A New Recorder and The Highway

Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast · May 10, 2026 · 13m · transcript

There is something wonderfully old-fashioned about thisepisode. Not old in the sense of worn out, but old in the way a good highway diner is old, or the way a favorite ball cap becomes part of a man’s identity.

This is not a polished studio production wrapped in synthetic perfection. It is one man, a new recorder, a road stretching westward across the Hood Canal Bridge, and the quiet realization that sometimes the best conversations happenwhen nobody is trying too hard.

In this stream-of-consciousness drive along Highway 101toward the Sequim Irrigation Days Parade, Dave wanders through the…