Show overview
PEP with Chas and Dr Dave has been publishing since 2020, and across the 6 years since has built a catalogue of 284 episodes. That works out to roughly 720 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 1h 48m and 3h 7m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 29 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 61 episodes published. Published by Chas Licciardello.
From the publisher
Chas Licciardello and Dr David Smith discuss all the stories that weren't covered in Planet America.
Latest Episodes
View all 284 episodesIT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN! Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 267, 26 June)
MISGENDER THE TITANS! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 266, 19 June)
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS PLATNER! PEP with Chas & Jared Mondschein (Ep 265, 12 June)
NO PAIN, NO MAINE! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 264, 5 June)
TEXAS POLL 'EM! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 263, 29 May)
PEP262 CORRESPONDENCE EXTRA + CHAS ON ICE!
I'LL HAVE WHAT XI'S HAVING! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 262, 22 May)
LEAKY FRIDAY! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 261, 15 May)
CAN'T FIND A FETTER-MAN! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 260, 8 May)
THE VOTING WHITES ACT! PEP with Chas & Elle Hardy (Ep 259, 5 May)
YOUNG, DUMB, AND FULL OF GUN! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 258, 1 May)
LET'S BET PEPPY! PEP with Chas & Melina Wicks (Ep 257, 28 April)
PEP256 CORRESPONDENCE EXTRA
THE AUDACITY OF POPE! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 256, 17 April)
LIAR, LIAR, CEASE ON FIRE! PEP with Chas & Dr Emma Shortis (Ep 255, 10 April)
THE YAWN ULTIMATUM! PEP with Chas & Jared Mondschein (Ep 254, 8 April)
HAPPY MIDDLE EASTER! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 253, 3 April)
Chas & Dr Dave discuss Gollum Having An Abortion, The 7 Stages Of Grieving A Shit War, and The Inventor of The Table WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave 3:57 - Gratefuls (Sliwa, Colbert) 16:28 - Correspondence (Corrections, Stings, Noem v Miller) 25:19 - Not Normal (Ballroom, Money, Airport, Award, Sharpies, Socials) 1:04:02 - Stats Nug (Emergency Response) 1:06:30 - Cuba 1:23:04 - Iran Latest 2:22:48 - Hegseth Issues 2:32:01 - Dave's Easter Advice 2:33:47 - Unleashed with Lachie 2:35:20 - Trump Library Cont. 2:38:27 - Hegseth Issues Cont. 2:49:34 - DHS Shutdown Shut Down? Homework: * Everything With Trump's Name, Likeness and Signature - https://bitly.cx/6mgxX 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 Na
PEP252 CORRESPONDENCE EXTRA
EChas does a tight 30 minutes of Correspondence to your comments on PEP252. APRIL FOOLS, it's 38 minutes. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: PEP252 Correspondence Extra 0:46 - To Be Fair Stings 4:52 - Afroman 12:11 - Gabbard 14:37 - Mutually Assured Destruction 17:36 - Hegseth 25:55 - Ukraine 29:56 - Kharg Island 31:06 - Death Reports SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE TO BE FAIR STING: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuFnEmi1GavFZjvy8RlpLdx4uw4RCdenLHFaAyB-9cZcSBQA/viewform?usp=header THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!
HAVE AN ICE FLIGHT! PEP with Chas & Dr Dave (Ep 252, 27 March)
EChas & Dr Dave discuss The Poor Man's Eamon, The Gremlins Election, and Being Teleported to a Waffle House WARNING: This episode of PEP may contain explicit language Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: Dr Dave 3:03 - Grateful (Teleportation) 9:20 - Correspondence (Israel & Iraq/ISIS, Corrections, Board of Peace, To Be Fair) 21:37 - Grateful (Afroman) 33:06 - Iran War 1:48:23 - DHS Shutdown 2:21:53 - SAVE America Act 2:35:00 - Special Elections 2:41:48 - Unleashed with Lachy 2:48:48 - Supreme Court Mississippi Election Case 3:09:53 - Trump's New Stance On Immigration Homework: * WAPO Article from 2002 on Israel - https://archive.md/upyIL * Afroman's Door and Gate song - https://bitly.cx/8gEHE 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-An
PEP251 CORRESPONDENCE EXTRA
Chas squeezes 47 minutes of replies to your correspondence into "30 minutes". Timestamps: 0:00 - Introducing: A 30-Minute* Correspondence Extra 1:17 - Nice Comments on PEP250 2:24 - Ex-President Supporting Iran War 6:19 - Referring To Self As America 7:24 - Dignified Transfer 8:35 - Predicting 9/11 11:30 - Dementia 19:49 - Frog In Boiling Water 21:06 - Chances 21:44 - Mao Suit 22:29 - Shoes 22:43 - Mullin 27:55 - Iran Proxies 28:32 - School Bombing 30:02 - Clean Energy 32:09 - NATO 32:41 - Israel & Anti-Semitism Homework: * Despair at the Replies to @Bubblegathgirl's Trump-Absolving Tweet About Robert Mueller: https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/2035730676373193063 SHOW LINKS: *Chat with the PEPpers on the Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/WxDD2PPvaW THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!
