<description>&lt;p&gt;Chas &amp; Dr Dave discuss The Fail Son Air Force, Dispensing The Pez, and WE GOT HIM!!!!&lt;br /&gt; WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Timestamps:&lt;br /&gt; 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave + 250 Special!&lt;br /&gt; 2:06 - Grateful (Sirât, Hamilton FOX III)&lt;br /&gt; 10:28 - Correspondence (Noem Dishonesty)&lt;br /&gt; 19:15 - Update (SAVE America Act)&lt;br /&gt; 33:18 - Iran War: Updates&lt;br /&gt; 46:02 - Iran War: Hubris&lt;br /&gt; 1:12:56 - Iran War: Economic Impacts&lt;br /&gt; 1:45:45 - Iran War: No Plans&lt;br /&gt; 2:04:40 - Iran War: Loose Ends (Strategy, School Bombing, Torpedoed Ship)&lt;br /&gt; 2:21:18 - US Economy Update&lt;br /&gt; 2:27:13 - Anthropic Defense Department Stand-off&lt;br /&gt; 2:52:36 - Unleashed (Anthropic Cont.)&lt;br /&gt; 3:09:34 - Unleashed Correspondence (Iran War)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;SHOW LINKS:&lt;br /&gt; *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Homework:&lt;br /&gt; * Chas' Favourite John Oliver Bit - https://bitly.cx/W34ck&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:&lt;br /&gt; Connie Willis - Doomsday Book &amp; To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244)&lt;br /&gt; Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road  (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240)&lt;br /&gt; Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)&lt;br /&gt; Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)&lt;br /&gt; John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)&lt;br /&gt; Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)&lt;br /&gt; John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)&lt;br /&gt; David Simon &amp; Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)&lt;br /&gt; William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)&lt;br /&gt; Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)&lt;br /&gt; Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)&lt;br /&gt; Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)&lt;br /&gt; Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)&lt;br /&gt; Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)&lt;br /&gt; Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)&lt;br /&gt; Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)&lt;br /&gt; Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)&lt;br /&gt; Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)&lt;br /&gt; Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)&lt;br /&gt; Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)&lt;br /&gt; Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)&lt;br /&gt; Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)&lt;br /&gt; David Simon &amp; Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)&lt;br /&gt; Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)&lt;br /&gt; Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)&lt;br /&gt; Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)&lt;br /&gt; Ian Lambot &amp; Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)&lt;br /&gt; Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)&lt;br /&gt; Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)&lt;br /&gt; Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)&lt;br /&gt; Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)&lt;br /&gt; Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)&lt;br /&gt; Cory Doctorow &amp; Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)&lt;br /&gt; Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)&lt;br /&gt; John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)&lt;br /&gt; Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)&lt;br /&gt; Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)&lt;br /&gt; Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)&lt;br /&gt; Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)&lt;br /&gt; Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus&lt;br /&gt; Zeke Faux - Number Go Up&lt;br /&gt; Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy&lt;br /&gt; Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment&lt;br /&gt; Naomi Klein - Doppelganger&lt;br /&gt; Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult&lt;br /&gt; Wendy Brown - States Of Injury&lt;br /&gt; Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind&lt;br /&gt; Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This&lt;br /&gt; David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump&lt;br /&gt; Jane Mayer - Dark Money&lt;br /&gt; Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit&lt;br /&gt; Stephen King - The Dead Zone&lt;br /&gt; Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief&lt;br /&gt; Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History&lt;br /&gt; Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails&lt;br /&gt; Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X&lt;br /&gt; Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind&lt;br /&gt; David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years&lt;br /&gt; Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution&lt;br /&gt; Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight&lt;br /&gt; Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember&lt;br /&gt; Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets&lt;br /&gt; Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers&lt;br /&gt; John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion&lt;br /&gt; Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire&lt;br /&gt; Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism&lt;br /&gt; Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case&lt;br /&gt; James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness&lt;br /&gt; The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/&lt;br /&gt; James Beverley - God's Man in the White House&lt;br /&gt; Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future&lt;br /&gt; Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad&lt;br /&gt; Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism&lt;br /&gt; Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State&lt;br /&gt; Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism&lt;br /&gt; James Morone - Hellfire Nation&lt;br /&gt; Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets&lt;br /&gt; Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom&lt;br /&gt; Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough&lt;br /&gt; Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning&lt;br /&gt; Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed&lt;br /&gt; Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares&lt;br /&gt; Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic&lt;br /&gt; Ghassan Hage - White Nation&lt;br /&gt; George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things&lt;br /&gt; George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By&lt;br /&gt; Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow&lt;br /&gt; Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing&lt;br /&gt; Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement&lt;br /&gt; Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis&lt;br /&gt; Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge&lt;br /&gt; Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm&lt;br /&gt; Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland&lt;br /&gt; Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism&lt;br /&gt; Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails&lt;br /&gt; Nancy L. Rosenblum &amp; Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying&lt;br /&gt; Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism&lt;br /&gt; Jon Krakauer - Missoula&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!&lt;/p&gt;</description>

PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

Chas Licciardello

DIRE STRAIT! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 250, 13 March)

MAR 14, 2026203 MIN
PEP with Chas and Dr Dave

DIRE STRAIT! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 250, 13 March)

MAR 14, 2026203 MIN

Description

Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Fail Son Air Force, Dispensing The Pez, and WE GOT HIM!!!! WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave + 250 Special! 2:06 - Grateful (Sirât, Hamilton FOX III) 10:28 - Correspondence (Noem Dishonesty) 19:15 - Update (SAVE America Act) 33:18 - Iran War: Updates 46:02 - Iran War: Hubris 1:12:56 - Iran War: Economic Impacts 1:45:45 - Iran War: No Plans 2:04:40 - Iran War: Loose Ends (Strategy, School Bombing, Torpedoed Ship) 2:21:18 - US Economy Update 2:27:13 - Anthropic Defense Department Stand-off 2:52:36 - Unleashed (Anthropic Cont.) 3:09:34 - Unleashed Correspondence (Iran War) SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW Homework: * Chas' Favourite John Oliver Bit - https://bitly.cx/W34ck THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST: Connie Willis - Doomsday Book & To Say Nothing of the Dog (Mentioned 4:26, Ep 244) Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road (Mentioned 1:48:45, Ep 240) Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235) Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232) John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231) Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227) John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225) William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222) Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220) Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217) Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217) Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215) Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215) Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214) Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198) Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195) Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194) Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178) David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178) Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164) Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158) Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157) Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155) Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155) Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155) Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155) Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155) Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150) Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150) John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141) Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141) Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136) Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134) Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133) Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus Zeke Faux - Number Go Up Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment Naomi Klein - Doppelganger Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult Wendy Brown - States Of Injury Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump Jane Mayer - Dark Money Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit Stephen King - The Dead Zone Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/ James Beverley - God's Man in the White House Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism James Morone - Hellfire Nation Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic Ghassan Hage - White Nation George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism Jon Krakauer - Missoula THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!