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

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

WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave

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

11:32 - Tariffs Ruling

58:54 - Tariff Politics

1:21:54 - State of the Union

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

1:43:56 - Attacking Iran?

2:11:44 - Obama Apes Controversy

2:28:37 - UAE Payoff

2:41:38 - Texas Dems Senate Primary

2:57:04 - Unleashed: Colbert Interview

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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!