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  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    THE AUDACITY OF POPE! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 256, 17 April)

    17/04/2026 | 3h 26 mins.
    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!
  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    LIAR, LIAR, CEASE ON FIRE! PEP with Chas & Dr Emma Shortis (Ep 255, 10 April)

    10/04/2026 | 3h 19 mins.
    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!
  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    THE YAWN ULTIMATUM! PEP with Chas & Jared Mondschein (Ep 254, 8 April)

    08/04/2026 | 3h 21 mins.
    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!
  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    HAPPY MIDDLE EASTER! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 253, 3 April)

    03/04/2026 | 3h 26 mins.
    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!
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    PEP252 CORRESPONDENCE EXTRA

    01/04/2026 | 38 mins.
    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
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    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

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