PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

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THE GREENE NEW DEAL: PEP with Chas & Mari Koeck (Ep 241, 22 November) Nov 22, 2025

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Chas & Guest Pepper Mari Koeck discuss Calvin + Hobbes Diplomacy, The Comey Clown Car Caucus, and Gross Larry Can't Get Horizontal WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:26 - Welcome Mari07:46 - Mari's Grateful (Josh Johnson)12:24 - Chas' Grateful (Marie Gluesenkamp Perez) 21:41 - Correspondence (50 Year Mortgages, Pardons, Pelosi) 28:31 - Shutdown Update 36:53 - Ukraine Peace Plan 59:55 - Comey Update 1:21:05 - Epstein Week! 1:38:33 - Epstein (Hungry Like The Wolff) 1:46:07 - Epstein (Wet Hot American (Larry) Summers) 1:56:04 - Epstein (A Bannon Year) 1:58:31 - Epstein (Stacy Plaskett Gives Chas The Shits) 2:26:24 - Epstein (The Ehud Barak Connection) 2:31:01 - Epstein (Releasing The Files) 2:44:51 - Epstein (Correspondence: Tampered Evidence) 2:49:23 - MTG vs Trump 3:16:20 - Goodbyes [Recorded: Friday 21 November 7:40 PM AEST / 21 November 3:40 AM, US EST] SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW HOMEWORK: * Josh Johnson on Charlie Kirk https://youtu.be/o4ZuXfl4yi8?si=Gk0Moq1KyolIlAp2 * Josh Johnson on Epstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5M16u2bAeA * That Justice/Security blog Chas likes, Empty Wheel https://www.emptywheel.net/ * That Harvard Crimson article about Gross Larry Summers https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/17/summers-epstein-wing-man-woman-described-as-mentee/ MORE MARI KOECK: * USSC Briefing Room: https://www.ussc.edu.au/podcasts/ussc-briefing-room * USSC Insider: https://www.ussc.edu.au/about/newsletters

CHUCKING SCHUMER? PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 240, 15 November) Nov 15, 2025

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Chas & Dr Dave discuss President MTG?, Nate Dogg & Warren G in the Supreme Court, and Is Dave Trolling Chas in the Comments? WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:47 - Grateful (PEP fans, Internet Reviewed, Pelosi) 20:38 - Correspondence (Contranyms, Candidate Quality, Keeping Up Appearances, Gerrymanders) 30:43 - Epstein Week! 47:11 - Pharma Update (Ozempic) 55:40 - Shutdown Shut Down + Stacks On Schumer 1:30:58 - Trump's Healthcare Plan 1:40:36 - Stats Nugget (Housing Affordability) + 50 Year Mortgages 1:59:52 - Trump's Affordability Freakout 2:10:28 - Venezuela Latest 2:29:44 - Tariffs Court Case Part 1 2:48:16 - Unleashed (Tariffs Court Case Part 2) 3:15:36 - Dylan on Pennies 3:18:34 - Not Normal 3:24:17 - Goodbyes [Recorded: Friday 14 November 2:40 PM AEST / 10:40 PM November 13 NY Time] SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW HOMEWORK: * Kirsten's Interview I Rated from TheInternetReviewed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSkqE4bEybo * Good Article about Pelosi and Obamacare https://time.com/5832330/nancy-pelosi-obamacare/ * Gift Article: J. Michael Luttig's Compendium of Trump Authoritarianism https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/12/trump-third-term-authoritarianism/684616/?gift=U5i_fU3LhJpheeE9K9K4adyJYC8DX-PiSUXrchJmwXU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

THE MID-MID-TERMS SPECIAL! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 239, 8 November) Nov 08, 2025

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Chas & Dr Dave discuss Truth Social Deployments, UnCheneyed Hearts, and It's The Economy, Stupid! WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:14 - Grateful (Patricia Routledge, No More "Sharp As A Tack") 10:27 - Correspondence (PEP Housekeeping, Contranyms, Gerrymandering, Sir Joh, Venezuela) 29:08 - National Guard Case Update 37:12 - Arctic Frost 43:51 - Election Results: Virginia 52:00 - Election Results: New Jersey 56:10 - Election Results: New York Mayor race + Mamdani 1:32:46 - Election Takeaways 1:51:36 - Vale Dick Cheney 2:10:14 - Nigerian Christians 2:24:40 - Not Normal (DOJ) 2:30:07 - Chas Unleashed - Welcome Dylan 2:31:11 - Unleashed: Corruption Update 2:37:24 - Unleashed: Shutdown 2:55:37 - Unleashed: Shutdown & The Filibuster 3:22:00 - Goodbye

[Recorded: Friday 7 November 2:50 PM AEST / 10:50PM, 6 November NY Time]

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

THE EPSTEIN ASSOCIATE FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINCE: PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 238, 1 November) Nov 01, 2025

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Chas & Dr Dave discuss Everything From The Big Oh to The Big Joh, The Al Qaeda of Lame Analogies, and Beau Is Listening WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave 04:02 - Introducing: Beau & Contronyms 06:41 - Grateful (World Series, Trump Senior Moments) 16:35 - Correspondence (Young Republicans, Platner, Rare Earths, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen) 36:28 - Govt Shutdown/SNAP Update 58:39 - Venezuela In The Gun? 1:38:03 - Epstein Update 1:50:27 - Education Compact 2:12:37 - Chas Unleashed (with Beau) 2:13:54 - Ballroom Update 2:22:23 - Stats Nugget (Withdrawn Nominations) 2:30:20 - Halligan/Letitia James Update 2:39:28 - Supreme Court Update (National Guard) 3:06:00 - Goodbye [Recorded: Friday 31 October 3:05 PM AEST / 12:05 AM October 31 NY Time] SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW HOMEWORK: *That 'If You're Listening' ep Beau likes about Venezuela https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrcROiL-IXI *That scene from 'Dazed & Confused' that is Nothing like Dave described! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYJNGNER298

STRICTLY BALLROOM! PEP with Chas & Dr Emma Shortis (Ep 237, 28 October) Oct 29, 2025

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Chas & Dr Emma Shortis discuss Fine Ladies' Schlopping, Madam Doom, and Billions of Dollars Worth of Talent

WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introducing: Dr Emma Shortis

2:09 - Grateful (Chappell Roan, Bill Wyman)

6:59 - Correspondence (Rare Earth, Contranyms)

10:22 - Updates (Terrorism, Redistricting)

29:28 - Trump's Ballroom Blitz

1:09:35 - Critical Minerals Deals-ish

1:21:18 - Not Normal (Binance)

1:30:52- Jamaica Hurricane

1:38:49 - Massive Regrets (Jay Jones)

2:06:26 - Massive Regrets (Young Republicans)

2:35:32 - Massive Regrets (Graham Platner)

[Recorded: Tuesday 28 October 8:10 PM AEST / 5:10AM October 28 NY Time]

SHOW LINKS:

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

THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:

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!

A LITTLE BIT OF ALBO ROOM: PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 236, 24 October) Oct 24, 2025

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Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Day The Jacaranda Died, Christmas in Venezuela, and A Dog Called Lithium

WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave

3:20 - Grateful (Jacaranda Season, Impeachment Spoiler)

15:25 - Correspondence (CLEO Bachelor, No Kings, Nobel Prize, Contranyms, DOJ, 'Hooch' Nicknames)

28:29 - Updates (Argentina Bailout, Polling, No Kings)

47:32 - China Trade War/Rare Earths

1:06:41 - Shutdown Update

1:14:39 - Stats Nugget - Medicaid

1:17:22- Hegseth Media Update

1:26:56 - Gaza Ceasefire Update

1:35:50 - Venezuela Update

2:02:33 - Albo Meets Trump

2:16:07 - Supreme Court Voting Rights Act

2:41:12 - Unleashed - RETRIBUTION! (Comey Indictment, Bolton Indictment, Santos Commutation)

[Recorded: Thursday 23 October 2:40 PM AEST / 11:40PM October 23 NY Time]

SHOW LINKS:

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

HOMEWORK:

*The October DoW Media Guidelines - https://bitly.cx/bzn5

*Dave's Conversation article on Supreme Court Tariffs - https://bitly.cx/Nkah