PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

Chas Licciardello

  • 38 minutes 47 seconds
    PEP252 CORRESPONDENCE EXTRA

    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

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

    VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE TO BE FAIR STING: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuFnEmi1GavFZjvy8RlpLdx4uw4RCdenLHFaAyB-9cZcSBQA/viewform?usp=header

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

    1 April 2026, 12:25 am
  • 3 hours 24 minutes
    HAVE AN ICE FLIGHT! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 252, 27 March)

    Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Poor Man's Eamon, The Gremlins Election, and Being Teleported to a Waffle House WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language

    Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave 3:03 - Grateful (Teleportation) 9:20 - Correspondence (Israel & Iraq/ISIS, Corrections, Board of Peace, To Be Fair) 21:37 - Grateful (Afroman) 33:06 - Iran War 1:48:23 - DHS Shutdown 2:21:53 - SAVE America Act 2:35:00 - Special Elections 2:41:48 - Unleashed with Lachy 2:48:48 - Supreme Court Mississippi Election Case 3:09:53 - Trump's New Stance On Immigration

    Homework: * WAPO Article from 2002 on Israel - https://archive.md/upyIL * Afroman's Door and Gate song - https://bitly.cx/8gEHE

    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!

    27 March 2026, 8:27 am
  • 47 minutes 22 seconds
    PEP251 CORRESPONDENCE EXTRA

    Chas squeezes 47 minutes of replies to your correspondence into "30 minutes".

    Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: A 30-Minute* Correspondence Extra 1:17 - Nice Comments on PEP250 2:24 - Ex-President Supporting Iran War 6:19 - Referring To Self As America 7:24 - Dignified Transfer 8:35 - Predicting 9/11 11:30 - Dementia 19:49 - Frog In Boiling Water 21:06 - Chances 21:44 - Mao Suit 22:29 - Shoes 22:43 - Mullin 27:55 - Iran Proxies 28:32 - School Bombing 30:02 - Clean Energy 32:09 - NATO 32:41 - Israel & Anti-Semitism

    Homework: * Despair at the Replies to @Bubblegathgirl's Trump-Absolving Tweet About Robert Mueller: https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2035730676373193063

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

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

    25 March 2026, 4:50 am
  • 3 hours 22 minutes
    MINING NEMO? PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 251, 20 March)
    Chas & Dr Dave discuss Big Stack Bullies, Excursion Crimes, and The World's Luckiest Make A Wish Kid WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave 2:12 - Grateful (Tigers, Internet Reviewed) 9:12 - Updates (Tariffs, Corruption) 19:21 - Not Normal 46:21 - Markwayne Mullin Confirmation 1:04:28 - Iran: Updates, Mines 1:43:55 - Iran: Allies + NATO 2:44:42 - Unleashed (Iran Thin Skin, Joe Kent) Homework: * Mullin Classified Mission Questioning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SJmhLGQ1A8 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!
    21 March 2026, 12:27 am
  • 3 hours 23 minutes
    DIRE STRAIT! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 250, 13 March)

    Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Fail Son Air Force, Dispensing The Pez, and WE GOT HIM!!!! WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave + 250 Special! 2:06 - Grateful (Sirât, Hamilton FOX III) 10:28 - Correspondence (Noem Dishonesty) 19:15 - Update (SAVE America Act) 33:18 - Iran War: Updates 46:02 - Iran War: Hubris 1:12:56 - Iran War: Economic Impacts 1:45:45 - Iran War: No Plans 2:04:40 - Iran War: Loose Ends (Strategy, School Bombing, Torpedoed Ship) 2:21:18 - US Economy Update 2:27:13 - Anthropic Defense Department Stand-off 2:52:36 - Unleashed (Anthropic Cont.) 3:09:34 - Unleashed Correspondence (Iran War)

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

    Homework: * Chas' Favourite John Oliver Bit - https://bitly.cx/W34ck

    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!

    14 March 2026, 2:38 am
  • 2 hours 56 minutes
    NOEM HARD FEELINGS! PEP with Chas & Elle Hardy (Ep 249, 11 March)

    Chas & Guest PEPCaster Elle Hardy discuss Elle's Cat Street Patrol, Golden-Haired Boy Miller, and DON'T MENTION THE WAR!

    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:

    0:00 - Introducing: Elle Hardy

    1:43 - Grateful (Andrew Lownie, Footy Players)

    8:57 - Kristi Noem Sacked

    1:10:19 - Ukraine Corner

    1:38:17 - SOTU Retrospective

    2:00:57 - Policy Time (SOTU Edition)

    2:07:51 - SAVE America Act

    SHOW LINKS:

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

    Homework: * Kristi Noem's Greatest Fits - https://bitly.cx/So0N3

    * Ukraine's Forced Conscription - https://bitly.cx/7UaDC

    * What is Busification? - https://bitly.cx/21Wh

    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!

    11 March 2026, 4:30 am
  • 3 hours 15 minutes
    PERSIAN CARPET BOMBING! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 248, 6 March)

    Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Fyre Festival of Wars, Top Nunn, and Don't Immanentize The Eschaton!

    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:

    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave

    2:43 - Grateful (Noem Gone, Welch & Kennedy)

    16:51 - Correspondence (Colbert Update)

    25:36 - Iran War (What's Happened So Far)

    52:01 - The Supposed Reasons for War

    1:42:31 - REAL Reasons For War

    1:52:57 - Legality of War

    2:04:27 - Why War Powers Matter

    2:30:59 - The Texas Primaries

    2:41:01 - Unleashed (Texas Senate Race)

    3:02:45 - Unleashed (Newsom)

    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!

    6 March 2026, 1:16 pm
  • 3 hours 29 minutes
    COURT IN THE CROSSFIRE! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 247, 27 February)

    Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Porn Capital of The World, Elephants In Mouseholes, and If You're Having Tariff Problems I Feel Bad For You Son, Cos I Got 99 Actions To Address A Foreign Threat But Raising Revenue Ain't One

    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:

    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave

    1:56 - Grateful (90s Dentistry, Schwank)

    11:32 - Tariffs Ruling

    58:54 - Tariff Politics

    1:21:54 - State of the Union

    1:23:59 - Continuing with Topics That Actually Matter

    1:43:56 - Attacking Iran?

    2:11:44 - Obama Apes Controversy

    2:28:37 - UAE Payoff

    2:41:38 - Texas Dems Senate Primary

    2:57:04 - Unleashed: Colbert Interview

    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!

    27 February 2026, 10:25 am
  • 3 hours 24 minutes
    TRICIA McLOCKEDOUT! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 246, 20 February)

    Chas & Dr Dave discuss Four Drinks in 27 Minutes, The Biggest Liar No Longer in the Government and The War on Anything

    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:

    0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave

    3:01 - Correspondence (Police Shootings, Sleep, Epstein)

    22:13 - Grateful (Jesse Jackson)

    43:34 - Grateful (Seditious 6)

    54:17 - Economy (Unemployment, Inflation, Polling, Warsh)

    1:32:22 - Tangent Treehouse - (AI Stuff)

    1:44:34 - Immigration (The Good News, ICE Wilding, Detention)

    2:20:16 - Canada Bridge

    2:38:30 - DHS Shutdown

    2:50:40 - Unleashed (DHS Proposed Reforms)

    SHOW LINKS:

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

    Homework:

    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!

    20 February 2026, 7:58 am
  • 3 hours 28 minutes
    EVERY-BONDI HURTS! PEP with Chas & Melina Wicks (Ep 245, 17 February)

    Chas and Melina Wicks discuss Kid Rock's Wide Margin For Error, Lutnicking

    And THE DOW IS AT 50,000!!!

    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:

    0:00 Introducing: Guest PEPCaster Melina Wicks

    2:07 - Grateful (Good Journalism, Kid Rock)

    14:34 - Correspondence (Music List)

    18:40 - The Fulton County Elections Office Raid

    56:57 - Nationalising Elections

    1:22:19 - Epstein Files (The Main Players)

    2:24:49 - General Epstein Findings

    2:43:25 - Unleashed (More Epstein Stuff)

    3:12:04 - Unleashed (Bondi Hearing)

    SHOW LINKS:

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

    Homework:

    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)

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    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

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    Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight

    Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember

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    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

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    The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/

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    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

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    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!

    17 February 2026, 7:39 am
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    PEP CON CHAS Y EL DR DAVE (Episodio 244, 13 De Febrero)

    Chas & Guest Dr Dave discuss The Dick Around Zone, Dave's IMPECCABLE Stephen Miller impression, and Two Words: Nuclear F***king Weapons

    WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:

    0:00 Introducing: Dr Dave

    3:03 - Grateful (Connie Willis, 2025 Music)

    11:57 - Correspondence (Shootings, Greenland, Walz, Stats Peeve)

    25:02 - Superbowl/HalfTime Show

    47:41 - Stats Nugget (Population)

    49:43 - Venezuela "Liberated"

    1:26:47 - ICE Legal

    1:54:46 - Iran

    2:19:39 - WAPO Sackings

    2:38:56 - Unleashed (Don Lemon in the Dock)

    SHOW LINKS:

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

    HOMEWORK:

    - What's Really Driving Trump's Moves in Venezuela and Greenland - https://bitly.cx/7lICy

    - Iran Polling by GAMAAN - https://bitly.cx/FYZqm

    - GAMAAN Polling Criticism - https://bitly.cx/iihO

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
    13 February 2026, 5:18 am
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