The Dave Bowman Show

It’s been a month of Sundays, but at long last, Rabbi Dave is back! Together with the Good Friar Rod, we’ll take a look at the leak of classified documents and why it is that pretty much everybody seems to think that this was a good thing. Plus the boys will solicit unqualified medical advice from listeners. Twenty-one year old junior birdmen don’t seem all that smart. Did Governor Jay Inslee mana...

I’m not sure if my BS detection Meter is working overtime or if things have just become so unbelievable that even the most cock-eyed optimist has trouble swallowing the news being fed to us. Let us consider just a couple of stories being reported this week…

It’s been a long few weeks. And we’re not even really close to being back to normal yet. That said, I’ve spent a lot of time listening to others and thinking about things. I have so often said that the Study of Constitutional Principles is very similar to the study of Torah. As we celebrate Passover this past week, there was yet another reminder of this to me. This time in a dry valley, full of dr...

Today, April 11, is the anniversary of the founding of the US Navy’s Submarine Fleet! for one hundred and twenty-three years, US Navy Submariners have carried on the traditions and training of the worlds finest underwater warriors. When the Battleships were stuck in the mud of Pearl Harbor, the Submarines carried the attack to the Empire of Japan. when Missiles piled up on Cuba, US Submarines made...

I can talk, but it hurts. My good friend, the MILSURPWRITER, half jokingly suggested that I use a voice box, ala Stephen Hawking. All I could find on short notice was a female voice, but you get the idea… So here is a very brief recounting of something of which I have absolutely no memory. Which, by the by, makes it the best dental appointment I’ve ever had, despite the pain, bleeding and inabilit...

Without getting into the details, there was one point in my media career (so far), that a person took it upon themselves to make an attempt to “find me” in the “real world.” That person believed that they could get me to do something for them and control my life and behaviors in a manner that they, in a deranged mind, was who I am. It was nerve-wracking for a few days, and nort something that I wo...

In 44bce, the world was stunned on the Ides of March as a group of Roman Senators mercilessly attacked and murdered the sitting roman Dictator, Julius Cæsar. Over the next two thousand years, the story achieved legendary status in literature, theater and film. We watch as Elizabeth Taylor weeps over his death. Shakespeare brings us Marc Anthony’s rhetorical masterpiece, “Friends! Romans, Country m...

I’ve never shied away from the fact that my mind works… differently. So last week three things happened concurrently. First, some politicians here in Washington State have decided that ONLY “credentialed journalists” will be admitted to their press conferences. At almost the same time, Bill Mick was talking about the fact that he does not have the time to be an investigator for the stories discuss...

It’s the morning of the Daylight Savings Time “Spring forward” time change. There is always a lot of confusion, a lot of arguments and… a lot of resentment. Privacy concerns dominate the news, with the FBI admitting (finally) that it has continued to purchase data from cell phone providers. At the same time, a nonprofit Catholic group has also purchased VERY specific data from a specific App in or...

Dave's 2011 interview with Ken Sewell, author of Red Star Rogue

Back before Meta deleted my original account, I had a picture of Ben standing on the sink in the bathroom, holding his hair back and intently looking in the mirror at his forehead. He was searching for the Blue Dot, which I had informed him that only Dads could see, which shows up on his forehead whenever he tells me a lie. A listeners this week texted the show and asked me what do we do when a po...

Some Technical Notes from today’s episode: (1) Dave has had zero sleep. He was up all night for a family activity. (2) The WMMB computer failed, necessitating the show be done by telephone rather than the normal method via computer. (3) Bill and Dave decided to leave their off air discussions on the podcast version. This is unusual but the conversations were germane to the subject (which is unusua...

In 1798, less than a full decade after the ratification of the Constitution and just eight years after the Bill of Rights, the President of the United States, signed into law the Sedition Act of 1798. It was, simply put, one of the most egregious and appalling laws ever passed by the Congress of the United States, signed by a President AND upheld by the Supreme Court. It was proof of almost everyt...

According to a recent report, people who read The Lord of the Rings and 1984, are “more likely” to become “right wing extremists.” Unfortunately, the report had no information about middle aged men who follow crypto currency scams on Instagram. Meanwhile, the National Park service has some advice in case of bears, and we are now living in the final hours before the world no longer has a History of...

As I get closer to my surgery (Mar 18), my voce is continuing to degrade. It is very frustrating to me, but as long as you tolerate it, I can live with it. The good news is that the long dry spell is over. The Government announced yesterday another $400+ Million in military aid for Ukraine AND another $600+ Million for Taiwan. It had been more than a week since we announced more aid for Ukraine, s...

Look, it’s NOT that I don’t see some value in a college education. The problem I have with it is that you don’t actually need a college to get that education. But you DO need the college to give you the sheepskin that says that you have it. I’ve said it before, I would love to go and get my degree in history. But the education that I have received makes it clear that the ROI on such a move would b...

Last week President Joe Biden was asked about his read of China’s intention vis-à-vis Russian and Ukraine. He said that he did not see” China helping Russia with weapons and/or ammunition. This was, of course, after his Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken said that China was planning to do exactly that. And China, said that they were not considering it. Then for good measure Blinken threatened to...

I had some stuff on the war to talk about, but late last night, for the first time in my lifetime, something happened to my family that we always joked about and certainly knew about, but finally touched down in our world. Long ago, Scott Adams write one of the best management books I ever read. In that book, he introduced me to one of the rules I have lived by ever since. I suppose that now I can...

Good day, hosers! Rabbi Dave has returned from his voyage across the mighty Pacific Ocean! While he was gone, things changed… Dilbert got canceled, Project Veritas got rid of James O’Keefe, and even James Bond got rewritten to make him less… James Bond… Turns out Coke and Pepsi are good for something’s, while telling people that we orbit the sun will get you thrown in jail. All that and more today...

NOTE: No video today. I screwed up the recording. Sorry. So... couple of things that I need to clear up. The name of the show is "Plausibly Live." For those of you who might not get that, it means that the show is conducted and recorded live. But there is no giant red light and buzzer that alerts me when somebody pushes play on their device and then I run upstairs to the studio and start talking....

On February 21, 1945, the newly upgraded aircraft carrier USS Saratoga was supporting the landings on Iwo Jima. The night before she was detached with a small escort to bomb Japanese forces on Chichi Jima. The next day is overcast with very low cloud cover. Out of the low clouds screamed six Japanese planes, who manage to hit the Sara's forward end, causing heavy damage and killing one hundred and...

Happy Washington’s Birthday! Yes… that is the “real” name of today’s holiday, but thanks to slick marketing and lack of civic virtue, we somehow or another have converted this into a day when the USPS, which is NOT a federal agency, gets the day off. We talk Presidents, good and bad…

A recent article has the Good Friar and the Rabbi discussing whether or not a sermon, written entirely by AI, can have any “soul,” whatever that means. Of course it dredges out the past for Dave and it turns out that he has no empathy. For anybody. K.K. Rowling gets an apology, but it has a weird vibe to it. The military is shooting down balloons, but they ain’t West Taiwanese. And in the audience...

It IS February 17th. I actually had a person yell at me today because he was certain that today is February 18th, and he is expecting me to do something for him on the 18th. But… for the record it is not the 18th. February 17th, 1600ce, was the day that the Government authorities took a man from a prison cell, clamped a vice on his tongue, and then took him to be burned alive at the stake. His cri...

I’m late to the party on the Superb Owl, that said, why does anybody take anybody talking about Superb Owl Commercials seriously? The days of the commercials being “the show” are long gone, thanks to parity, officiating and the inundation of advertising we now see everywhere. Look, people say weird and dare I say, controversial things, on social media. Just because I am friends with somebody – inc...