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The Dave Bowman Show

The Dave Bowman Show

著者: Dave Bowman
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After relocating to the PACNORWEST, Dave continues his look at the news, politics, trends, history, religion, sports and even entertainment of the day...Dave Bowman 政治・政府
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  • WTF - Bending Tongues Like Bows
    2026/02/01
    Language is a fragile thing. It carries memory, meaning, and moral weight, and when it breaks, it rarely breaks quietly. Two thousand years ago, Cicero warned that a republic does not collapse all at once. It hollows out first, word by word, until the language of virtue remains but the substance is gone. The buildings still stand. The speeches still sound familiar. But something essential has already been lost. Today, we find ourselves in that same uneasy moment. Our political vocabulary has become a weapon. Labels replace arguments. Outrage substitutes for reason. When every opponent is called a Nazi, when every disagreement is treated as existential evil, persuasion dies and power takes its place. History tells us where that road leads, and it is never somewhere good. In this episode of *What the Frock*, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod dig into the corruption of public language and why it matters far more than most people want to admit. Drawing on Cicero, the prophet Jeremiah, and the hard lessons of history, they ask a simple but dangerous question. What happens to a society when words stop meaning what they say? This is not a partisan conversation. It is a moral one. A call for precision, courage, and restraint in a culture addicted to noise. Welcome to *What the Frock*.
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    1 時間 4 分
  • The trouble with Truth
    2026/01/29
    Thomas Paine did not arrive in history as a marble statue or a finished idea. He arrived tired, broke, and angry, with ink on his fingers and a habit of saying the quiet part out loud. When Americans remember the Revolution, they tend to remember generals on horseback and signatures on parchment. They forget the man hunched over scrap paper by candlelight, turning frustration into sentences that ordinary people could understand. Paine did not command armies. He did something far more dangerous. He told people that authority had to justify itself, that tradition was not an argument, and that liberty was not a favor granted by kings. He wrote for farmers, laborers, and soldiers who were cold, unpaid, and uncertain whether any of this was worth the cost. His words did not promise comfort. They demanded courage. This episode follows Paine from obscurity to influence and then into exile, tracing how the same clarity that helped ignite independence later made him unwelcome in polite company. He was celebrated when he was useful and discarded when he refused to stop asking questions. By the end of his life, the nation he helped create no longer knew what to do with him. This is not a story about a flawless founder. It is the story of a necessary one. A man who believed that common sense was revolutionary, and who paid the price for proving it.
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    7 分
  • The Rocky Mountain Submarine
    2026/01/28
    It sounds like a tall tale told too late at night. A submarine in the Rocky Mountains, sitting on a frozen lake nearly nine thousand feet above sea level, more than a thousand miles from the nearest ocean. But this story is not folklore. It is documented, photographed, and quietly stubborn in its facts. In the winter of 1944, residents of Central City, Colorado watched a rusted, cigar shaped vessel rise from the ice of Missouri Lake after forty-five years underwater. The band played a patriotic tune better suited to a harbor than a mining camp, and someone cracked a joke about the longest crash dive in history. They were not wrong. This is the story of the Rocky Mountain submarine, built in secret in 1898 by a skilled and eccentric engineer named Rufus T. Owens. It is a story about ambition, miscalculation, and the peculiar American habit of attempting the impossible simply because no one has proven it cannot be done.
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    6 分
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