PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

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
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