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  • The Undereducated Republic

    The Undereducated Republic
    2025/11/16
    In this episode of *Dave Does History*, we take a hard look at how the decline of liberal education has left America vulnerable to the false promises of socialism. Once, our schools taught citizens how to think, how to reason, and how to recognize truth from illusion. Today, they train workers for jobs but not minds for liberty. The result is a generation that confuses equality with fairness and emotion with justice. Drawing on the ideas of Robert Maynard Hutchins and the wisdom of the founders, this episode explores why education was never meant to be job training, but the foundation of a free society. When citizens stop reading the great books and stop asking the great questions, they become easy prey for comforting lies. Real freedom, we argue, begins in the classroom, and the republic will only survive if Americans learn once again how to think.
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    1 分
  • Do You Know the Way to Santa Fe?

    Do You Know the Way to Santa Fe?
    2025/11/16
    In this episode of *Dave Does History*, we ride back to the early 1820s, when the American frontier was not yet a land of settlers but of merchants chasing profit across a sea of grass. The story begins with William Becknell, a man drowning in debt who set out from Missouri and ended up opening the Santa Fe Trail. His daring 1822 expedition proved that wagons could cross the Great Plains, carrying trade goods and transforming a lonely wilderness into a bustling highway of commerce. We’ll follow Becknell’s near-fatal journey across the Cimarron Cutoff, the desperate search for water, and the miraculous rescue that turned failure into triumph. This is the birth of the Santa Fe Trail—the road that carried two nations’ fortunes westward and forever changed the map of American trade.
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    2 分
  • WTF - The AI Resurrection?

    WTF - The AI Resurrection?
    2025/11/16
    Welcome back to *What The Frock*, where Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod return from a short hiatus with more laughs, philosophy, and unexpected wisdom than ever. In this episode, the duo tackles the latest round of AI hysteria sparked by Matt Walsh’s claim that 25 million jobs are about to vanish. Rabbi Dave questions the panic, pointing out that technology has been reshaping jobs since the steam engine, while Friar Rod reminds us that adaptation is part of human progress. Their conversation stretches from the invention of Whiteout to the rise of AI-generated music, and whether creativity can ever really be “lost.” Between the jokes, the history lessons, and Dave’s recovery stories from shoulder surgery, the two manage to make deep ideas feel like pub talk. This week’s message is simple: change is nothing new, fear is overrated, and laughter is still the best kind of human intelligence.
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    51 分
  • Subs That Go Bump In the Night

    Subs That Go Bump In the Night
    2025/11/15
    The Barents Sea was gray and angry on November 15, 1969. Beneath those frigid waves, two nuclear submarines—one American, one Soviet—found themselves in a dance of shadows that neither captain intended to finish with a crash. The USS Gato, an American attack submarine built for silent hunting, and the Soviet K-19, a ballistic missile boat already infamous among sailors as “the Widowmaker,” collided 200 feet below the surface. No lives were lost, no missiles fired, but for a few long seconds, the Cold War trembled on the edge of disaster. What followed was a cover-up so complete that even the men who served aboard Gato rarely spoke of it for decades. The “Barents Bump,” as it’s come to be called, was one of the closest peacetime encounters between nuclear powers that could have turned catastrophic.
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    5 分
  • SCE to AUX

    SCE to AUX
    2025/11/14
    So yes, the launch of Apollo 12 was almost a cautionary tale. The weather was uncooperative. The atmosphere used the rocket like a spear for lightning. The cockpit lit up with warnings, then went dark. A second strike could have frightened the most stoic crew into reaching for abort calls. Instead, three men kept flying, a room full of engineers kept thinking, and one controller reached into his head for a solution that no manual would offer in bold print. The result was a mission that did what it set out to do and left a permanent phrase in the vocabulary. When things go sideways, you want people around who know where the SCE switch lives.
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    6 分
  • The Pennsylvania Farmer

    The Pennsylvania Farmer
    2025/11/13
    John Dickinson was called the Penman of the Revolution, but his story is more complicated than that. He was a patriot who resisted British authority with his pen long before most dared, yet when independence came to a vote, he stood against declaring it too soon. His caution earned him scorn from some and respect from others. He believed in liberty, but he also believed that liberty without order was just chaos dressed up in slogans. In this episode, we explore the life of John Dickinson, the man who helped shape America’s first arguments for freedom, wrote its earliest laws, freed his slaves, and still managed to confound both radicals and reactionaries. From his letters that stirred a continent to his quiet work building a nation that could endure, Dickinson’s legacy reminds us that true revolution begins not with passion, but with principle.
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    1分未満
  • For the Children Who Sleep in the Deep

    For the Children Who Sleep in the Deep
    2025/11/12
    You can dress a ship in brass and bunting and call her safe, but the sea is an unforgiving bookkeeper. It tallies every shortcut and comes calling when the ledger runs red. The SS Vestris sailed out of Hoboken on the afternoon of November 10, 1928, as if routine could ward off reality. Within forty-eight hours, that confidence had been rolled flat by gray Atlantic seas, bad decisions, and a culture more concerned with appearances than seamanship. The wreck never became a tourist myth or a Hollywood hymn. It became something harsher. A cautionary story about how ordinary negligence kills ordinary people in extraordinary ways, and about how reform is almost always written in the handwriting of loss.
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    6 分
  • The Centralia Tragedy

    The Centralia Tragedy
    2025/11/11
    The morning of November 11, 1919, dawned with flags fluttering and veterans standing tall in Centralia, Washington. It was the first anniversary of the Great War’s end, a day meant for solemn remembrance and celebration of peace hard-won. By sundown, that small lumber town had become the stage of one of America’s bloodiest labor conflicts. Four veterans lay dead, a radical hanged by a mob, and a community—and a nation—torn apart between two irreconcilable visions of America.
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    7 分