Chas & Guest PEPcaster Melina Wicks discuss Giuliani Legal Case Bingo, Flying the Monsanto Flag, and Why The Old Thug's Doing Better Than Young Thug.
1:56 - Grateful For (NBA Playoffs/Courtney Gore)
10:00 - Correspondence (Worms/ Domes/ Comedy Songs/ Polling)
19:50 - Alan Lichtman’s 13 Keys Election Predictions
31:14 - Trump’s Legal “Unfairness”
40:31 - More on Hush Money Trial
1:05:34 - Greg Abbott’s Pardon
1:31:55 - Stats Nugget (Supreme Court Cases)
1:34:33 - North Carolina Masks Law
1:39:31 - Louisiana Abortion Laws
1:48:52 - Trump + Contraception
1:57:26 - Giuliani’s Birthday
2:05:05 - Stats Nugget (Woke Uni Syllabi)
2:08:40 - Consumer Finance Protection Bureau Supreme Court Case
2:18:31 - Alito’s Flag
HOMEWORK/SHOWNOTES:
* The ProPublica story that inspired my “Grateful For” about Courtney Gore https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore
* Transcript of Michael Cohen getting caught out on the call to Keith Schiller (p3879-3899) https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/05648d6e0e415192/16f9b7bb-full.pdf

THE (UPDATED) DR DAVE BOOK CLUB MASTERLIST:
* 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