PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

Chas & Melina discuss The Difference Between "At" and "In", Extraordinary Levels of Butthurt, and Why Chas & Melina Wish They Were Megyn Kelly
WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introducing: Melina Wicks Live in Studio
2:01 - Grateful (The Knicks, Holiday)
12:27 - Hawaii Guns case
30:23 - Trans Sport case
56:00 - Claiming Asylum case
1:14:46 - TPS case
1:47:15 - Birthright Citizenship case
2:25:49 - Slaughter Appointees case
2:51:39 - Cook Fed Reserve case
3:00:33 - Campaign Finance case
3:20:08 - Mail-In Ballots case
SHOW LINKS:
*Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST
*https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrSLzBt8ztEmCCZ6ZtyV6MiS4S4CaMgg-UbBZMef6uQ/
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Chas answers your correspondence to PEP267, then talks all things economics, AI, and mental health with Justin Wolfers. It's THE WOLFERS SPECIAL!

 

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introducing: 267 Correspondence Extra

2:09 - Not Normal (Meloni, Fat Shot)

18:50 - Correspondence (History, Gaybaiting, Petola, Hidden Hero, Strongman, Liz Oyer, 17 Points, Gump)

50:51 - Policy Time: Housing Bill

1:18:07 - The Wolfers Special

2:27:47 - Chas Interuption #1

2:41:26 - Wolfers Special Cont.

2:43:54 - Chas Interuption #2

2:46:03 - Wolfers' Last Thoughts

2:55:48 - Interview Reflections + Goodbye

 

Homework:

*Wolfers' vid on BLS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kncVLVUXYbs

 

SHOW LINKS:

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

 

THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST

*https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrSLzBt8ztEmCCZ6ZtyV6MiS4S4CaMgg-UbBZMef6uQ/edit?usp=sharing

 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Other Gru, Rubio Under His Blankie, and Why Scammers Are Not Fly Fishermen

WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave & Lucas
4:21 - Grateful (Dr Anastasiya, Quizzing)
17:58 - Correspondence/Updates (Freedom250, Ebola)
24:15 - Iran: Negotiations & The Blame Game
1:15:10 - Not Normal (Tarp, Enemies List, Trump Historian)
1:33:04 - Dave's Address for Graduates
1:42:17 - Reflecting Pool: The Textbook Trump Story
2:11:32 - Policy Time: Housing, Pulte, Corporate Transparency
2:42:08 - New York Primaries
2:53:48 - Unleashed: Correspondence (Idioms, Medical, DC Bar, Screwworm, Platner, 86)
3:03:57 - Unleashed: Mid Terms (NY Primaries, Alaska, Iowa)
Homework:
* Anastasiya's Conversation page - https://theconversation.com/profiles/anastasiya-byesyedina-1128494/articles
* Anastasiya SMH interview - https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/sacred-home-australian-in-kyiv-angered-by-russian-desecration-of-monastery-20260616-p6072b.html
* If You're Listening ep on UFC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaJG62rU2wU
SHOW LINKS:
*Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST
* https://docs.google.com/.../1nrSLzBt8ztEmCCZ6ZtyV6MiS4S4.../
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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!