PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

MISGENDER THE TITANS! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 266, 19 June) Chas & Dr Dave discuss Trump's Hegseth Impression, The FIGHT HOUSE!!!, and How It's Hard To Find a Worm in Texas WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave 2:19 - Grateful (Wemby, Wittman) 17:56 - Updates (Ballroom, Alaska Midterms) 23:41 - Iran: Memorandum of Understanding 1:22:04 - Screw Worm 1:42:19 - Freedom 250 (UFC, State Fair, Rallies) 2:19:38 - Fable 5 2:29:49 - Unleashed: Fable Continued 2:39:17 - Unleashed: Freedom 250 (Reflection Pool, Arch) 2:51:10 - Unleashed: Midterms (Talarico, Platner, Lindsey Graham) 3:23:35 - Unleashed: DOJ (Blanche Nomination, Lawsuit, Patel, Miller) SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove (Mentioned 1:41:52, Ep 266) Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262) David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258) Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244) Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240) Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235) Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232) John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231) Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227) John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 2:39, 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 (Mentioned 3:12, Ep 129) Zeke Faux - Number Go Up Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment (Mentioned 13:22, Ep 124) Naomi Klein - Doppelganger Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult (Mentioned 15:41, Ep 123) Wendy Brown - States Of Injury (Mentioned 1:12:38, Ep 105) Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This (Mentioned 23:55, Ep 105) David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump (Mentioned 1:32:36, Ep 102) Jane Mayer - Dark Money (Mentioned 1:13:06, Ep 119) Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit (Mentioned 41:59, Ep 100) Stephen King - The Dead Zone Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief (Mentioned 55:04, Ep 63) Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails (Mentioned 1:21:48, Ep 90) Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mentioned 1:09:14, Ep 88) Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind (Mentioned 13:38, Ep 88) David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years (Mentioned 26:01, Ep 87) Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution (Mentioned 53:05, Ep 86) Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight (Mentioned 52:50, Ep 86) Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember (Mentioned 1:40, Ep 83) Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets (Mentioned 1:25, Ep 83) Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers (Mentioned 1:02:02, Ep 82) John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (Mentioned 3:27, Ep 80) Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire (Mentioned 42:32, Ep 73) Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism (Mentioned 42:32, Ep 73) Anatol Lieven - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case (Mentioned 1:30:52, Ep 98) James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness (Mentioned 1:25:29, Ep 68) The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/ (Mentioned 1:24:50, Ep 64) James Beverley - God's Man in the White House (Mentioned 59:10, Ep 63) 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 Mentioned (Mentioned 34:06, Ep 25) Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism (Mentioned 1:22, Ep 32) James Morone - Hellfire Nation (Mentioned 4:40, Ep 32) Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Mentioned 1:43:40, Ep 28) Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning (Mentioned 1:05, Ep 28) Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares (Mentioned 14:55, Ep 26) Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic (Mentioned 43:15, Ep 25) 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 (Mentioned 41:43, Ep 22) Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis (Mentioned 16:22, Ep 23) Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland (Mentioned 1:03:48, Ep 23) Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism  Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails (Mentioned 1:02:59, Ep 25) Michael Paul Rogan - The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics (Mentioned 13:52, Ep 124) Patrick Radden Keefe - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Mentioned 33:52, Ep 105) The Bronze Age Pervert - Bronze Age Mindset: An Exhortation (Mentioned 1:05:43, Ep 98) Andrew Baseovich - The New American Militarism (Mentioned 1:00:52, Ep 74) Vine Deloria - Custer Died for Your Sins (Mentioned 49:31, Ep 55) Daniel Schlossman and Sam Rosenfeld - The Long New Right and the World They Made (Mentioned 43:18, Ep 51) Andrew J Healy, Neil Malhotra, Cecilia Hyunjung Mo - Irrelevant events affect voters' evaluations of government performance (Mentioned 59:08, Ep 32) Henry Adams - The Education of Henry Adams (Mentioned 50:24, Ep 26) Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying  Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism  Jon Krakauer - Missoula THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Chas & Jared discuss Wawed and Dida, GOLF Allies, and Of Course George Santos Has A Fucking Legal Team! WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Wawed Mondschein 4:23 - Housekeeping 7:38 - Grateful (Journosaurs, Excellent Diplomats) 32:00 - Updates (Reconciliation, Bolton, Drug Boats, Pulte) 50:39 - Iran War 1:05:59 - The Quad 1:17:57 - Graham Platner (Again!) 2:37:46 - Israel Intelligence Sharing Agreement 2:52:45 - Santos' Big Bet 2:56:36 - Trump's Welker Walkout 3:06:42 - Unleashed: California's 'Rigged' Election Homework: * Jared's Quad Conversation article: https://theconversation.com/is-the-quad-dying-a-slow-death-even-with-trump-it-still-has-a-vital-role-to-play-284060 SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST: Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262) David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258) Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244) Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240) Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235) Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232) John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231) Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227) John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225) William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222) Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217) Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217) Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215) Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215) Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214) Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198) Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194) Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178) Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164) Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158) Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157) Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155) Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155) Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155) Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155) Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155) Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150) Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150) John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141) Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141) Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136) Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134) Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133) Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus Zeke Faux - Number Go Up Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment Naomi Klein - Doppelganger Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult Wendy Brown - States Of Injury Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump Jane Mayer - Dark Money Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit Stephen King - The Dead Zone Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/ James Beverley - God's Man in the White House Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism James Morone - Hellfire Nation Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic Ghassan Hage - White Nation George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism Jon Krakauer - Missoula THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Stealing A Dolphin, The Forced Labor Penguins, and Why You Must Suffer The Consequences! WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps:  0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave and George 4:29 - Grateful (Kennedy Centre, FIRE, Marx) 27:57 - Updates (Alabama, USAID) 41:52 - Iran: This Week In Bullshit 1:07:30 - Stats Nug (Women's Jobs) 1:15:15 - Freedom 250 1:35:30 - Slush Fund, We Hardly Knew Ye 1:55:42 - Midterm Primaries (Alaska, Alabama)  2:00:41 - Platner Sexting Controversy 2:16:14 - Return of the Tariffs 2:27:27 - Unleashed: Housekeeping 2:30:04 - Unleashed: Platner Cont. 2:53:23 - Unleashed: Insider Trading 3:11:48 - Unleashed: E. Jean Carroll Investigation 3:19:25 - Unleashed: Pulte Time Homework: * Crime in DC thinkpiece: https://www.niskanencenter.org/washington-dc-crime-decline-and-its-lessons-for-american-policing/ *Jim Carrey's Vanilla Ice impression: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdtKBe7sM48 *Justin Wolfers' Platypus Economics substack: https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/  SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST: Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262) David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258) Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244) Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240) Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235) Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232) John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231) Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227) John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225) William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222) Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217) Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217) Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215) Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215) Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214) Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198) Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194) Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178) Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164) Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158) Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157) Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155) Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155) Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155) Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155) Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155) Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150) Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150) John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141) Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141) Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136) Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134) Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133) Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus Zeke Faux - Number Go Up Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment Naomi Klein - Doppelganger Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult Wendy Brown - States Of Injury Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump Jane Mayer - Dark Money Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit Stephen King - The Dead Zone Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/ James Beverley - God's Man in the White House Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism James Morone - Hellfire Nation Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic Ghassan Hage - White Nation George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism Jon Krakauer - Missoula THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Chas & Dr Dave discuss An Excursion Into Oblivion, Dogs Burying Dead Birds, and The World's Youngest-Looking Leather Handbag WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave 2:00 - Grateful (Enhanced Games, PEPpers, South Carolina State Senate) 21:07 - Updates (Redistricting, Metaxis, Housekeeping, Poland) 36:06 - Iran 1:01:05 - The Slush Fund 1:13:16 - Tina Peters' Commutation 1:36:34 - Pope Leo's Encyclical 1:54:49 - Stats Nug: Country Perceptions 1:57:51 - "Jack Smith's Assistant" Indictment 2:06:03 - Texas Primaries  2:47:01 - Unleashed: Talarico v Paxton 3:17:10 - Unleashed Updates (Vaping, Presidential Records Act, Comey Trial) Homework: * Colbert's "Only In Monroe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTXB5uT_C4 * Pope's New Blog: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html * Pope Encyclical Article: https://archive.md/d232L  SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST: Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262) David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258) Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244) Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240) Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235) Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232) John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231) Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227) John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225) William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222) Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217) Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217) Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215) Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215) Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214) Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198) Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194) Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178) Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164) Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158) Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157) Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155) Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155) Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155) Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155) Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155) Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150) Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150) John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141) Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141) Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136) Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134) Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133) Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus Zeke Faux - Number Go Up Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment Naomi Klein - Doppelganger Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult Wendy Brown - States Of Injury Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump Jane Mayer - Dark Money Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit Stephen King - The Dead Zone Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/ James Beverley - God's Man in the White House Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism James Morone - Hellfire Nation Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic Ghassan Hage - White Nation George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism Jon Krakauer - Missoula THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language and graphic descriptions that may upset some viewers.  Chas does 30 minutes of answering your Correspondence, then debuts the figure-skating extravaganza the world has been waiting for: CHAS ON ICE! Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: PEP262 Correspondence Extra 1:19 - Virginia Courts 5:01 - Kash Patel 10:48 - Statistics 12:04 - Boat Murders 19:34 - Gold Coast 22:55 - Midterms 25:19 - Gerrymandering 33:33 - Taiwan 35:42 - Dumocrats 37:19 - Slush Fund 40:58 - Nuclear Dust 42:02 - Drawing 43:09 - Immigration: Previously, on Chas On Ice 53:11 - Immigration: Detention Centres 1:26:04 - Immigration: Lack of Standards  1:9:28 - Immigration: New Tech 1:48:38 - Immigration: Legal Development SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Great Nothing, The Value of a Good Junket, and Escape From Madame Tussaud's. WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave 3:13 - Gratefuls (Everybody Loses By Danny Funt, Paramount) 22:31 - Updates (Ballroom) 27:49 - The China Summit 45:23 - Iran Update 1:22:37 - Not Normal (Doral Statue, Dumocrats, Fight Poll) 1:39:12 - Trump Corruption - The Lawsuit & The Slush Fund 2:09:14 - 2026 Primaries Update 2:10:56 - Bye Bye Cassidy 2:22:28 - Bye Bye Massie 2:34:16 - Unleashed: Chas Missed Some Notes 2:35:46 - Unleashed: Ballroom  2:44:08 - Unleashed: China 2:45:12 - Unleashed: Iran 2:58:40 - Unleashed: Slush Fund 3:09:36 - Unleashed: Cassidy 3:10:10 - Unleashed: Massie SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST: Danny Funt - Everybody Loses (Mentioned 3:13, Ep 262) David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258) Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244) Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240) Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235) Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232) John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231) Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227) John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225) William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222) Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217) Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217) Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215) Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215) Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214) Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198) Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194) Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178) Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164) Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158) Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157) Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155) Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155) Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155) Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155) Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155) Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150) Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150) John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141) Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141) Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136) Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134) Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133) Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus Zeke Faux - Number Go Up Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment Naomi Klein - Doppelganger Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult Wendy Brown - States Of Injury Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump Jane Mayer - Dark Money Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit Stephen King - The Dead Zone Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/ James Beverley - God's Man in the White House Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism James Morone - Hellfire Nation Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic Ghassan Hage - White Nation George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism Jon Krakauer - Missoula THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Meter Boys, A Return To 'Return To Oz', and The Oldest Person To Use The Term 'Cucking Stool' WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave 2:27 - Grateful (Gold Coast Trump Tower, PEPpers With Audio) 14:49 - Updates (Ballroom, Alito, TrumpPhones) 32:29 - Trump China Visit 47:55 - Virginia Gerrymandering 1:42:47 - Iran Update  2:18:35 - Stats Nugget (Grade Inflation) 2:34:21 - Not Normal (Reflecting Pool) 2:41:37 - Unleashed (Updates: Nebraska, Inflation, Swalwell) 2:50:51 - Unleashed (Drug Boats of the Caribbean) 3:12:47 - Unleashed (Not Normal - Truth Social, Kash Patel) SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST: David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258) Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244) Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240) Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235) Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232) John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231) Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227) John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225) William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222) Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217) Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217) Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215) Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215) Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214) Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198) Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194) Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178) Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164) Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158) Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157) Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155) Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155) Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155) Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155) Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155) Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150) Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150) John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141) Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141) Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136) Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134) Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133) Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus Zeke Faux - Number Go Up Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment Naomi Klein - Doppelganger Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult Wendy Brown - States Of Injury Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump Jane Mayer - Dark Money Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit Stephen King - The Dead Zone Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/ James Beverley - God's Man in the White House Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism James Morone - Hellfire Nation Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic Ghassan Hage - White Nation George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism Jon Krakauer - Missoula THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Packer's Pecker, This Generation's Joe Manchin, and The Attention Span Of A Goldfish Swimming In Bongwater WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave  2:10 - Grateful (Detroit Pistons, Onion Wars) 12:31 - Correspondence (Comey, The 1967 Referendum, Predictive Markets, Alito, Political Violence, Twins) 37:36 - Updates (Gerrymandering) 44:22 - Iran: Project Freedom 1:06:25 - Iran: War Powers 1:16:47 - Elections (Ballroom + Platner) 1:34:54 - Elections (Fetterman) 2:00:49 - Elections (National Voter Compact) 2:11:23 - German Troop Withdrawal 2:24:41 - Not Normal (Kim Jong Un, Soldier, Ears, Maths, Medical Crap) 2:39:24 - Unleashed: Not Normal (Arc, Passport) 2:45:56 - Unleashed: Comey  2:47:51 - Unleashed: Iran 2:59:49 - Unleashed: Immigration (Asylum) Homework: * Heidecker as Rogan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLPcyTmnDxo * Heidecker as Maher - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ha6D1LQGD4 * New Hampsire children's bill article - https://www.npr.org/2015/03/20/394334697/fourth-graders-get-rough-lesson-in-politics * US bases in Germany - https://amp.dw.com/en/the-significance-of-us-military-bases-in-germany/a-77015428 * Dave's extra homework on Project Freedom - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/trump-project-freedom-saudi-arabia-strait-of-hormuz SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST: David Malouf - The Great World (Mentioned 2:37, Ep 258) Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244) Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240) Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235) Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232) John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231) Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227) John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225) William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222) Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217) Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217) Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215) Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215) Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214) Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198) Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194) Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178) Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164) Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158) Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157) Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155) Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155) Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155) Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155) Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155) Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150) Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150) John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141) Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141) Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136) Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134) Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133) Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus Zeke Faux - Number Go Up Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment Naomi Klein - Doppelganger Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult Wendy Brown - States Of Injury Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump Jane Mayer - Dark Money Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit Stephen King - The Dead Zone Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/ James Beverley - God's Man in the White House Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism James Morone - Hellfire Nation Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic Ghassan Hage - White Nation George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism Jon Krakauer - Missoula THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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

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

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

Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Worst Political Movie Of All Time, Generals In The Meme Wars, and Fifty…. Five….. Dollars. 0:00 - Intro 7:39 - Biden's Final Week 18:49 - Why Did Biden Have To Go? 35:03 - The Moment Joe Biden Dropped Out 43:10 - The Kamala Koronation v An Open Konvention 1:15:26 - Harris Polling 1:22:47 - Kamala Opportunities 1:24:31 - How Dems Want To Run This Election 1:27:38 - Harris' Record as VP 1:39:10 - Kamala Strengths & Opportunities 2:02:57 - Kamala Weaknesses & Concerns 2:09:09 - Kamala Veepstakes 2:14:06 - Chas Unleashed (More Veepstakes) 2:31:19 - Chas Unleashed (More Weaknesses & Concerns) 2:56:26 - Chas Unleashed - Should Biden Remain President?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Gareth Evans on Halloween, Our National Gun, and May You Never Find Yourself In An Argentinian Lamb Pit 2:25 - Grateful For (Chas' Dr Dave impression/Bob Menendez Guilty 5:57 - Correspondence (Correction/RFK/Trans Polling/Comedy Songs/Minimum Wage) 21:01 - Trump Assassination Attempt 58:22 - Assassination Conspiracies 1:10:14 - Assassination Rhetoric 1:36:43 - Stats Nugget (Inflation) 1:39:04 - J.D. Vance 2:14:01 - Chas Unleashed (More J.D Vance) 2:26:25 - Chas Unleashed (Aileen Cannon Fodder) HOMEWORK/SHOW NOTES:  * Dave's Conversation piece on mass shootings not leading to gun reform https://theconversation.com/past-shootings-of-us-presidents-led-to-new-gun-controls-this-one-probably-wont-234657 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave & Guest PEPcaster Richard Cooke discuss How To Kill A Monster, The Mal Meninga Presidency, and Do As Dave Says Not As He Does 0:00 - Intro 4:08 - Gratitude (The TriPodCast/Chengdu/The PEP Audience) 10:09 - Correspondence (Fruit Company/Young Male Voters/Nitrous Oxide/Populism/ Immunity) 34:40 - Biden Nomination Questions 55:09 - Biden's Week Of Interviews 1:28:19 - Biden Health Questions 1:43:05 - Which Democrats Are Opposing Biden? 1:55:35 - Clooney v Biden 2:10:20 - Trump + Project 2025 2:32:26 - The GOP Convention Platform 2:47:11- RFK's Struggles HOMEWORK/SHOWNOTES  * The Project 2025 policy article Dave recommended https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-project-2025-the-policy-substance-behind-trumps-showmanship-reveals-a-radical-plan-to-reshape-the-world-227161  * The article about young men moving right internationally (except for in Australia!) https://theconversation.com/australias-young-people-are-moving-to-the-left-though-young-women-are-more-progressive-than-men-reflecting-a-global-trend-222288 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas rants about Last Week's Supreme Court Rulings, all on his lonesome! 2:44 - SEC v Jarkesy 17:40 - Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo 38:09 - Ohio v EPA 57:04 - Corner Post v Board of Governors 1:07:40 - Fischer v USA 1:26:35 - Trump v USA 2:43:27 - Stats Nugget (Supreme Court) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Guest PEPcaster Richard Cooke discuss The Bedwetting Brigade, Halloween Masks for Faces and What is the Collective Noun For A Group Of Bidens? 3:18 - Grateful For 6:12 - Biden's Debate 1:25:10 - Kamala Harris: The Heir Apparent 2:07:05 - Someone Else?: The Heir Apparent 2:27:47 - Richy Plays Talk Show Host 2:38:40 - Odds & Ends SHOW NOTES/HOMEWORK * The RFK Debate https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1806462171892895808 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Guest PEPcaster Elle Hardy discuss The Dalek of Rage, Hanging With the Jeff Cranks, and Bert Newton's Racist Relative 1:55 - Grateful (New Series of Fargo/ Assange Freedom) 14:56 - Debate Reaction 32:02 - Correspondence (WaterGate/Mormon BirthRate/CheapFakes/Biden Slogan/No Tax on Tips) 49:30 - More on Louisiana Ten Commandments 1:04:56 - Stats Nugget (National Debt) 1:06:59 - Campaign Primaries (Jamaal Bowman/Lauren Boebert/Trump Disappointments) 1:37:26 - Campaign Tidbits (Trump Execution Threats/ Dirty Pool Mail-in Ads) 1:46:32 - Trump's Ground Game and Charlie Kirk 1:57:30 - The Elle Zone (Ukraine) 2:15:35 - The Elle Zone (Catholics and Hispanics) 2:23:27 - Chiquita Bananas Ruling 2:29:57 - Supreme Court (Rahimi) 2:47:30 - Biden Student Debt Forgiveness Plan Blocked   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss The REAL Watergate, The Gun's Perspective, and The Benefits of a Tribe of Half-Men 2:16 - Grateful For (Vermont's WaterGate/MLK's Back)16:10 - Correspondence (Community Service/Gooner/Lankford/Economy/Caitlin Clark/Election/IslamoFascism/Noam Chomsky)34:36 - Stats Nugget (Ozempic) 35:37 - Polling Tidbits 1:02:29 - The Campaign (Old Biden Videos/ Trump and CEOs/Biden's Big Ad/Detroit's Comeback/ No Tax on Tips) 1:32:47 - Biden's Immigration Executive Order 1:43:05 - Southern Baptists + IVF 1:51:54 - Louisiana Ten Commandments Law 2:06:20 - Stats Nugget (Families) 2:08:48 - Bump Stocks Supreme Court Case 2:32:14 - Chas Unleashed (The Campaign - Tariffs Instead of Taxes) 2:42:59 - Chas Unleashed (Polling Tidbits - Old People/Young People/Unlikely Voters) HOMEWORK/SHOW NOTES * For some reason Dave wanted me to put this old article of his in here, so here it is! https://www.ussc.edu.au/why-it-still-pays-to-chase-the-us-religious-vote Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Matt Gaetz's Insatiable Work Ethic, The Alito's Miaow, and Jesse Watters' Parenting Advice 2:15 - Grateful For (Jiawei Shen/Supreme Court Clean Sweep)10:50 - Correspondence (Trump Verdict/Jury/Ninjas/Akron/"Doctor"/MTG/Ranked Choice)28:35 - Hunter Biden Verdict Reaction57:24 - Steve Bannon v Merrick Garland Contempt-Off1:09:46 - Congressional Expensing & Nancy Mace1:15:29 - The Alito Recordings1:30:14 - Clarence Thomas' Many Gifts1:36:10 - Stats Nugget (IVF) 1:39:24 - Aileen Cannon + Her Calibresi Hearing1:54:31 - Biden's Immigration Executive Order 2:22:19 - Caitlin Clark Olympics Snub 2:36:28 - Chas Unleashed (Elon vs Australia) HOMEWORK/SHOWNOTES * Sakura Killers!!! GET INTO IT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Az9aVQyoig * The Caitlin Clark article Dave was referring to https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/06/04/caitlin-clark-chennedy-carter/    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Party of Dogs, The Soft Pecker and Dave HATES Akron Ohio! 3:13 - Grateful For (Indian Elections/Chas' New Sting) 9:15 - Correspondence (Deadly Force Warrant/EVs/Youth Polling/Supreme Court) 23:10 - Trump at the UFC 28.33 - Trump Conviction: The Verdict 33:33 - Trump Conviction: Why Did He Lose? 46:35 - Trump Conviction: Were The Charges Too Minor? 57:55 - Trump Conviction: Was It A Political Stitch-Up? 1:14:58 - House Hearings with Fauci + Garland 1:32:12 - Trump Conviction: The Political Ramifications 1:44:47 - Trump Conviction: Will This Provoke Retaliation? 2:05:09 - Biden and Netanyahu 2:18:27 - Trump Conviction: Sentencing 2:30:14 - Chas Unleashed (Trump Conviction: Damage To Faith In Legal System) 2:41:16 - Chas Unleashed (Trump Conviction: Grounds For Appeal) HOMEWORK/SHOWNOTES * A collection of Trump-related comments by Alvin Bragg when campaigning in 2021 https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/apr/12/heres-what-manhattan-district-attorney-alvin-bragg/ * Why Joe Biden is Hitler - A History Lesson by Newsmax's Carl Higbie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtACPxGJvfU Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Sam Alito - Super Feminist, Chuckles GPT, and How Trump Nearly Escaped Death! 2:09 - Grateful For (Rishi Sunak/Generous PEPpers) 5:41 - Correspondence (VP/Plea Bargain/Campaign/Charlottesville/Stats/EV Tariffs) 32:36 - The Libertarian Convention 1:00:07 - Stats Nugget (Recycling Plastics) 1:03:24 - Trump Trial Verdict 1:38:10 - Alito's Flags AGAIN 1:59:26 - Push to Hold Garland in Contempt/Congressional Clusterf*ck 2:20:48 - Biden Tried To Assassinate Trump!?! 2:36:29 - Correspondence (Theocracy/National Service) 2:45:48 - Are All The Recent Poll Trends Explained By "Low Trusters"? HOMEWORK/SHOWNOTES * The article about how Obama 2012 overcame their economic messaging issues https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/05/30/biden-absolutely-should-take-credit-for-the-economy/ * The FBI's "Use of Deadly Force" Official Policy https://www.justice.gov/jm/1-16000-department-justice-policy-use-force * The "Use of Deadly Force" Policy on the Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant  https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a6c0630-82a7-4d0f-91d5-b403c514a9d7_1097x816.png * The VOX article about "low trusters" that I purloined from https://www.vox.com/politics/351563/one-explanation-for-the-2024-elections-biggest-mystery * Elle Hardy's article about the New Apostolic Reformation  https://newrepublic.com/article/167499/new-apostolic-reformation-mastriano-christian * The Yes Minister National Service segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ahgjEjJkZks  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Guest PEPcaster Bill Wyman discuss The Demise of the NZ Sheep Rooting Joke, The Stagnation in Wig Technology and Bill Wyman is a Jealous Bitch. 1:48 - Grateful For (The NewsBiz/Connecting on the Internet/Bad Wigs)10:13 - Correspondence (Louisiana Abortion Pills/Comedy Songs) 21:49 - Correspondence (Alito's Flags) 37:52 - Interesting Polling 1:02:18 - Hush Money Trial Miscellanea 1:39:31 - The Ticketmaster/Live Nation Antitrust Lawsuit 2:01: 54 - Stats Nugget (NZ Sheep) 2:03:42 - Bill's Crime Thoughts 2:14:09 - Bill and Drudge 2:22:15 - Bill Wyman v Bill Wyman 2:34:00 - Chas Unleashed (The Red Tie Brigade) 2:47:32 - Chas Unleashed (Stats Nugget - Social Security) HOMEWORK/SHOWNOTES Bill's Novelty Songs Playlist! * "Senator Bobby" singing "Wild Thing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LE0aToTtGY * Dr Demento Classic 1: "Shaving Cream" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ffkDf0ol4 * Dr Demento Classic 2: "Fish Heads" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDtUzRIG6I Now a handful of so of Bill's last category - what he would term pretty good legit rock songs that happen to be funny, or funny songs that happen to be pretty good legit rock songs: *"Clowns" — one of many nice humorous endeavors from Too Much Joy that really rock! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O52mNrTjYTE *"Dead Skunk" is an immortal "one hit wonder" of the 1970s... though the artiste in question, Loudon Wainwright III, went on to a pretty distinguished career as a singer-songwriter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5hzc2Mei4 * This guy had a brief celebrity. Bill doesn't support the overall message, but the verse about Jackson Browne is a keeper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSktY_6sL-4 * This is a group called Two Nice Girls. Hint: There aren't two, they aren't girls, and they are not nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMiV27R1ZiI Bill's top 3 Hall of Fame immortals: * Mr Bo Diddley, with his maracas-playing foil, Jerome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ZdKCFFR3I * (Bonus! A sequel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHXDkLl7CCc  ) * "I, Viv Stanshall, trumpet" is one of the most beautiful sentences in the English language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcrUuCDFLOQ *And this could be the greatest of them all; Mojo Nixon, who died this year, was a great man. Bill once wrote about him, "He's like a friendly but not-quite-housebroken German shepherd: He means well but tends to make a mess, and he'll bite your leg if angered." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt81bVae4tQ  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Guest PEPcaster Melina Wicks discuss Giuliani Legal Case Bingo, Flying the Monsanto Flag, and Why The Old Thug's Doing Better Than Young Thug. 1:56 - Grateful For (NBA Playoffs/Courtney Gore) 10:00 - Correspondence (Worms/ Domes/ Comedy Songs/ Polling) 19:50 - Alan Lichtman's 13 Keys Election Predictions 31:14 - Trump's Legal "Unfairness" 40:31 - More on Hush Money Trial 1:05:34 - Greg Abbott's Pardon 1:31:55 - Stats Nugget (Supreme Court Cases) 1:34:33 - North Carolina Masks Law 1:39:31 - Louisiana Abortion Laws 1:48:52 - Trump + Contraception1:57:26 - Giuliani's Birthday2:05:05 - Stats Nugget (Woke Uni Syllabi) 2:08:40 - Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Supreme Court Case 2:18:31 - Alito's Flag HOMEWORK/SHOWNOTES: * The ProPublica story that inspired my "Grateful For" about Courtney Gore https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore  * Transcript of Michael Cohen getting caught out on the call to Keith Schiller (p3879-3899) https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/05648d6e0e415192/16f9b7bb-full.pdf   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Bradman of Wasted Money, Ron DeSantis' Fingering, and The 1800-SMILES Stadium of the 20s 2:41 - Grateful For (ABC MakeUp/Comeuppance for Gaetz Mates) 9:13 - Correspondence (Camping/ Tapeworm/ Vietnam War/Eurovision/Comedy Songs) 36:08 - NYT/Siena Disaster Poll for Biden 59:20 - Stats Nugget (Biggest Money Wasters) 1:06:48 - Trump Hush Money Trial Latest 1:34:34 - Trump's Fundraiser With Oil Men 1:42:39 - RFK Jr on Abortion/Vaccines 1:55:59 - DeSantis Bans Lab-Grown Meat 2:18:51 - Chas Unleashed (Israeli Weapons Hold/Human Rights Report) SHOW NOTES/HOMEWORK All The Comedy Songs I Talked About: * Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - The Math Of Love Triangles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck-UhvbCDAk * Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Let's Generalize About Men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa_QtMf6alU * Simpsons - When I Was 17 (I Drank Some Very Good Beer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrmW51ed58 * The Lonely Island - Jack Sparrrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY * The Lonely Island - Shy Ronnie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX4vzKH4les * The Lonely Island - Shy Ronnie Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_W_xLWtNa0 * I Think You Should Leave - The Bones Are Their Money https://vimeo.com/359233381 * Extras - David Bowie Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUOeMtF_-bc   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss What Happened To Weed Culture?, Why Tom Cotton Should Join The National Guard, and Leaving No Sex Offender Behind 3:53 - Grateful For (Courtroom Artists/Orthokeratology) 9:00 - Correspondence (Immunity/Marijuana/Documents Case/Trivia/ 27:19 - College Protests 58:59 - Biden, Netanyahu and Rafah1:12:11 - Hush Money Trial Recap1:24:19 - Harvey Weinstein Conviction Overturned1:29:37 - Polling1:42:54 - RFK's No Spoiler Pledge/BrainWorms2:02:51 - Toilet Break (Printing Money) 2:09:18 - More Kristi Noem Shenanigans 2:30:50 - New Title IX Revision   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Panhandling Dhoni, Trump's BIG Statement in 14 Days, and At What Point Does This Become A Spree? 2:16 - Grateful For (Michael Moorcock/TextFile Transcripts/No Iran-Israel War) 13:28 - Correspondence (Non-Compete Clauses/Trump's Bond/Cricket/Corrections/Music) 29:49 - Student Protests 1:14:52 - Kristi Noem's Dog 1:36:06 - Policy Time: Airline Refunds 1:41:58 - Policy Time: Marijuana Rescheduling 1:55:44 - Arizona (Abortion/Indictments) 2:04:55 - Stats Nugget (Population Dropping) 2:08:45 - UAW success in Volkswagen Factory 2:17:06 - Third Eagle! 2:20:52 - Chas Unleashed (Supreme Court Trump Immunity Hearing) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Jim's Online Spaces, Trump's Playboys and How Christopher Columbus Was An Arsehole! 2:00 - Grateful For (Causation/ MS Dhoni/ The Denton B-Side) 19:36 - Correspondence (Eclipses/Libraries/Weather Girls/Inflation/Good Books) 33:30 - The Conviction of The Crumbleys 40:58 - Trump's NY Trial's First Week 1:04:51 - Congress: Foreign Aid Votes 1:18:16 - The All-New Mike Johnson 1:28:20 - Comstock Act 1:32:08 - James Comer Wants Biden's Audio 1:34:42 - 2024 Polling/RFK 1:46:34 - Supreme Court: Grants Pass Homelessness Case 1:58:05 - Arizona Abortion Law 2:00:33 - Weird Florida Law 2:02:40 - Stats Nugget (Crime Rates) 2:07:17 - Terrible Political Songs 2:14:15 - Chas Unleashed: Non-Compete Clauses Banned 2:29:39 - Chas Unleashed: New Federal Overtime Rules 2:39:30 - Chas Unleashed: Supreme Court EMTALA Case (Emergency Abortions) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Dr Dave discuss Killing The Chicken To Scare The Monkeys, Why Dave Is A Monster, and We Enter The Paddle Pop Lion's Den 1:50 - Grateful For (The Spider-Eaters/The McCain Girls) 12:54 - Correspondence (King James Bible/Andrew Denton/Press Sources/Left & Right/Nebraska/Bloodbath/Space-X/Polling/Trivia) 27:08 - Trump In Court 48:31 - Truth Social Price Tangent TreeHouse 50:54 - Trump In Court Continued 1:08:24 - Stats Nugget (Political Websites) 1:11:18 - s702 Re-Authorisation 1:21:09 - Congress: Foreign Aid Bills 1:29:04 - TikTok Ban Revisited 1:34:16 - Marjorie Taylor-Greene v Mike Johnson 1:51:04 - Mike Johnson & The House Democrats 1:54:40 - Mayorkas Impeachment 2:02:57 - More on Abortion in Arizona 2:10:01 - Correspondence (Abortion) 2:19:46 - Biden Closes Gun Show Loophole? 2:23:05 - Biden Closes Oil Development in Parts of Alaska  2:27:08 - Congressional Review Act Window Opening Soon 2:28:54 - Trump CAmpaign's New Fundraising Idea 2:31:20 - The Next Dirty-Pool SuperPac Advertising Tactic 2:33:31 - New Cooking Copyright Opportunity! 2:37:27 - Chas Unleashed - (Supreme Court, Fischer Case) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Dr Dave discuss Biden Showing Some Leg, Dave Insists That Student Debt Forgiveness Isn't Boring and TAKE THAT, SUPREME COURT! BAM! 2:20 - Grateful For (The Conversation/Missing Easter News/Kari Lake Lawsuit) 16:49 - Correspondence (Olympic Mascots/Truth Social/Trump Bible/Left and Right/Good News Sources) 52:18 - Trump Abortion Announcement 1:10:47 - Abortion and Florida 1:18:21 - Abortion and Arizona 1:26:54 - The Comstock Act 1:30:24 - 2024 Polling (and The Generational Inversion) 1:45:13 - March Fundraising, Organization, and TV ads 1:50:32 - Stats Nugget (Book Sales) 1:52:30 - Biden's Student Debt Forgiveness Policy 2:10:53 - State Electoral Rule Foibles (Nebraska's Rogue Electoral College Vote) 2:21:35 - State Electoral Rule Foibles (Alabama/Ohio Presidential Ballots) 2:24:19 - OJ Simpson R.I.P. 2:28:28 - Trump Scaremongering Migrant Crime (and the Trump Two-Step) 2:44:07 - s702 Re-Authorization 2:53:35 - Stats Nugget (Work Hours) 2:55:22 - Lara Trump's New Single! HOMEWORK/SHOW NOTES: * The Biden Campaign's "Willow's Box" Abortion Ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wInNjr_9D28 * Norm McDonald's SNL O.J. Simpson Joke Compilation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aut3QkIJQOc * Norm McDonald's infamous 1999 SNL Opening Monologue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofXxinOtPiQ  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Dr Dave discuss Amik The Beaver from the 1976 Montreal Olympics, The World's Worst Cane Cutting Podcast, and How Dave Needs A Wikipedia Page! 2:02 - Grateful For (Olympic Mascots/Linsey graham) 25:40 - Correspondence (Trump Legals/ Conservative Media Affinity/ Kids Of Today/ Wikipedia/ Tarantino/ Flappy Bird) 40:59 - Ronna McDaniel out from MSNBC 1:01:10 - The Trump Endorsed Bible 1:08:15 - Trump & The RNC's Cash 1:13:10 - DJT Stock 1:30:28 - Trump Legal Miscellanea 1:34:22 - The End of The Hunter Biden Inquiry 1:36:22 - Mifepristone Supreme Court Case 1:48:52 - Immigration & The New Great Replacement Theory 2:01:34 - Not Really Talking About The UN Ceasefire Resolution 2:02:24 - RFK Jr's VP Pick 2:12:50 - The Departed (Joe Lieberman) 2:21:03 - Chas Unleashed (Campaign + Polling) 2:26:05 - Chas Unleashed (Social Media Blocking Supreme Court Case) 2:34:37 - Chas Unleashed (Don't Say Gay Bill) 2:40:18 - Chas Unleashed (Gavin Newsom Panera Scandal) 2:45:53 - Chas Unleashed (Perverse Gun Law Outcomes) 2:50:46 - Chas Unleashed (Congress On The Edge) HOMEWORK/SHOW NOTES: * Learn how awesome The Netherlands is, and check out those pics of vertical farms! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/netherlands-agriculture-technology/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Special Guest PEPCaster Richard Cooke discuss the challenges facing the newsmedia, and how they are a little like trading a horse for a handjob. 1:43 - Grateful For (Neil's Mugs/Potential Assange Deal) 6:40 - Correspondence (TikTok/Fani Willis/Trump's Bond/Kevin Rudd/The Kids of Today/Richy's Book) 50:14 - My chat with Richy about the challenges facing journalists, and what a post-media environment looks like. HOMEWORK/SHOWNOTES  * A free link to the Jonathan Haidt article about "The Kids of Today" being ruined by phones https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/?gift=U5i_fU3LhJpheeE9K9K4afhcLOnsWIsMXFxg79zQ-_8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Everyman of McDonaldland, The 'Mouse Trap' Prosecution Strategy, and THAT IS BAIT! 5:43 - Grateful For (Blazing Saddles/Neil's Present/PEPFAR) 12:48 - Correspondence (Biden SOTU/Willy Wonka/CNNNN/Obama's DNC/Judge Cannon/Adam Sandler/TikTok) 39:21 - Kevin Rudd and Trump 58:05 - Trump Legals (Bragg Trial Delayed) 1:04:22 - Trump Legals (Trump Can't Pay His Bond) 1:14:23 - Trump Legals (Navarro Going To Jail) 1:17:17 - Paul Manafort's Return 1:20:38 - Trump Legals (Suing Stephanopoulos) 1:29:48 - Trump Legals (14th Amendment Update) 1:30:40 - Elections (No Labels) 1:31:38 - Elections (Ohio Republican Primary) 1:44:14 - Elections (Pence/Young Non-Endorsements) 1:50:06 - Biden v Netanyahu 2:06:47 - Chas Unleashed: Judicial Shopping (Update) 2:10:20 - Chas Unleashed: Fani Willis Ruling (Update) 2:18:51 - Chas Unleashed: Merrick Garland's 2021-22 2:25:01 - Chas Unleashed: Biden Special Counsel Transcript/Hearing 2:55:38 - Chas Unleashed: Stats Nugget (Shootings) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss A Wife Who Lives In A House, Adam Sandler: The Ultimate Push Factor, and Is This The Way To Amarillo? I Have A Dubious Lawsuit To File! 1:53 - Aileen Cannon rules on Trump Espionage Act challenge. 4:59 - Grateful For (The NYT Games Package/World Party/End of Judicial Shopping) 14:25 - Correspondence (Size of Phoenix/Brian May/Queen/Jack Smith/ My Visits to America/Inequality/Football Gambling) 32:29 - The Departed (Ken Buck) 39:14 - What's Going On With The Mayorkas Impeachment Trial? 45:01 - State Of The Union Wrap 1:11:21 - Tik Tok Sale Bill 1:44:24 - Stats Nugget (Highest Paid Actors) 1:49:13 - New RNC Chairs 1:59:01 - Eric Woolson Chat, Part 2 1:59:41 - Eric on Third Party Candidates 2:29:55 - Eric on The Age Question 2:42:25 - Eric on The Gaza Influence on The Election 2:44:22 - Eric On The "Crazy Shit Trump Says" Campaign Tactic 2:46:40 - Eric on Trump's Legal Issues 2:49:52 - Eric on The Abortion Issue 2:55:14 - Eric On The Immigration Issue HOMEWORK/SHOW NOTES * Relive The Impending End Of The World with 'World Party - Ship Of Fools' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHh0V7UjVXI Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An introductory chat with our new Guest PEPcaster, Iowa Campaign Manager Extraordinaire Eric Woolson 3:08 - Who Eric most enjoyed working for 7:10 - Grateful For…. (Eric's Wife/People Indulging The Segment/Eric's T-Shirts) 14:07 - What It Was Like To Work For Joe Biden 33:10 - Eric's Concern About Trump or Trumpism 50:27 - When The Republican Party Went Off The Rails 57:40 - How A Campaign Manager Thinks 1:06:35 - Eric On Polling 1:51:26 - Eric On The Economy 2:23.01 - Eric on the RNC and 2024 Campaign Money Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Guest PEPcaster Bill Wyman discuss Flouncing On The Senate Floor, The Unknown Unmasked, and Pissing On Your Own Face In Disgust 1:28 - Grateful For…. Living in Australia/Fetterman's Grace 7:13 - Correspondence (Russia Stuff/Senate Stuff/Wonka Stuff/Bill & Queen) 34:42 - The Departed - Nikki Haley 49:40 - The Departed - Kyrsten Sinema 1:11:56 - Stats Nugget (Unproductive Congresses) 1:16:41 - Super Tuesday 1:20:03 - State Of The Union Preview 1:35:30 - Trump Supreme Court Immunity Appeal (Update) 1:55:28 - Bill's World Of Entertainment (Oscars) 2:07:46  - Chas Unleashed (Supreme Court & the 14th Amendment) 2:33:40 - Chas Unleashed (Hunter Biden Testimony)   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Judge Quarter Pounder, Sanding A Table Down To Nothing With Your Vowels, and Dave Has A Vision For "The Future" 2:18 - Grateful For (NRL Return/ Willy Chocolate Experience) 17:48 - Correspondence (Navalny/Hillary Videos) 25:06 - Vale Mitch "Old Crow" McConnell 38:14 - Alabama IVF (Again!) 49:52 Stats Nugget (Abortion Pills) 51:07 - The Michigan Primaries 57:36 - Michigan Primary and 'Uncommitted' 1:12:39 - Biden's Attempts To Suck Up To Dearborn 1:19:37 - Michigan Republicans Update 1:21:55 - Supreme Court Hears Trump Immunity Appeal 1:37:21 - The Atlantic's Nightmare Fuel About Jan 6 2025 1:42:16 - Trump's Massive New York Fine 1:53:48 - The Fani Willis Hearing 2:06:56 - Shifty Schiff in California 2:13:55 - RFK Jnr Update 2:14:56 - Trump Sneakers Update HOMEWORK/SHOWNOTES * MAKE YOUR VOICE COUNT! And sign the change.org petition to DEMAND the return of the Willy Chocolate Experience! https://www.change.org/p/reopen-the-beloved-glasgow-willy-wonka-experience     Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Special Guest Podcaster Elle Hardy discuss Russia's Taylor Swift, Dodgy Dean Phillips and What You Get The Putin Who Has Everything. 1:41 - Grateful For (Air Conditioning/ "Evidence Maximalism") 7:57 - Correspondence 17:31 - Alabama IVF (Aftermath) 40:05 - Tucker-Putin Interview 1:03:36 - Tucker's Propaganda Videos 1:37:13 - Stats Nugget (Competitive Seats) 1:41:42 - All About Navalny 2:18:21 - Democratic Brokered Convention Freakout 2:29:23 - 2020 "Stolen Election" DeadEnders (Update) 2:34:50 - AI Robocall (Update) HOMEWORK/SHOWNOTES * That "Evidence Maximalism" article I'm grateful for! (Don't forget to use archive.md if you can't read it) https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/evidence-maximalism-conspiracy-theories-taylor-swift/677390/ * The 'More Perfect' podcast I mentioned, if you are heavily into the American legal system reaching into foreign countries! https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolabmoreperfect/episodes/enemy-of-mankind  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Dr Dave + Felicity Ruby discuss "Chasnip", The Essence of Trumpness, and Hyping Up The King of Kings 1:40 - Grateful For (The Kid Who Found Asbestos/Chas' Archive Secret) 8:45 - Correspondence (Jon Stewart/Swearing/Biden Special Counsel Report) 18:28 - Trump's Massive Civil Fraud Payout 44:29 - Trump Sneakers/Fragrances 55:33 - Trump and NATO 1:14:54 - Alabama IVF Courtcase 1:35:42 - Comstock Act Abortion Law Theory 1:38:45 - Hunter Biden "Source" Indicted 1:54:48 - 2024 Election Updates 1:56:10 - Assange's Hearing (with Felicity Ruby) HOMEWORK/SHOW NOTES: * Dave's Asbestos article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664636/ * The article about Trump's debt https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2022/07/29/donald-trumps-great-escape-how-the-former-president-solved-his-debt-crisis/?sh=33b944c23970 * Dave's Embryo info source https://theconversation.com/most-human-embryos-naturally-die-after-conception-restrictive-abortion-laws-fail-to-take-this-embryo-loss-into-account-187904 * We can't fit the Assange notes in here. Head to the blurb under the Youtube or Facebook videos of this podcast for Felicity Ruby's full list of Assange resources. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss DJ Cornball's Day In Court, The Tiny Cursed Majority, and Chas Recommends That You Don't Become A Regular User Of Fentanyl. 2.44 - Grateful For (Whatever The Hell Was On Our TV/Jon Stewart) 10.45 - Biden Special Counsel Report Breakdown 1.06.18 - Biden Pressert & The Politics of Old 1.26.04 - The Very Special Elections 1.45.50 - Stats Nugget (Drug Overdoses) 1.48.03 - Mark Steyn Defamation Case 2.04.00 - Stats Nugget (Most White/Black/Latino/Asian/Male/Female Jobs) 2.08.32 - Biden's LNG Export Pause 2.17.12 - Senate Foreign Aid Bill 2.29.11 - Correspondence (Winston Churchill) SHOW NOTES * Jon Stewart's First Monologue back to The Daily Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpBPm0b9deQ * When Jon Stewart Destroyed Crossfire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE * Noah Smith's Climate Change Piece with some Very Digestible Graphs https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/a-bunch-of-handy-charts-about-climate * The Special Counsel Report on Biden's Classified Documents https://www.justice.gov/storage/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Power of Al Green, Mitch McConnell releasing 'The Dudes', and Monkeys Having Relations With Footballs 2.33 - Grateful For (Australian Explorers/Nat Bullard) 9.15 - Immigration Intro 20.52 - Illegal Immigration (The 3 Main Problems) 45.17 - The Immigration Bill (The Detail) 59.52 - The Immigration Bill (The Politics) 1.34.28 - The Mayorkas Impeachment 1.54.03 - The Biden Impeachment 1.57.59 - More ClownCar Congress 2.04.50 - Attempted Ilhan Omar Censureship 2.08.55 - Child Tax Credit Update 2.10.37 - Stats Nugget (Unions) 2.12.39 - Biden's Campaign Tactics 2.20.41 - Nancy Macde Update 2.21.55 - Taylor Swift Conspiracy Update 2.25.42 - Trump Immunity Claim Update SHOW NOTES/HOMEWORK * Nat Bullard's Climate Change Graphs https://www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations * The article about when the Jan 6 trial might be held https://www.justsecurity.org/91837/how-long-will-trumps-immunity-appeal-take-analyzing-the-alternative-timelines/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Embarrassing Cabinet Ministers, Clearing The Path To The Michigan Republican Party's Anus, & Does Anyone Know What A "Psyop" Is? 1.11 - Grateful For (Shamar Joseph/Wyden + J.Smith) 9.06 - Correspondence (Political Spending/Proclamation Day) 12.10 - Who's In Charge of the Michigan Republican Party? 25.25 - Libertarian RFK? 26.53 - Trump Immunity Update 32.25 - Georgia Trial Update 34.36 - Abortion Update 36.02 - Yemen Update 42.15 - ICJ Gaza Case 1.27.12 - Bernie Sanders Push for Human Rights 1.30.09 - E.J. Carroll Trial Verdict 1.47.20 - Taylor Swift Conspiracy 2.26.17 - Texas Migration Stand-Off HOMEWORK/SHOW NOTES *The two John McWhorter artciles Dave referred to are here https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/opinion/plagiarism-language.html and here https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/opinion/plagiarism-claudine-gay-ackman-oxman.html  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Troll Justice, Our Onesie Forefathers, and This Week's Big Award Winner! 5.09 - Grateful For (Hans Noel/Matt Gaetz Trolls) 13.27 - Georgia Trial Update 16.10 - House Budget/Leadership Update 22.31 - Bill Ackman Update 24.47 - Ron DeSantis R.I.P. 1.01.43 - New Hampshire Primary 1.40.07 - Biden v The Houthis 2.00.34 - Stats Nugget (Black Male Employment) 2.02.38 - Dave's Football Update 2.04.20 - Stats Nugget (Life Expectancy) HOMEWORK/SHOW NOTES * The awesome Atlantic hitpiece against tweeting phenom Bill Ackman, free for a month here https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/bill-ackman-neri-oxman-twitter-posts/677164/?gift=U5i_fU3LhJpheeE9K9K4aSmGVTdAHiSPsQwU0wvFYXA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share * The Sarah Phillips piece on Yemen that Dr Dave cribbed from https://theconversation.com/why-us-strikes-will-only-embolden-the-houthis-not-stop-their-attacks-on-ships-in-the-red-sea-221588  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss Billionaire Bowerbirds, Manufacturing Bullshit, and Seal Team Sics 2.11 Grateful for… (Tanzania, Judge Kevin Newman) 10.45 - Claudine Gay/Bill Ackman Update 20.18 - IOWA 49.04 - Stats Nugget (Manufacturing) 52.08 - Colorado Supreme Court ruling on 14th Amendment 1.06.50 - Trump Immunity to Prosecution Claim 1.18.00 - Fani Willis Georgia prosecution scandal 1.30.30 - Dave's World of Football!! 1.40.21 - NY Fraud Trial 1.41.50 - E. Jean Carroll Defamation Trial 1.51.15 - Roger Stone Murder Tapes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Melina finish discussing all the Joe and Hunter scuttlebutt. ALL of it! 1:37 - Was Hunter Sneaking Burisma Talking Points into The White House? 10:05 - The Ukrainian Prosecutor Sacking46:06 - Miscellaneous Matt Gaetz Allegation47:39 - Did Joe Profit From Hunter's Businesses?52:03 - The FD-1023 Form Alleging Joe was Bribed1:08:18 - Hunter Paying For Joe Expenses1:11:40 - Did Joe and Hunter Share a Bank Account?1:13:48 - Loan Repayments of Ill Repute 1:21:11 - Corruption Without Profiting?1:22:40 - Chas' Impeachment Conclusion1:24:08 - Was there a Cover-up?1:26:27 - Was The Investigation Stymied?1:39:06 - Did Hunter Get A Sweetheart Deal?1:52:51 - Who Was The Decider?2:03:01 - Melina's Impeachment Conclusion   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Melina discuss EVEN MORE of the Joe and Hunter scuttlebutt. ALL of it! 1:30 - The Bobulinski Allegations continued: '10 for the Big Guy?' Email 11.30 - Other Evidence Implicating Joe in Hunter's Business29:14 - Confirmed Phone Calls Joe Had with Hunter Business Associates 41:08 - Confirmed Meetings Between Joe and Hunter Business Associates 48:50 - The Cafe Milano Dinners 1:00:39 - The UN Secretary-General Meeting 1:05:02: - More Confirmed Meetings Between Joe and Hunter Business Associates 1:21:25 - Joe Biden Pseudonyms and Leaking Govt Info to Hunter?   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Melina discuss all the Joe and Hunter scuttlebutt. ALL of it!  3:12 - Joe and Hunter's History of Dodgy Dealings 14:32 - Hunter Biden Overview 18:47 - The Influence Peddling that Generally Exists in Politics 28:52 - Hunter and Russia 36:01 - Hunter and Kazakhstan 41:20 - Hunter and Romania 50:58 - Hunter and Ukraine (Intro) 1:14:41 - Hunter and China (Intro) 1:45:10 - Joe's Denials of Knowing Anything about Hunter's Business 1:48:35 - Joe's Involvement in Hunter's Business: The Bobulinski Allegations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas & Dr Dave discuss The BeBop and RockSteady of MAGA, A Stats Nugget Mystery, and Dr Dave's Million Dollar Debate Idea 2:21 - Grateful For (De Havilland Dash Planes/Norman Lear) 11:50 - AI Journalism Update 14:28 - Elon Musk Update 26:00 - ACLU Update 27:44 - Debate Update 35:53 - Fake Electors Update 36:45 - UAP Update 39:56 - "Dictator" talk backfiring 54:39 - Trump's Appeal for Immunity 1:07:51 - Why Punters May Not be Enthused by the Economy 1:20:41 - Stats Nugget (Pedestrian deaths) 1:26:04 - The College Presidents Anti-Semitism Hearing 2:00:53 - Stats Nugget (Climate Change Temperatures 2:05:11 - Texas Abortion Case 2:18:00 - Biden Taking Patents off Pharma Companies? 2:23:40 - The Topics We Didn't Get To SHOW NOTES  *The Military Youtuber who seemed to know a bit about Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKiFAKMoi0 (Thanks Tim!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Dr Dave discuss What Happened to Michelangelo NInja Turtle, The Writer Who Loves To Try Different Foods And Drinks, and Why Chas Is A Beautiful Little Seahorse.  1:35 - Grateful for PhD Graduations/RFK Jr's Honesty 11:34 - Correspondence (Refugees) 17:04 - Not Talking About The Debate 19:09 - Cornel West (Update) 20:21 - Correspondence (Religion) 25:09 - Florida Dem Primary 34:49 - Congress (Vale Kevin McCarthy) 47:02 - Congress (Ukraine/Israel/Immigration Bill) 58:28 - Congress (Anti-Semitism Bill) 1:02:53 - Congress (Tuberville Hold Over) 1:07:22 - Congress (UAP Amendment) 1:12:05 - Artificial Intelligence & Journalism 1:21:08 - Toilet Break 1:25:47 - Sandra Day O'Connor (Obituary) 1:38:33 - Stats Nugget (Russian Domestic Violence) 1:40:14 - Elon Musk (Update) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Dr Dave discuss Sign-Stealing Scumbags, Warmongering Leo DiCaprio & How Do You Pronounce B'Tselem? 2:01 - Grateful for 'Foolhardy'/PrEP 5:41 - Question Time (Fascism) 18:19 - Stats Nugget (Democracy Voters) 23:34 - Biden v Missouri Update 26:41 - 14th Amendment Update (Colorado Court) 31:00 - Dr Dave on Kissinger 45:11 - Gaza (Polling) 57:45 - Gaza (WashUp from Al Shifa Operation) 1:20:11 - Gaza (The Humanitarian Pause) 1:30:15 - Gaza (Palestinian Prisoners) 1:42:40 - Michigan Corner (College Football) 2:03:06 - Anti-Semitism and Elon Musk HOMEWORK/SHOW NOTES * The Mike Mukasey piece explaining the "Officer of the United States" argument against Trump being disqualified https://www.wsj.com/articles/was-trump-an-officer-of-the-united-states-constitution-14th-amendment-50b7d26?mod=article_inline *Spencer Ackerman's obituary of Kissinger (remember to open in incognito mode) https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chas and Dr Dave discuss Selling Their Spleens, Dave Has Brought A Prop, and IT'S FINALLY 'BIDEN V MISSOURI' O'CLOCK! 1:31 - Grateful For (The Toilet Door Instructor, Nathan Fielder) 7:09 - Correspondence (3000 Shoes) 12:57 - Trump Legal Updates 15:35 - Primaries Update 16:24 - No Labels Update 17:25 - Abortion Update 18:54 - Budget Update 19:58 - Trump and Fascism 1:36:45 - Stats Nugget (How Much More Money?) 1:38:41 - *BIDEN V MISSOURI*!!!!! 1:56:04 - Russell Brand (aka Planet Britain!) 2:05:41 - The New Argentinian President HOMEWORK/SHOW NOTES * Nathan Fielder on Conan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TUGZ1VQDss * Nathan Fielder on Jimmy Kimmel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MldMVC82-Po  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.