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  • DDH | The First Salute: Eleven Guns That Announced a New Nation

    DDH | The First Salute: Eleven Guns That Announced a New Nation
    2026/09/22
    On November 16, 1776, Fort Washington fell and nearly 3,000 American soldiers were killed, wounded, or captured. Almost 1,800 miles away, the Continental Navy brig Andrew Doria entered the harbor at St. Eustatius and fired a thirteen-gun salute. Eleven guns from the Dutch fortress answered. Dave Bowman tells the story of the First Salute, the Golden Rock of St. Eustatius, and the commercial network that supplied the American Revolution with weapons, gunpowder, naval stores, and credit. It was not formal Dutch recognition of American independence, but it was the first official acknowledgment of an American flag aboard an American national vessel by a foreign authority. Fort Washington revealed how close the Revolution was to destruction. Fort Oranje revealed how far the American claim to nationhood had already traveled.
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    33 分
  • Can The President Throw Reporters Out of The White House?

    Can The President Throw Reporters Out of The White House?
    2026/09/21
    Can President Trump throw reporters out of the White House simply because he believes their coverage is dishonest? The First Amendment does not guarantee anyone a seat in the briefing room. Once the government grants press credentials, however, the Fifth Amendment demands something the White House cannot ignore: due process. Dave also examines Gavin Newsom’s $750 million Hollywood tax-credit program and asks why California’s politically connected entertainment industry deserves relief that ordinary businesses never receive. Can Trump Throw Reporters Out of the White House? is available now.
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    35 分
  • WTF | Does G-d Care About Who Wins a Football Game?

    WTF | Does G-d Care About Who Wins a Football Game?
    2026/09/20
    Does G-d care who wins a football game? Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod question why victorious athletes credit G-d’s will while nobody visits the losing locker room to ask whether G-d wanted that team to lose. Then the conversation turns to fear of artificial intelligence and Britain’s alarming proposal to “pre-bunk” ideas before the public hears them. Faith, football, AI, free speech, and the Ministry of Truth collide in the latest What The Frock? Watch or listen now.
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    57 分
  • Loma

    Loma
    2026/09/07
    Over the weekend, I discovered a great-aunt whom nobody in our family knew had ever existed. Loma M. Bowman was born in Butler, Missouri, on September 15, 1914. She died two days later and was buried in an unmarked potter’s field. Her name disappeared from our family’s living memory for more than a century. I cannot change what happened, but it can return Loma to the family story. Her name was Loma. And she was a Bowman.
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    5 分
  • WTF | Correct The Map?

    WTF | Correct The Map?
    2026/09/06
    A map is supposed to help you find your way. Unfortunately, the latest attempt to “Correct the Map” may tell us more about modern politics than it does about geography. In this episode of What the Frock?, Rabbi Dave and Friar Rod examine the campaign against the Mercator projection, the familiar world map that makes Greenland look enormous, stretches Antarctica toward infinity, and leaves Africa appearing smaller than it really is. The distortion is genuine, but it is hardly a sinister plot. Gerardus Mercator designed his map in 1569 to preserve compass bearings for navigation, not to flatter countries that did not yet exist or insult continents sitting comfortably along the equator. That raises the question at the center of the conversation: What exactly are we correcting? And… why? From there, the discussion turns toward our habit of declaring something a problem, identifying a villain, and demanding a solution that may have little connection to the original facts. That pattern leads Dave and Rod into the public reaction surrounding the Lindsay Clancy trial, where social media experts transformed a complicated criminal case into a battleground over victimhood, mental illness, justice, and blame.
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    54 分
  • September 5, 2026 - Is This... Still College Football

    September 5, 2026 - Is This... Still College Football
    2026/09/05
    I love college football. I’m just not sure today’s college football is the game I fell in love with. NIL has turned recruiting into an auction. The transfer portal resembles free agency. Major programs purchase 51–0 “games” from schools that need the money, while smaller colleges face declining enrollment, rising costs and possible financial collapse. The football powers will survive, but will college football remain college football? That’s the question on this Saturday edition of Plausibly Live: The Dave Bowman Show.
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    27 分
  • September 4, 2026 - Taproom Tribbles in Tacoma and Thailand

    September 4, 2026 - Taproom Tribbles in Tacoma and Thailand
    2026/09/04
    There was once a useful boundary between public conduct and private conviction. You could buy bread, order coffee, or enjoy a pint without first demanding a political confession from the person behind the counter. That boundary is rapidly disappearing, particularly when activists can search public records, identify a business owner’s political contributions, and organize economic punishment without pausing to consider what the person actually supported. Today’s Plausibly Live begins at a Tacoma brewery whose owners contributed to a Washington ballot initiative campaign. Their money was specifically intended to help repeal the state’s capital gains tax, but political nuance proved inconvenient once activists discovered that the organization also supported another initiative involving transgender participation in women’s sports. The resulting controversy raises a question extending far beyond beer, taxes, or any single ballot measure: Can citizens still petition their government without placing their livelihoods before a self-appointed tribunal? From there, the show heads to Thailand, where two sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln managed to turn an ordinary night of liberty into an international headline. The official account describes a “drunken brawl.” Anyone who has served aboard ship may recognize something considerably less extraordinary: young sailors, a foreign port, an argument, and shore patrol arriving before matters became genuinely memorable. Dave draws upon his own Navy experience to explain how quickly “us versus them” can change after somebody insults the ship. Finally, a conversation about Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas wanders into dangerous cultural territory: tattoos. One lyric from the film has remained lodged in Dave’s memory for decades, and he is prepared to defend its wisdom despite knowing perfectly well what the response will be. Political surveillance, sailors ashore, craft beer, Dolly Parton, and an opinion almost guaranteed to generate angry email. It is exactly the sort of Friday journey one should expect from The Dave Bowman Show.
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    32 分
  • September 3. 2026 - Down with Socialism!!!

    September 3. 2026 - Down with Socialism!!!
    2026/09/03
    Congress has managed to discover socialism. This might seem encouraging until you remember that the national debt has reached $40 trillion, the federal government still lacks a genuine budget, and lawmakers apparently have plenty of time for nonbinding resolutions designed to produce campaign advertisements. House Resolution 1490 was presented as a condemnation of socialism. It could not create a law, reduce spending, reform an agency, or change the life of a single American. What it could do was force members of Congress to cast a politically useful vote. Republicans could declare themselves defenders of capitalism. Democrats could either oppose the resolution and be accused of supporting socialism, or vote for it and advertise their supposed independence from the party. That brings us to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the Democratic representative from Washington’s closely divided Third Congressional District. Her vote for the resolution has been celebrated as evidence of moderation and independence. Perhaps it was. Then again, principles that emerge shortly before a difficult election deserve closer inspection. Was she exercising the judgment Edmund Burke believed a representative owed the people, or mailing campaign literature through the House voting board? This episode of Plausibly Live examines the difference between representation and pandering. If a congressional vote carries no legal force and produces no policy consequence, what exactly are taxpayers purchasing? While Congress performs ideological theater, the debt climbs, budgets remain unfinished, and the difficult work of governing waits patiently outside the chamber. From there, Dave ventures into the darker corners of public irrationality, online discourse, and the peculiar humor people develop when ordinary language no longer seems adequate. It is an episode about politics as performance, social media as a carnival of certainty, and the increasingly strange ways Americans persuade themselves that uncomfortable realities need not be real. After all, Congress did condemn socialism. Surely that fixes everything.
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    29 分