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  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    HAVE AN ICE FLIGHT! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 252, 27 March)

    27/03/2026 | 3h 24 mins.
    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!
  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    PEP251 CORRESPONDENCE EXTRA

    25/03/2026 | 47 mins.
    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!!!
  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    MINING NEMO? PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 251, 20 March)

    21/03/2026 | 3h 22 mins.
    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!
  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    DIRE STRAIT! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 250, 13 March)

    14/03/2026 | 3h 23 mins.
    Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Fail Son Air Force, Dispensing The Pez, and WE GOT HIM!!!!
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave + 250 Special!
    2:06 - Grateful (Sirât, Hamilton FOX III)
    10:28 - Correspondence (Noem Dishonesty)
    19:15 - Update (SAVE America Act)
    33:18 - Iran War: Updates
    46:02 - Iran War: Hubris
    1:12:56 - Iran War: Economic Impacts
    1:45:45 - Iran War: No Plans
    2:04:40 - Iran War: Loose Ends (Strategy, School Bombing, Torpedoed Ship)
    2:21:18 - US Economy Update
    2:27:13 - Anthropic Defense Department Stand-off
    2:52:36 - Unleashed (Anthropic Cont.)
    3:09:34 - Unleashed Correspondence (Iran War)
    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
    Homework:
    * Chas' Favourite John Oliver Bit - https://bitly.cx/W34ck
    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!
  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    NOEM HARD FEELINGS! PEP with Chas & Elle Hardy (Ep 249, 11 March)

    11/03/2026 | 2h 56 mins.
    Chas & Guest PEPCaster Elle Hardy discuss Elle's Cat Street Patrol, Golden-Haired Boy Miller, and DON'T MENTION THE WAR! 
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
     
    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Elle Hardy
    1:43 - Grateful (Andrew Lownie, Footy Players)
    8:57 - Kristi Noem Sacked
    1:10:19 - Ukraine Corner
    1:38:17 - SOTU Retrospective
    2:00:57 - Policy Time (SOTU Edition)
    2:07:51 - SAVE America Act
     
    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
     
    Homework:
    * Kristi Noem's Greatest Fits - https://bitly.cx/So0N3
    * Ukraine's Forced Conscription - https://bitly.cx/7UaDC
    * What is Busification? - https://bitly.cx/21Wh
     
    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!

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