The Dave Bowman Show

There 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...

Eric and Dave are back to talk about the war, Halfway nights, the USS Scorpion, and the news of the Submarine World

To 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 dow...

A 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 wi...

My 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 "W...

What does bird guano have to do with Anonymous bringing down the Russian Internet? That's what Dave joins Bill Mick to talk about!

On 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,...

Rabbi 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...

TRIGGER 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....

And 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? Wi...

Yesterday 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 r...

Dave 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...

The 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!

In 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 wou...

I 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 repo...

Eric 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!

Bill 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...

It’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. Mos...

Friar 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...

In 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...

A 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?

Bill 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..."

One 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...

Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod are back to talk about some really exciting news - the Good Friar is a Grandfather! Dave has been waiting several weeks for the calendar to turn to February so as to be able to celebrate one of the greatest Goliard festivals ever conceived. It is held every February in a little place called San Juan de la Vega in Mexico and it is now in the top 5 on Dave's bucket list...

Eric Ryle of The Sub Vet and Dave Bowman are joined by former Navy Submarine Officer Jon S Rennie to talk about his experience aboard USS Tennessee and later as a businessman, all leading to his books on leadership and how the lessons of becoming a qualified Officer of the Deck apply in the civilian world...