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    PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

    Chas Licciardello and Dr David Smith discuss all the stories that weren’t covered in Planet America.

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    NOEM HARD FEELINGS! PEP with Chas & Elle Hardy (Ep 249, 11 March) Mar 11, 2026
    Show notes

    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!


    PERSIAN CARPET BOMBING! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 248, 6 March) Mar 06, 2026
    Show notes

    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!


    COURT IN THE CROSSFIRE! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 247, 27 February) Feb 27, 2026
    Show notes

    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!


    TRICIA McLOCKEDOUT! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 246, 20 February) Feb 20, 2026
    Show notes

    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:

    • Melinda Cooper Epstein article - https://bitly.cx/O0iJ

    • Jesse Jackson Wattstax festival - https://bitly.cx/HXAsx

    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!


    EVERY-BONDI HURTS! PEP with Chas & Melina Wicks (Ep 245, 17 February) Feb 17, 2026
    Show notes

    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:

    • Wings of Pegasus Kid Rock - https://bitly.cx/2X6E

    • Melina's Atlantic Story Fall of Assad - https://bitly.cx/4s7Iy

    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 CON CHAS Y EL DR DAVE (Episodio 244, 13 De Febrero) Feb 13, 2026
    Show notes

    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!

    BREAKING THE ICE: PEP with Chas & Jared Mondschein (Ep 243, 8 February) Feb 08, 2026
    Show notes

    Chas & Guest PEPcaster Jared Mondschein discuss Why Haiti Is A Near Arctic Country, Why You Should Try to Be Bivens If You Get Shot, and Is Trump Really Targeting Jared's Friend Stefan? WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

    Timestamps:

    0:00 - Introducing: Jared Mondschein

    2:28 - Grateful (Track Star, In Memoriam)

    14:31 - Housekeeping

    16:04 - Greenland

    1:04:24 - Stats Nugget (Ukraine)

    1:06:05 - Trump Polling

    1:21:40 - Foreign Policy From The Holidays

    1:50:47 - Stats Nugget (Crime)

    1:54:40 - Minnesota and The ICE Shootings

    3:11:00 - Jared On Epstein + Tinder

    3:14:10 - The Second Stupidest Lawsuit Ever

    3:22:29 - Goodbye

    SHOW LINKS:

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

    HOMEWORK:

    Michael Anton Menswear Writer - https://bitly.cx/YBTWp

    Robert Gates Future of NATO Speech - https://bitly.cx/CSJ8N

    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 3: PEP with Chas & John Barron (Ep 242-3, 3 December) Dec 03, 2025
    Show notes

    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) Nov 30, 2025
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    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!


    2025 PEPMAS SPECIAL PART 1: PEP with Chas & Bill & Elle & Jared (Ep 242, 28 November) Nov 28, 2025
    Show notes

    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


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