The Dave Bowman Show

Look, nothing happens in a vacuum. Whether it’s a Papal Bull that results in the eradication of cats that seems to lead to millions of human deaths, or a grain shortage in the middle of a violent revolution that leads to a Economist and Reverend watching what is going on and coming up with what will become one of the most impactful theories in human history…

Last week I was wondering out loud about the whole fentanyl situation. Luckily, one of my compatriots from the US Navy Submarine Force is involved with a Florida non-profit that aims to educate people about the dangers of fentanyl. Today I am joined by Judd Spitzer, who is the Co-Chair and Technical Director for the Blue Plaid Society. We talk the story of fentanyl and what each of us needs to kno...

Recent developments in the world of AI have the good Friar and the Rabbi concerned about the things that might be coming in the future. It's more than just using AI to create deep fakes that offend and outrage. In a politically charged atmosphere, how will you discern truth from the fake? It appears to be open season on UFOs. The Pentagon told us that at least three have now been shot down. West T...

Seymour Hirsh is not a source that I take overly seriously. That said, his latest story about the Nordstream 2 Pipeline is rattling some cages, including mine. If, and that’s a super big “IF,” Hirsch is correct, then we got bamboozled and almost dragged into WWIII. In Washington State the Legislative Privilege debate rages on. Now, the Legislators in question have released documents that show us t...

In practical terms, how many people does it actually take to approve and enact a law that is binding of the people of the United States? Now… you might think that the answer is obvious, but… is it? More importantly, when you finally get that number, does it make sense to you as “representative” of the people of the United States? Brutus continues his explanation as to why the proposed Congress is...

It's a fact that most people today form their opinions long before that actually have anything close to the full information about... well... anything. And, those opinions more often tell us more about the person who has them than it does about the actual subject at hand. Now we have reached the point where the jokes about it are not just written before the subject has even been broadcast, but the...

The 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 St...

Do you understand the difference between the Chinese Spy Balloon, er, meteorological airship, and the Grammy's?

After 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!

Brutus 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...

The 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 wor...

The 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...

In 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 launc...

It'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...

The 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, in...

There'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...

Since 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...

Some 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...

The 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.

It 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...

On 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 r...

When 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 T...

For 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 ques...

Before 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..."

The 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...