PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

Chas & John Barron & Lachy discuss Chas' Favourite Footage of 2025, Tricia McLaughlin's Upside-Down World and The Noel + Liam Gallaghers of US Politics
WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
 
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introducing: The Final PEPmas Special
2:04 - Lackey in the USA
11:00 - John Barron QandA
1:37:28 - Unleashed: Chicago + Immigration
3:05:19 - Final Gratefuls
 
SHOW LINKS:
*Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
 
HOMEWORK:
*John Mulaney's Horse in a Hospital routine: https://bitly.cx/ANDch
*That New Yorker Article about people being deported to African countries: https://bitly.cx/4TmSy
 
THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
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!

2025 PEPMAS SPECIAL PART 2: PEP with Chas & Beau Glass & Melina Wicks (Ep 242-2, 30 November)
Chas & Beau Glass & Melina Wicks discuss Sweet Summer Melina, The Drug Version Of Kevin Bacon, and That's Not An Indictment That's A Piece Of Paper!
WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
 
Timestamps: 
0:00 - Introducing: PEPmas Part 2
1:28 - Correspondence (PEPstival Absentees, MRI)
4:05 - Introducing: Beau Glass
6:43 - The Comey Dismissal
38:23 - The Texas Redistricting Massacre
1:00:17 - Stats Nugget (LAW!)
1:03:30 - More Redistricting 
1:07:26 - Introducing: Melina Wicks
1:11:23 - MTG's Resignation
2:19:30 - Unleashed: Venezuela
2:44:26 - Unleashed: The "Defying Orders" Video
3:25:36 - Goodbye
 
SHOW LINKS:
*Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
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 & Bill Wyman & Elle Hardy & Jared Mondschein discuss Desiring Desire Itself, Reasonable Jared, and How Groceries is a Very Accurate Word
WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
Timestamps: 
0:00 - Introducing: The 2025 PEPmas Special
3:50 - Introducing: Bill Wyman
6:46 - Nuzzi/Lizza
40:31 - RFK + The CDC Website
54:40 - Bill on Ukraine
1:04:54 - Introducing: Elle Hardy
1:05:20 - Mamdani v Trump
1:35:26 - Elle on Ukraine
2:15:12 - Introducing: Jared Mondeschein
2:15:56 - Trump's Power Slide?
2:30:52 - Not Normal (Poll + Trump Press Conference)
3:04:13 - Migrant Crime
3:10:05 - Not Normal (Mike Flynn's Settlement)
 
SHOW LINKS:
*Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW

Chas & Guest Pepper Mari Koeck discuss Calvin + Hobbes Diplomacy, The Comey Clown Car Caucus, and Gross Larry Can't Get Horizontal
WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:26 - Welcome Mari
07:46 - Mari's Grateful (Josh Johnson)
12:24 - Chas' Grateful (Marie Gluesenkamp Perez)
21:41 - Correspondence (50 Year Mortgages, Pardons, Pelosi)
28:31 - Shutdown Update
36:53 - Ukraine Peace Plan
59:55 - Comey Update
1:21:05 - Epstein Week!
1:38:33 - Epstein (Hungry Like The Wolff)
1:46:07 - Epstein (Wet Hot American (Larry) Summers)
1:56:04 - Epstein (A Bannon Year)
1:58:31 - Epstein (Stacy Plaskett Gives Chas The Shits)
2:26:24 - Epstein (The Ehud Barak Connection)
2:31:01 - Epstein (Releasing The Files)
2:44:51 - Epstein (Correspondence: Tampered Evidence)
2:49:23 - MTG vs Trump
3:16:20 - Goodbyes
[Recorded: Friday 21 November 7:40 PM AEST / 21 November 3:40 AM,  US EST]

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

HOMEWORK:
* Josh Johnson on Charlie Kirk https://youtu.be/o4ZuXfl4yi8?si=Gk0Moq1KyolIlAp2
* Josh Johnson on Epstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5M16u2bAeA
* That Justice/Security blog Chas likes, Empty Wheel https://www.emptywheel.net/
* That Harvard Crimson article about Gross Larry Summers https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/17/summers-epstein-wing-man-woman-described-as-mentee/

MORE MARI KOECK:
* USSC Briefing Room: https://www.ussc.edu.au/podcasts/ussc-briefing-room
* USSC Insider: https://www.ussc.edu.au/about/newsletters

Chas & Dr Dave discuss President MTG?, Nate Dogg & Warren G in the Supreme Court, and Is Dave Trolling Chas in the Comments?
WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:47 - Grateful (PEP fans, Internet Reviewed, Pelosi)
20:38 - Correspondence (Contranyms, Candidate Quality, Keeping Up Appearances, Gerrymanders)
30:43 - Epstein Week!
47:11 - Pharma Update (Ozempic)
55:40 - Shutdown Shut Down + Stacks On Schumer
1:30:58 - Trump's Healthcare Plan
1:40:36 - Stats Nugget (Housing Affordability) + 50 Year Mortgages
1:59:52 - Trump's Affordability Freakout
2:10:28 - Venezuela Latest
2:29:44 - Tariffs Court Case Part 1
2:48:16 - Unleashed (Tariffs Court Case Part 2)
3:15:36 - Dylan on Pennies
3:18:34 - Not Normal
3:24:17 - Goodbyes
[Recorded: Friday 14 November 2:40 PM AEST / 10:40 PM November 13 NY Time]

SHOW LINKS:
*Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
HOMEWORK:
* Kirsten's Interview I Rated from TheInternetReviewed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkqE4bEybo
* Good Article about Pelosi and Obamacare https://time.com/5832330/nancy-pelosi-obamacare/
* Gift Article: J. Michael Luttig's Compendium of Trump Authoritarianism https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/12/trump-third-term-authoritarianism/684616/?gift=U5i_fU3LhJpheeE9K9K4adyJYC8DX-PiSUXrchJmwXU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share