trump's Hegseth Impression, The FIGHT HOUSE!!!, and How It's Hard To Find a Worm in Texas
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave
    2:19 - Grateful (Wemby, Wittman)
    17:56 - Updates (Ballroom, Alaska Midterms)
    23:41 - Iran: Memorandum of Understanding
    1:22:04 - Screw Worm
    1:42:19 - Freedom 250 (UFC, State Fair, Rallies)
    2:19:38 - Fable 5
    2:29:49 - Unleashed: Fable Continued
    2:39:17 - Unleashed: Freedom 250 (Reflection Pool, Arch)
    2:51:10 - Unleashed: Midterms (Talarico, Platner, Lindsey Graham)
    3:23:35 - Unleashed: DOJ (Blanche Nomination, Lawsuit, Patel, Miller)

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST

    Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove (Mentioned 1:41:52, Ep 266)
    Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262)
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 2:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus (Mentioned 3:12, Ep 129)
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment (Mentioned 13:22, Ep 124)
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult (Mentioned 15:41, Ep 123)
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury (Mentioned 1:12:38, Ep 105)
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This (Mentioned 23:55, Ep 105)
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump (Mentioned 1:32:36, Ep 102)
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money (Mentioned 1:13:06, Ep 119)
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit (Mentioned 41:59, Ep 100)
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief (Mentioned 55:04, Ep 63)
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails (Mentioned 1:21:48, Ep 90)
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mentioned 1:09:14, Ep 88)
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind (Mentioned 13:38, Ep 88)
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years (Mentioned 26:01, Ep 87)
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution (Mentioned 53:05, Ep 86)
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight (Mentioned 52:50, Ep 86)
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember (Mentioned 1:40, Ep 83)
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets (Mentioned 1:25, Ep 83)
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers (Mentioned 1:02:02, Ep 82)
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (Mentioned 3:27, Ep 80)
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire (Mentioned 42:32, Ep 73)
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism (Mentioned 42:32, Ep 73)
    Anatol Lieven - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case (Mentioned 1:30:52, Ep 98)
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness (Mentioned 1:25:29, Ep 68)
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/ (Mentioned 1:24:50, Ep 64)
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House (Mentioned 59:10, Ep 63)
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State Mentioned (Mentioned 34:06, Ep 25)
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism (Mentioned 1:22, Ep 32)
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation (Mentioned 4:40, Ep 32)
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Mentioned 1:43:40, Ep 28)
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning (Mentioned 1:05, Ep 28)
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares (Mentioned 14:55, Ep 26)
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic (Mentioned 43:15, Ep 25)
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement (Mentioned 41:43, Ep 22)
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis (Mentioned 16:22, Ep 23)
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland (Mentioned 1:03:48, Ep 23)
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails (Mentioned 1:02:59, Ep 25)
    Michael Paul Rogan - The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics (Mentioned 13:52, Ep 124)
    Patrick Radden Keefe - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Mentioned 33:52, Ep 105)
    The Bronze Age Pervert - Bronze Age Mindset: An Exhortation (Mentioned 1:05:43, Ep 98)
    Andrew Baseovich - The New American Militarism (Mentioned 1:00:52, Ep 74)
    Vine Deloria - Custer Died for Your Sins (Mentioned 49:31, Ep 55)
    Daniel Schlossman and Sam Rosenfeld - The Long New Right and the World They Made (Mentioned 43:18, Ep 51)
    Andrew J Healy, Neil Malhotra, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo - Irrelevant events affect voters' evaluations of government performance (Mentioned 59:08, Ep 32)
    Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams (Mentioned 50:24, Ep 26)
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas & Jared discuss Wawed and Dida, GOLF Allies, and Of Course George Santos Has A Fucking Legal Team!
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Wawed Mondschein
    4:23 - Housekeeping
    7:38 - Grateful (Journosaurs, Excellent Diplomats)
    32:00 - Updates (Reconciliation, Bolton, Drug Boats, Pulte)
    50:39 - Iran War
    1:05:59 - The Quad
    1:17:57 - Graham Platner (Again!)
    2:37:46 - Israel Intelligence Sharing Agreement
    2:52:45 - Santos' Big Bet
    2:56:36 - Trump's Welker Walkout
    3:06:42 - Unleashed: California's 'Rigged' Election

    Homework:
    * Jared's Quad Conversation article: https://theconversation.com/is-the-quad-dying-a-slow-death-even-with-trump-it-still-has-a-vital-role-to-play-284060

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262)
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss Stealing A Dolphin, The Forced Labor Penguins, and Why You Must Suffer The Consequences!
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave and George
    4:29 - Grateful (Kennedy Centre, FIRE, Marx)
    27:57 - Updates (Alabama, USAID)
    41:52 - Iran: This Week In Bullshit
    1:07:30 - Stats Nug (Women's Jobs)
    1:15:15 - Freedom 250
    1:35:30 - Slush Fund, We Hardly Knew Ye
    1:55:42 - Midterm Primaries (Alaska, Alabama)
    2:00:41 - Platner Sexting Controversy
    2:16:14 - Return of the Tariffs
    2:27:27 - Unleashed: Housekeeping
    2:30:04 - Unleashed: Platner Cont.
    2:53:23 - Unleashed: Insider Trading
    3:11:48 - Unleashed: E. Jean Carroll Investigation
    3:19:25 - Unleashed: Pulte Time

    Homework:
    * Crime in DC thinkpiece: https://www.niskanencenter.org/washington-dc-crime-decline-and-its-lessons-for-american-policing/
    *Jim Carrey's Vanilla Ice impression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtKBe7sM48
    *Justin Wolfers' Platypus Economics substack: https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262)
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula


    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss An Excursion Into Oblivion, Dogs Burying Dead Birds, and The World's Youngest-Looking Leather Handbag
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave
    2:00 - Grateful (Enhanced Games, PEPpers, South Carolina State Senate)
    21:07 - Updates (Redistricting, Metaxis, Housekeeping, Poland)
    36:06 - Iran
    1:01:05 - The Slush Fund
    1:13:16 - Tina Peters' Commutation
    1:36:34 - Pope Leo's Encyclical
    1:54:49 - Stats Nug: Country Perceptions
    1:57:51 - "Jack Smith's Assistant" Indictment
    2:06:03 - Texas Primaries
    2:47:01 - Unleashed: Talarico v Paxton
    3:17:10 - Unleashed Updates (Vaping, Presidential Records Act, Comey Trial)

    Homework:
    * Colbert's "Only In Monroe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTXB5uT_C4
    * Pope's New Blog: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
    * Pope Encyclical Article: https://archive.md/d232L

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262)
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language and graphic descriptions that may upset some viewers.

    Chas does 30 minutes of answering your Correspondence, then debuts the figure-skating extravaganza the world has been waiting for: CHAS ON ICE!

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: PEP262 Correspondence Extra
    1:19 - Virginia Courts
    5:01 - Kash Patel
    10:48 - Statistics
    12:04 - Boat Murders
    19:34 - Gold Coast
    22:55 - Midterms
    25:19 - Gerrymandering
    33:33 - Taiwan
    35:42 - Dumocrats
    37:19 - Slush Fund
    40:58 - Nuclear Dust
    42:02 - Drawing
    43:09 - Immigration: Previously, on Chas On Ice
    53:11 - Immigration: Detention Centres
    1:26:04 - Immigration: Lack of Standards
    1:9:28 - Immigration: New Tech
    1:48:38 - Immigration: Legal Development

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Great Nothing, The Value of a Good Junket, and Escape From Madame Tussaud's.

    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    TIMESTAMPS
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave
    3:13 - Gratefuls (Everybody Loses By Danny Funt, Paramount)
    22:31 - Updates (Ballroom)
    27:49 - The China Summit
    45:23 - Iran Update
    1:22:37 - Not Normal (Doral Statue, Dumocrats, Fight Poll)
    1:39:12 - Trump Corruption - The Lawsuit & The Slush Fund
    2:09:14 - 2026 Primaries Update
    2:10:56 - Bye Bye Cassidy
    2:22:28 - Bye Bye Massie
    2:34:16 - Unleashed: Chas Missed Some Notes
    2:35:46 - Unleashed: Ballroom
    2:44:08 - Unleashed: China
    2:45:12 - Unleashed: Iran
    2:58:40 - Unleashed: Slush Fund
    3:09:36 - Unleashed: Cassidy
    3:10:10 - Unleashed: Massie

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262)
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss Meter Boys, A Return To 'Return To Oz', and The Oldest Person To Use The Term 'Cucking Stool'
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave
    2:27 - Grateful (Gold Coast Trump Tower, PEPpers With Audio)
    14:49 - Updates (Ballroom, Alito, TrumpPhones)
    32:29 - Trump China Visit
    47:55 - Virginia Gerrymandering
    1:42:47 - Iran Update
    2:18:35 - Stats Nugget (Grade Inflation)
    2:34:21 - Not Normal (Reflecting Pool)
    2:41:37 - Unleashed (Updates: Nebraska, Inflation, Swalwell)
    2:50:51 - Unleashed (Drug Boats of the Caribbean)
    3:12:47 - Unleashed (Not Normal - Truth Social, Kash Patel)

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss Packer's Pecker, This Generation's Joe Manchin, and The Attention Span Of A Goldfish Swimming In Bongwater
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave
    2:10 - Grateful (Detroit Pistons, Onion Wars)
    12:31 - Correspondence (Comey, The 1967 Referendum, Predictive Markets, Alito, Political Violence, Twins)
    37:36 - Updates (Gerrymandering)
    44:22 - Iran: Project Freedom
    1:06:25 - Iran: War Powers
    1:16:47 - Elections (Ballroom + Platner)
    1:34:54 - Elections (Fetterman)
    2:00:49 - Elections (National Voter Compact)
    2:11:23 - German Troop Withdrawal
    2:24:41 - Not Normal (Kim Jong Un, Soldier, Ears, Maths, Medical Crap)
    2:39:24 - Unleashed: Not Normal (Arc, Passport)
    2:45:56 - Unleashed: Comey
    2:47:51 - Unleashed: Iran
    2:59:49 - Unleashed: Immigration (Asylum)

    Homework:
    * Heidecker as Rogan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLPcyTmnDxo
    * Heidecker as Maher - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ha6D1LQGD4
    * New Hampsire children's bill article - https://www.npr.org/2015/03/20/394334697/fourth-graders-get-rough-lesson-in-politics
    * US bases in Germany - https://amp.dw.com/en/the-significance-of-us-military-bases-in-germany/a-77015428
    * Dave's extra homework on Project Freedom - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/trump-project-freedom-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas & Elle Hardy discuss The Worst Five States To Murder In, Rare Book Collecting Nazis, and You Don't Lose When You're On Team Schneider!
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Elle Hardy
    2:08 - Grateful (David Byrne, Petty Hegseth Pics, Ron Wyden)
    14:32 - Updates (DHS Shutdown, Comey Indictment)
    26:05 - DOJ: Firing Squads
    31:18 - Mifepristone in Court
    49:20 - DOJ: Southern Poverty Law Centre Indictment
    1:24:05 - Callais: The Law
    1:54:44 - Callais: The Politics
    2:10:47 - New Surgeon General Nomination
    2:25:53 - Unleashed: Callais Cont.
    2:40:09 - Correspondence (Sexual Assault, Predictive Markets, Crypto, 80s, Weed, Nuclear Dust, Rhetoric)

    Homework:
    * David Byrne on Track Star* — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MEjVfThmn4
    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss Devin Nunes' Cow, President Chuck Grassley and Speedrunning Idiocracy!
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave and his Spleen
    2:37 - Grateful (David Malouf, Devin Nunes Accountability, Normal Appointees)
    15:10 - Updates (Florida Redistricting, Polling)
    37:20 - Iran War Status Quo
    1:08:41 - Hegseth's Hearing
    1:38:01 - WHCA Shooting Attempt
    1:51:42 - Violent Rhetoric To Blame?
    2:17:38 - Ballroom Begging
    2:28:01 - Was It Staged?
    2:32:49 - Ambassador Dave Brat
    2:40:31 - Unleashed: Shooting Conspiracies
    3:00:49 - Unleashed: DOJ - Blanche Intro
    3:07:28 - Unleashed: DOJ - Comey Indictment

    Homework:
    * NYT Article by Dave's Old Roomie: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/international-world/iran-war-blockade-trump.html

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas & Melina discuss Lots of Scalps!, The Annals of Leavittism, and Why You Shouldn't Elect A Juvenile Psychopathic Bully
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Melina Wicks
    2:58 - Grateful (NBA, Late 80s Escape Pod)
    9:57 - Updates (Shutdown, Congressional Sackings)
    23:58 - Eric Swalwell
    1:11:45 - Dave's Grateful
    1:15:42 - Prediction Markets
    2:00:58 - Virginia Redistricting
    2:35:38 - Chavez-DeRemer Sacking
    2:49:54 - Pope v Trump Round 2
    3:00:54 - Unleashed (Pope Misleading Stories)
    3:15:33 - Policy Time (401K Investments, Medical Marijuana, Mail-In Ballots)

    Homework:
    * 'Hold On' by The Models - https://bitly.cx/lc542
    * Polymarket homework - https://bitly.cx/AI0QA

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas has 30 minutes of correspondence that stretched out to 43 minutes due to the different time dilation on Planet PEP.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: PEP256 Correspondence Extra
    0:23 - Lachie v Lehrmann
    3:21 - Dr Emma
    5:49 - Dr Jesus
    18:49 - Injured Pilot
    21:15 - Hungary
    28:18 - Titles
    30:44 - Immigration
    34:18 - Fixing America
    38:26 - National Voter Compact

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss Summer Cubin', The End of MTV's Teen Mom, and What's Coming Up In Week 13 Of Dave's Classes!
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave
    3:26 - Grateful (College Basketball, Ben Sasse)
    11:01 - Correspondence (Christian Nationalism, Institute Transparency, US Airman, Future of Israel)
    35:59 - Hungarian Election
    1:06:22 - Iran War (Lebanon, Peace Talks, Strait Blockade)
    2:00:47 - Stats Nug (Fertility)
    2:05:05 - Pope v Trump
    2:51:01 - Unleashed: 25th Amendment
    2:57:57 - Unleashed: End of Swalwell

    Homework:
    *Ben Sasse interview - https://bitly.cx/36HS
    *Liberalism in Hungary - https://bitly.cx/8hMnr

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas & Dr Emma Shortis discuss The Long and Complex History of The World, Nuclear Dust, and Thinking Like An Alien
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Emma
    2:56 - Grateful (Space Hugs, Venezuelan Low Bar)
    10:15 - Correspondence (Mortgage Rates, MAGA Poll, DHS Shutdown)
    20:14 - Deadline Day in Iran
    58:31 - The 10 Point Peace Plan
    1:28:23 - Artemis II
    1:48:31 - Pam Bondi's Firing
    2:26:19 - Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Case
    2:43:37 - Unleashed: Birthright Citizenship Cont.
    3:07:12 - Not Normal (Flynn Settlement)
    3:12:55 - Correspondence (Sleep, Afroman)

    Homework:

    Emma's Sources on Birthright Citizenship:
    * NYT The Birthright Con - https://bitly.cx/VW1Y
    * ACLU Supreme Court Arguments - https://bitly.cx/zw69
    * CFR What is Birthright Citizenship? - https://bitly.cx/dtD0
    * Lawfare Slavery & Brithright Citizenship - https://bitly.cx/FVn9
    vNYT Trump's Relentless, 'Utterly Incoherent' Battles - https://bitly.cx/YGKYP

    Emma's Sources on Artemis/Space:
    * "Chapter 10: Shared Cosmos", Our Exceptional Friend: Australia's Fatal Alliance with the United States (Shortis, 2021)
    * NASA New Space Policy - https://bitly.cx/VQOaZ
    * Artemis II images - https://bitly.cx/jvGS1

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas & Special Guest Jared discuss Silicon Sampling, The Mike Tyson Zone, and Is Everyone From Canada on Degrassi??
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Jared Mondschein
    2:12 - Grateful (Leon, Daylight Savings Ending)
    8:29 - Correspondence (Politico Correction, Anthropic, Jared on AP)
    27:09 - Polling Update
    1:02:53 - 2026/2028 Elections Update
    1:45:02 - Iran Latest & The Deadline
    3:06:46 - Hegseth Sacking People
    3:15:17 - PBS/NPR Court "Victory"

    Homework:
    * Daylights Savings article - https://bitly.cx/tcPI
    * Everytime Trump gave a 2-3 week deadline - https://bitly.cx/dctdM
    * AI polling article - https://bitly.cx/hNTYN
    * Hawk or Dove polling - https://bitly.cx/UDpb
    * Which News sources Americans trust most - https://bitly.cx/RyuZ

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss Gollum Having An Abortion, The 7 Stages Of Grieving A Shit War, and The Inventor of The Table
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave
    3:57 - Gratefuls (Sliwa, Colbert)
    16:28 - Correspondence (Corrections, Stings, Noem v Miller)
    25:19 - Not Normal (Ballroom, Money, Airport, Award, Sharpies, Socials)
    1:04:02 - Stats Nug (Emergency Response)
    1:06:30 - Cuba
    1:23:04 - Iran Latest
    2:22:48 - Hegseth Issues
    2:32:01 - Dave's Easter Advice
    2:33:47 - Unleashed with Lachie
    2:35:20 - Trump Library Cont.
    2:38:27 - Hegseth Issues Cont.
    2:49:34 - DHS Shutdown Shut Down?

    Homework:
    * Everything With Trump's Name, Likeness and Signature - https://bitly.cx/6mgxX

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas does a tight 30 minutes of Correspondence to your comments on PEP252. APRIL FOOLS, it's 38 minutes.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: PEP252 Correspondence Extra
    0:46 - To Be Fair Stings
    4:52 - Afroman
    12:11 - Gabbard
    14:37 - Mutually Assured Destruction
    17:36 - Hegseth
    25:55 - Ukraine
    29:56 - Kharg Island
    31:06 - Death Reports

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE TO BE FAIR STING: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuFnEmi1GavFZjvy8RlpLdx4uw4RCdenLHFaAyB-9cZcSBQA/viewform?usp=header

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Poor Man's Eamon, The Gremlins Election, and Being Teleported to a Waffle House
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave
    3:03 - Grateful (Teleportation)
    9:20 - Correspondence (Israel & Iraq/ISIS, Corrections, Board of Peace, To Be Fair)
    21:37 - Grateful (Afroman)
    33:06 - Iran War
    1:48:23 - DHS Shutdown
    2:21:53 - SAVE America Act
    2:35:00 - Special Elections
    2:41:48 - Unleashed with Lachy
    2:48:48 - Supreme Court Mississippi Election Case
    3:09:53 - Trump's New Stance On Immigration

    Homework:
    * WAPO Article from 2002 on Israel - https://archive.md/upyIL
    * Afroman's Door and Gate song - https://bitly.cx/8gEHE

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

  • Chas squeezes 47 minutes of replies to your correspondence into "30 minutes".

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: A 30-Minute* Correspondence Extra
    1:17 - Nice Comments on PEP250
    2:24 - Ex-President Supporting Iran War
    6:19 - Referring To Self As America
    7:24 - Dignified Transfer
    8:35 - Predicting 9/11
    11:30 - Dementia
    19:49 - Frog In Boiling Water
    21:06 - Chances
    21:44 - Mao Suit
    22:29 - Shoes
    22:43 - Mullin
    27:55 - Iran Proxies
    28:32 - School Bombing
    30:02 - Clean Energy
    32:09 - NATO
    32:41 - Israel & Anti-Semitism

    Homework:
    * Despair at the Replies to @Bubblegathgirl's Trump-Absolving Tweet About Robert Mueller: https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2035730676373193063

    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

  • Chas & Dr Dave discuss Big Stack Bullies, Excursion Crimes, and The World's Luckiest Make A Wish Kid WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave 2:12 - Grateful (Tigers, Internet Reviewed) 9:12 - Updates (Tariffs, Corruption) 19:21 - Not Normal 46:21 - Markwayne Mullin Confirmation 1:04:28 - Iran: Updates, Mines 1:43:55 - Iran: Allies + NATO 2:44:42 - Unleashed (Iran Thin Skin, Joe Kent) Homework: * Mullin Classified Mission Questioning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SJmhLGQ1A8 SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST: Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244) Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240) Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235) Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232) John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231) Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227) John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225) William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222) Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217) Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217) Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215) Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215) Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214) Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198) Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194) Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178) Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164) Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158) Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157) Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155) Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155) Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155) Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155) Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155) Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150) Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150) John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141) Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141) Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136) Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134) Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133) Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus Zeke Faux - Number Go Up Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment Naomi Klein - Doppelganger Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult Wendy Brown - States Of Injury Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump Jane Mayer - Dark Money Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit Stephen King - The Dead Zone Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/ James Beverley - God's Man in the White House Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism James Morone - Hellfire Nation Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic Ghassan Hage - White Nation George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism Jon Krakauer - Missoula THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!