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The Dave Bowman Show

The Dave Bowman Show

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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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  • September 1, 2026 - The Jewish Question?

    September 1, 2026 - The Jewish Question?
    2026/09/01
    Government loves a list. It loves categories, identification numbers, demographic boxes, databases and tracking systems, each created with assurances that the information will be used responsibly and only for its stated purpose. Sometimes those systems genuinely improve accountability. Sometimes they reveal that the government has developed a remarkable ability to count things it cannot competently manage. In this episode of Plausibly Live: The Dave Bowman Show, Dave begins with a proposed federal system for tracking mail-ballot envelopes. The barcode would not record how a person voted, but it would connect a named voter with an individually numbered envelope moving through the postal system. That distinction preserves the formal secret ballot, provided election officials permanently separate the identifying envelope from the enclosed vote. It does not settle the larger questions of privacy, presidential authority or what happens when a hurried computer system decides that a lawful ballot does not match its records. California offers another version of the same dilemma. A new bill would allow Jewish residents to identify their ancestry or ethnicity on state demographic forms. Supporters see long-overdue recognition of Jewish peoplehood and a means of documenting discrimination. Many Jews see something else: a government asking who is Jewish and promising that the resulting information will never become a registry. California is not reenacting the Nuremberg Laws, but Jewish history explains why official assurances cannot erase every suspicion. Meanwhile, the Navy can count every submarine in the fleet while maintenance delays have cost more than 15,000 operational days. Utilities can count hundreds of gigawatts requested by proposed data centers, even when many of those projects may never exist. Across elections, ethnicity, national defense and electric power, the central question remains the same: What does the government actually know, what can it competently do, and how much trust should it receive merely because it promises that everything is under control?
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    35 分
  • Who Killed Radio? How Podcasts Set the Personalities Free

    Who Killed Radio? How Podcasts Set the Personalities Free
    2026/08/31
    Radio has supposedly been dying for decades. The towers are still standing and the signals are still broadcasting, but the audience is no longer trapped inside the range of the transmitter. Corporate consolidation stripped away local voices while podcasts and livestreaming gave those voices somewhere else to go. The personalities escaped the station, the listeners followed them, and the dashboard became an open marketplace. In this episode of The Dave Bowman Show: Who killed radio, and is it really dead?
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    28 分
  • Hormonal

    Hormonal
    2026/08/30
    There are bad arguments, and then there are bad arguments whose consequences stretch far beyond the case in which they were made. The defense of Lindsay Clancy, accused of murdering her three young children, raises precisely that kind of problem. If postpartum hormones and psychiatric distress can diminish criminal responsibility, where does compassion end and accountability begin? More importantly, what happens when the reasoning offered to excuse one woman is applied to women everywhere? That is the uncomfortable territory Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod enter in this episode of What the Frock? The conversation is deliberately provocative because the implications are difficult to ignore. An argument intended to protect a particular defendant may also revive assumptions women spent generations overcoming: that hormones make them unreliable, emotionally unstable, or unsuitable for positions involving judgment, authority, and public safety. Once biology becomes a defense against responsibility, it can just as easily become a justification for discrimination. From there, the discussion moves into the wider theater of political absurdity. Canada is outraged by Donald Trump’s effort to rename Lake Ontario, apparently discovering a newfound reverence for historical names after years of renaming streets, universities, public buildings, and civic landmarks. Threats involving Canadian electricity and the continuing trade dispute only add another layer to a quarrel in which symbolism frequently seems more important than practical consequences. Along the way, there is Facebook Marketplace at two in the morning, an unexpectedly complicated English muffin, questionable Canadian political geography, and the usual effort to determine whether society has lost its mind or merely misplaced it temporarily. This is the “Hormonal Edition” of What the Frock?, a shorter episode built around one persistent question: when we create an excuse for behavior we would otherwise condemn, are we prepared to live with that excuse when it is applied everywhere else?
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    36 分
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