The Dave Bowman Show
After 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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August 4, 2025 • 4 mins
In August 1972, Uganda's dictator Idi Amin issued a chilling ultimatum. He gave the country’s Asian population just 90 days to leave. No hearings, no negotiations, no appeals. Seventy thousand people, many of them Ugandan citizens, were suddenly unwanted in the only home they had ever known.
What followed wasn’t just an expulsion. It was organized theft, driven by racism and hunger for power. Businesses were seized, families torn ...
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August 3, 2025 • 5 mins
In the summer of 1936, under the shadow of swastikas and the watchful gaze of Adolf Hitler, two American sprinters lined up for a race that would shake the foundations of Nazi propaganda. Everyone remembers Jesse Owens crossing the line first. Few recall who finished second.
Ralph Metcalfe, a man shaped by grit, faith, and speed, ran the race of his life in Berlin. But his story didn’t end on that track. He would go on to serve in...
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August 3, 2025 • 62 mins
This week’s episode of What The Frock? begins with the unthinkable.
Rabbi Dave takes to the mic alone, shaken and grieving, to deliver a eulogy for his friend and co-host, Friar Rod, who he believes has passed away from a sudden heart attack. He reflects on their years of friendship, their podcast journey, and the irreplaceable presence Rod brought to every episode. It is heartfelt, raw, and deeply personal.
But nothing is quite ...
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August 2, 2025 • 5 mins
On today's episode of Dave Does History, we're pulling up a chair at a Deadwood poker table and watching the final moments of one of the West’s most iconic figures. James Butler Hickok, known to the world as Wild Bill, wasn’t looking for a fight that day. He was just trying to win a hand.
He had no idea that someone had already decided to end the game, permanently.
But who was Wild Bill really? Beneath the pistols and portraits, ...
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August 1, 2025 • 4 mins
In 1963, the battle over civil rights reached a boiling point, and President John F. Kennedy stood at the edge of a political cliff. For years, he had played it safe, balancing ideals with cold electoral math. But that year, something shifted.
From the fire hoses of Birmingham to the death of Medgar Evers, the moral weight of the moment pressed hard. Kennedy stepped forward with a national address that called segregation a “moral ...
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July 31, 2025 • 5 mins
On this episode of *Dave Does History*, we turn our attention to a man who stood his ground when the entire Union line was collapsing. General George Henry Thomas, The Rock of Chickamauga, isn't a name you hear as often as Grant or Sherman. But maybe you should.
Born in Virginia and raised in the slaveholding South, Thomas made the unthinkable decision to stay loyal to the Union. His family disowned him. His peers turned their bac...
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July 30, 2025 • 7 mins
The Treaty of Box Elder, signed on July 30, 1863, was meant to mark the end of violence between the United States and the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone. But beneath its formal words and lofty promises, the treaty became a masterclass in betrayal. Though short in text, its consequences stretched over generations.
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July 29, 2025 • 33 mins
In this episode of *Dave Does History*, we head into the winter of 1775, a moment when America stood at the edge of decision but hadn’t yet taken the leap. The muskets had fired at Lexington and Concord. The King had declared the colonies in rebellion. But most Americans still clung to the hope of reconciliation.
That changed with the arrival of one powerful pamphlet. Thomas Paine’s *Common Sense* didn’t just argue for independenc...
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July 28, 2025 • 7 mins
On this episode of *Dave Does History*, we saddle up for one of the strangest spectacles ever to grace the American sporting landscape: Donkey Baseball. That is right. In towns across the country during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, people paid good money to watch their neighbors try to play ball while riding reluctant, ornery donkeys.
What started as a Depression-era gimmick turned into a fundraising sensation and a cultural curiosity...
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July 27, 2025
Good morning, America, how are ya? I’m Rabbi Dave, joined as always by the ever-caffeinated Friar Rod, and today on What the Frock? we’re opening the dusty file marked Permanent Record. You remember the threat — utter one wrong word in 7th grade and boom, your life is over. But where did that terrifying idea come from? And why has it followed us into adulthood, now repackaged as cancel culture and digital shame?
This week, we trac...
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July 27, 2025 • 4 mins
"Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one that still rings mighty in history and legend, may the name German be known in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever again dare to look cross-eyed at a German."
That was the moment the nickname “Hun” attached itself to Germany like a leech. At least, that’s what some folks say.
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July 26, 2025 • 5 mins
In the summer of 1958, as the heat of the Cold War shimmered off asphalt streets and atomic anxiety settled into living rooms like static, a quiet metal cylinder rose from Cape Canaveral. It made no splashy headlines. It gave no television interviews. But what it saw—and what it was built to see—helped redefine how the United States would fight the Cold War from above the clouds.
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July 25, 2025 • 8 mins
But long before Wyoming became a refuge for old historians or a playground for tourists with fly rods, it was a stretch of land tangled in a messy and magnificent story. It is a story that stretches from mammoth hunters to suffragists, from obsidian blades to steam engines, from tribal sanctuaries to territorial skirmishes.
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July 24, 2025 • 6 mins
Amelia Earhart wasn’t just a pilot. She was a force of nature wrapped in leather and sky. In this episode of *Dave Does History*, we trace the arc of her remarkable life—from her bold, tomboy beginnings in Kansas to the cockpit of the Lockheed Electra that carried her into legend. She didn’t break barriers gently. She tore through them at altitude, shattering expectations for what women could do in a world that told them to stay gr...
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July 22, 2025 • 5 mins
On this episode of *Dave Does History*, we’re taking a bite out of something sweet, simple, and surprisingly historic—vanilla ice cream. July 23 marks National Vanilla Ice Cream Day, and while some folks might write it off as “plain,” this flavor has roots that stretch from the ancient empires of Mesoamerica to the elegant kitchens of Monticello. Along the way, it picked up a few secrets, stirred up more than a few memories, and be...
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July 22, 2025 • 32 mins
In this episode of *Dave Does History*, we step into the uneasy months before independence, when not everyone in the colonies was ready to break with the Crown. Some still believed King George III could be reasoned with, that he might rise above Parliament and become the kind of monarch Enlightenment thinkers dreamed of. John Dickinson’s **Olive Branch Petition** was a final appeal to that idea—a hope that the King would act as a *...
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July 21, 2025 • 5 mins
On this episode of *Dave Does History*, we go back to a moment when the Civil War still wore a fresh coat of naivety. July 21, 1861. The first major clash between North and South unfolds near a muddy Virginia stream called Bull Run. People thought this would be over quickly. They brought picnic baskets. They brought their kids. What they got instead was a violent wake-up call. Union troops, raw and untested, marched straight into a...
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July 20, 2025
This week on *What The Frock?*, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod take on the so-called top story of the week—no, not international conflict or political scandal, but a kiss cam moment at a Coldplay concert. What begins as bemused commentary quickly unravels into a deeper exploration of how news is chosen, shaped, and sold. Who decides what matters? Why do nonsense stories rise while real headlines vanish? From \$20 million influencer grift...
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