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The Dave Bowman Show
by Dave Bowman
After relocating to the PACNORWEST, Dave continues his look at the news, politics, trends, history, religion, sports and even entertainment of the day...
Episodes
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Who's Raising Your Kids? Florida's Social Media Ban & Demonic UFOs
🎙️ NEW EPISODE | Plausibly Live! Who's raising your kids, you or the governor? Florida's social media restrictions have Dave questioning what happened to parental rights and personal liberty. PLUS: Apollo astronaut Charles Duke says UFOs are actually demons. Dave doesn't believe aliens exist…
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LANDINGS: Hero's or Villains?
Christopher Columbus: Hero or villain? Was his mathematics really wrong? And why has history become so selective about whom we celebrate? On today's Plausibly Live, Dave Bowman explores the courage and controversy of 1492, plus new claims about the discovery of Noah's Ark in Turkey. History…
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When Everybody Else Is a Witch
Fake news, political outrage, public executions, and medieval witch hunts. What do they all have in common? On this week's What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod explore what happens when being right matters more than finding the truth. Plus, an actual burning fence. Because of course. 🎙️…
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Before There Was Light: The Astonishing Mystery of Creation
I've read the opening words of Genesis for most of my life. I thought I understood them. Then, this week, two ancient Hebrew words stopped me in my tracks. Tohu va-Vohu. We usually translate them as “without form and void.” But the medieval Jewish commentator Rashi offers a fascinating…
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STEPHEN A. SMITH: WHEN EGO OVERLOADS COMMON SENSE
Stephen A. Smith has made a fortune saying whatever comes into his head. But his comments about Philadelphia Eagles star Lane Johnson's retirement and mental health crossed a line. Was it arrogance? A complete failure to do the research? Or has ESPN created an environment where its biggest...
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Conversations
It started with a question from my son: “What do you think about book bans?” The answer isn't really about books. It's about liberty. If we genuinely believe in self-determination, we have to accept that other people may read things we despise, hear arguments we believe are wrong, and even reach...
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Franklin in Paris: The Diplomat Who Made the Revolution a World War
In 1776, Benjamin Franklin was seventy years old, suffering from gout, and boarding a Continental warship for a dangerous winter crossing of the Atlantic. His mission? Convince France that the American Revolution was worth betting on. This week on Dave Does History, follow Franklin from the deck…
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Givernment can Move Mountains... For a Price
Government promises to save you money. Somehow, it usually finds another way to collect it. On this episode of Plausibly Live, Dave looks at the curious art of government cost engineering: California politicians and their cars, property-tax “relief,” and why the enormous cost of the death penalty...
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Does AI Have a Soul?
Can an AI have a soul? This week on What The Frock, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod tackle a question that sounds like science fiction but is rapidly becoming a serious theological debate: if an artificial intelligence can reason, claim to feel fear, and perhaps even experience suffering, what exactly...
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Fentanyl, Fifty Cents & Dr. AI
If fentanyl kills thousands of Americans, why isn’t it used for executions? And what does a fifty-cent convenience-store overcharge become when the customer is paying with taxpayer-funded SNAP benefits? Plus, AI can explain your lab results, but should you trust it as a medical “second opinion”?...
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Second Acts
Sometimes, you just need a second act. Charlie Sheen is heading back to television in Happy Jack, alongside his father, Martin Sheen. And as someone who still considers the Charlie Harper years of Two and a Half Men one of my guilty pleasures, I'm rooting for him. Not because the past doesn't...
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DDH | Washington's Other War
George Washington was fighting the British. But another enemy was tearing through the Continental Army, and muskets and artillery were useless against it. Smallpox threatened to destroy the Revolution from within. Washington initially prohibited inoculation. Then the evidence forced him to...
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Slow White Quarterbacks
White paint is racist? Trevor Lawrence is helping your fantasy team? And every strange play now comes with the question: How much money was riding on that? On today’s Plausibly Live, we start with a viral story that sounds too ridiculous to be true, which turns out to be exactly why you should...
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WTF | Who Holds the Accountable Accountable?
Who holds the people with authority accountable? This week on What the Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod take that question from the pulpit to Candace Owens and the courtroom, then straight into the rapidly expanding world of AI. Everybody wants authority. Nobody wants accountability.
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Thunderclappers and Hornets: The Strange Places History Survives
Lewis & Clark left behind more than journals. Thanks to Dr. Benjamin Rush’s mercury-laced “Thunderclappers,” they also left archaeologists a rather unusual trail across America. Then, why Charlotte Hornets? The answer goes back to 1780, Lord Cornwallis, Patriot militia, and a town the British…
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The Final Frontier
The United States says it has a weapon in orbit but has revealed little about what it does. Could the announcement deter an adversary, or could uncertainty make a confrontation in space more dangerous? On this episode of Plausibly Live, I look at the possibilities behind that announcement, from...
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Don’t Feed the Alligator, Do Adopt the Cat
What do a progressive bar facing an ideological revolt and my wife wanting a cat have in common? In both cases, somebody thinks they’re in control. Today on Plausibly Live: why appeasement never satisfies the alligator, what Cats teaches us about feline ownership, and the growing possibility that...
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DDH | The First Salute: Eleven Guns That Announced a New Nation
On November 16, 1776, Fort Washington fell and nearly 3,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured. Almost 1,800 miles away, the Continental Navy brig Andrew Doria entered the harbor at St. Eustatius and fired a thirteen-gun salute. Eleven guns from the Dutch fortress answered. Dave...
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Can The President Throw Reporters Out of The White House?
Can President Trump throw reporters out of the White House simply because he believes their coverage is dishonest? The First Amendment does not guarantee anyone a seat in the briefing room. Once the government grants press credentials, however, the Fifth Amendment demands something the White…
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WTF | Does G-d Care About Who Wins a Football Game?
Does G-d care who wins a football game? Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod question why victorious athletes credit G-d’s will while nobody visits the losing locker room to ask whether G-d wanted that team to lose. Then the conversation turns to fear of artificial intelligence and Britain’s alarming…
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Loma
Over the weekend, I discovered a great-aunt whom nobody in our family knew had ever existed. Loma M. Bowman was born in Butler, Missouri, on September 15, 1914. She died two days later and was buried in an unmarked potter’s field. Her name disappeared from our family’s living memory for more than…
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WTF | Correct The Map?
A map is supposed to help you find your way. Unfortunately, the latest attempt to “Correct the Map” may tell us more about modern politics than it does about geography. In this episode of What the Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod examine the campaign against the Mercator projection, the familiar...
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September 5, 2026 - Is This... Still College Football
I love college football. I’m just not sure today’s college football is the game I fell in love with. NIL has turned recruiting into an auction. The transfer portal resembles free agency. Major programs purchase 51–0 “games” from schools that need the money, while smaller colleges face declining...
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September 4, 2026 - Taproom Tribbles in Tacoma and Thailand
There was once a useful boundary between public conduct and private conviction. You could buy bread, order coffee, or enjoy a pint without first demanding a political confession from the person behind the counter. That boundary is rapidly disappearing, particularly when activists can search…
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September 3. 2026 - Down with Socialism!!!
Congress has managed to discover socialism. This might seem encouraging until you remember that the national debt has reached $40 trillion, the federal government still lacks a genuine budget, and lawmakers apparently have plenty of time for nonbinding resolutions designed to produce campaign...
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September 2, 2026 - Oil, Cellphones and Craziness
Washington has always been skilled at confusing an announcement with an accomplishment. President Trump’s new Venezuelan oil agreement sounds impressive: American control over billions of barrels, lower gasoline prices, and new supplies for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Then reality intrudes....
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September 1, 2026 - The Jewish Question?
Government loves a list. It loves categories, identification numbers, demographic boxes, databases and tracking systems, each created with assurances that the information will be used responsibly and only for its stated purpose. Sometimes those systems genuinely improve accountability. Sometimes...
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Who Killed Radio? How Podcasts Set the Personalities Free
Radio has supposedly been dying for decades. The towers are still standing and the signals are still broadcasting, but the audience is no longer trapped inside the range of the transmitter. Corporate consolidation stripped away local voices while podcasts and livestreaming gave those voices...
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Hormonal
There are bad arguments, and then there are bad arguments whose consequences stretch far beyond the case in which they were made. The defense of Lindsay Clancy, accused of murdering her three young children, raises precisely that kind of problem. If postpartum hormones and psychiatric distress…
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Canadian Lakes... and Terrorists
Canada spent years insisting that historical names could be changed when modern values demanded it. Streets, universities, public buildings, and monuments were renamed or removed, while Canadians were assured that changing a name did not erase history. Then President Trump called Lake Ontario…
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Camp Fortunate
What happens when the map is wrong, the river runs out, and the plan that brought you across a continent can take you no farther? In August 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Continental Divide expecting to find a practical water route leading west toward the Columbia River and the...
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The Cult in Your Pocket
The internet was supposed to give us access to the accumulated knowledge of humanity. Instead, it may be making it harder to agree on what is true. This week on What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod wrestle with a question that has become increasingly difficult to ignore: What happens when…
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Fall Back! | DDH
American independence was declared in the summer of 1776. Whether the new nation could survive long enough to make that declaration mean anything was another matter entirely. By the autumn of that year, George Washington's Continental Army had suffered a succession of defeats around New York. The...
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Bean Soup | WTF
Why does everything on the internet eventually become about us? This week on What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod dive into Bean Soup Theory, the wonderfully simple idea that explains an astonishing amount of what happens on social media. Someone posts a recipe for bean soup, and instead of...
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The Polling Game
Polls tell us who's ahead. Until they don't. Pollsters sample voters, weight responses, model turnout, account for undecideds, and then confidently tell us what Election Day is going to look like. There's just one problem: Election Day hasn't happened yet. There is only one poll that actually...
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Benedict Arnold Saves The american Revolution
Most Americans know Benedict Arnold for one thing: treason. But that's only the final chapter of his story. Long before he became the most infamous traitor in American history, Arnold was one of George Washington's most daring and effective battlefield commanders. In the desperate autumn of 1776,...
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When Belief Meets Reality...
Sometimes the biggest story isn't what happened. It's what people do when they're challenged to defend what they claim to believe. This week on What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod dive into a series of stories that, at first glance, seem completely unrelated. A celebrated Cambridge…
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The Great New Fire of 1776 | DDH
For most Americans, the story of September 1776 begins and ends with Nathan Hale. We remember the young schoolteacher turned patriot spy, the gallows, and the words that have echoed through American history: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." But Hale's final days...
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Baboons In the Road
This week on What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod discover that the best-laid plans never survive first contact with the morning news. What begins with tourists ignoring warnings and climbing an active volcano quickly spirals into one of the strangest conversations the show has ever…
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Patriot, Prisoner and Grandson
What happens when the greatest legacy of a Founding Father isn't his own life, but the life of a grandson he never knew? In this episode of Dave Does History, we celebrate the 280th birthday of Thomas Heyward Jr., one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence whose story deserves far more...
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Sometimes Your Purpose in Life is to be Bot Scrapings | WTF
Have you ever wondered if your greatest contribution to humanity might be... accidentally training artificial intelligence? That bizarre question launches one of the funniest and most unexpectedly thoughtful episodes of What The Frock? After a sudden spike in podcast traffic revealed that a...
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It's Odd, You See... | WTF
Welcome to another episode of What the Frock?, where the conversations are made up and the rabbit trails definitely matter. This week, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod somehow manage to connect Homer, the King James Bible, Christopher Nolan, international soccer, airline seating, and the greatest tragedy...
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How the French Revolution Created American Politics | DDH
Welcome to Dave Does History with Dave Bowman and Bill Mick! On this July 14th, as France celebrates the iconic flyovers and parades of Bastille Day, we are diving deep into a history that is far more complex than the legends in our schoolbooks. Most of us recognize the storming of the Bastille…
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Snakes... Why'd It Have to Be Snakes? - WTF
Welcome to another episode of What the Frock?, where Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod once again prove that no topic is too serious, too ridiculous, or too completely unrelated to become part of the same conversation. This week begins with a trip to the movies, but not the one everyone is talking about....
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I... I've Seen This Movie Before - WTF
What if the machines do not destroy us because they are too smart, but because they follow bad instructions perfectly? This week on What the Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod start with sports, World Cup drama, penalty kicks, instant replay, and the strange modern belief that every human mistake…
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Start Spreading the News - The First Independence Day | Liberty 250
In this Independence day episode of Liberty 250 on the Florida Round Table, historian Dave Bowman explores how John Dunlap's overnight printing operation, the first public readings in Philadelphia, and the celebrations that followed transformed a congressional declaration into the voice of the...
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The Revolution They Still Don't Understand | Lberty 250
For 250 years, Americans have celebrated the Fourth of July as the birth of a nation. We remember Lexington and Concord, the Boston Tea Party, the Declaration of Independence, and the long war that followed. Yet an uncomfortable question remains: if the American Revolution was simply a colonial...
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Bosnian Kung Fu | WTF
Sometimes the internet reminds us that it is both humanity's greatest achievement and its greatest mistake. This week, an innocent comment by a television reporter admitting she had no idea where Bosnia-Herzegovina was somehow exploded into an international controversy. There were apologies,...
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The Apple of Gold | Liberty 250
Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence was approved, Americans still argue about a single sentence. Thirty-five words, written by a 33-year-old Thomas Jefferson, have shaped political debates, inspired reform movements, launched revolutions, and challenged generations…
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Chai if by Land.. Tea is By Sea... | WTF
There are some weeks when the news cycle feels like a carefully organized sequence of important events. Then there are weeks like this one, where you find yourself discussing earthquake prophets, cricket, influencer narcissism, Elon Musk, and an apparent uprising of Wyoming deer all in the same...
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After relocating to the PACNORWEST, Dave continues his look at the news, politics, trends, history, religion, sports and even entertainment of the day...
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