Chas & Dr Dave discuss The Day The Jacaranda Died, Christmas in Venezuela, and A Dog Called Lithium
WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave
3:20 - Grateful (Jacaranda Season, Impeachment Spoiler)
15:25 - Correspondence (CLEO Bachelor, No Kings, Nobel Prize, Contranyms, DOJ, 'Hooch' Nicknames)
28:29 - Updates (Argentina Bailout, Polling, No Kings)
47:32 - China Trade War/Rare Earths
1:06:41 - Shutdown Update
1:14:39 - Stats Nugget - Medicaid
1:17:22- Hegseth Media Update
1:26:56 - Gaza Ceasefire Update
1:35:50 - Venezuela Update
2:02:33 - Albo Meets Trump
2:16:07 - Supreme Court Voting Rights Act
2:41:12 - Unleashed - RETRIBUTION! (Comey Indictment, Bolton Indictment, Santos Commutation)
[Recorded: Thursday 23 October 2:40 PM AEST / 11:40PM October 23 NY Time]
SHOW LINKS:
*Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW
HOMEWORK:
*The October DoW Media Guidelines - https://bitly.cx/bzn5
*Dave's Conversation article on Supreme Court Tariffs - https://bitly.cx/Nkah
THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
Michael Lewis - Who Is Government? (Mentioned 2:19:59, Ep 235)
Orlando Whitfield - All That Glitters (Mentioned 2:34:37, Ep 232)
John Lyons - Balcony Over Jerusalem (Mentioned 2:45:26, Ep 231)
Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow (Mentioned 2:35:12, Ep 227)
John Steinbeck - Cannery Row (Mentioned 02:39, Ep 226)
David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Mentioned 2:21:40, Ep 225)
William Appleman Williams - The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (Mentioned 2:11:23, Ep 222)
Mahmood Mamdani - Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (Mentioned 2:07:14, Ep 220)
Carlo Rovelli - The Order Of Time (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
Carlo Rovelli - Reality Is Not What It Seems (Mentioned 06:36, Ep 220)
Ryszard Kapuściński - Shah of Shahs (Mentioned 2:21:27, Ep 217)
Ervand Abrahamian - Khomeinism (Mentioned 2:23:19, Ep 217)
Anthony Seldon - Truss at 10 (Mentioned 1:36:09, Ep 215)
Steven Teles - The Conservative Legal Movement (Mentioned 2:12:12, Ep 215)
Amin Maalouf - The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (Mentioned 4:32, Ep 214)
Geoffrey Blainey - The Causes Of War (Mentioned 43:49, Ep 198)
Margaret Levi - Of Rule And Revenue (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
Margaret Levi - Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism (Mentioned 1:11:16, Ep 195)
Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman (Mentioned 2:14, Ep 194)
Sid Meier - Sid Meier's Memoir! (Mentioned 16:30, Ep 178)
David Simon & Ed Burns - The Corner (Mentioned 8:40, Ep 178)
Maurice O. Wallace - King's Vibrato (Mentioned 14:26, Ep 164)
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent - (Mentioned 32:12, Ep 164)
Robert Plunket - My Search For Warren Harding (Mentioned 1:49:12, Ep 158)
Ian Lambot & Greg Girard - City of Darkness Revisited (Mentioned 39:25, Ep 157)
Max Chafkin - The Contrarian (Mentioned 32:18, Ep 155)
Claire Conner - Wrapped In The Flag (Mentioned 31:42, Ep 155)
Rita Abrahamsen, Mike Williams et al - Global Right (Mentioned 31:12, Ep 155)
Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry - The Flag And The Cross (Mentioned 30:49, Ep 155)
Cynthia Miller-Idriss - Hate In The Homeland (Mentioned 30:10, Ep 155)
Cory Doctorow & Rebecca Giblin - Chokepoint Capitalism (Mentioned 34:55, Ep 150)
Elizabeth Ingleson - Made In China (Mentioned 31:50, Ep 150)
John Corrigan - Religious Intolerance, America, and the World (Mentioned 1:16:18, Ep 141)
Gérard Prunier - From Genocide to Continental War (Mentioned 48:18, Ep 141)
Liu Cixin, - The Three Body Trilogy (Mentioned 1:11:04, Ep 136)
Tilman Allert - The Hitler Salute (Mentioned 22:03, Ep 134)
Philip Roth - Nemesis (Mentioned 1:56, Ep 133)
Joshua Cohen - The Netanyahus
Zeke Faux - Number Go Up
Michael Paul Rogin - The Intellectuals and McCarthy
Cathy Kramer - The Politics of Resentment
Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
Maria Bamford - Sure, I'll Join Your Cult
Wendy Brown - States Of Injury
Corey Robin. - The Reactionary Mind
Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
Jane Mayer - Dark Money
Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit
Stephen King - The Dead Zone
Elle Hardy - Beyond Belief
Federico Finchelstein - From Fascism to Populism in History
Robert Jervis - Why Intelligence Fails
Alex Haley and Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind
David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
Jerry L. Mashaw - Creating The American Administrative Constitution
Brian Balogh - A Government Out of Sight
Paul Connerton - How Societies Remember
Paul Connerton - How Modernity Forgets
Catherine Green and Sarah Catherine Gilbert - Vaxxers
John Zaller - The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
Matthew Karp - This Vast Southern Empire
Robert Fatton - The Guise of Exceptionalism
Anatol Lievin - Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
James Alfred Aho - The Politics of Righteousness
The substack that Dr Dave apparently plagiarises liberally from! https://luke.substack.com/
James Beverley - God's Man in the White House
Jane Chi Hyun Park - Yellow Future
Matthias Gardell - In The Name of Elijah Muhammad
Gosta Esping-Andersen - The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Suzanne Mettler - The Submerged State
Brendon O'Connor - Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism
James Morone - Hellfire Nation
Nathan Kalmoe - With Ballots and Bullets
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan - The Impossibility of Religious Freedom
Mary L. Trump - Too Much And Never Enough
Richard Cooke - Tired of Winning
Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins, Anika Gauja, David Smith, Brendon O'Connor - How America Compares
Tony Horwitz - Confederates In the Attic
Ghassan Hage - White Nation
George Lakoff - Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
George Lakoff - Metaphors We Live By
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow
Alex S. Vitale - The End of Policing
Dave Cullen - Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Thomas Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis
Rick Pearlstein - The Invisible Bridge
Rick Pearlstein - Before the Storm
Rick Pearlstein - Nixonland
Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism
Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, Stanley Schachter - When Prophecy Fails
Nancy L. Rosenblum & Russell Muirhead - A Lot Of People Are Saying
Benjamin Moffitt - The Global Rise of Populism
Jon Krakauer - Missoula
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
