The Dave Bowman Show
1,042 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 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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Again... I Informed you Thusly...
April 08, 2022 16:54 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBI said this some weeks ago, but stop telling me how “slam dunk” the polls say that the midterms are going to be. I have long had a political mantra that I find myself repeating a lot. It’s simply this: “Never underestimate the ability of the GOP to screw things up.” I get it, Joe Biden is a disaster. But hey… no mean tweets! The problem is that the average voter might believe that, but the people who actually decided that Joe Biden would be President do not. They don’t care about tweets, me...
War Crimes
April 06, 2022 17:40 - 14 minutes - 9.98 MBThis is what being a American living in the 21st Century has done to me. Since 2014 I have been saying loudly and to anybody who will listen that I do not see any “National Interest” for this nation in Ukraine that would justify the blood of even one American Solider, Sailor, Airman or Marine. I also know that our military-industrial complex can make anything into a national security issue. As I watch the proliferation of news about the actions of Russians in Ukraine, my first emotions are...
Dave Does History - The Presidents
April 05, 2022 18:43 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBBill Mick and Dave get together for Dave does History on WMMB to talk about what makes a good President. How did we even decide to have a President in the first place, and what were some of the difficulties to overcome in the process? *Live Tuesdays 8am (EDT) on WMMB Melbourne, FL
WTF: The Jiggly Room
April 03, 2022 19:13 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBThe good Friar is highly distracted today as his beloved Newcastle is losing badly to Tottenham. Rabbi Dave's team, Norwich City, is in dead last place, so he doesn't care anymore. So where did Disney go wrong? Some think it was when they hired activists, other think it was when they lied to the American people about the lemmings. Rabbi Dave has a theory that involves neither of those... The War in Ukraine is providing the Russian leader with plenty of opportunities to ask the question: What...
TSV; The Top 15 Submarine Films?
April 01, 2022 16:53 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MBEric Ryle and Dave Bowman a take a look at Slashfilms list of what it thinks are the "Best 15 submarine films ever." They are, of course, completely wrong, although some of these films are pretty good. A couple of them should never have been on the list in the first place, and more importantly they left at least two of the GREATEST completely off their list. It's like SlashFilms isn't qualified and certainly isn't an expert, like the Sub Vets! USS Delaware is being commissioned this weekend, ...
Lori from Alhambra
March 31, 2022 17:25 - 21 minutes - 15 MBOn March 31, 1492, the world changed. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella issued a decree that expelled the Jews from Spain. One of the most famous paintings in the world depicts the moment from the perspective of the Catholic Church, as the local cleric accuses the Jews of trying to bribe the King into revoking the decree by claiming that the offer was the moral equivalent of thirty pieces of silver. Ancient history, you say? If only it were…
First Strike
March 30, 2022 16:57 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBDave takes a look at a recent comment - or more precisely a lack of comment - by the President when he was directly asked if the United States would pledge to not use nuclear weapons in a first strike...
BML: Project Candor (Ike Part III)
March 29, 2022 13:36 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBDave joins BILL MICK to talk about Project Candor, which seems like a great idea… until you scratch the surface of it and discover that what it really did was justify a vast expansion of the not just the military-industrial complex, but another complex that we see almost every day in our news. If Ike saw it coming and tried to warn us, why didn’t we listen to him? Because there is no such thing as “open government…”
DDH - Project Candor (Ike Part III)
March 29, 2022 13:36 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBDave joins BILL MICK to talk about Project Candor, which seems like a great idea… until you scratch the surface of it and discover that what it really did was justify a vast expansion of the not just the military-industrial complex, but another complex that we see almost every day in our news. If Ike saw it coming and tried to warn us, why didn’t we listen to him? Because there is no such thing as “open government…”
The Real Problem Isn't That She's Not a Biologist
March 28, 2022 16:40 - 6 minutes - 5.55 MBTime is a little pressed today, so I took a cue from the MILSURPWRITER and just took a little drive. The problem with Judge Brown Jacksons answer about “not being a biologist” isn’t that she isn’t a biologist. That wasn’t even really the question. The problem is that one is left to wonder exactly how in touch with the issues of the day she actually is…?
WTF: I Don't Know, I'm Not a Dictator...
March 27, 2022 18:36 - 55.6 MBThe Goliards are out in full force this week because of the stupid things that our leaders are saying about various things, including the Loch Ness Monster, Ukraine, Cherry Trees, various Kim Jongs and Mt. Everest!
Flashback: The Invisible Jet Sucks
March 25, 2022 16:25 - 9 minutes - 4.01 MBOne of the things that I most enjoyed about the radio show and working with John Considine was that in the middle of an hour long discussion about the Supreme Court and Prop 8 was that we could be distracted by a promo for an upcoming show... From March 25, 2013, Dave and John talk about the Invisible Jet and Prop 8...
Arguments
March 23, 2022 17:35 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBI have always said that this show, the podcast in specific, is abut making sure that Ben has a record of me. who I am, what I thought and believed. I have always wished for some record of my ancestors, and I wanted to make certain that some day, my children and grandchildren would have some idea of who I am and why I am the way I am. I understand that in the future, my ideas will most likely been relegated to the dung heap, and I will thought of of some sort of Philistine. But like me, as I ...
BML: The Manchurian Candidate
March 22, 2022 16:16 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBBill Mick and Dave continue their discussion of the Presidency of Dwight D Eisenhower… If there had been no war in Korea, would there have been a President Eisenhower? Are there lessons for today from that sequence of events?
DDH - The Manchurian Candidate
March 22, 2022 16:16 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBBill Mick and Dave continue their discussion of the Presidency of Dwight D Eisenhower… If there had been no war in Korea, would there have been a President Eisenhower? Are there lessons for today from that sequence of events?
Hide & Seek
March 21, 2022 20:08 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBA listener to the show wanted to know what I thought our submarines are up to as the international tension continues to increase. In the world of submarines, the tension level really isn’t the issue, as the game of “Hide & Seek” keeps on being played… THIS DISCUSSION CONTAINS NO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
WTF: People Are Dying In Ukraine and All That...
March 20, 2022 19:40 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBLike the famed Salmon of Capistrano, the Rabbi and the Friar have survived the “Winter of Death!” The problem is that now that the germ we shall not mention ever again is erased from the politics of the day, there is another to take its place. Rabbi Dave has a technical question about making decisions from feelings rather than from science and how that effects both breakfast and NCAA Swimming championships. Meanwhile the Good Friar has a new… well… not quite girlfriend, but not quite… well.....
Deterrence
March 18, 2022 18:20 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBThings are seldom what they seem. In a way, that’s one of the lessons of the story of Esther and Purim. Like Esther “hiding” her true identity or Ahasuerus leaving out the fact it was Mordechai, not Haman he wanted to honor, everything we see today seems to have a waiting surprise and plot twist. Or at least a hidden sub-text that we pretend surprises us when it is inevitably revealed. So much seems to follow the very plots we’ve seen before. So why are we surprised? When Vladimir Putin inv...
Clifford's Tower
March 16, 2022 18:42 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBToday is Purim. At sundown tonight, the holiday begins, as we celebrate the defeat of the wicked Haman (insert grogger sound here). For many years my favorite line in scripture comes from the Book of Esther, when Mordecai is telling her that she doesn’t really know if this moment isn’t the very reason that she was placed in her position. It’s a lesson that I have taken – and used – many times in my life. You may never know the reason that you have been placed are where you are. But… it may b...
Kriegsgefahrsustand
March 15, 2022 18:26 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBAs the last day of July, 1914 came to its close over dinner on a Paris Street, there was a gathering of men who came to discuss the issue of the day. It seemed as if a sprit of “kriegsgefahrsustand” had taken firm control over everything and everyone. Seemingly, there was no stopping the calamity that was creaking through its opening phase. But IF it could be stopped, there was at least one man who was determined to stop it. As nations mobilized, diplomatic notes were delivered and debated...
BML: I Like Ike Pt 1
March 14, 2022 20:47 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBIt’s “Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live. This week, at the request of a listener, we take a look at Dwight D. Eisenhower. We’ll start our journey with how Ike even ended up being on the ballot in the first place, which will surprise you since he never actually told anybody he was running, let alone for which Party!
DDH - I Like Ike Pt 1
March 14, 2022 20:47 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBIt’s “Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live. This week, at the request of a listener, we take a look at Dwight D. Eisenhower. We’ll start our journey with how Ike even ended up being on the ballot in the first place, which will surprise you since he never actually told anybody he was running, let alone for which Party!
WTF: Dr. Fauci, White Courtesy Phone… Paging Dr. Fauci…
March 13, 2022 21:45 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBRabbi Dave and Friar Rod celebrate the final end… maybe… of one of the most ridiculous public policies to ever be inflicted on Americans since prohibition. The Mask Mandates have at long last (not you, Hawaii) clunked to their end. Mind you, literally nothing has changed except for a single memo making the rounds that makes it clear it was NEVER about the science. Dave has managed to get himself appointed to his HOA Board. why, you may ask? THIS is why… From the “Who Are These People” file, ...
Cast Iron Veteran
March 11, 2022 14:13 - 19 minutes - 18 MBNow and again, I get distracted by another topic that pulls at my interests. Yesterday, the MILSURPWRITER and I got into yet another discussion about Veterans. Specifically whether or not Veterans who make certain claims about their service while running for public office are… well… being totally honest or just playing to the publics appetite for heroes? There is a long history of service in this nation, and the total number of people who use that service in a nekulturny* manner are few ov...
Concerns
March 07, 2022 18:19 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBThere are things that I know, but that I do not have a "need to know." Experience is a great value to a person, but it can, and indeed must, be combined with careful thought and considerations. I shared with you my thoughts on the war last week, now I give you my concerns about it...
TSV: Scorpion Theories
March 07, 2022 14:40 - 56 minutes - 38.5 MBEric and Dave are back to talk about the war, Halfway nights, the USS Scorpion, and the news of the Submarine World
WTF: Ructions
March 06, 2022 18:24 - 54 minutes - 50 MBTo be absolutely 100% crystal clear, the Rabbi and the Friar hate each other. Deeply. In the meanwhile, World War III is getting scarier by the moment, although its not without it's entertaining moments, such as the Chechnyan Special Attack Squad that managed to get itself trapped in an elevator. Or the Babushka with a jar of pickles and a Russian drone that she didn't want buzzing her. On the down side, the Russians have arrested a major US Basketball "star," and for the last three weeks ha...
Thoughts
March 04, 2022 18:19 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MBA friend and long time listener texted me this morning to ask a question: what did I think was going to happen with regards to the Ukraine War? I have to be honest here, I am not very optimistic about it. History and human nature tell me that we both misunderstand and misapply the lessons of the past in such a way that cloud our judgment. In my view, we are being inexorably dragged into a world wide war that is going to make things very, very bad…
Ben Is Worried
March 03, 2022 17:51 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBMy son, Ben, who has a tendency to express himself through sadness, came home yesterday deeply concerned about the war. The matter had been discussed in one of his classes and I am of the opinion that is fine. That said, I spent more than three hours last evening (I missed my class) to talk with him about his concerns and to answer - as best I could - his questions, most of which revolve around "Why is this happening?"
DDH - Dave Does History - Bird S***
March 01, 2022 16:01 - 35 minutes - 13.4 MBWhat does bird guano have to do with Anonymous bringing down the Russian Internet? That's what Dave joins Bill Mick to talk about!
BML; Dave Does History - Bird S***
March 01, 2022 16:01 - 35 minutes - 13.4 MBWhat does bird guano have to do with Anonymous bringing down the Russian Internet? That's what Dave joins Bill Mick to talk about!
The First Tik Tok War
February 28, 2022 17:22 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBOn the early morning of August 2, 1990, I was headed to Williamsburg, VA. Riding north on I-64, crossing the Hampton Roads Bridge/Tunnel, just past Newport News, came the newsflash on the radio – Iraq has invaded Kuwait. That moment would go on to have a large impact on my own life. For our culture and society, there was an even bigger paradigm shift in the days ahead. Today, that shift continues, in directions never imagined in 1990-91. What was once sensible and easy to follow if overwhelm...
WTF: The Ukraine Situation
February 27, 2022 19:12 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBRabbi Dave has been banned from Facebook because of the Ukraine situation? Well… not exactly, but maybe? The Russians have gone full Putin, and now the world is sitting on the edge of a nuclear madman’s stability. Dave lives just a few miles from a major target, but in the era of Mutal Assured Destruction (MAD), is anybody really safe from one mans insanity? John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, has made it clear that he is unhappy about the way the Ruskies are throwing up a bunch of CO2 which...
The Shift
February 25, 2022 18:10 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBTRIGGER WARNING – The Crazy Haired One is gonna tell you some things that you don’t want to hear this morning. If you don’t like it, fine. But trust me, you DO NOT want to hear this… – Producer Henri Look, I hope that I am 100% wrong. I’m not, but it wouldn’t bother me at all if I were to be wrong about this. That said, I have some thought about this USSR-Ukraine war, and I’m pessimistic about it. If you think that the Ukes are going to stand up against the NeoSoviets and thrill the world w...
War
February 24, 2022 17:02 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBAnd so the war that everybody said that they did not want has come. The parallels to 1914 and 1939 should be obvious to anyone with even a general knowledge of those conflicts. Right down to the assigning of blame on the world stage. Like the evening of July 28, 1914, we went to bed last night with no idea to what we would wake up in the morning. will this conflict be contained? Will it expand? Will NATO decide to go to war against Russia over Ukraine? The drumbeats and sloganeering have a...
The White Rose
February 23, 2022 16:52 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBYesterday on my personal page, I posted an article about the anniversary of the 1943 execution of Sophie Scholl. The story is inspiring for the simple reason that we tend to assume that everybody in Germany just went along with the crimes of the Nazis. But that was not the case. She had been a member of the White Rose, a group of students from the University of Munich who openly opposed the Nazi regime and it’s crimes. For her opposition to the regime, Sophie was executed on February 22, 19...
DDH - Border Games
February 22, 2022 14:37 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBDave joins Bill Mick on WMMB to talk about the way borders throughout history have effected the national psychology and have led to expectations and disappointments, and even the occasional conflict...
BML: Border Games
February 22, 2022 14:37 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBDave joins Bill Mick on WMMB to talk about the way borders throughout history have effected the national psychology and have led to expectations and disappointments, and even the occasional conflict...
WTF: Absolutely The Highest ESG Score Ever!
February 20, 2022 15:55 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBThe Canadian government has gone full Putin, but don't worry yourself, because Friar Rod and Rabbi Dave have the absolute highest ESG score ever achieved by any podcast!
Ice On Fire
February 18, 2022 17:49 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MBIn late 1985, the Cold War was simultaneously the hottest it had ever been AND it was at the same time obviously thawing. One of the most popular pop music acts of the era released an album that to this day still has a special place to me and has one of my Top Ten Of All Time songs. I was twenty-two years old, and the previous winter (1984) I had fallen head over heels in love with a girl that would never know that I was alive. Representing East Germany at the 1984/88 Winter Games, she dance...
Does Anybody Really Care about the Durham Report?
February 17, 2022 17:57 - 12 minutes - 8.31 MBI don't have a lot to say about the so-called "Durham Report." Mainly because I do not think that anybody - even you - really cares about it. Before you send me your flame eMail or text or leave me a rambling voicemail about how tragic it is and how outraged you are about it, just answer one simple question... And if your answer to that question is "Yes," then you really do not care about the report, you care about power.
TSV: Commence field Day
February 16, 2022 20:53 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBEric Ryle of The Sub Vet and Dave Bowman get together to question whether or not the Soviets, er, Russians actually managed to "detect" a US Virginia class Submarine" or if the whole thing isn't just some TASS propaganda like something from the 1980s? It's time to TURN TO, COMMENCE FIELD DAY!
BML: Gouvernor Morris
February 15, 2022 14:31 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBBill Mick and Dave Does History as they discuss some of the lesser known participants at the 1787 constitutional convention, including a delegate from Pennsylvania. It is his special skill on which the Convention will call to leave a lasting legacy...
Malfo
February 14, 2022 23:16 - 14 minutes - 9.8 MBIt’s a weird thing. The most celebrated holiday in the entire world is Independence day. Since 1914, sixty-two countries have declared their independence from England. We – the United States – get the biggest bang for the buck for it. For the some twenty percent of the world, it’s a shared experience to throw off the yoke of the British Crown and decide for ourselves the destiny of the people. Most of the world sought their freedom, which is what sets our own rebellion apart. Still, it’s a...
WFT: The Supreb Owlympics
February 13, 2022 15:22 - 52 minutes - 36 MBFriar Cook and Rabbi Dave take a look at the Winter Olympic Games, which nobody seems to be watching (except for Mrs. Friar). The weird thing is that 75% of the West Taiwanese Ice Hockey team, which is only in the games because of a rule that says the host country get an automatic bid, is in fact, not actually, technically, per se, West Taiwanese... Meanwhile, the cancelling crazies continue, this time their target is the singer Adele, who is proud to be a woman. NASA has released some r...
A Rose in December
February 11, 2022 17:36 - 11.5 MBIn my mind there is an empty place where a memory should be. I know that it happened because all of my family tells me that it did. In fact, in many ways it was the defining moment of my destiny a moment to which I attribute my deepest passion. But of the actual moment, I have no actual memory. Years later there would come a moment that I recall with the greatest clarity. Yet no one – not one – of the people that I know were there – can recall the incident. Is out memory less a factual reco...
It's Not Enough to Say It
February 09, 2022 18:25 - 17 minutes - 12 MBA rather remarkable thing happened last week at a local book store. That remarkable thing led Dave down a path that leads to Joe Rogan, Mark Lye, and to O’Brien’s simple question: “How many fingers do you see?
BML: The Article V Conundrum
February 08, 2022 14:45 - 34 minutes - 32 MBBill Mick and Dave Bowman get together to do some history on WMMB. Last week there was a WOW caller who brought up the idea of calling for an Article V Convention. Would that work? what would it look like? Has it ever been done before? This week we take a look at the myth that everything in our Constitution is "easy..."
DDH - The Article V Conundrum
February 08, 2022 14:45 - 34 minutes - 32 MBBill Mick and Dave Bowman get together to do some history on WMMB. Last week there was a WOW caller who brought up the idea of calling for an Article V Convention. Would that work? what would it look like? Has it ever been done before? This week we take a look at the myth that everything in our Constitution is "easy..."
Charity
February 07, 2022 17:47 - 14 minutes - 9.62 MBOne of the foundational ideas of Judaism – and to a lesser expressed extent, other faiths – is the concept of charity. The Rebbe used to hand people dollar bills with instructions to give charity. The minimum amount is the the famed “10%,” While the sages made sure that common sense prevailed and limited the maximum to 20%. In recent days, we have seen the world of charitable giving upended by the actions of GoFundMe and the Canadian trucker fiasco. Look, I have my own feelings about giving ...