The Dave Bowman Show
1,042 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAfter 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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DDH - The First American Civil War
February 07, 2023 14:42 - 35 minutes - 12 MBThe first American Civil War was every bit as vicious and hate-filled as the second. And... like the second, it eventually resulted in amending the US Constitutional to try and make things better. It all started when the state of Georgia decided that it wasn't going to pay the guy who sold their militia supplies during the war. It led to an intense debate during ratification over the concept of State Sovereignty, then went before the US Supreme Court, where the court... got it "wrong." On...
Sympathy for the Grammy's
February 06, 2023 19:30 - 14 minutes - 4.95 MBDo you understand the difference between the Chinese Spy Balloon, er, meteorological airship, and the Grammy's?
WTF: Pure Evil, Etm...
February 05, 2023 19:04 - 58 minutes - 20.2 MBAfter a rough night, the Rabbi and the Friar are up and at it to celebrate all things Balloon! A weird fish story has them not wondering WTF, while Flori-dah has them wondering WTF? A look at language has them saying putain de merde, Etm! The State of the Union is coming up this week... let's take bets on what JaBiden will say and not say!
CT - Size Matters
February 02, 2023 22:29 - 23 minutes - 7.92 MBBrutus has made it clear that he has major issues with the proposed Constitution. There are parts of it he accepts as acceptable and even well considered. That said, he also feels that those sections are more or less unimportant and having "fallacious appearances." After eviscerating the lack of a bill of rights, Brutus moves on to the next issue he has... the Legislature. He feels that it is not well considered, and will be subject to corruption and bribery. Moreover, he has a huge issue wi...
Thirteen Ways To Look At A Blackbird
February 02, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes - 9.96 MBThe fastest moving story in the world right now is the Chinese Spy Balloon over Montana. Of course, by now, it's probably over North Dakota. Given that we are the only nation ever successfully attacked via balloons, shouldn't we being doing a bit more than summoning ambassadors and twiddling our thumbs about it? For most of my life I have wondered how it is that two people can look at the same words on a page and see two polar opposite meanings? Back in High school my creative writing teacher...
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
February 01, 2023 17:41 - 27 minutes - 979 KBThe merchant vessel, Arc Integrity, is making its way to Europe, carrying a cargo of military supplies for Ukraine. Specifically, it is carrying Bradley Armored Fighting Vehicles. some are speculating that the Russians could legally attack this ship as it is known to be carrying military supplies. The situation is not unlike that which faced Imperial Germany in 1915-1917. Is unrestricted submarine warfare worth the risks? Meanwhile, if you think that the Emperor has no clothes, you are a f...
DDH - Cisterna
January 31, 2023 16:05 - 37 minutes - 12.9 MBIn January of 1944, the Allies thought that they had found a way to crack the Gustav Line south of Rome. The bloody battles in Italy had the Allies stalled and desperate to move around the entrenched Nazi forces. From December of 1943 to June of 1944, almost 100,000 allied soldiers were casualties. Most of them, from two assaults intended to break the Gustav Line. On January 22nd, the Allies launched "Operation Shingle" as a part of the attempt to break out from the beachheads at Anzio. US ...
Don't Feed the Chipmunks
January 31, 2023 01:49 - 29 minutes - 10.1 MBIt's been a rough morning... lots of distractions and shiny objects that are pulling my attention elsewhere. For what it's worth though, I don't really care about the Pelosi tape. The truth is that you don't either, but we all have to pretend that we do because we've been told that we have to. In California (and everywhere else), there is big money in "servicing" the Homeless...
WTF: "The French"
January 29, 2023 20:56 - 59 minutes - 20.3 MBThe Associated Press spent "the" week apologizing for the one sin that requires no atonement whatsoever. Somebody who works at the AP decided that in one of their stories they had referred to "the" French by a derogatory term. It's hard to imagine that such a term exists but in their mind, it does and they had offended "the" entire French world by using the offensive term. And the entire world, including "The" French, laughed at them. More classified documents, more fun. More turkeys, more ...
Traditions!
January 27, 2023 16:29 - 15 minutes - 5.33 MBThere's a reason why there are traditions. They are, in point of fact, solutions to problems that have been long forgotten. And as the good book says, do not remove the boundary stone which your forefathers set...
90 Seconds to Midnight
January 25, 2023 17:15 - 21 minutes - 7.5 MBSince 1947, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists have been telling us how much time we have as a species by annual showing us a clock face with the hands approaching midnight. This is used to symbolize the idea that we are almost about to doom ourselves for a variety of reasons ranging from hydrogen bombs to Vladimir Putin. No... I am not kidding. The thing is that since 1947, they have been entirely and utterly... well... wrong. If I had been 100% wrong for more than half a century, I'd like t...
DDH - The Progressive Era Amendments
January 24, 2023 14:40 - 35 minutes - 12.3 MBSome months back a caller asked me what I thought was the "worst" Constitutional Amendment. He postulated that it was the 17th, which moved the election of US Senators from the State Legislature to the popular vote of a given State. Look, from a purely strict constructionist viewpoint - which by the by - NOBODY holds - every amendment from the progressive era has been "devastating." Some more than others, but all of them destructive to the original ideas of a strictly separated Federal and S...
National Infection
January 23, 2023 16:56 - 21 minutes - 7.47 MBThe good news is that Kshama Sawant will not be on the Seattle City Council anymore. The bad news is she has a plan to infect the nation with her CHAZ/CHOP Socialism. Free speech is free speech, folks. If you need or feel compelled to use the power of law and government to force other people to think and say what you approve, then YOU are the tyrant. Period.
WTF: Three Days of Darkness
January 22, 2023 21:18 - 1 hour - 21.1 MBIt seems like everywhere you turn, AI Chatbots are taking over the world. And maybe even WTF? It seems that religious leaders are starting to use AAI to write their sermons, which could be a problem because how in the name of G-d could an AI Chabot explain the Plague of Darkness which has Dave in a dither this week? The Conservative media world seems to be lost in a dispute over $20Million. either that or the people involved are just... well... stupid. Shrinkage has now been confirmed by sci...
The Adagio Will Tear Your Heart Out
January 20, 2023 13:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBOn January 20, 1942, more than a dozen high ranking officials of the Nazi Party and German government met over lunch in a villa outside Berlin. What they did around that table, over rich expensive foods and fine wines as their Army starved and froze in Stalingrad, reverberates today. It is understood that mans inhumanity to his fellow man is too common. But at this lunch meeting, that inhumanity reached a new, as yet unheard of height. In these two hours, hatred became wholesale murder. Discr...
CT - The Propensity of Rulers
January 19, 2023 17:59 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBWhen pressed as to why there wasn't a Bill of Rights contained in the proposed Constitution, James Madison had explained that if was believed that it would confuse the people into believing that the Bill was the limit of their rights, that no other rights existed. Over the years, I have come to question whether or not he truly believed that or was just being... well... a politician? Why? Because THE single issue which almost defeated the ratification of the Constitution was the lack of a Bil...
0.05
January 19, 2023 01:29 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBFor whatever it's worth, I have friends who have been caught DUI. I don't love or respect them any less for that. But for the life of me, the idea that in 2023 we are still not only having DUI's but people are still being hurt by them is beyond my comprehension. Simply put, there is NO ONE, not one single person with a drivers license who does not know that you should not drink and drive. The question has become how much money is there in DUI? Because otherwise we'd be putting an end to it, ...
DDH - Fun Franklin Facts
January 17, 2023 14:51 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBBefore the middle of the 19th century, the most famous American in the world was Benjamin Franklin. He was - as most people know - a scientist, an inventor, a printer, a writer, a socialite, a diplomat, a fashion icon and a humorist. Today we celebrate his birthday, with some of the things that you might not know about the man who some call "the First American..."
WTF: Dave Says "I'm Not a Conspiracy Guy, But..."
January 15, 2023 21:23 - 58 minutes - 39.8 MBThe Vice President of the United States is always one heartbeat away from the Presidency. Or these days, one box of CLASSIFIED documents from the Oval Office? Maybe? Or is all that just a conspiracy theory? Kinda like whether or not the climate induced cardiac events are actually happening. Or not? We've got a listener WTF and in the middle of that we learn that Prince Harry tried to kill the King. Once upon a time that would have gotten him sent to the Tower. Dave now knows why he takes th...
Gas Lighting
January 13, 2023 04:13 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBThe subject of gas lighting has become the topic du jour among chat shows these days. Mostly because the so-called leaders of the nation decided to float a trial balloon. Of course, the real problem is our worship of celebrity and powerful characters who don't just expect our worship, they absolutely demand it. In the meantime, you will be happy to know that the Presidents Corvette is safe and secure in his garage, thank you very much. Oh... along with the "CLASSIFIED" documents that he tak...
Ark Lessons Learned
January 11, 2023 19:10 - 23 minutes - 16 MBBack in 2014, Kevin fox and I had an interview with a guy who was talking about the coming California ark storm. At the time it seemed surreal and hard to imagine such a thing ever happening. Today though... that storm is not just here, but it's causing all the chaos that was predicted long ago. Seattle City schools is suing social media. All of it. why? Because, the district claims that the various forms of social media are causing substantial mental illnesses. Look... they're not wrong, it...
DDH - Measures or Men?
January 10, 2023 14:39 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBIn many ways, the United States always resembled republican Rome. By the last half of the first century bce, the republic was teetering on the edge. Corrupt politics, mounting debt to fund foreign wars, societal breakdowns that left long held traditional values in disrespect and disregard left the every day Roman wondering if the world had gone completely mad? As we look around our nation today, the parallels must be striking. The question is what happens next? Do we recover our republican f...
FAFO
January 09, 2023 21:21 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBDave is rather ill this morning. It goes back to yesterdays episode of WTF, but the bottom line is that he will only get through two of a planned three segments today. Still, it's time for the WA State Legislative Democrats to FAFO!
WTF: What's the 4-1-1?
January 08, 2023 22:10 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBWelcome to 2023. New year, same old weirdness. Telephone Operators who man the 4-1-1 lines are now out of a job. We have a big list of things that will probably happen in 2023. Or not. The Two Princes of England has us rooting for Oliver Cromwell to make a comeback. No matter what Tik Tok tells you, putting potatoes in your socks is stupid. Almost as stupid as people who call 9-1-1 (which we should also retire) because they can't delete a voice mail. It's the first episode of a new year fo...
Garden Party
January 06, 2023 18:46 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBWay back in 1972, Ricky Nelson, a superstar of 50’s and 60s music, played a gig at Madison Square Gardens in New York. A weird thing happened that night. Despite the attendance of other musical stars and celebrities, the crowd was… well… not impressed with the set list Ricky had prepared for the evening. The basically booed him off the stage. A few weeks later, Nelson released what is arguably his most famous song – Garden Party, which contains this line: It’s all right now, I learned m...
CT - The ship of Theseus
January 05, 2023 15:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBCONSTITUTION THURSDAY In ancient Greek legend, Theseus was a brave man who travels to the island of Crete, where he defeats the Minotaur. In a legendary battle, Theseus saves the children of his King, destroys the evil beast, and returns to his father aboard a the same ship in which he had left for Crete. He forgets to change the sail from black to white, and thus even in triumph, as is so typical of Greek legends, there is a tragedy. Today it is the ship which holds my interest. For the nex...
Chaos
January 04, 2023 13:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBIt's only the morning of the 4th day of the year and already chaos is reigning. From the Monday Night Football scare, to the Congressional Speaker of the House election that wasn't, we see a lot of stuff happening in the nation. Including the return of the Praying Bremerton High School football coach. Or... not?
DDH - Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
January 02, 2023 18:58 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBGeorge Santos is the most infamous man in America today. In case you've been under a rock, he was just elected to congress, but... it turns out that HE LIED ON HIS CV! In more than two centuries of congressional candidates running to serve the nation out of a sense of duty and honor, this has NEVER EVER, happened before! Right?
"Happy" New Year
January 02, 2023 14:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBHappy New year? I mean, that's what I am supposed to say, right? So I said it... but really is there all that much to be looking forward to in 2023? We're going to endure the opening moves of the 2024 Presidential campaign, which, by the by, will include a lot of Trump vs the Democrats and the GOP. The war in Ukraine will drag on, even as American dollars pay for all that death and destruction. Taiwan faces an imminent communist invasion. And here in the Seattle media area, the last day of ...
WTF: The WTF Holiday Special
December 25, 2022 17:18 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBRabbi Dave, Friar Rod and Baptist Billy get together on the most joyous of days (Festivus) to rant and praise the best and the worst of the Holiday Season. Whether it's TV or films or food or just their holiday plans, whatever happens, PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE COPS!!!!!!
The Stories That We Tell
December 23, 2022 21:03 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBNOTE: The dental procedures have begun, and as George S Patton once said, no plan survives first contact with the enemy. In literally the first minute, the decision was made to change directions and try something else first. Already the planned procedures have changed. So literally I have no idea what will happen next or when, except that it will not be before February of 2023. Thank you for the encouragements and messages. I really appreciate them. One of the the things that I hate about be...
DDH - Arthur lee Goes to France
December 20, 2022 20:35 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBIt’s a cold snowy day up here in the Pacific Northwest. Grab a cup of coffee and let’s spend it talking history! Some months ago we had a caller to BML complaining that “only three or four guys actually did anything” with regard to the Revolution and the Constitution. It’s a common misconception, but why we think that way is a bigger question. Is it simply ignorance, or is it something… else? There is almost a Biblical tendency to ignore the history that we either weren’t taught or just don...
Grab The Hat
December 19, 2022 06:13 - 12 minutes - 8.79 MBOn Monday, Deceber 19, 2022 at just around 2pm (CST), we will our baby sister, Deanna Rae Bowman, to her final rest. Our family continues to be grateful for the support in prayer and thoughts from so many this difficult year. Out of necessity – at first – and then from her amazing, resilient spirit Dede was the heart of our family. And I am certain, she would want us to continue to grab the hat. And life
WTF: Hallmark Hot
December 18, 2022 21:25 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBIt has been an up and down week, with Dave's misadventures under Nitrous Oxide and Rods delicious deflowering when it comes to Little Debby's Christmas Tree cakes! The annual tradition of taking a look at the crazy Hallmark Christmas/Holiday flicks is back. This year with diversity! This year the boys look to Artificial Intelligence to create the PERFECT Hallmark christmas flick - "The HALLMARK HOT!" staring Elon and AOC, whose film career could use a shot in the arm. The world Cup is over. ...
WTF: A Top 25% In The World Podcast!
December 11, 2022 22:57 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBThe Methodist church is splitting apart, which momentarily will distract the good Friar and Rabbi Dave from the bigger issues of the day, such as the Britney Griner trade and the Twitter files. But even none of that should distract from the major accomplishment of this show, what the frock, achieved in 2022!!! (three exclamation show, so you know that we mean it)
WTF: Miss Coratia
December 04, 2022 22:40 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBFriar Rod and Rabbi Dave are deeply concerned that the true reason for the season has been... well... lost. They are also worried about the lack of Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes in the Central Valley of California. The World Cup is over for the United States, but NOT for the nation of Croatia. The locals in Qatar don't really like Croatia's biggest star, or the football team either. The Mayan's might be bringing back human sacrifice, especially for women who twerk on top of their temple...
TSV: Saturday Night in the Missile Control Center
December 04, 2022 22:36 - 52 minutes - 49.1 MBEric and Dave are just hanging out on watch in the Missile Control Center when Jesse from sonar walks in to shoot the breeze. The topics range all over, from space travel to World War III.
Myrmidons
November 30, 2022 20:39 - 18 minutes - 13 MBI was watching some Television over the weekend when I came to a realization that for some reason, had never completely struck me before. As you know, I love me some history, and the program I was watching dealt with one of the most evil figures in history, involved in one of the darkest moments in history. But what struck me wasn’t how terribly monstrous this fellow had been (he’s dead now). It wasn’t his hatred or his senseless belief in a twisted and delusional ideology. The truth that I ...
DDH - Some Random Dude on Twitter
November 29, 2022 14:42 - 35 minutes - 12.1 MBNOTE: iHeart had computer issues this morning, forcing the show to be done via telephone with the attendant reduced audio quality. One week after the assassination of President Kennedy, now President Lyndon Johnson issued an Executive Order which announced the formation of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. It would carry the nickname “the Warren Commission,” and it would become the national focal point for national distrust of government reports. Given t...
TSV: A Deep Fried Submarine Thanksgiving
November 24, 2022 04:59 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBEric and Dave are back! Eric's knee adventures are... well.. not over, but all your prayers, and all of Dave's thoughts, have done a lot of good! Best Holiday on the boat? Easy! It was Thanksgiving. The food was great and the Fire Control System could be put into "Auto" so more plates of delicious food could be loaded up. Whatever you do, DO NOT FRY YOUR TURKEY!!!!!
DDH - November 22, 1963
November 21, 2022 15:44 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBNovember 22nd, 1963, was a seminal day in American history. Every American alive that day can tell you about their own experience of it, and even those born long after can – and do – discuss and debate it. For myself, November 22nd represented a trajectory change in my own future and passions. The day led directly to my own career behind a microphone, which continues to this day. for others it represents a moment of beginning to form opinions about how and why things work the way that they d...
WTF: Man, I Feel Like a Woman! Or... a Beer...
November 20, 2022 20:28 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBAfter a rough start to the day – or in Friar Rod’s case, a continuation of the previous evening – the boys are pleased that Congress is finally addressing the most serious issue facing our nation today – Taylor Swift Tickets! The World Cup begins today. Until a couple of days ago nobody actually cared. But now, Qatar has decided that unless you happen to be a wealthy oil sheik, you cannot have a beer at the games. The director of FIFA has made it clear that this makes him feel like a… Woma...
Irrefragable Axioms
November 17, 2022 20:45 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBBy the middle of November, speeches were being made and response were being written. James Wilson’s speech in Pennsylvania had caused a great stir, and Cato’s letter was still starting debates in New York. But not everybody was in agreement with Cato’s concerns. As we have seen Cæsar was rather snarky in his idea that Cato should just shut up and go along with the Constitution, lest the “American Fabius” be compelled to shove tit down his throat. Another federalist writer took deep exception...
DDH - USS Washington
November 15, 2022 15:46 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBBack in August when we left the story, the US Navy had just suffered its worst ever blue water defeat. More than a thousand Allied sailors were dead. Four Heavy Cruisers had been lost, with a fifth disabled. The Navy, along with the American public, had been stunned by the loss, less than a year after the disaster at Pearl Harbor. Just three months later, on the night of November 13/14, 1942, the Navy once again was shocked when a Japanese submarine torpedoed one of the heavily damaged survi...
TSV: Neanderthal DNA (Was re: Election Results)
November 13, 2022 21:04 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBWelcome to Day Six of the 2022 Midterm elections! It turns out that there is a scientific reason, if not a theological one, that the Neanderthal’s didn’t survive. It has to do with who was loving who. Rabbi Dave told you six months ago that there would be no “Red Tsunami.” The question is why did so many people believe that there would be? Was it the as simple as the polls were “wrong?” Or is there an issue with the quality of candidates? And what if the real conspiracy about election count...
WTF: Neanderthal DNA (Was re: Election Results)
November 13, 2022 21:04 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBWelcome to Day Six of the 2022 Midterm elections! It turns out that there is a scientific reason, if not a theological one, that the Neanderthal’s didn’t survive. It has to do with who was loving who. Rabbi Dave told you six months ago that there would be no “Red Tsunami.” The question is why did so many people believe that there would be? Was it the as simple as the polls were “wrong?” Or is there an issue with the quality of candidates? And what if the real conspiracy about election count...
The Road to History
November 11, 2022 20:55 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBIn our modern society, you will often hear the cry, "What happened? How did things come to this?" I never expected to find an answer to that question. A few weeks back I decided to delve into the Anti-Federalists and their arguments against the Constitution. What inspired their thinking and debates? Little did I know where the whole thing would take me. So I was a little surprised when I landed on a road on an April day walking along with two older gentlemen who were not ready to go gentl...
DDH - Top 5 "Heated" Presidential Elections
November 08, 2022 20:44 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBHappy Election Day! Although it is a midterm election, which are every bit as important as the Presidential Elections, we're going to take a look at the Top 5 Most Heated Presidential Elections in the history of our country.
TSV: Eric's Knee Update
November 07, 2022 14:11 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBDave joins you to talk about the latest update on Eric's knee replacement surgery and follow on issues, as well as his own Dental misadventures.
WTF - Midterms 2022: Le Tits Now!
November 06, 2022 22:12 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBThank the gods that it is almost over... for now... What is it? why... It's THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER!!!!!! It's not, but that isn't stopping Chelsea Handler from once again exposing herself to convince you that it IS the most important election ever AND that Daylight Savings Time is a MEGA MAGA Republican conspiracy to keep you from voting. The simple and unarguable FACT is that this is not only NOT the most important election ever, there are a lot of reasons to believe that literall...