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THE MAHA RAJAH! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 229, 5 September)

THE MAHA RAJAH! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 229, 5 September)

Update: 2025-09-05
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Chas & Dr Dave discuss Mr 18 Corona Lunch, The Death Porn Golden Age, and The Iguana at Jurassic Park

WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language.

 

Timestamps

0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave

5:18 - Gratefuls (TCU Horned Frogs, Hating on Trump Health Stories)

11:53 - Correspondence (Dr Pepper, Republican Malaise, Withholding Funds, Flag Burning)

27:02 - Democratic Doomer Articles

1:04:36 - Update (Tariffs)

1:20:23 - Stats Nugget (Drinking)

1:27:20 - Harvard Court Victory

1:46:30 - Trump Chinese Student TACO

1:55:09 - The Crime Crackdown

2:21:53 - Venezuelan Boat BlowUp

2:33:34 - CDC Sacking/RFK

3:02:09 - A Worse Kennedy

 

[Recorded: Thursday 5 September 2:10 PM AEST / 12:10 AM 5 September NY Time]

 

SHOW LINKS:

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

 

Homework:

 

THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:

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!

 

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THE MAHA RAJAH! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 229, 5 September)

THE MAHA RAJAH! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 229, 5 September)