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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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  • DDH - An Appeal to Heaven

    DDH - An Appeal to Heaven
    2026/05/26
    The old pine tree flag has suddenly become controversial again, which tells us less about the American Revolution than it does about how badly modern Americans have forgotten their own history. In this episode, we trace the true origins of the “Appeal to Heaven” flag, from the towering white pines of colonial New England to the decks of George Washington’s improvised navy during the first desperate months of the Revolution. Along the way, we uncover the deeper meaning behind the flag’s famous motto, borrowed directly from John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government. “An Appeal to Heaven” was never a slogan of casual rebellion. It was a grave philosophical declaration that a people had exhausted every earthly avenue for justice and believed they now answered directly to a higher moral law. We also explore how the pine tree itself became a symbol of resistance after the British Crown attempted to seize New England’s forests for the Royal Navy, sparking riots, resentment, and eventually revolution. Most importantly, we examine how historical symbols are redefined in modern political battles by people who often know very little about the actual history behind them. Because once a nation forgets the meaning of its own symbols, it becomes dangerously easy for someone else to redefine them.
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    39 分
  • WTF - Fireworks?

    WTF - Fireworks?
    2026/05/24
    This week on What The Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod wander bravely into the increasingly foggy borderlands between reality and whatever the internet has decided reality ought to be this week. Artificial intelligence is rewriting politics faster than anyone expected. Viral AI videos now spread through social media before fact-checkers have even located their reading glasses. Campaigns are learning that attention matters more than airtime, and somewhere along the way politics stopped being politics and became entertainment infrastructure with attack ads. But the conversation does not stop there. Why do human beings believe strange things in the first place? Why does astrology survive in an age of science? Is modern society replacing organized religion with personalized spirituality assembled from crystals, horoscopes, internet gurus, and emotionally supportive algorithms? And perhaps most unsettling of all, what happens when AI begins manufacturing not merely information, but meaning itself? Then, because civilization is incapable of discussing existential dread for too long without snacks and explosions, the show turns toward the Fourth of July and the growing trend of replacing fireworks with drone shows. Cleaner? Certainly. Safer? Probably. But are we losing something primal when rebellion itself becomes synchronized battery management? Along the way there are discussions about fake history, church sermons written by AI, robot garbage trucks, Memorial Day, tinnitus, moon water, and why the universe apparently refuses to text anyone back. In other words, a perfectly normal episode of What The Frock?.
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    1 時間 4 分
  • Liberty 250 - The Music(al) Part 2

    Liberty 250 - The Music(al) Part 2
    2026/05/20
    Two hundred and fifty years ago, a handful of farmers, merchants, lawyers, preachers, smugglers, and stubborn troublemakers looked at the most powerful empire on earth and quietly began asking a dangerous question: what if government exists to serve the people, instead of the people existing to serve government? That question changed the world. But the road to independence did not begin with muskets at Lexington or signatures in Philadelphia. It began much earlier, in taverns thick with argument, in sermons warning about liberty and tyranny, in newspapers filled with outrage, and in ordinary people slowly realizing they no longer thought of themselves the same way. Piece by piece. Law by law. Grievance by grievance. This series is not just about battles or famous names. It is about ideas. About standing armies in city streets. About taxes and consent. About kings, crowds, mobs, Parliament, pamphlets, and the eternal struggle between power and liberty. It is about human beings trying to decide whether freedom is worth the cost that always comes with it. And because history is never just dates on a page, we are telling this story through music. Songs that sound like the Revolution felt, hopeful, angry, frightened, defiant, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, but always human. This is Liberty 250. The road to July 4th, 1776. And the story of how Americans learned to think like Americans. Yankee Doodle Standing in Our Streets Evacuation Day George's Concurrence Oh, Canada... Rome to Home The Word Safety & Happiness It's Not Us, It's you The Ghost of Cylon Ride, Rodney, Ride! The Greatest Sentence ever Written (Finale)
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    1 時間 10 分
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