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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June 20, 2025 • 5 mins
It was a warm June afternoon in 1980, and I was sixteen years old when I walked into a movie theater in Tacoma, WA, and saw my very first R-rated film. It wasn’t some gritty drama or raunchy sex comedy. It was The Blues Brothers. And in that moment, somewhere between the blast of "She Caught the Katy" and Jake’s gravity-defying backflip at the Triple Rock Baptist Church, something changed. I didn’t just watch that movie. I felt it....
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June 19, 2025 • 5 mins
Art Rooney of the Steelers and Alexis Thompson of the Eagles agreed to merge their franchises for one season only. The league gave it a nod, and the team was officially listed as the “Phil-Pitt Combine.” But the fans, as fans do, came up with a much better name. The Steagles.
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June 18, 2025 • 7 mins
The morning of June 18, 1815, broke damp and heavy with the scent of churned mud and spent gunpowder. South of the quiet village of Waterloo, Belgium, two great ridges faced one another across a narrow valley, each bristling with men and iron. The ground, soaked by a night of rain, sucked at boots and wheels alike. The air hung with tension. The clouds were lifting, but thunder of a different kind would soon follow. On one side sto...
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June 17, 2025 • 33 mins
In this explosive episode of Dave Does History, Dave Bowman joins Bill Mick to dissect the chain of events that lit the fuse of the American Revolution. From the biting street politics of the Sons of Liberty to the fatal musket blast on a snowy Boston night, Dave walks us through the Boston Massacre with sharp insight and sharp elbows. You'll meet a wigmaker’s apprentice, a furious redcoat, and a 12-year-old boy whose funeral becam...
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June 15, 2025 • 8 mins
Pétain’s story is a tragedy in two acts. In the first, he was the disciplined general who saved France from annihilation. In the second, he became the face of national shame, a man who surrendered not only to the enemy but to fear, compromise, and moral collapse.
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June 15, 2025 • 58 mins
In this scorching episode of What The Frock?, titled Frockenheit 451, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod strike the match on a world increasingly allergic to free thought. Kicking things off with a curious domestic moment—Dave’s wife, a night-shift nurse, is unaware of major world events—the duo explores how political disengagement and echo chambers have become survival tactics in a polarized age.
From the deadly political violence in Minne...
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June 15, 2025 • 6 mins
On June 15, 1776, in a little brick courthouse nestled along the banks of the Delaware River, something extraordinary happened. Long before the ink dried on Jefferson’s Declaration or the bells rang out in Philadelphia, a smaller, lesser-known group of patriots made a decision just as bold and perhaps even braver. Delaware, or what was then known as the Lower Counties on the Delaware, stood up, squared its shoulders, and said, enou...
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June 14, 2025 • 12 mins
They didn’t call it the United States Army, not yet. They called it the Continental Army. It wasn’t much to look at. Ragtag farmers and tradesmen with worn boots and mismatched coats, some carrying their grandfather’s musket, others with nothing but a pitchfork and righteous anger. But it was the beginning of something that still stands strong today.
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June 13, 2025 • 4 mins
Every so often, history hands us a coincidence so odd, so strangely poetic, that it demands a second look. June 13 is one of those days. It’s not just your average square on the calendar. It also happens to be the birthday of not one, but two kings from the same royal bloodline. Both born on June 13, just sixteen years apart. Both named Charles. One called “the Bald” and the other “the Fat.” You couldn’t make this up if you tried. ...
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June 12, 2025 • 8 mins
Boston in June of 1775 was already a city choking on powder smoke, rumor, and fear. Since the redcoats had marched out to Concord two months earlier and came running back under fire, everything had changed. The countryside had risen. Thousands of armed men now surrounded the city. The roads were blocked. Tempers were short. British soldiers camped uncomfortably close to colonists who hated their presence. Governor General Thomas Ga...
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June 11, 2025 • 7 mins
In the hot, tense summer of 1776, as thunderclouds of rebellion gathered over the thirteen colonies, the Second Continental Congress found itself facing a decision that would change the world. The British Crown had slammed the door on reconciliation. The King wasn’t listening. His red-coated army was already spilling colonial blood. The time had come to stop pleading and start proclaiming.
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June 10, 2025 • 32 mins
This week on Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live, we peeled back the glossy myths of patriotism and peered into the grit and grime of liberty’s earliest champions: the Sons of Liberty. You’ve heard the name, you’ve probably imagined tricorn hats and righteous speeches. But what if the revolution’s first sparks looked less like a powdered wig convention and more like a gangland turf war?
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June 9, 2025 • 13 mins
Athens in the summer of 411 BCE was a city smoldering beneath the weight of its own glory. The golden age had cracked, and under the strain of war, pride, and poverty, the world’s first democracy was about to slit its own wrists. This wasn’t some minor squabble among politicians. It was an existential crisis. A full-blown betrayal from within. The people of Athens, people who once cheered for Pericles and marched proudly in the ago...
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June 8, 2025 • 62 mins
Welcome back to *What The Frock?, where the robes are real, the satire is sharp, and the heresy is bipartisan.
In this week’s episode, *It’s Fine…*, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod dive headfirst into the absurdity of modern life, starting with the battle of the broken states: Washington vs. California. Spoiler—Washington wins, and not in a good way.
From a Pride flag kerfuffle at the state capitol to "mostly peaceful" riots in L.A., th...
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June 8, 2025 • 10 mins
On June 8, 1967, in the sunlit waters of the eastern Mediterranean, an American ship flew the Stars and Stripes over calm seas. Her name was the USS Liberty, a lightly armed intelligence vessel serving under the National Security Agency. She carried 294 crew members, including sailors, Marines, and NSA linguists trained in Arabic and Russian. That morning, the Liberty cruised peacefully, 13 miles off the Sinai Peninsula, well withi...
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June 7, 2025 • 7 mins
It was June 7, 1776, a heavy summer day in Philadelphia. The streets simmered with tension, and inside the State House, the Second Continental Congress sat on the edge of history. The men in that room had argued, pleaded, and petitioned for peace, but now the moment had come to talk about war. Not just war with muskets, but a war of ideas, a war of separation. That morning, a tall Virginian named Richard Henry Lee rose to speak. Wh...
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June 6, 2025 • 11 mins
On a warm morning in early June 1918, somewhere amid the rolling farmland and wooded clearings of northern France, a handful of American Marines fixed bayonets, whispered prayers, and stepped into the wheat. It was June 6, 1918 and the woods they faced were called Belleau. Before sunset that day, more United States Marines would be killed or wounded than had fallen in every battle of the Corps’ previous 143-year history combined. T...
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June 5, 2025 • 8 mins
On this episode of Dave Does History, we take a long, hard look at one of the most controversial figures of the American West—Pat Garrett.
You probably know him as the man who shot Billy the Kid, but Garrett’s story runs far deeper than that single, fateful moment in a darkened New Mexico bedroom.
Born in Alabama, raised in Louisiana, and forged by the chaos of post-Civil War America, Garrett rose from cowboy to lawman, then fell...
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June 4, 2025 • 5 mins
When most Americans think of George III, they picture a tyrant in a powdered wig, raving about taxes and trying to crush the spirit of liberty. That image, baked into our national memory by revolution and rebellion, is not entirely wrong—but it is far from the whole story. George III, born in 1738 and crowned king in 1760, was a complicated man trying to steer a sprawling empire through one of the most turbulent centuries in modern...
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June 3, 2025 • 32 mins
In Virginia’s House of Burgesses, a 29-year-old lawyer with a sharp tongue and a sharper sense of justice stood up and gave a speech that shook the walls of the chamber—and the foundations of British authority in America. As he warned his fellow legislators about the dangers of unchecked power, Henry’s words grew bold. Too bold, some thought. When he suggested that even King George III could become a tyrant, cries of “Treason!” eru...
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