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  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    THE VOTING WHITES ACT! PEP with Chas & Elle Hardy (Ep 259, 5 May)

    05/05/2026 | 3h 14 mins.
    Chas & Elle Hardy discuss The Worst Five States To Murder In, Rare Book Collecting Nazis, and You Don't Lose When You're On Team Schneider!
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Elle Hardy 
    2:08 - Grateful (David Byrne, Petty Hegseth Pics, Ron Wyden)
    14:32 - Updates (DHS Shutdown, Comey Indictment)
    26:05 - DOJ: Firing Squads
    31:18 - Mifepristone in Court
    49:20 - DOJ: Southern Poverty Law Centre Indictment
    1:24:05 - Callais: The Law
    1:54:44 - Callais: The Politics
    2:10:47 - New Surgeon General Nomination
    2:25:53 - Unleashed: Callais Cont.
    2:40:09 - Correspondence (Sexual Assault, Predictive Markets, Crypto, 80s, Weed, Nuclear Dust, Rhetoric)
    Homework:
    * David Byrne on Track Star* — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MEjVfThmn4
    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    YOUNG, DUMB, AND FULL OF GUN! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 258, 1 May)

    01/05/2026 | 3h 25 mins.
    Chas & Dr Dave discuss Devin Nunes' Cow, President Chuck Grassley and Speedrunning Idiocracy!
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave and his Spleen
    2:37 - Grateful (David Malouf, Devin Nunes Accountability, Normal Appointees)
    15:10 - Updates (Florida Redistricting, Polling)
    37:20 - Iran War Status Quo
    1:08:41 - Hegseth's Hearing
    1:38:01 - WHCA Shooting Attempt
    1:51:42 - Violent Rhetoric To Blame?
    2:17:38 - Ballroom Begging
    2:28:01 - Was It Staged?
    2:32:49 - Ambassador Dave Brat
    2:40:31 - Unleashed: Shooting Conspiracies
    3:00:49  - Unleashed: DOJ - Blanche Intro
    3:07:28 - Unleashed: DOJ - Comey Indictment
    Homework:
    * NYT Article by Dave's Old Roomie: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/international-world/iran-war-blockade-trump.html
    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258)
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    LET'S BET PEPPY! PEP with Chas & Melina Wicks (Ep 257, 28 April)

    28/04/2026 | 3h 39 mins.
    Chas & Melina discuss Lots of Scalps!, The Annals of Leavittism, and Why You Shouldn't Elect A Juvenile Psychopathic Bully
    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: Melina Wicks
    2:58 - Grateful (NBA, Late 80s Escape Pod)
    9:57 - Updates (Shutdown, Congressional Sackings)
    23:58 - Eric Swalwell
    1:11:45 - Dave's Grateful
    1:15:42 - Prediction Markets
    2:00:58 - Virginia Redistricting
    2:35:38 - Chavez-DeRemer Sacking
    2:49:54 - Pope v Trump Round 2
    3:00:54 - Unleashed (Pope Misleading Stories)
    3:15:33 - Policy Time (401K Investments, Medical Marijuana, Mail-In Ballots)
    Homework:
    * 'Hold On' by The Models - https://bitly.cx/lc542
    * Polymarket homework - https://bitly.cx/AI0QA
    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
    THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
    Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)
    Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)
    Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
    Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
    John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
    Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
    John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
    William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
    Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
    Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
    Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
    Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
    Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
    Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
    Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
    Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
    Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
    Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
    David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
    Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
    Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
    Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
    Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
    Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
    Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
    Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
    Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
    Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
    Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
    Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
    John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
    Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
    Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
    Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
    Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
    Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
    Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
    Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
    Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
    Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
    Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
    Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
    Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
    Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
    David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
    Jane Mayer - Dark Money
    Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
    Stephen King - The Dead Zone
    Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
    Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
    Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
    Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
    David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
    Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
    Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
    Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
    John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
    Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
    Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
    Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
    James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
    James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
    Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
    Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
    Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
    Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
    James Morone - Hellfire Nation
    Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
    Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
    Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
    Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
    Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
    Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
    Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
    Ghassan Hage - White Nation
    George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
    George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
    Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
    Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
    Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
    Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
    Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
    Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
    Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
    Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
    Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
    Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
    Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
    Jon Krakauer - Missoula
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
  • PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    PEP256 CORRESPONDENCE EXTRA

    23/04/2026 | 43 mins.
    Chas has 30 minutes of correspondence that stretched out to 43 minutes due to the different time dilation on Planet PEP. 
    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introducing: PEP256 Correspondence Extra
    0:23 - Lachie v Lehrmann
    3:21 - Dr Emma
    5:49 - Dr Jesus
    18:49 - Injured Pilot
    21:15 - Hungary
    28:18 - Titles
    30:44 - Immigration
    34:18 - Fixing America
    38:26 - National Voter Compact 
    SHOW LINKS:
    *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
     
    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!
  • 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!

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